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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Advocate, 1909-04-22, Page 2CU RR ENT TOPICS. Though p,otests against co-educa- tion aro heard occasionally in this *wintry, gains in elementary and How Dread Would b9 Night If We Knew Nothing of Morning. THE PROMISE OF DA eccundar y ilt • schools are reported :rum England and Wales, while in bcuttaud nearly all the elementary pupils aro in mixed Schools. In France, in spite of the old ecuti- ''Ye'a, though I walk through the a vast flight of steps and that these valley of the shadow of death 1 will lead, normally, from lesser life to m: nt in favor of separate educe - fear no evil." --I's. xxiii., 4. more. It cannot be ...at this is the tion for boys and girls, the num- No life goes far without finding Ler of elementary mixed schools in- its ties reaching out into the be - creases slightly from year to year. yon Wo do dwell to of fix xtour r atten- en- Tl►ough the German states prefer life but the great fact of death is separate education, "the school never far from us and its porten- authorities in the Grand Duchy of tuns mystery asks us a thousand questions while its approach to those we levo stirs us to rebellion or wrings us with agony. The coward may ieur death for himself, but the bravest dread it most when it threatens those they love. Familiarity and use may harden us to everything else, but poignant, when the heart seems the experience of the race for thou- empty and words of consolation as sands of years has not taken from cnly mockeries, then the graves by death its dread nor made its mys- our ways and the cemeteries by our tery clear. If religion is the guid- cities seem to turn all life to gloom ing light of humanity why has its and over their mounds we dare not light not yet dispelled this dark hope the sun will ever rise as fair shade? for us again. Yet what would he 'Yet the shadows of the valley more desolate than. this world have changed. Faith has robbed WITHOUT DEATH'? Baden. have wade a somewhat ex- tensive trial of the possibilities of •e -education in secondary schools, with results which have excited very favorable comment frotu the echuol- authorities." In Norway and Denmark girls aro now secur- ing admission to secondary schools which were formerly reserved for boys. Tho developments aro such as to show that there is a strong ton- dency toward co-education in the What is the must important fact fluted iu regard to this Antioch church t Thar, the disciples were called Christians first iu Antioch. 1 A name, what a man or a beady of men is called, is always significant. V1. The C'hristian's Practical Helpfulness. --Vs. 27-30; 12: 25. What opportunity to show the fruit ui their Christianity carte to the Antioch church ? A great dearth throughout all the world . . . in the days of Claudius, the Roman emperor who reigned A. I). 41-54, lust step, that thisbroken frig- The famine pribably occurred in uteri is the final platform. Judea A. D. 4I-40. Josephus tells H we could but see its meaning, us that the Syrian queen Helena if we could gut let our faith reach of Adiabene, a Jewish proselyte out and believe that as life has who was th1Cn in nttd figs rusalem,int- from gypt come from. less to more, so larger p g life lies beyond, then death would and Cyprus, which she distributed be the word of largest promise to among the people to save there from us, it would mean graduation into starvation. higher being, it would mean rig- VII. Aro You a Christina? This ing from ties time worn and sorrow account of the Antioch church is clouded ledge into a clearer, nob- s mirror rorAre we true to Christ amid ler level. In tho days when grief is most trials and temptations? Is our Christian fellowship broad? Are we practically helpful to others? Are we bold to confess Christ, and able, in the strength of the Holy Spirit, to bring men to Christi All this is involved in the picture of the church whose members were the first to be called Christians. countries of northern Europe. It it of more than half its terrors and Is noted furthermore that a ma- love, that has grown stronger in the jority of the fellows of the Royal consciousness of a world inspired by Geological Society who voted on love roaches its warm hold through those shadows and believes and the question of the admission of knows that our own are not less women favored their admission to ours because they nave gone on be - full membership, while compare- fore. tively few went so far as to oppose The better we know the life that their admission as associates. Fin- we now have the greater is our con- fidence toward that we do not yet ally there is a reference to a me- have. The pain of death's part - ;aerial signed by 312 fellows of the ings is no longer augmented by Chemical Society of Groat Britain, those this life looking up and helping all which urges that the restriction SOMBER. SUPERSTITIONS about us to the life that trends up- l additional territories. Since 1907 against the admission of women which committed our friends to the wards? \1'e can have faith that 1 betwen five and six thousand hien should be removed and to the mercies of demons of the under life does not mock us, that the pro- have been brought away. The com- gress of the past gives promise of , partitive figures of strength by units are under :— Suppose we knew this to be ab- solutely the last stage of existence; suppose that none went out from us and that we were all doomed to live forever, would not this thea bo a hopeless world? Out of our I is really our fairest hope, and in death deepest grief rises that which we see the promise of life that is worth living, because it has the pos- sibility of larger life. What can we do better than live ---,t, AS BEFORE THE VAR. Reduction of the South African Garrison. The strength of the regular troops in South Africa will be con- siderably reduced for the Govern- ment year 1909-1910, which com- mence on April 1. The strength is to return to the number station- ed at the Cape prior to tho war— about 9,000—although the Trasss- vaal and Orange River Colony are drafts of the charters for the two world. The pang of death is no universities to be located at Bel- alone the fear of what may lie bo• fore ; it is the deeper pain of part - last and Dublin under the Irish ing. universities act, which provide for Our to -morrows are always hid - the inclusion of at least one woman den from us. Each new day is as a new life. The fact of one ds in the senate of each university among the members nominated by the crown. the future. We can take each day as a step in the great sweep of steps upward. We can afford to trust our highest hopes. We cab afford to follow the lead of our own af- fections and believe that an infinite gives confidence that there will be o affection is reflected in them.We can make the most of to -day anotaer; give not the fact of one for to -morrow may demand also give promise of another f ly more of us. Ws can snake it infinite- Howpos- dread would be each eight if *isle for all other lives to have Tho conclusion reached after the we knew nothing of the conning larger hope,r can make this day fat e morning, and this is just the dread . survey is that "rho influence of death that we never ourselves ourselves:" fur some, and so givo birth to modern i e n s ower the break- clearly y sew its new morn. looking and living for them. \Ve ing down of barriers that have We stand on the broad step of ;looking live the life that makes to -day hitherto kept women from full par- life, the steps that lie below, and ;