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BY CHARLES •O, TRUMBULL
(Sento,. of The Sunday School Tithes)
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rivE MEN BELIEVE ON JESUS.
Subday, Jam 10..—John 1:1 9-a1.
Golden Tet:
Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the winad
(John 1 :291.
People sometime.: see, that they like
the New Testament very meth, but
e.md the OM Testament very little.
There roula not be a greater mie-
take. The NOW TeStainent eannot
be understood apart frbin the •Old
Testament, Countless Nov,. Teste-
vent references depend, for their
meaning, on Ohl Teetament passages.
Th.. Now Teetament records the ful-
fillment or mutat that was prophesied
in the Old Teitament, especially eon -
(Yelling the person and mission of
Christ.
Thu s John the Baptist, when ask-
ed who he was, answered: J am the
voice of one crying in the wilderneee.
Make straight the way of the Lord.
as said th .• Prophet Esaias." Thet
proplime , which John was fulfilling',
found in Isaiah 40:3.
This lesson offers an unusual op-
portunity to study what is common-
ly called "personal work" in Chris-
tian service or leading men to Christ.
it has be`an ealled "Talcing men e -
live." for when the Lord said to Sim-
on Peter, the fisherman, after giving
the disciples a miraeulous draturht he
fishes, "Fear not; from henceforth
thou shalt catch men" (Luke 5:11)),
filo literal Greek of our Lord's words
fe:"From henceforth thou shalt take
men alive,' The verb occurs only
-twice in the New Testament, and the
other passage is in 2 Timothy 2:26,
where we are told that men are "tak-
en alive" by Satan. Therefore, all
men are taken alive, either by Carist
.9r Satan, unto eternal life or eternal
death. '
John the Baptist took many men
alive for Christ. In this lesson pae-
sage he said to two of his own fol-
lowers who clid not yet know .Christ.
"Behold the Lamb of God!" (v. ii6
Then the record reads: "And the
two disciples heard him speak, and
they Yellowed Jesus." Could any-
thing greater be said of you and me
than that, Tas men hear us speak, they
follow Christ.?
Our Lord's own methods of win-
ning men to Himself are given to us
here. He asks the two men a ques-
tion: "What seek ye?" Greeting
Him as Rabbi, or Master, 'they ask-
ed: "Where dwellest Thou?" Tiles
showing their desire to visit Him
and know Him better. And th
came the wonderful invitation from
the Lord: "Come and see." They re-
sponded by going ,with Him, and
spending that day with Hini.
That is all that Christ would have
any one do, at the beginning: Just
Visit Him, study film, learn who J1
end what He has to offer. As ,in t
winners,fishers or men, let us erg,
the uneaved to "Come and stea"
We must include our own family
circle, those neareSt and deareSt to
us, in Otit sold winning if there ere
any unsaved there. One of these
two disciplee, Andrew, hastened to
his own brother. Sheen Peter, and
declared to him wi,tt. they had die -
covered whun th,,y Jestis,
AndreW is drikknitiy in no dteabt, fto.
he eays to Peter: "We have found
the Messia," or tho
The Lord's first word to Simon
wasthat he was going, to give him
a new mune (v. 12. To the Orien-
tal, a new mune neeins a new He.
And that is one of the first thirtrS
that 'Christ says to those who come
to Him: that they may have a dew
lire, through HIin, if they will.
A ,sentenee of two words spoken
by Jesus to another, Philip, had an
amazing result. The Lord said to
him: "Follow ene." And Philip
went and found another man, Nada
enael, anti ;leisured him that they had
round the One of whom Moses arid
the prophets wrote—in other words,
the Messiah. A very f ew words spelt -
en by Christ to a man teen settle ev-
erything for that man, if he is sin-
cere seeker. It is our duty and priv-
ilege to bring men to where they will
be exposed to Christ and Hie words.
But Nathanael had not yet seen or
heard Christ and he replied with Uie
anmortal question of doubt: "Can
there any good thing come out of
Nazareth?" Philip was a true 601101' -
man when he used the Lord's owe in-
vitation: "Come and see."
Nathanael moved in the right
direction, in response to this fisher-
man's bait, and the Load spoke to
him before he could speak to the
Lord. He called him "an Israelite,
indeed, in whom is no guile." And
then Jesus went on to prove to Nath -
:meet, in a few words, that He had
knewn him, and evidently his inner-
most heart life and experience, at a
time, when, perhaps, Nathamtel
thought no one else knew. What-
ever the Lord referred to in the
words: "When thou west under the
fig tree, I saw •the," it was convinc-
ing to this man, for he cried but with
the same conviction the others had
had: "Thou art the Son of God;
Thou art the King of 'Israel."
The winning of these five Men to
Christ teaehes us the great lesson
that, if we will simply be faithful in
bringing men into contact with Christ
He will do the rest. Not that all men
will be won to Chriet, but we may
give every one whom we can reach
the opportunity of facing Him and
deciding whether to raftave or reject
eternal life.
I WHEN PARLIAMENT
MEETS AGAIN
.For the seventh time since their
•tonstruction the Houses of Paella-
ment will he tiSnd when the first seh'
sion of the fifteenth Parliament
• meets at Ottawa on Thursday of this
week,
• The elevation overlooking both the
'Ottawa River and Ottawa City.,
• known in earlier Unice as Barrack's
Hill, now crowned by tide magnifi-
cent Gothie pile, has br•Pn the site of
legislative buildings for almoet sixty
years. Here, on September 1, 1860,
the Prince of Walee, /Mee King Ed-
ward VII., laid the cornerstone of
the beautiful buildthe erected for the
Legislature of Unite! Canada, and
it was occupied for the first time •
when on June 8, 1 grin, that Legis-
lature met in its last session, for on
July 1. 1 867, Confederation came
into vereet, and when the buildings .
were used again they were used by
the Parliament of Canada, the :first
session of whiea opened on November
6, of that year. limey buildings con-
tinued to be the home of our Parlia-
ment uetil the night of February 3.
1 (316, when they were destroyed hy
fire, with the exception of the Lib -
rale>, a separate structure connected
with the inairt buildings by a torel-
elor.
The work of providing Parliameat
with a new home was commenced
with the least possible delay, On
September 1, 1916, 11RjT,, the Duke
of. Coneaught, near the etul of his
i'grm as Governor-General, laid the
cornerstone of the tiew buildings,
and on September 1, 19 1 9, he 1
Prince of Wales, laid the cornerstone
of the tower. The building's were
first used during the fourth eession
of the, thirteenth Parliament which
Opened on February 26, 1920, and in
the s4ech from the throne opening
the session, His Grace, the Duke 0.0
Devonshire, the •Governoe-General.
eongebtulated Parliament upon moot -
in the new building although tiot
entirely completed. He .spolce of the
convenient spaces provided by the
'buildings, the beauty of their design,
the chaalenbeis of 601811 and their lin-
, Rifle situation, '.
All that survived the 40 of tIIO
night of February 8, 1916, was the
beautiful Gothic Library, octagonal
in shape, designed with graceful fly-
ing butresses that give an air of deli-
cacy and airiness. It houses the Can-
adian parliamentary library and hie_
torie doeumente and relic, number-
ing close to a quarter of a million.
The library ha's been incorporated in
the new building with unique success.
• The main entrance to the bUildimgs
. is beneath the tower, and a long ami
; impressivea,corridor extends from the
main entrence straight through to
the library on the north side. This
rorridor is to be known as the Hall
of Fame and eventually its walls -will
be lined with figures or 010O and
women who have nobly played their
part in the nation's history.
The first hal/ within the building
is paved with stones brought from
the various battlefields wht•re Cita-
arlians have fought. The base of
the walls is of black marble, the gift
of Belgium, symbolizing the country
which bore the 'first shock o:r war.
Above this rise marble columns, also
from Belgium, symbolizing the a ;-
pii•ations of that country to rise again
after the misfortunes of war, The
wall space is divided into niches, lin-
ed with stone from France, indicat-
ing the strength of France. In the
centre the altar of Great Britain,
carved from a single stone, was de-
signed to hold the I3ook oa Remain-
beance• containing the names of all
those who fell *luring the years of
the Great War. The hall has a
:gained and vaulted ceiling which re-
enlist the charm of an Old World,
chapel, and indeed throughout the
buildings there is a sense, Of lofii•
nese, spaciousness and beauty which
characterizes the art of building in
the centuries-old halls and eathedrale
of Groat Britain. and France, Th••
windows of this beautiftil hall are
the gifts Of the various Canadian
Pi•ovinces.
Away to, the right of, die hail
stretched the Senate corridor whieh
'eight to the faminis Red Chamber
where the. Icing, represented in the
croon of the Governor-Generel,
riOr 1y , will open the Fifteenth
rlittrakit OrCanada. Here
Senate will meet to hear the
nounceMent of the Governor -G
eral's intention to summon Par
Mont, Here Lord Byng Will en
and attend the, throne, and then
Gentleman Caller of the Black I
will be deepatehed to sunnton
}louse of Commons in person. P
and at prorogation are the only tin
when the Governor-Gencral tnc
the Houses of Parliament in pone
At any other time when he has
message to convey it is communleat
to the Speaker oa either chamber,
gentleman win) is of supreme Imp
Mime to the conduct of constatuth
al government. The Parliament et
not convene unless the Speaker
hie appointed Deputy, is in the chit
so ;that the Speaker, the Speuke
Chair, and the Mace, his badge
office, are nraong the most pietnr,
(Inn ittnns of parliamentary lire,
The Red Chamber. .
The Senate Chamber is one of t
•finest in the bOilaings. It is decora
ed the traditional red, and the
Beau of the stone tracery and t
wood melange beggars descriptio
Over the throne will eventually
placed a figure of Alfred the Gem
the first great English hiev-kiver.
The Canadian Parliament is co
chictea with a great deal of the cer
niony and regard for tredition whi
marks the Mother of Parliaments
Westminster, for from Great Brita
have we absorbed our political teed
tions and ceremonials. It Was awi
back with the Anglo-Saxons that
parliamentary traditions had the
root. In the town -moot, the hu
dred-moot and the shire -moot wei
founded the parliaments of the fu
ure. These local councils of tl
early British people expanded in
the Witenagemot, the wise men wl
advieed the Ring after the union o
Ilia Heptarehy of England emit
Ring Edgar,
A Charter of Freedom.
As time wore on, kinge learned t
disregaed and abuse the councils o
their subjects, but the signing of th
Magna Chute insured for the poo
pie, not only of the little England o
their day, but the people of Geet
Britain to -day, the freedom whic
men and women of British Moo
crave for and cherish wherever the
may be.
Just as the usages of Parliamen
have evolved from the romance o
early day's, so, too, the regalia, sue
es' the Mare itself, evolved from oar
ier and often widely different ob
pugs. The 1VIace has evolved fret
the offensive weapon which knight
of the thirteenth century used as
means as breaking through the heav
:armor of their opponents. The Mac
then became a ceremonial weapo
borne by a sergeant -at -arms for th
defenee of the person of the king
Richard I. was the first British kin
to encase the weapon in preciou
metal. After that, emmorations sue]
as the City of London, and some o
the great guilds, appropriated the
Mace to their own 'mud cerenion
les. Because of this connection it is
mose appropriate that the new 'Mace
used by the Canadian Commons
should be the gift of the Mayor and
Sherics of London whet Sir Charles
Wakefield was Lord Mayor, for Lon-
don was for centuries the bulwark
between despotism and the liberties
of the common people, when the
struggle for human rights was at its
highest. -
The Dignity of Tradikicm
The oew Mace is modelled broadly
on the design of the Mace in the Bri-
tish Commons, which has been in use
Since 1649. Never does the Speaker
appear in an official capacity without
his great Marc. When he enters the
Canadian Commons to open the pee-
ceedings of this new House, he will
be preceded by the Sergeant -at -Arms
bearing it before him. When the
alave is gravely laid upon the table
before the Speaker's Chair, the
House is automatically in session,
and when the Speaker rises and the
Sergeant -at -Arms bears the Mace be-
fore him again as he retires from the
chamber, the affairs of the Commons
cease. Geeat respect is shown to the
Speaker and the Mace, and every-
one stands as they pass in oe out of
the chamber.
The Speaker's Chair in the `Can -
:Wien Commons, which replaced the
one destroyed in the fire, was a gift
['tom the British Paeliamentary As-
sociation. It was presented to the
Commons by a Speaker of the Bri-
tish House, The Rt. Hon. James 0
Lowther, in 1921, and is an (mart
replica of the chair in Westminster.
It is made from the oak taken from
the roof of the nine -hundred -year-old
Westminster Hall,
The Commons Chamhe7*"..
The Canadian Commons is design-
ed to bear with dignity the pictures -
tele ceremonial of parliamentary life.
The lofty spaciousness of the cham-
ber strike e a note of eational
mnj-
e,ty. The cathedral -lila, windows
(food it with light. The ceiling is
:ixteafive foot high and decorated in
O pastel shade of green and gold.
Ten thousand dollars worth of tweet-
ftatwo carat gold was ' usecl in the
lacoration of it. Thr floor is ,af
teakwood from India, alternating
w,th narrow strips of ebeny. •The
11411 is surrounded with galleries
re the pUblie may attend and
art intonate(' or inquisitive 'le,
the peoceedinge of Canada's
Alters.
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(Olden Carria
e Like Fairy Coach Carries •
British King and Queen on Days
of State
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1:;,A-)5ING 774-01.12 P.P1A2E
YARD
The State Coach. of Great Britain
The last occasion on which the
state coach was used in England was
in November, 1924, when the Ring
end Queeii rode in state to open Par -
Bement. There had been rumors of
an attempt to be made by Egyptian
malcontents upon the life of a mon-
arch, so in consequence there was e
larger crowd than usual lining the
route of the procession with a notice-
ably big sprinkling of ex -service men
whose attitude boded ill for any man
who attempted to create a disturb -
011e0.
The morning had been misty and
uncertain„ but as the hour of the
procession approached, the sun broke
through the winter clouds, The Mali
was black with people. Along his-
toric Carleton House Terrace were
those lucky enough to receive invita-
tions to view the pageant from the
vantage point. Several interesting
carriages, mostly closed, passed ear-
ly, one with the Prince of Wales,
greeted with cheers, another carry-
ing the priceless crown jewels, others
with members of the royal suite.
Then, as the swelling bands'announc-
ed the approach of the royal pair,
the sun blazed out so that the Horse
Guards in their scarlet and white, and
steel armor, flashed colorfully along
and the great golden carriage gleam-
ed like a fairy thing between the gay
postillions and yeomen of the guard,
Within sat a grey -bearded man,
bowing gravely from left to right,
and beside him a stately white-haired
woman whose head was encircled
with a glittering, Bashing circlet of
ciiamonds.
j The state carriage is a massive and
magnificent piece of work, more than
150 years old, Three artistsall
friends, designed and executed it.
They were Sir William Chambers, an
architect; Joseph Wilton, a sculptor,
and Giovanni Ciprarti, a Florentine
artist. Chambers designed the coach,
• Wilton, the garlands and other dec-
orations, and Ciprani painted six pan-
els, three on each side, with allegor-
ical pictures.
The coach weighs four tons, is 24
, feet long, eight feet wide and twelve
feet high and is housed in a special ,
' carriage house in the Royal Mews at ,
, Buckingham Palace. The framework,
of the body represents palm trees
branching out to support the roof. '
The four corners are simported by
Tritons, the two in front announeing
through sea shells the approach of
the monarch of the man, and the
1 two in the rear bearing tridents.
Three boys on the roof, beating
j reproductions of the regalia, repro -
1 sent England, Ireland and Scotland
and support a royal crown. Even so
, far back as 1751, when this 'royal
I coach was completed it cost $40,000.
I The eight horses which draw the
j state carriage at coronations and
I openings of Parliament must be
'trained to bear quietly the cheeeing
1 of the crowds and the waving of
1 flags. Their harness is very gor-
geous, of red morocco leather decor-
ated with blue ribbons and bearing
the royal twins in gold. It le kept in
specially constructed glue cases ia
the Royal Mews.'
^ 'Y.,' •--y--
ANNEXES SWAIN'S ISLAND.
fruited States Claims ownership
Chief rsland of the SaM01131 GrOUP.
Swain's Islaud, about 200 mile
noeth of Africa, the chief Island o
the Samoan group, is the lutes
acquisition of the United States
This newest bit of territory is the
smallest the United States have ever
annexed. It is :Unmet round m con-
tour, after the manner of coral atolls,
and has a population or about 70.
Its minuteness and its remoteness
help to explain how it came to escape
so long the eyes of statesmen in
days when charts were scanned close-
ly for spots or dry land an Which to
run up flags.
The Peacock and the Flying Fish,
part of the squadron of the United
States Exploring Expedition under
Commodore Willis; sought in Janu-
ary, 1841, fOr SiSnS of an island re-
ported by the sixteenth century Span-
ish navigator Quires and named by
him Gente Hermosa, or the Isle of
Comely People. captain Hudson, who
commanded the two vessels, had word
also from a whaler of laud sighted
thereabout. Hudson found an isla.nd,
but at it had on it no Inhabitants,
handsome or otherwise, that he could
see and as its position was not that
given by the old navigator he gave
It the name of Swain, the whaler who
had reported It, And so it happens
that the latest 'United States terri-
torial acquisition was first located
and surveyed by one United States
dozen aed named after another,
Hudson's sailers tried to land on
the breaker-swePt beach. They found
that the island had no cove to render
iandingesafe or easy, A heavy surf
wee breaking impartially along all
parts of the shore. Small boats sent
to try to reach the land punt not
natio' it, and one of them was east
on one. of' the enter reefs. Thotta:11
the party did not land, tiw eetire lack
or heats, huts, fires or any other e tem
of lie teari presence insole 11 plain
enough that thorn WAS nobody home
--end perhaps never had been.
TI) Is isle as it then Wail' seemed
quite ready for oceunellea• It had a
rich growth of eneornui and non -
(luaus arid flocks of pigeom 0))' -
over ho treetops,
Enr.1;.th maps include Swain's, 11:, -
der Gun 07' 01101 her of ifs 84%'1 )l
variant moms, ln the Tokelau group,
.and put a rill- around thy wholo
aggregation, within wlifeb rens the
Inbel "British." It dam; not (meter,
however, that Britain has ever maae
any official assertion or (10000')' ,1y
over Swain's Island le pa1'tieular..9 11-
bettersIce own Wets of the Tokeia it
group are hut little larger then
SWaii0/1 anti Ovine fat. to the north
of lt About 130 miles of open otioan
separate It Nora laake,era, the lemma
land under distiettly British rule,
Mee with a fancy 10 905$05e lands
0,1 'their (1900 )100 iot 1 eti th I
1 tee racine, melee no t,-overnment
sought this little speck of territory,
f it is natural that air individual finally
found it out. Others followed. The
reputed owner of the island, Alexan-
B der ,Tennings, is a United States
f citizen.
The United States will gain nothing
by its new acquisition, but it will
assure low and order to a handful
people too Lew to support a gov-
ernment of thele own and too numer-
ous by several. dozen to get alone
Permationtly without regular author-
.
y to appeal to to keep their rela-
tions in order.
Wester
Germany has accepted itivitation
to participate in agreement on pol-
icy in China to be reached at Wash-
ington on February.
Leo McMahon, blind British war
veteran, was jailed in Chicago for
protesting against beating received
from cafe diners.
Port of Halifax, in 1925, showed
increase of three million tons in ship-
ping over 1924.
Eighteen fiddlers between the ages
of 63 and 82 will participate In NOW
England fiddlers' contest, which
opens at Providence, on Janu-
ary 4.
• Pari e heard report that former
Shah Ahmed of Persia, ki4led himself
at Marienbad.
'Have You Renewed Your POST?
Have You Renewed Your POST?
ers Sh w Mettle in East
F
the first time in years a 'western rugby team has
IC given a worthy display against an eastern team The
westerh senior eller/intone have ben completely routed
year of er year, but on Saturday, December 12, the
westerlt juniors provided a real challenge to the supre-
macy 0 the east.
!Phi Ing against the Montreal Amateur Athletic
Associii ion rithgy squad for the Dominion junior ItughY
Champi whip, the Patricia Iurilor Rugby Team of
Ite ina, Saskatchewan, was defeated by a narrow margin
of 6 to after holding the lead of 4 to 1 foe the first
throe qu irters. •In the final' quarter the Montreal team
sent Ay r into the field as a kicker and he managed to
hold his own against husky Erskine, of the Patricias,
who was the star player.
The , • .A.A.A. managed to eresh through the op-
posing lin for a try, The game tit the M.A.A.A. grounds
proved a fine exhibition of Rubgy despite the snow on
the grou d. The Regina Leader donated a cup to the
winners. his is to be known in the future as the Regina
Leader ophy end is to be played for annually fdr the
coAeti a ihp
Leader,„ who accompanied the team, presented the cup
to the 1VI.A.A.A. squad at an infOrtnal meeting Saturday
evening.
The Regina •Patricies travailed to Mon:treat on the
Ceinadiati Pacific flyer the "Imperial" in charge of 11,
Wright, C.P.R. representative, and expressed their
gratification at the fine accommodation afforded them
so that they were able to take the field in line conclitioh.
They returned to the west also on the "Imperial".
Here aro the Pate, western jUnior rugby champions:
Left to right, front row: D. H. Traynor, fiYing wing;
R. Middleton, left half; E. Findlay, middle, substitute;
la Metcalfe, quarter; Al Ritehie, cottele; A, il/falmie,
quarter, substitute; E, Fraser, Tor011to; E. Fraser,
half; N. Busch, 'map. 2nd Row, loft to right: D. Gibson,
representing the 'Regina Leritier; E. Elwood, sabstittfle;
R. johestora right middle; E. Shaw, substitute; G.
Erskine, hall; Dv Johnston, outside wihg. Third Row:
Hoot Yorlt, left middle wing; G. Duff, left -outside wing;
0. ltrliawlsor, right half; J. Crometon, inside wing; W.
Uellatrittra, fillbStittith; J. Cropper, inside; IL Wright,
canadian pacific Railway representative in charge of tie
40'nw,