THE LAST ROAD.
1.
Across the silence of the hills
O distant Ills of dream!)
he Piper's magic music shrills
‘And ripples like a stream.
Beyond the moor, beyond the fen,
Thin, tremulous, and silver clear,
It pierces to the souls of men,
It calls—and they must hear.
The voice of all the crowded town
(O voice of tears and laughter!)
The Piper's charmed note shall drown,
They turn and follow after.
« By its wild lure their feet are drawn
To walk a way they do not know,
Whatever heart be left to mourn,
It calls— and they must go.
IIT.
They leave their hearts’ desire behind,
(O witching tune the Piper plays!)
one know what they may hope to find,
What waits beyond the trackless ways;
No grief can hold, no love can keep,
No wild regret their eyes can dim;
Whatever heart be left to weep
The Piper calls—they follow him.
—Ursula Twenty, in the Pall Mall Mag-
azine.
The Hero of the Sis
Mike was the pet of the fire bri-
gade men. He was only ten. quite a
little boy in fact, but he liked to be
considered a man. His father had
belonged to the fire brigade, and he
died from wounds inflicted while en-
deavoring to save the inmates of a
burning house. His mother had died
from the shock, and had left behind
her little baby boy, Mike, when he
was only a few days old.
Another fireman's wife had taken
the tiny fellow to nurse with her
own children, and he had been called
Michael, after father As he
grew up he loved to go to drill with
the brigade men, and to watch them
cleaning the brass of the big fire en-
gines and escapes. He would run,
fetch and carry for the reward of
hearing some story about people res-
cued from burning houses, and so on.
If any boy were liable to be spoilt,
that boy would have been Mike, but
it seemed impossible to spoil. Ie
was always obedient to his foster-
parents and teachers, and unselfish
toward the children when he played
with them.
Mike's ambition was to go en the
fire engines with ihe men when they
were called to action. He had often
pleaded to be allowed to go, but in
vain.
One night as he
strange light
through the
Then the cries
his
lay dreaming, a
seemed to fill the room
window from outside.
and shouts of men and
women from the street below filled
his ears. Something was on fire!
For a moment his brain grew dizzy,
and he felt afraid, for he knew that
the fire must be near. Then he
jumped and looked out of the
window.
The fire station was built with two
great wings from the main building,
and between them was a large court-
yard. In this courtyard Mike could
see a throng of people looking up to-
ward the house, their faces lit by
some light which came from above—
whence he could not tell. With trem-
bling hands he pushed up the win-
dow and looked up. The flames came
from the goof of the very building he
was in. The fire was quite close to
him!
When the people saw Mike at the
window they gave a great shout.
The little fellow looked down on
the great seething mass of faces and
then above and around at the huge
flames leaping and jumping higher
and higher, They seemed to be clos-
ing in all around him. He wondered
how it was he had been left there
alone, when a child's cry of fear
made him turn around to see little
Willie, a child of three, come through
his bedroom door. As the door was
opened a volume of dense smoke
poured in, and beyond Mike could
see the angry red flames that curled
up and up. For a moment the smoke
blinded him, then he rushed forward
and slammed the door to, clasping
the little sobbing boy in his arms.
“I'se so fwightened,’’ Willie whim-
pered.
“Hush! hush!” said Mike sooth-
ingly to the littie fellow, who was
motherless like himself and a great
favorite. “Mike will take care of
you:
This he said with
but feeling as if he were telling a
story, for he was perplexed and be-
wildered and saw no way of escape.
He took Willie to the window and
called and shouted to the people be-
low. They called and shouted in re-
turn, and in the din and roar of
voices Mike could scarcely hear what
they said. It seemed as if they were
bidding him have courage, that the
fire escapes were all in use on the
.other wing of the building, and that
help was coming.
He tried to be brave for Willie's
sake, who was quite happy now he
was no longer-alone. He clapped his
hands with glee as he saw the fiames
leaping up and laughed in childish
mirth as he watched the people be-
low. :
“What are they all doing, Mike?
he asked.
And Mike, who saw the smoke
slowly creeping in under the bed-
room door and heard the hissing
and crackling of the burning wood,
laughed, toc, watching all’ the time
for the promised help to come.
Then he saw the firemen take a
Jarge blanket and hold it under the
window where he stood, andy which
was three stories high. He knew
what that meant weil enough; Ie
had not lived in a fire stalion all
his life for nothing. It meant that
he was to Izap Irom the window in-
up
great courage,
to the hlanket. which would be low=
ered as he reached it.
“For himself he was rot afraid,
but for Willie. He was such a little
chap, and could never be persuaded.
to jump. He could not throw him
into the blanket, for he was but
small himself, and he knew instinc-
tively that his strength would not
be equal to the task of aiming
straight.
With a cry, almost of agony, and
a tightening of his arms around
Willie's baby form, he hurled himself
into the space below,
Cheer after cheer arose from the
anxious spectators, but Mike heeded
them not, for he was quite stunned
by the fall. When he came to it
was to find himself and Willie in a
warm room and a cosy fire, while
his foster mother was bending over
him and trying to get him to drink
some cordial.
“Brave boy!” she whispered; and
Mike's heart leaped at the words.
Then she explained to him how
he had been left behind in the hurry
and confusion of the fire plan. She
had taken her two children away,
meaning to return for him alls Wil-
lie. But the fire had gained ground
so rapidly that she had been unable
to do as she wished.
“But you are safe now,
ing, and little "Willie, too.
saved his life, Mike!”
“Oh, no!” cried Mike, flushing all
over.
“Yes,” she returned; “if you had
not carried him in your arms he
would have dropped to the ground
through fright, and been dashed to
pieces, and you risked your life by
carrying him, too. Every one says
$0."
But Mike would not have it.
“There was nothing else to do,” he
answered simply, and said the same
when he was grown up and a fire-
with more than one medal from
for sav-
OWN, ==
my darl-
You
man,
ihe Royal Humane Society
ing lives at the risk of his
Cassell’s Little Folks.
A REMARKABLE CAVE.
Was It Hewn Out of Rock by a Smith
For a Smithy?
majority of in
Edinburgh and the vicinity re-
markable Gilmerton Cave un-
known, and unvisited even if known
by hearsay. We are not, however,
the first to notice the cave, for in
1782 the Rev. Thomas Whyte, then
minister of Liberton, has the follow-
ing story on vecord: ‘Here is a fa-
mous cave dug out of a rock by one
reorge Paterson, a smith. It was
finished in 1724, after five years’
hard labor, as appears from the in-
seripticn on one of the chimney
heads. In this cave are se veral apart-
ments, several beds, a spacious table,
with a large punch bowl, all cut out
of the rock in the nicest manner.
Here there was a forge, with a well
and washing house. Here there were
several windows, which communicat-
ed light from above. The author of
this extraordinary piece of workman-
ship lived in it for a long time with
his wife and family, and prosecuted
his business as a smith. He died
in it about the vear 1735. He was a
feuar, or feodary, and consequently
the cave he formed and embellished
so much, and the garden above it,
were his own property, and his pos-
terity enjoyed it for some time after
his decease. His cave for many years
was deemed a great curiosity, and
visited by all the people of fashion.”
Having procured the gate key and
a couple of oil lamps, we unlock the
door, and descend at once by a flight
of twelve steps to the beginning of a
long passage. On the right is the
forge, - indisputably enough, on the
left the jamb of the first doorway.
The main passage, which is about six
feet high and three feet broad
throughout, maintains a straight di-
rection, roughly, westward for a dis-
tance of forty-one feet. It then turns
abruptly to the northwest, and after
expanding into three rounded cham-
bers ends in a long passage, eighteen
feet long and very narrow, which is
said to be the beginning of an under-
ground communication with Craig-
millar. At the foot of the entrance
steps the doorway on the left leads
into a partly straight sided chamber,
which expands into two curved inner
rooms, a ledge of the rock being left
in each about eighteen inches to serve
as seats or beds. All the hewn work
throughout these chambers and pas-
sages has been done with an imple-
ment of iron, not chisel-shaped, but
sharp pointed. The question arises—
Is the story of George Paterson likely
to be true? Can we find him in any
records, local or other? Where was
he buried? So remarkable a feat as
he hewing out of a series of cham-
bers in solid rock and the dwelling
therein of a blacksmitn and his fam-
ily would surely help to keep green
the record of the man who performed
it. But the parish records are silent,
and locally nothing more is known
of Paterson than what is contained in]
the statement by the parish minister
of 1782.
Computing: very 2
amount of rock actually hewn @nd
removed from. the cave before the
chambers and passages were in a fit
state for habitation, we are conlront-
ed with the result that rock to the
extent of half a million cubical feet
has “been thus displaced—probably
an underestimate. Is it creditable
that this quarrying was the work of
one pair of arms, even if those arms
drove the pick for several years?
Judging the work from the stand-
point of archaeology also, we find |
that the Gilmerton Cave is oniy one
of a large number of chambered and}
recessed hollows- in similar rock,
hewn in the same style, and with
similar entiances, decor jambs and
bar holes.-—Edinburgh Scotsman.
To the residents
the
is
roughly the
Mean,
WLLL CLLR,
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Subject—The Ten Words.
Brooklyn N. Y.—Preaching at
the Irving Square Presbyterian
Church on the theme ‘The Ten
Words,” the Rev. Ira Wemmell Hen-
derson, pastor, took as his text Exo-
dus 20:1-17. He said:
Whatever may be our personal and
private convictions as to the manner
of God’s revelation "of Himself to
Moses; however much we may differ
as to the exact form in which the
law-giver of Israel received the mes-
sage of Divinity; however much we
may be at variance as to the exact-
ness of the Bible story in its por-
traiture of the scene when Moses met
Jehovah on Sinai; no matter what
may be our belief concerning the
date and the authorship of the book
of the Exodus, the simple fact is
that the ten commandments are the
expression of fundamental truths
that God has revealed to man. Be-
hind all human law and jurispru-
dence lies the code of Moses. These
ten stern, terse negative commands
that Moses got from God are at the
basis of all legal theory and practice.
The decalog is the codification of
the divine will for the guidance and
control of human action. The ten
words are the rules of the Almighty
for the regulation of man’s rela-
tions with humanity and his Maker.
Take them, merely, if you will, as
the human recognition of man’s oh-
ligations toward God and society and
still the commandments are of God.
Whether we reach the conclusion by
the tiresome philosophy of the d-
dle Ages, or by the simple. reason-
ing of the earliest minds of Israel,
or by the scientific discriminative
processes of modern thought, the
faet is: that -all truth is from God.
“Thus saith the Lord’ is the source
of life’s verities. It is God who in-
spires ns, God who gives us knowl-
edge and understanding and wis-
dom; God it is who sends us onward
and upward. ‘He it was who put
into the hearts of Moses and of Is-
rael the love of His laws and the
desire to do His will. And to-day
He strives with us as really as Ie
ever endeavored with the generations
that are dead.
The question is not whether or
God gave Moses tablets of stone;
issue is not whether or no Moses
wrote the story of the scene on the
mount, as it is preserved to us; the
point to be decided is whether or n
Moses spoke God-given truth. It all
hinges not on the manner of the
delivery of the commandments but
upon the nature and divineness of
the matter revealed. Do Moses’
words bear the marks of a heaven-
born gift, are they fraught with the
power and the wisdom of Jehovah
Himself? Are they stamped with
a celestial brand and do they ex-
press everlasting verities? Are
they just to men and are
worthy of the King? Do they meet
the needs of men? Are they in-
spirational? These are the tests of
the usefulness and the worthiness of
the commandments. These are the
qualities that must inhere in them
ere they can command the respect
of humanity and evidence God's orig-
ination.
By these‘ standards the ten com-
mandments are divinely inspired. A
glance at them discovers to us the
seal of the Eternal. Experience of
their value in the midst of the ac-
tivities of this world’s life proves
their worth to mankind. Analysis
of their content and their aim leads
us to declare them worthy of Je-
hovah. With all that inquiry asks
and criticism demands the ten words
are at one.
Consider the commandments sepa-
rately and you will grant I speak the
truth. The call of God for undivided
loyalty to Himself is but the voice
of reason. No man can serve two
mastery. And it is a certainty that
least of all can he serve two masters
whose interests aré diametrically op-
posed. We cannot serve righteous-
ness*and sin at the same time. God
deserves the full devotion of every
human heart. To worship an idol
is to lose the consciousness of the
spirituality of Divinity; to mistake
means for the end, material mani-
festations for the unseen dynast. To
play fast and loose with God’s name
is an insult to the Father. The self-
respect of God requires human self-
control. Profanity is indecent and
degrading to mind and soul. The
need and the preciousness of a Sab-
bath’s rest is too apparent to war-
rant comment. Common courtesy
accords respect to our earthly par-
ents, especially when they are worthy
of respect. Strict obedience to the
command ‘‘thou shalt not kill”
would spoil the business of the exe-
cutioners; stop war at once.
The fruits of adultery are all
distressingly visible. The jails are
full of thieves and would be over-
crowded were the Mosaic code rigid-
ly applied and enforced. Lying is
unmanly, . despicable, disre-
putable, devilish. Satisfaction with
a fair share of this world’s goods
is better than covetousness.
The decalog meets humanity
vital points and helps mankind
ahead. Although included in the
law..of love. laid down by Christ it
is by no means-abrogatéd. The ten
commandments Ljpd us as well as
Moses. ‘The words of Christ empha-
size’ their demands. The laws of
Moses are not defeasible or defunct.
They will always be obligating. No
statement of .our Lord and no bit
of New Testamant wisdom legislates
them out of existence or counter-
mands them. They . still bind us.
The eleventh command merely sup-
ports, supplements and reinforces
the other ten.
Love God and you won't
Mammon and the no-gods of
aliens. Much less will you take His
name in vain. Love God and you
will treat His children well. Love
the brethren and you will labor to
make their lives joyous. The words
of Christ serve most to imbed the
laws of Moses deeper in the minds
of Christians who are honest.
Now it is very generally supposed
no
the
they
at
serve
the
o”
that the laws of the ten tablets are
of merely negative force. Explicitly,
I presume, that is so. On the face
of things the element of prohibition
enters, largest, into the commands.
But every explicit prohibition and
negation impliedly = asserts a cor-
responding and correlated affirma-
tion and positive admonition. “Thou
shalt not,” says the law, explicitly.
“Thou shalt’ says the same law im-
plicitly. The law against murder
implies the right of life. The dis-
countenancing of falsehood puts a
premium on truth. To smash our
idols is the first step toward whole-
spirited service of the alone true
God.. The comnrand to stop work
and shut up shop implies that a day’s
rest is necessary and that God re-
ceive specific recognition from His
children once a week at least. These
and the rest of the commands in-
dicate to the man with the open
mind that the ten words are some-
thing more than a series of ‘“don’ts.”
Talk about avoiding prohibitions
is not well balanced. It is impos-
sible for the thinking man to escape
them. The positive commands of
Jesus suggests innumerable prohi-
bitions. The mere ‘‘thou shalt” in-
timates that there is something we
must not do. Men tell us that pro-
hibitions causz men to’ desire to do
wrong. that commands not to do
evil impel men to sin just because
of humanity's sheer perverseness.
But sin comes from the wilfulness
of the sinner and not because of
any law, negative or positive. Jesus
promulzated the most extensive as
well as most statesmanlike posi-
tive law that world has ever
known; but we know that even many
of’ His followers fail to obey it, as
well as the multitude of those who
defiantly deny Him. Desnite Christls
positive example and His positive
declarations and demands men still
continue to run after sin. The shrine
of Mammon is jammed with vo-
taries. The streets resound with
curses. The harlots and the men
of neciean life still strike unholy
bargains. es are shattered and
lives are blighted by the lying tongue.
The cells in > row’ are
ever full nations maintain
armed camvs. Legislators spend
their time tryving to devise ways and
means to de-Christianize our Sab-
bath. T had almost said. legislators
waste their time; for their plans
will never be crowned with success
except America as Ephraim “is a
cake not turned.”
Evervwhere and
every moment men are sinning, and
that in the face of the positive com-
mand of Christ that they should de-
sive and strive for the best. But no
one is foolish enough to say that
the affirmative demand of Jesus that
humanity do and be good Impels
mankind to disobedience. Likewise
it ought to be patent that men sin
acainst negative laws not because of
the laws but in spite of them. The
ten commandments are no more re-
sponsible for sin than is the eleventh.
And the man who says that law ex-
cited him to sin invents a lame and
a thin excuse to say the most for it.
A due and proper regard for tae
ten commandments not only will
lead men to cease from doing the
interdicted sins but also will inspire
them to do good. The implicit ‘thou
shalt” is just as mandatory as the
explicit *‘thou ‘shalt not.” “Thou
shalt not covet,” for vou will have
enough to do and will secure sufii-
cient of this world’s stores if yon
will attend strictly to your own af-
fairs. “Thou shalt not bear false
witness,” for vour own reputation
for veracity is lost with the lie. And
no matter how well vou may lie or
how smooth and slick you may be
the odds are against you, for the
truth must win and it will win.
“Thon shalt not commit adultery,”
Pecause -the perpetuity of the race
is dependent on its purity. ‘‘Thou
shalt not kill”’ because God has given
the other man the inalienable right
io life. “Honor thy father and thy
mother” and let ,them precipitate
any troubles if any there are to be,
not you. ‘‘Remember the Cabbath
day” and make it a true rest- day.
“Thou shalt not take the. name of
the Lord thy God in vain,” and vet
I have heard many a man take more
liberties with the name of God than
you would allow any man to take
with yours. Thou shalt not bow
down to images or serve other gods,
for the Lord is a spirit and a unity,
an idol is a delusion and a snare.
Let us put aside all quibbling and
splitting of hairs and admit the
right of the ten~-words to rule as
the laws of our lives. Let us ac-
knowledge their divine inspiration
and their worthiness. Let us not
seek to escape either their commands
or their implicates. If we cannot
live under the laws of God with peace
and quietude of mind then let us
change not the laws but our mode
of livinz. The fault is not with God’s
reguiation but with our society and
s forms. God giveth and possesseth
oo Humanity has a monopoly
of the wiseacres.
Fhe statement that the ten com-
Ant are of no use to-day and
‘that we have outgrown them is a
bit of fiction. No man is old enough
to outgrow essential truth, nor
any people wise enough and strong
enough to get along without the ten
commandments. So long as men
have minds they must recognize the
force. of ‘‘thou shalt not” as the
decalog presents it. The new com-
mandment may sum up all the wis-
dom of the old ones, but the truth
that swayed our fathers’ fathers
must still command allegiance and
respect.
the
the
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murderers
is
YWhere to Put Your Trust.
My trust is not that I am holy, hut
that, being unholy, Christ died for
me. My rest is here, not in what 1
am or shall be, or feel or know, but
in what Christ is and must be—in
what Christ did and is still doing as
He stands before yonder
glory.—C. H. Spurgeon.
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JMBBATH SCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM-
MENTS FOR FEBRUARY 10, BY
THE REV. I. \WW. HENDERSON.
Subject: Abram Called to Be a Bless-
ing, Gen. 12 Text:
Gen, 12:2 — Memory Verses:
1-3.
The call of God to Abram to leave
his home in Haran and go into a new,
unfamiliar and untried land is the
beginning of the separate history of
a nation. The Scripture immediately
preceding the lesson introduces us to
the beginnings of Hebrew racial ex-
istence.
The call of'God was also a test of
Abraham's submission to and trust
in God. However deeply religious
Abram may have been and however
much he may have enjoved a special
vision of the personality and provi-
dence of Jehovah this still remains
true that he had a surpassing trust
in God and was also uncommonly de-
voted to Him or he never would have
obeyed the command of God as he
did. No information was offered to
Abram as to the terminus of his jour-
ney. God simply called upon him to
gather his family, his possessions,
his retainers, those who were worthy
to go with him, and having gathered
them to lead them forth whither God
should direct. The command neces-
sitated the breaking of the ties which
bind to country, relatives and friends.
To obey it was to be supremely obe-
dient. Also to obey it was to be par-
amountly trustful.
Abram stands as the one mighty,
imposing figure in these earliest days
of Israel’s history. The names of the
mass -of the people, of both great
men and small men, are forgotten.
He alone stands out in monumental
stature. Amidst polytheistic peoples
he worships the one true God. When
fidelity is needed he exhibits it, when
a leader is required he comes for-
ward. How lorg God's spirit labored
with Abram before he reached the
high plane to which he attained we
do not know. We are informed only
of the result. Abram w in the
light of contemporaneous history, i
deed a man to whom Jehovah might
roveal Iimself.
The object of
was that in ateness a
might be od whose ideal
be religious pert je and
heritage should be the 3. §
unto Abram thai,
their prosperity and
nd spiritual, all the nations of the
world shculd call Israel blessed and
become desirous to become in a like
fashion the recipients cf the divine
favor.
Abram wag, under God,
in a new movement the
the world. Heretoiore God had
dealt with the peoples in a mass.
Twice, we are told, the peonle defied
His authority. Before the flood they
sunk themselves in sin; after the del-
uge, Babel. And so God sets apart a
people who shall be to the nations
and to all mankind an ensample cf
religious worth. In order to Paioh
the truth of this story it is not ne
sary to do either of two thi
are occasionally done.
necessary either to forget ¥
Abram is entitled to be considered
as an historic characier, nor is it
necessary to forget that this is not
the march of a single individual and
a few adherents, bound to hin by
the ties of collateral consanguinity.
Abram looms toc large, not only in
the records of Israel, but also in the
history of humanity, to be lightly
brushed aside. And when in Gen.
14:14 we find that Abra **led forth
his trained men, born | in his house,
three hundred and eighteen,” we un-
derstand that a considerable nomad
tribe followed Abram in his pilgrim-
age into the land foreordained for
them by God.
The lessons for us are immediate
and real, howevzar remote the exam-
ples may be. Abram’s trust and sub-
mission are the pattern for ours. Our
fidelity should be Abramic and more.
He had only the dawn of the relig-
ious day to light him on 3
We have the sunshine of ¢ od’s trut h
for the illumination of our pathw
God made Isracl to the envy of
the world. He will make America
so to be if America will be obedient
and faithful to the heavenly vision,
if America will put her trust, active-
ly and effectively, in Him.
Vs. 1: “Country.” From Haran.
He bad previously left ‘Ur of the
Chaldees.”” '*Will shew.” Notice the
future tense. = No advance informa-
tion is granted.
Vs. s*And."””-. Beiter, “that.” It
was a prerequisite to greatness and
the blessing that Abram should leave
Haran. God had to get him away
from his surroundings in order to do
the work He had in mind. A new en-
vironment was as necessary as obe-
dience.
Vs. 3. “Blessed Possibly better,
“So that all the families of the earth
shall invoke a blessing like thine for
themselves.” This promise is ful-
filled in our day through Christ.
Vs. 5. “Went [orth—came.”” The
beginning and fruition eof faith and
submission are in a few words here
epitomized,
Vs. 6. ‘“‘Shechem. Between Mts.
Ebal and Gerizim in Central Pales-
tine. “Oak.’ R. Terebinth.
Called “The Oak of Divination.”
Vs. “Appeared.” It was «
common experience in the lives oi
the holiest men in Israel. It is no
less common to-day, and it would not
be at all uncommon if men would
ractice. the presence of God. *‘Al-
tar.” Abram is represented as erect-
ing altars at the places where he had
received a special insight into the
desizns of God.
Ve, 8S. “Beth-el.”
In Central Palestine.
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he
Hcuse of Cod.
Says the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat: “We have accepted responsi
bilities which . require .a large navy
have been niggard about supply
ing the ships and the bluejackets tc
man them. The strength of the navy
should be continually increased until
we have reached a paint of absoldte
which will no% ‘he ‘for many
: We should not be niggard in
making provision either material J
or personnel.”
and
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EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONG
———————
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY
The Blessing of
58. 6 12.—Southern
Work.
10.
Helpfulness.—Isa.
Educational
referenc
25- ST >
of
Passages for
18-22; Luke 10.
That the spirit
unselfishness—is very evident from
all the teachings of the Bible. In
the main reference for our topic we
find clearly set forth the idea that
God gave to the people through the
prophet Isaiah. They had formed a
wrong idea of what a fast meant, and
while claiming to be religious they
had abused their religious observan-
ces. In brief, .the true idea that is
enjoined is that relief to the needy,
whatever the need may be is the true
expression of a right attitude toward
God. He needs not our help, but his
weak ones do, and we pay our debt to
him by helping them for his sake.
More and more the contrast between
Christianity and the world is being
brought to the front. The world says,
Look out for this man—self; Chris-
tianity says, IL.oock out for the other
man. In the world spirit all the
world pours its contribution into the
hopper of self to enrich the individual.
In the Christian spirit the individual
pours out of his resources and drains
his forces to scatter abroad and en-
rich the world. It is ali a difference
of. direction. The contrast may be
seen in great combinations. .- Gradu-
ally there has come to the Knowledge
of the country the schemes and
methods by whieh great organizations
and trusts have conspired to enrich
themselves at the expense of the
public.
No individual is able to
obligations to others
at his best. Neither
nation equipped to do its
the world’s work that is
best. It is not at its
considerable number
ignorant, untrained,
posed to every vice and
that humanity
lions of colored people
so. large a part of our
lation did not come here at. first by
their own choice, neither was their
continued state of illiteracy, while in
contact with the white man, their own
fault. Their condition when free
from slavery and thrown on their own
resources s unge r Sach burdens for seif-
support iment was not
their own e questions
the at menace nation of mil-
lions of illiterate pes whatever
their ‘color. For the safety of our
own national life we settle the
problem. It is one that 5
Psa. 102.
Christianity is
meet his full
unless he is
any land or
full task in
not at its
when any
citizens
ex-
is
best
its
and
degradation
is heir to. : The mil-
that constitute
Southern popu-
of
are SO
cof
sel
<
to. a
Fat.
gre
ple,
niust
America’s
problem so far as citizenship con-
cerned. It is the church's problem
so far as their character is concerned.
| GHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTE
FEBRUARY TENTH.
is
Lessons from the Patritishsit.
Heb. 11:7; 2 Pet. 2:4-8; 1
3:17-22.
One faithful man. Gen. 6:
The God-taught man. Gen.
The obedient man. Gen. 6:22
Religion in the family. Gen. 7
19.
Noah.
Pet.
-11.
Public worship. Gen. S:28-—8:
Ged’s covenant. Gen. 9:5-20,
There aie two kinds fear. Noah
was moved, not with fear, but with
godly fear.” (Heb. 11:7, - revised
version).
A good
alone, but
others (2 Pet. 2:5).
Certainly no on will
the l.ord knows how 10 de
righteous; dees
that God the wv ta do it?
Pet. 2:4.)
Baptism,
glad putting
faith (1 Pet.
of
caves
himself
seven
man never
comes bringing
doubt that
liver the
doubt
and one
lacks
like Noah's
forth
3:91);
venture
on ihe Seas
Suggestions.
of Noah's success
with: God.”
was
That
The secret
that he ‘‘walked
will: bring success to any man.
Noah, like all great nen, dared to
do .an apparent absurdity at God's
command, sure that it would turn out
anything but an absurdity.
Noah planned largely;
he accepted God's large
servants build big arks.
What ridicule Noah must
to face before the rain came;
what entreaties!
Illustrations.
ting man climbs a
The top is hidden
but the bhottem is
knows the top must
rather,
God's
or,
plans.
have had
and then,
Jacob's
in the
firm, and
be firm
A trus
ladder.
clouds,
so he
also.
Whoever sets out to voyage with
God will land. like Noah, 2 great deal
higher than his point of departure.
Joats must be built in dry times, or
they wiil leak in wet times.
A mountain never: did better
vice than when it held up Noah's ark,
like a beacon ligt of fzith to all the
world.
Ser-
Questions.
Am I ever: afraid to
Is my religion tor storms,
fair weather?
Am I trying to save otl ers,
ly myself?
rm ——— ba
Francisco
vo
Gol?
only
obe:
or for
or niecres
Thh- San
“Form2ily
bragging
but
affiicted
and have
speaking in wh
growing naval strenzia
ious third dlass nation
and us to make good.”
GOTVes: aecus:
(naval)
have
about our
latterly we
with. a
len
tomed to
achievements,
sHecie
into the
anocul
SOE
of-
become
timidity.
habit
our
huftipt
fence
tal
of pers
lest
take
1
ale
asus
Louis N. Parker, . the, dramatist,
was born in France; his father was
an American, his mother ‘an English.
oman: his first language was Ital
an, and he was educated in Ger-
many.