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could ever come before the minds of men than the teaching those tous of thousands: Estaned: to. everywhere He went. It is the fashion to say that whenever the truth is faithfully preached it will be freely welcomed, but un-

for their worth than that scarcity applies to gospel privi- leges as much as to aught else. Fifty years ago ministers were forbidden in the orthodox -

• light of it, as we read they did. Mrs. Jones thought it was Doi worth her while to go if the like of Mrs. Brown was to be there. Mr Green Objected to the chance "chosen? To invite a guest is fortunately it is not the case. of meeting. Mr. White and Mr. thereby to choose him, and ofEven St. Paul found that while Black. Anyway, when the course the invitation in question his preaching was a savour": "OË time came few found it is given in abeolute good faith, life to some, it was a “savour of convenient to keep the engage with the fat hope that it will be death to others. We cannot thent they would have been accepted. But it turns out that blink the fact that while some mortally offended not to have had the privilege freely offered is man are made better by listening the chance to break. That is the little val Few think it worth to the truth, others become worse, way of things, or rather of folk.while to ep the appointment. hardened, stiffened, more difficult The point is to get what you If then the King regards these for God to deal with. This think your due your duties few as the chosen is it not As for the freedom of the are another matter. The because they showed them invitation, it would almost that the old principle may be wasted and selves worthy, showed that seem

valued less the giver of it affronted; faske. they were loyal subjects, who set that things are So one to his farm, one to his store on what their sovereign was merchandise, one to his golf, to them and counted it a privilege another to her bridge when the to please him? Such, it seems time came there was something to me, is a reasonably and prac else to do. "It may seem to betical way of understanding but a bit of bad manners, but God's callings and His choosings denominations, or some of beneath bad manners there is Your can if you like push the them, to teach that Christ died always bad spirit, so it is quite question back into the ill for all men and not only for the natural that. the refusal ahould charted realms of fate, elect. My own earliest recollec develer into rebellion, the King's freewill foreknowledge abso- tions B.JO of having nick- servants besconted and Inte." That is done often. names cried at us children killed and th the reb hose of you who learnt the in the streets of Dumfries. besieged and desired. From Westminster Confession will be because our father was the un- manners to tragedy may seem a familiar with the phrase "Effectu-sound preacher of free grace of- long distance but with self-will al calling, which is based upon fered to all Everybody preaches for a pathway it is soon covered a distinction between what our that now, but with a great struge and the Divine Master looking fathers spoke of as respectively tie was liberty to do so obtained. round His tables empty of their an external call addressed to all The men who blazed the track. expected guests reflecta that once and an internal call which is to had to endure poverty, social again is the saying fulfilled. the elect only. To most of astracism and the countless "Many are called but few chosen this would seem take the smaller and larger disabilities It is not an easy saying to reality out of the general invite which even children can recog- interpret if we insist on having tion.

such circumstances. If only the elect pise in

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SITUATION IN EUROPE.

June

Reuter learns authoritatively that the armistice recently. reached between the Poles and the Urkainians has been”- ruptured and war continues? The Poles aver thak Pethura is co-operating with the Bolsheviks nader German 'instiga- tion. Although many Jews were killed and wounded in Vina, Finsk and Kraken in the course of street sighting Entente representatives at Warsaw agree that the reported -pogroms were grossly exaggerated and in no way correspond with the facts. The attitude of Hungary arouses, the gravest suspicion. The Nationalist” elements" influenced by tha: Bolshevik Samueli, «Lenin's Moscow Emissary, oppoes the Hungarian Commander Von Boehms who has expressed" his willingness to comply with the Allied demands. Belakun is evidently playing a double game and is attempting to cover failure to comply with the Entente demands by, specious and unconfirmed stories of Czech attacks, while preparing a sudden and shattering blow, against Czecho- Sleepkin relying on its success to preserve him from the

confequences of disobeying the Allies orders.

RELIEF IN EUROPE.

Paris, June 247- It is officially stated that a meeting of the Supreme Economic Council steps were take

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for provision of locomotives and roling hour to Lithuszós." The Council decided to recommend to the Equidation Board of the various Governments that they provide the Polish Government with all available supplies needed by the Polish Health Department for the campaign against typhs. Mr. Hoover submitted a report on the progress of relief mosdates during May, when 108 shiploads of food were distribu to seventeen countries under relief, of a valde of 182,873,000 dollars. The great majority had been supplied upon credita, to some extent upon charity. This compares with tons distributed in April of a value of 147,800,000 Daring, May progress was made in remedying the terrible situation in Armenia and the Baltic States

tion of wholesale feeding of underapurished

complete, Ende milion children are Hooser is confident-this completion this reached by the time of harvest without preventable, loss of

will be

God in Christ is the keynote of gospel teaching almost every where. It used to be complained that people were repelled by hard, unsympathetic ways of setting forth the truth, represent- ing God as stern, unrelenting. ready to condemn. That has not been so for a long time, and in the result what do we find? A state of things which tempts one to say that the more freely salvation is offered the less is it valued, the more lovingly the gospel is presented the less beed is paid to it. The merchandise, the farm, the fun, the finance absorbs and the King's table is made light of

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There was a time when men and women would anxiously look into their own cases to discover, should it be possible, whether they were of the elect or not, and parents would watch the develop- ment of their children's charac- ters with the same anxious pur pose. To-day we scarcely have patience even to hear of such things. We have broadened the narrow way—so we think till every footstep treads It. It might be well to ask if we have not broadened it out of recognition, think and do. They intend to go Concession after concession is on living as they feel inclined, demanded to what is said to be and if ever a thought the spirit of the time, all in the how that may direction of eliminating from their eternal destiny inf religion whatever may be itself, well, has not the uncongenial to the camel; itself been assuring flippant heart of man Among that God is all kindness all the reasons alleged for the sideration and the indifference or multitudes is wide 1 Fori

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