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The Brussels Post, 1894-12-7, Page 1Vol, 22. No. 21. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7,' 1894 flOMFORTABLE HOUSE AND articular; apply apply at Brussels. ii9Palm For il0na0, IT OUSE ANA SIX LOTS FOR Sale or to rent, being the prwperty. North of the -railway, belonging to:Japlee tmm't, Por narbloulars es to prise and erms apply to - WM, AfNLE'2,. 10-tf Ament's Faitoay, Brum ola, ISS OLIVER, Fash tenable DraedandMantle Maker, wishes to intimate to the ladies of Brussel& and ylolnity that she ham resumed business again after an absence of overtwo years in Toronto. Your patronage solicited. Prions. Moderato. Residence, Turnberry street South.. 19.4 Electric. Light Plant FOR .SALE. The undersigned 'has decided to offer for sale the Brussels Electric Light Plant. A first. class investment can be shown. Easy terms ; good reason for selling ; full particulars cheer- fully furnished on application. W. M. SINCLAIR, Proprietor. TiMe Is Mogi, ANAD'IAN • ACIFIC Pacific Express 'Leaves Toronto 12:80, noon, by New Time Table, now in effect. Saves 12 Hours A Through Tourist Car leaves Toronto at 12:30 p. m. every Friday. T. FARROW, AGENT, BRUSSELS. ClirisiMas GOOEI8 ARRIVING DAILY AT T. FLETC:IEP►'S Ladies' Gold Filled Watches, S12 UP. Gents' Watches from $5 UP. Clocks from - - 75 C. UP. Special Line Sword Pins, 20 C. UP. Everything In Novelties. SILVERWARE. Sole Agent for Meriden Brit- tania Goods. Also carry To- ronto, Simpson, Hall & Miller's Plated ware which we sell at low Prices. Great Bargains in China and Fancy Goods. A beautiful range in Gold Spectacles. Eyes tested Free T. FLETCHER, JEWELLER. IM'Issuer of Marriage Licenses. Fashionable T Tailoring I J. M'BWIFI Is the man you should get to make your SUIT, OVERCOAT or TROUSERS.. Now -a -days a garment should combine Correctness of Style, Perfect Fit, Good Workmanship, And Moderate Cost. You will find these Qualities in Patronizing J. McBAIN, Nest door to TIIE Posr, BRUSSELS.. Brussels Council. The regular monthly meeting of Brun- stls Coattail was held Mat Mouday even- leg, all the Inembora present; Minutes of Inst meeting read and paea- ed. Following were the accounts pre. sonted :- duo Wright, street improvements, $ 6 60 Mrs. Wallace, oharity 1 00 Ono, Broad£oot, balance ealwry,,&o7 60. Mr. Lee, charity 55 Geo. Seel, oharity 9 67 Mr, Wallaoe, °barity 1 09 Babb. Henderson, miscellaneous2 00 Mrs, Lee, oharity 1 27 G. F. Blair, legal 4 00 Harry James, street improve'te... 8 78 hire. Wallace, charity 6 25 Mrs. J. Blaehill, oharity 1 75 Mrs. Lee, charity 4 49 Mrs. Williams, oharity 8 65 F. S. Scott, insurance on mill., , 18 60 Mrs, Lee, oharity ,. 4 89 Tboe. Stewart, charity 2 00 Mrs. Wallace, oharity 4 00 Moved by Riohard Williams, seconded by Robb, Graham that above accounts be paid. Carried. W. M. Sinclair addressed the Oounoil relative to power for the eleatrio light. Moved by W. H. McCracken, seoonded by S. Wilton that Mr. Sinclair have ase of power to the close of 1894, be to attedd to all necessary repairs. Carried. Moved by R. Graham, seconded by W. H. MoOracken that W. James be engaged to keep on fire in engine room, clear snow away from door and take care of engine during the winter eeaeon, at $5.00 per month. Carried. Bylaw No. 4, 1894, fixing polling places for municipal election and naming Dep. uty i, Returning Officers was read three t and times passed. Connell adjourned to meet on 151h enol., at 7:30 o'clock p. m. (RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF THE YOUNG. remit OSVEN Et NEV. tali. ANIMISM/ AT THE TOTING PEOPLES' CONVENTION. One of the strangest ideas that ever parent conceived is by no means uncom- mon to -day. It is the growth of a morbid sentimentalism about liberty. Again and again I have been met with the argument that it is not right to bind a child in baptism or by pledge to any course of conduct however right or 'expedient, but that he should be left free to make an impartial, unhampered choice when he comes to years of discretion. Some even carry this so far as never to instruct or train their children at all, leaving; them for the first few years of their lives to run as untended mentally, morally and spiritually as any young heathen. This is an idea of liberty run mad. A parent who does this has missed the grandest opportunity God ever gave to man. If God had intended the child to be as g in- dependent of the parent as this idea im- plies plias he would have brought him into the world as fully equipped for the struggle of life as the young monkey, who can start away for himself after a few clays or weeks. It was because God designed the child to have a far ,more subtle and delicate moral and spiritual training that he makes him dependent so long on the care of the parents. If the parent does not teach the child other teachers are hard at work instructing him. Physi- ologists tell us that fear can be noticed in an infant only 8 weeks old, the social affections are presont when be is 7 weeks old. Jealousy and auger are found at 12 weeks. Sympathy is there when he is five months old. Pride, resentment and love of amusement after 8. Shame, re. morn and the sense of the ludicrous after fifteen. Just as the parent controls these emotions and directs them aright for the earliest months and years of the child's life, so ie the character of the future man likely to be. Instruction at this stage Otto only be given by training. He who has not received true instruction in his earliest years is one of those men who are most to be pitied. He has been pauperised for life of some of the rarest moral and spiritual gifts, and he is in all probability doomed for this world to a low spiritual condi- tion. Ona of the first and most im- portant lessons the young have to be taught le that of obedienoo to authority. The parent stands as God's representative over the child. The child's conception of God will be formed after his conception of lois father, The law of Goal will be looked upon with the same reverence and fear as the law of his father. In these earliest years is taught the lesson that leads the child to see God as Isaiah saw Him in his vision, high and lifted up and His traia filling the temple. Never in after years eau all the lessons learned from books and sermons bring to man that ram sense of the awful majesty of the Divine Being. Were the young taught thus early by the parent's teach- ing, the sacredness of God's law, the world would not be harrowed by the hor- rors of anarchism and revolution, by the impatient and lawless passions of men bursting restraint and wrecking the peace, order and happiness of sooiety. The lesson of obedience to God's will, whether expressed it Scripture or in the righteous laws of the laud, or of the church, or of sooiety, is the fret lesson which everyone must learn who would enter into the Kingdom of God. The second lesson which meet be taught to the young is the faot and nature of sin and the imperfection of our human nature. It must lie taught from the same early period. In those early menthe and years of life ie found that deep, acute sense of the heinousness of sin, that her- ror of wrong, that fear of the commission of evil. Not yet has familiarity wrought contempt—not yet have the delicate reuses of the soul boon paralyzed by its poisonous touch, aucl never throughout all life, whatever 145 end, shall the lessons then taught be utterly forgotten. It is that early lesson that has brought back many an aged sinner to the foot of the oress. With this lesson of the heinous - liege of sin, there is necessarily taught that of imperfection, and this le one which it sloes the young gooit to learn. There is no more insufferable specimau W, H. KERR, Prop. of Humanity than the man who thins he knows everything or that he is perfect. Ib is the universal experience that the man who thinks he is perfect is the only man- id the world who bhlnl15 so. This self-conceit is one of the greatest curses to sooiety. It breeds the man who thinks he is right and everyone else is wrong, and raises a condition of things in church or society that reminds one 01 the dis- putations of the Kilkenny oats. It pre- vents progress of any kind. - How tow are like the artist who wept over his pie- ture because he could find no faults in it. Ile' felt he had reached the limits of his ppower. He who has learned the lesson of hie own sinfulness and imperfection is the Christian who will be, one of God's greatest blessings to the world. His oharai.teristios will be modesty, Consider- ation for the feelings of others, self. denial, humility, go will be one of the moat useful members of the ehuroh or of society—content to take upon himself those labors and works, which the more worldly, ambitious and self -conceited avoid because they are obscure and un- noticed. He is ono of those whom men will rise up one day and Doll blessed. The third great lesson which should be found in the instraction of the young is the nature of the work and person of Jesus Christ. If anything was needed to make the former lesson more powerful and its results more beautiful, this is it. The learning of it takes away from all the merely natural graces any remaining touoh of earthliness. They are beautiful' in themselves but if not found in us in Christ, they are still of the earth earth- ly ; just as water may seem sparkling and purebutwhen it is distilled it is found to: have been full of impurity. This les- son is one that should be taught inyouth'e earliest days.s. As we look back upon our childhood's days, is not one of their great- est charms the keen sons° we had of the loveliness and nearness of Christ. "I remember, I remember The fir trees dark and high, I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky, It was a childish ignorance, Butnow 'tie little joy To know I'm further off from heaven . Than when I was a boy." One of the deepest set tendencies of hum- an nature, especially when young, is hero worship. We find our ideals embodied in the concrete—in some man or woman —and we take them as our copy. What more necessary than to anticipate the strong tendency and give the young the loveliest and beet of all heroes to follow— jeans Christ. What morenecessary than for each of us still to take Him as our ideal and to seek to be like Him. This leads us to the fourth lesson which ought to form one of the funda- mental parts of the instruction of the young—the lesson of sanctification. If the other lessons are taught and learnt aright this one will be received as perfect- ly natural and right. He who feels his sinfulness and unworthiness, and who looks to Christ as his ideal will desire to be sanctified. But this lesson has often been obsoared and often Inc a long* time in the history of the world. Itisthe hardest of all to learn and men struggle and twist to find another way of reaching its end but escaping its labors. They have satisfied themselves at times that they have found such bub they have learned by sore and sad lessons that they have always made a mistake. "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way" and there is no other. But there is no other lesson that we can learn that clan ennoble us so much. This is the great goal that God puts before us now. This is the great end of our being. This is the way in which we can glorify God. Thiele the path by which the worms of earth change their chrysalis and appear with angels wings. Throughout all animal life you find one great and strong principle rul- ing—the struggle for the life of self—eaoh battles for itself—each seeks to live even thongh it be at the expense of others. You see the came principle at work in the lower orders of men—lower morally and spiritually, I mean. Among the more spiritual you see a higher principle at work—the struggle for the life of others. Di is overcoming and meting out the other—it is making man loss like the brute creation, like to Jesus Christ, the Sou of God, who gave His life for us. This is the way of sanctification, to live for othere, not for our own sake, but for their sake and for Christ's sake. Look out on man is there a life that is one of self-sacrifice that does not wake in you admiration, respeot, reverence, love ? It is the Divine within you reoognizing its birthright. These are the great fundamental les- sons forming the instruction of the young —lessons which they must learn if they would be citizens of the Kingdom of God —if they would be true citizens of this world. The politics of any church or of any country that is inconsistent with these is politics in which Satan himself is prime minister. Before closing let me mention one other lesson that ought to be taught tothe young,viz., the princi- ples and hist history of heir own denanin- ation. You hear a great deal to -day about the union of all the churches. remember we used to hear a great deal about perpetual Motion. I suppose there is perpetual motion somewhere, but not in this world, and I questen if there will be found organic union of all the church- es in this world either—at leash for centuries to come. It will bewail for our young people to be taught meawhile the iustruotive principles of their church. We do not wish to train up religious tramps who will wander hither and thither, of no nee to the world or to them- selves. Nor do we wish to reduce the ehuroh to the jellyfleh stage. I suppose you know what a jellyfish is. It floats in the sea, a big, flabby, seemingly empty eco, shifting its serape with every wave. So you final people who are from their gross ignorance anything tor everything. Take the religions lolly -fish and squeeze him a little on the one side and make him look respectably grave and you will make a fair Presbyterian of him ; give him a pooh' to:exoite hie nervous system a little more and let him loose and you will make a good Methodist of him ; let him trail himself out at length till his long floating shape looks like the nutter. ing of,surplites and you have a fairly good Episcopalian. But after all, the only thing I ever fdund a jolly -fide, whether in the eco or in tete (huxob, good for, was to sting, and to sting desperately bard too. • We have a bistoryae adonom- ination, let us know that history. We have beliefs, let us know theeeintelligent. ly. If union is to come, and I trust Moser union, organic or federal, will come, let ithe from principle, with a sound understanding of the differenoes and agreemente. Let it not be from ig. noranoe, building up .a mega of sand. Only then will the union be sound and lasting—one after God'e own heart; BRUSSELS PUBLIC SCHOOL. MONTHLY EXAMINATION- REPORT. The following fa the standing of the pupils of Brussels Publio School AS de. termined by the November Examination. The names of the pupils are arranged in classes as follows :—Claes 1, those who haveobtainedover 55% • Claes 2, those between 55 and 65% • Class 3, those be. tween 45 and 58% ; Class 4, those be, tween 88 and 45% ; Class 5, those below 38%. The names in the various glasses are arranged in order of merit. noon 1, Total marks,600. Pntacerr,—Ella Lamont, 230 ; Dan Strach- an, 950; Leon Jackson, 820; Donald McKen- zie, 809 ; James MoKenz(e. 279; Myrtle Nott, 279; Sarah MaLanoblin, 2811; Frank Smith. 2553 ; Mary' Calder, 237. Elora Mitchell,172 Maggio Swltzer,141; Willie Leotherdeie, 133 Tesele Switzer, 78. • P. S. LEAvtna.—Jobe McCracken, 280; Ira Gerry, 281; 511910 Jackson, 208; May Shaw, 250 Emma Webster, 221 Georgie Howe, 218; Edith MoLauehlin 201; Fred. Gilpin, 201 e George Watt, • 157 • Lizzie McLennan 190 , Lorne Dunford 164 LGizzie Leather dale, 101 1 sen, Oousley, 139; Fred. Wilson, 138.; Wm. Brydges, 124; Wm, Ainley, Dan, Stewart, Reuben Hindu. ENTaANOE.—Fred. Hayoroft, 807; Edna Dennis, 985 ; Carrie Hingston, 835 ; Herb, Dennis, 910 ; Prances .Brydges, 270 ; Mary F6endshIp, 255; Lida Crooke, 252; Lorne Pringle, 240; Fanny Rogers, 218; Fred, Hunter, 179'; Dalby Kendall, 178; Clara Mc Oruoken, 151 ; May Deadman, 117, J. A. Cantonal, Principal. noon 2. INT, Ob.—Class 1—L. Reid, P. Mitchell, E. Acott, L. Backer, N. ninon d, J. Richardson, V. Cardiff. Claes 2—None. Claes 3--H. Stewart. Absent—L. Downing. JuNlon 4th,—C1ass 1-0. Crooks, K. Smith, G. Backer, A. Putland„ L. Brydges, W. Muir, H. Mitchell, L. Blain, E. Kendall, 0. Milloy, W. Broad toot, W. Grieve, I. Benign, H, Downing, J. Kelly, M. Hayeroft.B, Hunter, Abeam, for part of Exam.—B. Grower, W. Forbes. Sopron 3rd,-01ass 1—T. Agar, 0.Milloy, S. -Forsythe ,P. Watt. .,, Claes 3—R. Crozier. ' Claes 9—L. Cunt', .7, Pybus, G, McLaucb- lln. Class 4-8. Beam, Absent—J. Grieve, Olive Ironstone. INT, 3rd .—Class 1—I, Zillion J. Forbes, b. Zillion, A. McKelvey, N. Smith, C. Backer, L. Sinclair, M. McGuire, J. Ward, A,Kendalt, T, Crozier, F. Finn, M, McArter, J. McMartin, 10.War. Claesnik2—Sarah Driver. Abeeut—George McKay, Miss BEADEN, Toacber. moat 3. Jo. Taran: Olaes 1—A. Putland, A. McKay, S. Ward. Olaea 8—R, Taylor, E. Kerr, M,Forbes,D. Watt. Close 9—E. Webster, 064. Scott, M. For- sythe. Class 4—F. Thompson and N. Vanetone (equal), P. Armstrong. HunteClaes 5-13. Scott, L. West, E, Smtth,B, C. 8n. en0ONn,—Claes 1—M, Settergren, E, LG.owRosry and E. McArter (equal). Class 2—A. Irwin, J. Conley, 0. Edwards, e, Class 3—A, Richardson, 0. Richards, P. Bishards. Olase 4-11, MoLauohlin and M. Itiohard- son (equal), H. Johnstone, 0. Blashlll. Clam 5—L, Pybus, G. Richardson, A. Taylor. In. SEco:D,—Class 1—D. Cameron, R, Wllbee, Class 2—S. Forsythe, N. Blaehill, N, Mc- Guire, Glass 9—W, Hayaroft V.Cooper,E,Mo- Oiken, M. Howe, W. Sillies, lies, A. Crozier, 8. Scott, Class 4—M. Wilton, G. Thompson, G. Melsom, I. Williams, Oiaes 5-8, Blasbiil, W. Amen t, W. Campbell, L. Cooper, A. Bosom, N. William- son. Miss Devon's, Teacher. 200914. SENIOR PART SECOND.—Olass 1—May S keno, Allis Common, Close 2—Pearl Birt. Class 3—Harry Ainley, :Myrtle Hunter, Brno Avery,JOnure, Welker. 01508 4—Maggie MoLauehlin, Vera Dun - ford, Nora Kendall, Frank Nilson, Beatrice Howe, Arthur Smith. . Claes 5—Peter Dudley, Harry Finn, George Btohardson Melly Grewar, Roy Ainley, Garfield Moray, Eva Deubow, Sadie Maxwell, Lottie Koenig, Charlie Haltom, Meas COOPED, Teaohor. Mriam_laman . E. 0. Clarke has disposed of his resi- dence on Patrick street at a fair figure, Mrs. H. Morrow being the purchaser. Bev. Mr. McDowell, formerly pastor of the Methodist church here, was calling on friends in town on Thanksgiving day. John Hill, while working a shaper in McTavish it Co's factory, got the first finger of hie right hand badly ant. It is altogether likely he will lose his finger. Paul Powell and Win. Walker, of Turnberry, met their old rivals Jas. Motauohlin and R. A Graham of town at oheokere, on Thanksgiving day, and the day wasspeutin play. Tho juvenile operetta, "Snow White and the Seven dwarfs," giVen in the Town Hall, on Monday evening of last week by dice Boughton and her pupils and othere, was tete best entertainment of the season. Mts. Thos. Gregory, of town, received a telegram from Winnipeg informing her of the death of her mother, Mrs. II. Copeland, in that oily that day. The old lady was visiting her daughter and was stricken with paralysis and never rallied. The remains were brought to Listowel for interment. Rev. Dr. MoKay, the celebrated min. denary of the Island of E'ormoea, China, gave a missionary address in the Presby terian t hurab, on Sabbath evening. Dr, McKay is Moderator of the General Assembly and one of the most faithful and energetio of modern missionaries. He was accompanied by his Chinese student. The evening offering wet on behalf of thg Foreign Missionary rand, People We Know. B, Cochrane has been on the siok list with bronchitis, Mies Lau. Fleuty, of Wingham, was in Brussels this week. A. Good, of Seaforth, was in town lust week for a few days. Miss Cassie Good, of Wingham, was visiting in town this week. Jas. Thompson, of Wroxeter, was in town for a few days this week. Mrs, 7, S. Smith and Gordon were visiting at Kincardine with her parents. J. a Sperling, of the Neuetedt Butter faotory is visiting in Brussels and locality, 3, Irwin and Geo, Halliday visited the Seaforth Masonic Lodge last Monday evening. W. Knechtel er. was laid aside from work for a few days this week owing to a lame arm, Mrs. (Rev.) E. W. Hunt, of Exeter, ie visiting her parents, Prinoose street, Brnseels. S. Leckie, of) Toronto, formerly of Brussels, will remember St. Andrew's day 1894. It's a son. S. D. Ronald returned home last week from a successful business trip to the Northern portion of this Province. Robb. Ross and wife, of Wroxeter, were in town on Tuesday and took in the Ramsay entertainment in the evening. Little Mabel Taylor, of Paris, is visit- ing her grandparents, George Crooksand wife, Queen street, Brussels, for a few weeks. Mrs. Cavanagh and daughter left for Owen Sound on Tuesday. Miss E. E. Kerr a000mpanied them and will remain for a few weeks. Tan Pon extends a cordial welcome to Rev. A. K. and Mrs. Griffin in becoming resident _ e of Brue=els. They have inoses Dr. Cavanagh's residence, Turnberry street, South. The infant and only son of David Arm- strong, Buffalo, N. Y., has been danger. ously ill with inflammation of the lungs following measles. Mr. Armstrong is a son of R. Armstrong, Brussels. While some Sootehmen and their des- cendants have to content themselves with bagpipes, haggis, &o., on St. Andrew's nicht, A. M. Kay, deputy Postmaster of Stratford, celebrated the birth of a son and heir on that day. Tan Pon cangra- tulates papa Kay. The Chicago Canadian -American, of recent date contains an illustrated article on "Ontarions in Chicago," in which ap- pears a photo of A. M. Taylor, formerly of Brussels, together with a long biogra- phical eketeh. Archie is now head of the legal firm of Taylor, Collins & Stoll, Chioago. CHURCH CHIMES. Private Clarke, of Collingwood, assist- ed in the Army services on Saturday and Sabbath. Rev. Mr. Griffin will preach his in- augural sermon in St. John's church next Sabbath morning. g Last Sabbatb evening reference was made to the late Samuel Hindea, by the pastor. in the Methodist church. On page 6 of this issue may be found an interesting paper on Junior League work, by Mies Washington, of Clinton. B. Gerry will introduce the topic "Hindranoee to class. meeting" at the District Convention in Wingham next Wednesday. Next Sabbotb 'morning, Rev. G. H. Cobblediok, Bible Sooiety Agent, will ad. done Melville church congregation, Rev. J. Roes preaching in the Methodist church. The number of Sabbath school popils attending St. John's eohool should have been reported 89 instead of 08 as given. in last issue. This makes the total attendance for the four schools 542. Rev. Dr. McKay, the world renown.ed Formosa missionary, and Mr. Gopv, a native student, addressed a very largely attended missionary meeting in Melville church in this town. The addresses were very interesting. Rev. W. G. Reilly, who has been the incumbent in St. John's church, Brus- sels, for the past two years, left for hie new oharge—Chatsworth, 9 miles from Owen Sound, on the 0. P. R.—on Wed. nesr'ay. He will begin work next Sab- bath. Mrs. Reilly wont by train Wed- nesday noon. The reverend gentleman is a good preacher and during his term here he established a Womans' Guild, a Woman°' Auxiliary, a Young People's Endeavor Society, and a Children's Missionary Sooiety in the church in Brusssle and a Woman°' Guild at Walton. The two Guild's rais- ed $825 and $90 respectively, toward a rectory fund in the past two years. At Chatsworth Mr. Reilly will have three appointments, and will receive $100 a year more salary than he did here and has a oomforlable rectory. A oall was extended to the reverend gentleman from Chatsworth when he was leaving Ohesiey but he came to Brussels instead. Tun POST wishes Mr. and Mrs. Reilly suaoess in their new field of labor. Chase MAIMS' Co1YENTr0N.—A Class Leaders' Convention will be held in the Methodist ehuroh, Wingham, next Wed- neaday, December 12t1i, opening with de- votional service at 9:80 a. m., aftet which the following subjeots will lie introduced and discussed :—Morning session—"Tho origin, aim and development of the class meeting," by Rev. A. K. Birke, L.L.B. ; "The qualifications and dutiee of class leaders," by Rev. Wesley E. Kerr. Afternoon minion—Devotional examines ; "Hinderances to the suntan of the olase meeting," by Rev. 4. H. Cobblediak, B. D, ; "How can we make the cies meet- ing more attractive and profitable," by Rev. J. W. Pring ; "A. model class meet- ing" led by Rev. Dr. Gifford ; "Hoo the church outgrown the Masa meeting," by Rev. H. ,a. Fair. livening session ---De. votional exercises ; Addresses by the Rev. Joseph Edge, of Goderish, and the Rev. W. Baugh. Twenty minutes allow- ed for the introduotion and the Same time for the dismission of moll topic. A sol. lection will be taken at each session for expenses. ' A11 Mass leaders are urged to attend and take partin the convention, Rev. G. Buggih, chairman ; Rev, W. Baugh, secretary. The usual weekly prayer meeting in the Methodist oburch wail withdrawn this week so as to allow the members to hoar ASV. Dr, MoKay, the Formosa mis- alonary, in Melville church, Last week's Clinton New Era says: -- Rev. It, Paul, 0f Brnseels, °coupled the pulpit of Battenbury street oliurob on Sunday. He is a superannuated minie- ter, but is as vigorous, both mentally and physically, act many men in the 'act- ive work, and his sermons here were able expositions of trurh, Anniversary nervines will be hold in the Methodist church, Brussels, on Sabbath, Deo. 28rd, when Rev. J. R,Gund %,'of London, will preach. Aspecial oo 1 e ion will be taken in lieu of a tea meeting. Rev, G, H. Cobblediak will give "An Mediated evening with Old London," on Christmas night. Wal ton. Rev. Mr, Givens is visiting hie sister, Mrs. W. Smith, A number of our young people attend. ed the concert given in Brueaels on Tues. day evening. Why does Mr, Watson of the Boundary wear such a broad smile ? It is a daugh- ter they say. We are pleased to learn that Johnston & McLeod are doing excellent work with their new crusher. Rev. D. Millar, of Bruseols, preat hed in Duff's church last Sabbath afternoon, es Rev. D. Forrest was absent from home. Thursday of next week a shoating match will be held at T. Jones' Ldad- bury, for turkeys, geeeee and ducks. Shooting commences at 10 a. m. HYMENEAL.—A very happygathering rt a g at the residence of Jas. Wiltsie, t e W etc on me con. 14, McKillop, on Deo. 5th, to witness the marriage of his daughter, Maria, to Oliver Harris, of Grey township. Early in the forenoon the guests assembled at the home and at 11 o'clock the wedding march was played by Willie Neal, and immediately the interesting ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Musgrave. The tables were then set out and the company certainly did ample justice to the good things set before them. After dinner the happy couple a000mpanied by a number of their young friends drove to Clinton where a reception was given at the home of the bride's grandmother. The uewly married couple have the best wishes of their many friends. WEDDING BEtt e, The Seaforth San makes the following reference to the wedding spoken of in last week's POST :— Quite an interesting and happy event was celebrated at St. James' church on Tuesday morning last, the occasion be- ing the marriage of Thomas F. Mahar, of Logan, to Miss Margaret Flannery, of Walton. The ceremony was perform. ed by the Rev. Father Kennedy in the presence of a large number of interetit- ed friends and relatives. After the ceremony the party proceeded to Flan- ni an's hotel where a sumptuous break- fast was partaken of. The bride is a charming young lady, and we congratu- late Mr. Mahar on his excellent choice. The happy couple left on the afternoon train for Toronto to spend the honey- moon, after which they will settle down in their comfortable home in Logan. SAI3EAT1 SCHOOL CONVENTION.—The fifth meeting of the Walton Union S. S. Association will be held in Duff's church, Walton, on Wednesday, Deo. 12th, com- mencing at 1:80 p. m. The following is the program :--First session, Wednesday afternoon from 1:30 to 4:30—Devotional exercises ; President's address ; reports from the different Sabbath S. superin- tendents ; Sabbath school lesson of Deo. 9th, (Christ Teaching by Parables) Rev. T. W. Ooeens ; mass meeting of the Sab- bath S. scholars addressed by W. H. Kerr ; "What are the true elements of slimes in working for the Lord in the Sabbath S. as a teacher," Miss Diok; dieouesiou on Mise Dick'esubjeat ; "How I Teach, or the best Method of Teach. ing," lead by Peter Watson ; collec- tion ; closing exercises. Second seeeion, Wednesday evening from 7 to 9:30— Opening exeroises ; address of welcome, Rev. D. Forrest ; address. G. P. Blair ; address, Rev. Mr. Griffin ; address, "Two sides of S. S. Work," Rev. Mr. Ross ; oolleation ; closing exeroises. Suitable music will be supplied during the sessions by a union choir. Ample accommodation for strangers. ' Cnuaclian Ne'v: . London hoe a ladies' golf club. Stratford's council has ordered the electric lights to be run all night. The Stratford Beacon says that the ceiling of the oity ball is liable to fall on the Board of Aldermen. The Aylmer Canning Company will commence panning poultry and meats in about a week's time, and they will give employment to a large staff of hands. They have bad a most saoceseful season this year and shipped over ten oarloade of apples to London during the past week. At about twelve o'alook Tuesday night are broke out in the frame block coon. pied by Smith & Burne, grdoers, mud Allan & Clyde, butchers, St, Marys, and deepite the efforts of the firemen spread into Dr. Matheson's stone blook to the west. The frame block is a total loss and the stone is badly damaged. The following is an approximate estimate of the losses and the name of the companies interested. W. Tytler, on building, $3,. 000, insured in Liverpool, London & Globe for $1,200. ,T. M. Harrison, on building, $1,500, insured in same com- pany for $700. S. H. Matheson, on, building, $8,000, insured in Royal for $2,600. Smith & Burns, contents, $5,- 000, in Royal $700, and North British, $800. Clyde & Allan, contents, $1,000, in Royal $600. A. E. Teskey,, barber, pantsuits, $50,intuited in Royal, J. N. Gray, photographer, oontente, $1,000, in Perth Mutuai tor $500, Misses Clark, dressmakers, $200, No insurance. G. Garter, Son & Co. flour and feed, a small foes and no insurance. The (Anse of the fire is unknbwn.