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and touch it with the beauty of the true culture. Truly Jesus knew whereof He was speaking when He said: "Ye must, ye must be born again."

My friends, this is the true culture. By all means, let us better the conditions under which we live. Let us cultivate the æsthetic. Let us store our minds with knowledge. Let us surround ourselves with noble and refined associations, but let us never imagine that in so doing we have attained unto the true culture. That is only reached through the possession of a mind and heart renewed by the grace of God and led captive to the will of Christ.

"One thing I of the Lord desire,
For all my way hath miry been,
Be it by water or by fire,

O, make me clean! O, make me clean!

So wash me thou without, within,
Or purge with fire if that must be,
No matter how, if only sin
Die out in me, die out in me.”

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PEACE WITH HONOR: THE FOUN

DATIONS OF PEACE

IX

PEACE WITH HONOR: THE FOUNDATIONS OF PEACE

TEXT:-"And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and peace forever."-Isaiah 32: 17.

THE popular phrase to which your attention is invited is one that has long held a place in the vocabulary of every honorable nation. Peace they must have but it must be "peace with honor." The sword must be sheathed but it must not be sheathed in shame. There may be defeat but it must be defeat that has no disgrace. Peace with honor! Seldom perhaps has that phrase sent a deeper thrill through Britain than in those stormy days when Disraeli's hand was on the helm of state. In the presence of a great international crisis that threatened almost every country in Europe he conducted at Berlin those negotiations that secured an honorable peace. On his return to

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