nt led SS : is. nd hat ge \SS- be- in 1eT- Age hey cts yot- ms, an an ing ted syl-- urg In ore nps- ate k’S 5 v John that 1 ac- suit elity nore: s im teps: the Cos- hich Rob- was by been and dis- wing read. were s of eath d by bar; m a and r a ft at eath. | be- erful y & shya- hine not > the 1an’s Saw- rmal er of will 12 of nev- Bar wad- bug- [hou- ding wits Bra igna- He 20rge TEE EE Sa " persons. Don’t Die Old Maids. Not many women die old maids. Though there seems fo be a ‘great many old maids in a town, most of them marry some time, it” their chance is a little late in coming. More men die old bachelors. After a man reaches fifty he becomes very proud of the fact that he is unmarried, and regards it as a piece of cunning on his part to have escaped with so many women after him.—Atchison Globe." Caine’s Wife to Visit America. Hall Caine is preparing for another visit to this country, and this time he will be accompanied by his wife. The Manxman takes pride in averring that he owes much of his success to Mrs. Caine, who acts not only as his secre- tary, but as his literary adviser. Mrs. Caine is a soft-voiced woman, who cares little for society, yet who dom- inates social affairs in the Isle of Man. Once a year she goes to Lon- don, and entertains a little there, her tastes ‘running to-literary and ‘artistic She has seen her husband rise from obscurity to no small meas- ure of fame, and from comparative poverty to wealth. Many times Caine has sought to have her resign the du- ties of secretary, but she still’atfends to all his correspondence and ‘turns out his manuscripts on the typewri- ter. She never courts attention, pre- ferring to stand reflected in the light of her husband, and it is said consent- ed to come to America with him only on the condition that she shall not be put to any social exactions. — New York Press g Hat Perfuming. One of the tricks ‘of“the Parisian milliner is ito perfume the chapeaux for her special customers. The odor from large hats laden with artificial flowers, ribbons, ete., is often notice- able, especially before the hat has been worn several days in the open air. To conceal this the clever Pari- sian milliner stiffens the ribbon bows with wire wound with scented wool, and sews tiny sachets no larger than buttons at the base of bows and flow- ers. Large flowers often may have the calyx removed and filled in with a tiny bit of shirred ‘silk or satin that cavers a tiny sachet. In this case, however, unless the sachets or perfumes are renewed they soon cease to be odorous, so the tin lined hat box has been invented. In one corner of this, fixed firmly so it will not tumble about is’a small per- forated vinaigrette filled with strong sweet powder, and the hats are hung around it. In this way they absorb enough soent t0 be perceptible for a day, and the hat being returned to its scented case at night absorbs a fresh supply for future giving out. of course the scent from the hats is delicate, and is made to correspond with the perfume the owner affects. —New York Times. BR Pure Food Campaigner, That it is woman’s business to see that the world is clean, and that she cannot do this without knowing the sciences on which cleanliness depends — bacteriology, chemistry, ete. — is the belief of Professor Walter McNab Miller, of Missouri University. His capable wife, Mrs. Helen Guthrie Mil- ler, chairman of the Pure Food Com- mittee, General Federation of Wom- en's Clubs, has consequently had every advantage in fitting herself for her responsible work in promoting the pure food campaign through the women's clubs of the country. Of the work for pure food by the Women’s Clubs’ National Committee, it has been said by no less an author- ity than Dr. Wiley, of the United States Bureau of Chemistry, that itis largely due to them that the Food and Drug act was passed at that time. Mrs. Miller was born in Zanesville, Ohio; educated in Putnam Seminary, and she was married to Professor Miller in San Francisco about twenty years ago. She became interested in the milk problem when she could not get certified milk for her baby, and took part in the first Pacific Coast Congress, in San Francisco, which voiced the first demand of women for clean food. She has studied the food sciences since her marriage, taking courses at universities in Nevada, California, Leipsic, Germany, and Missouri. An active member in Christian, charity, art, public health and college organi- zations, Mrs. Miller is proudest of the fact that she is mother of two sons, and their chum as well. All Will Wear Waistcoats. Rvery hour brings the dressmakers’ and milliners’ fateful fall opening nearer; indeed, one may see these temptresses ready now, with grasping hands outstretched. But, cheer up, husbands and fathers! You soon will know the worst. Here's one hint. A simple fashion for women’s wear for autumn is the waistcoat. Such garments have been seen a good deal, but this autumn and winter they will be more fashionable than ever. One may be worn as a separate garment or it may be made in one with the coat. Waistcoats will be seen in ev- ery variety of cut and material. For cold weather there will be knitted waistcoats of corduroy velvet in plain colors or in pretty rainbow shadings; but the autumn will boast the greater number of new designs and materials. Brocaded silk or satin waistcoats, waistcoats will be worn, as well =} ; ‘will be the new tinsel fabric.—New ing fair, of the dainty pink‘and white ‘thé ‘movement. She started the whole waistcoats of a new material that may be described best as a knitted design }- on canvas. These are ‘suitable for wearing “with tweed and serge cos- tumes and the heavier makes of cloth, but for.use with fine face-cloth, silk and velvet, the favorite material York Press. Marlborough Duchess is a Converts, E That. the Duchess of Marlborough has just joined the English -suffra- gettes was an interesting item’ “of ind formation inparted yesterday by Mrs. Philip Snowden. Mrs. Snowden, wife of a distinguished Member of Parliament, English suffragette, lec- turer before Yale, and other univer- sities, visited at thé home of Dr. and Mrs. Aked, No. 2 West: Bighty-sixth street, says the New York Tribune. Dr. Aked, who is pastor of the Fifth: Avenue Church, which is John D. Rockefeller’s religious home, was a former colleague of Mrs. Snowden in the woman suffrage movement in England. : Mrs. Snowden is young and’ pass- type of English beauty. She is not of the most militant variety of the suffragettes. She has never been in jail or smashed a window or chained herself to a park railing so the police couldn't make her move along, but she marched at the head of the first monster procession in London, last June, between. Lady Frances Balfour, sister-in-law of King Edward’s sister, on one side, and Mrs. Henry Fawcett, widow of Victoria's Cabinet minister, on the other. “We have hundreds of titled per=- sons who are members and contrib- utors to the movement,” said she. “At one meeting alone, attended mainly by the aristocracy, we took up a collection of $35,000. I don’t know what part the Duchess of Marlbor- ough is going to take, because .she joined just before I came away. I think she was influenced by the Hon. Mrs. Bertland Russell, sister-in-law of Countess Russell, who is also a suf- fragette. Mrs. Russell, who was for- merly a Philadelphia girl, is a great friend of the duchess “Annie Kenney has brought more fashionable women into the move- ment than anybody. Annie Kenney is the little factory girl whom W. T. Stead has called the Joan of Arc of thing with a question to John Burns at Albert Hall one night soon after the Liberal Government came in. Be- fore an audience of eleven thousand he was outlining what the Liberal party proposed. to do for the various classes of men. Annie Kenney leaned out of a box and said, “What are you going to do for the women?’ The audience would have torn her in pieces if it could have got at her. At the same time Cristabel Pankhurst, was doing the same thing at a meet- ing in Manchestet, and she was put out of the hall with her clothes torn half off her. The things that have been done to the suffragettes by the stewards of political meetings in which they asked questions would not be believed in America.” The wings of the season are mare velously blended color schemes. Pope shapes of strictly Directoire lines provide a few chic models. The grayish amethyst hues are re- peated again and again in all millin- ery. The popular peacock blues and greens figure prominently in these wings. Wide brims faced with contrasting color are numerous, and the tricorne is found occasionally. J All shades of yellow will be used, but burnt gold and golden brown will enjoy especial favor. Turban shapes in draped velvet or satin are encircled by feather breasts and trimmed with egrets. Dahlias in velvet and silk, and in the most exquisite fancy and natural colorings, are a smart novelty. There is 2 noticeable tendency to- ward the simplification of trimming effects, which increases daily. One of the prettiest combinations of colors is a delicate pink and an equally delicate lavender shade. Swanskin is one of the new trim- mings for hats which the milliners are arranging in crowns, bands, etc. A hat of the Robinson Crusoe type is a series of overlapping rows of pleated ribbon extending from centre of crown to edge of brim. Immensely full fiounces and crown pieces made of ostrich in the new kangaroo fringe style are the height of fashion. Smart collars made to correspond with the new plumage covered hats are the latest thing, and come in all the new shades. Many variations of the Incroyable, that new coat cut off square at the waist line, with long skirts and broad revers, are appropriately worn with eostumes along the general lines of disagreements; | ing looked back to the leeks and gar- .done. AnS2ENGDS A SERMON © REV~ fi Jen “Subject: “The Sustaining God. Po Joshua -y ‘0_“Have I pot commanded’ thee? "Be strong “4nd of. a good courage; be not. raid, Neither be thou dismayed; for the Lor thy God Is with thee wither soever thou goest Moses is ‘dead. Joshua, the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, leads. For forty long, weary heart-trying years Moses had led Israel; led her in*’the face" of ‘discoutagements ‘ -against the will” of the fickle multitude that with iong- Tic8 and onions of Egypt desiring to serve a thousand years in“the house and under the bondage of Pharaoh rather than to live for a day ‘by faith in God; in spite of machinations and cabals, through the desert to the bounds of Canaan. Moses’ work was The task for which he was particularly fitted was completed. A vision from a mountain top. Canaan to the west. ‘And the children of Israel wept for Moses.” The old leader was dead. The new leader is in command. Moses, the cautious, relinquishes the rule to Joshua, the captain. Moses had his capacities, opportunities, talents. Joshua is not Moses. But even as Moses was the man of the hour, so Joshua is the called of God in his. Moses and Joshua are not struck from the same mold, but they both strike for the same cause, serve the same people, yield homage to the same God. Each is necessary to his age. And the age that produced each is prepared, by the wise providence that broods upon the affairs of men, for each. Differently, and yet not altogether otherwise, is it with us, as together in this church we confront the larger labors of another year. The leader is the same. The cause is the same. The same Spirit moves within us. The same Sovereign directs. But the old year is dead. A new one lives. The old year had its problem, difficul- ties, discouragements, perplexities, delights. The experiences of the old year are memory, history, yesterday's events. The new year, full of larger tasks, mightier opportunities, more searching joys, lies ahead. The old year had its peculiarities that will for- ever differentiate it from any other that shall ever be. The new year cannot be the old, any more than Joshua could be Moses. The old year is dead. The new year-—Alleluiah! Moses is dead. But the God of Moses persists. Joshua is the leader. The promise of God to Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Moses, is the prom- ise of God, in its ripeness and efilor- esence, to Joshua. The God of Abra- ham is Joshua's guide. The Spirit who made bright the way. for Moses is the evangel of Jehovah to Joshua. “Be not afraid, neither be thou dis- mayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” The promise that God gave to the new leader He makes to use in a new year. Joshua has no mortgage. upon the loving kindness of Jehovah. He has no monopoly of the grace of God. The arm of the sheltering God is not shortened, His affection is not less- ened, His promises are not ceased, His heart yearns toward us. God speaks to us as much as He did to - Joshua. We shall not do damage to the text to unduly strain it if we in- sist that God advises us that which He delivered to Israel through Joshua. He makes covenant with us as we face the work of the new year in the language that He used to Joshua. ‘Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” Under the sway of the conscious- ness of the reality of the promise Israel took courage, received enthu- siasm, was enlarged with expectation. Believing that God was with them the people entered with heartiness, en- thusiasm and hopefulness into the la- bors of the Lord. We need courage, enthusiasm, ex- pectation. That is to say, we need heart, heat, hope. Without these we cannot be effect- ive in the service of our Saviour. These we may secure if we will accept as words of comfort and encourage- ment from God to each of us, the text of our discourse, “Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whither- soever thou goest.” We need courage. Heart! A Lao- dicean church, neither hot nor cold, lukewarm or warmed over, is as inef- ficient for real accomplishment as the white of an egg to the satisfaction of the taste. The people must be cour- ageous and the organization must have the heart of the Master—kind, robust, roborant—to attract the mul- titude and to uplift the mass. Only by intrepidity and interest can we in- spire or command the men and wom- en to whom as the messengers we come with a necessary and vitalizing appeal. We need enthusiasm. Heat! on the day of Pentecost the disciples | were” so enthused “that the natives said “These men -are full of new wine.” joy, thoroughly on fire. They acted as though they were drunk. They appeared to be fools. Fools for Christ’s sake. But it seems that the heat of Pentecost is the only force that has kept and can keep alive the force and power of the church. Would God that we had more Pente- costal fools! Men and women who could be as much on fire with enthu- siasm for Christ and His kingdom as they are ablaze with interest in poli- tics, fashions or art. We need expectation. Hope! Hope that shall not be deferred. Faith that there is life in God, value in His truth, salvation in His Saviour, use in our efforts, result in sight. Hope is the breeze that fans the flame of enthusiasm. It is animative. A hopeless church is like a hopeless fight. Lost! The hope-full company brant with energy in full, play, invincible. courage of Sheridan infused heart Tinto his men. ‘and half free,’ -could not Same t Jz and | They were hot with a mighty. of Christ's followers is scintillant, vi- majestic What we need we may secure. And thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” Believe it. Receive Him. Trust Him. Le: no man belittle the value of courage. They were a gloomy band _ in blue who ran from Early at Cedar Creek. Vincible, discouraged, dis- gusted, fearful! But when Sheridan sped from Winchester to their head rout became .victorious frenzy. The Courage has written October, ’64, "large and lasting upon the tablets of: valor. It was 1ot.an easy. matter for Lincoln to, declare against the wisest counsel of his most devoted friends that “A house divided against itself,” “a nation half slave It lost him a legislative election made him Bresident. Without trans-- cendeiit courage a hero would have been undiscovered.’ ‘Heart -in the martyr was the motive .that sowed the blood seed of the church. ‘Let no man underrate enthusiasm. Israel was at Eben-ezer. ‘The Philis- tines were -pifched ‘at Aphek. ‘The ark was at-Shiloh. They met. Israel was. beaten. Thereafter the ark of. the covenant was brought into their, midst. And the Scriptures teil us “when the ark of the covenant. of.the Lord came into the, ca all Israel shouted with a “great ‘'shoit, so that the earth rang again.” ‘It ‘matters little for our purpose what was the outcome of the ensuing conflict. “The earth rang again.’ Enthusiasm reigned. The beaten hosts again took up their arms. Faithlessness gave place to hope. They were re- vivified: What were the Crusades without enthusiasm, or the victories of the church? = Forget not expectation. In the hope of everlasting glory Paul en- dured stripes, buffetings and terrors.: Hildebrand planned the glories of Romanism, that found expression in the reigns of Innocent III. and Boni- face VIII., in hope. Henry Ward Beecher went to England in the dark- est days of civil strife to fight a quin- tupie, oratorfcal and moral battle for his country and the right. He was knocked, scoffed, threatened, mal- treated. But in hope he talked and battled on. At last faith found its victory. Commercial England yielded to God Almighty as He spake, through His latter-day evangel of truth. All these men, in their divers fields and under these divers condi- tions, were encouraged, enthused, “hopeful. They were enheartened, augmented in zeal, enlarged in their capacities through richest expecta- tions, because they heard, even as Joshua, the voice of the Lord saying unto them, “The Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” There is no psychological impetus more profound than this. This is the mainspring of human power. It is the dynamic of human endeavor. The consciousness and certainty of the reality of a sustaining God is the su- pernal motive of all life. Shall we not realize its appeal and scope? “The Lord thy God is with thee.” “Be not afraid.” ‘Have not I com- manded thee?” Hear Him? .. This is comfort, joy, peace. Hear, Him! Listen! Irving Square Proshylsnian Church, . Brooklyn, New York A ———————————— The Triple Injury. Talking people down behind" their backs is about as ingenious and far- reaching a kind of sin as the Devil has yet invented. For such a missile kills three birds with one stone. It injures the one talked:about, the one talking and the one.talked to. A rep- utation. is smirched every time we pass on an unnecessary criticism of a fellow-being. Our own character and self-control are weakened with every such word. And the mind of the listener is poisoned; he who ought to be helped to see and tkink about the best in others has been degraded, part way at least, toward the unworthiness of our own low level. Once in a while an almost knock-out blow is given to this unworthy and unfair kind of fighting by some one’s quietly mentioning a good quality in the ab- sent person who is being criticised. This will almost invariably bring gos- sip to an abrupt close. We shall do well to end others’ gossip by this means; and we shall do still better to end our own before it begins. “The Oniy Remedy For Sin.” We preach Jesus as the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is the old, old story; it is a very simple story, but the telling of it will save the peoples. Keep to that Gospel. Many have lost faith in it. It is hoped that people will now be saved by new socialistic arrangements, by moral precepts, by amusements, by societies, and what not.: You ‘that are sent to preach Christ, if you take to doing something else, and become philosophical, socialistic, philan- thropie, and all that, what is to be- come of the spiritual nature of men? Keep you to your work, go and preach Christ to the people. 1 have not lost faith in the old Gospel. No; my faith in it grows as I see the speedy failure of all the quackeries of succeeding years. The methods of the modern school are a bottle of smoke; Christ crucified is the only remedy for sin.—Spurgeon. God Knows Me. My life is not what I have chosen. I often long for quiet, for reading and for thought. It seems to me to be a very paradise to be able to read, to think, to go into deeper things, gath- er the glorious riches of intellectual culture. God has forbidden it in His providence. I must spend hours in receiving people who speak to me about all manner of trifles, must re- ply to letters about nothing, must en- gage in public work on everything employ my life on what seems uncon- genial, vanishing, temporary waste. Yet God knows me better than I know myself. He knows my gifts, my powers, my failings and weak- nesses, what I can do and what I can- not do. So I desire to be led, and not to lead—to follow Him. I am quite sure that He has thus enabled me to do a great deal more, in what seemed to be almost a waste of life in advancing His kingdom, than I would have done in any other way. McLeod. True to One's Own. No man can serve his Father by and hand embroidered and braided the seasen’s favored desigus, | a8 Joshua and the Jews! ‘The Lerd neglecting his own children. the verses assigned. laid his plans with great shrewdness ‘and skill. ‘counsel of Ahithophel” ‘counsel (ch. 17:11). The SUL =C -&chi 2000 INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- ; MENTS FOR NOVE EMBER & Subject: David Grieves For Absalom, 2 Samuel 18 — Golden Text, “ Prows 17: 25—Commit Vere 23 —Commentary. > 3 _TIME.—1022 B. O. PLACE.— Honaisrs, EXPOSITION.—I. Tidings of Vice tory, 24-31. It will not do in teach- ing this lesson to confine oneself to Absalom had But he had left God out in all his calculations (ch. 17:14, R. V.):+ ‘That omission was fatal. It was in answer to David's prayer that God “had ordained td" defeat the good tor. 2 Sam. 15:31). Hushai had appealed suc- cessfnlly to the vanity of Absalom in his attempt to overthrow Ahithophel’s In this time of seeming general defection from David there were really many who. stood by him still (ch. 15:19-21, 32-37; 17:17, 18-20, 2%:29; 18:3). At last a for- ‘midable army had rallied to his sup- port (ch. 18:1, 2). - David's chief concern was about Absalom, and his parting word to his generals was to deal’ gently with him (v. 5). The overwhelming victory which was the result of the \attle is a type of the overwhelming final victory that shall end our David’s conflicts ‘with His foes (Rev. 19:11-21; 2 Thess. 2:8). More people of David’ s enemies were destroyed by the hand-of God-in this battle than by the hand of David's soldiers (v." 8; cf. Judges 5:20, 21). Absalom had longed to meet the ser vants of ‘David, but when he met them it was to his dismay and ruin (v. 9). Absalom was not now riding in a chariot with horse and fifty men to run before him (cf. ch. 15:1), but on a mule with his men running away from him. It was an appropriate end for Absalom that he sheuld be hanged (De. 21:23; cf. De. 27:16, 20). We all deserve to be hanged, as for that matter (Gal. 3:10). The only thing that saves us from it is that an- other was hanged in our place (Gal. 3:13). The destiny of all who treat their parents as Absalom treated his father will be like to Absalém’s (Prov. 20:20, R. V.). Absalom was deserted by all at the last, even “the ‘mule that was under him went away.” Absalom paid dearly for the injury that he had done Joab at an earlier day (ch. 14:29, 30). Joab was a vengeful man, and had been waiting all these years to get even. All our mean treatment of others is likely to come back some day upon our own heads with compound interest. How the heart of David trembled when he was told that a man was coming run- ning. He knew-that he had tidings, bat what kind of tidings? Then when another appeared in the distance the heart of David beat faster than ever. Then when he was told that it was Ahimaaz, and he was sure that it was good . tidings that he brought, fear for. Absalom filled his heart. Poor David! Sin is awful costly! The first ‘word of Ahimaaz to David was “Peace” (R. V. Marg. v. 28). That is the message that the gospel brings to every contrite sinner (Ro. 10:15). Ahimaaz bowing himself before the king with his face to the earth (v. 28, R. V.). It was not only in honor to the king, but also in worship of God, whom he immediately proceeds tc bless. But before our David every fess .(Phil. 2:10, 11). 14:20; 19:1-3). vah alone, David’s enemies. Ps. 115:1; 144:1, 2; Rey, eternal ruin. answer was ominous. David felt that tory to God. {ch; 22:48, 49: Ps. 124:2,.3). up against him (cf. De. 32:35, 36; Ps.- 94:1: Roe. 12:19). IT. Over Absalom, 32, 33. and he knows that the ultimate re knee shall bow, and every tongue con- Ahimaaz as- cribed all the glory for the victory to Him to whom it belenged (cf. Gen.} It was Jehovah, and Jeho- who had delivered up And it is He, and David, you.should have thought off that years ago, when you took that awful step that plunged Absalom into Most fathers think of the safety of their sons too ‘late’ Ahimaaz avoided the question, but his The Cushite, too, ascribed all the vic- So did David himse.f Ven- geance belongeth to God, and He had avenged David on all those that rose David’s Overwhelming Grief This is one of David knows that Absalom is dead, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8. Church Building a Loving Service. Luke 7: 1-17; 1 Chron. 22. 1-5. Topic—Church Erection. Luke 7. 1-17. (See Matt. 8. 5-13.) “All the cenjuri ns in the New Tes- ‘| tament are 4% Hbly. mentioned” — (a) centurional “¢ross hike 15. 44, 45); (b) Cornelius (Acts: 10. 1, 2); (c) Julius (Acts 27. 3) .% This. centurion was connected with the. garrison at. Capernaum. nis rank correspond to captain in the modern army. A favorite, confidential servant, or slave (like Joseph in the house of Potiphar) is dying. The centurion appeals to Jesus. ‘through a committee of influential citizens. Ob- serve the choice of loving service; ‘a servanf gives unstinted and loyal service to his master, . the: master renders loving service to his dying slave, the elders of the Jews graclous- ly serve-the master, and Jesus renders Instant response to the anxiéty and faith cf the master, the need of the servant, and the petition of the Jew- ish elders. . A strong faith, an urgent need, and a petition to Jesus always spell mir- acie,” whether you use the alphabet of the senses or the alphabet of the soul. in the case of the ‘centurion Jesus s besought to come and heal a des- Sratoly sick man. In the case of ihe widow of Nain, Jesus ‘saw her weeping at the bier cf her only son and had -compassion. The Master responded to the faith of the one and the sorrow cof the other. Faith, hu- iri ity, and. sorrow appealing to di- vi e compassioni/must triumph téday as of old. 1 Chron. 22, 1-5. Nowhere does David's greatness appear to’ better advantage than in the words he.uttéred: “This is the house of the lord: God;” “I will therefore now make preparation for ft" and the thing he did: “David prepared abundantly, stones, iron, brass, cedar before his death’”’—just prior to his surrendering the king- ship to his son Solomon. Jct ‘David the warrior, conquering for Israel, but David the retiring king making ample provision for his successor to build the temple of Je- hovah, is the David who merits great est honor. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES NOVEMBER EIGHTH. Topic—Commending Our- Society-~V. By Missionary and Evangelis- tic Zeal—Matt. 22: 1-10. Moses’ zeal for Hobab. Num. 10: 3. lomon’s for the heathen. 1 Kings 8: 41- 43. : David's zeal. Ps. . 40: 9, 10. ; “The: Preacher’s.”: Ecel.- 12: 9-11. “Daily.” Acts 5: 40-42. The result. Isa. 2: 1-4. God’s kingdom is like a wedding feast because it is happy, desirable, satisfying, beautiful; the Christian i forward to nothing but delight Y. 2.) Our work and cur wealth—the very things that the Kingdom is.to enrich and render us to make light of it (v. 5. Let the church carry the gospel where men are, and where the need of the gospel is realized (v. 9.) Both bad and good. are to enter the Kingdom; no one is good enough, and no one is too bad (v. 10.) . Suggestions. It is not enough to give, we must go; to the antipodes cf society, if net of the globe. Young people cannot expect to con- vert their elders, but they make the He alone, who delivers up ours. But|best possible winners of their contem- David had but one thought, “Is the] poraries. young. man Absalom safe?” Ah I The reason why so few elderly peo- ple find soul-winning easy they were not trained to it. Missicnary zeal is based cn knowl- is because edges 'cn missicn-study, and mission: ary meetings made to shine. lustrations. Children * learn languages easier than men; so they learn more easily the language of heaven. Look upon a modern army and. it seems made up of boys. Let the army of the Lord also wear a youth- ful air. IfMormons see one of their number csing faith, they make a missionary the saddest scenes in all history, and : i J : one of the most instructive. David's) ef him; andfin this they are wise. , first question of the. Cushite, as of} — & Ahimaaz, was, “Is the young man In Official Style, Absalom safe?” The Cushite’s an-| The government requires 43.925 swer was not direct, but it was none| quarts of writing fluid (recent statis- the less unmistakeable. In an instant tics) simply Tecanse when the gov ernment wants to tell a man-—say, an examination candidate—to down Sit sponsibility for the ruin of the son of his love rests upon himself. Who can measure the agony of the father who looks upon the temporal and eternal ruin of his son, and knows that he ig himself to blame for it all? That ig an agony that every father who wan- ders into sin may expect to face. The enemies of our David will ultimately all be as that young man was. David’s sin was no sufficient excuse for Absa: lom. He had brought ruin upen hig own head. Our David too sorrows over the ruin of His bitterest foes (Lu. 19:41, 42). David said of Absa- lom, ‘“Would God I had died for thee.’”” Christ did die for His enemies. David seems to have never recovered from this sorrow. All over thess chapters is written in large letters, “WHATSCEVER A MAN SOWETH, } THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP.” thinks: com- York Herald be fewer serious mercial 1 ps in almost every line if housecleaning were carricd on as regularly in business as it is in the home. The Washington Post averg that Some men are convinced th world ing better eve in they y much good others doing. i at his desk, it says not, “Pray be seated,” but “The candid (er can- didates) is (or are). req ed and commanded to take (or t) His (or her) seat (or seats) at >» table (or tables) with his (or her) pen (or pens) in his (or her) hand (or '— London Mirror. hands). Too Many For Him. “Your odd announcement cerfiecrion will be none the worse, I- think” says a correspondent, “for the fol- lowing item: In a window of a lit- tle bookstore in th avenue, New York, was recently heaped a great pile of 1 es cheap— never befo offered at such a pr hem. in big letters. was this in “Satan trembles « ‘Bibles sold as when he Jow as there’, —TLondon News sees f Ss, It wag once the custom England to put to com as house servants In girls take thing w civiliz Christian Register. any
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