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Lay Your (lift on the Altar and
Then Your Hands 0(1.
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Turn your back on the offering.
Look up to heaven for strength if
need be, think of the weather, or
the damage the children are doing
while you are worshiping or sac
rificing, anything so that you do
not hanker 10 have the gifi back.
1 he most beautiful of altar offer
ings, the innst cosily of gilts, the
most precious in the fragrance ol
prayer and incense have been
damaged, cheapened and more
than wasted through a greedy lov
ing and an uneasy desire to look
over again, to finger and fondle
and admire the gift. Turn your
back quickly and forget il. Keep
eyes, lianas and thoughts on some
thing else.
There have been godly moth
ers who have yielded son or daugh
ter to the keeping of someone else,
they have trod on air as one thai
overcometh and maketh great sac
rifice. But later they cannot keep
iheir hands off, and that is where
ihe trouble lies. Some have yield
ed up great interests in life as a
sacrificial gift, but alas, cannot
keep off ihe hands and the last es
tate is worse than the first.
It is much the same when favor
is shown to others. An other
wise sincere gratitude is frequently
turned to hatred because of ihe
later meddling. With your hands
in a fidget and your thoughts ever
following the offering, ihere is a
cheapening and debasement. Alas,
that there should be so many good
ly gifts laid on the altar of service
end with the purest intentions and
yet degraded and become as a
stench to the nostrils all because
the unwise one failed to keep
hands and thoughts off.
There is the helping hand to
ihe distressed, the helping hand to
the impoverished, the open door
and willing heart. You imagined
that you had considered the under
laking well when you advanced to
ward the altar with your priceless
gift of personal denial in behalf of
the homeless who must perchance
ever sit hereafter by your fireside.
You imagined you were equal to
the burden and had weighed well
the expense and sacrifice- In your
zeal and enthusiasm perhaps you
cried out, "Behold my gift to the
cause of humanity."
But you lingered. You admired.
You looked at yourself in the glass,
as ii were, and smiled with an air
of superiority. In other words,
you played with the offering, you
gossiped, you discussed its merits,
and soon thai which should have
been holy and of goodly savor, be
came a nesting place for hornets
and your reward only the stings
and stabs of poisonous insecis.
Lay your gift on the altar, then
quickly turn your back and keeps
hands off. There is too much
giving and remembering, too much
showing favor and keeping record,
loo much sacrifice and sneaking
back io steal the gift. Turn your
back, hands off !
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The squire's son, just ordained,
had finished the morning service,
returned to the vestry, having ac
complished the service to his own
satisfaction.
"I think I got through without
a mistake, John," he remarked to
the old clerk, who was helping him
off with his surplice.
"It was first-rate, Master Dick,"
said the old man with enthusiasm;
"I don'i know as I ever heard it bel
ter. After a pause.he added. "But
the old parson, he never gives us
the evening service in the morn
ing. " CamtdianCennjr
A SCIENTIFIC THEORY.
"Now they claim that the hu
man body contains sulphur."
"In what amount?"
"Oh, in varying quantities."
"Well thai may account for some
girls making betier matches ihan
others. "
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A SONG IN THE NIGHT.
A weird, sweet gloom, the perfumed Southern night,
Envelop hill and vale,
While far away, upon a sea of light,
Star-craft in wonder sail.
Along the hedgerow crimson poppies blaze
Into red passion's fire,
The primrose lifts its cup in purple haze
Filled with ihe night's desire.
So tense ihe silence, so profound its peace,
Thai where the zephyrs went
Their noiseless feet the tangled vines release
In loving wonderment.
A clump of myrtles bloomed along the hill,
One strange bouquet of while,
These, with the moon and starlight, seemed to fill
The mystery of night.
0 night of silence, slumber of ihe soul
Of eager, restless day,
1 marvel not yon bird could not withhold
lis tove-impasiioned lay.
Somehow the slender bands of sleep
Untangled as I heard
Faint echoes through my window creep
Of singing mocking bird.
I leaned without the casement far
To hear each love-speni note:
Then some one left the gates ajar
Through which old mem'ries float.
The years slipped back to other days,
Each bar of song was twined about
With one lost face, within whose gaze
Old dreams and hopes went out.
The years slipped back I knew not how,
I only knew I heard a song;
Then thought of some one's spoken vow
And knew that love is strong.
I wondered not that tears should fall;
Who would not sadly weep as I
Should some one from the hedgerow call
Who long has dwelt on high.
CETHSEJANE.
In golden youth when seems the earth
A summer land of singing mirth,
When souls are glad and hearts are light,
And not a shadow lurks in sight,
We do not know it, but there lies
Somewhere veiled under evening skies
A garden which we all must see
The garden of Gethsemane.
With joyous steps we go our ways,
Love lends a halo to our days;
Light sorrows sail like clouds afar,
We laugh, and say how we are;
We hurry on; and hurrying, go
Close 10 the borderland of woe,
Thai waits for you, and waits for me
Forever waits Gethsemane.
Down shadowy lanes, across strange streams,
Bridged over bv our broken dreams;
Behind ihe misty caps of years,
Beyond the great salt fount of tears,
The garden lies. Strive as you may,
You can not miss it in your way.
All paths that have been, or shall be,
Pass somewhere through Gethsemane.
All those who journey, soon or laic.
Must pass within the garden's gate;
Must kneel alone in darkness there,
And battle with some fierce despair.
God pity those who can not say,
"Not mine but Thine," who only pray,
"Let this cup pass" and cannot see
The purpose in Gethsemane.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
DEATH IS LIFE.
How Much Happier We Would
Be l( We Could Look On Death
In That Light.
Familiarize your mind with the
inevitable event of death. Think
of it as life ! Gloomy though the
portal seems, death is the gate of
life to a good and pious man.
Think of it, therefore, not as
death, but as glory going 10
heaven and 10 your Father. Re
gard it in the same light as the
good man who said, when 1 ex
pressed my sorrow to see him
sinking into the grave, "I am going
home." If you think of it as death,
then let it be the death of sin, the
death of pain, the death of fear,
the death of care, ihe death of
Death. Regard its pangs and strug
gles as the battle that 'goes before
victory; its troubles as the swell of
the sea on heaven's happy shore;
and yon gloomy passage as the cy
press shaded avenue that shall con
duct your sieps to heaven. It is
life through Christ and life in
Christ; life most blissful, and life
evermore.
How much happier and holier
we should be if we could look on
death in that light. I have heard
people say thai we should think
each morning that we may be dead
before night, and each night thai
we may be dead before morning.
True; yet how much better to think
every morning, I may be in the
heavenly city before night; and
every single night that the head is
laid on ihe pillow, and the eyes are
closed for sleep, to think, next
time I open them it may be to look
on Jesus, and the land where
there is no night, nor morning;
nor sunset, nor cloud; nor grave,
nor grief; nor sin; nor death, nor
sorrow; nor toil, nor trouble;
where "they rest from their labors,
and their works do follow them."
Dr. Guthrie.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE."
Society Must Quit Its Feverish
Race for Display and Qo to the
Land, Do Scientific Farming
and Live the Simple Lite.
Talk not of your charitable acts,
but let them speak for themselves.
Many a man saves money only
to lose it by sending it to some
man who didn't save any.
And it's easier for a woman to
trust her husband than it is to find
a grocer willing to do it.
A woman never slops to consid
er how very uninteresiing her chil
dren would be if they were some
other woman's. Chicago Inter
Ocean. VERY PROBABLE.
"1 hear that Bilter's daughter
eloped with his chauffeur,"
Yes; and Bilter wired his for
giveness." "What did lie do that for?"
"He said he thought now
there might be a chance for
him to use his car." Chicago
News.
CRUELTY OF LOVE.
A New England sentimental
ist couldn't marry the girl he
loved, so stayed in bed 40 years.
The old, old story. Just trying
to lay down his life for her.
DAILY THOUGHT.
A strenuous soul hates cheap
successes. It is the ardor of
the assailant that makes the
vigor of the defender. R. W
Emerson.
In his new book, "Keeping
l'p With Lizzie," Irving liarh
ellcr has put his finger on the
national weakness, which in a
word is
Extravagance.
lie tells tho story of the young
girl who comes homo from a
fashionable boarding school
and by her extravagant ways
runs not only her only family,
but a lot of tho neighbors.
Lizzie must have this and
that furnishings, service, ser
vants, dress all on a scale of
lavishness hitherto unknown.
In order to "keep up with Liz
zie" tho neighbor girls must
have as much, and the commu
nity is almost bankrupt.
Keeping up with Lizzie !
That is tho bane of the well
to do people of our day. Each
one vies with his neighbor in
prodigality of expenditure, and
the merry race while it lasts is
to the swift.
Keeping up with Lizzie.
Lizzie's folks buy an automo
bile, and the children and often
the wife say to the struggling
head of the family, "Why, if
Lizzie's folks can have an auto
I don't see why we can't have
one."
And mortgages are filed on
homes and money is borrowed
and capital is absorbed in the
purchase and costly mainte
nance of the machines. Mr.
Bacheller says the automobile
craze is
"The joyful death march of
a race."
Of course no part of this pro
fuse spending of money is in
dulged in by the toiling mil
lions, who can never hope to
afford expensive follies. They
cannot, if they would, attempt
the feat of
Keeping up with Lizzie.
But with us all what the
neighbors do and what the
neighbors spend have altogeth
er too much effect upon what
we do and spend.
It is interesting to note what
Mr. Bacheller believes to bo the
way out of our maze of extrav
agance, ne nntis tnat tne pro
fessions are literally crowded
to the death. Business is over
done. What then?
"Back to the land."
Society must quit its feverish
race for display supremacy, and
more people must go to the land
do scientific farming and live
the simple life.
Will they g"?
'It is bound to be by the great
law of must,',' says Mr. Bach
eller. If so, if our era of wasteful
expenditure must give way to
the producing instPad of the
consuming of wealth then the
"keeping up with Lizzie" epoch
may not have been in vain.
TENDERNESS.
"I am all right now,
thanks to Dr. Miles'
Heart Remedy."
The same relief is ready for you.
Are you sure you do not need it?
If Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy helped
Charles Holmes, why won't it help
you?
"1 wa:; trouble J with heart disease,
and alter reading about fJr. Miles'
I leart Remedy, 1 got a boille. He
lore 1 got the Heart Remedy 1 had
to hit up mot of the niht, and (elt
very bad at my Ktomach. Whatever
1 would eat made me feel worse, and
my heart beat very fa&t. But thanks
to Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy, 1 am
all right now. 1 eat good, sleep
good, and feel like a new mm, al
though I am ahno&t 63 years old. I
have been a soldier in the late war
of the rebellion, and was badly
wounded." CI1ARLKS HOLMES,
Private Co. B, 5.1th N. V. Infantry
Volunteers, Walton, Delaware Co,
N.V.
Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy
is kept in thousands of homes as a
friend always to be relied upon in
time of need.
Sold by all Druggists If th tint
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MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind.
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To many, winter is a season of trouble.
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gists.
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spectacle that is grander than
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of the soul. Hugo.
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DIFFERENT.
There are men who wait pa
tiently for the free lunch to be
served and then go home and
start a rough house because
dinner isn't ready on time.
Atchison Globe.
The choicest thing this
has for a man is affection.
world
If a married man gets in bad,
his wife always blames some other
woman for it publicly, but privately
she reads the riot act to him.
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kl.4. Tmi-&n ctiu . battle.
Tenderness does not mean
weakness, softness, effeminate
ness. It is consistent with
strength, manliness, truth and
bravery. It does not show it
self alone in the touch, hut in
unselfishness, thoughtfulness,
considerateness, forbearance,
patience, long-suffering. But,
however, it shows itself, it is
as the blooms on tho peach, as
spring showers on the earth, as
die music of the angels steal
ing down on the plains of Beth
lehem. You may have much
of this weultli to distribute, but
you may give something better
and spend a useful and benefi
cial life if you will practice this
lesson of shedding around you
the grace of human tenderness,
in word and act, and by the
spirit of your life. F. P. Mayer.
IF JUSTICE WERE DONE.
Man "Who is the responsi
ble person in this firm?"
Office Boy "I'm the one who
gets all the blame."
A man might be crazy to go to
church, too, if he was more inter
ested in hats.
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