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1 -11 IvOL. XXXII. NO 12 THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. ESTABLISHED 5 Ui'V. PHAA'K I KEI!, i lor and lIilier. 1 RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1887. lnal)le in cvta t ' For the Advocate. 4 cabinet of Anecdotes and II. lustration. BY REV. II. T. HUDSON, D. D. : THE ROTTEN WALNUT. S -me years ago a Roman Catholic 1 nykt in Germany carried a walnut .! with him in the pulpit to prove the i ' hn-odoxyof the Protestants and the s Orthodoxy of the Catholic Church. 1 lading up the walnut in full view of I the audience, he said : " My hearers, 1 the shell of this nut is tasteless and I valueless; that part represents the I Church of John Calvin. The Skm of tr-e nut is nauseous, desagreeable and worthless, which represent s the Luther an Church. And now 1 will show you i the Roman Apostolic Church." And .,. ting his action to his words; he 1 Licked the nut. and lo and behold to h utter mortification, the inside con- te a- were perfectly rotten. Scrafts. LISTENING TO HIS OWN SERMON. Jev. Dr. South was a famous preach i rr in Loudon. On one occasion he ; v!!i out in the country to recreate. - o the Sabbath he attended service in -mull Chapel. The country parson" - ,ti"e and preached a splendid sermon. T - congregation being dismissed, Dr. - - u i lingered about the door till the caeher came out. Then the Doctor w at up to the parson and said: " You I ; ached us a fine sermon to-day how ' . ig did it take you to make that ser n Mi't" Well, I began onSaturday morn i,u and got ready by night."44 Wei:, you ai e quieK at the business. It took me two weeks to make the sermon you ' ':uhed to-day." You can imagine hew the young man blushed in shame . hen his" sermon stealing was so sud 1 i,-nly Hashed upon him. There are a - g eat man' rogues of this sort in the world. KTNDNKSS CONQUERS AN ENEMY. i "If thine enemy be hungry, feed him" - 1 he Bible prescription lor dis . imiiu! our enemies. Once, so runs t old fable, the Lord commanded 'an angel to destroy au ice bersr, giving him a thousand years for his task. He ' 0 illed to gether an army of men with :k and shovels, and let them pick at 1. .0 Ice berg for man' long years, but ''''.y made only a hole in it. lie then I . :!i-d ior storms to beat upon it. For h.aiiy years the rain fell upon ;t, and It' -winds whistled around it, but it ! ou 'y grew larger. The angel went to heaven, and said : '"Lord, I ciuihot destroy this great mountain." i T Lord said : 44 I will show you how to conquer it." So he called upon the -un to shine with warm rays upon it; at:d the South soft winds to breathe 1 upon it. And soon the great mountain ' oi u e melted away, and only showed " u lu re it had been by the green mea d 'vs. all greener because of its mois t tine. The lesson is easy. Let the warm beams of love shine upon your M.emy. Do him a kindness. Pray for h u. Melt him down by your sweet 1 iirit. Christ wins us by loving us. 1'j i ye Christ-like and you will win and k.iVL- even your foes. WHY THE CHILD WAS TAKEN. 1 Some years ago, lived certain par I ents, unacquainted with the way of life, j vh had an only child, the centre of all I their joys, but who was early taken 1 from them. This bereavement at 1 once put them in great displeasure I against God's dispensation ; and they I demanded of their minister, how God. 1 " it he were love, could deprive them of I thtiir only child." The good man promised them an answer at the funer I al discourse, and accordingly addressed I them at its close in the following words: 'J " You ask me why God has taken away I vour child. Listen to a parable : There I wa-i once a shepherd who prepared I choice food in a told for his sheep ; he I opened the door wide, but the sheep I would not enter. Long did he weary himself to induce them to enter, but 1 fit n her they turned from the open door. ) At length he takes a little lamb from 3 the Hock, and carries it in ; and, lo ! J the parents follow after. That good '5 shepherd is Christ; the open fold, 1 heaven ; your child, the lamb. If you i h -ve the heart of parents run after it. 1 The Lord bears away the little lamb, k l'''at ye parents may be drawn into hea ? veil," HOW THE TREACHER DISARMED HIS MAD HEARERS. There was a zealous preacher in the "Uih, who went to preach at a certain pb e. where the people were bitterly op; ioed to the Gospel. The preacher ,v - t M that if he attempted to hold a !l ' lu.g there, they would 44 roffai-cfg11 ' !5ut nothing daunted, he went yL'M on to the plae3. Everything was Ui readiness to carry out the threat. '5 : the preacher began, he said he '.r to tell them a story. So they h' :i tell it. He said : A man in T 1- went to a certain town and sold a : uv;. of cattle. Putting the money ln 5 pocket, he started home. Night l'' uuy' on. instead of stopping at a h' ..!. he spent the night in the woods ;i tree, his faithful dog sleeping .v side. Starting oif next morning" he u;id his dog refused to follow him 'u'r ;l hort distance, but kept running to" ;k and barking. The man got mad :tl' ' 't his dog, and then rode off. But Ixv-nviing very sorry about it, he rode " " and the dog had draggad himself up to the place where lie had spent the i 1 i night. And there beside his master's bundle of money, he was dying. The man had dropped his money and gone off without it, and the reason t ha dog refused to follow was to get his master back to get his money. So the faithful dog lost his life in trying to save it. " Now," said the preacher, " I am here like that dog, to tell you of the treasure you are losing. Roften-egg me if you want to." But they didn't, they heard him glad ly. Moody. BEATING RELIGION INTO A MAN. Away back in Alabama there was a blacksmith, who used to whip every Methodist preacher sent on the circuit. So at last it became difficult to rind a preacher willing to travel it. The Con ference, however, sent- there a large, djuble-fisted man, who did not take stock in the terror inspired at the name of the blacksmith. It was not long till the preacher was on the circuit. As he approached the shop of the pugnaci ous Smith, he was singing in a loud voice : I'm on my way to Canaan." Out came the blacksmith, saying : i4I suppose you are the new preacher on this circuit." Yes, the Conference has sent me here to preach this year." ' Well I have been iu the habit of whipping every preacher sent on this circuit, and I must whip you too-" ki Why, my friend, fighting is a bad business. Come, let me go al ng." 4 "No, Sir, I must whiVyou." "Well, if you insist upon it, I suppose I shall have to submit to it." The preacher dismounted, took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, and at it they went. The preacher knocked him down, and mount ing upon him began to sing : "I'm on my way to Canaan." After beating him etlectually. the preacher said : i Now, my friend, I am going to preacher to morrow four miles from here, and tou must promise to come to meeting." The Smith refused. At last by dint of hard knocks, he agreed to go to meeting. " Now," said the preacher, when you have said the Lord's prayer you can get up. The blacksmith said he wouldn't do it for he did not know a word of it. 44 Well," said the preacher ; 44 1 will teach it to 3'ou, lepeat it after me." 44 Our Fath er which art in heaven" (thump,) hal lowed be thy name" (thump,) "Thy kingdom come," (thump.) Finally the prayer was repeated, aud the Smith al lowed to rise; and from that time the Methodist preachers travelled the cir cuit in peace. Win. D. Johnson, D.D. For the Advocate. Tfiic Support of tSic ministry. Bro. Reid : A communication in re gard to giving 4 tithes," which you published two or three numbers back breathed the right spirit, aud ought to be read by everybody and everybody ought to take heed. My voice is ever for the support of our preachers. The sin of omission is far greater than that of commission, for many strive to avoid the latter whilst the former is of general practice. The failure of doing dutj" is very grievous, and in the matter 01 giving tor the support ot the gospel, the failure brings oft time sadness around the fireside of a faithful minister. In some sections,we will say,perhaps a board of stewards meet to fix the salary ot their preacher tor the coming year Some brother suggests that $500 ought to be sufficient pay that this is more money than he handles during the year, seeming to forget that all of his meat, corn, potatoes and bread he raises him self," and that the preacher has to pur chase everything Irom a needle to a barrel of flour. Farther, than this, oesides having a wife and four children, perhaps he is subject to having to en tertain not a few preachers and passers through, during the year. Now, take himself, wife and four children, six in all the five hundred dollars only gives a little over eighty dollars a yeartosnp port each one, which is less than seven dollars a month for food, raiment, etc., to say nothing of his horse feed. Now people want good strong preaching and in order to have that a preacher, must study, and in order to study he must have books, which is no little expense to him. Besides tins he has to go to District and Annual Conferences which takes money for travel, etc. Especially the etc., for what Methodist preacher ever left a Conference with any money left in his pocket? lie is drained from the first day till the benediction is pro nounced. Perhaps this brother that proposed the $500 salery, goes up to Conference himself one time. A call is made to raise money for some very worthy object. One preacher says I'll give $10," another $5, and so on, and finally this man's preacher responds 50 cents. The aforesaid brother drops bis head and says: 44 I'm ashamed of my preacher just thiuk.only 50 cents.' Ashamed your preacher ? You ought, my brother, to be ashamed of yourself. The reason he gave no more, was, you did not allow him a salary sufficient to even give this. He thought that the last nickel he had. though at Inst when they did take a collection for the sex ton he found stuck down in one corner of his vest pocket a five cent piece and in it went. It was the last metalic substance left, save a button which he bursted off his vest the day before, after eating turkey at Brother Fair we IPs. Then' my brother, you went home and told your wife that you saw some preachers there nicely dressed, but your preacher's clothes looked shabby. Do you know why this was, my brother? The truth of the matter is your preach er hsd not bfeen paid enough to be able to buy a new suit, and he would not go in debt. Then again, it happens preachers are sometimes asked to go off. and de liver a lecture, and just such men as tue aioresaia brother, allow him to come ana go, and pay his own expens espresumably concluding that the honor was sufficient for him. That sort of honor cramps the Docket. I have heard it related of a preacher once stationed here, who was called upon to marry a couple in an adjoining county, and as the preacher was nearer the groom7 county seat than he was, or it was more convenient for him to get there, would not he be kind enough to get the license. The preacher took steamer, went to the county seat, got the license, paid for it, and his fare both ways, then the train, got off at the proper station, marrleo the couple, and the fellow did not even pay for the license, to say nothing of his other ex penses. This was another case whero the honor of the thing must have been considered sufficient, and it was about as bad as a case I one heard of when a committee of a masonic order wrote to abrother,(vvho lived at least 125 miles away) inviting him to deliver a lecture before them at a certain time.The invi tation was accepted, and iu due time he went. At the depot no committee was found to meet him, no place was as signed for him to stay. He finally found a place where he was allowed to sleep by sleeping with another man. Night came on and he wandered over to the lodge, a procession was formed to inarch to the hall no place assigned him, befell in at the tail end. He de livered his lecture, paid all of his own bills and came home. After being at home some days a gentleman, not of the committee, wrote to him asking what his expenses were. This was presumed to be the generous impulse of an individual. Therefore he replied, saying he had no bills. 44 the honor ica. sufficient for him." What I want to impress upon the minds of our people is the duty we owe God's cause, and II. s servants. If all would come up to the full measure of their means our preachers would receive that support which is justly due them They wear themselves out on meager salaries; then are set aside on a few crumbs which fail from the Conference collection table. Truly yours, W. M. Parker. For the Advocate, .fudging; Our Fellows. IJY 44 MARY WILSON." The real life of a man, or woman is what is felt and thought, what we really are, not what we may do, say, or ap pear to be. Of course if the fountain is pure, so will be the stream, but the trouble is, we are not always wise enough to know if a thing is pure. We each have our own idea of what is right and good, and if we are Christians we try to judge by what our Bible teaches us, still we mistake very often, and we may think a stream pure because it is beautiful and clear, when really the waters may be as bitter as the waters of Marah. So we may believe a fountain to be impure if we find the stream stirred up and muddy, when if we would only wait awhile we could soon see that the water was sweet and clear. It is well enough, we are told again and again, not to judge others, for we cannot do it with any degree of justice. One may be surrounded in such .a way by peculair circumstances as to make it impossible to see or imagine whatthe real life of the person is, besides as we are none of us alike, and as each of us can under stand only a small part of God's great whole, so we cannot always know whether our friends are right or wrong. Their fi uit is so foreign to ours, so un like any we know about, that we don't know whether it is good or bad. We can always tell our own condition I am sure, but we can seldom tell the state of another. What they dc and say. What they think, as far as we under stand it, mar seem wrong to us, and jet, God must have need of just that, for has He not made in our world things we dislike, that we dread and find hurtful to us ? If we had been ask ed about it we would have advised the leaving of such things out. We don't know .liuch I'm afraid, and there is groat danger of condemning things and peoples, actions and words, when we know nothing about them at all. Some one said of a lady, 4 Oh, she is not good at all. why she writes novels !" The 44 same one" did not know that the lady used her novels only as a pretty frame work to hold up her lovely thoughts;only as a setting for her jewels It is so easy to mi -judge, so hard to give each his due. So few can put him self in another's place. If you had been one of the twelve, don't you think you would have found fault with some of the rest? We do often find fault now because our fellow disciples act in a way we happen not to fancy. They cast out devils without (eing along with us. Two of the best women I know have never joined any church. One other I know was never baptized, and never takes communion. Yet they do the Master's work, they feel Id's presence, they love Him above all else. Shall I say they are not his servants? Shall I say that He who loves them, He who guides their lives would have them different? Ah! God's love is wider than we know. His purposes are too mighty for us and His ways past finding out. His will is being done in places we know not of. He is iu hearts where we least expect to find him. His work is going on where we do not re coznize it; For the Advocate. Trinity College Again. The subject that is of most impor tance to North Carolina Methodism to day, is Trinity College, an institution that has a curious interesting history, and a career mavelously grand. Not withstanding this, its claims have been at the door of every Methodist in this Conference, seeking their patronage, their prayers, and their money for at least fifteen years. Through all these years there has been much talK,writing, promising, and subscribing, but very little money aud not enough patronage. It seems to me that the time is here when resolutions, reports, speeches, and promiscuous promises are of no avail. We have given these measures a fair trial, and our debt grows larger aud continues to embarrass our College. Now, Mr. Editor, allow me to say that if we are to continue the same course we will again realize the inglori ous failure that we have already too frequently met. I know there are difficulties in t he vay, many of them, and troublesome ones, but the great difficulty, and upon Which all the others hang, is the debt. Some say endow the College and theu pa the debt. The last Conference considered plans for the endowment of Trinity when it seems they could not pay a $7,000 debt. Endowment with the-debt is impossible, and a very un wise step if it were not impossible. If some of those good liberal men of our church who want to give from $1,000 to $2,000 to endow the College will pay off the indebtedness of the College, it will be a better deed still, and open the way to si large and handsome endow ment immediately. Because people have not, I am led to believe they will not give to the endowment, while the College for debt trembles under the sheriff's hammer. I do not propose to call in question 1 f tin of the Conference, or of the Trus tees in handling the debt, for that might be unkind as well as unnecessary. I do not intend to examine methods used to pay this debt,for they have fail ed. But I am pretentious enough to state a plan I believe, if properly opei ated, will pay the debt, and I may add it can be so operated. Let the Board of Trustees put an energetic, and pru dent man in the field, and close all newspapers against him, and he to them with their endowment, to collect money on the debt. The collector, thus appointed, to approach proper men for moneyto be put on deposit in bank, or if not convenient to put in safe hands, payable to the order of the Trustees when they, over the signa tures of their officers, state that full enough has been deposited to pay the entire indebtedness of the College ; and iu the event they (the Trustees) fail to get the whole amount on deposit, then the depositaries shall return the amount to the depositors. This plan, unlike all the other plans that have been used, gets the money out of the hands of the people, and in reach of the Trustees, but not in their hands, unless the whole amount is rais ed. The Trustees have r.ot failed, heretofore, to get " subscriptions," 44 notes" and 44 pledges," but failed to get the money. This plan makes all pay who promise. There are many who have subscribed and paid, and will pay more if they can see clearly that when they pay it the debt is paid, aud they will not have to pay unless all the others who promise do. I know men in the circuit iu which I live, who on a plan like this will pay from $1. to $50, and they are all over the State. Now, Mr. Editor, this is no pet theory of mine, but are my hone st v.ews. If others have bett r plans and more willing efforts, let them use them. I believe a poor plan faithfully worked is superior to a fine plan well conceal ed. We are tired of so much talk and no action, so many promises and no fulfillment. Let the Trustees act, and act in a way to restore and hold the confidence of the people in the College. Let them not say in the spring that the 4 old debt is provided for," aud then at Conference say the debt is large because the interest has not been paid. Let those who most loudly proclaim their 4 devotion," 4 fidelity," and unswerv ing loyalty" ;o Trinity College pay their 44 notes" and " pledges" before they make .their professions. The stomach of Methodism has revolted at such sickening professions of fealty as we. make, and then do nothing for iis relief. Every member of the Metho dist church ought to say, and must say, if they are faithful to their vows ; 4' I will show thee my faith by works." The love we have for our families causes us to support them. The love we have for the church supports the church; and if the love for Trinity College ex ists, which we are so willing to claim, if it is as broad, deep, and sweeping as we would have others believe, then it will call forth an individual, as well as a. collective, energy and start an en dowment that will be highly gratifying to all the lovers of Trinity College, and the friends of education generally. There are men and women all over this broad land of ours who are willing to pay. yes, naii their dollars few or many to tins crnrul cause, and then j watch that grand old educational ship, an weather-beaten by the storm ot years, enter the harbor of financial re pose. God save our gallant old ship ! John Smith. For the Advocate. Our Washington Letter. (From our Regular Correspondent-) There was a time, not many years ago, when the adjournment of Congress was a signal for Washington to tall into a comatose state until the dawn of the next session. It is not so now. The growth of the city and the fact that it has become a great Mecca of travel, visited by thousands every week in the summer and winter, have made the presence of Congress quite unnecessary to the maintenance of ac tivity. You may come here now at any sea son of the year you prefer and there will be something for you to ec or hear or attend, something to interest you, either of a political, scientific, re ligious, artistic, educational or social character, and perhaps all at the same time, for Washington, as the capital of agrept nntion, is the centre of many national interests. But all this does !: -t reconcile its citizens to the depar ture of the lawmakers. Their absence is always regretted, and their return joyfully welcomed. The beauty and desirability of Wash ington as a place of residence is rung on many changes, both by citizens and visitors. Hon. Arthur MacArthur, justice of the Supreme Court of ihe Dis trict of Columbia, who had iust laid aside the ermine, expressed himself enthusiastically on the subject. "Wash ington will continue to be my home" said he, 44 it is the prettiest and pleas antest place I know. In fact a resi dence of a few years here disqualifies a man for residence anywhere else." Judge MacArthur has served on the District bench seventeen years, and re tires uuder the statute which allows a federal judge to resign On full pay for life at the age of seventy after he has served ten years. He said lie would re tire while he knew how. He did not want to stay until he got so old that people would say "why don't he re tire?" Washington has been called the most polite of American cities, the most in telligent, well bred, hospitable and gracious, but it is also understood to be the most immoral. So much has been said to its discredit in this last parti cular that many people of the country are cf the belief that no good can come out of the National Capital. The character of petitions and memorials relative to the District that are laid before Congress also show the existence of erroneous impressins on this subject. Again, Washington does uot consist of Congress as in times past, and there is probably no American city now where church life is so intensely active as here. Agencies for reaching and improving the condition of the work ing classes, mentally, morally and spiritually, are busy at work in every quarter of the city. Chapels for speci al purposes are springing up, meetings are held for workers of different kinds, homes are being made for friendless children, and fallen women who want to lead better lives, and careful work is done in hospitals and asylums. These are only some of the forms that the church work takes, and all is done systematically and thoroughly and with an earnest zeal that is making itself felt for great good. It is creat ing an influence that will exert untold power on the thoughts and lives of the people of the future Capital. One peculiarity of Washington life is the fact that so many of the society people find time to interest themselves actively in church work, not merely by becoming patronesses of this and that thing, but by giving personal attention and labor to them. It is usual to find those whose names are daily reported as being socially distinguished, work ing with the clergy among the poor, in relief associations, and in the wan forms of charitable work, making their influence felt, aud doing good in a most self-denying way. Congress, the Cabinet, Army and Navy, Bench and Bar, can each show a list of the names of noble men and women, who are zeal ous in good works of which the outside world knows nothing. Washington, 1). C. There is nothing will make you a Christian indeed, "but a taste of the sweetnes's of Christ. " Come and s?e" will speak best to your soul. Sim?l llulherforJ. The true Christian is like the sun, which pursues his noiseless track, and everywhere leaves the effect of his beams in a blessing upon the world around him. He that has feasted, upon God's (roodness is desirous that many more shall sit down at the same table 4Oh; taste and see that the Lord is good." Let this be life's test. Character in a preacher is the very force in the bow that launches the ar row. It is latent heat behind the words tnat gives them dire lion and the pro jectile force. Don't seek popularity. Let it seek you. Fcr the Advocate. The Itmiinler. Irregular church-going is as danger ous a habit as irregular eating : one can live on it, but it is very apt to produce a bad case of dyspepsia. This accounts in some degree for the proverbial ill health of non-church-goers : they are ill no doubt of it but there is soul sickness and body sickness, and some folks get them badly mixed. A ood sister whoe ill health has kepi her from church for two years walked a mile in the rain recently lo spent the Sabbath with some friends, and pu'led her bonnet over her face when Jhe minister passed her on the road. 1" ere is not a word here for the deai pa Lieut souls who are kept at home by n rl af fliction and whose hearts long for the courts of the Lord. Somebody who reads this went lo church last year every time a prominent preacher cvme arouud aud did not goto hear the pastor once. I have been wonde.ing what your pastor think" of that ugly habit of yours. Von think he is mad, aud pos sibly he is, for he is only human and you have treated him with the grossest disrespect; but 1 am confident that ho has thought of something else : he has been wondering whether you go to church to meet the big preacher. or to meet the Lord. If you go there 10 meet the Lord you might occasionally find Him when your pastor is there. The last bell was ringing and the friends who had dropped iu at the par sonage had put on their bonnets and stood waiting for the preacher to lake the lead. 44 O," said the preacher ps he stretched himself to full length in his easy chair and leaned back languid ly upon the soft cushions, 44 O, I don't believe I will go to-day ; I am feeling bad and wife isn't very well and there is nobody to take care of things." When ! Did anybody ever hear of the like ! There was a sensation of course. Why? Couldn't the preacher stay at home if he wanted to? O, but he is paid to go, you say. Then you mean that if you had the preacher's salary you would be willing to serve the Lord better than you do eh? You would like to exchange places with the preach er and serve the Lord for pay aud let him serve the Lord for nothing ! You think that five dollars a Sunday would stimulate you to keep the fourth com mandment a great deal better than you do ! My neighbor will not accept the Bible because he cannot understand it. I tell him he can understand as much as he can put into practice now and the future need will be supplied when the future comes. But this does not satisfy him : 44 1 cannot accept anything I do not understand" lie repeats with em phasis, and turning impatiently upon his heel, for the thousandth time breaks off the argument with this precious fallacy. Strangely enough my neigh bor is something of a scientist, and knows better than the unscientific mas ses can know that there is nothing without its mystery. When an ignor aut man comes upon a thing he can not understand he says it is " the nature of the thing," and with him that settles the difficulty; but my scientific neigh bor knows that 'nature Is but another name lor mystery useii. lie is a chemist : Chemistry has its mysteries and cannot exist as a science unless something is admitted at the start : no one knows this better than my neigh bor, but he does not think of rejecting his favorite science. Why should he require of religion what he does not re quire of any other .'cience "r 44 But these mysteries are absurdi ties." Why absurd? Because, says he, they are unlike anything lie ha., ever seen or heard of in any other science. An old man in the Brushy Mountains who was confident that the stars were so many holes in the sky thought it a very absurd story when J told him of the vast systems filling all snace with their suns and planets. It 1 1 - 1 j was so different irom anything the il literate root-digger naa ever fcen oi heard of! My scientific neighbor thinks he was very foolish to express an opin ion of a matter which he knew nothing about, but my neighbor, who has spent bis bfo studving the physical sciences ; without so much as learning the a, b, I c of the science of religion and yet does - .... " .i i' not hesitate to conuenm tne gospei 01 Jesus as a very absurd affair, is only clinging to the old root-digger's coat tails for salvation. The infidel will not accept the Libit because he cannot understand it, but there are thousand.- of Christians who would be tempted to give up the preci ous book if they could, understand it. I . I should succeed in explaining all of its mysteries I would not feel by am means certain that the mit d whcl. produced it i infinitely greater than mine. A book must reflect the mind of its author. God's mind i it. The Book, and the mysteries in its pago are so many comforting assurance o? the fact. Wo cannot grasp God'?, thoughts until we have Christ's mind. As we grow Cristlikc the mysterie. vanish:ifwe grow to be equal with Him all darkuess wili pas away : until then there must be things hard to be understood." Let us learn lo thauk God for mysteries. Edwaiiu L. VllIj. Renew your subscription.
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