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Ineedonfs Crowning Hour’ was m, gubject of the following timely ‘when in St. James Presbyterian Chum. yesterday awrnmg by the gov. T. H. Bussell Suzners:

"Live like free men, only never m,“ your freedom s. pretext for nrlsconduct. live like servants of Godyu-i Peter II. l6. (Moffatt).

on, o1 the popular heroes of the gm; World War wes Albert. King u; m, Belgians. To honour him, s book was published souls years ago clued "The Book of King Albert". 5i; Owen Seaman wrote a poem in it entitled “Between Midnight and Morning". s part o! which reeds as follower "y; that have faith to loot: with

fearless c!!! Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife. and trust that out of night and death shall rise m, dawn of ampler life;

Rejoice whatever anguish rend your heart,

‘Ilhat God has given you a price- less dowel‘.

To live in these great times and have your part

In Freedom's crowning hour."

That was a noble sentiment but 5i; Owen died in 1936 and even by mat time he mu-st have known that "Freedom's crowning hour" “~35 yet to be achieved. 1t was not reached in the winning of the First world War nor the Second. Too frequently war, however inevitable and necessary it may be, contri- butes little if anything to the lil- ttmate freedom. Too frequently it merely gives us a new set of mast- ers and a new set of slaves. The fact is that freedom in the ultim- ate sense is not hnterpreted in ienrns of a victory uf erms—ib dis interpreted in terms of the victory of the soul. Freedom is not achiev- gd by merely removing this and that external restraint-it is not a matter of aptly handling that which L; without a man. It is a matter of attitude within a man. Because of

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that. it ls much more of s. relig- ious problem than s political one.

Guard of Freedom

NOW. the writers of the l-Ioly Scriptures were very cognizant of the problem of freedccn. The Christian Gospel ls a gospel of freedom. But freedom as inter- preted by the gospel writers is a very different thing from wlhat would appear to be the current conception of it. As s matter of fact, when one finishes reading what the New Testament has to say about it. he may wonder if he has been reading about freedom or a new type of bondage. It certainly don not interpret freedom as doing ss one pleases. lf doing what one pleases impinges on the rights of others, or on the physical," moral and spiritual health of oneself. Free- dom ls seldom mentioned in the. New Testament without a warning. as though it were a. very dangerous thing. “Live like free men." it says, "only never make your freedom a pretext for misconduct; live like servants of God."

That just about sums ft up. men and women. We are free, but we are servants, paradoxical as that. may sound. We are free but only within the law. We are free not r"

do as we please. but to do as w | ought. We are not so much fret:

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from something as we are free for something. Ami in these days when the world is striving again tu hold on to whatever remnants of frec- dom it may be said to posses, we are going to fall in even approach- lng its crowning hour unless we clearly understand its basic mean- ing. “Live like free men. only nev- er make your freedom a pretext for misconduct: live like servants of God."

Free-yet servants. That means we operate within bounds. And we dare not think of freedom without the thought of responsibility which lt entails. There is no more certain way to lose one’s liberty than through irresponsibility. One may say. "This ls a free country and I may live in it as I choose.” Usually we find that such people. as S. Pet er says. use their liberty as a. pre- text for misconduct, a d they lose their freedom becausy they be- crme slaves of their own selfish- ncss.

Necessary Restraints

If a person is a Christian, there are some things he cannot do even in this free country. Every place he turns he is faced with a responsibil- ity to himself. to his fellow men and to his God. And yet, strangely enough, he who obeys these de- mands puts upon himself restraints that are far less confining than are the shackles of self-indulgence.

I like the story Joseph Fort New- ton writes about a neighbour of his. The neighbour said to him one day, “You know the fact is, New-i ton, I have been in chains all my like. bound hand and foot by the faith which other people had ln me. First, there was my little mother- as sweet a soul as ever lived-really wonderful to me in all sorts of ways. Some things I simply could not do while she was alive-I never felt free to do anything that would hurt her feelings. ‘Yhen there was the old minister in our Church at home. He knew me from a boy and believed somehow that 1 was a de- pendable sort. Last. but not least. there are my wife and our two lit- tle daughters. They have the odd idea that I em a first rate fellow- and there you are. you see. some things a man can't do when others are going to be horribly disappoint- ed and hurt by it.”

Which type of, person awakens in the morning with the more unfett- ered soul? The one wlho operates in the irresponsibility of doing what hepleases. or the one who is oper- ating within the bounds of a sacred responsibility? “Three workmen

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On which a fourth must die! Yet none of any other asked. .

And why? And why? And why? Said they, "This ls our business. Our living we must earn.

What happens to the other man ls none of our concern.“ Try to do business in that Ln-

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penslrrytodrivescsrintbatl irresponsible wsy sud see what hlppgnal Try to build a house in that irresponsible way and see what happens! One alleged humor- ist spoke of the marriage relation- ship ss the “ball and chain": but l wiser man has taken issue with him and called it the “anchor of the ship”. The anchor ls that re- strain on freedom which keeps the ship from drifting on the rocks. To serve and love someone may seem like s tie at times but it just hap- pens to be, men and women. it lust happens to be the closeairthlng to divine freedom that you and I will ever ‘have. We are free-but free within the bounds of responsibility --a responsibility that does not take sway from our liberty but rather makes it sacred and secure- That is the first thing. then-fret‘- dom involves responsibility-

Chrllllln Responsibility

But there is somethln! else- freedom involves sYli-lilldf- TM" is something cheap and tawdry about a man who will abuse a right that has cost someone dearly {or hlm to possess. Sometimes when I approach a man about his 1'9- sporlsibillty to the Church he will gay, “Oh yes,l believe in the Church. I wouldn't live in s. com- munity without one-but personal- 1y. I do not. have much t0 d0 Wm! it." He believes in cod. yes. but not in a God who deserves his but m obedience and service. ‘Ill-ls Church ls something he takes for granted in society-he wouldn‘t want to live in a. community without lip-he wants its services when troub-s comes, he wants a minister to bless his marriage, to ptize his child- ren, to give Christen burial to his dead-oh yes. by all moans. but don't ask him for sacrificial sup- port.

I suppose he never asked lum- self just what lt costs others t0 maintain the Church so that it can meet and serve his dire needs I suppose he never stops to real- ize what a heritage of faith he re- ceived from his ancestors and how by his indifference and in- dolence he ls maklnl ll? I “h”? and unworthy thin! 1°!‘ hi! W" children to receive in return. Con- siderations of this kind P11" bounds around our freedom and lead us to realize that if the price paid for our bounties is not to be wasted, we have obliiﬂtliml °5 [ratltude we dam not. shlrk.

And what. about our country? I am proud to be a. Canadian-end I am sure you are too. But that does not mean that we can 8° about boastful "This 18 I T?" country" and do just as W0 P19159- For there are memories that come back to us. especially at this holy season of Armistice-tide that place bounds beyond which we dare no. go-memorles of the Pflﬂ- m9 awful price that was P115 i!‘ b1°°d and sweat and tears by um" whose bodies now lie in the fields cf Flanders, beneath the burnin! sands of Africa. on the brown hills of Italy, in the orchards oi Normandy. on the banks of 7-11! Rhine, on the islands of the Pac- ific or in the depths of U19 "l! where the ever-sursln: Wile" sound their holy rtqulem- They died in fox holes. in burning planes, on sinking shlpa- that you and I mloht enlov e fr» 0M1“-

There sacrifice was Sindhi-ll’ made because of their faith in decency and rlghiwllﬂl"! ""1 justice and the moral ordering of @1115 world, It; was a demonstra- tion of what God said the blas- pl‘ Nebucnsdnezzer would learn, when He pulled him down from his throne and turned“ him out to eat grass like the ox- Thai the heavens do rule.“ These men "arrayed in arms tremendous met and overthrew a conslllflﬂy

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soul of mankind. ‘Ilbe! "Put aside Today, And all the Joys of their Today. And with the toil of their Today Bought for us Tomorrow."

Clarifying Power

"They loved not thpir lives un- to death." Behave me, the mem- ory of their sacrifice places insur- mountable barriers around all our f. ’ If. remembering what they have done and what they have given that we might live in freedom, we prove unworthy or indifferent, we have no right to be called men. Wlhst happens to them in our memory? We do not pretend for a moment that they were perfect; we knew their faults on earth. But these faults now seem to have fallen away. We understand them better than when they were with us on earth. Our love for them remains, yes, it grows. That ls to say. death has a cleansing and a clarifying pow- er. That ls to say, Death is not dead. It will be the saving grace of this generation if there are still souls who. burdened by man's depravity, strive now for a realm of “pure manners, nobler laws‘? still souls who. agonizing over needless poverty. yearn for a commonwealth; still souls, who. tortured by the folly of hatred among men. are resolved by God's grace to live in positive and in- discourageable goodwill.

They cannot describe the city of their dreams. They cannot prove that they have seen it; they only think that they have seen the gates. They understand now why the Biblical pictures of heaven are all in the negative: “There shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying. neith- er shall there be any more pain. - - - And the gate of it shall not be shut at all by day. and there shall be no night there. And the city hath no need of the sun, for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light there- of." They understand and "press forward on their pilgrimage in the footsteps of those whom they have loved long since and lost awhile. Their testimony is token that God hath prepared a city There ls no thirst without water, brethren; there ls no hearing without music.

5o. in the worthless eruoyment of this blood-bought freedom we walk by faith rather than by sight; by the soul's surmise rather than by the mind's logic. There l; no wllflke in walking by sight; there would be only shrewd prudence, Meanwhile God takes our will for the deed. if stumbling on the 10111118)’. we struggle to our feet and press on, and. with John Masefield, we can say:

"Therefore gb forth. when you flnd

Ne hlshwey more. no track, all being blind.

The way to go shall glimmer in the mind.

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Adventure on, and if you suffer, swear

That the next venture:- shsli have less to bear

Your wsy will be retrodden, make it fair.

Only one banner, Hope; only one star To steer by. Hone. a dim one seen

aar. Yet naught will vanquLsli Hope, and nothing bar.

All that has been imagined from of old

Ls, but more glorious thousand- fold.

The pebble lightens, and the clay is gold.

And you. the gray thing dragging on the sea. '

Go as a man goes in Eternity,

Under a crown of stars to destiny."

‘llhia is the pilgrim! heroism. this is the stuff of llfe that makes worthy memorial, this is free- dom‘s owning hour. "Live like free men. - - - Live like servants of GodP-Amen.

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BRIDGBWATBR, N.S., Nov. 4 — (OP) — Basil Leslie of Bridge- watcr was arrested here today on a charge of arson and remanded for hearing Nov. i0. The charge resulted frcm. an investigation by police and 5.5. Wright, provincial fire marshal, into a Nov_ 2 apart- ment house fire.

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