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SEAFORTH, Friday, October 23rd.
The Globe Under New
Ownership
The rather sudden announcement
made from Toronto last week, that
The Globe, Canada's historic news-
paper, had been transferred to new
ownership, and, management, was °
the most outstanding news item, in
point of general interest, that has
broken in the newspaper field in
some years.
While the transfer of ownership
may have been sudden to the public,
it has been very generally known in
newspaper circles that The Globe,
for some years, has been operating
under great difficulties, through de-
creased revenue and lack of finan-
cial backing.
In fact, it is understood that The
Globe has been operating for the
past two Years at a loss of over a
thousand dollars a week. Such a
• finaneial drain, of course, could not
go on indefinitely, and in all probab-
ility explains the sudden 'change of
ownership.
The new President and publisher
is Mr. C. George McCullagh, a young
man thirty-one years of age, who
was 'a former member of The Globe
staff, but who, in recent years, has
had' a remarkably successful career
as a broker in 'the city of Toronto.
Mr. McCullagh's financial - backer
is Mr. William Henry Wright, one of
Canada's great mining magnates, as
well as one of her most wealthy citi-
zens. The Globe, therefore, 'will
have behind it sufficient financial
backing to pursue any newspaper
policy which the new owners may
favor.
Concerning the change of owner-
ship, however, perhaps the most out-
standing question in the minds of
the general, public is: Will The.
Globe become a new Globe, or will it
become the old Globe?
For sixty years following its foun-
dation, The Globe was undoubtedly
Canada's, leading newspaper. 'Few
newspapers in Canada or elsewhere,
have ever commanded an equal re-
spect for the integrity- of their ex-
pressed opinions.
It wielded an immense political in-
fluence. In its daily or weeklyform
it reached into every corner of On-
tario, particularly in the country,
where its weekly edition had a cir-
culation second only to the local
weekly papers. It was the Bible of
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its -perliticaHriends, and even its
i
political eneme
s, while more or less
bitterly opposing its editorial 'policy,
subscribed to it because of the excel-
lence of its other featurek anti to
the wide coverage it gave to home
and foreign news.
With the turn of tl century and
the introduction of the rural mail
aystern, however, the publication of
the weekly ceased and with it much
-of the influence of The Globe in the
rural- districts, because contrary to
the generally held opinion of the un-
itiated, daily papers are uncommon-
ly scarce on rural routes, particular-
ly in the past few years: Consequent-
ly a country generation grew up that
knew not The Globe.
Perhaps, too, the adoption of an
independent, policy did not count in
its favor in the minds of a large num-
ber' of its reading public. Certainly
) in thirty years • The Globe never .
/' reached as- h1g1. a 'pitch of enthus-
4), iasm and cenfidence on the part of
the public as it reached with the p01 -
it *Opted ,thirng the campaign
th ' vitrcial election in 1934. "
he tiVerleard quegLioned
of140et:41obe's independ-
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etkis t,s 'right to adopt •
enpipn of pith-
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pe deuce. -It even s erned to bend
backwards at tbnes,
But—The Globe has been.,a great
newspaper since it. was founded ov-
er ninety years ago. It was a great
paper the day it ehanged hands, and
it will be interesting to watch its fu-
ture career in the hands of its young
and new owner. We wish Mr. Mc-
Cullagh a sincere wish for success.
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We Have Them in Huron Too
Perth County broke into the first
page of the newspapers this week. '•
Or rather two townships in that '
county did. „
It was all about good tax collec-
tors and unique records in regard to
collection of tax arrears.
Wallace towrishiP, in that county,
it appears, has no tax arrears, and
South Easthope has only four on its
ledgers.
And such a condition of affairs is
something to blow about too, everrif •
they haven't broken any records or
established any new ones.
But Perth County is not the only
place' where such things happen.
Huron has that kind of township too.
Of course we haven't heard .from
Reeve Haacke or Reeve Peter Scott
yet, but we will, don't worry. And
if Billy Sweitzer's busted leg gets
well in time, we might hear from
him too.
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Welcome the 'Tourists
Canadian citizens should welcome
the tourists who in ever increasing
numbers, - are finding their way,
across the international bo-undary.
And they should ge out of their
way even to make it a very hospitable
welcome. True hospitality, of course,'
never seeks a reward, but whether
'sought or not, a reward awaits us
from these tourists.
This fact is strikingly brought ou
in the recent statement of Mr. C. K.
Howard, Manager of the tourist and
convention bureau of the Canadian
National Railways.
According to Mr. Ho -ward, and few
can speak with equal authority,
there were 689 conventions held in
Canada during the past year in nine
of our principal cities, and from
these conventions alone he estimates
a revenue of $21,000,000.
And that from convention dele-
gates alone. What:a field it opens
up. There are millions of our Amer-
ican neighbors who have never seen
Canada and know practically noth-
ing about either us or, our country.
If we are hospitably and kindly
disposed towards those who do come
over, rest assured they will adver-
tise it when they go back, home
again.
And we have something to show
these tourists too. Something well
worth t'he money they spend with us
too.
WHAT OTHER. PAPERS SAY.
Canada's Defence -Pair
(Stratford Beacon -Herald)
, Item. Ian Mackenzie, Minister of National De-
fense, told an audience at Victoria, B. C., that t'he
'People of Canada had 'become "defence conscious
in recent weeks.' Mr. Mackenzie made no refer-
ence to the "peregrinating Imperialist" who was
chiefly responsible for the awakening, but the gave
evidence of having been impressed' by the re-
marks of Lord Milbank and the popular approval
with which they were received. In other words,
our Minister of Defence has hineself became "de-
fence conscious.' He acknowledged the impor-
tance of the question and declared that it must
.be faced with a vitew to "the new problem of ae
'very serious nature that confront us."
Perhaps Mr. Mackenzie should not bear full
responsibility for his derogatory tetort to Lord
Elfbank, since he is only one member of the Gov-
ernment and he was probably replying according
to Instructions. His 'attitude certainly coincided
with that of Prime Minister MacKenzie King be-
fore the League Of Nations. Mr. King virtually
told \Great Britain) and the other mem,beve of the
British Commonwealth that Canadians could look
atter themselves in the event of war, and were
under, so obligation to go -to the defence of the
Empire.
Mr. Mackenzie, however, takes a larger view
" of Canada's responsibility, In, his speech at Vie-
torla he is sail to have cited resolutions of suc-
cessive Imperial conferences to 'show (1) that
each self-governing portion, of the Ertiplre is
primarily resanisible for its local defence; (2),
that the aecurity of the Empire is a matter of
concern to all its governments; (3) that the pro-
tection ef our Oast and seaborne trade in, time
of war is the reeponsibiliby of the Government,
and (4) that Pattlatient must carisider defence
reparations in the light of the financial ability
Of the public tretazilrY. If Canada is comnatteed
to the stateMette-"that the security of the Em-
pire is a matter of Concern to all its govern-
-Metter Mr. Xing was rather out of keeping
with that idea in his speech at Geneva. In part
of that Speech the Prime Iltinieter left the its
pression that Canadians regarded the Present
starattlin ii irrope with a deillteliod intereet,
that Canada's relationship t� the Emelre was a
eon alld sentimental tittadherient whitta itte
14011zed no. Military realiateibility. Perhapa Mr.
king did net Mean thite but his eVeech WAShi,
teettiretedatz theee tettaa•
Years Agon.
Interesting items picked from
The Expositor of fifty and
twenty-five years age.
From The 'Huron Expositor of
'October 27, 1911
Dr.' Viretidti, Oa Baylield, has been,
appointed coroner for tarron CountY!
an place of .the late Dreagtanbum
Out of 150. barrels of apples. picked
on the farm of A. W. 'Sloan, near Por-
ter's Hill, Getteriela Twp., (48 were
firsts and two barrels were seconds.
The Grand Trunk depot at Exeter,
which was erected' three years ago
and whish was considered one of the
finest smaller stations on the road,
was completely destroyed by fire
early Friday morning.
Mrs. Robert Mellis, a pioneer resi-
dent of Kippen and a much esteemed
person, passed away in London re-
cently.
The annual reorganization meeting
of the Seaforth Hockey Club was' held
in the council chamber on Tuesday
evening. The following officers were
elected: Honorary president, Frank
Kling; hon. vice-pres., John Bell;
president, Jas. E. Willis; vice-pres.,
Wm. McDougall; secretary, H. Smith;
treasurer, Mr: Watts; managing, com-
mittee, A. Broadfoot, Frank Sills), J.
F. Reid and Wafter Smith.
Mr. Wlm. 'Rutledge, a well ktiown
gentleman in Seaforth and surround.
ing country, walked over 50 miles
from „Tuesday morning until Friday
ev ening. •
BY G. M. AT. ENBOROUGH
— (Colitintied frorcatast Week)
At ten o'clock his horsewas
.brought round, it, was a white horse,
,and standing on the ' balcony we
watehed the moon rising behind the
hills. "We shall ride together, my_
'beauty," (said' Madrigal to the mOon,
and he went in and fetched a red rose
from the marble saucer, kissed it, and
tossed it as an offering to Diana. 'It
i's' on a hoz:cc; under the moon, in It-'
,aly, that one lives,' he said. Then he
saw the Musset lying on. the chair
!where he had' left it, 'the tag of his
lace gleaming in the silver light. He
picked it up and. gave it to me. 'We
will finish it on our first evening in
Paris,' 'he said. Then he remember-
ed a story from the studios, and with
the warm silver air palpitating with
,his laughter he ran down the steps,,
mounted his white 'horse, and was off
at a gallop.- Standing on. the balcony
with My heart •heating with Rive of
him, I rentembered that he hadn't
said good-bye. It.gave me a queer
feeling of happiness. 'Why do people
say good-bye so much?' I said to my-
self. 'Why ,put so many full stops in.
life when commas are so, much more
-winsome?' He was thrown from his
white horse, little one—how 1 never
knew. He was a superb rider; but
he was thrown, and 'picked' up just
after the next dawn'. I expect some
wee night -thing came flitting across
and startled his horse while Madrigal
was dreaming of Diana."
"Then he is deed!" said Samela.
"No, little one. He has never been
dead to me. The lace tag' is still in
'Musset's play, waiting for him to fin-
ish it.. Every horse's hoofs are still
ins; as I talk to you' I hear his capti-
vating laughter running round this sil-
ent room. Little one, I have the fan-
cy that dear Madrigal has remained
so real to me because he never said
The blessing 'of the new pipe organ
of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, will
take place on 'Sunday, Nov. 5th, at
10 a.m.
The congregation of t'he Mennonite
Church, Zurich, recently complet-
ed comfortable and commodious sheds
in connection with their church for
the use of country members who at-
tend 'the services.
Mr, George Stanbury, of the London
Road, Stanley, had the misfortune to
lose his driving pony one night last
week. It has strayed onto the rail-
way track 'and was run down by 'the
evening train.
The sugar beet crop around Ceu-
'tralia this year is an unusually good,
one. There were 140 acres of beets
in and around Centralid, and the price
paid was $4.50 ,per ton.
Mr. Alex. Sznith, of Hullett, joined
the ranks of, the benedicts on Wed-
nesday of last week when he 'was
married at the Parsonage of Rich-
mond St. Methodist Church, London,
to Miss Rebecca Jackson, Matron of
Victoria Industrial School, Mimico,
and formerly of Blyth.
What might have proved a serious
accident happened last Thursday to
Mr. Samuel Smith, of Molesworth.
While returning frcen Listowel with
a load, his team suddenly became
frightened and ran away, throwing
Mr. Smith out, breaking two of his
ribs and giving him quite a shaking
up.
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From The Huron Expositor of
Oadtwer 22 1886
The contract for the erection of a
new brick warehouse at the rear of
Mr. D. Johnson's hardware store, Sea -
forth, has been awarded to Messrs.
Tyerman & Spading, of Seaforth.
Mr. A. •Cerdno, Seaforth, has ship-
ped a large quantity of choice apples'
to Glasgow 'this
A new roof of tin shingles is being
put on St. Thomas' Church in See -
forth.
The voting on the by-law authoriz-
ing the Seaforth council to raise by
way of loan the sum qf $5,500 for the
purpose of enlarging the High School
building and making other improve-
ments, took place last Monday. A
majority of 130 voted for the move-
ment.
Mr. John Lamb, of Kinkurn Hotel,
intends having a shooting match for
geese and turkeys on Tuesday, Nov.
2ntl.
Mr. thigh McCartney, of the Brace -
field cheese 'factory and creamery,
has solid out all his' cheese and but-
ter for 23 cents per pound.
The enterprising citizen, of Win-
throp, Mr. Andrew Govenlock, has
seeuredthe services of Mr. Thomas
Coilina as' miller.
-The windstorm of Thursday last
week did considerable damage in' this
section, partially unroofing several
barns,' among which were those of
Mr. S. Smiltie, of 'ruckersmith, and
Mr, W. Green, of Hay, blowing down
fences and stripping fruit trees. •
There was a grand exhibit of hors-
es at the Staffa Fair, 'besides, as ex-
cellent display of fancy work in the
"Crystal Palace."
Mr. James Norris, Stage., while as-
lating Messrs. Jeffrey and Brooks
with the frame work of their bridge,
had his foot severely bruised.
About one o'clock last Friday morn-
ing the bakehouse tn the rear of the
Royal Hotel, Seaforth, was discover-
ed to be on fire. The fire was easily
put out.
During the high winds last week
several pieces of the high board fence
surrounding the' agricultural grounds
were blown down,.
Mr. Andrew Turnbull's new brick
residence in the Township of Grey,
near Brussels, is about completed.
One day last week Mr. E. Glenn, of
'Stanley, fell and sariously injured his
shoulder. When the doctor ,examined
him he found that it was ditlocated
and It required the strength' of three
men to get it back into place.
At the auction slate on the farm of
Mr. Alex, . Smith, Hutett, near Har -
lock, last week, n1l tVe stock sold at
good • figures. Instead' of the old es-
tablished custom of passing whisky'
at a sale, which was done years ago,
Mn and MrS. Smith sent out in ex-
cellent cup of coffee and other sub-
stantial refreshments. '
Two potatoes had been left last
spring in the corner on thebriek floor
of the cellar of the Methodist Parson-
age, Londesboro, During the summer
they threw out sickly looking thin
stalke, flee or SIX inches long, and lit-
tle Wiry rootlets in Watch grew' quite
a Map of PotateeS, from the size' of
a tieft• to that of a , marble. Tha'
ScentedtO OW CM Alt MX a ,littie
tkollattine treat britilte. 6
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Goadtbye."
Tkere was a speakitg silence. Then
Samela rose from her knees.
"I understand," she said.
"Exactly, little one" and in a mom-
ent Mr. Twig was telling her a quaint,
story of a Venetian, mirror. .,Samata
received the story with a smile, and
Presently finished making 'him hie•
Benger's food and settled him for the
nigButht. in her own bedroom, face down..
wards on the bed, the tension broke.
"There is to be no go -bye, but al-
ready he has said' it," !she told the
pillow, .and the little bed shook with
her sobs. label, heene for the week-
end', came in with her chin tilted to
the angle of correction.
"Control yourself, Samela. What oc-
casion is there for 'this shocking loss
of. self-discipline? Control yourself at
once. Do you hear me?" -
The sobs grew more shattering and
brought Mrs., Mallassy up the stairs.
"Come away, Isabel, and 'let the
child cry. Her father is not at
h om, soh.:
must control herself, Mother;
what is education for if it is net to
teach us control?, If Samela does not
control herself over this, outburst her
whole «character will 'suffer:"
"Fiddlesticks!" said Mrs. Mallassy.
"What about the Psalmist watering
his whole couch with hie tears?"
Isabel's expression said very plain-
ly that the Psalmist had neither had
an Oxford education, himself, nor,as
had been Samela's inestimable priv-
ilege; had he come under the influ-
ence Of anybody who had'.
* * * , *
tt was 'Christmas Eve. Mr. Twig
had had two wonderful days which
Samela interereted, with nodding
smiles of approval over his bed; as
his, perfect Christmas present to 'her,
• -SUNDAY AFTERNOON
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• • (By Isabel Hand/ton, Goderich, Ont.j • ,
0 Love Divine! that stoop'st to share
Our sharpest pang, our' bitterest
On Thee we cast each earth -born care,
We smile at pain while Thou art
near.
Though long the weary 'way we tread,
And sorrow crown each lingering
year,
No path we shun, no darkness dread,
Our hearts still whispering, 'Thou
art
t--OnealirCer Wendell Hotlines.
PRAYER
.0 God, teach us to assume a right
attitude toward others! If they of-
fend us, may we forgive them; if they
are ungenerous towards us, may we
overcome their evil by our good! For
Christ' sake. Amen.
S. S. LESSON FOR OCTOBER 25th
Lesson Topic—Christianity As Love.
Lesson Passage—Acts 18:14; I Corin-
thaans
Golden Text -1 Corinthians 1313.
Ia Acts 18:2, 3 we read of an illus-
tration of practical Christianity. When
Paul left Athens he went to Corinth,
still following up his notice .of going
to cities to deliver his message. He
took up his residence with two Jews
lately come es strangers from Rome.
They were 'drawn together by their
'occupation as tentitakere, but being
large -hearted they opened their .home
to the newcomer 'amongst theni. Un-
der his inetruction they becanie con-
verts to Christianity.
I Corinthians 13:1-13—In writing on.
this chapter Dr. Parker says in The
Peaple's Bible: This Chapter should
be read' in one liretitilre If you kalt
in the reading of it you seem to miss
a great deal./ Thie., exhortatione..was
peculiarly seasonable in the ease of
the Corinthian Church,. Nearly every -
hefty in Corinth .was either a good,
sPeaker or a good .hearet; it' was the
city of eloquence. Paul having heard
eloquent declamation said, All this
amounts to nothing, unless', it be
backed up by an infinity of love. Un-
less 'we have love everything elsegoes
for nothing. Let us look into this'
little. First of all, the Apostle gets
rid of all genius; mental power, all
almsgiving and. all self -martyrdom. Al),
this is useless -unless underneath and
round about is, the spirit of love. In
verses 4-8 the defines Love under the
word Charity. "Love sufferet'h long
and is kind." Love suffereth long and
is through it all, sweet, kind, court-
eous, gracious, Uncomalaining; there
is not a reproach upon 'its tongue,
there is not one drop of bitterness int'
its gentle heart. Ale me! if that be
so, I have no love.
"Love envieth not." Do I envy?
"Love vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up, doth not behave itself un-
seemla." The 'said of suet a one is
the habitation' of love.
-"Love seeketh not 'her own." This
is the Crucial point.
"Love is not easily provoked." Why
we take offence ad 'quick as light -
fling!
"Love thinketh no evil." There are
people wile leave no genius but in ev-
il thinking. They can always tell you
yrhy other people do certain things,
They can' airways tell you the' motive
and ft IS never a good one.
"Love aeibiceth not in iniquity,' but
rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all
things, belleveth all things,, hopeth all
things, endureth all. :Wino." Man
should be to Mait, a ptoteetina raof;
loving one another eo as 'to catchthe
ettallt yourself and keep talreM eorna
'Wier -,i1riu; „Iihat is theenfiliceele -O, . the
aleeett Nei afeeteliatloar 11.4, by
Ito; ' 1 one
Paul'' ever Ike' Iof our -
lie
his greatness? On the contrary, he
was a man of like passions with our-
selves, and he passed through a sim-
ilar experience td our own. "When
I was 'a child, I s•pake as a child, I
understood as a child', I thought as
a child; but when I became a man
I put away childish thiiegs." Paul
woula have us forget the things that
are behind; he' would not have us
learn again our first alphabetic ac-
quirements. The whole thing we
have to grow up to is love. "For now
we see through •a glass, darkly,; but
then face to face; now I know in
part;' but then shall I know even as
also ,I am known. And now abideth
faith, hope, charity, these three; but
the greatest of these is charity."
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WORLD MISSIONS
-The New. Life Movement
Many friends at home are asking,
What is the New Life Movement in
China? Is it 'a religious movement?
How does it oeerate? Now first I
may say it is not a religious move-
ment, or only in so far as every ef-
pit for the uplift and betterment ot
mankind springs forth, perhaps un-
consciously, from the spiritual side of.
'man. The Bible says, "Every good,
gift and every perfect gift is from
above and 'cometh down from the
Father of Light."
, Some t7hinese say it is an effort to
reintroduce. old 'teaching from the
tdaYe-ofttaltehtstompteteatiallying -that-
the' ranee was able to slip away' tor
the festivities of her own home. Sam-
ela and Mr. Twig were 'to spend their'
Christmas' together, all by theinselves,
and Mrs. ttailassy had promised to --
deal firmly with the ructions that -
would surely arise when Samela fail-
ed to sit down to Sir John Mill's Non-
conformist turkey. What the bird' did
not conform to was, the traditional
'standard of weight. "I am going toe
have a turkey to -night for dinner,"
the Abbe Morellet used to say, "Aie
always happens on such an oecasion,
there will be two present, thelturkey
and myself." Even the Abbe Morel-
let would have famed himself ba ed
by the colossal 'bird' which construed
Sir John Mill's appmisernent of the'
services rendered to Castle Street.
Congregational Church by its Senior
Deacon, Mr. Mallassy.
Samela sat in, the great winged.
eaueen Anne chair by the side of the -
blazing fire from which she could
see every movement in the', narrow,
exquisitely carved oak bed in 'the
screened, recess. Can -wick is' an old'
town and Mr. Twig's was one of the
oldest of its houses, and his bedroom,
satisfied even his connoisseur concep-
tion of a, beautiful domestic chamber. --
The leaping flames gave a burnished
russet glow to the panelled walls and
the wide, polished oak boards, on
which were spread half -a -dozen Per-
sian rugs, lovely in their colorings as
an ancient missal, and transformed.
the c'heval glass, 'standing on the sup-"
port of massive lions' heads, into, a
Turner -like canvas of a suaset. Sam-
ela watched', fascinated, the play of'
the firelight in this great oval mirror
before which Mr. Twig had so often,
and so meticulously, brushed his beau-
tifully trimmed beard and thick waves
of had?, and arrived at the appearance
which reminded Roy so promptly of
El Greco's Doctor. Where was Roy
spending his Christmas, she wonder-
ed, and upon the thought her eyes
flaithed across to the narrow oak bed.
tovered with the rich • coverlet on.
which 'her own fingers had embroid-
ered the .'fleur-de-lys.. She could
scarcely give even, Roy a wonder.
That frail burden 'was her only care,
The old French and English pieces in
the ancientenhamber were equally
matched. Samela knew the story of
every one of them -'-of every one of
,nines enfants as Mr. Twig called them.
They had polished them together ov-
er and 'over again, and once Samela
had desired to cliieten them, and was
all ready with her christenings. But
Mr. Twig wanted' the finest pieces' to
be sons' rather than daughters, and ea
they quarrelled a little in defence of
their sex and' the pieces remained in
the indefiniteness of' nines enfants -e»
Suddenly Samela sat up. The bells
were ringing, carrying with an almost
eerie clearness an the still air of the'
cold 'frosty night. She tip -toed to the
bed. Mr. Twig was half -dozing. "The
Christmas ,bells, do you bear them,
darling?" She whispeeed. He half -
opened his eyes and nodded,, and she
stooped and 'kissed the 'gnarled hand
lying on the coverlet, and held to
him ,the' bowl of violets on the tiny
Tudor table at his side. Again the
eyes' half-OPened. "Beautiful, little
one, beautiful," he murmured, and fell
to dozing again. Samela went to the
window. Now the bells were answer-
ing each other across the valley—
Sadbury throwing to Beaton,. Beaton.
to Onchurch, Onchurch clanging
Carericka In the frosty sky the stars
were superbly swollen, glittering steel
blue in' the blue -black canopy. Sam-
ela thought of the ringers in the bel-
fries, and at their womenfolk carry-
classics, and that almost, everything, ing to them mince -pies and hot ale'
found in the books on tile New ,Life On which to make merry, in between.
Movement can be found in their clas-
sics. That Is probably at least partly
true, but • we must remember that
only a very few years ago the clas-
sics were studied only by the literary
and a privileged few. Customs) and'
superstitions were handed down', but
_the_ man in the field, she woman at
the loom, the child in the home could
not read, and thus ideas, however,
good, did not get into the. lives of the,
common people.
Books teaching the New Life Move-
ment have been published in simple
language, and as education for the
masses is a part of the movement, so
these teachings will have a better
chance. Yesterday I sat down with
Mr. Leo, the Chinese editor)of "Hap-
py Childhood,"•and togethertive culled
from a book on the New Life Move-
ment some of the rules for lii‘na set
down. Of course we give only a
small part, but, it may help to explain
the Movement somewhat.
Be cotirteoue.
Be cleanly in habits especially re-
lating to food (files, dirty leater, etc.).
Me modest and tidy in dress.
Be simple in ways of living—plenty
of fresh,air and cleanliness essentiat
When walking or travelling be polite
to all.
,Be faithful and honest in your work.
Take, no bribes. Give no bribes,
'Improve yourself in every !Way you
can. Learn to read. Attend' classes
or leCtures.
Do not Stroke, do not take opium,
do not gamble. Be obedient to those
over you.
Respect all public property. Filial
piety, loyalty, and family ebligations
are also stressed..
The New Life Movement ,is 'a sin-.
cere effort to uplift and! educate the
masses of -China to a better mode of
living.
How does' It operater? A Chinese
friend In answering this quefitien said,
"Some of these rules' can be enforced
by-offitials but some Mureti conte from
the heart of men." You Will tinder-
sMiut I heap given PM only' a sinell
Section of the Movetiett but encu
Perhaps to shoe you that it is' for
the true betteritient of the people,
their. ringings. "Dear, men to ring
the bells on Christmas Eve," She
said, and half aloud quoted the mod-
ern carol which of all carols she lov-
ed best:—
"Now blessed be the towers that
crown England he „fair,
That stand up strong in prayer unto
God for our souls;
Blessed be their founders say I, and
our country folk
Who are ringing for Christ in the bel-
fries to -night
With arms lifted to clutch the rat-
tling ropes that race
Into the dark above an'd'the mad
romping din."
"Dear ringers," said Samela again as
she left the window 'and' took down
from the panelling a Copy, in Color, of
the lovely fresco Nativity' of Luini in
the church of Mary of the Miracle at
Saronno. She carried' it to her chair
and held it down to the leaping
flames by which alone the rich room
wad lighted. Was a babe ever born
to such an exqdisite story, to such a
mixed-up, thrilling tale of lowing cat-
tle and angels and shepherds and
kings! Samela liked' the ehepherds
better than the kings, she would al-
ways prefer 'a wooden crook to a gold
sceptre, arid' with her eyes on the
chubby basketed babe her thoughts
travelled along the thirty odd 'years
of His history. Yes, Christ was a-
mong the little things that she so pas -
Moiled over. At His very greatest
moment Ite was otly upon a little ass
not high up at all. What a beautiful
God for little people- And who, in a.
world like this, wouldn't be •littler
The tragedies' of the people who had
"tried to be 'big! She smiled at one'
of.the Falstaff scraps for which- she
So loved 'the _fat knight:—
"0, give me the spare men, and)
spare ms' the great ones!"
'She got up to put the picture back
lie its place, her mind' still in history
as she Crossed the glowing floe!.
Christ was a carpenter, What' a won-
derful weirld it would' be if some-
where in it there was a chair Or a,
table that Christ had made,. It was
by one's Worts that one was known.
EVerYthing about Mn-, Twig was in
Vittil The Link, by Mrs. iltieGitliat 'his carving.
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