The Christian Sun.
IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY;
IN NON-ESSENTIAI& LIBERTY;
IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY.
VOL. XLIII.
RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1890.
NUMBER 19.
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Kbv. J. PKKSSLF.y BARRET!
UUH PRINCIPLES:
,i. I'be Lord .lesus Christ is the only Head
if the Church.
2. The name Christian, to the exclusion
if all party or sectarian names.
3. The Holy Bible, or the Scriptures of
he Old and New Testaments, a sufficient
ule of faith and practice.
4 Cliristian character, orvitai piety, the
only teft of fellowship or membership.
5. Th right of private judgment and
the libs rty ,f conscience, the privilege and
duty o', all.
THE ElHTORIAliXJIRCLE.
“A Peculiar People.”
It this means anything, it means
that there must be something about
the life and general conduct of the
Christian, the church-member, that
distinguishes him from the people of
the world. The church must be com
posed of%ueb people before she- can
be called a "holy nation.” How can
an unconverted man so live as to be
one of this peculiar people ? It ii is
not in the power of such so to live,
what right has he in the church And
yet this thing is going on, all around
us. How long, O Lord, how long !—
Biblical Recorder.
Nets and Hooks.
An attempt is beiug made to induce
Mr. Moody to visit Baltimore next
winter, and we sincerely hope it will
succeed. Many ot the men, who were
saved while he was here a few years
ago, are to-day among our most ac
tive Christian workers Of course',
there was chaff which was blown away
and reappears mustexpeet chaff among
the wheat. The kingdom of heaven
is like a drag-net, that, brings to shore
both bad and good. The revised ver
sion of some reads: “The kingdom
of heaven is a pin hook with the most
approved bait, on it, and handled in
such a way that only the rarest speci
mens of fish will ever touch it.” Some
men would rather Gsh in a clear pond
months at a time, with now and then
a gold or silver fish glistening in the
air, than to east in a net that brings
to'land a thousand shad or herring,
with a hundred cod-fish, eels and stin
gers. They do not like the separat
ing process. Neither do we. Nor will
the angels, we presume, at the last
day. But they will do it all the same.
And so should we, for it pays better
in the long run to catch many good
fish, with a few bad ones.than to catch
a vei v few good fish with no bad ones
—Baltimore Baptist.
The Pope’s Temporal Power.
The Pope threatens to promulgate a
decree declaring that the ^restoration
of temporal power to the Catholic
church is essential to the complete
majesty of the V tce-gerenl of Christ
on earth. Romanists have been fret
ing over the withdrawal of this power
ever since the advent of A tetor Em
manuel into Rome in 1870. We hope
that the Pope will send torch such a
decree. It will bring things to an
issue between him and the reigning
governments ot Europe and will even
tually, in our opinion,-strip him of
what little temporal power he has left
Many favorable replies to a circular
asking advice as to t'-e propriety of
sending forth such a promulgation at
this time have been received from
Austria, Portugal, Germany, France
and Spain. On the other hand, nil of
the Italian prelates oppose it. It is
one thing to declare such a dogma It
is another to obtain the power and
there will be a lively tinpe-?,if the
Catholics attempt any such thing.—
-Central Baptist.
A Live Interrogation Point.
The man wl»o first deser-ibed a ohiId
as a live interrogation-point paid to
childhood one of the greatest com pi i
ments that it could receive. The spirit
of inquiry is really the thermometer of
intellectual life. Only the dead are
sure to ask no question. A child is
the most alive of human beings. To
shut ofT the inquiring spirit is, so far,
to deaden him. It is amazing to see
how raanv parents pride themselves
upon their ingenious devices for block
ing the wheels ot child-progress ns
exhibited in the spirit of inquiry. One
father, lor instauce, gloats over his
adroitness in answering his boy’s ques
tions in words selected because of their
unintelligihilily to the child; It ts true
that the questioning ought to be wise
ly regulated as to time and method.
But a father who so cuts off the in
quiring spirit, shows that he has no
appreciation of the value of his child;
and a child so answered will be likely
to show, in time, the wanting value of
his father.—N. S. Times.
A Sermon In Five Lines.
“ILtakes so little to make%a child
happy that it is a pity, in a world full
of sunshine aud pleasant things, that
there si onld be any wistful faces,
empty hands or lonely young hearts.’
1 found these words tn an old news
paper the other day. They were
headed “A Sermon in hive Jiines,” and
and they come home to me with all
the force of a personal appeal.“It takes
so little to make a child happy/’ How
many times I had seen the most tri
vial incident lift rav own little hoy in
to the very ecslacy ol happiness. How
often would some simple gift or a song
or a story chase the tears from his
eyes ami bring the bright smiles to
his face. And yat, I thought with a
pang of regret, how many times 1 had
chided him needlessly; how many
times I had refused to exert myself at
all for his sake. That' very night he
had gone to bed with a heavy heart
because 1 would not romp with him.
I was too tired, 1 said. I stepped into
the boy’s room before 1 went to bed
that night, and passing my hand over
his flaxen hair as he lay asleep, I re
solved that in the future l would be a
better father to him. “It is a pitty
that there should be any wistful faces,
empty hands or lonely young hearts,’’
[ thought, as I dropped asleep. I
remember that later in the night I was
dreaming of visiting a great factory
and inspecting the machinery.-A/orr/*
Waite,
A Tussle.
In an address before the Railroad
Branch of the Young Men’s Christian
Association of New York. Hor..
Chauncey AI. Depew gave an incident
from his esrly hie which carries a
weighty lesson. Said he: “The best
thiug 1 remember connected with my
self is, that when I graduated from
Yale, L thought 1 would lead a life of
scholastic ease. I thought 1 would
read and write a little, take it easy
and have a good time. I had a hard
headed old father ot sturdy Dutch
ancestry. He had money enough to
take care of me, and L knew it; and
when he discovered that I anew it and
intended to act accordingly, it was a
cold day for me, and he said to me:
‘You will never get a dollar from me
except through my will. Prom this
time forth you have gotHo make your
own way/ “Well, „ I found 1 had a
hard lot of it—nobody had a harder
one—and the old gentleman stood by
( and le*. me lassie and fight it out. I
bless him to night with all the heart
and gratitude 1 have tor that. If he
bad taken the other course what would
I have done V 1 would have been up
iu Peekskill to-night nursing a stove,
cursing tire men who had succeeded
jn the world, and wondering by what
exceptional luck they had got on; but
having my way to dig atone, 1 got be
youd everything my lather ever dream ■
ed of; but it wa- done by fourteen
hours, or sixteen hours, or eighteen
hours work a day if necessary. It
was done by temperance, by economy.
“When you make a dollar spend seven
tv five centjs and put the other twenty
five cents by. iNo man can s'and
still. When God created us he did a
fortunate thing for us; he made us so
that we must either go backward or
forward. A man who bottoms a chair
gets up and goes to Ins meals, and
then goes back and bottoms a chair,
and then to. his meals again, in the
course of fiveWears wifi be the biggest
dunce in the community,., and his
opinion will not be worth knowing.
He will .Use his power for work, and
will not be worth three cents an hour.”
The Selfish I’oolaiul the LiberalSpring.
There was a little spring or foun
tain awnv up among uptlie mountains.
It sent out a little stream of water,and
said to it, “Now hurry down the
mountain's side, and pour this water
into the rivei that flows through yon
der plain. Away went the stream,
shiivng like a silver thread and spark
ling like a diamond, as it hurried on
to hear its waters to the river. Pre
sently the stream passed bv a stagnant
pool “Hallo! Mr. Streamlet,’’ cried
the pool. “Where are you going in
such a hurry ?’’ “I am going to the
river to carry this water which God
has given me;” “You’re a very silly
creature,’’ said the pool. “Don’t vou
know that the summer will be here
by and-by, and if you give away your
water now, when the hot sun shines
upon you you’ll dry up and perish ?’’
“Well.” said the streamlet, “if I am to
die so soon I had bette,r work while
the day lasts, if L am likely to lose
this treasure from the heat, I had bet
ter do good with it while I have it.
Good-by, Miss Pool,” said the stream,
and away it went, blessing and rejoic
ing everything in its course. The
pool smiled at what she considered
the folly or the stream, and said to
herself, “You silly creaturel I won’t
part with a drop of my water, but will
keep it all for my own use when the
hot days of summer come1 Present
ly the heat of the summer came and
fell upon the little stream, but the
trees crowded to its brink, and threw
their sheltering branches over it, for it
had brought light ami refreshment to
them. The sun peeped through the
branches and smiled upon its dimpled
face, seeming to say, ‘ On, l won’t hurt
you.” The little birds sipped its silver
y tide and sang its praises; the flow
ers breathed their fragrance on its
bosom; and the beasts ot the field
loved to linger by its banks and thus
it went on blessing and blessed by all.
But what about (he prudent, selfish
pool ? It didn’t believe that“it is more
blessed to give than to receive,” and
it kept its water, it became stagnant
and unhealthy. The waters grew thick
and disagreeable. The green scum
gathered on the surface of it. Neither
the birds nor the beasts would drink
it. Even the frogs hopped away from
it, and as the sun- grew hotjer and
| hotter it dried up altogether. But
idid the little stream dry up? No! God
took care of that. The river bore it to
the sea. The sun shone upon the sea
and wanned it. The vapors rose from
its surface and formed clouds. The
clouds floated away and emptied
themselves in rain upon the mountains
Tiie little fountain was kept supplied
and though it gave freely, it never
dried up. It is thus more blessed to
ourselves, as our Savior says, to give
than lo receive.— 'Ihe Guide.
OUR IIOHT HOUSE.
“Let the lower lights he burning.”
Perfection in Godliness.
Tbe best hour you ever lived was
the truest hour; the highest level, not
alone of man, but of God, for perfec
tion in humanity is perfection'in god! 1
ness.
Phillips Brooks.
Gadding About.1——
—Kestlessness - m—the home; which
leads to gadding about, is another
evil. If Dinah had kept.out of Sche
chem, or consulted her brothers as to
her associates, she would have saved
herself from ruin and her family from
disgrace. The daughter has in her
hands the honor of the family more
than any other; she can ruin or bless,
exalt or degrade more easilv than any
other member. Dinah’s gadding about
led tq foul murder. It was the night
mare of Jacob’s life; lie could not for
get it even when dying, and the bless
ing upon Lis sons was mingled with
curses on that account.
: A.U. DlXON.
Light in Darkness.
When Emerson's library was burn
ing at Concord, I went to him as he
stood with the fire light on his strong,
sweet face, and endeavored to express
my sympathy for the loss of his most
valued possesions, but tie answered
cheerily, “Never mind, Louisa; see
what a beautiful blaze tlicj make! We
will enjoy that now.” The lesson was
never forgotten, and in the varied
losses that have come to me, I have
learned to look for something beauti
ful and bright.
_ ?,. Louisa M. Alcott.
Beams of Light for Dark Hours.
1 am with you always —Matt, 28.
30.
1 will give you rest.—Matt. 11:2S.
When my father aud my mother
forsake me, then the Lord will take
me up1—Ps. 27:10.
The Lord will be a refuge in times
of trouble.—Ps 9:9.
The Lord will deliver in time of
trouble—Ps. 41:1.
I will fear no evil, for thou art with
me.—Ps. 23:4.
Surely He shall deliver thee.—Ps.
19:11.
* g?
There shall no evil befall thee —Ps.
91:11,
A little that a righteous man hath
is better than th^ riches of many wick
ed—Ps. 37:16. '
No good thing will He withhold
from them that walk uprightly.—Ps.
84:11.
1 will not
John 14.18.
1 will never leave thee nor forsake
thee.—Heb. 13:5.
The Lord is mv helper, and 1 will
not fear what man shall do unto me.—
Heb. 13:6.
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday,
and to day, and torevrr.—Heb. 13:8.
The Lord is tny Shepherd. 1 shall
not want.—Ps. 23:1.
The Dividing Line.
“Be a Moses and not an Aaron*
‘The crowd wanted it,’ said Aaron,
‘and 1 said, bring me your gold.’ It
you are an infidel, say so and sue for
your cause, but if you are a Christian
proclaim it on the mount and die for
your belief. Who is on the Lord’s
side ? It is to the young especially
that God speaks. There are two sides,
and only two. One is the Lord’s, and
the other the bulwark of the devil.
The line that divided the children of
Levi from the idolaters then divides
now the Christian and Hie unbeliever.
The Saviour repeated this when He
said ‘who is not for Me is against Me.’
Take the position now, while you are
young. Nine out of ten will contess
that is the right side, but bow many
of those nine are strong enough to
make the stand ? That is the con
dition of hundreds of young men who
believe they ought to be there, but are
afraid of being fired at if they attempt
to cross the line. And tt ts the safe
side. Not the best of reasons dow,
you say but one day when the cry
comes who did tage their stand with
Me, woe unto him who did not think
of safety.’’
' y
on com for'less.
R. C. Hemphill.
Lama Sabachtliani \
“And about the ninui hour Jesa3
cried with a loud voice saying Eli, Eli,
lama sahaehthani ? that is to say, My
God, My God, why'hasbThon forsaken
Me ? ’—Matt, 27:4G.
“There was darkness over all the
land unto the' ninth hour/' This cry
came out of that darkness. Expect
hot to see through . its very word, as
though it came from on high as a
beam from the unclouded Sun of
Righteousness. There_is light in it,.
bright, flashing light; but there is a
centre of impenetrable gloom, where
the soul is ready to faint because of
the terrible darkness. Our Lord was
then in the darkest‘part of His way.
He had troddeu the wine press-now
for hours, and the work was almost
finished. He had reached the culmi
nation point of His anguish. This
is His dolorous lament from the low
est pit of misery—“My God, My God,
why hast Thou forsaken Me V’ I do
not think that the records of time, or
even of eternity, contain a sentence
more full of anguish.
0. H. SrURGEON.
Our Social System.
A long step is taken in the direction
of any reform 1 when the need Is felt.
The priest and the Levite both passed
by because they failed lo sense the
man's need; the Samaritan-had com
passion. To-day thoughtful men are
Samaritans; they stand face to face
wtth an awful need. Shall the suffer
ing individual be lifted up, Cared for,
watched over, and the wayside robber
be left to prey upon weakness; the
sufferer helped and the system that
makes sufferers left, or shall we make
the highway safe, and thus do away
with the need of so much help ? The
individual is, of course, the point in
view, but how can we best help him;
by efforts in his behalf, leaving the
present system, or by a change of
system ? The latter, we think. An
ource of prevention is better than a
pound of cure. Nature modifies or
ganism by environment; when Jacob
sought to corner the cattle market, he
changed the environment; that being
Jacob’s, tbs cattle would soon be his.
We cannot hope to remove the exis
ting mass of poverty—which is but an
effect—and leave the real cause, the
present industrial system in operation.
Competition must give place to eo
| operation. The people, through the
' Government, must coutrol and mam
t
age production and distribution. “Our
little systems have their day, they
have their day and cease to be.” The
present industrial system must give
wap to a better one. There is nothing
sacred in human means-man, the end,
and must therefore tie changed A
manner of life that leaves the face
flushed and the feet cold is radically
wrong. We do not need drugs and
baths, but better circulation This can
come only through constitutional treat
ment.
0. P. Gifford.
Annie’s Sermon to the Minister.
(SELECTED BY MRS. ANNIE KLAPP.)
Very dear and good she looked as
i rode by and saw her setting there,
with Trip the dog at her feet: so I
drew my horse in and stopped to
speak to her. , ■
She was one of my (lets and I rvas
the minister.
‘Are you resting, \nnte?’ said i,
as she smiled at me trom beneath her
big parasol.
‘Yes, sir,’ she said. ‘My feet are
very tired, but I’m not tired at all.’
‘Your feet are tired, but you are
not? Well! \Vreli! That’s a new idea
to me. child. So your feet and hands
are not apart of the real you?
‘No, please, 1 don.t think they are.
I tell my feet and bands what to do,
and they do it, tor they are only my
servants (mama says) to mind what
I say ’
‘Isn’t your bodv a pare of you, An
nie?' I said, smiling in the dear little
face again.
‘No, sir—not the real me. My body
will be put in the groud when T die,
but I shall be in heaven, sir, if I love
God.’
■Then you don’t care as much
about your bodv as your soul, my
child,’ I said:
‘Well, sir. I care a great deal, be
cause ray body holds uov soul (mama
says), just as I care for the pretty
ease where I keep my garnet ring.’
‘But the ring is the real thing, af
ter all, and the case is or much less
value ’
‘Yes sir, yet; the case makes the
ring look newer, and I iike to have it
neat and pretty.’
‘So you like to have your clothes
neat and pretty, I suppose, Annie, but
you never forget that your body is
only the casket to hold your soul? I
wish all the little girls'* remembered
that. Some of them <?are a great
deal more about the ribbons and laces
thev wear, than about ornament of a
meek and quiet spirit;l’m afraid.
1 think that's a lovely verse,’ said.
Annie. ‘It always makes me happy
just to think about it
•Then you understand it, my child?
Tell tne what it means to have a meek
and quiet spirit?' y
•To be ‘meek’ means to he gentle
when people are rough to you, just as
Jesus was when the soldiers arid the
-people werecrnel lohnn.—DonJ-you
remember, he was just as lovely as
ever/
‘And what is it to have a quiet
spirit/ Annie? said I.
‘To have a quiet-spirit1 suppose,
is to take just what God sends. It
be lets the sun shine so 1 can go out
to play, it’s all light; aud if he makes
vtto rain so 1 can’t, it's all right; and
if I'm sick it’s all right and if I’m
•well, it’s all right, too ’
‘Is it easy to feel so, my child?’
said I, wonderingly, longing to have
more of the same childlike trust
myself, as 1 looked at the sweet con
tented child face.
‘Oh, yes, sir; it’s easy ever since I
knew how much God loves me. It
you think he doesn’t care about you,
it js-so ditferejii 1’
‘But vou think God can't hurt.
‘Oli, no,'sir—any more;'!ban God I
could: and a great~deaness, too. for:
you or is always loving and good.’
•But does he never make any mis
takes, -Annie?’-said X, wishing to-hear
what answer she would give:
‘I shall never' forget the look of
wonder upon the dear little face, as
She answered, “He wouldn’t he God,
sir, if lie ever did wrong or made any
mistakes-.’
I hade her good-bye, and rode along
the road carpeted with white, daisies
and golden butter cups, witti Annie’s
simple, earnest words, ringing in my
ears all the way:
God wouldn't be a God, if be; ever
did wrong or made any mistake.
He Still.”--i,salm iv: 4.
flow many tind it hard to “lie still'’
under the circumstances of their daily
life! Those around them do not no
tice, under tbe quiet fulfilling of the
daily duties, the snuggle that is going
on in secret. It may he that there is
the strong desire "for Selive service,
and the position in which we find our
selves demands most of the time to
be spent in home duties,*’ with only
a! margin for outside work —-Tin re
may he much to he done, or it may
be that simply our presence is necis
sarv to cheer an vnvilad member of
the home circle. And while wo see
so manv living around without the
I knowledge which we possess, we be
I gin to lose patience and cease to
realize that we are doing as real work
for God in our quiet home life as in
soul winning outside.
It may be that our day is so full of
God given work that we have little
leisure for thought and meditation.
Then let us keep watch that we have
a “still ■* spirit in the midst of all we
have to do. giving our energies and our
prayers to the work of the present
moment; and if it is really all what
God means us to do, we shall find the
day close in quiet restful thankfulness
that all has been done; and yet we
have not been hurried or worried,
even while there may not have been a
minute's relaxation. *
Or do we find in the middle ot the
day that the work is getting the mas
tery over us and that we are losing the
stiilness? Then we are often repaid
by simply resting Irum everything for
a short time, just lying still and turn
ing our thoughts away from all w:>rk,
or where this is impossible, by spend
ing just a few moments on our knees
in the presence ot God.
Or, again, we may, day after day,
have to do our simple round of duty
with that constant bodily weakness
which is often harder to bear than
when we are really laid aside and our
suffering is an acknowledged fact.
Then we have special need pf being
very ‘still! under the daily burden, so
that we may learn precious lessons of
sympathy, gentleness and patience.,
which will surely' bear fruit by and
by.—Episcopal Htcorder.
IJistrt Meeting.
Place: Beulah Church, Walce, co, ;V. C.
Time: June-: 28, 29, 1890.
Saturday June 28.
9:00 a. m.:—Prayer meeting by Rev.
J. W. Wellons, organization.
9:30 a. m.—Church Literature, by Dr.
Barrett.
10:30 a. m.—Education by Revs. J.
\V. Wellons, J. P. Barrett, D.D.,
P. T. Klapp, M. L. Winston and S.
B, Klapp.
12:00 m.—Dinner.
1:30 p. m.—Home Missions, by Revs.
J. P. Barrett, D.D., J. W. Wellons,
P. T. Klapp, M. L. Winston, Revs.
0. C. Williams, L. R. Crocker, C. P.
Wall and J. B, King.
3:30 p. m.—Shall the Christian Church
tolerate, drunkenness, modern danc
ing and revelings ? By. Revs. J.
W Wellons, Dr. Barrett, P. T. and
S. B. Klapp.
4:30 p. in.—Miscellaneous business.
Sunday June 29.
9:30 a. m.—yPrayer-meeting by Rev.
M. L. Winston
10:00 a. m.—The Sunday School of
to-day the church of the future.
Led off by Rev. J. W. Wellons, fol
lowed by whosoever will.
11:00 a rn—Foreign Mission, led off
by Rev. P T. Klapp.
12:00 in.-—Dinner.
2:00 p. m.—A sermon by Rev. J. P.
Barrett, D.D., on the Distinctive
Principles of the Christian church.
We hope all the churches belorging
to tins district_will be represented.
The churches are as follows: Pleasant
Grove, Va, Union, Va., Hebron, Mt.
Auburn, Liberty (Vance,) Pope’s
Chapel, Mt. Barmel, Walnut Grove,
Oak Level, Youngsville, Lebauou,
Good Hope, New Hope and Beulah.
S B. Klapp, Sec.
A Lamb at isenooi.
(selected BY MRS. anSie klapp.)
THE TRUE STORY ABOUT MARY AND
HER PET.
Most of our young readers will be
surprised to hear that the well-knoWTi
nursery song of -Mary Had a Little
Lamb' is a true story* aut^ that ‘Ma
ri’ is still living. About "seventy
daughter ot a farmer in Worehester
Count y, Mass-.- she was very fond of
going with her father to tlif. fields to
see ihe sheep, and one day they found
*a baby lamb which was thought to be
dead. Kind hearted little Matyf how
ever, 1 i-fted-ttrttft-ffl her arms, ~ land as
it seemed to breathe, she carried it
home, made it a warm bed near the
stove, and nursed it tenderly.
Great was her delight when, after
weeks of caretui feeding and watch
ing, her little patient began to grow
well and strong, and soon atter it was
able to run about. It knew its.young
mistress perfectly, always came at her
call, and was happy only when at her
side. One day followed her to village
school, and, not knowing what else to
do with it, she put it under her desk
and covered it with her shawl. There
it stayed until Maty was called np 10
the teacher's desk to say her lesson,
and then the lamb walked quietly af
ter her, and the other children burst
out laughing. So the teacher had to
shut the little girl’s pet in the wood
shed until school was out.
Soon after this a young student
“named .John Eollstone wrote a littje
poem about Mary and her lamb and
presented it to her. The lamb grew
| to be a sheep and lived for many
I years, and when at last it died, Mary
grieved so much for it that her tno'hei
| took some of its wool, which was ‘as
[ white as snow,’ and knitted her a pail
i of stockings to wear in remembrance
1 of her darling.
I Some years after the lamb’s death,
t Mrs. Sarah Hall, a celebrated woman
wbo wrote books, composed some
verses about Mary's lamb and added
them to those writen by John Koll
stone, making the complete poem as
we know. Mary took such good care
of the stockings that when she was
grown-up woman she gave one of
them to a church fair in Boston. As
soon as it became known that the
stocking was made from the fleece of
‘Mary's little lamb,’ every one want
ed a piece of it; so the stocking was
raveled out and the yarn cut into
short pieces. Each piece was tied
to a card on which ‘Mary' wrote her
name, and these cards sold so well
that they brought the large sum ot
f5l40in the Old South Church.
Do It Sow.
There is word tor one and all,
Do it now.
Hear the Master to thee call—
Do ltnow.
Lead the young, the weak, the old,
Woo the strong, the brave, the bold,
To the tender Shepherd’s fold,
Do it now.
Can you help an erring one ?
•“ Do it now.
Stay not for “to-morrow’s sun,”
Do it now,
Bid them leave the paths of sin,
And a better life begin;
If some wanderer von can win—
Do it now.
If lor Jesus you can speak,
Do it now.
Though your tones are low and weak,
Do it now.
Take the tempted by the hand,
Point them to the better land
That awaits''beyond the strand/'
J3o it now.
BidJhem trust in Jesus’ power.
Do it now.
Flee to Him this very hour,*
Doit now.
Tell them that His life He gave
Us from endless wrath to save,
Gained the victory o’er the grave:
Do it now.
Presbyterian Journal.
Wishing and Willing:
Wishing and willing two words
much alike in sound, are interpreted
as much alike in meaning, hut are, as
a fact, quite unlike. The confusion
bet, veen~ them has rather disastrous
results in' the realms of ethics and of
psychology. We may say that every
one wishes to be good, except possibly
Satan himself; but not every one
wills to be good. Those who are
brought into constant contact with
the morally ragged edge of human
kind, know that many of these waifs
prefer doing the right to doing the
wrong. “My house,’ said a Christian
worker recently, “is‘a moral, sung har
bor for these wrecks; they come to me
and I patch them up the best I can,
but 1 know' that most of them will
soon go back; they surely want to do
right, but that feeling has not gone
deeper than a wish, it has not reach- —=■
ed the fundamental part in man.
the will. They therefore are fickle.’
Wishing may be called the water
which is calm and smooth as the
pavement, now lashed into madness
with the whips of the wind: now warm
with the sun, now frozen into iron.
The will is the rock against wlitch the
winds break; solid, immutable in the
storm, and the calm, in the heat, and
in the cold The wishing is the cloud,
beautifully, catching up the colors of
the rainbow now black; fierce, deatli
dealiug. The will is the sun, climb
ing the heavens, resistless, careless of
wind and cloud. The wishing is the
air, hot, cold, silent hissing iu the
storm.. The will is the earth which
through the moving seasons moves in
its lore ordained ct.uroo in space ami
tune.
This distinction between^ wishing
and' willing suggests one cause ot
spiritual (ieclensiou;.,.the_sp.iritual .life...
has reached the power of wishing
only, and not the power of the will.
When the spiritual lile has reached
the wtli, ami has moved it to a choice
of God, the spiritual lifers permanent;
the -perseverance of the saints is illus
trated Hut when the desire is alone,
reached, the spiritual , life is the
transient: the doctrine of failing from
a race receives illustration —Tne Ad
y
ranee.
Money Portraits—The Journal
of Education gives the following in
I teresttng list, which will be found very
useful and. instructive:’ *}Portraits on
paper money; $1. Washington; $2,
Jefferson; $5, Jackson: $10, Webster;
$20, Hamilton; $50, Franulin; $100,
Lincoln; $500, General Mansfield;
$1,000, Madison: $10,000, Jackson.
On sivler certificates; $10, Robert
Morns; $20, Commodore Decatur; $50,
Edward Everett^$100, James Monroe,
$500, Charles Sumner; $1,000, W. L.
Macey. On gold notes; $20, Garfield;
$50, Silas Wright; $100, Thomas M.
Benton; $500, Abraham Lincoln; $1,
1-000, Alexander Hamilton; $10,000,
Andrew Jackson.’’
A school hoy defined strong drinfe
as ‘the stuff that causes, the most hu‘
man bappfness by letting it alone.’
i
The Christian who does not believe
in foreign missions does not believe in
the Apostle’s Creed. Repeat it’and
see.
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