"°s am. Hed Cross Work 9 anb Thursday, Jan. 25—Red Cross Work at 12:9 Bubbling Well Road 9 to noon.
A. T. S. Chief Controller elon Gwynne-Vaughn, seen at is, as The Sports Section are holding a Badminton Tournament on Monday, February 5, at 2: p.m. sharp. Entrance fee $1, not including tea. Entries must Be in.by February 2.
Members of the Home Nursing and First Aid Classes are asked to make note of the following:—There will only be one First Aid Class and this will be on Thursday afternoons at the Cathedral School for Girls starting February 25 at 6 pr. All those who have been attending the Home Nursing Classes should attend this class.
"The Home Nursing Classes witl take place at the Lester Chinese Hospital on Tuesday at 6 pin. and Thursday at 515 pin. Commencing Thursday, January 25. There are a few vacancies in these Classes and applications should be made to the Secretary.
"The Home and Garden Section will hold their next meeting at the home of Miss Young Allen, 147/101 Hungjao Road on Friday, January 26, at get this very vali An American War Poet Help From Lowell's Lines Those who want poetry to read in wartime might well do worse than take down Lowell from their shelves and turn to the Biglow papers. They will find there food for every temperament, for Lowell was as certain that the Mexican war was "a national crime committed in behoot of Slavery" as he was that the North was right to resist secession.
Accordingly, in the first series, pacifists will find abundant material, especially in the poem, "What Mr. Robinson Thinks," with its famous Tine: "We kind o' thought Christ went again war an' pillage, or the more definite declaration:
"Ez for war, I call it murder—There you hey it plain and flat; I don't want to go no turder Than my Testyment for that."
But 14 years later, when the cause of freedom seemed to him to be at stake, you find the same record how Last the Nation, at a word, When. T erempblin freedom. cried to shield her, Flamed welding' into one keen sword, Waitin" and longing' for a wielder.
It was by such action, based on a faith in God, and a God to whom Freedom was dear, that he hoped to see the day dawn when lo to pole, proclamation, It was because England seemed to him to lack sympathy with Freedom's cause that he was temporarily estranged from her: it is interesting today to read the words in which he appeals for our support:
We know we've got a cause, John, "hats honest, just, an true: We thought would win applause, John, Of nowheres else, from you It is pleasant to remember that his hope was justified in the end.
There is much in the Biglow papers which hás permanent value, such the portrait of the statesman whose motto is
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