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BARLY MORNINGS IN THE HOME.
This is the month “when, if at all,
the busy mother can count on a lit-
tle leisure; but more often than not,
the short days find us with many an
unfinished task on our hands. In
these cases, we must make up our
minds to do the very necessary things
first, leaving the less needed for an-
other time. Let the girls and boys
help all they will in the early morn-
ings ‘and evenings. Let them feel a
responsibility for part of the work, as-
signing some regular tasks to each,
and insisting on its timely perform-
ance. Have a regular hour for get-
ting up, even though the morning is
cold, and do not let “the family” lie
in bed until you have the breakfast
on the table. If you do, there will
be cross, snarly little faces, and the
children %at least, will want to come
to the table half dressed, uncombed,
and oftentimes nnwashed; they will
be irritable, and ready to snap and
“fuss” with each other, thus starting
the day with clouds and contention.
If called up soon after the fire is
started in the living room, with the
consciousness that their part of the
morning work is awaiting them, her |
will be ready for their breakfast; and |
if the hour of rising be such that the’
getting ready for school, or other
duties need not be of the “rush” order
with plenty of time to make them-
selves neat and tidy, the day will
be much pleasanter for all concerned.
One of the greatest mistakes of
mothers is that of letting the chil-
dren lle until breakfast is s> nearly
ready to be dished up that they have
not time to get their stomachs arous-
ad from the night's inertia, and they
do not appreciate the intended kind-
ness, which is, indeed, no kindness
at all. Teach the little folk that “life
is real, life is earnest,” and that it
is much better to meet the duties of
thé day, fully prepared for them, than
to have the “crush” come upon them
when they are nog fret “ready to re-
ceive.” ’
HOW SHE DRESSES.
The time when a woman began at
the beginning of her toilet, and finish-
ed off by pinning on her hat, button-
ing on her gloves and slipping into
‘her wraps, is no more. Nowadays,
when no means, gentle reader, that
you see her put on her hat, think by
she is at last ready to accompany
the patient man who has been gnash-
that stage her toilet has little more
than commenced.
For the latest edict from Parls,
whence come all the queer little
chapeaux we have been wearing this
year, is that these same chapeaux, to
achieve their .proper effect, must be
put ‘on before the hair is combed.
Hence the fashionable lady, having
firmly screwed her hat to her scalp,
proceeds to rol! up her locks inte
wads and curls, and pin them all
around the edge of the hat.
Heaven only knows what would
happen if necessity arose for the said
lady to remove her hat in public. By
this method if has become as much a
portion of her anatomy as her hair—
more so than some of the hair she
wears, if all the hairdresser says is
true—and it would he about as rea-
sonable to expect her to hand out
her right eye or remove an ear from
her head as to separate herself from a
hat worn in this manner.
But a little while ago it became nec-
essary to put on our gloves before
we donned our bodices, because our
gloves are long and our sleeves are
short, and there must be no gape nor
wrinkle where the two are coupled
together.
So it will be perceived that when a
woman has her hat on she is only
about one-tenth ready, for after that
her hair must be “done,” then her
gloves put on, and finally her bodice
adjusted, and in about an hour and a
half from the time she dons her mil-
linery, madam is llkely to be “ready.”
—New Haven Register.
COULDN'T FOOL. THE WOMAN.
State Geologist Kummel, of New
Jersey, ‘was expatiating on the quali-
ties that spell success in any under-
taking. ‘What is needed,” he said,
‘“4n business or professidnal life, be-
sides industry and intelligence, is
tact. You simply can’t have too
much tact.”
“Did you ever hear of John Maid-
ment? He keeps a big store and sells
everything, and manages to ‘convince
all his customers that they're getting
their money's worth.
“One day a woman came in, warm
and angry. ‘Look here, she scolded,
‘that rocking chair you sold me yes-
terday was no good.
“ ‘How so, madam? Maidment ask-
ed.
“ “Why, said the woman, ‘the rock-
ers arep’t even. As you rock, the
good for-nothing chair keeps slipping
sideways all over the place!’
“Maidment threw up his hands.
‘What!’ he. cried, ‘I'll discharge that
stupid clerk! If he hasn't gone and
ers, warranted not to wear out the
carpet all in one place! That style
costs two dollars more than
“But the woman had turned, and
was already nearly out of the store.
« «Mistake or no mistake,’ she said.
there.’ "—Woman’s Home Compt:
ion.
THE CATERESS, A BUSINESS WO-
MAN. :
The catering business is offering a
field for women. In the last five or
.8ix years many women, trained im
schools of domestic science, have
found lucrative employment as cater:
esses. The positions many of them
fill acceptably are heads of. depart-
ment stores, restaurants, managers
of moon-day rest clubs, superinten-
dents of golf clubs, and in some
cases, cateresses, or, virtually, stew-
ards of summer and winter resort ho-
tels.
The women who have made the
greatest success in this line of busi-
ness have had the good sense to be
“business through and through” in
their management, and to place busi-
ness always before social matters.
The most difficult places for them to
fill have been the clubs, where
cliques exist among the members,
and great tact” has to be shown to
keep out of trouble, by avoiding any
show of favoritism to ome clique or
another.
© The women who fill these positions
must of necessity have a thorough
knowledge of foods, the buying, hand-
ling, and proper serving of them; and
algo, a requisite is that they be able
to surround themselves with compe-
tent and able assistants, and have
sufficient knowledge of stock-keeping
and book-keeping to be able at any
time to produce an intelligent report
of the business.—Boston Cooking
School Magazine.
BLOUSE AND LINING NEWS.
A garment which has come into ex-
istence with the very thin blouses is |
a shield corset cover. In this gafr-
ment the dress shield is buttoned in-
side the armhole, which has ‘an ex-
tension the size and shape of the
shield. . The extension is trimmed to
match: the rest-of the corset cover.
Quité a marked amount of elabor-
ation is apparent on the latest things
in blouses. One continues to refer to
them as blouses, from force of habit,
perhaps, for there is hardly a particle
of Dblousiness left in the later de-
signs. In fact, the latest separate
bodice to give it its correct title is
expected to be of the fitted lining and
loose-top variety.
Taffeta silk separate waists have
come into favor again and are more
or less elaborate. This chiffon taffeta
is soft and pliable, and wears far
“ better.than the taffeta of a few years
go. Narrow lace and valvet ribbon
trimmings are the most fashionable
of any, with tucks and plaitings
Indianapolis News.
SHIRTWAIST DECORATION.
Tiny buttons and long braid “but-
tonholes” have appeared upon sO
many silk and flannel shirtwaists that
now the loops and buttons come join-
ed ready to apply. Some of them are
made with colors that contrast—the
peacock coloring being especially no-
ticeable—green silk loops ending in
blue ‘buttons, or blue or green loops
setting off the weird beauty of but-
tons made in close imitation of the
eyes of a peacock’s tail, and strong
royal blues and greens that flash and
change as you look at them.
FASHION NOTES.
That purple, plum, deep red and gar-
net are as fashionable as anything
that can be chosen.
The newest neckwear in the form
of collars shows a generous sprinkling
color,
All that has be=1 prophesied for
boas and neck ruffles is rapidly com-
ing to pass, and the most fascinating
of mew fluffs are being introduced
from week to week.
That purples and dark reds, the
very deep orchids and the clarets pre-
dominate in the imported gown de-
signs.
A long wide crepe de chine scarf
in light blue ‘has tifts of soft feath-
ers sewed all along each edge in such
a way that when the scarf is gather-
ed up and knotted a new kind of boa
is produced.
Some lovely stock and yoke com-
binations have an all over embroidery
of ribbon flower work.
‘Colored cravats are much seen worn
with white stocks.
Nothing gives better satisfaction in
the wearing than the well-made
French garments. The plainest pieces
are trimmed with embroidered scal-
lops and the chemises and corset cov-
ers have embroide~ed eyelets through
which ribbons are drawn.
In Dead Earnest.
A traveling man received the fol-
lowing telegram from his wife:
“Twins arrived tonight. More by
mail.”
He went at once to the nearest of-
fice and sent the following reply:
“I leave for home tonight. If more
come by mail, send to Dead-Letter
Office.””—Lippincott’s.
South America has about twice the
| area and about ome-half the popula-
tion of the United States.
At Gera, Germany, a man who had
‘I won't pay the extra two dollars and |
1 won't return the chair either—so
had a tooth pulled
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sued the dentist |
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
" THE REV. A. H.C. MORSE.
Subjecy: Evangelization. -
Brooklyn, N. Yon the Strong Place
Baptist Church, Sunday morning, the
pastor, - the Rev. A. H. C. Morse,
preached a foreign mission sermon, the
subject being - “Evangelization.” The
text was from Joshua xiii:l: “There
remaineth yet very much land to be
possessed.” Mr. Morse said:
‘ There is an ancient Israel, and there
is a modern Israel. The task before
the former was the establishment of
the kingdom of God in the land of
promise. And the task before the lat-
ter is the establishment of the kingdom
of God in all the world. The work be-
fore these ancient people was prepara-
tory and temporal. The work Lefore
the church is tinal. What remains be-
yond the work appointed to us is yet
hidden behind the hills of eternity.
The supreme thing, then, is the evan-
gelization of the world. And I make
no apology this morning when I call
Your attention to this stupendous sub-
ject. It will do us good to lift our eyes
from our own immediate field, and look
at the world which is the field of God;
and to leave our own little beaten
track, and to swing out into the circle
where sweep His mighty plans. Cen-
turies have elapsed since our work was
announced, and herculean tasks have
been performed. Mountains of preju-
dice have been leveled; rivers of blood
have been forded: fires of persecution
have been endured, and whole king-
doms have been taken. ‘But there re-
maineth yet much land to be pos-
sessed.” I want to speak to you then
up “The Authority for Foreign Mis-
sions, and Their Aims and Inspira-
tion.’
In a single word, the authority for
Christian «missions must be found, not
in the truths we hold. but in the Per-
son whom we love. This may be seen
in the very etymology of the word, for
authority is something added—added
to the abstract truth or duty. There
is no authority apart from a person.
When an attorney is asked his author-
ity, he’ cites the decisions of a judge;
and when a scholar is asked his au-
thority, he does not exploit his opin-
ions, but he names his author. The
same principle holds in religion. And
the ultimate authority must be a per-
son, and that person must be the high-
est. and moreover he must be known.
It is easy to, see, therefore, that au-
thority is ruled from the so-called re-
ligion' of pantheism, for it posits no
personal being. It rules authority also
from rationalism, for reason. fallible
and dependent, cannot be the highest.
And it takes authority from. agnosti-
cismy, for that declares that God eannot
be known. But I shall not pursue this
subject into the mazes of philosophy.
I simply lay this down as an opening
thonght that the authority for Chris-
tian missions is found in Christ be-
cause He is a person, and because He
is the highest person, and because He
can be known. It is in view of this
that He can say. “All authority is
given unto Me in heaven and on earth.
Go ye, therefore, and teach all na-
tions.” : :
Authority belongs to Christ because
He is the eternal word, and is also the
ouly God with whom we have to do. I
know there are secondary sources -of
authority te which we must give obe-
dience, such as to parents and teachers
and to the laws of the State. But back
of all these and over them all is the
personal Christ, and He alone has a
right to tell me what are truth and
duty. And authoriiy belongs to Him
because He has undertaken to dispel
the darkness of the world by a special
revelation of the love of God. He has
joined Himself to humanity to save it.
And it is this revelation of God that
is added to all the truth we hold that
constitutes the authority for missions.
Missions are the propaganda of Jesus,
and His method of reconciling an apos-
tate humanity. And even if He bad
not uttered His great commission, still
world-wide missions would have their
claims, for they are but the answer
to the call from the ends of the earth:
for humanity sandered from God feels
its destitution and misery. The whole
world groans in its hunger. You can
hear it in the plaintive song of the bird.
and the sighing of every breeze. And
after all a world-wide mission is only
an answer to a world-wide need.
The authority for missions is “God
manifest in the flesh.” But what
flesh? The flesh of the Anglo-Saxon.
We are a wonderful people. ILet us
freely admit that we are the most
virile race upon the earth; that our in-
stitutions are the best; that we possess
the bulk of the world’s culture and re-
finement; that we are the subjects of
the best government: and are the most
ingenious and inventive and wealthy.
But how came we to have this premier
position? We are only the great-grand-
children of heathen and barbarous
fathers. We owe our superiority to
the remaining -heathen nations to the
fact that the Gospel was first preached
to us. Wonderful we are. But we
are not the sum {otal of the race of
men. “Who do men say that T the
Son of Man am?’ The son of what
man? Of Abraham? Of the Anglo-
Saxon? Of the man of India? Or of
Africa? Or the man of the islands of
the sea? The manhood of humanity
was in the flesh of Jesus. and I fall
back upon the humanity of Christ as
my authority for a world-wide mission.
And. that is what makes me confident
that the Gospel is the power of God
unto salvation to India and China and
Africa, to the islands of the sea. Not
that we hope to make these peoples
| but a pale copy of the Anglo-Saxon: but
j that we shall develop that gift of
thought and heart which God has
wrought into their texture, and that
they shall be patterned, nof after us.
but after the Son of Man. The au-
thority for missions is found in a uni-
versal hunger of the heart.
So much then for the authority for
foreign missions. Now I speak of their
aim and inspiration. And this is a
phase of the subject which is not al-
ways clear in the public mind. I have
read in a missionary pauper, even, that
if foreign missions are to accomplish
permanent results, we must aim at the
total reorganization of the whole social
fabric of the countries into which we
go. Now that is an evil doctrine. You
can find nothing to justify it in the his-
in the experience of the
| tory. nor
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in the example of our Lord
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and His apostles. They did not aim at
reconstructing the social fabrie, but at
implanting the life of :Christ*in the
human heart. They sought to renew
the lives of meu, and they knew that
‘these ‘new lives would demand new
social combinations. They knew that
no human tyranny could exist where
Jesus Christ’ was King.
We must not confuse the immediate
aim with the secondary aim, nor with
the ultimate result of missions. There
is no work in all the world so powerful
to accomplish secondary results as the
work” of foreign missions. Of course,
the habits are changed and the civic
life reorganized. But that is not the
immediate aim. The immediate aim
is not social nor civilizing, but reilig-
ious. And T had rather, as Mr. Speer
says, “Plant one seed of the life ot
Christ under the crust of heathen life
than cover that whole crust over with
the veneer of our social habits, or the
vesture. of Western civilization.” We
are trustees, but not primarily of better
social customs, but of a life which will
shape its own civilization.
The aim of missions is evangeliza-
tion, and that is the publishing in all
the world of God's glad tidings. The
aim is to make Christ known in all the
world. I state it thus, for though it
does not shift our responsibility, it
does lighten our burden. It does not
remove the obligation to hasten with
the proclamation of Christ, but it does
relieve us of the impossible burden of
converting the world. We cannot con:
vert a single soul; how shall we con-
vert the world? But we can present
the Gospel in such a way to every
soul in all the world that the responsi-
bility for: what is done with it shall
rest no donger upon the church nor
upoh any person in the church, hut
upon the man himself. We can so pre-
sent the message of evangelization
that we can fling the responsibility for
the world’s conversion back upon God
Himself, for He alone can renew a
human heart.
I do not preach upon missions be-
cause I want to challenge your sympa.
thies for the philanthropic rtesultd
which they achieve. My object id
larger than that.: I want your aid in
making Jesus known. I know these
other things will follow. 1 believe that
God is King, and that the hand that
shaped the world at first is in all the
forces that to-day are shaping life. Hae
holds the reins of politics and cem-
merce and “civilization. ~ It was Fohn
Newton who said. he read the New
Testament to see how God loved -the
world, but he read the newspapers to
see how He governed it. And TI am
convinced that all our everyday affairs
do run-into the great goals of God.
And these things, our governments and
customs and inventions. are but as the
chaff before the wind as compared
with the supreme purpose that God,
who is King, shall reign as King, and
rule as Iord of Lords.
* We are getting to understand the
problem, and these last years are wit
nessing wonderful movements. The
annual accessions to the churches in
the- foreign fields far outnumber those
of the churches at home. And in many
instances their offerings to this greal
work go far before our own. More
work is being assigned to the natives
churches, and greater responsibilities
laid on them. Modern missions are
young, but we can aimost see the day
when mission boards will not need tc
send to foreign fields great sums of
money, nor large numbers of preachers
I'or the native churches are prolific ir
preachers of their own who can find
the hearts of their people much Detter
than” we can. And already the ddy
is come when our largest attention is
given to the teaching aud education of
the preachers, and to the general ad-
ministration of the work. That is the
meaning of this call for endowment for
the great Christian colleges and sem-
inaries whieh are growing up in those
far off lands.
Paul said he was a “prisoner ot
Jesus Christ.” That is- the essence of
the missionary life. The Lord’s pris
oner—not the prisoner of Rome, though
he lay in -a Roman prison, and was
scourged of Caesar. He said he. was
an “ambassador in bonds.” He didn’
look like that. His old rusty chain
rattled on his wrists, and clanked in
his empty cell. But he said I am con-
ducting an embassy in chains. Oh,
what limitations the missionaries have
endured! Sickness and suffering and
infirmity and separation from wife and
children. And what are they doing?
Conducting an embassy for heaven in
chains and in a limitation which God
permits. They do not complain, they
feel their freedom, and are the hap-
piest men In all the earth. I have seen
them, battered and worn, return to the
churches at home. But I never ap-
plaud them as some do when they
speak at national meetings. We who
remain at home are not worthy to un-
loose the latchets of their shoes.
The story of modern missions reads
like a romance. One hundred years
ago it was a forlorn cause. Then the
doors of the nations were locked, and
the church itself was either unmission-
ary or anti-missionary. Now the sky
is ablaze with light and there is no
self-respecting church in all the land
that will tolerate a man in its pulpit
who does not publish foreign missions.
And all over the world are to be seen
the camp fires of those who have gone
away with the ggeat evangel.
Can we not read the signs of the
times? Great days are crowding upon
us, and after years of prayer and pa-
tient labor, the Lord is giving us the
attention of this great section of the
city. Can it be saved? Do we believe
in the strong arm of the Gospel? Then
pour your life into this great work.
The church—this church, exists for nc
other purpose than to give the Gospel
to the world. Be large in your interes
in our immediate work. But that is
not enough. Be large in your effort in
world-wide evangelization.
“Christ ia n ¥ipetien ce,
Henry Ward Beecher once said:
“Shallow waters are easily muddied.
After a night of storm the waters of
the bay. along the beach, are foul and
black with the mire and dirt. But look
beyond, out into the deep water, how
blue and clear it is! The white caps
on the surface show the violence of
the wind, but the water is too deep
for the storms that sweep its surface
to stir up the earth at the bottom. So
is Christian experience. A shallow ex-
perience is easily disturbed; the merest
trifles becloud and darken the soul
whose piety is superficial; while the
most furious storm of life fails to
darken or disturb the soul which had
attained a deep epericncy> of the
qaing: of God.”
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR MARCH 4.
Subject: Jesus Tells Who Are Blessed,
Matt, v., 1-16—-Golden Text, Matt. v.,
S—~Memory. Verses, 3-6—Topic: Bible
Secret of the Blessed Life. Rpm
I. The gathering multitudes (vs. 1,
2). 1. “Seeing the multitudes.” The
multitudes referred to in verse 25 of
the preceding chapter. Attracted by
His miracles the people came in great
numbers from ail over Palestine.
“Into a mountain.” According to tra-
dition Jesus spoke this sermon on a
square shaped hill with two tops,
which gives it the modern name of
“the Horns of Hattin,” Hattin being
the village on the ridge at its base.
“Was set.” The usual position for
teaching among the Jews. They stood
to read the Scriptures, but sat to teach.
“Disciples came unto Him.” They oc-
cupied a position near to Him and the
multitude was farther away.
2. “Opened His mouth.” The ex-
pression marks the solemnity and im-
portance of the discourse. “Taught
them.” The moment had come when
the principles of the new covenant are
to be enunciated.
II. The character and privileges of
God’s people (vs. 3-12). These verses
contain the eight beatitudes. 3.
“Blessed.” Blessed means more than
happy. “Poor in spirit.” All the be-
atitudes are affixed to unlikely condi-
tions, to show that the judgment of
Christ and of the world are different.
“Theirs is.” Now at this present time,
“Kingdom of heaven.” The kingdom
of heaven and the kingdom of God
mean the same thing, and have refer-
ence to that spiritual kingdom which
Christ sets up in the hearts of His
children. 4. “They that mourn.”
That is, those who, conscious of their
spiritual poverty, mourn. “Comfort-
ed.” The Lord comforts by speaking
the words of pardon and peace to their
hearts.
5. “Meek.” Of gentle and long-suf-
fering disposition; of peaceable tem-
per; submissive, compliant, yielding.
“Inherit the earth.” Under this figure
our Lord promises the abundance of
spiritual good provided for in the gos-
pel.
6. “Hunger and thirst.” A figura-
tive expression. “After righteous-
ness.” The state, or quality, of being
right with God.
With righteo®sness.
fails to satisfy. 7. ‘The merciful.”
“The - merciful,” says Erasmus, “are
those who weep over the calamities of
others, who feed the hungry and clothe
“Shall be: filled.”
Everything else
the naked, admonish those in error
and pardon the offending.” “Obtain
mercy.” As we deal with others God
will deal with us.
8. “Pure in heart.” The heart is the
seat of the affections, the desires, the
motives, the will; with the pure heart
these will all be pure. “See God.”
That is, possess and enjoy God. 9.
“Peacemakers.” “Those who avoid
contention themselves, and labor to re-
store peace wherever it is. broken.”
“Children of God.” God is the Father
of peace, and those who promote it are
said to be His children. 10. “Perse-
cuted.” Those who are pursued by an
enemy. “For righteousness’ sake.”
Because of right doing. “Kingdom of
heaven.” See on verse 3 11° “Xe-
vile.” To slander; “to be abusive in
speech or act.” ‘Falsely for My sake.”
It must not only be false, but for His
sake; because we are Christians and
are bringing forth fruit unto holiness.
12. “Rejoice.” To be persecuted for
Christ's sake is to be crowned (Rev.
2:10). "Be exceeding glad.” Leap for
joy. “The prophets.” We are to have
an inheritance with the prophets.
III. The duties and responsibilities
of God's people (vs. 18:16). In these
verses we have the “relations of the
Sligns of the kingdom to the: world.”
“Ye.” Christ's true followers, de-
en in the preceding verses. ‘Salt
of the earth.” Salt preserves and puri-
fies, and so Christians spread the
truths of the gospel by which the
world is preserved and purified. “Lost
Ikis savour.” That is, has become
tasteless, and lost its saltness. “Where-
with—salted.”” The question implies
that the salt is entirely worthless.
“Good for nothing.” It is not only
good for nothing itself, but it actually
destroys fertility.
14. “Are the light.” In John 8:12
Jesus says, “I am the light of the
world.” The Christian is not like the
sun, self-luminous, but borrows his
rays, like the moon, from a primal
source. Light is not only opposed to
darkness, but overcomes it; so the
truth and holiness possessed by the
disciples of Christ, who is the true
light, dispel the world’s darkness, by
overcoming its ignorance and sin.
“Cannot be hid.” In the East cities
are often built on hills. The illustra-
tion vividly sets forth the high calling
of the followers of Christ.
15. “A candle.” Rather, “lamp,” as
in Revised Version. “A bushel.”
Rather, “the bushel” (see R. V.), that
18, the common measure found in every
Jewish house. Strictly speaking, the
modius, translated “bushel,” denoted a
smaller measure equal to about two
gallons, “Candlestick.” Rather,
“lampstand.” The lamps were of
earthenware or metal, in the shape of
2 saucer, turned up on one side to
hold the wick. Olive oil was used to
burn in them. The idea is that even
men would not be so foolish as to
light a lamp and then cover it, and cer-
tainly God will not be so unwise as to
illuminate His people and then keep
them in concealment. 16. “Light so
shine.” Where Christ is in the heart
the spirit of Christ will shine out in
the life. We are commanded to shine
in such a manner that our good deeds
will give glory to God. We cover our
light by pride, worldliness and osten-
tation; we let our light shine by living
a humble, holy life, and by keeping
filled with the love of God (Rom. 5:3).
The Denial of Self.
am ist’s call to His disciples js this
If any man will come after Me je
him deny himseif, ad take up his
cross and follow Me.” The Lord does
not invite us to a duty that He himself
has declined. 1f is not a coming to a
stationary example, following
—
after a fore-ruuning uple. This in-
vitation assumes a theory of
life and one entire contrary to the
popular trey of our own day, in that!
it lays down the law of self-sacrifice
for the attainme of the 1 ind
most satisfying g
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS.
SUNDAY, MARCH 4.
A Life of Unseifish Ministration.—
John 4:21; 1 Cor. 19-23.
Sympathy is “putting yourself is
is place.” Some people are able tc
o that without much. effort. Other:.
nd that it takes quit an effort of the"
Imagination. But unless it is dons
there ‘can ‘be no sympathy. You can
pot sympathize with the sorrows o
another unless they really seem tc
you to be-sorrows. “And they cannof
be unless you either have his poins
pt view to begin with or you put your
self there.
' The desire that God's kingdom maj
prosper makes many a person a help
er of others far beyond the limits or
his personal acquaintance. We cannor
rome into personal touch with tht
eople reached by our missionaries iz
heir far-scattered fields. But we be
lieve in missions as part of the plar
of the kingdom and our money, whick
!s one evidence of our faith, helps peo
ple we never knew and never shal
know unless we make acquaintance iv
the life that is to come.
Love is the self-sufficient motive
{t does not depend on the imagina
tions and the ability to understand
as sympathy: does. It does not spring
from any conscious desire to spread
the kingdom as zeal does. It is jus
itself. Where there is love there ig
helpfulness. It does not always stor
lo reason. It is its own reason for be
ing. It cannot be analyzed, and it
does not not need to be explainea. |
Is love. Whoever loves, helps. Ever
if the amount of assistance seems
be small, love is help. That is wh;
our poor help is acceptable to God
Doubtless an archangel could do per:
fectly some things we do bunglingly
But, with all our blundering, Gbd ac
cepts our imperfect helping of hi:
work when it is the gXDiession of our
love.
Love was and is’ the Zreat (hrist.:
motive. God so loved that he. gave
Jesus so loved that he healed, and fec
and cleansed, and: comforted, and
taught, and saved giving’ ‘out of his
mighty resources, ‘and asking for n¢
return save that a litfle of the sain
love should be passed on. from life ‘t:
life. “Love one another, as I have
loved you.”
whole gospel of helpfulness, with mo-
tive power enough to make it opera
‘ive until the ‘end of ‘the world: = ~~ = v4
CHRISTIAN ENDENVD ENDEAVOR NOTES
MARCH FOU FOURTH. Vi
What ie True Aappiness? The World:
ly Idea; The Christian Idea. —
Luke 6:20- -26; I John 12-17. 2 Cor.
6:10; Phil. 4:4-7. > |
In nothing Christianity more sharp
ly contrasted with worldliness than "iz
the ideals of happiness of the two. =
The strength of the Christian ideal
of happiness is this, that it is an .end-
less prospect. - . i ae
The Christian's Sadie 5 ‘offen’
paradoxical; and finds its richest. ma-}
terials where the world would find the
poorest” or none at all.
Our happiness, in proportion as it is:
Christian, is unceasing and flawless.
Suggestions.
‘Happiness is west sought
seeking it.
The truest happiness is tne reflec
tion of happiness given another..
Christ was a ‘man of
of our sorrows; He came that His joy
might take the place of them in us.
Happiness never happens;
most logical of all results. :
Hiustrdtions.
Happiness is like bodily
its best when we do not think about
It
The search for happiness like the
search for the pot of gold at the end
of the rainbow, which moves ahead of:
us as we advance.
Hawthorne tells of a youth who
looked all over the world for a treas-
ure he was to dig for and find beneath
a certain sign. Returning home, de-
feated, he saw the sign and found the
treasure in his own dooryard. So
with happiness.
Questions.
Am I expecting happiness from any
source but Christ?
What am I doing to make others
happy?
Am I growing less happy or
happy all the time?
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more
Beware all joys but joys that never °
can expire.—Young.
To be happy is not the purpose of
our being, but to deserve happiness.—
Fichte.
God loves to see His creatures hap-
py; our lawful delight is His.—Bishop
Hall.
ons
Temperance Notea,
Heinz Gorkon, of Hamburg, has lreen
organizing Good Templar lodges in
Hungary.
The Iowa State officials ave planning
to set to work in the coal mines. the
drunkards that are sent to the new
inebriate asylum of the State.
The “bread line” of homeless, ragged. .
diseased outcasts, who wait in the
evening at the back doors of restau-
rants for ‘‘something to eat,” is made
up, almost wholly, of men who drink
beer—and who spend the little money
they earn at saloons.
Cincinnati receives $417,647 from its
saloons, and pays $603.210 towards the
Dow fund for providing against evils
resulting from the liquor traffic.
The Rev. J. W. Horsley, chaplain
of the House of Detention, Clerken
weil, London, asserts that it is not the
fogs of winter, but the grogs of sum-
mer that cause suicides to increase:
Of the > men and women ar-
the police courts of New
raigned in
York City in 1904, 77,846, or consider-
ably more than half the total cases,
were, according tl testimony
the police
mari
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