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Y.M.C.A., and Church Army car- ried her praiyers and merlcy into the field of blood. Why prolong" the story? Your liberty, your home-life, your civilisation, your faith, your very soul, all bear the hall mark of the church of the Crucified One. Can you ever re- pay your debt or discharge your obligations ? We are sometimes asked, "What has the Church, to gli,ve, our young men, when they return?" I think the more pertinent question would be, Whait have the young men, to give their churches ? When my friends visit foreign lands they usually bring me some gift, mem- ento or token; of fond thoughts during their absence. Have you brought: with you the zest, zeal and enthusiasm manifested on the field of blood? Have you given your all away? Will you offer less to Christ than you gave to King George ? more to your Country than to your church ? Some of you are concerned about your future car- eer. Have you gi'ven a thought to the claims of the Christian mini- stry yet? this we believe is' the highest, noblest and divine cad ling on earth, and there is clamant meed of brave faithful pure ministers of the Word to-day. I would not insult you by dwelling upon the status, honour and dignity of the holy office, neither will I believe that you could be d'aunted by the poverty most ministers know too well—you have already once'given up home, careers, business,, life, knowing that you would receive a, sh'il'ling a day, and perhaps *have to make the great sacrifice and leave your family to the, mercy of a cruel world; Poverty, hardship, and obscurity will be no deterrent to the youth of our age. There- fore I confidently ask you toO care- fully consider the call to the ministry. Now, that he is dead, we may be allowed to speak well of the late Keir Hardie. That prophet of Labour once tcrld a friend of mine that if he had hiis life over again, he would serve the sons of toil by preaching to them the Gospel of the Carpenter of Nazareth. If in the ministry you cannot become rich, children will lisp your name before the Throne of Grace, widows will bless God for your help, and when worldly hon- ours, military reniown and the coin of the realm are no longer of any use to tou, perhaps, nay, I am sure thait the "well-done" of the .Master will outweigth the whole world for the faithful minister of Christ. A CHRISTIANISED STATE. Our Age has a revised concep- tion of obligatiioin to the State we now know that our money, service, children, and life can be command- eered, and, notwithstanding the struggles of the past, Conscience even must justify its right to exist from behind prison bars. Adam Smith, John Bright, and the old Manchester school of economists woud feel themselves in a strange England to-day. But if the State is to interfere more and more with the life and liberty of the subject, it is of prime importance that it be a Christian State where truth., generosity, freedom, and love shall prevail, and here is the opportuni- ty for young people of both sexes to-day. New problems are coming to the front; new forces and fresh parties appear, and there is urgent need for heroic handling of the problems of the hour. Much has been accompli,shed by our fathers; legal equality is ours, political freedom: iis more or less a fact, but ecoiniom-ilc equality is still a dream, a hope, and an unrealised ideal. Hitherto reforms have been worked from above, now they are claimed from below; men de- m.and justice not charity, right not patronage whilst they spurn doles with contempt. At a time, when crowns are in the dust and thrones totter, dynas- ties disappear, and kingdoms are riven, it behoves you young men to see that our land be not cursed with rivalries, .class-wars, suspic- ion and cut-throat competition, (revolution and anarchy, but that its future be one of peaceful evolu- tion* and general advance in the direction of justice, peace, and harmony. It is not the duty of the. Church to solve economic problems, but she must bring moral .consideration, and motives to. bear upon them, and give Society the light that comes from the throne of the Lamb. It is her privilege to enthuse her children who- will face these, prob- lems as expert economists, states- men and reformers with a. passion. for the riight, the true and the un- selfish. Therefore I .appeal to you to- night to enter more and more into the public life of the nation. We should know as much, to. say the least, about London as Palestine; see, as poor Francis. Thompson, said., Jacob's ladder at Chairing Cross and Christ walking the Thames, and hear the voice of Sinai1 in St. I want the young men of my church to know the Mosaic law of Exodus., I am; quite as anxious for them to study the Poor Law of Britain, I try to teach them the Confession .of Faith, and I am as determined to make them conversant with the Hammonds' two books on "The Agricultural Labourer," and "The Town: Labourer." I pray that they might have a. Cause and not a caucus to live for, and that they may. strive for principle and not for a mere party in public life. Speaking generally, few young: people enter1 public life In. our time. Pitt the younger was Prime Minister at 24, and Canning was. alread'y coming to the front at the same age. Palmers ton was at the War Office at 25. John Howard had found the mission of his life at 26. Burke was A, national power at 27. Last century it was the custom for young men to' give themselves to the service of the nation in municipal and political concerns; now, in. Wales, it- its the exception: public life is left to the retired and the aged. All honour to these people for work loyally and faith- fully done, but we cannot expect enthusiasm where habits are formed and; the outlook is colour- ed so much by spent forces and Obsolete method's.. We dream of an England where women shall be at no unwomanly toil, and the child will not beg for bread where slums give place to wholesome dwellings, and' alleys are no more where no bankrupts are found in business, no suicides in society, and love brood's over all: where there are no strikes but those of the honest hammer, no lock-outs, but of evil, no combines but for good, and brotherhood is complete; where armies are dis- banded and the navy plies for trade; an England! without swear- ing on her ships, and no smug- gling in her ports, and the songs of Zion are wafted, by the' ocean breeze her roads a,re safe, her homes are clean, her commerce pure, and her laws .,vinie the, City o-f Go,d is on the way from the clouds to this Land of ours., and will arrive when. our young- men recei've the baptism of Christ. "So far has England helped me, How can. I help England? Say!" You have seen war stripped of its tinsels and imaginary glory, wittnessed its agony, woe, blood and hell. Do you wiish it ever to ""be repeated? Ar you enamoured of conscription? Will you wil- lingly see men persecuted because of their practical interpretation, of the Sermon on the Mount? Can you be indifferent to the ravages of Drink which destroys more than war, famine and pestilence put to- gether? Can you sleep in peace whilst emissaries from the Pit ply their infernal craft of the White Slave Traffic? Do you know that about 40,000 children die yearly in this country because they get no real chance to. live ? Are you ac- quainted with the housing con- dition, of God's Poor? Have you no warning for greedy Capital ? Dane you encourage, by your in- difference, the revolutionary spirit that threatens Labour? ? ? ?——— Man, if once you really begin to think, you must either goi stark mad' or else responded to the call, Here am I, Send me. "God! Give us men! Times, like this Demand strong miinldis, pure hearts and wililing hands Men whom the lust of office will not spoil, Men whom the spoils; of office will not kill Men who possess: opi.n!:lon and a will, Mien who love honour and w:iilI-Tv oit lie. Far, whille the .rabble with their thumbworm creed, Their large professions and their Kittle deeds Wrangle in siel'fLs'h strife, Lo! Freedom weeps'. Wronlg rulies the land, and waiting Justice, Sleeps." A REDEEMED WORLD. Yes, our religious and political horizon has extended. The world is .greater than our parish, and humanity has a claim upon us. We have become internationalists at last. Whatever hurts. another nation, cannot really benefit our own.. Lord,Hugh Cecil ha,s voiced the feel;inigs-of,a:ll true Christians. "I am a Christian- first and a Britisher afterwards," and the mission of the Christian is to re- deem the world;. Our Lord's commission is "Go and make dis- ciples of all the nations." Mr. C. T. StucTd, the He art- of.-Africa missionary said in igis, "The commision means men: and money, but the nations have, kept back their men and piled up their money, now the men: have been taken and the money also is going, it would have been cheaper, easier and better to evangelise the nation, than to slaughter them." My Brethren—there are the alternatives before the world', re- currant war tumult and strife or evangelisation, and the youth of the nation must make the choice. There are two. international forces at work just now. One is a re- volutionary class war depending upon brute force the other i,s the contagious enthusiiasm of the Christian Ideal working by sacri- ficial love. I appeal to you young; people of both sexes to listeR prayerfully to the call for mission- „ aries, some of you will go abroad as engineers, merchants, and in the civil service,—can you go in the name of Christ ? Many great men have lived and died in Africa, but there are two spots in that wonderful country where Britishers will ever find re- newed inspiration. One is above the plain flait slab on the summit of the Maloppes where rest the. re- maiiins of the greatest of England's modern Empire builders, Cecil Rhodes. T'heother is iin a seclud- ed oornier of the thick forest where the great heart of David Living- stone was laid by loving hands. We wonder at the. enthusiasm, pertinacity and1 service of the mil- lionaire, the audacity of his schemes, the range of his vision, and his contalgious enthusiasm for Empire; but if ever we' were allow- ed1 to kneel above the heart of Scotland's great gift to the world --we might rise with the words of Tholuck on our lips, "I have but one passion,, It is He! it ils He!" Y Parch. D. Hoskins, M.A., Caer- narfon. "APEL CRIST AT ARWRIAETH A BRWDFRYDEDD P'OBL IEUAINC." Nid yng nigeiriau Crist yn unig, nac yn benna!f, y mae apel at y teimliad arwrol a brwdfrydig mewn pobl ieuainc, ond ynddo Ef eihun, fel y portreadir Ef yn yr Efengyl- au. Efe ei, hun, ond cael yr olwg dawn a'rno sydd yn cyffwrdd ,a dyohiymyg ieuenictid yr oesau. Efe ei hun yw ffynhonnell pob ys- brydoiiaeth a sail yr apel at yr ieu- anc sydd yn cruel el symio; i, fyniy yn ei eiriau. Yr arwrol yn ei gym- eriad Ef sydd yn apelio at y syniad yn y meddwl ieuane am yr arwrol a'r aruchel a'r anturiiaetbus, Mae'n wir mai nild fel un. o. ar- wyr y na.c fel ygèllIDf ohon, ynt, y mae edrych. arno yn unig. Yr oedd yr Iesu yn rhywbeth an- rhaethol fwy nac airwr, yn gymaint felly fel mai nid ymhlith urirhyni ddiosbarth o arwyr y ma:e ei osc d; ac eto daeth mwy o'r arwr i'r gol- wg ynddoi nac yn y pennaf ohonynt, pwy bynnag ydoedd hwnnw. Nid meddyliwr na gweithiwir,. na dyn- gairwr nac arwr ydoedid, 3JC e 1 o Efe oedd y meddyliwr mwyaf a'r gweithiwr hynotaf a'r dyngarwr pennaf, a'rarwr g'ogoneddusa.f a welodd y byd erioed. Yr oedd yr elfennau hynny a, ed- mygir gam y:r ieuamc i'w gweled yneu perffeithrwydd ymddta. Ieu- ane oedd Efe i hun, a'r nodwedd- ion sydd yn amlwg yn ytr ieuainc ac a gerir gain yr ieuane oedd rhai o nodwedidion amlycaf ei gymeriad dihaloig. Peidiwchalc anghofio mai un ieuane oedd y Gwaredwr, ac mai gweddun iieuane oedd arno Peidiwch ffurfio darlun oho no fel un mewn heni ddyddiau a golwg drymaidd, bendrist, sarug, a siom- edig arno, wedi suro a diigio wrth y byd, ac yn hen, a thoredig yr olwg a/mo. Y rhyfeddlod yniglyn ag Ef yw iddio gael cymaint mewn byr amser i wneud unrhyw un. yn hen fel y. gosodir Ef allan yn y dar- luniiafu dychymygol a geir ohono, ond ei fod drwy y cwbl a'i cyfar- fyddodd wedi cadiw pob nodwedd sydd ynl yr ieuane hyd y diwedd. Nid un a'i gam yn fyr fu yn rhod- io oddiamgylch Palestiina gan wTIleu thur daioni. Nid un a'-i- mefn wedi crymu a gariodd groes i ben y bryn, ac nid gwallt gwyn oedd dan y goron ddrain, ondt ein Hiesu ieuane ni. Digon gwir mai gwr gofidlus a chynefin a dolur ydoedd, ond y pwynt i''w gofio1 yw fila allodd goifidiau uffern na dlaear ladirata oddiarno ei leuenctid. Fe'i cad- wodd hyd y diwedd. Un ileuanc fel