A man enters. He is stripped of all he possesses. His character is taken away ; his habits ruthlesly broken down; his privacy violated ; those talents for which he has laboured, •or with which Nature has endowed him, are lost. These things which he believed to be noble, pure, go

" They shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn as one mourneth for his only son." "And all kindreds of the Earth shall wail because of Him. Even so.—Amen." And the child fled to Paradise. and kneeled at the feet of the Christ God. "0, Christ God ! Canst T

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f a i l We are apt, under the stupendous " suggestion " around us, to our confidence that the Way of our Master contains within it the premise of the life that now is. al Week by week the world boastfully careers on to its doom, refusing guide posts, all warnings. th at But to-d

January 11, 1018.

If the Government desires money to carry on the war—money it must have—so long as the peoples will the war, but what has happened to the national sense of humour? Are we as a nation really in the first or even second stages of insipient insanity. When London and the provinces go

in g', tuted the observance of the Sunday Christmas Day as " Peace Sunday." subsequent year as it approaches we forwteo a Circular Letter to Clergymen and Minis t o throughout the country urging tiler ° devote some portion of the day's service? 0 directing the thoughts of their

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