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REINDEER INN AT BANBURY, ENGLAND, USED BY CROMWELL
Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm of Germany Has Become an Author Kegina Was Damaged to the Extent of $10,000,000 in Canadian Storm.
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On of the- finest examples of
early ETngllsh architecture and
crafstmanshlp is said to be found in
th old Reindeer Inn. at Banbury, Ens
land. The building was used by Crom
well, who held a council of war here
prior to the battle of EdgehilL This
room is said to contain unexcelled
specimens of Jacobean carving. The
building is reported to be for sale and
that negotiations are being entered
into with an American millionaire who
proposes moving it to America.
The Champlain Monument at Platts
burg, N. T., which was erected by the
Champlain Tercentenary Commission
of the state of New York, was dedi
cated recently. It la a granite pedes
tal, 22 feet high, standing on a ter
race and carrying a 12-foot -bronxe
statue of Champlain. The base of the
pedestal is a seat that is interrupted
in front by a die on which crouches
a Huron Indian in granite and similarly
interrupted on each side by a die that
supports a canoe-prow. About the top
of the pedestal are garlands of Indian
corn. Champlain is shown In his cos
tume as a soldier, holding in his hand
the arquebuse of which he speaks in
his memoirs. A number ' of distin
guished men delivered addresses.
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Crown Prince Frederick "Wilhelm of
Germany has written a book entitled
"From the Diary of a Sportsman." As
the title Indicates, the book includes
hunting stories of the Crown Prince
and these range from experiences at
home to hunting in India and Ceylon.
The publication of this book furnishes
an interesting proof that he is follow
ing in the footsteps of his father as
regards versatility of taste and achieve
ment. The Crown Prince had the assis
tance of the Crown Princess in the
work of getting out the book, as most
of the photographs used were made by
her camera. This royal couple have
four children: Prince Wilhelm Fried
rich, born July 4, 190S; Prince Ludwig
Ferdinand, - born November 9, 1907;
Prince Hubertius, born September 30,
1909, and the baby Prince Friedrick.
A spectacular occasion was the re
cent inspection by King George of the
St. John's Ambulance Brigade at Wind
sor Park. The king was mounted on
a black horse and wore the uniform
of a field marshal. Queen Mary drove
out to the reviewing place in an open
carriage drawn by four white horses.
A feature of the day was the exhibi
tion by a life-saving party, which in
cluded a demonstration of a survivor
being brought ashore in the breechesM
buoy.
One of the leading figures at the
Baltimore convention was Governor T.
R. Marshall, of Indiana. In the early
days of the convention- there was
prospect of his being nominated for
the Presidency, but he was later
chosen as Wilson's running mate.
Governor and Mrs.- Marshall were re
cently photographed on the porch of
their home In Indianapolis.
One of the towns that suffered most
in the tornado which swept over Sas
katchewan, Canada, recently, was Bii
gina. Here 80 people were killed and
property was damaged to the extent of
$10,000,000. Buildings of brick and
stone were demolished with the same
completeness as was the case with le.-ss
stable structures.
The distinction of having been pho
tographed at the highest point in the
city of New York belongs to a crew of
steelworkers employed on the Wool
worth building, the tallest skyscraper
In the world. The new building Is 65
stories high. Before it was built, thi
highest building in the world, with the
exception of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris,
was the Metropolitan building, in New
York.
CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE SOMETIMES HIDDEN BY GENTLENESS
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Rev. W. F. Reagor, of First Christian Church, Points to Some of the Violent Characters Who Have Besn Converted to Christianity and Made Instruments for Its Spread.
HE Church a Storming Party."
Sermon preached by W. F.
Realtor, pastor of the First
Christian Church, at that church last
Sunday morning.
Text: "The Kingdom of Heaven suf
fereth violence, and men of violence
take it by force." S. Matt. 11:12.
Does not the success of the Christian
life lie largely in our taking the of
fensive? Is there anything more try
ing to the endurance of soldiers than
being compelled to be forever awaiting
an attack? But is the offensive spirit
the popular conception of the Chris
tian warfare? Is not the Christian life
looked upon as nerveless, incompetent,
wishy-washy and defensive? We have
read "blessed are the poor in spirit"
and "blessed are the meek." until we
hove lost the grace of rush and ve
hemence and holy daring. We never
think of meek men taking a battlement
by storm. We seldom regard Christians
as a "storming party," winning height
after height of the promised land, and
yet this is exactly what our Leader in
tended should be.
Listen! "The Kingdom of Heaven
sviffereth violence, and men of violence
take it by force." Not much of meek
ness and poverty of spirit in these
words. It is an Impetuous and vehe
ment figure. It makes one think of
Roosevelt at Chicago and Bryan at
Baltimore. There was the swift and
terrific attempt of Roosevelt to seize
the coveted honor, and the obstinate
and venturesome siege of Bryan for the
man who would carry out his policies.
Jt was the battle of giants. (So it is
In these words. The figure almost sug
gests, a determined burglary, the very j
thing that Teddy charges against our
President. It means a passionate and
exhausting persistence, along a stiff
and bloody way. If need be. in order to
carry the bristling forts of the enemy.
The fact of the matter Is, our concep.
tion of the passive virtues, such as
meekness, poverty of spirit, patience
and humility, needs to be vitalized and
energized; and we need to remember
that everything in Christianity, even
its passive virtues, has a core of tre
mendous purpose, and in the light and
heat of that burning passionate purpose
they must be interpreted. Meekness
without passion is worthless. Savonaro
la was meek and humble, but he was
fiery and terrible. Poverty of spirit
separated from strength and daring
will never plant a standard on the
heights of the New Jerusalem. In the
true man of the Kingdom, in the man
pictured here by the Master Artist,
meekness comprehends the spirit of vio
lence, and the "poor In spirit" are In
vincible and terrible.
Violence I Desirable.
John Bunyon was of great humility,
of great poverty of spirit. He watered
his couch with penitential tears. But
when some law of the land or some
magistrate in whom that law was In
carnate got across his heavenward way,
his meekness and penitential tears pre
pared to take the position by storm.
This is ever the characteristic of the
true child of the Kingdom. Our Lord
came to make men of violence, to give
his soldiers the daring of a Roosevelt
and the unflinching persistence of a
Bryan.
Let us note the elements that fur
nlsb the equipment of the strong and,
triumphant men, of the "men of vio
lence." First, they are men and women of
decisiveness of aim, "This one thing I
do," said Paul; and In the strength of
hat concentration all weakness was
eft behind. A man of one book Is not
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to be despised. A man of one Idea may
overturn a commonwealth. A man with
one commanding spiritual ambition
will sit with the Lord on his throne.
The Apostle Paul was no novice when
he declared that he must detach his
life from the multiplicity 'of distrac
tions, that he might gather strength for
his work. He was an old man rich and
ripe with many graces, far and away
beyond the experiences of most Chris
tians, and yet he felt the need of con
centrating his. efforts. The Christian
with decisiveness of purpose says, "No
one can realize my possibilities for me
but myself; no one can make me good
or evil but myself; no one can bear my
fruit or reach my star but r-yself." He
works out bis own salvation, financial
ly, socially, physically, mentally and
morally. If I have this element I know
that my life Is an individual problem
that I must solve for myself. With
this decisiveness I will never recognize
a proxy vote In my relationship to my
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Personal Service Kecessary.
And do you know that we recognize
this law in everything except our re
ligion? We know that all the exercise
in the world is of no value to the In
dividual unless he compels the bars
and dumb-bells to yield to him, in
strength and muscle, the power for
which he pays In time and effort. We
can never develop our muscle by send
ing our valet to the gymnasium. We
know, too, that all the medicine chests
of the world are powerless unless we
reach out and take for ourselves what
we need for our weakness. But when
we come to the lofty realm of religion
we treat it as we do the Pullman car,
with Its aoft cushion seats, where -we,
pay for our ticket and some one else
does all the rest. We accept help but
we must live our own life. We are not
passengers but engineers and the train
Is our life. We must rely on ourselves,
live our own Christian lives or we will
simply drift through existence, losing
all that Is best, all tnat is greatest anu
all that Is divine.
The man who is lacking In this de
cisive aim is hesitating and doubting
in all that he does. He fears to take
a decisive step, because he dreads fail
ure. In his cowardice and his conceit
he thinks that all his non-success is
due to others. He is not appreciated,
not recognized and is kept down.
But the man who has it seeks to dis
cover and to conquer the weakness
within him that keeps him from at
taining that which he holds dear; he
seeks within himself the power to bat
tle against all outside odds. Defeat,
conflict, sorrow and suffering are no
mors to him, than the passing through
a .tunnel .- is to a traveler he knows
that he must emerge, again into the
sunlight.
Oak, Not the Vine, Is IdeaL
. The man with this element in his
nature is an oak, not a vine. He dares
to stand alone. He stands ever ready
to give support to others who are less
able to stand alone, craves nothing for
himself and does not depend upon it.
He stands for great principles and
great issues, and for these he is will
ing to die. As Bryan stood and stands
for political principles, so the Christian
statesman, the man and woman of the
Jesus type stand for the things of the
kingdom of Heaven. But this element
suggests another, that Qt the strength j
that comes from harmonizing our pow
ers, the unity of the individual state.
The man of the one Idea is not to be
despised, but the man with unanimity
of soul; the man with all the forces of
his life marshalled like an army Is the
man of violence Indeed. Our powers,
too often are discordant, fighting at
loggerheads, and we are pulled many
different ways.
We are like an orchestral band before
the conductor appears. Every instru
ment goes on Journeys of its own pro
posing, and the result is bedlam. But
some men's souls, thank God, are like
an orchestra when the conductor has
appeared. All the instruments co
operate in harmonious ministry. When
the great conductor reigns supreme In
the soul, harmony reigns, and "all that
is within me" blesses and praises God's
holy name.
Our courage In attacking the brist
ling fort of the enemy is sorely smit
ten when the powers of the soul are
divided. But when all our powers are
one, then we put on courage like a
robe and go forth as a storming party
owned and led of God. These are they
who. like the great apostle to the Gen
tiles, bring all their guns with them.
at their conversion and direct every
one of them against the stronghold of
the devil. In the love and interest of
the kingdom of God. Paul brought his
great trained intellect, his fiery heart
and his persistent will to the service of
his master. His vigor, his determina
tion, his singleness of purpose, his pas
sion, his all, alike distinguished him
from the common herd and made him
the greatest of all leaders in the king
dom. Ho man, could coma sear Paul
without recognizing the full charged
battery of his personality.
Powers of Sla Unite.
Do we not recognize this harmonizing
of powers in the sinful and destructive
violence in the world? The forces of
Satan are always united. You never
find his forces at loggerhead, either
in the individual or in the collection.
Look at Lady Macbeth. She is the most
commanding figure in the entire trag
edy. She moves to her purpose with
enormous energy, with passionate ve
hemence, with intense and concen
trated decision, with consummate skill
and with a wealthy force of an evil
character. Is this man in the way?
Murder him. And that one? Do the
like with him. She moves to her ends
like a great rolling stream of lava, and
ruin and desolation fill her ways. She
was a type of the forceful character
among the violent, the destructive vio
lent, endowed with hidden energies
like the forces of the planet.
Suppose that in the midst of that
great tragedy, the tragic note had
ceased, and by some marvelous min
istry Lady Macbeth had been brought
under the mighty powers of redeeming
grace, what would have been the char
acter of the change? Would that strong,
full-flavored, intelligent, full-blooded
woman have become tame and insipid.
Just cooing away like a mild dove in
its cote? Oh, no. She would have re
mained violent still, passionate still,
resolute still, forceful still, but with
all her energies transformed, the fires
of mind and heart purified ana instead
of remaining a callous murderess, carv
ing her way to place and power, she
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