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PROOF THAT SENTIMENT LIVES.
There was fresh proof offered at the
sailing time and place of the Oceanic
that all the world loves a lover. Just
to get the last bit of essence of sweet-
ness from a parting kiss a man bound
for the other side, let the gangplank be
pulled from his reach and the ship be-
gan to push from the shore. But the
ship's officers and the attendants on
the deck could not permit such a cruel
punishment of a bit of displayed affec-
tion to go further, and orders were
given that sent the ship and the gang-
plank back for the lover. And so he
went aboard, and his fiancee melted
from view among the watching crowd.
Sentiment dead? Not a bit of it; the
world is full of it.—Boston Transcript.
, NERVOUSNESS IN CHILDREN.
Curing the nervous habits or “tricks”
of children is one of the most insistent
problems facing parents. The problem
is made particularly difficult because
the habits come so quietly that we find
them established before we have really
noticed them. Some habits are caused
by disordered nerves, and in such a
,case the doctor must be consulted.
Twitching of the face or limbs, open-
ing of the mouth, blinking the eyes,
hesitation of speech, are all indications
that something is wrong, and no child
must be punished for them; indeed,
mere punishment never does any good
either to the tricks dependent on bad
health or on those of imitation. De-
fective sight is the cause of many so-
called tricks; a child whose vision is
faulty screws up his eyes or scowls in
his efforts to adapt his powers of sight.
In such a case an optician or oculist
should be called in and the sight
tested. A bad habit is simply repeated
action, and it is only by persistently
stopping it that one can hope to eradi-
cate it.—Woman’s Life.
POISON IN DRESS FABRICS.
The London Lancet, always on the
outlook for anything detrimental to
health, has something to say on the use
of arsenic in tae preparation of many
dyes:
“We hold (it gaye) that it is just as
important that our clothing, and espe-
cially that which is worn next to the
skin, should be free from arsenical
compounds as our food. Arsenic is
readily absorbed by the ‘skin, and
symptoms of arsenical poisoning may
easily arise from the presence of the
metal in a garment. Perspiration that
has the property of dissolving many
metallic substances which would be
otherwise untouched. We object to the
present practice of loading dress mate-
rials with mineral substances.”
Woolen garments, silk goods and ho-
siery, are often “contaminated” in this
way. “At least fifty per cent. of the
cheaper forms of hosiery contain very
distinct quantities of arsenic, the
amount rising in some cases to as
much as half a grain per pair of stock-
ings.”
VOGUE FOR HAIR ORNAMENTS.
One would think by the gorgeous dis-
play of combs and pins for women’s
hair that the fad started by Cleopatra
had once more become prevalent. That
women are trying to enhance their
locks by theaid of barbaric decorations
seems to be assured. Much money is
expended on these trivial bits of fem-
ininity every season, although they
have never been quite so expensive be-
The combs are trimmed with
gold, sometimes heavily, and are set
with stones of all colors, shapes and
sizes. They are made in all manner of
ways, the designs arranged most artis-
tically.
The wealthy women have their combs
made to fit their heads, and they also
select their own designs. Side combs,
of course, cannot afford to be so mas-
sive, but the designs are made to
match. The use of the ordinary hair-
pin has become a thing of the past.
Now women are pinning their hair en-
tirely with large tortoise affairs, which
are neatly trimmed with bands of gold
or silver, and since the hair has be-
come fashionable at the back of the
peck they show off to good advantage.
BATHES IN STEAM.
When the little Russian girl wishes
to take a bath she does not use a por-
celain tub or any of the modern appli-
ances to which you are accustomed,
for she bathes in steam, not water.
In the poorer villages there are bath-
houses, which are used in common, but
every wealthy family has a private
bathhouse, a small building, standing
a few steps from the house.
This bathhouse is quite bare inside,
a great brick, oven-like stove at one
end, and some shelves, ranged one
above the other, along one side, being
the only furnishing it can boast.
Every Saturday a fire is made in the
stove, and when the bricks are very
hot water is poured on them until the
room is filled with steam.
The little lady who is to take a bath
lies on the lowest shelf first, and soon
gets so warm that the perspiration
starts out all over her body. She is
then placed on a higher shelf, and
more water is poured upon the bricks,
and more steam raised. This makes
her still warmer, but, nevertheless, she
tries higher and higher shelves, getting
hotter and hotter, until the water fair-
ly runs from her body.
She looks more like a boiled lobster
than anything else now, but she does
not care for that.
Then when she has been steamed
enough she is slowly cooled oft by hav-
ing first warm and then cold water
poured over her.
After this she is rubbed down and
you may be sure she feels as sweet
and fresh as a flower.—New Haven
Register.
The man of real wit breaks forth at
most unexpected moments.
Women usually know what they
want to do, but are slow at finding a
way. 3
Some men can strike a profitable bar-
gain whilst seeming to favor the other
fellow.
Each man is inclined to believe his
own affairs should at all times be given
prominence.
When a woman starts in to make
love she overlooks the ridiculous side
of her course.
The happiest woman in the world is
she who thinks her husband is the best
man on earth.
Mothers of growing girls are always
glad of suggestions as to the lengthen-
ing of their ever shortening dresses.
One woman who has grown tired of
the customary ruffle now cuts a ripple,
opens the lower edges of the skirt’s
hem, inserts the ripple and stitches it
fast.
" Women who find time hanging heav-
ily on their hands may provide them-
selves with extremely pretty hat pins
at very little cost. It is only necessary
to buy the common pins, crush off the
glass beads and replace them with In-
dian beads. The latter can be attached
with sealing wax or solder.
An Atchison girl who is visiting in a
very small town writes home that
when her hostess entertained the
missionary society, instead of playing
crockinole, or pinning a tail onto a don-
key, for hier guests’ amusement, she
opened up her guest's trunk and
showed them all her guest's clothes.—
Atchison Globe.
Why does Paris still continue to be
the headquarters of fashion? Many
women consider that she is living on
the reputation of leading rather than
really doing so. Yet these very women
will only look at Paris models. There
is something about French taste in
color and French touch in style which
is undeniably superior. On the other
hand, we suffer here in some measure
from the want of dash and originality
in our own modistes.
Much stress is laid by those desirous
of reforming marriage expenses in
Sind upon the abolition of the ivory
bangles. A set of these bangles, which
is the first of the articles of jewelry
which must be provided by the father
of the bride, costs from £5 to £10, ac-
cording to whether the bangles are
ivory or inlaid with gold. The bangles
are fragile and easily broken, and
moreover become quickly discolored,
when they have to be discarded and
new ones provided.—Sind Gazette.
Cornstarch is recommended as a
most effective agent for the removal of
grease.
Buttons of tortoise shell are a new-
ness,
Eolienne is nothing but a
silk poplin,
You needn't play
bridge coatee.
There are stockings in every color
under the sun.
None but the young and fair should
wear a polo hat.
There are flower handles on some of
the prettiest parasols.
Hothouse violets are nearly over.
But wood violets are coming.
The bulldog toe is “out.”
tips muse be very feminine,
The most startling stockings are in
half and three-quarter length.
You can make the daintiest kind of
collars and cuffs out of narrow valen-
ciennes.
Ruffles and puffs are among the re-
vivals, and many dainty muslins show
these two decorations.
One mull gown in a lovely shade of
cream white had a skirt trimmed With
six hemstitehed rufiies.
With so many beauties to choose
from it is cruel to limit woman to
less than a dozen hats.
Suspended skirts very well made in
silk or mohair are met with in the
ready made department.
To protect the delicate silk stocking
there are cotton moccasins to be
slipped on between hosiery and shoes,
The street gown which seems to be
taking better than any other model is
the princess skirt and short bolero
jacket.
The princess skirt is the antithesis of
the fashionable pleated skirt. It is
tight-fitting, and reveals the lines of
the figure over the hips.
very soft
bridge to wear a
Our shoe
THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT ‘SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. | ROBERT COLLYER.
Subject: Leading Children Softly.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The Rev. Robert
Collyer, the oldest Unitarian pastor
in Greater New York, preached in the
Second Unitarian Church, Clinton and
Congress streets, Sunday morning. His
last appearance in that church was last
fall, when he delivered an address on
the late Rev. Dr. John White Chad-
wick, the former pastor, who had just
died. The eloquent preacher took for
his ‘text: Genesis xxxiii:13-14, “The
children are tender; I will lead on soft-
ly,” and said:
It was one of the secrets of my craft,
in the old days when I wanted to weld
iron or work steel to a fine purpose,
to begin gently. If I began as all
learners do, to strike my heaviest blows
at the start, the iron would crumble
instead of welding, or the steel would
suffer under my hammer, so that,
when it came to be tempered it would
“fly,” as we used to say, and rob the
thing I had made of its finest quality.
It was the first condition of a good
job to begin gently, later I could strike
with a firmer hand, and in the end pour
out all my might in a storm of sturdy
blows; but if I began so it ended, as a
rule, with a wreck: The perfection of
the Nasmyth hammer lies in the blend-
ing of its gentleness and its ponderous
might, so that it can come down as
gently as a June shower or smite like a
tornado, according to the need of the
moment. So the skillful mechanic
starts new machinery, a locomotive,
a steam engine or even a sewing ma-
chine, gently. It is the first condition
of keeping the balance true that the
- machine shall not tear away at first
at bigh pressure. I noticed the same
In the building up of a grand organ.
The builder began gently in bringing
out its harmonies, with some fine
chords, ‘made those true and went
on to the others, and so wrought
on to the end. Again an animal trainer
while he smites the tiger with an iron
bar, if he i5 wise talks tc a horse, al-
lures him, courts him and makes him
his friend. We do not speak of “break-
ing” a horse, so much now; we “train”
him.
So I love to note such things as these
as I watch the perpetual advent of
little children into this life of ours, and
wonder how we shall deal with them in
the one wise way which will weld
them, shall I say, to whatsoever things
are true and lovely and of good report,
start them to the surest purpose and
train them so as to bring out the
whole power for good which God has
hidden in their nature. There must be
ene right way, and I think this father
found it when he said: “The children
are tender; I will lead them on softly.”
They may seem crude, merc machines
or little brutes; there are some men
who seem by their actions to have
such notions of a child's nature, to
their eternal shame. Here is the prin-
ciple: They are tender; we must lead
them on softly. Solomon may slip in
with his cruel maxim of “Spare the rod
and spoil the child.” He has no busi-
ness about my place while my children
are tender. I can no more be hard
on them than Jesus could. If I hurt
them in this cvil way 1 hurt thos:
who are of the kingdom of Heaven.
My white hairs have brouglit me this
wisdom: That the unpardonable sin
is to be hard on a tender child. I do
not wonder that the old grandsire is so
gentle with the second generation. He
will not tell you, or himself, perhaps,
why he is, but he would fain recall
some passages of Lis fatherhood, but
that cannot be done, so he chokes back
the inextinguishable regret and humbly
tries to get even through the over-
measure. My good mother was some-
thing of a Spartan, a very gentle
Spartan, with her children, but it was
wonderfully beautiful to see her in
her old age spreading her wide, grand,
motherly wings over the children of
the new day. She could no more be
hard ‘upon them, no matter what
pranks they played, than your May
sun can be hard upon your May blos-
som. It was the return of the heart
to the soft answer, the sweet submis-
sion to the better plan, the vision of
the infinite worth of gentle ways with
tender folk, the endeavor, unknown to
herself, to ease her dear old heart of
what little pain there was from the
old days, the feeling that perhaps she
might have gone more softly once.
These children are not things at all
that we can turn out to pattern, but
human beings, each one living to him-
self or to herself, holding a se-
cret we cannot fathom, possessing
powers perhaps we cannot even
guess at—our children after the
flesh; God’s children after the spirit,
but intrusted to our hands and homes
that, coming out of Heaven with hints
of the angels in them, they may go
back when their time comes as sealed
saints. The boy may be the image of
the father, yet totally different within.
We vainly try in our children, some-
times, to see our image, we detect a
faculty or temper we never had. The
Holy Spirit, which avatches forever,
selects and saves, by a law we do not
half understand, and we do not un-
derstand these tender natures until we
know what these powers are which are
waking out of their sleep. My boy
may have a faculty which in thirty
years may be a benedietion to the
human family, but to-day it may look
like a vice to me, and may grow to be
a vice if I did not say, “The child is
tender, I will lead on softly.” He may
be born with an overplus of imagina-
tion and things that have no existence
may seem realities to him; I imagine
he is lying right and left, and then
instead of a gentle guidance, through
which he can find the line between
things and thoughts, I give first a stern
warning and then a sound whipping.
Here is a case where a father and
son are alike, but with a difference.
The father, a minister, has been draw-
ing on his imagination, time out of
mind, for matter for his sermons; the
son has come honestly by the faculty,
but he is not shrewd enough to see
how far he can go without being found
out. The father prays for him at the
family altar, as if he were a son of
perdition, and helps to make him one
through such prayers. “Gently,” I
would say, “pray for insight and fore-
sight; this may be a rare gift you do
not understand. The loftiest poet that
ever sang may be but a vaster liar by
your criterion.”
Children are tender we must remem-
as we try to educate them. We
hs “Nght on a wiser or better-
woman than Mrs. Barbauld; but she
was so eager to make a very remarka-
ble man out of her little nephew,
Charles Aiken, that she educated him
out of his mind into idiocy. So good
parents, who would shrink from laying
heavy burden on their children’s backs,
do not hesitate to lay burdens on the
nerve and brain. : They urge them on
at their books, or permit the teachers
to do this, until the poor young things
lose more in wealth of life and life’s
worth than their ¢ducation will ever
pay for. Lead on softly in these
paths of education. If wour children
want to rush ahead at a pace which
will leave them learned but invalids,
hold them back; a true education is
not a long fever. Here and there a
child may need to be urged on a little,
but I frankly confess that under the
high préssure of our public schools I
would take the children’s side in their
little plots to stay away a day from
school when they have been hard at
work for many days. I like to plot
with them; their success pleases me
more than their failure.
In the culture of the heart, also, we
must lead on softly. I can no more be-
lieve that hard and cruel thoughts of
God will be good for my children than
I can believe in hard and cruel words
and blows, and I have no doubt there
are more so-called infidels made, and
confirmed to that end, by. fathers who
thought they were doing God's service
than there are of any other type. Such
thoughts may be but theology to the
father, but they are very often grim,
hard, real biting torment to the tender
child. It shuts out Heaven and opens
hell to him; it is cruel as the hissing
and biting of serpents to some delicate
small souls. I suffered more agony at
one time in my childhood when a re-
vivalist got hold of me and made me
believe I might wake up in hell when
I laid my poor little head on the pillow
than from any other thing that ever
struck me. Therr lies the way to do a
fatal mischief, the way the seeds of in-
fidelity are sown in many a noble na-
ture. It is simply the rev olt at, the re-
sistance to, and the rejection of, a God
their nature is too larze and sweet and
tender to tolerate. If in these early
days there is no da r star of a lovelier
light, no dawning for the small, bright
soul of a better day, then thera may be
no chance for that seul to pass into the
kingdom until it has passcd out of the
world.
When we quote the Scripture: “Train
up a child in the way he should go,” we
must still. take heed. to our ways lest
Je think more of ft! ipture than
e think of the ch onr mind and
AA on the ot 1ther than the
hither end of tha and train him
for what be should kb rather
than what he mus ihood and
youth. We mus: an r what is
written in the be of the lifa of our
children. I mu ¥ the patriarch’s
gentle purpose in my heart: “The
children are if Ww vill lead on
softly,” for 1 card, who
also Have the long rney before
them.
If this is tru il of 1 dow, how
true it must be cf ti f ours
is a hard and j
woman, father or
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love, if by all the 1
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purpose. 1 think,
man or
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nm the patriarch’s
ceed, our love for
the old home is v ften deepest and
purest in those w ve had to face
the hardest times if - we have fought
through them in this bright, good way,
and led the children on softly. There
were nomes in this country fifty, sixty,
seventy years ago bare of all things
save this one secret—they are the dear-
est places on the earth to-day in mem-
ory of men and women who have every-
thing now the heart can desire. And
when we have done this, what better
can we do than put the whole wealth
of our endeavor in trust into the hands
of God.
“Thou Art My Light.”
A touching incident was narrated by
Dr. R. F. Horton on the second Sunday
after his return from months of treat-
ment by a celebrated Germap oculist.
He was waiting in the oculist’s con-
sulting room, not knowing whether or
not the remainder of his life was to
be passed in darkness, when he put his
hand into his pocket and drew out his
little Bibie—not to read it, but to see if
hi» could. As he opened it his eyes fell
on the text:
“For Thou are my lamp, O Lord;
and the Lord will lightén my dark-
ness.’
#1] had not Sach aware of the very
existence of this text,” he said, “and
I do not know who but an angel could
have led me to it; but I felt that,
wheather I received my sight or not,
those words were enough for me, and
from that time I scemed to know that
I should continue to proclaim the words
of this blessed Book.”
Duty Above Life.
T.ife is a matter of very small ae-
count to any one in comparison with
duty-doing, whether a man realizes
this truth or not. Whatever is worth
living for is worth dying for, if dying
be an incident tor its pursuing. When
the Roman General, Pompey, was
warned against the danger of his re-
turning from Egypt to Italy, to meet
a new trouble in his own land, his
heroic answer was: “Itis a small mat-
ter that I should move forward and
die. It is too great a matter that I
should take one step backward and
live.” Life is never well lived when
it is held dearer than duty. He who
would tell a lie in order to live is will-
ing to pay a great deal larger price for
his life than that life is worth to him-
self—or to others.—H. C. Trumbuil.
Short Meter Sermons.
Kindness makes kin.
Faith gives fiber to life.
Blessed are the buoyant lives.
The selfish cannot be sanctified.
Purity does not rest on a plebiscite.
It takes more than a syllogism to
save men.
Hot air is always
wat d
Deeper science is the cure for scien-
tific doubt.
There are a lot of people who would
rather gather to-morrow’s thistles than
to-day’s figs.
succecded Dy a cold
What Brings Hope.
It is necessary to distinguish care-
faliy between submission to the i £
God and to an inevitable f
one brings hope, but the other
—Dresbyterian Record.
despair.
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JULY 2:
Subject: Sennacherib’s Invasion, II.
Chrw»g. xxxii., 9-23=Golden Text, II.
Chron. xxxii., 8—=Memory Verses, 19-21
=Commentary on the Day’s Lesson.
1. Sennacherib’s defiant messages
(vs. 9-19). 9. “After this.” After re-
ceiving the present from Hezekiah (2
Kings 18: 14-16). “Sennacherib.”” The
son and successor of Sargon. He says
he built towers around Jerusalem and
shut Hezekiah in “like a caged bird.”
**Assyria.” This was a great and pow-
erful country lying on the Tigris. Its
boundaries differed greatly at different
periods. “Send his servants.” See 2
Kings 18: 17. Tartan, or general; the
rabsaris, the chief of the eunichs; and
the rab- shakeh, the chief cup- _bearer,
these being the offices which their
names imply, with a great host. None
of these are proper names. Tartan
was the ordinary title of an Assyrian
general. They were to demand the un-
conditional surrender of the king and
capital. “To Jerusalem.” Sennacherib
was encamped before Lachish, thirty
miles southwest of Jerusalem, seated
in state. From this proud position he
sent a large detachment to Jerusalem.
They took up their position on the
north of the city, on a spot long after-
wards known as the camp of the Assy-
rians. Hezekiah feared to appear; or
perhaps, careful of his dignity, he sent
officers of his court, who were nearer
the rank of those sent. In his place
came Eliakim, now chief minister;
Shebna, now in the office of secretary;
and Joah, the royal historian. “All his
power.” All his army.
10. “Whereon do ye trust?’ Liter-
ally, “Whereon are ye trusting and sit-
ting in restraint?’ Judah was in al-
liance with Egypt, Assyria’s arch-en-
emy; and reference is here made to
this. 11. “Doth not Hezekiah.” Hez-
ekiah is abused most vilely and over-
whelmed with scorn and insult. 12.
“Worship before one altar.” Rab-sha-
keh was not familiar with the Jewish
law, and he naturally supposed that
the destruction of so many altars
would incur the displeasure of the
sods; but the reason he gave to prove
that Judah was weak was the very rea-
son why God was with them to make
them strong. 13-15. “Know ye not,”
etc. This boast was natural. The As-
syrians had had an uninterrupted eca-
reer of success and might well believe
that their gods were more powerful
than those of the nations around them.
They had utterly over-run and de-
stroyed the kindred tribes of Galilee,
Gilead and Samaria. They had for
years exercised lordship over Judea,
and the very king who now defied
them had purchased his safety by the
payment of a heavy fine. 16. **Against
the Lord.” Hezekiah treated this
blasphemous speech as he ought. He
refers the matter to Jehovah.
17. “Wrote also letters.” A little
later another insulting message in the
form of *‘a letter” (R. V., margin) was
sent. The king took the letter and at
once went again to the house of the
Lord. He spread out the letter before
the Lord and poured out his soul in
earnest prayer {2 Kings 19: 14-9; Isa.
37: 14-20). 18. “A loud voice.” An ai-
lusion is here made to what occurred
(2 Kings 18: 28-35) before Sennacherib
wrote his letter. ‘“Jews’ speech.” The
Hebrew language. The Syrian lan-
guage was not understood by the com-
mon people. “To affright them.” It
was a day of great suspense. Already
there was a rumor that the king of
Egypt was on his way to the rescue.
Senacherib had heard the rumor, and
it was this which caused him to put
forth every effort to intimidate Jerusa-
lem into submission. 19. ‘Spake
against,” ete. They saw no difference
between the Jehovah of the Jews and
the gods of the other nations.
II. Hezekiah and Isaiah call on the
Lord (v. 20). 20. ‘“Prayed!” King
Hezekiah rent his clothes and put on
sackeloth and went to the house of
God, while his messengers sought out
the prophet Isaiah to know what to do.
The prayer expressed the deepest need,
the highest faith, the utmost earnest-
ness, the wisest plea, the highest mo-
tive. It was united prayer, a prayer
meeting. Isaiah joined with Hezekiah.
But they not only prayed, they worked.
The king built walls and towers, and
prepared arms and shields and encour-
aged the people to be strong and cour-
ageous, and not to be afraid of the As-
syrian king, “for there be more with us
than with him” (vs. 6, 7).
111. The Lord destroys the Assy-
rians (v. 21).
21. The word angel means “a mes-
senger,” “one sent,” and may be ap-
plied to any messenger sent from God,
whoever or whatever that may be.
Thus in Psa. 104: 4 the winds are said
to be His angels or messengers. The
use of the word “angel” here does not
determine the manner in which the de-
struction was accomplished. It may
have been a storm, a pestilence or
flood. It is generally understood to
have been the simoon. “Cut off.” In
one night God's messenger smote 185,-
000 men (C Kings 19: 35). This gives
some idea of the immense size of Sen-
nacherib’s army. ‘He returned.” The
king and a few others were preserved.
“Own land.” Nineveh. “When he
was come.” Just how long a time
elapsed between this calamity and Sen-
nacherib’s death we do not know, but
it was probably about twenty years.
He records other campaigns, but he
never again came to Palestine. “His
god.” Nisroch. ‘Slew him.” *Adram-
melech and Sharezer his sons smote
him with the sword; and they es:
caped” (2 Kings 19: 37).
1V. Hezekian is exalted (vs. 22, 23).
These verses tell us that God not only
saved His people from the hands of
Sennacherib, but from all others and
“guided them on every side.” Many
presents were brought to Hezekiah,
and he was exalted in the sight of all.
Moral Tone Changed.
Governor J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana,
has caused a great change in the moral
tone of the State. He has made it a
rule that no man who drinks shall be
appointed to office, and his appointees
have extended the rule to those whom
they in turn choose. An important
rule in line with the Governor's policy
is that in all cities having boards of
metropolitan polic e com nissioners no
man who drinks shall be on the police
or detective force 1at no officer shall
enter a saloon either when off or on
duty, except to make an arrest, and
that no member of the fire department
shall enter a saloon.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
SUNDAY, JULY 2.
The Making of a Christian: His Des-
tiny. 1. John 2: 15-17; 3: 1-3.
It makes a great difference, even
to an indestructible gem, whether it
belongs to a crown or a junk heap.
Look around and see how the
world is treating God, and if you are
the child of God, do not expect to be
treated any better.
Could you explain to a caterpillar
what it is to be a buterfly? No more
shall be.
We become like whatever we truly
see, as the sunlight lightens .up
whatever it falls upon, and covers
the roughest stone that receives it
with the brilliancy of the King of
day.
Suggestions.
Our destiny is not to be measured
by our accomplishments, but by our
purposes; not by time, but by etern-
ity. 5
If you want to glorify your earth,
think great thoughts of heaven.
True thoughts of the hereafter con-
tribute to the present; weak and
dreamy thoughts only weaken the
present.
Half of Napoleon’s power was his
consciousness of a splendid destiny.
When one loses that consciousness,
he loses his power.
Hlustrations.
Every Christian is a king tiaveling
through a foreign land incognito.
That your life is of pure marble
does not make it a lovely statue.
Take it to the Sculptor.
The sky begins on the earth; so
does your heavenly destiny begin
with the duties of to-day. '
Questions.
Am I living as one with an immor-
tal destiny?
Am I consciously preparing for my
endless future?
Quotations.
Without a belief in
mortality, religion is surely like an
arch resting on one pillar, like a
bridge ending in an abys s.—Max Mil-
ler.
I feel my immortality oversweep
all pains, all tears, all time, all fears.
—Byron. :
As often as I hear of some unde-
served wretchedness, my thoughts
rest on that world where all will be
made straight.—Fichte.
EPWORTH LEAGUE. LESSONS
JULY SECOND.
personal . im-
SUNDAY,
’
The making of a Christian: His des
tiny. I. John 2: 15-17; 3: 1-3.
The Word.
This exhortation from John is an
appeal not to love a godless and
evenescent world—a world as tran-
sitory and unsatisfying now as then.
The destiny of man is immortality.
The end of all about which we have
been studying in previous lessons on
the “making of a Christian” is to fit
him for another life. The wicked
lover of the world will go down to
everlasting death; but the rigliteous
doer of the will of God shall abide
forever.
There is no term used in the Serip-
tures to describe the relations of
Christians to the Lord more signifi-
cant than this one of “son.” The re-
lations implied, the results obtained,
and the destiny secured are all set
forth in the terms used. Born of
God, and adopted into the divine
family, we are entitled to the proms
ises made to the children of thé
Father in heaven. The implications
are suggestive and glorious: -
Every truly converted soul is
adopted into the family of God. He
dwells even in this life in the so-
ciety of God's elect. He has fellow-
ship with the other members .of the
family, and enjoys the favor ‘of the
Father. He has the sweet sense of
communion and fellowship with the
Elder Brother. He belongs even now
to the great family a part of whom
are on this earth, and the majority
of whom are in the skies. This mem-
bership in God's family insures
eternal life and eternal fellowship
with God.
We may not know just what we
shall be. But we do know some
things. We know that there is an
eternal life. We know that that life
is conscious: we shall see and know
and feel. We shall enter into com-
plete fellowship with the Father. We
have reason to believe that we shall
eternally progress and develop in
mind and affection. The Scriptures
teach that this future life will be one
of growth and service. Whatever
punishment may be given to the
wicked, the children of God are to
have a glorious destiny. They are to
see God, they are to dwell with him
forever, and they are to be like him.
How important, then, to be “born” of
God, to be “built up in him,” and to
be “faithful unto death,” when we
have such a glorious destiny await-
ing us?
A Persistent Nest.Builder.
One of the ost energetic
builders is the marsh wren;
he has tae habit ts such a degree
that he cannot stop with one rest, but
s on building four or five in rapid
nest-
in fact
succession. And there is nothing
slovenly about his work either. Look
among the cat-tails in the nearest
marsh, even within the limits of a
great city and you will find his little
woven balls of reed stems, with a
tiny rcund hole in one side. There
s a certain method even in his mad
ness, for the nest in which his
s brooding her seven
wife
3 less lil to be fount
ire SO many empty
Then, too, 1 :
' roosting places
could God explain to us what we -