e State of mob rule, the
necessity for stern measures to prevent the recurrence of such
disorders. He suggested a special citizens' committee for the
preservation of public order.

His words appeared to meet the approval of a large number of those
present, especially of the younger men.

While he was speaking, the audience appeared to be greatly relieved to
see Dr. Templeton and the Reverend Murdo Matheson walk in and quietly
take their seats. They remembered, many of them, how at a recent similar
gathering these gentlemen had advised a procedure which, if followed,
would have undoubtedly prevented the disasters of the previous night.

Giving a brief account of the proceedings of the meeting to the present
point, the Mayor suggested that Dr. Templeton might offer them a word of
advice.

Courteously thanking the Mayor for his invitation, the Doctor said:

"As I came in this room, I caught the words of my young friend, who
suggested a committee for the preservation of public order. May I
suggested that the preservation of public order in the community is
something that can be entrusted to no committee? It rests with the whole
community. We have all made mistakes, we are constantly making mistakes.
We have yielded to passion, and always to our sorrow and hurt. We have
vainly imagined that by the exercise of force we can settle strife.
No question of right or justice is settled by fighting, for, after the
fighting is done, the matter in dispute remains to be settled. We have
tried that way and to-day we are fronted with disastrous failure. I
have come from a home over which the shadow of death hangs low. There a
father and mother lie prostrate with sorrow, agonising for the life of
their child. But a deeper shadow lies there, a shadow of sin, for the
sting of death is sin. A brother torn with self-condemnation, his heart
broken with grief for his sister, who loved him better than her own
life, lies under that shadow of sin. But, gentlemen, can any of us
escape from that shadow? Do we not all share in that sin? For we all
have a part in the determining of our environment. Can we not, by God's
grace, lift that shadow at least from our lives? Let us turn our faces
from the path of strife toward the path of peace, for the pathway of
right doing and of brotherly kindness is the only path to peace in this
world."

The Chairman then called upon the Reverend Murdo Matheson to express
his mind. But at this point, the whole au