The Discipline of War

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ised from the de

point of impossibility. Yet, if we look below the surface, we shall see that

lest any progress made, any victory won, should lead to that self-confidence which can onl

ho had died as a malefactor, Who could not save Himself, rescue His nation from the tyranny of the Roman power? And then He, this stranger Whom they knew not, opened to them the Scriptures; showed them the necessity of the sufferings, and th

or the triumph of honour over falsehood, of respect for treaties over unscrupulousness, of order over cruelty and outrage, for what are we ever to pray? We must pray according to the light we have. And if we end our prayers with the truly Christian sup

in the absolute righteousness of our cause. In violating the neutrality of Belgium, Germany itself confesses that a wrong was done. A wrong which necessity compelled, as they say. What necessity? That of getting to Paris at the earliest pos

nemies, we stand on a higher platform. We went to war because we would not break a treaty, nor forsake a friend too weak for self-defence; Germany commenced the war

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the same direction, but let

ondency; every success discounted and treated with half-hearted incredulity: "The Germans have destroyed another ship; what is our Navy doing?" "Oh, but that's only one little hill; the

New Testaments, but these are cases of those who were raised by others, and then died again. Christ raised Himself and death hath no more dominion over Him. The resurrection is permanent and keeps on perpetuating and extending itself in the life of the

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ighty Captive

the gate, the

ularly enough the object of both sides is similar-to render another great European war impossible: but the ideals in respect to its attainment are by no means the same; one looks to the setting up of a world dominion; the other, to the establishment of a state of balanced power and mutual interests among European nations. We are fighting essentially for the principle of "live and let live," and therefore have to face unflinchingly al

us Christ; the means of grace and the hope of glory." The resurrection puts the seal to the great charter, commenced at Bethlehem, indited page by page through the wondrous life of three and thirty years, closed, as to its earthly side, on Calvary, sealed, signed and delivered on Easter morning. In the power of that tre

God is allowing us already to see as obviously coming out of the war;

versies at home, and for the u

response of our fellow-

d ourselves, and for the success which has

who have laid down their

g, and in death, of the power of the Cros

hem from the hand of the enemy. Then believed they His words, they sang His praise. They soon forgat His works: they waited not for His counsel." God willing we shall ere long be singing our Te Deum; oh! yes, we shall do it with all our heart and soul; but how are we to fix the emotions, to render perman

of it be dedicated to the cause of heroic Belgium, to her re-instatement in something of her former condition, it will have come in vain. The time of distress and disaster has knit together the Empire in a wondrous unity of brotherhood. There will be debts to be repaid to India and our Colonies, debts which can never be discharged in money, but in those higher acts of fellowship, justice, en

nd me. Therefore the seriousness of attitude, the sense of proportion, the realisation of brotherhood, that b

the permanency of that victory has meant all down the ages of the past in the triumphs of the saints, in the deaths of the martyrs, in the splendid story of the Church of Christ. Think what it means to-day in the lives of millions of the faithful; in all the deeds of charity which are brightening homes, cheering hearts, giving hope to the hopeless, healing to the si

us so use the discipline of victory that it may redound to th

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eful to look up referenc

hat we should be saved.-1 T

l is in conflict with God

assists us by illuminating

principles of our lives?-Ps.

on the mission of Christ to the b

t wonderfully suited to its purposes.-

which we receive the Sacraments.-Heb.

ultimate destiny.-1 Cor.

body braces the will.-2 T

Church in its bearing on influen

espect of the temperance question.

inner value of our lif

g effect of prosperi

f single-mindedness.-S. Mark

riousness in thought.-S. M

r seriousness in word

ousness in deed.-S. James

nce, lest we forfeit our blessin

t: Man seeking af

which the union between God and man i

ristic act of religion.-S. M

self-examination as leading t

to God the only condition o

comes from God through the b

ommitted to the ministers, as Christ's amb

l body of Christ the source of

dy of Christ found in Hi

f Christ, given to us in the Ho

e the test of relig

the great obstacle to obed

ion the condition of s

mple of obedience.-Phil.

in the light of eternity.-Rev.

t of the Incarnation.-S. Matt

ering in His people.-S. Ma

t the power of endurance.-Ac

those who suffer for Him.-Ac

plined by suffering.-He

tunity for sympathy.-Heb. xii. 1

rrection of Christ, the basi

ower of the risen life, here

ints in the one body of Chri

embering us.-S. Luke xvi. 1

reward of faithful serv

he death of Christ mean

fruits of my Baptism by leadi

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4th, 1914. By kind permi

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BRITAIN BY R. CLA

AMFORD STREET, S.E.,