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ill,111111 I WI y 1111111111110 EVERY sacrifice for Tesus Yielded gladly, willingly, Wins from Him a smile of pleasure— " Ye have done it unto Me ! " Messages of mercy carried To the heathen o'er the sea ; Gold and silver freely given— " Ye have done it unto Me !" • eamemingeswermi CalbADAN,A10100.1C . Melang1P00 ONE PENNY Vol., 33, No. 29 Melbourne, Victoria, July 22, 1918 Registered at the G.P.O. Melbourne for transmission by post as a newspaper /Me' ' 450 JULY 22, 1918 wear a badge, and such marks of merit as may be earned. Every home with a boy or girl in the gar- Lilottiolimummummonnommosommomilimmi den army may display a distinctive service flag. EXPERTS of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry say that it will take 160 pounds of wool a year to clothe every soldier they send to the trenches, and that it will keep twenty sheep working to supply that amount. This is supposing that each sheep gives a fleece of eight pounds. So you see that for every million men sent over the ocean there must be 20,000,000 full-grown sheep at home, or in some other parts of the world, and this in ad- GREAT BRITAIN'S expenditure during the finan- dition to the vast amount of wool needed to clothe cial year ended March 31 last amounted to,£2,696,- the people of America. 221,405. THE Eskimo has superstition woven into the very THERE is a strong effort being made in America fabric of his nature. If he has killed a bear with a to make English the language of the nation, figures rifle, he must not kill a deer with it. He will not showing that to 5,000,000 people in that country, use an implement if a woman has stepped over it. the English language is an unknown tongue. A dead whale or seal, when brought ashore, must have a drink. If the Eskimo moves into a house by THERE is displayed in Paris for advertising pur- way of the door, he must go out by the skylight. If poses an automatic figure of a man which can be a child has died, the father stands guard around the given more than five thousand poses by electric igloo, with a snow knife, to keep evil spirits away. motors concealed in the body, while a hidden He will not drive nails at that time. If he wants phonograph enables it to sing and speak. work done, another Eskimo will do it for him. THERE is in use in the French army a two- wheeled cart for transporting wounded soldiers CARPETING the bottom of the Mississippi River from the battlefield to hospital. Its construction near Memphis, Tennessee, with gigantic mats woven of willow trees is the extraordinary feat ac- eliminates much of the shock resulting from travel complished by American engineers. The mats on rough roads, and it proves itself specially were found necessary in order to keep Memphis on adapted to mountain travel. the river, inasmuch as for several years the stream had been cutting a new channel near the city, PRESIDENT WILSON has received a petition threatening to leave it high and dry a mile from the signed by twenty-eight presidents of national or- channel of the stream. The willow mats, some of ganisations, representing nearly 6,000,000 women. which were a mile long and two hundred feet wide, The list is headed by the name of Mrs. Frances Cleveland Preston, at one time mistress of the were sunk into place by means of heavy loads of stone placed on them, and were then pinned to the White House. The petition urges the President to bottom with piles. stop the manufacture of beer by an executive order, and thus conserve food materials. INTENSE indignation is felt by the army and peo- ple of Roumania over the terms of the preliminary JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER will pay this year to the peace imposed upon Roumania by the Central American Government approximately £7,700,000 Powers. With its military forces scattered and its income tax, if the estimate recently made by a hopeless strategical position, Roumania had no re- financial authority is correct. This is within course except to yield to her powerful and ruthless £600,000 of the amount collected in personal income foe. The King and Queen, through the Associated taxes from the entire country in 1915. The thirty Press, "express the earnest hope that the American wealthiest persons of the country will pay about people will have a sympathetic appreciation of the £24,900,000, which is nearly four-fifths of the total tragical circumstances that forced peace on Rou- income tax receipts for 1917. mania, and that the warm friendship that has al- IN India the average income of the native is said ways existed between the two nations will in no- to be £2 /s ad. a year. In the government of wise be impaired."— Youth's Instructor. India's three million people, Great Britain employs only twelve hundred Europeans. The post offices WE read in the Youth's Instructor: Mr. 0. L. not only distribute mail, but conduct savings de- Moore, of Bluff Point, New York, says that accord- partments, in which one may start an account with ing to a journal of Augustine Washington, father of 4d. They are also the telegraph offices of the George Washington, the tree that George cut when country. Messages of ten words may be sent any- a boy was not a cherry tree at all, but a plum tree, where in India for sixpence. and that it was cut with a saw and not a hatchet. The entry referred to, dated March 1, 1739, reads THE United States is to raise a new army of thus : " A fine day and warm. This A.M. I found 5,000,000, known as the United States Garden Army. my best young plum tree spoiled with a saw. I The Secretary of the Interior is to be its com- thought it was some vagabond, and spoke of it at mander-in-chief, and its members the 5 000,000 noon. My son George owned up to the deed. school children throughout the country. They are First I was excited and minded to whip him, but not to see service abroad, but will raise at home did not. He- was truthful and repentant. He cut food for home consumption. Each member will it with my small handsaw." i k iiimuimualimunonaffithindlifinAMIMitiliguithuirigudiiiiiminagariiiiimiiimifirmumnimmunnunnumuniunonn iiiiii lllll annumuntuil El igtto tly ants namminnsempliminiuimu iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii EnT222mAnin.. '41r. Warburton, Victo.ia, July 22, 1918 1 but the stern records of history make it 1. impossible to accept the statements of Father Merner. Rome has patronised the arts, and she has established semin- Notts and TottunatiB aries and her own system of education ; but it is a system that reduces the mental powers to servitude to theological dogma. Galileo and Newman, though far apart in time, are cases in point. Galileo had demonstrated the truth of the Copernican system of astronomy ; yet he was forced The Roman Church and Science by Rome on bended knees to abjure his IT is one thing to convince a man of teachings and his demonstration, and to error by argument and the eloquence of swear on the Gospels that he would teach undisputable facts. It is quite another them no more. Di Bruno in " Catholic to convince him by calling him a nar- Belief " (pages 322-326) makes a strenu- row-minded bigot. With a certain class ous effort to explain away and justify of theological disputants that unconvinc- Rome's action in the case of Galileo. ing epithet of last resort has been used He says that Galileo's chief offence was until it has become shiny and threadbare in setting forth the Copernican system with reiteration ; and still we are not t( as a demonstrated fact," and that he convinced. At a lecture on " The "pretended to prove it from Scripture." Church and Science," given at a Catholic The argument is that if he had not pre- church in Melbourne on June 19 by tended to substantiate his theory by " Father " Merner, the Roman Church Scripture, the Inquisition would not have was held up as the patron of science and troubled him. It is the old and yet ever the friendly custodian of art and educa- present intolerance of Rome that none tion. The Catholic Tribune of June 20, in but she must interpret Scripture. Ac- a brief summary of the address, says:— cording to Di Bruno, Galileo had no right to affirm as a fact that which he had He convincingly showed that the Church had never been the enemy of science, as some narrow- demonstrated to be a fact ; and he had minded bigots contended. Father Merner said the no right to read and interpret the Word Church had always encouraged scientific pursuits, of God for himself, although his inter- and she gave her warm-hearted support to every pretations are now admitted even by Ro- discovery and invention for the benefit of man- kind. True science was the upholder of manists to have been true and accurate. religion, and the Church right through had been the Because he had dared to do such a thing, patron of the arts and sciences. It was a con- he was summoned before the Inquisition spiracy against the truth to say that the Church had and compelled to recant—to swear that ever been the persecutor of science. It was stock in trade of ignorant and professional bigots to make what he knew to be true was not true.