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. Councilor ‘of London.
The Kilburn" ‘ward of Hempstead
nag elected a woman to serve as bor=
ough councilor of London. This
woman is Miss M. E. Balkwill, a
social worker, who is described as be-
ing so popular in her ward that no
one could be-found to oppdse her can-
didacy. It is said that she had the
support of men and women of all
sorts and conditions.
Made Lafayette Kiss. Her.
.. Mrs. Caroline Campbell Kellogg,
ninety-three years old,~died at Pitts-
field, Mass. When General Lafayette
visited Pittsfield in 1825 Mrs. Kel-
logg, then ten years old, ran down
the aisle of the church where a recep-
tion to him was in progress and pulled
his coattails until he kissed her.
Later she became a close friend of
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and they
correspended frequently. Dr. Holmes,
Henry Ward Beecher and Sir Edward
Thornton, Minister from England,
were frequent guests at Mrs. Kel-
logg’'s home, a fine old ¥® colonial
house just west of the Henry W.
Longfellow house on East street.
Mrs. Kellogg's husband, Ensign H.
Kellogg, died in 1881.—New York
Sun.
3 mr ——
Mrs. Grant’s Work For Tots.
‘While many other army women
were passing the summer frivolously,
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant was devot-
ing most of "her time to a vigorous
«child-rescue campaign. In it she had
the co-operation of Mrs. Edith Rocke-
feller McCormick, of Chicago; Mrs.
Robert M. La Follette, of Wisconsin;
Miss Helen Varick Boswell, of New
York, and a score more of women
‘who consider that wealth and position
carry responsibility as well as privi-
lege. It is a good work, for the plan
is to take youngsters out of institu-
‘tions and find homes for them with
private families. There is a choice of
Several ways of taking a child into
a
mercial world, but is courteous to.
every’ one. . TE
Doesn’t lis 0 sasip and private
affairs and doesn’ t tell ‘any bf hers.
Doesn’t expeet every man to wait
on her and take tire to listen fo her
love- affairs. - * >
,»-Beesn’t: says a-amran is rude rely
because he is abrupt.—Indianapolis
News.
iim
. Matchmaking Brothers.
As a matchmaker -there:-is nothing
to. exeel the brother.
‘The role is not taken by him wit-
tingly, but he fills it to perfection, be-
cause of his innocent unconsciousness.
The girl with a brother is certain
to meet his friends. He brings them
home from school when he is a young-
ster, and the sister, in her superior
way, joins in their sports.
Of course, the:"idea that anyone
should fall in love with a sister. of a
boy never occurs to the boy himself.
Later in life he brings his fellow
student home from college. Then the
sister is a young lady. ~ Still, that
anybody should fall in love with her
strikes the brother as absurd, if it
strikes him at all. At last the truth
dawns upon him, and he resents it.
Suddenly he discovers that Tom;
Dick and Harry are not good envugh
for. his sister. “They're all right for
chums, you know, sis,” he will ex
plain, “but you don’t want to marry
any of them, you know. Why, that
chap Tom,” etec., ete. :
But the brother no longer is an
equation in the matter. "His part has
been done. There is not the slightest
use of opposition from him, for if it
has any effect this is just the opposite
from the intended effect.
The brotherless girl often has com-
paratively few chances to meet eligi-
bles. She cannot figure the formali-
ties that, with the aid of-a brother,
are swept aside as though they did
not exist. :
She may have a scheming mother,
as . Glaced Raisins.—This is a Russian sweet.
= 2 large or three smaller - perfect
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= £2 wipe and lay aside.
Sh 8 apples, cut them into six or eight sections—according to
-_ = " size—and lay them in a neat fashion close together in a
PE sightly baking dish, about one and one-half inches high;
= = add a quarter of a cup of cold water.
Cw a handful of brown sugar, but no spices and no. butter.
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= Be with the apple juice or brown sugar and water.
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Peel four or five sharp, swest, best
Take two
branches of Malaga
on them to soften ten minutes;
Over this sprinkle
.one's home. The little one may be
admitted on probation or adopted in a
limited way, or made the subject of
absolute adoption. Strict care is ex-
ercised to see that every youngster is
placed in a home where the influences
.are of the best. Persons who seek
‘to adopt children merely to save ser-
vants’ wages are turned away sternly.
Mrs. Grant and her colleagues take
real interest in the philanthropy,
with the result that it is proving valu-
able in practice as well as theory.—
‘New York Press. ,
r Starving Gentlewomen.
Extraordinary cases of starving
gentlewomen have come to light, such
_ as superannuated governesses, wid-
ows of improvident husbands, and
those who in the days of their youth
were able to make quite a comforta-
ble income as clerks or otherwise.
By gradual stages representatives
of all these types have sunk lower and
lower, and sometimes, having sought |
forgetfulness in drink, have come to
the lowest grade before drifting into
the shelter of the institute.
© Here was, for instance, a wretched-
looking creature, but with unmistak-
able signs of having once been “a
lady,” whose only source of income
lay in her handful of boot laces which
she sold to mechanics in their midday
rest. She proved to be the daughter
of a baronet, whose marriage had dis-
pleased her family.
Estranged from her relatives by the
quarrel of early life, she had too
much pride to reveal to them the pov-
erty by which she had of late been
overtaken; but, absolutely miserable,
she crept about the mean streets of
our vast city as successfully hidden as
if living in another hemisphere, far
from the gorgeous mansion, the car-
riages ‘and the servants which once
were hers by right of birth. ~=London
Times.
Hats Off to This Girl.
Since women have entered the
business world like a tidal wave,
there is a good deal of questioning
going on as to how they are treated.
Half of them complain that men are
rude. The others declare that all
men are angels of politeness.
Some clever people have been try-
ing to sum up the situation, and they
believe that the girl to. whom “hats
are off” in the business world is the
one who:
Doesn’t wear clothes that attract
unpleasant attention.
Doesn’t ogle every man she meets
when she is asking him a business
question. :
Doesn’t put paint and powder on
her face instead of plenty of water
and cold cream. *
Doesn’t think it is clever to use
the latest slang.
Doesn’t let men call her at any
time without the prefix “Miss.”
Deesn’t make intimates in the com-
~~
but a scheming mother is not always
a help, for the eye of discernment de-
cries in her the scheming mother-in-
law of the future.
Nor is a girl who is thrust forward
as a candidate for matrimony apt to
be accepted at the valuation attached
to her.
The bold girl, too, is at a disad+
vantage. The willingness to marry,
made too evident, is construed into
an anxiety. !
It is the girl with a brother or two
who is unhandicapped. She does not
have to do any planning. Everything
is done for her, and all without con-
nivance or even knowledge that it is
being done.
She is un-ware of it herself, and,
perhaps, elated at being chosen when
other girls apparently as Jattractive
are passed by.
There really is no secret about it.
The other girls had no brothers! —
New Haven Register.
Even the linen bag bears, its. silver
or gilt monogram. _ ics
Checks and stripes.are both Smart
for trig, tailor-made: Suits.
The striped serges make service-
able suits and jumper: dresses.
Striped Tibbon just for the moment
is taking the place of plain ribbon
for ties on the low shoes.
Even silk gowns are finished with
touches of. fine white lawn in cuffs,
collar and occasionally the yoke.
Odd little ties and stocks are made
of ribbon with afringeof tabs around
the neck and a jabot in front.
Those inexpensive new white goods
called “shadow checks” make up very
neatly as simple morning waists.
Quite the nicest hat from the point
of utility that one could wear in all
sorts of outdoor sports is the new one
of grass straw. :
Those who make a specialty of
choice ribbons of foreign make are
showing lots af the handsome _striped
Shantungs.
One of the fascinating new trim-
mings consists of an irregular line of
any of the flowers, with slender green
leaves pendant at regular intervals
along the band.
--Some of the prettiest gowns which
have the appearance of being one
piece are really a draped waist and
high corselet skirt which overlap one
another so easily as to seem perma-
nently attached.
An applique of nasturtiums of vel-
vet and embroidery, bordered on each
side by four tucks, which follows the
bottom of the skirt and runs up one
side nearly to the hip, is the distin-
guishing feature of a charming after- |
‘noon costume oi broadcloth,
“THE "PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
PROFESSOR HUGH BLACK.
Theme: Shanve-of+Detéction.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The baccalaureate
sermon. of the Packer Collegiate In-
stitute was delivered by Professor
Hugh Black, M. A., of Union Theo-
| logical Seminary. "The service was
held in the chapel- of the. institute;
and was presided over by- Professor
Black. Mr. Black, as the Scripture
lesson, read the fiftieth Psalm. Pro-
fessor Black spoke on “The Shame of |
themed
Detection, *: Selects as. his
Jeremiah, 2: 26: “As, the: thief. is,
ashamed when he is found’ out, so is’
the house of Israel ashamed.” In
the course of his*sermon, Professond
Black said: -
The prophet is accusing the nation
of apostasy, of unfaithfulness to her
true spouse. To awaken repentance
he: points to the base _ingratitude
which could forget the early days of
their history when God espoused
them, in love and favor brought them"
up out of the land of ‘Egypt, led them
through the wilderness and brought
them into a plentiful country. He
points next to the willful and wicked
obstinacy which made them forsake
God and choose the lower worship
and the. lower . moral. practice" of
heathenism. And here-he points to
the folly of it. Besides its ingrati-
tude and its wickedness, it is also un-
speakably foolish, ar insensate stu-
pidity at which the. heavens might
well be astonished, not only that a
nation should change its God who had
taken them by the arms and in end-
less love and pity taught them to
walk, but that it should change Him
for such other gods—that Israel
should have given Jehovah such piti-
ful rivals. This is the folly at which
the heavens may be amazed, that My
people “have forsaken Me, the foun-
tain of living waters, and hewed them
out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can
hold no water.” To a monotheist who
had grasped the principle of the One
God, and who had experience of spir-
itual communion, polytheism with its
lords many and gods many must Wave
seemed a system almost benéath con-
tempt. Intellectually, it introduced
confusion instead of order; morally,
it meant that life would be lived on
a much lower plane; religiously, it
was the degradation of thes pure spir-
itual worship to which the prophets
pointed the people.
This is why the prophets always
speak of the shame of idciatry. It
seemed incredible that men in their
senses should prefer what appeared
to them to be brutism superstition.
Both intellectually and morally it was
a disgrace. Especially the prophets
of the exile and after it, who had
come into close connection with
heathen idolatry, had this sense of
superiority, and withered the stupid-
ity of polytheism with their most
mordant irony. It was a shame, at
which they blushed, to think of Jews
descending tosuch puerile worship and
practices. It was folly for the heathen
who knew no better; it was shame
for Israelites to grove’ before a stock
or stone. The prophets confidently
predicted that experience would prove
the folly and vanity of idolatry.
“They shall be turned back,” says the
prophet of the exile; “they shall be
greatly ashamed that trust in graven
Images, that say to the molten im-
ages, Ye are our gods.” The proph-
ets With their spiritual insight al-
ready saw the disgrace and vanity of
such worship; but the people who
were seduced by the lower and morse
sensuous rites of idolatry would have
to learn their folly by bitter experi-
ence. When the pinch came, when
the needs of life drove them like
sheep, when in the face of the great
necessities, they would find out how
futile had been their faith. “As the
thief is ashamed when he is found
out, so the house of Israel will be
ashamed; they, their kings, their
princes, ‘and their priests and their
prophets, saying to a stock, Thou
art my father; and to stone, Thou
hast brought me forth; but in the
time of their trouble they will say,
Arise and save us. But where are
thy gods that thou hast made thee?
Let them arise if they can save thee
in the time of thy trouble.”
Ah, in the time of trouble they
would find out their folly; and the
vanity of their trust in idols would be
found out! They should feel already
the disgrace; but; though they are ‘n-
sensible to that now, they will yet be
convicted and the hot blush of shame
will ‘cover them with confusion of
face. They are not ashamed of the
ingratitude and wickedness and folly
of their conduct, but their sin will
find them out, and then surely the
conviction of their foloishness and
guilt will abash them, and then at
last they will know the sense of
degradation and self-contempt which
should be theirs now. “As the thief
is ashamad when he is found out, so
the house of Israel will be ashamed. 2
The same dullness of mind and
darkening of heart and obtuseness of
conscience can be paralleled among
ourselves. Is it not true “that in
social ethics the unpardonable sin is
to be found out? In many cases it
is not the thing itself that men fear
and condemn and are ashamed of,
but anything like exposure of it.
There is a keen enough sensibility to
disgrace, but not for the thing itself
which is the disgrace. Men will do
things with an easy conscience for
which they would be ashemed—if
they were found out. Qur moral
standard of judgment is so much just
that of the community. Our cou-
science is largely a social conscience
merely; not individual and personal
and vital, but imposed upon us by
society, a code of manners and rules
which we must not transgress. It is
no exaggeration to say that we live
more by this code, by the customs and
restraints of society, than by the holy
law of God as a light to our feet and a
lamp to our path. Much of this is
good, and represents the accumulated
gains of the past, a certain standard
of living below which men are not ex-
pected to fall, a moral and even a
Christian atmosphere Which affects us
all and which is responsible for much
of the good that is in us. One only
needs to live for a little in a pagan
community to realize how much we
owe to the general Christian standard
of our country, such as it is. At the
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same time we mist See how insecure
this is as a gnard and guide to life. .
A man might have a corrupt heart:
and be filled with all evil passions,
but it stands to reason that society
cannot take him to task for that, un-
less it gets something on which it can
lay a finger. And apart even from,
such, deeper moral depths of charac-
ter, there may he 'dctual’ transgres-
sions, but, until’ they: are discovered
and proved, society must tseat them
as if they did not exist. A man might
be a thief, not only- iw desire -and
heart, but in reality, but>until:he/ is
‘found out, hé¢:rubs: shoulders with:
homést- men everywhere - as one of
thetiselves. Society is not ashamed
of ‘him, and he need not. be ashamed
of" himself.
The shame of being found out may,
of course, induce “this ‘better feeling,
and besthe beginning of a:nobler and:
morg séable moral -life: Jt -is one of
the blessed functions: of punishment: |
to offer us this point of departure as
the house of Israel through the shame -
of idolatry reached a loathing of it
‘that ultimately made- it~impossible in
Israel. © Welcome the. retribution
which. brings us self-knowledge;, wel--
come, ‘the detection which makes us
ashamed and makes us distrust”our=-
selves atilast;
ment which gives repentance of sin;
welcome.the exposure which finds us
out because it makes us at last find
out ourselves! All true knowledge is
self-kncwledge. All true. exposure is
self-exposure.. The true judgment, is
self-judgment. The true condemna-
tion is when a man captures and tries
and condemns himself. Real repent-
ance means shame, the shame of self
that he should have permitted him-
self to fall so far below himself, and
have dimmed the radiance of his own
soul. Long after others have for-
gotten, it may still be hard*for 3a man
to forgive himself. Long after others
have forgotten, he may still remem-
ber. To this sensitive soul, to this
vitalized conscience there may be even’
wounds hidden to all sight but his
own sight—and God’s. As the thief
is ashamed when he is caught, the
house of Israel is ashamed, at last,
not because of the mere exposure, but
because of the ingratitude and wick-
edness and folly that made an ex-
posure possible and necessary. We
need to have the law written on our
hearts, to conform: to that and not to
a set of outward social rules; we need
to walk not by the consent of men
but by the will of God; we need to
see the beauty of Christ’s holiness,
and then our sin will find us out,
though no mortal man has found it
out.
“As the thief is ashamed when he
is found out, so the house of Israel
will be ashamed.” Shall be—must
be! We are only playing with the
facts and forces of moral life if we
imagine it can be otherwise. Real
and ultimate escape from this self-
exposure is impossible. There is no
secrecy in all the world. “Murder
will out” is ‘the old saying, or old
superstition, if you will. The blood
cries from the ground. It will out in
some form or other, though not al-
ways by the ordinary detective’s art.
Retribution is a fact of life, whether
it comes as moralists and artists of
all ages have depicted or not. Moral
life writes itself indelibly on nerves
and tissues, colors the blood. It
records itself on character. Any day
may be the judgment day, the day of
revealing, declaring patently what is
and what has been. The geologist
by a casual cut of the earth can tell
‘the story of the earth’s happenings
by the strata that are laid bare, de-
posit on deposit. The story of our
life is not a tale that is told and then
done with. It leaves its mark on the
soul. It only needs true self-knowl-
edge to let us see it all. It only needs
awakened memory to bring it all
back. It only needs the fierce light
to beat oa it to show it up as it was
and is. “There is nothing covered
that shall not be revealed and hid
that shall not be made known. There<
fore whatsoever ye have spoken in
darkness shall be heard in the light,
and that which ye have spoken in the
ear in closets shall be proclaimed
upon the housetops.” Ashamed when
he is found out! If to be undetected
is the only defense, it is to gamble
against a certainty. Found out we
shall be, as we stand naked in the
revealing and self-revealing light.
“Then shall we begin to say to the
mountains, Fall on us, and to the
hills, Cover us.” :
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in “Thee.
A Song in the Heart.
We can sing away our cares easier
than we can reason them away. The
birds are the earliest to sing in the
morning; the birds are more without
care than anything else I know of.
Sing in the evening. Singing is the
last thing that robins do. When they
have done their daily work, when
they have flown their last flight and
picked up their last morsel of food
and cleared their bills on a napkin of
a bough, then on the top twig they
sing one song of praise. I know they
sleep sweeter for it.
Oh, that we might sing every even-
ing and morning, and let song touch
song all the way through! Oh, that
we could put song under our burden!
Oh, that we could extract tae sense
of sorrow by song! Then, sad things
would not poison ‘so much.
.-When troubles come, go at them
with song. - When griefs arise, sing
them down. Lift the voice of praise
against cares. Praise God by sing-
ing; that will lift you abeye trials of
every sort. Attempt it. They sing
in Heaven, and among God’s people
on earth, song is th: appropriate ian-
guage of Christian feeling.—Henry
Ward Beecher.
Uncommon Service.
We must net forget that our call-
ing is a high one. How often we hear
it said in our prayer meetings that we
are to serve the Lord in little things!
1t is true, and it is a great comfort
that it is true, that the giving of a
glass of water can please God, and the
sweeping of a room can glorify Him,
But woe be to us if we are content
with small service! Too much
thought of little things ‘belittles.
We should “attempt great things
for God.” Caleb said: “Give me this
mountain.” Mary broke the alabaster
box that was exceedingly precious.
The disciples left all to follow Jesus,
and counted it joy to suffer for His
sake. Let us not be easily content.
The note of heroism should be in our
giving, in. our serving. Our King de-
serves and expects kingliness.—M. D.
Babcock, D. D.
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INTERN ATIONAL - LESSON . COM.
MENTS:FOR SEPTEMBER 20
Review of the Eleven Preceding Les-
"sons For tlic Third Quiarter—
Golden T&R “Samuel 512
* Read" Psalm 18. + ie.
"Golden Text: “And David pér-
ceived that the Lord had established
him king over Israel, and that he had
T exalted his: kingdom for his people.
Israel's sake.” 2, Sam. 5:12.
Each of the lessons of tis quarfer
teaches us somethin® about the prin-
ciples upon which God deals with men
treat Ged.
In’ Jiesson I. we see the constant
disposition: of the human .heart to re-
ject God and to refuse to have.Him|
rule over us.
choose some one else before God, He
lets them have their own mad choice
in order that they may learn their
folly by bitter experience.
In Lesson II. we see again the dis-
position of the human heart tp reject
God, even after He had saved us out
of all our calamities and distresses.
In Lesson III. we see God's long-.
suffering «toward those who reject
Him and His love in bringing His un-
grateful people to a consciousness of
their sin and His unwillingness to for-
sake His people. :
In Lesson IV. we see that the one
thing that God demands from His
servants is obedience, and how if one
rejects the Word of the Lord, the
Lord will -also. reject him. .
In Lesson V. we see that when one
servant fails God He chooses another
to fill his place and anoints him with
the Holy Spirit that he may be quali-
fied for the work to whick he has
been called.
In Lesson VI. we see how the Lord
gives victory to those who trust in
Him and He saves, not with the sword
and spear, but by the power of His
own name.
In Lesson VII. we see that the Lord
is with the one that trusts and obeys
and gives him favor with men and
makes him the terror of His enemies.
In Lesson VIII. we learn how God
delivers His servants even in times of
greatest peril.
In Lesson IX. we sce that God de=
livers our enemies into our hands, but
that vengeance belong unto Him.
In Lesson X. we see the awful fate
of the one whom God had rejected
and how God clears the way for the
one who leaves his exaltation entirely
in God’s hands.
In Lesson XI. we see-that God will
guide the one who commits his way
unto Him and leans not upon his own
understanding, and that God deals
with us as we deal with our fellow-
men.
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God is Leading.
No room for a discouraged or de-
pressed feeling is left you. If your
sphere is outwardly humble, if it even
appears to be quite insignificant, God
understands it better than you do,
and it is a part of His wisdom to bring
out great sentiments in humble con-
ditions, great principles in works
that are outwardly trivial, great char-
acters under great adversities and
heavy loads of encumbrance.
. Let it fill you with cheering and ex-
alted feeling, however deep in ob-
scurity your lot may be, that God is
leading you on, girding you for a
work, preparing you for a good that
is worthy of His divine magnificence.
If God is really preparing us all to
become that which is the very highest
and best thing possible, there ought
never to be a discouraged or uncheer-
ful being in tae world.—Horace
Bushnell.
The Prayer That Prevails.
It has been said that every true
prayer has a foreground and a back-
ground. The foreground of prayer is
an intense, immediate desire for
something which seems necessary to
the soul; the background is ths
earnest desire that the wiil of God,
whatever it may be, shall be done.
Leave out the foreground, and there
is. danger of fatalism. Leave out
the background, and only an expres-
sion of self-will is left. The perfect
prayer—the prayer that prevails—
must have background and fore-
ground, desire and submission.—The
Rev. J. R. Miller.
The Winds That Strengthen.
The air from the sea of affliction is
extremely beneficial to invalid Chris-
tians, says Spurgeon. Continued pros-
verity, like a warm atmosphere, has
a tendency to unbind the sinews and
soften the bones; but the cold winds
of trouble make us sturdy, hardy and
well-braced in every part. Unbroken
success often leads to an undervalu-
ing of mercies and forgetfulness of
the Giver; but the withdrawal of the
sunshine leads us to look for the sun.
The Future.
If there be no hereafter and no
future vindication of the upright,
then virtue and.purity are but names,
and the only possible conclusion is,
“let us eat and drink, for to-morrow
we die.”—The Rev. W. P. George,
Denver. :
Get Busy.
You cannof cancel the custom of
preying on your fellows by occasional
praying to your Father above.
—— ve
The Good Life.
A good life is impossible until one
knows that there is ever something
more desirable than living.
To Be Dreaded.
Everything that is ‘a mere form,
a mere habit and custom in divine
things, is to be dreaded exceedingiy:
life, power, 3
have to aim after. Things should
not result from without, but from
within.—George Muller.
Not Hthics, But Eaith.
Christianity is not in ethics, but in
faith. When the Son of man cometh
will He find faith on the earth?
and sonlething also. about how men J
We see also when men"
re re
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES:
SEPTEMBER TWENTIETH.
Commending. Our. Society.—l]—By
Supplying Church Workers—2 :
Tim. 2: 12; Prov. 22: 6:
Relieving distress. Mark.:9:: 38-41.
£ Messengers of the churches. : 8.7
Cor. 8: 21-24, -
With our purses. “Matt. 19: .16:22. x.
Teaching. . Matt. 5: Re or tay i
Co-operating. 1 Thess. 5:2<kk13: 3
Exhorting. Acts 4: 8.13% 7 ir
The, Christian” Endéavor sociéty is
the gathering of. many: witnesses; it
is the large body of many coals which
makes a great fire (2° Tim. 2: 2.)
A good thing is-good to"a man only
as. he_.ig; eager to: pass it.on 10. Somer
other-man (2 Tim. 2: 2.)
A Christian. is. well. trajned,. HER,
he: can:.train other church werkers.(2
Tim 2: 2.)
It is quite impossible for one to bs.
taught’ ih the Christian Endeavor: so-
ciety to be faithful, bold. to- testify,”
zealous in service, and then to be..
otherwise when he enters: Gi older:
church work Prov..22: 6.)
Thoughts.
The young people's society is the
only organization which is definitely
training church workers. This is its
special field, which was formerly left
to chance.
If the church wishes to develop cer-
tain sorts of workers, it should over-
see its young people’s society.
Every society should so move its
members through the committees and
offices as to develop them, and fulfill
its function of a training school.
The society members should entef-
the church work gradually and as
soon as possible, not all at one
plunge. y
Illustrations.
business has its technical
why not our Father's. busi-
Every
school;
ness? 3
By the fine old plan of apprentice-
ships, each older worker turned out
many younger workers. Why not
establish the plan in the. churches?
An army keeps recruiting sergeants
all the time at work. Why should
not the church have recruiting ser-
geants in the Endeavor society?
Good children are a credit to their:
parents; so a good Endeavor society
testifies to a good church.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.
Christ the Lord of Our Intellect—
John 1. 17; Eph. 4. 17-24—
(Bible Study Sunday.)
John 1. 1.17. There opening verses
of John’s Gospel may be regarded as
a Confession of Faith. The writer
is describing the central doctrines in
the book, in terms of current thought.
He identifies the Jesus of history with
the Logos of philosophy. He then
proceeds to offer a series of illustra-
tions in support of this claim.
The purpose of Christ's mission is
clearly stated in verses 11-13.. Christ
brought to men the privilege of be-
coming the sons of God, whatever
may be their ancestry or nationality.
It was the incarnation of Christ which
emphasized the sanctity of all hu-
man life and increased its value a
hundredfold, wherever the light of his
grace’ and truth shed its glory.
Eph. 4. 17-24. Paul has given in
the first three chapters of this epistie
an impressive description of the spir-
itual blessings which have come
through Jesus Christ. What is the
effect on the lives of those who ‘have
received them? He is suggesting
some result which might be expect-
ed. There is a great difference be-
tween one who has accepted Contes
and another who has not.
The difference is seen in thought,
speech and practice. There is no
“vanity of mind,” that is, no illusion
or beclouding of the reason; there is
no ‘hardening of the heart,” for one
is sensitive to the noblest and best
impressions in life; there is no walk-
ing in “lasciviousness,” regardless of
all moral restraint and spiritual re
quirement.
The reason for this notable change
is that the appeal of Christ has been
heard, and we have become learners
in his school. The lesson will have
been well learned if we give up the
former life of deceitful desires and
sinful habits, and are found walking
in the new way, inspired by thoughts
of truth and led into deeds of righte-
ousness.
A Town's Regenerator.
“We've got a thing on our road the
boys call ‘Hell. If you want a real
hard thing to try out the Y. M. C.
A. on, put it there.” This wag the
remark made ten years ago by a rail-
road president to an international Y.
M. C. A. secretary, who had urged
that this organization could better
the conditions of living and the ser-
vice on the road. “That suits us,”
said the secretary. The company put
up $4500 for an equipment, and the
citizens $2500. At the end of a
month saloon men protested that the
new organization was ruining their
business. One of them. who had the
biggest paying corner saloon in town;
said his monthly receipts had fallen
off from over $3000 to $700, and he
or the association had to quit. Now a
handsome Episcopal church occupies
his corner. A brakeman who came
back to the town after an absence of
Ltwe? years, hunted his former asso-
ciates in their accustomed seats in the
saloon, and found them in the Y. M.
C. A. building.
Can This Be So?
We are advised ‘by the Associaed
Prohibition Press as follows: “The
teachers who went from Mobile to
the Alabama State Legislature to op-
pose State prohibition were practi-
cally forced to go by the politicians
of that city under the threat that
they might lose their positions it
they did not go.’ 1f this be true,
unequal a ine
human language is