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Zurich Herald, 1920-11-04, Page 7The God of Battles After the return of the British ships to home waters, folloeting the signing of the armistice, Sir Daviel Beatty, from the 'flagship, sent the fol- lowing message to all the ships of the Grand Fleet: "It is my intention to hold a service of thanksgiving at 6.00 p.m. to -night, for the victory which Almighty God has vouchsafed our arms, and every ship is recom- mended to do the same." During the German push in March, 1918, Field Marshal IIaig was at the religious services one Sunday morn- ing. When the chaplain had con- cluded the service, the commander-in- chief of Great Britain's forces went tip to the chaplain, thanked him for his message, and then said, "Remem- ber, chaplain, the battle is not ours but God's." General ID. H. H. Allenby, the de- liverer of Jerusalem and the Holy .Land after a thousand years of Turk- ish misrule, is the sen of a man who devoted much time to the study of the prophetic portions of the Bible. Just before the Palestine campaign began General Allenby attended a prayer meeting in Cairo, to ask the divine blessing on the arms under his com Mend. Ile makes no secret of his joy and satisfaction of being the deliver- er of ancient Canaan. ' He and his at- tendants entered Jerusalem on foot the day after it surrendered. General Perslring's allude ou things religious is well known. Some way, these fighting men turn instinctively to God as the battle draws on. A large proportion of them are religions men as a life habit. The late Lord Roberts said he had con- ducted family worship every day for fifty years; Lord Fisher, another of Britain's sea fighters, loves sermons When he was a captain, a visitor call- ed one Sunday morning. "The Cap- tain has gone to Berkeley Chapel,' said the servant. "Will he be in this afternoon?" "No, he said he was go- ing to hear Canon Liddell at St Paul's." "Well, then, this evening?" "In the evening he is going to S]?ur- geon's Tabernacle." Someone has said that man is "in- corrigibly religious." Whether that be so or no, the religious instinct comes out of its hiding into the open when the thunder of guns and the cries of the dying are heard. More- over, these commanders believe that prayer helps. Prayer makes a differ- ence. Prayer "changes things." They do not give up prayer because the enemy prays to the same God. "God fights on the side of the big- gest battalions," said Napoleon with a sneer. But that was before his Rus - elan campaign. That was before those little white messengers of judg- ment, the snowflakes, fell and smoth- ered his army, and turned him back a defeated man. God did not fight on the side of the biggest battalions in the Battle of the Marne, when a thin lure of Frenchmen held back the Teu- ton ]cordes. It has not been explain- ed yet wiry the Germans did not go on toward Paris, save the explanation of a French officer: "Le bon Dieu, mon- sieur, le bon Dieu." (The good God, air, the good God). Abraham Lincoln, General "Stone- wall" Jackson, Robert E. Lee, General Gordon, the hero of Khartoum, all be- lieved that praper to the God of the Bible helped in the day's fighting. Lincoln told General Sickles that he considered Gettysburg an answer to prayer. Marshal Foch is another notable ex- ample ;.f the praying fighter. Private Evans, of California, wrote his parents that he saw a pian in an old shiny uni- form enter a battered church, and kneel in prayer. By the eagles on his collar, Evans knew that this man was a general of the French army. His curiosity was aroused and be sat down in the church and waited for the general to come out. The man re- mained in the kneeling attitude for three-quarters of an hour. Then he arose, and, accompanied by one. or- derly, passed down the street. Evans followed. He noticed that soldiers sal-ated this man in great excitement. Women gazed at him in reverence. Children tagged after him. Evans inquired and learned that it was Foch. He also learned that it tinct been Foch's habit for years to give some time to prayer every day. Is this one explanation of Foch's military success? Easter to Spell. !l doctor received a note asking bine to go at once to a case of small- pox, but to his surprise, on arriving at the patient's bedside he found that it was merely a case of rheumatism. "But this is 'very plainly not small- pox," he said. i'\\Vell, (lector," replied the man, atm be ,Shuffled one foot over the other, "to tell you the truth, we knew it was thentnatism, but nobody in the house could spell the word, and we thought small -pox would do just as well until Volt came, and probably bring you quicker." • For cold in the Head and Chest use has immediate effect. BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTES, $1.00 a tube. THE LEE IoHO RE CO., LTD. MAL Agents for 1)r. Jules neesue FIELI Vi*S PAIN elneZeee CASCARETS "They. Work while you Sleep" Stop growling around bike a cross bull pup. 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Be the Best of Whatever You Are, "lf you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the .valley --but -be The best little scrub at the side of the rill; 13e a bush if you can't be a tree, • "If you tau':t be a bush, be a bit of,tbe grass, Some highway to happier make; if you can't be a muskie, titen, Net be a bass -- But the liveliest bass in the lake: "We can't all be captains, we've got tb be crew, There's .something for ell of us here; There's big work to do and there's lesser to do, Aad the telt we must do is the near. "If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail; 1f you can't be the sun, be a star It isn't by size that you win or you faii— ]3e the best of whatever you are." --el,— Remember -1,----- Remember This. . There are many stories told against Irishmen of ripe and full age, but not so many about thein when they are young. Still, here is a proof that they are Irishmen even before they are breeched. It was a class -room in a village school in -Ireland, and the teacher Was giving a lesson on salt. "Now," she. said, at the conclusion of her rather long and inclusive lec- ture, "I want someone to give me a good definition of salt." "Shure, teacher," said Micky, a bright, blue-eyed youngster. "It's the stuff which makes potatoes taste nasty when you boil them and don't put any in." Dry air, at not too high a tempera- ture, evaporates the juices to dryness thus preserving the fresh fiayor. When wanted for use, it is necessary merely to add water. • Surnames and Their Orivin ROBERTS VARIATIONS—Robertson, Robson, Robinson, Robison, Probert, Probyn, Robinett. RACIAL ORIGIN—Medieval Eng- lish; also Welsh. SOURCE—A given name. Robert was one of the most popular of Christian names in the middle ages in England, - more to by far than to- day, and as an inevitable result the family name of Roberts to -day is most widespread, as are also the unusually large number of variations from it. Probably no better illustration could be chosen of the manner in which fam- ily names of that class derived from given names developed. The origins of all the variations mentioned in 'this article, which, by from many sections of Normandy, making it a rather cosmopolitan host, and as this took place at a time when there was necessity for some system of names which would dis- tinguish one John from another, and one Hubert frons another, it became quite common, when the Normans got to England, to add to a man's given name some mention of the Iocality in Normandy from which he had come. One of the places from which many of the invaders were enrolled was St. Maur. The records show first men- tion of this surname in the form of "de St. Maur" (of St. Maur). Follow- ing this the English language went through the throes of radical change in a short period, from which the name emerged as Seymour and Seymore. The more humble explanation of the name's origin is that it developed from the trade of some of the early bearers. The word for tailor in those days was sometimes "sumer," and it is more than likely that, in some in- stances at least, the surname Seymour may be so explained, being influenced in its spelling by the prior existence of the changed form of St. Maur. SEYMOUR VARIATION—Seymore. ' RACIAL ORIGIN—Norman-French, also Middle English. SOURCE—Descriptive of locality, also of occupation. It is surprising how many family names which have cane to "us fid n7n7 England have developed from two or more independent sources. The -sur-• name of Seymour is one of these. Regarding it in the light of one of these sources, it belongs to that very large classification of family names descriptive of localities in various parts of northern Europe, which de- veloped in England following' the in- vasion of William the Conqueror. As William had gathered his forces the way, fall far short of completing the full list of Robert names, have been along normal lines and obvious lines. As a given name, Robert is of Teu- tonic origin, coming from two roots; "hruod" in the early Frankish tongue ("hruotha" in Scandinavian), mean- ing "fame," and the old word common to all Teutonic tongues signifying "bright," which in German names has developed into "brecht" or "precha," and in English names into "bert." Robin was a very common variation of the given name in old England, as was the contraction Rob. From the former has come Robinson, Robison, Robins and Robinet, the last named through the use of the Norman- French diminutive "et." Robertson, of course, is simply "Robert's son," and Robson is "Rob's son." Probert and Probyn are forms of the name developed in Wales from "Ap-Robert" and "AD -Robyn," the "ap" being simi- lar to the'Gaelic "0' " and "Mac" and the Norman-French "Fitz," and serv- ing the same p.erpose• of the Anglo- Saxon ending, "son." Nture Responds Nature is on your side every t1.77ie you eat t For this sturdy blend ofvtheaet and malted. barley supplies body and. brain with just the elements of nutrition that Nature demands for health and vigor. Grape:Nuts is a Sugar Saver .:`.7., tones a Reaison7 AUTO SPARE PARTS for most makes and models of oars. Your old, broken or worn-out parte replaced. Write or wire us desorib- ing what you want, We carry the largest and most complete stack in Canada of slightly used or new parts and automobile equipment. 'We ship 0.0.1, anywhere in Canada. Satis- factory or refund in full our motto. Shaw's ,q.aito Salvage Part supply, 953-901 laufforta St., Toronto, Oat, Boats That Push Themselves. 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Very well, I can merry you," said the ministress en- couragingly. "Oh, but I've got a girl already," was the disconcerting reply. The five warships of the Queen Eli- zabeth class were the first not only to carry i5 -in. guns, but to be driven: entirely by oil fuel. The indiscriminate .giving of alms is regarded as a virtue in Mahom- edan countries, with a result that mendicants abound there. ISSUE No. 44—'20, LOG HERE & HE E Horticultural, A teacher in an Englewood school 'eked the other day: "How nmaiY finds of flowers are there?" Three pupils held up their bands. She chose one to reply. "Well, Isidore, how many kinds of flowers are there?" "Three, teacher." "Indeed? And what are they?" "Wild, tame, an' coilie. " The Only Way. Talk had veered round to the mod- ern cynical view of love that prevails. "I remember once," said Smith, "hearing two very ordinary men, a bricklayer and a plumber, discuss love in a smoking ear. 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