ew ete % WASHINGTON'S (H as AIH 2 2) "A AY I 'DIRTHDAY 9% By Margaret Sangster. ‘ ANNA NANAN “Tis splendid to livélso grandly, BA ou 5a Sone, By id are remembered) t long after The things you And recounted under the sun; To live so Greolt, and Ps, ear with banner and drum, Heep ils thought of; your. natal. day. That a nation) And once a purely, on ify way, Tis” splendid to have a record o while and free That, held to the light; il sho lain rom / wy no blof, Though tested and tried amairn;) “That age fo age “ fiopeass Z And your birt forever ts ‘story of love, oo lives in a nations ‘hear! + All.other days above. And ths isSWashin ton’s 9lory,, _.A steadfast soul and true, Who stood for his When his country’s Ycountrys honor, {days were few. And now, when ity dayy are many, And ifs flag o To So BL 7 : stars defiant challenge, 75 flun : ‘a - % 1 = . His, name i5 on every - tongue. Yes Cit ’s "splendid to live so bravely) ¥ To be so great and strong, Your memory. is ever Thal a tocsin To rally the foes of the wrong; 70. live so proudly and p ‘That your people And ok by ’ ~ Keep the 4 car, with urely, ause in their way, anncr and drum, ought of your natal day. Ay Te i" 1) IR | 3 N what school did the boy Wash- ington develop the qualities which made him a great leader in peace as well as in war? He had courage, balance and patience in the face of difficulties; he could man- age a slave and impose his will upon an army; he ‘was as minutely ac- curate in matters of business as he was broadly sane in questions of na- tional affairs or international rela- tions. Inheritance can give but little explanation of these qualities; educa- tion through book learning contrib- uted little to develop them; experi- ence, the influence of others and op- portunity were the sources of his strength. No anecdotes of his early years are reliable, and the vagaries of good Parson Weems gained currency only because they appealed to general hu- man nature. It is known that Wash- ington was strongly built, was fond of outdoor life, was passionately de- voted to his farm operations, and read slowly, painfully, as a rule tak- ing extensive notes of what he read. He was a fine horseman and knew a gcod horse, as every Virginian of that day was bound to know. His pastimes were fox-hunting, playing with the ministers of his church and breeding hunting dogs, of which he 2 and knew each one by name. A horse race appealed strongly to him, and a visit to the capital gave him the best society the colony could afford. The father of Washington died when the boy was too young to have been influenced by his advice or ex- ample, and the mother, though of strong characteristics, could contrib- ute little to his education or practi- cal training. That a midshipman’s commission was offered and con- sidered is well known, and the rest- less ambition of a boy led him to wish for a sea career. The objec- tions of his mother had weight, and jt was on land, in the hard service of defending the frontier of Vir- ginia, that his young activities were trimmed into that sedate gravity which clung to him through life. In the backwoods he learned how to en- force discipline among a rough com- pany of raw soldiers, taught himself the hard lesson of providing against dangers with inadequate force and supplies. : The two years caras of schooling en- ~ pa Ea 3 WASHINGTON AT vor had a goodly number | a, 7 £m ff Ih ID Lary Life Vashington were only give him a taste: for mathematics. The management of his mother’s plantation brought home to him the necessity of under- standing the ordinary forms of legal procedure. The land questions con- tinually arising in a newly settled country turned him to the study of surveying. Hence it is that among the earliest manuscript records of Washington now existing are to be found his copies of legal forms, ex- ercises in surveying and carefully prepared accounts of his income and outgo. To the end of his life his ledgers were kept scrupulously and most minutely, and each year’s econ- omy may be told from these records, valuable not only for their personal interest but also for the history of a Virginia plantation which they em- body. His first employment was the care of his mother’s plantation, and he there laid the foundation of methods which were later applied to the man- agement of Mount Vernon—a man- agement that was as successful as could be shown in any part of Vir- ginia at that time. He knew what joved by sufficient to tic economy, and he closely watched possible advantages to be obtained from public franchises. When his interest in a ferry was threatened he called for aid from his half-broth- er Lawrence, then in the House of Burgesses. The appeal, a bit of legit- imate lobbying, is one of the earliest known letters of Washington. Shortly after this incident Wash- ington went to live with Lawrence at Mount Vernon, where he amused himself by making surveys of the fishpond, of the creeks and the var- ious fields of the plantation, proving his process of self-education and fit- ting himself for his first public ap- pointment. The influence of Law- rence upon the young man was strong, enduring and wholesome, and was more responsible for the Wash- ington of later jears than all other influences combined. Lawrence was a man in public life, of wide ac- quaintance among the leading men of the colony, a warm friend of the King's representative and of that voluntary exile and decidedly roman- tic character, Lord Fairfax. He was engaged in extensive land ventures and mining enterprises. He was in the Colonial Legislature, and, know- ing that the real greatpess of Vir- ginia lay in the west rather than in the tobacco plantations of the east, he taught George that the true pol- icy of the colony was to secure a share, if net a monopoly, in the trade of the Ohjo—a lesson which years after bore fruit in Washington’s in- terests in canals. It was Lawrence who gave George his opportunities to make influential friendships, leading to his rapid ad- | vancement in public service. It was a very young man who was appoifited surveyor of the Northern Neck when Lord Fairfax laid claim to a prin- cipality, and surveyor to the college. It was a very young man who was .sent by Dinwiddie to the French in- terlopers on the Ohio to demand a full recognition of the English claims. When war appeared inevi- each slave was worth in the domes-4 table—a war arising out of Kuro- pean differences which were in the end determined in America—it was this young messenger who was placed in command. Youth alone cc 11d not have attracted such respon- sible employments had it not been associated with balance of judgment, persistence under defeat and+a power to awaken confidence in his follow- ers. A crushing, and from some points of view a disgraceful, defeat was the first result. - It was as a volunteer aid he served under Braddock and received that baptism of fire which extorted a sneer of praise from the King. Political favoritism gave him a secondary place in the new forces raised for frontier defense, but the very qualities that made him so great as leader of the Continental army were developed in this period of tem- porary eclipse, when his pride was smarting under supposed neglect and he was reduced to the ordinary rou- tine of a military outpost in a wilder- ness. He was restive under fancied disregard of his suggestions and pic- tured neglect of rank and dignity where he was to blame rather than the Governor. Under the royal offi- cers who took Duquesne he had an experience in regular service which was of highest moment when later he assumed the task of fusing into one Continental army the many and differing regiments from separated and mutually jealous colonies. He was now master of Mount Ver- non, a member of the House of Bur- gesses and a married man. His per- iod of eduaction was over, and after a few years of home life he was called into public service which con- tinued with but two intervals of rest until his death. The boy of a few years who gravely enters into his first account book, in a writing but little resembling that of later years, the few pence he wins from his brothers at “loo’’ is the same man who enters the few pounds borrowed of him by his mother. The youthful surveyor who practised ox fish-ponds and muddy creeks ‘is the same man who drew the lines of the independent United States. The inexperienced “major” who surren- dered to the French at Fort Neces- sity, and in so doing unwittingly admitted himself to have been guilty of ‘“‘assassination,’” is the same man who saw the English evacuate New York and abandon the new power of the United States to a career such as the world has never seen. The same sensitiveness to criticism which led the young colonel to resent a dispute of his rank and to feel keen- ly the supposed hostility of the royal Governor is the same man who winced under the unwarranted as- persions of the Continental Con- gress, the cabal of Gates and Con- way and the cowardly flings of Bache and Duane and of the extreme French party during his Presidency. The influences which made Washing- ton are few in number but potent in force, but after all Washington was — Washington, a riddle difficult to explain in a satisfactory manner.— By Worthington C.-Ford, author of “George Washington,” editor of “The Writings of Washington,” and a rec- ognized authority upon the subject, in the New York World. A NAIVE PRAYER. Just before tne indecisive battle of Monmouth, in the Revolutionary War, a brigade chaplain in Wash- ington’s army is said to have offered up this unique prayer: “0 Lord of Hosts, lead forth Thy servants of the American army to battle and "give them the victory; or, if this be not according to Thy sovereign will, then we pray "Thee stand neutral and let flesh and blood decide the issue.”’—Woman’s Home Companion. Seventeen distinct languages, be- sides English, are spoken in India. Lae wr said | would, and I have. x ~ “Yes. father, I can tell a lic. It was ma. who cut down your old cherry tree, and) she says she’ll go for the abple and pear trees next!” GEORGE WASHINGTON. In 1732;-at the beginning of dawn In Westmoreland County George Washing- ton was born. his calling | GEORGE W . In Uniform of a Virginia Colonel. He soon rose to glory and fame, And in history has an honored name. { In 1775 he was appointed “Commander in Chief, hen Gi ay —By C. W. Peale. ASHINGTON, Peale painted fourteen portraits of Washington and it is upon these, although he painted many other famous men, that his reputation as a portrait painter depends. And the British soon added this to their relief. In 1776 he made them Boston vacate, Otherwise they would have met their fate In 1777 there was a glorious time, When Burgoyne surrendered his Gold Mine. In®1781, Washington marched 400 miles on an ’ . . wp To capture Cornwallis and his British and. In 1789, as the country was prospering fair George Washington took the Presidential air. ‘Tn 1799 he died as history says, Mourned by everyone for many days. —Henry T. Clark. It will be worthy of a free, en- lightened and, at no distant period, a great nation to give to mankind tne example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. — Washington's Farewell Address. { 5 The Washingfon Monument. Oh pure white shaft upspringing lo the) I With one grand leap offhecavenward-) : reaching might, Calmly against thé blue forevermore) Lift Fhou the changeless type of souls, tl that soar Above the common Into the radiant ct Shephered by the A hero’s quickenin Unto the skies that Wi thos cast file n those vast ficlds High commune holdq, . oung day, With sunsef’s glow, ra Hath Eid its thn dim night + of sordid strife fa life of eternity! ifteth thee m thee for their’ Af, sublime, along ou with the ng Reart cre twilight’ pbbing fires, and with, That folds thee sofflylin| the silver light, Of many a dreaming mogn. ka majest Serene, like the greall nqme Bnsharined in) thee, 23 0330 t a y y dae IX Shit Wit ALY sstilE cD Fe F Fes = 1ves zabeuethéour 2S 5. Julia Larned = Subject: Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme, ‘“‘Clothed With Christ,” the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as his text Romans 13:14 and 14:8: “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; wheth- er we ‘live therefore, or we are the Lord’s.”” He said: The need to-day in the church of our Lord and Saviour is for men and women who ‘are truly Christ’s. The call of God and of the world about us is for men and for women who in life and unto death are the Lord’s. High in His Heaven the Father yearns in the deepest recesses of His heart for human souls who will serve the Master tirelessly and with a liv- ing faith. The world looks toward the servants of Jehovah for leader- ship and light. Whichever way we may turn our eyes,.we may discern the pleading, beckoning hands of Jesus and of men who want salva- tion. Do we listen but a moment we may catch the cry of a sin-sick world and may hear the call of ‘God. Be- loved, God desires and man needs a strong, full-blooded, sanctified host to live and to preach the true Christ life. The consummation of the King- dom and the coming of the Christ depend largely upon the activity of us who are called Christians. The measure of our fullness of life within Christ Jesus will be the measure of our lasting influence with men, of our favor in the sight of God, of the amount of Heaven's happiness that shall fill our hearts. The way unto ‘righteousness and peace and joy” is through thorough-going union within the Christ. He-is the mediator of our ‘sure salvation. He is the leader whd can bring us perfect love and who is worthy of our aid. Within Him and clothed with the power that He gives we may fear naught but God. Without Him all is vanity. Are you weary? Put on Christ. Are yoy sad or sick or do you wish the richest joy? Turn to Jesus. He is the healer of the whole world’s ills. He is the Saviour who can really give salvation. The burden of our text is a call for the strict and whole-hearted alle- giance of the individual man and Christian to Jesus Christ. ‘Put ye on the Lord Jesus,” says Saint Paul, and the implication is that we are to dwell wholly within the Christ. The all is for men and for women who will be clothed upon with Jesus Christ—not merely once but contin- ually-—unto the attainment of the perfect likeness of our Lord. Now the text brings us face to face —do we think a moment—with these two separate and distinct truths. The first is that it is the duty of every man to enter into the Christ life. The second is that having entered ‘into that life we must progress .to- ward Christlikeness. That is to say, we must grow continually toward spiritual maturity and toward the perfectness of character which should accept the Lord as Saviour, for His power to save is a fact proven and attested by a long line of human ex- perience. We Christians ought to grow into new and richer graces, for thus only do we evidence our love for that Master whom we serve. The duty which we have predicated to be obligatory upon every man is not less a need. The man who neg- lects to obey the call of Christ for entire yielding of self up to God, destroys for himself the greatest blessing which, in life, may be at- tained, and which God proffers to human kind. Only as we accept the Christ as our Saviour and our Friend are we surest of life eternal and of fellowship with the Father here. Convinced of the awfulness of our own sin, as every normal, right- ininded man must be, it is clearly as much a necessity as an obligation for each of us to seek and to sieze that certain cleansing from the stains of an evil life which God has sent us through His Son, our Elder Brother. Desiring, as we all do, the highest happiness for self, it is hard to un- derstand why men refuse the Gos- pel. Hoping, as each of us should hope, for the accomplishment of the greatest usefulness in the world, it is difficult to believe that men can, de- liberately and willfully, disdain to accept that Heaven-born power which can make us most worth while. Pur- ity, happiness, success: All three can be had at the hands of God Himself if men will but heed the Gospel of His Son. Wise is the sinning soul who believes. For he who loves Christ, lives best. If the need of the man who is far away from God is great to put on Christ, the obligation of the Chris- tian to be continuously clothed upon by Christ is just as real. We must ever be renewing that spiritual life with which the Christ in our first acceptance of Him hath clothed us. The Christ life permits neither stand- stilis nor retrogression. We must be on the move and that always ahead. To stand still is to stagnate. We must push on. - Desire for further and grander attainment in the God- blessed life should always consume us as with a fire. Our faculties should be concentrated not upon pres- ent success but upon future accom- plishment. Selfssurvey is a good thing if so be it lead not to scli-satis- faction. That self-survey, moreover, is most profitable which takes steck of mistakes and which incites to further and finer effort. Belief on Christ is not merely assent to a fact, but tHe consecration of -the soul to a life of service for His sake. Mere belief may gain us Heaven, but we must labor would we grow in grace. Many of us who would be ashamed to be rated as ‘‘just passed” in the records of this life's victories, seem to be very well satisfied to slide into Heaven with but small margin to spare.’ The best of our love and our work is none too good for God. The dio Qle, apostle was right when in the words ! RANA ENDERSON TRE FAMOUS DIV Clothed With Christ. ALLL Cia BY -TAE REV~. Ng 0 NE of the text he advised us unresorved- ly to put on Jesus Christ. Thus only can we become the children of God whom we should be—for the fullness of the Christ is perfection. And now that we have considered thus briefly the reasons why all men should serve God and all Christians should be re-clothed day by day with Christ, let us also reflect what is the nature of this life wherewith we are clothed by Christ. = What does the apostle mean when he urges us to put on Jesus? _ What sort of men will we be? ¥ Well, to be sure the first answer will be that the nature of that spir- itual life wherewith we are to be re- clothed or clothed upon, as the case may be, is essentially Christly. The apostle advises us to be Christlike when he points us to Jesus. Neces- sarily and logically, therefore, we will be men who act and live like Jesus Christ. The hymn which runs, ‘‘Jesus Christ is my all and in all,” states the situation perfectly. Self is glorified through the losing of s2if in the Saviour. To put on Jesus Christ and to be clothed upon hy Him is to be saved, to grow from grace unto grace, to be one of that strong, full-blooded, sanc- tified host who, under God, live and preach the Christ life. You will no- tice I say live and preach, for the only preaching that is of value or that, in the long run, will count for anything very.-much, is the preaching that flows rich and full and free out of a life that is consistent, that rings true; out of a heart rich with experi- ence of the glorious joys and possibil- ities of the life within Jesus. And as with the preaching, so also wiih all the means by which Ged’s Gospel is mediated to men. 7 oniy ti- mony which secures resulis that which springs from a sted The only word which. will str is that which has behind it a i in assurance that is born of is ‘hrist ‘ith powe counted sincere ar The Christ man man... That is to say, of force.- He. may be drawn physically, as one 1 of 1 SOT neer ge God whom I k heart is pure, and his n 1 his soul looks yugh windows thataix sin. he with His is his is n an who is beats his is man Jesus heart clear, hand othe full-blooded man. powerfully, his’ eve head ' works auick, ready : and. his ‘step firm when sin. is to. be met battled to the death. Without a quiver, a quaver, or even the slight- est fear will he fight against the wrong. To be sure, he may not be blue-blooded, as the social standards of our day set the term. fe may quail to force the unjust combat. He may refuse to pick a quarrel merely in order to despoil a people. But there, there where the fight is hottest and sin is strongestentrenched; there where the odds are against him and it’ seems his God must fail; there, on the Lord's own side, will you find the man who is clothed upon with Christ. 3ut, above all, the man who puts on Christ continually is sanctified. He is being perfected in holiness. He is in process of attainment iw growth in godliness. Sanctification ig not only perfectness, but the process and way to holiness entire. The aim of the man who is serving is ior the goal. His hand is ever in the hand of God. He never lets policy give the sidetrack to principle. With him truth has the right of way anda the clear road always. His motives aro apove suspicion. If he falls in the race he is still undaunted. ¥or him, to be well up at the end, is ambition’s hope. To keep tie faith is his en- deavor. “For Christ and the world" is his motto. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and be ye clothed progressively with Him. Thus shall ye learn the high- est service, thus shall ve enter into knowledge. of the finest life. a Nourishing the Soul. Why should not everybody, espe- cially every church member, belong to the Sunday-school? asks the editor of the Observer. Surely no one can lay claim to sufficient knowledge of the Bible. Even the most scholarly men of the age are constantly study- ing the Old Book, and are ever find- ing something new in it. In spite of the sensation produced by recent works of fiction, the Bible is more discussed to-day than any other book, and the interest is of the intensest kind. Such a book ought to be stud- ied regularly by every person. We are convinced that by joining the Sunday-school and making use of the best helps in Bible study, the best results can be secured, (Good helps are cheap, for one thing. Theén the study of certain portions of the Bible every week will tend to regular and systematic habits of nourishing the soul with the very food that it most needs. Ram's Horn. Make Us Strong in Trial. We remember the temptations that are before us, when passion from wirhin is allied with opportunity frcm without, and that we have se often therein ne astray, and we pray Thee that the spirit of religion may be so strong within us that it shall enable us to overcome evil, and prove ourselves sironzger for every trial. Amen.—Theodore Parker. £0 Best Environment. True religion comes not by vio- lence, but chiefly, I think, from being brought up with good men, reverenc- ing their ways and words. —S. R. Crockett. Meaning of Watching and Praying. The call 40 watch and pray means more than watching your neighbor.
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