The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-14

numbered little over 100.
 A French general who watched the execution of this fiendishly criminal order, muttered with paths of indig- nation, This is magnificent, but 1t Is not war"
 Indignant as we are at the brutality of the command we also say 1t was agnifcent-magnihcent as a splens did exhibition of the primary military essential of unquestionins obedience to orders. Jesus Christ the captain of our Sal vation, is put at the head wall In let ters of gold. As ye would that men should do ye likewise also to them" And thnt one that the Iron Duke of Wellington called the churchs marching orders, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" But the first order that lies under and makes possible Is Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved;" for see, young men, we are to suffer hardness as sol diers of Jesus Christ" and receive or | ders rom no one else.
 What applies to the ordinary rou- tine of military affairs, applies with greater force to the routine of Chris tan life. There are the disciplinary experiences of the common round; the tests of Satanic assnilants, of which James says. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he hath been approved he shall re- ceive the crown of llfc;" the severe strain put upon patience when things move slowly; the awful suspense of waiting for the Day dawn and the coming of the king In His glory; the exactions of the Divine ideals which reach up to the excellence of God Himself voicing their Be ye holy for I am holy" or "who hreaketh one of the least of these commands shall be beaten with many stripes" Time does not suffice me to repeat the many "Orders for the Day" but enough has been said to prove that nothing must induce you to underestimate the i'm portance of putting your mind and | the training of God
 "All discipline (for 20 the Greek may be rendered) seemeth for the present to be not joyous, but grievous Yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exer. clsed thereby"
 Important as are the two qualitie, of obedience and endurance which wt have expounded there is one othe, which in my humble opinion Is tho supreme quality. l. e., spirit o' courageous devotion. An imperative and enobling sense of duty as poist acquired from q splendid discipline are invaluable. but there is something more needed to bind us firmly to oui Leader Our spirits must be inflamet by burning devotion that filings al
 minor considerations to the four wind. and dares all for the cause at stake
 Behold the great veteran Paul endur. ing all kinds of sufferIngs and priva tions-what is the seeret7 He puts | in brief succinct sentence. The lov, 1, of Christ constraineth" And of thi
 devotion to Christ was born tha
 bravery that profane and sacred his
 tory have since failed 10 repeat. st was the battlefield. The first heroe
 we know anything of were the valiar
 men who made ventures for the pro
 tection of the altar and the hearth Familiarity with Hebrew lore will con ! vince you that they lauded to thu
 sky the braves who performed exploit
 in defence of their sacred interests
 The poets and orators of Greece untir ingly extolled the valor of the 300 wh, , at Thermopylae rolled back the tide O
 devastating eastern tyranny. Liste, to the Tyres of Roman minstrels A , they meet the soul stirring notes O
 Regulus heroism, who when sen , home by his Carthaginian captors t i, negotiate an "entent cordialer fo them with his fellow countrymen. ad , vised the senate to prosecute the wa 2 even more vigorously; and when hi
 council had obtained went back {
 Carthage to honor his parole in tn :. full knowledge that 1t meant for hIr exposure to the torrld Meridian SUI |, with his eye-lids cut off and ineS pressihle torture by scropious and sets
 flies. after which he was to be rolle
 down a steep Incline In a barrel flu
 of spikes.
 '. In these later though no less classi P times modern nations have also sun
 of their courageous sons-England C
 her Wellington and Nelson, Scotlan :. of her Bruce and Wallace, Switze, :, land her Tell and Wnkdreid an . America, where this primitive sent n ment has found superlatlve expres ', sion, of her Washington and Hobso = with 1000 equally illustrlous name =.