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address been suffering less from the which Canon Barnes, of West effects of the war than from the minster, preached at Cardiff in effects of the peace, declares Mr. connexion with the visit to that Otto H. Kahn, the American cits of the British Association banker, in a pamphlet entitled Taking for his subject "The Chris." Impressions from a Journey in tian Revelation and Scientific Pro | Europe." which he has prepared, gress," the Canon said that after after bis recent tour of England, standard-bearer. He was a self-period of natural hesitation and Italy and France, where to con

deplorable hostility Christian ferred, with economists, bankars thinkers now quietly accepted and statesmen. He proceeds-- theories of the origin of the Those who framed the peace earth and of min dge to treaty of Versailles, while afirm-: modern scientifc__investigation ing and, I doubt not, intending al- and speculation. They therefore legiance to the hopes and aspira- found it necessary to abandon tions of the liberal opinion of the the doctrine of the Fall and world. have to a considerable arguments dedured from it by extent negatived them in fach theologians from St. Paul onward. Bartering and compromising There was a strong temptation (and sowing the seeds of dissension to allegoriza "beliefs which it was among one another and of discord no longer possible to bold; but throughout the world, they have though allegory had its value, it set up dispositions which resulted was misused when it obscured in leaving production, commerce. the revolutionary conse-international intercourse, indeed, acknowledge the very conditions of existence, quences of new

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Solemnly proclaiming the prio. sip.e of "seli determination," they dave granted or witheld it, ac- cording to their discretion. They have involved themselves in com. mitments of soverignty, control

that he needed me; and difficult to know intimately because of his formidable detachment. The most that many of us could hope for was that be had a taste in us as you might have in clocks or furniture.

"Balfour #as blessed ΟΣ cursed at his birth, according to individual opinion, by two

A faith that feared the progr883 completely out of joint in almos: assets-charm and

wits. The of knowledge anticipated its own all of Europe east of the Rhine. firs: he possessed to & greater dissolution. Yet while some ele- They have ignored what was degree than any man, excepiments in the Christian tradition among the most essential of all John Morley, that I bave ever met. His social distinction, ex-tial nature and strength of the justing the world from war to were perforca discarded, the essen- the elements involved in read- attention. intellectual Christian Faith had been more peace, namely, the element of quisite tact, cool grace, and lovely bend

clearly disclosed. For Christianity practical economics of the head made him not only the perfection of Christ's religious They have produced a treaty a flattering listener. bat

teaching and the revelation of o little consonant with the real- irresistible companion.

His own supreme excellence were ities that from the day of its pro slone of decisive importance. The mulgation to this day it has been "People thought that he was unique value of Christ's self a continuous object of contro- pot interested because he had revelation was & fact of history versy, of readjustment, of inter- nothing active in his political and of religious experience undis pretation, of baggling and whit- aspirations be saw nothing that turbed by scientific progress. Qalling down, and has consumed that needed changing. Low the other hand, Christ's religions the time, though: and energies of wages, drink, disease, sweating. teaching dovetailed with singular the leading statemen of and overcrowding di nos concern exactness into the wider scheme various countries to the detrimea: him; they left him cold and heofevolution now coming into view. of domestic affairs. hed not the power or tempera- It now seemed highly probabl-i iment to express a normal indign- that from some fundamental stul etion which he was too detached in the universe the electrons to feel. ... He took & Puck- atose. From then came matter like, pleasure in watching the From matter life emerged.. From game of party polities, not in the life care mind. From raia interests of any party political | spiritual consciousness wator regulation throughout the party, not from esprit de corps. | darelopisz. There was a time world calling for military and buz from taste. With the minds when matter, life, mind, the soul other efforts, the cost and burded of militarists, protectionists, and of man. were not; bat cow they of which go beyond the present conscriptionist, Balfour had noth-

were. Each had arisen as part of capacities of their respective ing in commpo at any time.

avast scheme planned by God. I nations and beyond the sanction "The artists who have express- The Christ Spirit within a can of public opinion. ed with the greatest perfection"the quality of deity." as it bul They injected into the matter- human experience from an ex-been called, separfled him from of-fact basiness of making peace ternal point of view he delighted the animals whence he had with Germany business which He preferred appeals to bissprung, just as life separated temanded promptitude and final- intellect rather than claims upon them from the matter of which ity-the complexities, delays and his feelings. Handel in masts, they were made. And through uscertainties of a world-embraC- Pope in poetry, Scott in narration. the same Spirit of Christ man puting ethical experiment thatcalled Jane Austen in fiction, and Sainte-on immorality, inasmuch as the for calm and detached and separ- Beuve in criticism supplied him things that ware of God were ste consideration and treatment. with everything he wanted. He sternal with God. Thus science They have mishandled the fine! bated introspection and shunned | described the process by which and universally acclaimed con emotion."

man had come into being, and ception of an association of na- A PORTRAIT OF LORD CUBZON. religion offered him guidancesions to mainisin and strengthen | Of Lord Curzon when he was towards bis spiritus destiny, international law and preserve member of "The Souls," the Evolution described facts; the peace, and seeking to dilize it famous political, literary, and art-ultimate meaning of those facts istic coteric, Mrs. Asquith writes: the Christian revelation disclosed

He was a conspicuous, young man of ability, with a ready pen, ready tongue, an excellent sense of humour in private life. and intrepid social boldness. He had appearance more than looks, kesa, lively face, and an air of

distribution of responsibility Fanguine self-confidence. He was

among the treaty-makers for the aremarkably brilliant person in an

sad disillusionment which the "St. John Midleton was funds outcome and sequel of the Ver exceptional generation. He had persistent ambition and what he mentalis humble and truthful sailles conference brought to a claimed for himself-middle-class He is one of the few people I world that stood ready and ex- meibad," and added to a kindly know who are truly loyal, and pectant to follow & lead worthy feeling for others a very wazi who would risk telling me, or of the high inspiration which had corner for himself ... He anyone be loved, before confiding actuated the people of the allied na was chronically industrious and so inner circle, faults which tions and Americs duringthewaz,” self-sufficing, and, though Orien- both he and I think might be tal in his idea of colour and cer-corrected.

Medusa-Gladys Ripon a court "Arthur Balfour himself, the lady Gay Windsor an Italian lemony. with a poor sense of proportion and a childish love of most persistent of friends, said, Primitif, and Milly Sutherland an I #13 the grandeur and fine people, he was hugbingly: 'St. Joho pursues us English lyric

his malignant fidelity least good-looking of the Bever self-indulgent. He neither with ate, drank, nor amoked too much, This was only a coloured way of Souls. Betty Montgomery WES and took infinite trouble about saying that Midleton bad none of a brilliant girl and the only no- everything. He was a first rate the detachment commonly found married woman except Mrs. host and companion.

among friends; but so long as we Alfred Lyttelton smoog us. Her "No one could turn with more are not merely responsible for father, Sir Henry Ponsonby, was elasticity from work to play than our actions to the police, so long Queen Victoria's famous private George Canon, and he showed must I believe in trying to help secretary, and one of the strongest Liberals I ever know. Her sister 18 and mine a steady and those we love." sympathetic love Over & long

Maggie, though socially uncouth; period of years. Even now, if I

had a touch of her father's genius ; Inhe said of a Coxït prolets to me died, although he belongs to the more conventional and does not

ons day at Windsor Castle, There allow himself to mix with people

goes God's butler!"

of the opposite political parties, bi would write my obituary notice. TRIBUTE TO LOED MIDLETOR, The Earl of Midleton, better known as St. John Brodrick, the ex-Secretary of State for War, is the subject of one of Mrs. Asquith's

warmest tributes:

LADY MEMBERS OP "THE BOULL." There are some brilliant cameos of lady members of "The Souls,"

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