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1$ w - 9 A. EiUBUSHEirm 1373. LITTLE MiSS SNOW, SPINSTER. J,ii!;e Ms Shoav is on the trot from end to end of the village street.. Wliou'vev you open the blind you meet li.v :-;;n:iy face and her .smile so sweet, i wonder if she is here to stay, To visit the tick and poor alway? A l.iwded Ms dangles down beside Tin' trim I it tie figure trotting along. uw.kr if it's unwise or wrong, To :;sk did she ever hear lover s song? ! r'iMPd but then it was lone nw ' l or row s Snow, ne is just our little Miss lfjy d "" r is open to her, s!.,- with her step, so short and quick, Sht wi h her shoes tliat. cliekety-cliek .Vyw the walk for the poor and sick, ."-. o v.'.ih her way so soft and mild, Ni.fung the rovn folk and the child. Ui'iiv'i- her little gray cloak is hid A ;h(.tI that's fender and good and true: I iftor the peak of her hood of blue .A pair of clear eyes look out at vou. And she sxraies when passingwhenever vou find Her face when you look beyond the blind. The t.i; of her fingers i soft and low When she comes to the door where -sick folks are. She never brings bother, or fret, or jar Nothing to hurt and nothing to mar Only quiet, comfort, release From brooding pain and her medi cine's peace. 31 uiy a day and many a year Our of the shadow she comes to delight, Out oi her cot that is cosy and white. ' Onf of her gate in the dead of the night, Out of her garden of roses to bring' A niile to drive away sorrow and sling. TJ: tie "Miss now, our spinster sweet T' ndvr and good and true and great! ( i-en her door and wide her gate, F-.vr on hand, early or late. You scatter sunshine wherever you go, lY;tr little spinster, little Miss Snow! e Seymour Keller, in the New I THE ADVENTURES OF A YELLOW SAMARITAN Just a Hlongrel Dog;, But He Sympa thised Willi the Puppy. I I p:E was a fat.. round, irrcspon- j sibIe fox terrier pup. Both f"k Ilis -short ears arid hi M fobbed rail wore carried at au impertinent angle, and v'Tid every few minutes in his .:'i;ni!tv down North avenue to suvnge- iy V,n;;y a ylt () Vj,ste papei. or other u.-'svfjisi debris in the gutter. 'f plain that he had run away h-oiu home. He bail all the devil-mav-" air of a small boy on his first ruii-iiv.-ay escapade. A khidly faeed wom an, standing on her doorstep, tried to 'ui!o him into the house, where she -uid read the name on ids collar and M'Dd word to his niaster. She loved :".'4s herself and knew what it meant to have the family pet lost in a great ei . Uv.t the fox terrier pup was not to he ht guilod by soft words or even by ,n'cr of a- Pierre of cake. He had his breakfast only half an Lour I'ioi-e and was in no mood for further lufiKS- Instead of wagging his tail ;::'d inairing friends with the kind lady, :is pwite little dog should have done, h" hacked off to the edge of the curl), J'ifdo an awful face and barked in a sftney and ridiculous way. Then l'tsentJy he ran on down the street, ""'''rise little tike will b crying for puppy this morning,"' said the Jv"!iian to her husband as she went h.u k i:,to the house. H-di" a block further down-the puppy !; something which sounded like "a Jjumble bee buzzing away up the s,i"' 'v- Now the puppy had been born ''n; hrotiffht up in the country, and 'is Vlis his first experience of city life. Timbered that it was giVat fun " ' -rk at and chase bumble pees, so i -;ded to run out and sc-n-fAbi uw 01" thot was coming down the street .V, f;,t 'i; the puppy ran and sat down rteht 1, 1 ccn the rails fsipin ,!hy car. The motorman was kind ';,:,rt;-l enough, but he had to run at a l'in rate of speed or lose his job, 'JI(i- besides, it is a common trick for '" to sit in front of a trolley car un u ',cts within a few yards and then ' JJup out of the way. So he did not ';'i the current, simply ringing his tv.,r'cs 10 siavo tlie IPP.Y off the 'J',:n Pnppy dropped his tail and his !!s- nnd his bark of defiance gave way 10 !l Pitiful Vein Of fpfll- TTr etnp0l1 u t(jr his nt-c and if be had not 1)een a foolish little puppy he would h ve Parted in plenty of time. But I' 'aa of jumping over the rail's to a -"' of quick ntl1 ontv enfotr J--htoncd pup ran straight down the "-fore the onrushiriff car. motorman threw on his brakes Z 1 1,0(1 hi best to stop the car, but it , " 110 se. First the end of the pro- .1 (Ul!g ffTldpT ISX4-1 at Knocked him down. The fender 1 ''I , over hira- and he might have es- PC-, uninjured had he not tried hard ion and scramble out between the on-. and hind wheels of the car. as it was, one of the hind wheels iiirr ?Vf him and left hIm 'fatally in- Tl Ti n mS at one side o the track 10 lro5ey. car sped ou down the street, he state?? fGl 1110 whGel sMke h he staued to yelp in agony. Now his shnll agonized voice, whining, yein howling might have been heard ?5 n n"'f,. GU and Cbildren cam rn n ng from near-by houses. The wail of the pup might have been that of a 'child so nearly human was it. The women and men stood in two thick rows on either side of the street and looked on sympathetically.. ' "Here, Bill," said the druggist on the corner, addressing a friend, "take my revolver and go out and kill the poor little brute." "Kill him yourself? answered Bill. "Aw, I never could kill nothing," said the druggist. "It's a shame some of you men don't put the poor little dog out of its mis ery," said a woman in the crowd. "I'm going to call the police. You're a lot of cowards!" "Now, if I had seme chloroform," be gan a man with gray side whiskers. ' ,"Go on!" broke in another ireverent ly. "You're afraid to get within twen ty feet of him." Altogether there were more than a hundred people in the crowd, and they stood there and talked while the poor little pup howled in his agony. But even before the people the dogs had gathered. They came running from every direction at the first sound of the fox terrier's yelp. No one would have dreamed that there were so many dogs within a mile of that place. All sorts and conditions of dogs huge, shaggy St. Bernards, lean, savage look ing great Danes, bulldogs, daschhunds, toy terriers, setters, curs big and little dogs, well bred and vulgar dogs. Now it was to be expected, perhaps, that men and women fn such an emer gency should play the part of cowards and stand aloof to watch 'the suffering of the pup. But the assembled dogs did the same thing which was surpris ing. The dogs stood in the gutters on both sddes of the street, sniffing the blood tainted air and now and then giv ing vent to a little excited bark or whine. A fox terrier and a great Dane, indeed, left the line on one side and ad vanced to within six feet of the fox ter rier pup. But there they stood, seem ingly afraid to go a step nearer. Some strange influence seemed to hold men and dogs alike spellbound. And still the pup, writhing beside the car tracks howled in agony. Ilunning fast down the side street on three sound legs came a gaunt, yellow dog. It was mangy and flea bitten. It had sore eyes. One of its front feet had been mashed by some heavy weight. It held that foofc high from the ground and still made rapid pro gress. It was an utterly disreputable, friendless, homeless cur. First, it pushed its way -through the crowd of men and women. It made its way the more rapidly because people did not like to be touched by the dirty brute. The line of dogs gave way also. "With its tail between its thin hind legs the cringing cur went straight out to where, its little brother lay in his death agony. It crouched beside him in the mud and licked its nose with -its tongue, all the while whining in heartbroken sympathy. Two worsen in the crowd started to cry at the sight. Almost everybody felt something harden in his throat. "Here," Bill called to the druggist, "give me that gun. There are some things a feller can't stand." Bill went out into the street, took careful aim and pulled the trigger. The little fox terrier straightened out stiffly into the merciful oblivion of death. At the sound of the shot the yellow cur, which had been the first and only thing to r-ome to the relief of its stricken comrade, became in an instant again a hunted, terrified vagabond. It ran down the street as fast as fear and three legs would carry it. Behind it a fat. pampered, utterly useless Japanese spaniel the pet, per haps, of an equally pampered and use less mistress gave a shrill yelp. Then all the other dogs joined in. Away fled the yellow Samaritan with more than fifty barking furies "behind it. Alas, the dogs are. after all, so much like men! Chicago Tribune. CJueer Purchases. If John D. llockefeller buys Popo catepetl, the Mexican, volcano, as it is reported he maj, it will be only one of many remarkable purchases recorded in history. Popocatepetl itself, which is 1G?300 feet high, and is famed throughout the world for its sulphur bearing crater, was once put up at auc tion. It is now the property of a gen eral in the Mexican army. He offers it f or sale at $5,000,000. About three years ago the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrecce, were offered for sale in a London auc tion room, but no amount of commen dation of them by the glib auctioneer succeeded in drawing a bid. It is said that you usually pick up a town cheap in any of the large auc tion rooms in Kussia, for in that coun try such towns as get into financial dif ficulties are at once sold to liquidate their debts. Only two years ago the town of Verditchew, which has 4000 inhabitants, was sold at auction be cause it ran into debt with the Gov ernment. Cleveland Leader. In England ninety towns own their own gas works, the average' net income being $1,047,125 per annum. t HILLSBORQ, N. p., THURSDAFE BRTT A p v TiohT - THE KINDLY SMILE The kindly smile is the quiet, 'digni fied one, .which girls would do weir to cultivate. It has a charm all its own. One always feels drawn toward a girl who possesses such a smile. Its at tractiveness lies in its refinement and kindliness. The whole face seems to light up at once in a sincere, womanly manner, which, while quiet, is dis tinctly encouraging, and therefore pleasing to the eye and mind. THE VOCATION OF THE WIFE. Is'ow the occupation of being a wife, including presumptively, as it does, the occupation of being a mother, is one of extremely comprehensive scope. Some women who seem not to have had very much education do very well at it, and some women who have been profusely educated make pretty bad work of it, says Harper's Bazar. It is a calling in which health goes for more than ac complishments, that phase of wisdom which we call "gumption" for more man learning, instinct for much, and character for most of all. But you can not overeducate a girl for the occupa tion of being a wife. You may keep, her too long at her books and out of what we call "so ciety;" you may teach her to value un duly things of minor importance; you may misdirect and miseducate her in various ways, but you 'can't educate her to think so wisely on so many sub jects that she will be above that busi ness. Nobody is really so superior as to be too good to marry. Plenty of women are too good to marry this or that or the other individual man; too many women, perhaps, in these days, are ed ucated beyond the point of being satis fied with any man who is likely to want to, marry them, but the woman who seems "too good for human na ture's daily food" hasn't been overeuu ca ted. . The trouble with her is that she doesn't know enough. She is not over developed, but stunted. Education is the developments ability, and a wife and, oven more, a mother can't have her abilities too much developed. Her place is a seat of power, and all the knowledge that she can command will find a field for its employment. GOOD ADVICE FOB A WIFE. Nothing is more unfortunate or more detrimental to her happiness and peace of mind than for a young and inexper ienced woman to start married life with the firm conviction that she is going to manage everything connected with her new home including her hus bandaccording to her own special ideas. It is generally such women who are conceited enough to think that they are quite competent to train up a husband in tho way he should go, and it comes as a great shock to them when they find that he prefers to go in quite a contrary direction. A woman who starts out on her mat rimonial career with the idea of man aging her husband will, in nine casas out of ten, coma to the conclusion in less than six months that marriage, as vell as her idea, is a failure. A man will be master of . his own home, and the woman who is truly mistress oher household never fails to set her husband upon a pedestal, and to insist that all in the house shall honor him as lord and master. There are many women who think it is right that they should resent the most tri fling infringement of what they con sider is due to them' from their hus bands, and will say or do the most ex travagant things in order to assert themselves, as they think. As a mat ter of fact, they only succeed in mak ing themselves look ridiculous, and will often cause a husband to resolve that if his wife will not try to harmonize her wishes with his own, matters shall be carried out in the manner he thinks fit. Don't stand on your dignity with your husband, and insist on "setting forth what you consider your rights. Deference to a husband is the dcop of oil which keeps the wheels of domestic life running smoothly. Make up your mind that you will be patient, and prac tice the art of forbearance as much as possible during the first two or three years "of married life, while you are getting used to eaeh other. That is the critical period of married life, and if it passed in safety it is generally fairly plain sailing afterward. New York Journal. DRAWING ROOMS. . How different is the drawing room now from that of a generation ago even of half a generation! v Writers in the women's newspapers in England are commenting on the fact with keen appreciation of the change, and in this t I 1 country it is even more in evidence than across the sea. The wax fruits, the woolen antima cassars of the last generation passed away with the stuffed birds and the wealth of artificial orange blossoms under glass cases long ago. The pres ent generation has almost forgotten them. ! It does remember betterthe chenille jmonkeys that used to climb over the gas fixtures on the Walls, N the vards jupon yards of art muslin that used ta Jbe turned over chairs and flower pots, and the sofas that came in when the horsehair period expired And it re grets them and the array of Japanese plates on the wall even less. . That period of eccentricity in decor ation has passed. "The modern drawing room," said a man interested in the development of domestic art the other day, "is, under proper auspices, now a picture of re fined simplicity, an epitome of art and a real haven of rest. -."The furnishers and decorators have combined with housewives of more de veloped tastes and better ideas than their predecessors to make it so. They have borrowed from the past all the best ideas it had,-and they have added them to the conveniences of the pres ent. "Take the taste in wall coverings. Crudely colored, gaudy papers, display ing impossible flowers and grotesque semi-conventional designs, have been abandoned in favor of self-colored papers, striped oues showing variants of one color, silken hangings, tapes tries and stenciled sackcloth arranged in panels after the old method. "Then the carpets. Where beautiful rugs, the highest development of the weaver's art. have not replaced tbeni, we have velvet pile, with a border re pea ting the main color in many tones. "Arid for chair coverings we have kept the Old World chintz, redolent of an age when women wore white, lav ender or cinnamon, pale blue and sim ple pink, and dressed their hair in ringlets. "And never has there been a day in which cultivated women have been more keenly alive to the beauty of good wood than they are now. They collect satinwood, walnut, oak and mahogany, and will not suffer an inch, of table cloth to hide .the exquisite sheen of their favorite pieces of furniture. "Taking the drawing room as indi cating the artistic sense o the period, surely we have every reason to be proud of the progress of art in the home." Boston Post. ' ovdoiV Benzoin should be used sparingly on the complexion. Used too freely it" will cause the outer cuticle to fluff a Way in tiny particles, and then the surface be comes rough. A pleasant mouth wash is made by combining one lablespoonful of pure borax, one pint of distilled water, one ounce of liquid myrrh and five drops of thymol. Put one tablespoonful in a glass of water and use three times a day. For enlarged pores, after washing the face with" warm water and drying it, massage with the well-beaten white of an egg, to which one-half dram of powdered alum and one-quarter dram of rose water have been added. Put this on at night, rubbing it well into the flesh. In the morning wash off. Moth patches are almost invariably the result of liver or kidney trouble. The victim of these unsightly blem ishes should eat plenty of apples and oranges and should drink quantities of buttermilk: An ointment to be applied every night is:7One ounce of beuzoint ed lard, one ounce of Avhite precipitate, one ounce of subnitrate of bismuth. Combinations of the water blues and greens are happy, but it is useless to attempt description of the colorings. There are innumerable new silks. One called the Sappho, having about the quality of soft taffeta, but a satiny finish and coming only in plain colors, is a decided favorite. x Ermine tails dangling from lace or passementerie ornaments are a trim ming detail often tised, and fur cabo chons or huge buttons are another nov elty used in connection with passemen terie cords, etc. , Among the fancy varieties are chif fon and panne velvets whose warp is printed in Pompadour boquets or flow er garlands, the coloring of the flowers being softly blurred py the pile, which is preferably in white. Reception gowns, t which used to be invisibly closed by hooks and eyes, now often show a line f buttons, provided these are handsome enough to look well with the material used for a gown ! to be? worn by Artificial light. Among heavier silks a rich armure weave makes strong claim for favor. A rich gros grain almost as pliable as fine cloth is used for whole costumes, and particularly satisfactory in separ ate blouses. New bengaliues With heavy cord are to the fore, NEW SERIES - - a . ' A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED " VITAL UNION WITH CHRIST." Tlie llev. C. I. Case, Pli, ., Tells How the Son of God Within Us Becomes tlie Source of Divine Companionship, and of rower For Achievement.. ' Beooklts, 2f . Y The Eev. CD. Case,. Ph. D.r pastor of the First Baptist Church, Monteiair KV J., recently preached the iollowmg brilliant sermon,, which he en titled " Vrital Union .With Christ."' The text was chosen from Galatians ii:20: "I am crucified with. Christ and I no longer live,, but Christ liveth: in me,, and he life which i now live 1 live by faith in the teon oi O-oa who loved me and gave Ilixn seh to die for me.:'' Dr. Case said: vkV"11 conception of the Christian lite wmen. this generation seems to have accepted is to be found in the words,. "Fol low Me " as uttered by Christ.. It is thoroughly Biblical. Jesus- sava to Philip at the beginning of His ministry, "Follow Me;' lie tells the four on the sands of Galilee, ' Come ye after Me;,? He com mands the taxgatherer in his ofiice, "Fol low Me;." He presents the same standard to the rich young man who loved his money better than life, "Follow Me." Now the resurrection has passed and what shall he the new conception for the discips of the new life?. It is still the same, and Christ proclaims to tne same disciples at the same place on Galilee,. "Follow thou Me. The grand and infinitely simple way of looking at the Christian life had been lost. He was the true Christian who believed what the church told him and accepted its appointed means of grace'.. But now after these centuries Christendom has re covered this idea and made it .the very cen tre and core of the Christian life. Mr. Henry Richards, on the Congo,, reads to the natives the words of Christ. "Give to him that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them, not again,, and then proceeds to practice them, with the result that the natives first beg and then return, and then ask for the way of life.. Mr.. W. T- Stead, while in his London jail, wonders what he shall write to the girl whom he has suc ceeded m placing in a Christian home, and at last,, by a flash of insight, writes her, "Be a Christ." Charles M. Sheldon pre sents as the ideal of every life, to act as Christ would act if He. were here. in. our place.. ' v What is the trouble with this 4 concep tion? This, that it represents the statics hut not the dynamics of the Christian life.. It tells us what to be like,, but does not tell us how we shall become like our ideal. Kant thought that the same man who . of deliberate choice accepted evil could with the same deliberate choice and by simple will accept good when he saw it.. "This is a fine philosophy but a poor religion; It does not explain Gough, McAuley,. Hadley. It gives us the ideaL. but not the power to embody the ideal. Listento this statement and see if you can find a better one to express this idea oi following Christ r "Behgion cannot he- said to- have made a bad choice- in pitching upon this man as the ideal repre sentative and guide of humanity; nor even now would it be easy even, for an unbe liever to find a better translation of the rule -of virtue from the abstract into the concrete than to endeavor so to live that Christ could approve of our life," And yet it was no less a person than J..S. Mill,, an unbeliever.' who -wrote this.. Tile text of the morning, presents the Heeded complementary conception. He who is presented as an objective ideal be comes a subjective presence and power. He who said, "As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even sa have I sent them into the world," says with the "Go," the "Lo,. I am with you all the days." The Bible represents this union in dif ferent ways. Now it is that of the 'foun dation and the superstructure signifying support; now the body and head,, meaning direction: now of the husband and wife, representing union; now of the vine and branch, signifying- the communication of life; and finally, mo?t tenderly and mys teriously, of the relation between the Father. and Son.. In whatever way it is spoken of it is evidently an essential phase of the Christian life. . Dr.- A. J. Gordon once saw what he called a parable of nature up in a part of New England where 'he spent his sum mer holidays. It was an example of nat ural grafting. Two little saplings grew up side by side. Through the action of the wind the bark of eaeh became .wound ed, the sap began to- mingle and at last on a still day they Avere firmly compacted. Then the stronger began to- absorb the life of the weaker. It grew larger and larger while the other .grew smaller and smaller; then began to wither and decline till finally it dropped away and disappeared. Now. there are two trunks at the bottom and only- one at the top. Death has taken away the one; life has triumphed in the other. The illustration thus given by Dr. Gordon only fails in not giving sufficient importance-to the words 1 live of the text. The religious life is not self-iromola- cion, out sen-reanzationj it is not absorp tion, but amplification. Without thinking for the present of the unvarying condition , of this life, "cruci fixion with Christ," or the motive of such living, "Christ loved us and died for us." or the means of such living, "faith in the cjon oi- Vroa, let us tninic more at lengtn of the single sublime thought, our union with' Christ and its bearings upon the dif ferent phases of the Christian life. This we must for the present emphasize if we are to have a pure evangelical Christianity which shall move the world. First, note that Christ within us is the source of true divine companionship. The appearance of Christ after the res urrection had two definite purposes. The first was to convince the disciples that Christ was truly alive, or, in other words, to connect the pat Christ with the pres ent Christ. The angels, had assured them that Jesus would go into Galilee there to meet them. As sooii as faith had ac cepted these words of both Christ and the angels the disciples would leave Jerusa lem: but this did not take place until after a week. The second definite object of Christ's appearances was to teach the disciples the spiritual nature of the kingdom, or, in other words, to connect the present Christ tvith the future Christ. Among such teachings are the words, "Follow Me," spoken to the seven in Galilee: the prom ise to all, "Lo, 1 am Avith you all the days," and the command that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but "wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, ye have heard of Me." . A glance back into the fourteenth chapter of John shows what this promise Avas. The sixteenth verse says: "I ivill pray the Father and He shall give you another comforter, that He, may: abide Avith j7ou forever." But of Avhose presence is the Spirit the embodi ment? The eighteenth verse says: "I will aot leave you comfortless; I will come to you." Then the twentieth assures the disciples: ."At that day ye shall know.j VOL. XXIII. NO. U. . finnn nFatr' ?.nd Me and 1 m you. Inus Christ's objective com- shin011 beeoffies a subjective fellow-' How closely can two people, heart to heart, be together? There is always the veiLo! the flesh between.- All we cau do is to interpret looks, words, and sometime! SrtnUSm w lsJrS even on those near est to us. YYe all walk a solitary way.. Few reach that beautiful companionship repre sented by BroAvning in "By the Fireside:''' ''When, if I but think deep enough lou are Avont to- ansAver,. prompt aa rnyme;: And you, too, find without rebuft Response your soul seeks xiany a time, Piercing its fine flesh stuff. Then it is that Christ Himself comes clos er than breathing,, nearer than hands or tcet, comes into the innermost recesses of. our nature for sympathy and communion. Avita tne human heart. Christ Avithin us-is also the source of power.. Christ does not gi-e us power by. making mere machines of us. We are the clay m the potter's hands, hut we are some thing more. God, does not Avant us to be slaves, but freemen;. not subjects, but sons.. i fn equally false way of . considering the help that Ave receive from God is that we are to do all that we can with our natural or redeemed powers,, and then let God do the rest.-, bo the longer we hve, the strong er Ave are f and the less Ave need God's in terposition. Every time God helps - us, Ave are less oi.a man or woman, and the strong er we groAV the more independent, and the less we need faith.. The end of it all would pe absolute independence of. God. Surely, this is not God's idea.. The true way of looking upon our rela tion to Christ is that His presence Avithin our heart by faith gives us energy to achieve,, not. by enslaving, but by enfran chising the will, invigorating it, energizing it, vitalizing it, until with Augustine wo can say:. "We will, but God Avorks the -Avilhng; we. Avork,. but God. Avorks the working" Philippians, 2; : 12, .13; has often been mis understood:. It says: "Work out your oavu salvation with fear and trembling. . For it is God which Avorketh in you both, to will anddo of His good pleasure." To "work out does not mean to Avork into outward expression Avhat God puts within us, but as-it literally means, to-"achieve" for sal- . vation is an achievement as well as being at the same time a gift. . Nor does it mean" that we are to Avork in Paul's absence. The possibility of Virorking out our salva tion rests upon the fact that God is with in,, so that we can will and do of His good pleasure.. Thus, will is not an instrument AVhich we can turn from side to side, and which when necessary God, can use; it is ourselves acting. That which God does is not our. act unless God works through our wills.. The possibilities of such' an - empoAvered! life are divine.. We need not be 'perfec tionists and still believe as we ought that Christ's-grace is sufficient for us.. Many pretend to believe it, , and do not live it.' They vorry;.they fret, .the v give up. The most of us seem to think that the normal Christian life is to rise and fall like the tides. Yet Paul says: "There hath n temptation befallen ydil hut -such as kohi- -mon to man;: but God is faithful,. who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able;: but will with', the temptation, also make a way of escape. . that ye may be able to-bear it."' Christ within also makes all living sa cred. We have made sad divisions among objects.. We have dinded space into holy and unholy, and declared tnat God could be found only in certain places,. which had been consecrated. We have divided time into holy and secular,, declaring that, we AA-ouid serve God on the Sabbath and con duct our business and amusements as wo pleased the rest of the week.. We have di vided money into two parts... We have said that the giving of the one-tenth, or one twentieth to God,, justified, us in the claim, of unlimited freedom in the disposition.' of the rest.. We have divided up persons, and put a certain class of people called priests,, ministers, missionaries, upon ped estals,, declaring that the standard of con duct for them differed from the standard! for others, and that their. AVork Avas espe cially religious.. All wrong.. All space is holy, and' the green grass may be the chancel carpet and the trees the massive pillars and the sky, the dome, if below there is a heart pray ing in spirit and truth.. All time is sacred.. The Monday Should, be as much devoted to God's service as Sunday,, and the office and the store should, be as much shrines of devotion as the closet.. AIL money i.s sa cred,, and the money spent upon the nec essaries of life,, upon business and pleasure should be spent with equal consciousness as upon the church.. All Christians haA'e. Christ Avifhin them,, and they should aim. to objectify His life. There fs nothing we need to-day quite as much, as the Chris tianization of the secular-life. Then at last, the Christ Avithin is the source of final holiness. Christ at last is' to present us holy and unblamable,, and irreprovable in His sight Sin does two things for us, separates! us from God and distorts our nature.. When Ave are forgiAen Ave are restored to; the di vine felloAvship. But what about Che ef fects of sin upon our nature? See the scars upon the tree and Avhat the life of the tree does for it. Listen to Avhat Paul says: "I am perplexed until Christ be formed within you." As Christ had His Bethlehem His Nazareth His 01iAet, so does He again in His reincarnation have His Bethlehem, His Nazareth, His Olivet. Who knows why one plant grows into the geranium; and the other into the rose? The type is something more than the ideal pre sented for the imitation of the plant. It is an informing life. I think it was the last thing that Dr. A. S. Gumbert Avrote for the Examiner: ''Among the Dutch the rose was sometimes cultivated by planting an inferior rose close to a rose of superior variety. The rose of inferior quality was carefully Avatched and anthers remoAred to a-oid self-pollenization ; the object being that it should be pollenized by the superior rose. Gradually the rose thus, treated took upon itself the characteristics of the supe rior life of its companion." " So, our lives are pollenized as it were "by. His righteous ness. Thus Christ within becomes to us the source of divine companionship, of poAver for achieArement, of the exaltation of con duct, of final holiness. He who Avishes to plant hope within his oAvn heart of such, prospects, should begin and neAer cease exercising faith in Him who loved us and gave Himself to die for us. Each Day's Lirinsr. Oar life may be food to us, or may, if Ave have it so, be poison, but one or the other it must be. Whichever and what ever it is, beyond all doubt, it is eminent- -ly real. So merely as the day and the night alternately folloAV one another, does every day when it passes into daAvn, bear with--it its OAvn tale of the results which ithas silently wrought uon each of ua for evil or for good." The dayk of diligence, duty and devotion leaves it richer than i found us, richer sometimes, and eve commonly, in : our circumstances; richer always in ourselves. L 1
Orange County Observer (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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Feb. 11, 1904, edition 1
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