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E' .3/'\ $5 F’ l`liei'e is no institution, not eveli excepting thc church which deserves luore -consideration at the RECRUITING There has been a good deal of discussion over the iproportion of men recruited from the different pro- vinces and in the discussion the fact is elnphasized by many that the'westerii,provinces have done better re- latively, than the eastern. There is little to be gained from this comparison. A very large proportion of. the nicn who enlisted in the western provinces were eastern born- Prince Edward Island alone has coil- tributed to western regiments several hundreds of men who if counted in with those who enlisted in units originating here would swell our recruiting cre- dit very considerably. Our “honour roll" includes the names of many Prince .Edward Islanders \vho never saw our Island units but who did their part as Caita- dians in the grand total. The only valuable comparison that can be made is to find the recruiting total for each military district as compared with the iiumber of men of military age in it. Boys under and ,men over military age do notl 4... ~ ~- ,~ _ hgure in tiliis calciilatioii. ihe comparative tigures, dealing with clilistliient up tothe end of October, alld based on 'eligible men only, arle: » _ _._ ,- _ *- __ Proportionate quota Eu-_ ‘ --District of 500,000 listed _London L_-.». _ 40,910 30,504 Toronto ._ ._ 79,130 33,119 Kingston . . _ _ __ 49,860 39,172 4 and 5.` Montreal land Quebec _ . . . . ._ 113,720 Maritime Provinces 53,300 10 and 11, .\Ianitoba °.°!°"' 39,907 33.694 74.248 Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . _ ._ 36,000 33,671 British Calinnbia ._ 33,000 36,580 A great many of those who enlisted in Cauadiaii rcginlciits are llritisii boril, \vlliic as already statcd 11 very _large proportion of thosc who enlisted in thc west are natives of the Maritime provinces. The west' has a large proportion of foreigners, to ivhoni no call could be made, but so has the east. lla- iniiton, Ontario, for instance, has a very large propor- tion of foreigners, and its ratio of culistinent, per tiioiisaiid of eligible men, is one of the highest in thc Dominion. Uiyler such circumstances, figures based oil general population are apt fo be misleading. 'i`hc west has doilc splendidly in recruiting.. liased oil general population figures, it can show _considerable higher rates of recruitng, but a comparison based on numbers of men of military age does not show its average to be particularly better than tiiat of other parts of Canada. As a province, Ontario is about 17,000 short of its proportionate number of the half million, while thc four Western provinces are about 28,000 short and the Maritime provinces 19,000 short. ' There is an opportunity n`ow under the new re- cruiting campaign to make up the shortage. In thisl province we are far below our quota an_d while ourl sister provinces are exerting themselves to the utmost to complete their obligation we trust no effort will be spared here' to do our best. _ 'nil-: Bovliiinontrn Never has such emphasis been placed upon the cdii- cation and training of the boy as at present. _\`pccialists trained to a l'ln('sil,iecturcrs, yprcaciicrs, tcaclicrs, are specializing on thc boy probiein_ 'l`_l1ey have blazed outa path for the boy: to follow with the proiiils_p.ttiat if per- severed in to the end, it will lead to an ideal manhood and an ideal citizenship. Tile path is carefully and sciciitilicziliy chalkcd, so that the wiiyfarilig boy, though it fool, need not crr therein. _ These specialists and lecturers and teachers alid preachers are doing a magnificent work, doing it nobiy and nianfullly, in honest love for the boy and in hon- est conccrn for the future of the world, fo r the boys of today are the men of tomorrow, the voters, the legislators, the captains of industry,-‘the world of a tew years hence. ' llilly Sunday, the brilliant and erratic genius, wiio is now stirring up thc religious and'tlie irreligious world, said in one of his recclit sermons while discus- sing preachers, that is, other preachers, that God ex- pects a man to preach as ilaturally as he sneezes or coughs or snorcs; that his individuality is to him what the steel frame is to the sky-scraper and 'that when he surrenders it to be like sonic onc else who has stic- ceefled-lie fails miserably. - ~ There is much truth in i\/lr, Sunday`s philosophy. 'lni_iifviduaii_ty lost, everything is lost, ami there is some dang`cr that, in our anxiety to havc.a boy become what we older people think he ought to be, we may induce him, unconsciollsly, rio doubt, to act`a role that he does not and perhaps cannot live. In our training of a boy into useful and honorable manhood we must not forget yhat he is a boy;'he has his own peculiar individuality; he does things _and thinks things as he alone of all boys can do or think- It is this boy- thinking and boy-doing that must be trained,-must be bent so as to flow naturally into physically and mentally healthy channels. We make a mistake if we lift him bodily and place him in achannel already prepared for him When this is done there is friction hands of our people than the Young Men’s Christian Association. This organization, brarl_ches'of which are to be found in every civilized country iii- the world, i: one of the most active`"partici_pants‘in the terrible struggle ni- l‘.urope_ Representatives of the Associa- tion have followed our boys to the training camps in Lanada and England and right up to the front line trenches in the battlefields.~ Around the camps, both in Canada and in Eiiglalid, where teln|\ations of every kind. abound, the Y.M.C~.‘\_ has,-to quote tl1¢’,“-01-([5 o_f aiiofticer \vlio knew whereof he spoke,--“stood iike a wail.-between your boys and hell.” And this testimony has been vouchcd for by hundreds of our own boys in their letters home. Most of these letters are_ written- 011 .Y.M_C-A. paper, in Y.M.C.A. tents, which the boys look upon as honics, and where they enjoy many wholesome and healthful privileges, and spend many hours ivliiclrotlierivise might easily be spent in the midst of temptations which it might be difficult for eventhe best of them to witlistanrl, llie~Y.i\I__C.A- in all its efforts, either to promote its work at hohie or to carry on more actively its work at the _front and around the camps should receive ev- ery possible cncourageinent from our people and especially from those who have boys or fri;-mls im actl\'E"‘_,71erv1cc. l`he Y.i\l_C.A. officers, tlicinselves young _gnen and able to enter into the life of the young man, are in all cases to be depended upon as true friends to the soldier. _ Our ever active ladies in all the churches are doing what they can to help on the good \vork done by these splendid men for our boys and they should receive every encouragement. Everything done at present to help the Y_l\/I~t,`_A_ is a _help to the boys who are away from home and home care. llelp tlie Y.l\l C A then whenever opportunity offers. Help build up :iii/tif strengthen the wall they are building betwccr- your boys and the many tenlptatioils surrouililing them in the trying situations ni whicli tlicy have been piiictiili hy tlic wal". )0( .\ writer in the Indcpciidcilt recently paid ii gimv- ing tribute to L`ailz_i<_iii and (`aiiaiiiaiis siiilliiiiiig np ili- forinatioli which we Canadiails are ourselves liable to forget in thc wiiiri of activities in which we have alniost suddenly foiilld ourselves plunged. The follow ing extracts are worth clipping and kcepillg, lest we _forgct:3 _ ~ _ “Ilcrc, then, is wilcrc we limi Canada after two years of war-nlidauntcd in her spirit, unshakeii in her purpose, and with a clean and honorable record of work well done. As to what that work has been let ` 3 thc figures themselves briefly ptit, tell the story, I`l1irt_y-tlirte _ tiiousand men armed, equipped and spilt overseas within six weeks after thc declaration o war-,thc greatest nunibcr of armed nieii ever to embark tipoii thc seas at one tilne, up to tlicli-'ind . this though at the outbreak of the war t.`ai1;i,i-iby- te'l'la.n. The government proposed for the United Church is not Episco- pal, it is not government by bishops; lt is not Congregational, it is not gov- ernment directly by the people; it its Presbyterian, it is. government by elders, the' peoples chosen ropresclit- utives meetin1;toget_\e1' in (‘.l1ui'cli Courts." In tho sorvicns of the sriiictiiary thc United (‘.lniri-li will rctalu the priv- llcgn of l'l'e'i:ilonl iii worship. Slime* the days ot' Jenny (leddcs, Vrcsbyy tcriallu have refilsoii' to bc bound by set formi-l of worshlip and have insist- ed that lil prays-1' believers shoiild have the privilogc _of expressing the desires uppermost in ,their hearts its they approach (‘~ml’s Throne. Llbe'rt_y to worship God according to our con- science is one ot'» the most precious parts of our lierltage from the past, and all the simplicity and spifrttuall- ty of the worship in wlilch our fath- ers delighted' ls maintained under the new system. _ The great dontrlneiz ot grace' stand out more »clcai':y :nan ever. ' Such .~»-»v...,..-...._,_.._,-~».»_- __ _ ' i `iiiliL1 selections roll -_ cuiiiiuiiiii iiisiiiiialis Fumluhld by W. I. Loulol. _ &KM .- MIZPAH. -rf” I' - Go thou thy way-and I go mine, Apart, yet not afar: ' Only it thin vqtl hangs ,between The pathway where we gre. Amd Gc-d keep watch 'tweep -,tlieocand mg' ` ._ ` _ _ This ls my prayeri. ~ i _ He looketh thy way, He looketll mite And keeps us near. _ _ I know not where thy roodhlisg' ` ` -'be Nor which way mine will lie, It mine will be through poi-chin; sand '“ And thine beside the sent. _ " _ ' Yet God keep: watch 'twteon ind me. 3 _ __ - So never tear: `: . Ho _ holdmtby _ band. Ho e1npsth__m1pia And _keeps us near. _ I sigh sometimes to nee tliy Moo But. since this may not be God'. the immediate acoesii ot the soul to God, the Divinity and Hlghprliest- [hood of the Lord Jesus Christ-. who ls _the only Mediator betweli God and iman. His full and sutllciont redempt~ ion. Hlii heudshlp of the Church and Hls presence ln tho midst of His pilo- ple, the personality and power ot, thc Holy Splrl-t are alllrnieil ;__; the very foundation ot the iaith. The Gospel message! by which the heathen _world 1 In being won to Chirlut and by which alone men can be saved, ls stated with a clearuess and emphasis tliixt has never been surpassed. There were -great differences be- tween the negotlatlngchurchesluthe past. Nothini: ln the pre-sent situa- tion iii more striking than this fact.. .that three great. Churches. Startins lt]'onl such wldply different. stainl- polntii in doctrine' und pollty, should have 1'eai-_hed the- same position on every fulldulllentul question in tliolr endeavor to meet the needs or our new country. They preach the saint- Gospel; they work on the sumo prin- ciples. This being true-and itlic lstroigpest opponent of the Union mov ment makes no attempt to deny it-there seems to these churches, no longer any adequate reason 1`or their denying the answer to ' the I.ord’.~i Prayer, “That they iill may be one." I am slr. etc., COMMUNICATED. The United Church Sir,-The Prosbyteriali cliaulpious of organic cl1ul'_cli illiioli seem now most anxious to make their co-i'eli'i:l- onists believe that the \'Ve'stiili1istcr sta idards nre‘a1ld wcrr- iilwiiys pm.-.i~ ouif to them i11iil'__tliitt_thc i-olitents oi! those deal' old documenlls are imbed- ded in the' new “Basis of Union." But their solieitu on t|ici1isclvos_ wliigll iiley allege, wi' "do licreliy si-t tortli the siilisliillize ot_ the (`h1'istinn faith as cnililiinllly lii\li`-" ainoni; us." This p1'l11¢'_lpl0 cxclililcs all doi'_t,l‘ill es, that `:-'». iiv.»`iil§f"§~;`L`l"*_".- '.'-. " oneiit“"‘8f` friglftxtilness that ft“ightful~»-I 1l|i|l|‘|‘i°'},¢§,,°‘|'°,l&.fl'db,:'§l§°m¢»' my_"m" pe li 3 - _ .‘ ‘ J ' l ~ ' ' entanglemgiits Under wise and judicious guidance ness does not pay, and to exact the uttermost farthing, Ulayxglgzzlzg? “Ill 6'# mb. 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