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The Exeter Times, 1924-8-21, Page 2• ,••••••"•••••••,..•••••• TO A F By Rev. al, V. Kelly, C.S.B. (Continued fro XVII. Read'This Chapter Several Times. 'You asay be willing to admit that many fail away from their religiou 11 large cities, and maay ,grow up with -.1 out being trained to practice it. Still you are convinced that there are else niaay gocid church -goers in the cities. You hays been at church there, and witheased the large congregation pouring out of the oh:arches. Rela- tives and frieud,s residing in the city tell you of the wonderful evidences of religion whieh are constantly- before their eyes. You have heard city pas- tors say, "the best Christians I have ever known were ill, NOW Yetis, or in Chicago, etc." Now all this 1,s very convincing, even admitting that while everyone sees the crowds go to church, no one sees the crowds who are ncd; there and s-hould be there. The fact still remains that at lea-ita large proportion of city churchgoers prac- tice their religion faithfully and re- gularly. Wait a moment, however; don't go too fast here; there is another ques- tion to answer; it is the question -upoii which everything depends. 'Who are these exentelary members filling the city churches? Where do they come from? Do they owe their religious spirit to the city or to the country? In the first place there are among them these hordes of people who are coatinually flocking into the city from every rural parish t'S-vithin miles and miles arouud. These, we feel assured, are still going to church; all those who left your parish for the city, you will agree, are attending, some city church every Sunday. In American cities a still larger con- tribution comes through immigration. Immense numbers from the farms of Ireland or Germany or Poland or from practically every Christian district in Europe make up the population of all Ameica.n cities. In all all city congregations there are young men, and women., young married couples, too, of city birth and rearing, whose parents spent a great part of their life in the country. These par: eats moving to the city endeavored to preserve in their homes the spirit and practices which for generations in a country home had never been neg- lected nor allowed to grow cold or tepid. Now, if from any given city congre- gation we withdraw the classes just enumerated. how many do you suppose would remain? Single out the men and women who themselves along with Itath parents were bora and rear- ed in large cites; what fraction of the total would they constitute? Add to these the men and women_ who with both their parents and their four grandparents were born and reared in large cities; how much would that fraction be increased? These twe classes constitute what can truly be called city church -goers. If you ob- ject that this is askffig too much, pray remember that every man, woman and child in your congregation, with their parents. grandparents and great-grand- parents for generations innumerable grew up in the country. And since there have been Christians in cities as early as in country distracts. since London, Paris, Berlin, Genoa, Naples, Warsaw, had large congregations many hundreds of years ago, why should we not, in our American cities, constantly receiving immigrants from all thos'e, find many Christia.n families of purely city ancestry? To help az-riva. at a conclusion, I would a,sk you to answer two ques- tions: (1) How many exemplary church members of adult years do- you know both of whose parents were brought up in a large city? (2) How many exemplary church members of adult years - do you know whose grand- parents as well as parents were broug-ht up" in a large city? Do you know any at all of the second class? Do you know any of either class.? There is another question you might ask yourself: If you are an old man you probably knew some of the pro- minent city Christians, fifty or sixty years ago. If they were of city rear- ing-, find out haw many church mem- bers there are among their grandchild- ren to -day. Or better still, -visit some city eliurch which sixty years ago was filled; inquire into the religious ex- ample of the representatives of thea -e families. If you remain in the' coun- try, some one sixty years 'from now will count your posterity in 'hundreds, .all exemplary Christians. If you leave for the city now how many of your ,posterity will be •exemplary Christians sixty years hence,? What Enquiries Have You Made? I -nay tell you at this stage that I have niade some efforts to answer the queations' I proposed to you in my last letter. 'The subject received a good deal of my attention during the years I anent among city congregations. My inquiries I can safely say, have been thorotigh, and extencl to almost every person Of my acquaintance. The evi- dence gathered is about as follows: (1) Of the exemplary Christians of thirty years or over residing in cities live -sixths have, come frera country places or smaller tevena. af the re- mang one-sixth the greater number are sens or datighters of people from outside the city-. , (2) There are many exemplary Christian fax -allies In. the city one of whose parents only WaS of country rearing. (3) Among 'the most devout church Members "It is only the exeeptioual adult who ir 1 city lea.riag. in lest week) (4) Churclt organizations depend atsclutely on e,otiatry-lared families for their existenCe1 aeaert without, the slightest hesitatian, that maintants' bag a religious society' made en) ex-: elusively of eity-bted eaureh membets. would. be an impoeathility, (11) Children of the Seuday schools giving satisfaction in every way are usually found to have .,pareats with country training. (6) I have never known what would, generally be eonsiderea an exemPlary: ant at the same time religious home in which the father and mother were the son and daughter respeetively 01 city -bred parents. (7) Every city congregation has its indifferent members. Though rarelY or never attending church thernse•lves,' the are willing thet their children ehould, and.usually perfer to s•ee them at Sunday School. 'Phe great majority answeringlfhis description have come from cities. (8) Parents who send their children' to school not haying taught them even1 the Lord's Prayer are" almost invari- ably found to be of city rearing. (9) It is not uncommon to meet a .‘"o husband faithful to his religious dutiea whose wife has no scruple to misa church regularly. _Almost invariably in such eases it will be found that a °pantry boy has shared his fate for life with a city- girl. Further acquaint-, ance with the hame, ieveals the fath-' '46 i0r,4‘140 ,saeo tic) -11* .13126,ro4;ca.)4., 0 o c.• 11110111MIMMIUMMH , - er's influence and efforts in bringing e----d-k-aVallIca5-1-oa ni up the family with some religious spirit and pra.ctice. (10) Is there s,uch a thing as church, attending Christiana, the fourth gene-, ration of city- people—that is to say,' a man or woman, each of whose -par- ents four grand parents and eight great-grandparents were city -bred. I[ have never met one nor ever knew any person" who did. (11) Do you know one 'exemplary; Christian -in the countas whose par -1 •ents, grandparents and great -grand-' parets "were not all of country rear - DRESS twenty years Liverpool has of out times, The cost of the whole OF DRESS been building a cathedral which will building, it. is eetimated, will be aboat be one of the aroaders of the- Warici, ten million dollars which is being 1/4' a.nd the, first pottiest of it NVIIS re -c0 1t -1Y raisfed by ublie subscription. Net This is the Seasounwlienldain,tyntenonte s dedleatad tit (hoPresence' cf, the 'King, to ti structure itself, one of the chief appear inall tieirf)e and Queen. When completed it will beauties will be the windows, wlitell beauty to -relnind us that the fabric he the second largest cathedral in will he as striaing as it will be pas- 'Was first made at M°ssuli itt 4ites'aPo• tamia, whence it was "iniportiad'' into agait snioeneleea.,.raitaie. 1,),p,;.4 $1, pg,„ er's sien's to' make them. Seine of these w ill - The edifice will mark an ermeb n°o°tIlallibileeinfoair-attheeiit•ligeoodd"la.(rlos.rls.osf. Otto th " Efiglaild' ill' 1670. The Arabic name of a tewn ia the history of tee oeureh of England, of tbe most remarkable of the inernori- Ni°u2°I• andtihe,fhrtic eewehowthe, ahsenilel(, for it will -be'the first Anglican (lathe- ale -will be that dedicated LG the mein- 1\lousoligY• It seye drat dedicated in England for over pry of Kitty Wilkinson, who, during word was shortened te`ttss-Present ' eeven hundred years-, and it is a ,s'triks tho great cholera epidemic of 1832, form' it is 'still easier vie -rensleilit ing tribute to the revival in religious played a noble Part ia helping this h'er that! 1 Prunch, the wordformus- belief that such a wonderfulWorkcan peer, , liti is nimissellne• which Preserves be carried out. I It has-been arranged, too, that a hle,°.ta'ec,aetly the, natleneetherfeethe town In Yeung man, of twentY who designed fancy c•onceanteg ',leer. book containing the naines of the 32e W ice i4 was ma,nu , whe, gairetheir lives for their country In Spite of this generally -accepted But thete is something else which' ,, "Linen, of Loon." captures the, peel cathedral, and this concerns, the 000 men from the Liverpool diStrict the gigantic structure, and wnnse dinratit.ie war will be placed. in the Catlie- explanation, however, loinei wimater•pre, . _ 'uses o accepts s r tox name will go down ih hietorY as °us Another intereeting fact about the Talbot, who says , that the 'ordinary , of Britain's greatest architects. 'I Cathedral is -thtat it standson one of pronunciation of the word Moslem, a i Designed n Spare Time, the highest Points in thealty, and its Mohammedan, is "Muslim," and that , He is Giles Gilbert'Scott, RA., and • dome willeehe to Liverpool what 1h0 the material of which the Moslem When _the co-mpetition for the Cathe-1 dome ,offiSt. Paul's If to London. It dress is con posed—a light cotton yab- dral design was announced he was em. will be a landmark visible out at sea, ric—gave us the Slightly -corrupted played in an architect's Office itt Liver- and will be the first building to strike word muslin. • pool. I -lis master decide'cl'to_enter the the eye .07, passengers arriving in the Earlier irt its introduction into Eng- ,cvoiitihipaeattitiinollfa„ramnidnksohidsideituhpelopyueli).i.1—sebuuttt MeArsoeoymfpratarnizA.rimoefritciale. catledrars,,di„ land by nearly It eentury is cambric, so named because it was first manu- carried 'out. the hairnet:lee drawings mons -ions" as compared with those of factured at CanihraY in 1580' The fa- aecessary during the. short 'hours he, 'other churches gives, some, idea of its_ mous historian, StowgrecordS that it was free from office work, and we are size. It will be the biggest eeclesiaati- was. accounted 'a great luxury bY the told that when his employer found it cal,building in 'Great Britain. At pre- beauties of England in's-Queen Elisa." • necAseryto rebuke, the young ina' n sent this honor falls to York Minster heth's reign' when travellers first .fer being late. the'mornings be but Liaeregei oatbearai will be hall brought it from France. never for a moment imagined the as large again. - It will,. be 100 feet cause was energy rather than sleepy- longer than St. Paul's, 80 feet longer headedness! than Canterbury Cathedral, and 111 When.the results were declared and feet longer than 'Westminster. Abbey. Scotts designs, were announced as the Indeed, the Abbey might comfortably Half a century later the East India Company imported a new material from Galicia, and "Calieut Cloth" was very soon shortened to calico, to, be - 00010 the chief source of feminine un- der -garments, until increased luxury in our own time caused silk, - satin, and crepe -de -Chine to take its place, to the scamdalizing of more serious-mind- ed and conservative women, who re- garded the new materials as "im- modest:" Lawn was originally known , as "Linen of Laon"--a town net far,north west of Rheims, France supplied us with at least two other popular dress materials—tulle and poplin—named„after the towns of their manufacture. To every girl in the Victorian era, and to most brides, even in these more advanced dat.y•s,,the name 91 Tulle; the chief town. of •the department of Correae, is redolent with happy memories, for bridal veils aredstill made of that material, and • how trian-y dainty frocks does it not compose? . . . - Where, too, would be the ,claasical ballet without it, for it forma",those wonderful skirts which stand out so nbeimvibilldyerrointignlYd 'awni,Idenaongnyrda, ttingtlathe_Sli:lo- 'lerina whirls ill ectatic circles 'to 'the inusie of the band. ' • -One may sporch, the 'map of France and seareh in vain for the name of any town like poplin. ” Still, poplin en- -shrines its association with its place of manufacture—Avignon. The con- nection is ebscUre at first sight, but it is quickly made clear when one re- members that, until 1791, Avigne'n was a Papal town—one of the towns' in which a Pope resided. For this reason the cloth made there was known in Italian as Papal -"-e‘ ino, and in French Papalin; which, by -e an easy transition. gave us poplin, Avignon still manufactures silken aellt- en goods, but most poplins to day have 'no silk in them, being, composed of worsted and flax or worsted and oot- ton, to the great detriment of their ap- pearance as well as their wearing ttuali Ly. From the Cheviot While France may' be ' regarded, as dominating the Rattling of materials designed for women's "use—let: usi not forget Valenciennes, from the town of that -name—two popular fa-brics for mens clothing are native to England.- Melton'earries the mind directly to the fanaous' hunting -centre, "Melton Mow- bray. The other material is Cheviot, orig- inally made from the wool of the sheep which graze on the Cheviot hills and aro highly valued on account of their heavy carcasses and tb.eir;ffne, thick- , set fleeces. G-olag farther afield, the downy wool of the goat found in Tibet, maaufae- tured into cloth and first imported from the, kingdom of Cashmere, gave us the material of that name; while Shantung silk enshrinca- the position of a province' in the North-east: of a previa -cc of China, from which it was first imported, and damask originally 'came fro:n 0,amascuswhere a cleth Woven with flowers and figures wes knOwn centuries ago, sCentral Coc!-I'ng. The Childre,i's Garden. Leaping Tuna of The tasseled corn is gaa-er, there, Scotia. even more surprised that the fortun- The children's garden's different; The -great a leaping tuna of Nova ate young inan hiniself. The choice The pieplant leaves 'grow large and round Scotia Is the giant of the mk acerel has been proved, now that a portion tribe. This fish has tremendous power of the building is complete, to have and dash, and shows this activity in spectacular manner both when chas- ing its prey—the herring—and when hooked. ' The fish ranges up to 1,000 pounds in weight, specimens of 700 pounds be - Nova winning ones, hia master was, perhaps, In layer upon layer there. These inequalities do fret us; No worms make houses in their , tune! et - The carrots like the children bast. 'We grown-ups have to coax ours so! , ing-? ing common. J. Ka L. Ross, the well - Just see how in the children's patch ,(The End). Slow in Seeing, of Course. Wifie—"G-racions, you're slow in see- ing." Hubby—'Got on tortoise shell glass- es, you know." Not Ripe. When summer comes- it is quite the correct thing to go out for tea in the garden. The Larkins family were seated under a tree ,on their lawn the I other afternoon partaking of the cup f that cheers but not inebriates, when the youngest of the family, Johnny, aged six, came running to his mother from the bottom of the garden where he had been playing. "Oh, inurnmie," he cried, "there is such a lovely green bird at the bottom of the garden!" "Is there, dear?" replied mother, with a fond smile. "'What is it?" "I—I think," said Johnny slowly - 3 think it's a canary that's nosaquite ripe." Luck. 'What Is luck? The luck theory of life is an example of the importance - of right thinking. Good luck is a mat- ter of law. No man or women suc- ceeds who does not consciously or un- consciously obey the natural law. The man who succeeds is called lucky. That is but a half truth. He swims with the tide of the la*. Ile, has been started right—and some day more of as will start eur,selvel and our children right. The man svho neither swims with the tide nor knows there is a tide is our familiar form of failure. . I Success doesn't, happen, neither1 does failure. Both are the results of - laws as rigid as thcSte-of theeMedes and known' Montreal sportsman, hooked a The beans and parsnips, leap and. big fello-w' at St. Anne's Bay, Nova gr°w1 1 Scotia Wshich - towed his boat around I'm sure the sun and rain and air the bay for thirteen hours. Mr. Ross Help their plot most, It isnt fair! We take our garden seriously; We think it's work to weed and ' sprinkle! ! Whea plante watch people, blind as, we Even potatoes' eyee. -meet taviakie! - But children have (het wiser, wa.y: TheiknoW that gardening is play. Don't let plants think that gardening Is work, 0 foolisheoldr person! . The children's way results will bring; They sneak the tongue that plants converse in. Th-ey say -Let's" play!" 'And do you know That to those plants it's play to grow! Wonders of the Insect World. The champion aeronaut is the king gra•s.shomper, which has the ability to jump one hundred times Its length, and can sail for a thousand miles be- fore the wind. The cricket is, a power- ful singer, its shrill note sometimes being heard a mile away. The males alone are musical, and the 1 emales- listen to their melodious wooings with ears whiCh are on their forelegs. Be- ing so mnsical, it would hardly be ex- pected that they would be such fight- ers among themselves as they are, or cannibals, eating members of their own species When 'there is not enough other food at hand. -Need of Playgrounds. The modern city needs playgrounds as much as it needs good streets, pure water, sewers and a safe way of dis- posing of its refuse. Automobiles are now so numerous that towns, with ample playgrounds stand high in "the esteem of parents.' 411111/11M1000.1.1111iii10.1.1010=••=1111001r ' had finally to out the line in order to keep an engagement tLater in the waters, with hook and line, he landed a tuna, which weighed 680 pounds. The fish towed his boat artaincl for four and a half hours—hours with a thrill ia every minute. CaPteM L. E. Mitchell an Englis-h sportsman, cap- tured a 710 -pounder at Port Medway, Nava, Scotia. - When the tuna was laooked he „leaped high into thear, daahed,hithen.and yen; drying, darting and fighting_ every anch, of the way. The battle lasted for eighthoursfit- then minutes, and during its progress the boat was towed ten mules out to sea. The.re can be no doubt that the tuna fishing with rod and line available in Nova Scotian waters, is destined to take its place among the meat excit- ing sports on the Atla.ntic coast of North Aine-rica. A heavy, rod is used with about 300 yards ef strong line— No. 39 linen orbetter. The fishermen of Nova Scotia har- poon the tuna—an occupation not without excit-ement. So great is the virility cf this fish that it will fight for hours even when 'struck through with a 'a an A fisherman in Ches- ter basin, after hauling a big fellow alongside, leaned over to pull out the harpoon when he received a slap of the tuna's tail that knoeked him into the bottoni of the- dory. Food For Thought. Control your thoughts. To be slaves to unpleasaat ones is the worst 'kind of bondage. Some folks are like plants, they will Go better if transplanted. • It takes both mind and muscle to make a home -maker. Pen' la 11S. Another Example. The teacher Wits exelaining the eosins 61 Miatitude, • "You say." he etlici, !`a Mick of sheep, a flight of Iiirda, a slioal of -fishes, a eallool of whales, a eoa'er•ol Parttidges, a herd of cosVe,, a forest of trees, a lerood of aerpeets, arid se" on. Now eall any boygive inc some other ex- , amplea?" "Please; sir," .said a Smart boa-, "please, sir, yes; an ancient order of buffaloes." -Wisdom is not entangled by enticing The stm just lifting its radiance above the horizon, plea a.rippled anr- detours to -Seine ultimate goal, but , , . fade, Plue and nobody ;Tratind• to butt in; equal a fishol'Illan's•Pal'adiee...:The holds' finally and peraiatently to the ' • -Way that is practical and helpftil, • been a wise one, and experts are agreed that the structure will be far and away the most important building b -e placed. within the 'structure and stillleave roem-fo-r another building of the -same aize! - It asr interesting to recall that al- though this is the greatest undertalit Ing the Ch-urch„of Es:gland has at- tempted since. the Refroznation, the architect Is himself a Roman Catholic. FAMOUS INVENTOR ATTENDS ,MEETING OF SCIENTISTS Left to -right: Col. -H. Chase, .conimandant of the Royal 22nd Regt., Quebec, with Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine. .• • The Exile. The ceaseless car, the tramp of horses' The restless hunaan'pacings„ to 1 fro, The range and variety of forest 1 The many faces that do not know, p.roducts whiPh" Canada is supplying , The aching impact of the flinty street, Natural Resources Bulleihi. The Natural Resources Intelligence and Service of the Deptof sthe Interior at Ottawa says":- • to the world can in a limited way be The tired night-watchman ea' his lone- seen in the report of her exports. These, while little -detail is given, in- dicate that -Our forests are providing ly beat, The bblaring bugles Labor loves to io .The city's glance that everywhere the raw -materials that in turn provide must go, labor for enol'itious numbers of me - The wind, dust -laden, leagued with clehiangicenseraanldellaasbso oi.eswooind. wthoerkenir.sa.nY winking heat— trades and industries included under t All :make me- pant for grassy lames, were etxhpeurb,ttsuledifng2,i4in,,d8u5s3,of e troioes, there e eref FOr-dele4fieldset-aninn with plunder -1) "2,15aLk,7s8-azia,odoctbesarhidnsg,le1s,,la11,19d235,10,030461,a0t0h0, Ing bees, - • For •knolls where I mild-inaniaere, Forpiekets. twilight,met,construction purposes 179,987,, For pools that mirror s clidd ing D0009Ru-agfiellaewsfi Railway t t ,,Ofre.sognusatrr construction ctiiion,nb7ein other rwahseTetoorirtn export- clouds, t clouds, for trees ed much the .greatet portion being of Athrill with fIntes. My soul can neer foirgfeutr long was nursed an Na. tries called for 1,102,809 railway ties, tune's knees.- while, telegraph and telephone poles• —Alexander Louis • Fraser. exl)CI4erd longusnlinthebereroughd548382 •amounted to 140,6.37,9Q0 feet, a large portion of which went to the United Statea, where they are cut into, shingles. Pulpwood amounting to 1,444,693 cords and 178,068 Ions of wood pulp were, exported for the manufacture of Parra. 1± will readily be seen, therefore, that Canada's' forests, in addition to assisting materially in building up her export ` taf•ade, are supplying the inedium of employment to many work- men in 'other lands. As 0-ither.i'See Us If all the animals could talk, " Aad all the birds' and, flower's; If all mankind were dumb" awhile, The gain would all be ours. We'd learn again the simple llfc Avoid the art of human strife"; - And hear clean nature speak.' " If all the animals could talk And tell us what tb.ey -think, Some of us might be very proud, But most of us 'would shrink And gladly hide our heads in shame Remembering'. how 'we' often maim: And cruelly mis-treatthe weak. " -s-R. D. Wieatbain, _Mount Jacques Cartier. With the exception of the Torngats in Labrador, pealsa cf earatieh. exceed 6,000 feet in height, tbe highest moun- tain ill Canada -east of the RecIties is Taliletop alotnetain in Gaspe District, Quebec, the' summit of -which is 4,350 feet Th Oa rajah o Boa I'd has ju s t approved th 6 n am e Mt. Jacriu es C ar- ties for' this pealt in con:Incineration: of the explorer who was, the fiest to see the tegion in which the mountain, occurs, having followed the Gaspe coast all the way around from the mouth cif the ilestigouche River. Great Sapphires Found in Ceylon. The largest find of sapphires ever made in Ce-ylonIs, recorded from Pel- madulla, fifty railea from Colombo. All the gen* have conie from a smalt field abOut tato acres in extent. • Avoiding -a-Fthish An Oil. "This' agitation in. Washington's got _ , lots 'ef officials polishing up their re- : corals, I'll het." ' • "Yes; but nonta „is, making use of the , • - oil finish, I'm sure." , True to Form. ' alay--"And so you accept,ed that young postal clerk?" June—"How could I help it "He ad- dressed ree' rapfdlY, then enveloped Ine in Inc areas, stamped a Was on nay lips, and sealed it With a hug!" lIcaven favors good intentions. Climatic conditione, have always proved„ a bat to the full, development ef hot collntlies l, Europeens; but the new "'System of central cooling, whieh has be:en peafeeted bi xperi- meats in the S.ehmol cf. 'Propicai Medi- cine, Calcutta, may preve St key which will open up the greet. potential irePt• sure-hquse of the tropics, ,s By this aystem a SI;e2.1ELI ""cool- rocim" can be kept at a temperature from, twenty to thirty- degrees below the outside heat. "rai3 is done br a forced supply of an 18 puseed over the pipets of retrigerating plant before it reaches the room, while•the relatively, hot air already la it is draatin Out. The room is s,pecialle in- Sulated by cork. Experiments over atperiod of two Yeate ptove the efficiency of. the aeoal room," antl also that one can pas be - tweet it and the Warmer air outside without ihy ihjaitious etOt on hevith.