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A DAY'S LESSON.
Bend to the breeze, 'tis the lesson tht
grasses
Teach us each day In their lowly estate;
Better to bend 'neata the storm as it passes
Thau to be fcrokeu by pitiless late.
Bend but a little, the cloud will piss over.
Then in the lull you can lift up your head.
Straighten yourselves like the grass and the
clover;
Better be bruised and be living:, than dead.
' Stand like a rock:" That ma 7 do for a hera.
Covered with mail, and well used to his
lance;
But there are mortals, too cany, as w
know,
Weakened by failure, coerced by a glance.
Never give up." It is easy to say it
When til your weapons in order are found;
Courage prows fast when we need not dis
play It;
Ail can-be brave when the lions are bov-d.
1 Nothing succeeds like success." that Is cer
t&ia. True as the gospel In these latter days:
Put out the footlights, and ring down the
curtain.
If you hare nothing that people must
Iraise.
Bend to the breeze. Tls the lesson the
grasses
Teaoh us to-day; 'tis a lesson of love:
Bend till the storm of adversity passes.
And the glad sunshine Is once more above.
Clara 1$. Heath, in Good llcui, keeping.
BEAVER.
The Etcy of Ca.pt. Law son's In
telligent Canine Messenger.
"I don't at all like the idea of mov
ing1 away off up here to Westford,"
said Mother Lawson, as felie stopped
briskly about, putticg the long
kitchen, that was also parlor, bedroojt
and hall, in order, so that the iew
Lome might have a oozy look when
the tired family drew tip about the
bountifully spread supper table.
"Why mother," laughed her daugh
te t Ruby, turning about from her work
In front of tho plowing' fire, "our
neighbors up here in Westford all will
say: 'I want to know if you used to
lire away off down in Willing-ton?'
and I have no doubt you will soon
grow into the same manner of speech."
"Perhaps I shall." replied Mother
Lawson, cheerful-y: "I have learned
in my many years of Ue that horae is
heme, whether it is in one Connecticut
bill town or another. If daughter 1
Lucy lived rear by, as she did when
we were 01 the old farm, I shouldn't
mind so much; or if we were on the
same turnpike, where people are all
the time driving and teeming, so that
we cor.ld send word back and forth.
But there she is, down there on the
Hartford and Providence, and here we
are on the Ilartford and Boston, and
on the cross roads between us thero is
710 mail route, no stage route, no
regular teams. We must drive the
dozen miles on purpose every time we
hear from poor daughter Lucy, all
alone, without a relalive near her,
away off down there in Willington."
lla, ha!" laughed Ruby; "who would
ever have expected the dear woman to
bo soon fall into Westford ways? Do
you hear her. James? Bless cie, what
is the boy thinking of? This is no
time to go off into a brown study or to
write a Latin exercise for Parson
Loomis to correct."
"This is no Latin exercise," replied
James, who in later years became an
eminent scholar. "This is a little en
terprise upon which Beaver and I are
about entering. I do the writing and
Beaver does the carrying. Here, Bea
ver, good dog. Beaver! Do yoa under
stand, old fellow? Do you see this?"
and he showed the large, handsome
shepherd dog that stood by, wagging
his bushy tail, a small, leather money
bag. "Do you see this paper, Eeaver?
I have written a message upon it to
Lucy. I have told her that we have ar
rived away up here in Westford safe
and sound, and that Ruby is frying flap
jacks for 6upper, and that mother is
worrying about her, as a matter of
course, and I finished up by begging
her to write and tell us how she is,
and send the letter back by you."
The bright-faced lad put the care
fo!ly folded paper in the little bag,
and tied it by a strong hempen cord
about the intelligent creature's neck.
"Now, Beaver, you must go as quick
ly as you can and carry this to Lucy."
Opening the door. Beaver trotted out
in very important fashion, and James
repeated:
"Go, Beaver! Go!"
"lie will go a good deal!" laughed
Ruby, who was always laughing.
"lie would be as likely to obey if you
told him to chop an armful of wood
and bring it in."
"You will see," replied the lad, clos
ing the door. "Bearer is no common
dg; he understands a great deal cf
ray talk tc hira. lie will r,ass the night
in Wibington with sister Lucy, and
will return to us to-morrotr with a let
ter." "Strange Beaver don't rome back,"
said unbelieving Buby over and over,
durbig the evening, and she even sat
up until far Into the right momentari
ly expecting to hear the familiar bark
of the favorite dog at the door.
Be did not come, however, and 6he
arose, in the morning convinced that
he considered himself sent away for
soma reason, and that they should
never se tho fine old fellow again.
"lie will get home by dinner time,"
said James, and, sure enough, about
noon he came trotting serenely in,
wagging his taS and barking sharply
to express his j:y.
James opened the little leather bag,
finding, as he expected, a note from
Lncy.
"i cried all day after watching you
out of sight," it said, "and you dou't
know iow glad I was to see Beaver
when he came barking at the door
eariy in the evening. Your letter was
a great comfort, for I had ro idea of
hearing from you for a week at least.
1 shall not. feel half so forlorn now, for
a dog that will fetch a bone will carry
on:, thy say, and we can writa as
often a we please."
They c'ld write often, you may bo
sure, and Capt. Lawson's Beaver, with
tho little leather wallet suspended
beneath his white throat, came to be a
iaailiax fiijrkt to tho dwellers la the
farmhouses all along the pleasant
country way that 6tretched between
the two great turnpikes.
The old residents say that in the fore
part of the present century there were
ten taverns between Daleville, in Wil
lington, and Westford hilL At all of
these houses of entertainment Neve
England rum was sold, and refresh
ment for man and beast could be pro
vided on short notice.
Eeaver had no occasion to call at any
of these places, neither did he hunt for
squirrels and woodchucks along the
way. lie attended strictly to his busi
ness of mail carrier, and exchanged
very few compliments with his canine
acquaintances who saluted him with a
cordial bow-wow as he trotted past
their abiding places.
This went on for several months,
and then one winter day Mother Law
son was taken suddenly and violently
ilL Capt. Lawson and James were
away, and merry Euby knew not what
to do.
"If I only could send to Willinpton
for Dr. Skinner I shculd be thankful
indeed. Beaver!" she said to the old
dog, who from one corner cf the
hearth was very gravely taking note
of his mistress' distress, "I might send
old Jerry, who is cutting wood at the
door, to be sure, bnt he would call so
long at every tavern in turn that he
would never get to the end of the
journey! Do you hear, Beaver! I
want to have Dr. Skinner come to see
poor mother. Of course, you don't
know Pr. Skinner from any of
the other friends who call here. Poor
old dog. You know enough to go for
Lucy, and that is what you shall do."
Taking a slip of paper she wrote upon
it:
"I;C4R Lrcr -Mother Is very slclc. Get Dr.
Skinner here just as Quickly as you can.
KUBT."
"There, Beaver! Go. Beaver!" she
said, and closing the door, she returned
to her herb teas and hot water appli
cation "The old doctor can't get here until
sundown, at the quickest," Bhe said,
"and it is not high noon."
What was her surprise, therefore,
when, in little mere than an hour after
Beaver started out, the skillful phy
sician cantered np on his fleet gray
horse, with Beaver following close at
his heels.
"Now, this beats all." said the nil
man, entering the house, saddle bags
In hand. "It certainly beats all that I
ever heard of. I was lust turning up
toCoL Britt's tavern to get me a little
drop of something hot for it in an
amazin' chilly air and the old dog
came along, running like a 6treak, and
headed me off. 'Go 'long about jour
business, Beve," I said; 'Lucy is wait
ing for her letter.' But he answered,
In as plain dog talk as ever I heard,
that he was after Dr. Skinner. So I
made bold to tell CoL Britt when he
came out to see what all this bow
wowing was about to open the little
leather bag and see what message was
inside. But the old dog showed the
whole length and width of his teeth
in such a way that the colonel re
treated forthwith, and upon that
Beaver opened his conversation again
at me. So I got off my horse, as much
out of curiosity as anything else, and,
if yon will believe me, he raised no ob
jection to my finding and reading the
letter, and, sure enough, there I found
in black and white that Dr. Skinner
was wanted.
"However, before I started up here
I put the bag on Beaver's neck again
and told him to go to Lucy with it,
but he would not budge an inch in any
direction excepting this."
"I told him he couldn't be expected
to know Dr. Skinner," said Buby,
laughing and crying in the same
breath, and sitting down on the white
floor to hug the intelligent dog, while
the doctor took charge of her patient.
Mother Lawson recovered and
Beaver's praises rang far and wide all
about the country side.
The fine old dog lived several years
after that episode and died of old age,
lamented by many friends and ad
mirers. I had this story from one of
the family, who was my neighbor, and
it is all true tut the names. Mrs.
Annie A. Presfon, in Sprinsrfield Re
publican.
A REASONABLE REQUEST.
She Thonsrht She Would Take Her Dot. j
band' Advice. j
"I don't see as this butter we get I
from the creamatory is much better j
than cow's butter," said Mrs. Van- j
cover, one morning at the breakfast ;
table. j
"What!" ejaculated Mr. Vancover, !
excitedly. j
"I say I don't think the creamatory i
butter is a bit better than any other."
"My dear," replied Mr. Vancover, j
trying to calm himself, "lo you know I
what a crematory is?" !
"No; not unless it is where they !
make oleomargarine."
"Well, my' love, I will inform yon.
A crematory is a place where dead
bodies "
"O, gracious!"
"A place where dead bodies are
burned to ashes, and the ashes carried
home in a jar and stored avay among
the family archives.
"You ara thinking of a pinkie cream
ery, darling, bnt don't for reaver's
sake ever get on this subjtvjt again in
the presence of any of our friends.
Don't do it for my sake, wilj you,
love?"
Arjd she said she would be eten ally
crernated if the would. Tammay
Times.
"Goot mrseek," said theGcrmaa
professor, beaming kindly on his class,
"aidtsder dichestion undt ingreas
dot appetite'- "I wonder," mused
the thoughtful girl who wore glasses
and had a high forehead, "if that is
the reason -hy pianos in boarding
houses are never tuned?" Detroi
Free Press.
Minnie "Here is a story about a
girl who refused to marry a man be
cause his complexion didn't match hex
hair." Mamie "Goodness. The silly
thing must have thought that married
people had to be together most of the
time." Indianapolis Journal
MUCH ACCOMPLISHED.
A Stp Toward the Victory of an Honest
Tariff.
Speaker Crisp rendered a service of
the highest value to the country, to
the democratic party and to the cause
of an honest tariff when he charged
the creation of the sugar trusts and
the other trusts to the republican
party. Republican protection created
nearly all the great trusts and mo
nopolies. In reply to the taunts and jeers of
the republicans, at the crisis of the
closing debate on the tariff, the
speaker, being on the floor, said: "If
there is a sugar trust in this country
which 13 dominating legislation the
republican party created it. And
though this bill does not destroy that
trust, as we wish it did, it takes away
more than one-half of the protection
accorded to that trust." It was a re
publican trust which a democratic
congress had stripped in part of its
power and of its enormous profits.
The iron ore trust and the coal
trust, equally, were republican crea
tions. They were established by re
publican protection. They would
have Lad no existence but for the re
publican tariff, which empowered
them to rob the people by extortion
ate prices for their products and to
suppress competition by the practice
of oppressive and unconscionable
methods.
Republican tariff history shows the
means by which the 6ugar trust was
created. Under the tariff of 1SS3 the
duty was one cent and two mills per
pound for raw sugar and three cents
and five mills per pound for refined
sugar. The differential tariff by which
the sugar trust was created amounted
to two cents and three mills per pound
the difference between the duty on
raw sugar and the duty on refined
sugar.
The McKinley tariff superseded the
PHARISEEISM
The Pharisee "Oh, look at
tariff of 1SS3. It admitted raw sugar
free of duty, but gave the sugar trust
the protection of five mills a pound 011
raw 6ugar.
This protection this money which
the two republican tariffs took from
the pockets of the people and put in
the coffers of the sugar trust enriched
it, made it a giant in strength and
armed it to defeat an honest tariff in
the present congress. It isa republic
an trust, of republican paternity,
made rich, fat, impudent and imperi
ous in the exercise of power by repub
lican bounty.
Yet the democrats were not power
less before it. They gained a partial fl
victory. Speaker Crisp says that they
took off half of the protection. It was
probably less than that. But it was
millions of dollars a year in the pock
ets of the people who consumed the
sugar of the trust.
All that was gained, be it much or
little, was gained through a conflict
of unsurpassed vigor and bitterness
over an enemy inspired with the ma
lignity which comes from baffled fraud
find greed. Every advantage of the
people which tho new tariff possesses
over the McKinley tariff literally was
torn from the desperate grasp of the
republican and democratic McKinley
ites, eager, fierce and relentless as a
wolf with his fangs upon his prey.
This is not a defeat and disgrace for
the democratic party. It is not a drawn
battle, but something like a victory.
The enemy is weaker and the cause of
an honest tariff stronger. The out
posts are gained. One more battle and
the citadel will be won! Chicago
Ilerald.
In view of the republican failure
to carry Tennessee by fusion with the
populists republican organs are now
denouncing Peffer, Waite & Co. more
vigorously than ever. You may always
rely on republicans to see the inde
cency of such a combination when it
fails to Win. N. Y. World-
As long ce Boss Piatt umpires the
gfcrae the republicans will have doubts
about the result in Kew York. Fastu
City Times.
THE TREASURY CONDITION.
Danger Averted by the Passage of a
Tariff Bill.
There is very little reason for the
alarm that has been set afloat in re
gard to another bond issue. Naturally
tne president and his advisers are
"watchinc with eager interest every
change in the financial situation," as
the press dispatches indicate. It i
their duty to do so, and President
Cleveland is not the kind of man who
neglects his duty. But there is noth
ing in this fact upon which to predicate
the apprehension of a new issue of
bonds, or the increase in any form of
the interest-paying debt.
At no time since the enactment of
the McKinley law has it provided
enough revenue to meet the current
expenses of the government. During
the four years of Harrison's adminis
tration, three of which were covered
by the operations of that odious and
inefficient law, the expenditures ex
ceeded the revenues by 5150.000,000.
The deficiency was supplied to the
extent of S100,0C0,0 00 by a surplusin
herited from the last democratic ad
ministration, and to the extent of o0,
000,000 by postponing payments, tem
porary loans on collateral and other
expedients familiar to exhausted pro
fligates. From these facts it is obvious
that to avert bond issues it is neces
sary to repeal the McKinley law. But
nevertheless it is safe to Gay that
there will be no further bond issues
for the reason that the defective and
inefficient revenue law will be re
pealed. The gold reserve in the treasury is
low at this time, and if there was no
immediate hope of an improved rev
enue system, the necessity of issuing
bonds would be imperative. But this
danger will be averted by the passage
of a tariff bill that will provide the
needed revenue to replenish the gold
reserve. Mr. Carlisle is right in his
OF THE DAY.
that patch!" Chicago Herald.
view of the case. "There is no neces
sity for alarm in the present financial
situation. Kansas City Times.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Mr. Harrison is to make a speech
that will strike the ke3"note of the
campaign. He thinks keynotes should
not be allowed to be struck by Reed
instruments. Philadelphia Times.
The republican : party made the
sugar trust. "If there is a sugar trust
inthisceuntry controlling legislation,"
said Speaker Crisp, "it was created by
the republican party". Truer words
were never spoken in congress. Chi
cage Herald.
What puzzles Tom Reed is to see
western republicans adopt the silver
, ideas he stole from the sepulcher of
James G. Blaine, then pace about and
designate McKinley, the gold bug, as
their choice for president in 189G. That
is what staggers Reed. and. in the
language of the street, "it is a corker."
Kansas City Times.
Of course the g. o. p. leaders had
no idea of unhorsing democracy in Al
abama. They just sent their money
down there to get it into circulation
and their speakers to secure them the
benefits of the gulf breezes. That is
the way they always do when money
is plenty and their orators are not ex
actly in con lition. Detroit Free Press.
Democratic Sentiment.
The resolutions of the democratic
conventions of Iowa and Florida em
body tho spirit manifested by demo
cratic conventions in Indiana and by
democratic mass meetings held in
Maryland. They indorse the presi
dent's letter to Mr. Wilson and con
demn the conduct of the senators who
are standing in the way of tariff re
duction in order that the sugar trust
may bo protected. There is a singular
unanimity of feeling among democrats
on this snbject. Not an authoritative
voice lias been raised in approval of
the three sugar-trust senators in the
democratic press, in democratic clubs
or in democratic conventions. The
condensation of the men who stand in
the wav of tariff reform is universal.
K. Y. World.
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
UNKNOWN AND THE KNOWN.
The way has long and trying been,
I can not answer why:
Long years of pain have left their mark.
And oft "How long?" my cry.
But rays of light have broken through
The heavy clounded sky.
And words of comfort have been found
When 'twere relief to die.
Knowing He is niso.
I kn w net if another day
The journey I shall go:
Nor of the weary hours for mg
Remaining here below.
But as I wander on and on.
Oppressed, and worn and slow.
Then comes a wondrous wealth of light
A Heavenly afterglow
This I surely know
And if to-morrow dawn for me
A bright and glorious day.
Or if wild storms obscure my rata
And trouble shroud ray way,
I know not, yet by faith I wait.
Well pleased that I can say,
God's will be done, if soon or late
Shall end on earth my stay.
For Heaven's mine alwny.
Oscar 13. Smith, inX. Y. Observer.
HOME THE FIRST CHURCH.
rhe Doctrines of Keliglon and Morality
Should llu Taught in Every Household.
No man, in my opinion, can be the
best husband till he is minister of his
family . As the home is the first church,
so tht. husband is the first minister.
He is t he high priest of that home; his
wife, the high priestess.
If religion means an abiding faith in
an Aliuighty power above us, and a
true loe of God. who is love, together
with lcve in the best sense of all man
kind, tnen I say religion should have
its place, a large place, in every home,
and the husband should be the one to
encourage, by example and sensible
teaching, its continued presence there.
If he would have the happiest family
about him, he will teach not preach,
understand the doctrines of religion
and morality. The father who
would have his child, when that
child becomes a man, continue
in his career in the fullness of
Christian faith, must bring up that
child amid Christian surroundings. As
a rule, those men who are most sincere
in their religious belief were imbued
with the spirit of religion in childhood.
I can not bring myself to believe that
there is enough of religion in "our
homes to-day not enough, particular
ly in this great, seething, crowding,
pushing city. Amid the rush, the pace
that kills, religion is forgotten. The
husband and father has no time for it;
he can't even find house room for it.
As only one man here and there will
tolerate religion in his office or place of
business, where, then, do the great
mass of men keep their religion? Some
few keep it within the walls of a
church, pay a handsome pew rent for
keeping it there, and go take a look at
it once every Sunday from eleven to
twelve.
I fear that especially among well-to-do-families,
in the homes of prosperity,
religion is almost entirely neglected;
the subject is seldom spoken of as an
expression of real feeling, except in
hushed tones. And yet I do not wish
to paint the situation in darker colors
than it really is. I do not say all hus
bands and fathers neglect religion. If
there are great numlers of homes in
this city in which religion has no place,
there are still many households in
which the family lives together in the
spirit of Christ's teachings; and when
such is the case it is usually because
the husband and the wife agree in their
religion, ani agreeing in that, agree in
all matters, and are the happier. In
these homes husband and wife love God
and pray and worship together, just as
they work, hope, sorrow and joy to
gether. Kev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst, in
Demorest's Magazine.
THE KEYNOTE OF HER LIFE.
A Woman Whoe Cheerful Sene of Duty
Seemed to Make Drudgery Divine.
Next to Divine Omnipotence, said
Garfield, the most powerful and uplift
ing influence under which a young
man's life and character can pass, is the
friendship of a woman too old to be his
wife. Such a woman has recently en
tered upon the rest remaining for the
children of God. The world is poorer
through her going. For nearly fifty
years she had worn the white flower
of a blameless life. She had mani
fested the beauty and power inherent
in Christian belief and life and prac
tice. It was not a conspicuous or dis
tinguished life. Jay Gould would have
scorned it as an utter failure. Yet her
character and career answered with a
noble and ringing "Yea!"' the cowardly
and unmanly question: Is life worth
living?
For sake of supporting her mother
she put love by, and with it a woman's
dearest desires. She found her peace
the Divine will, and in losing her life
for Christ she regained it. She trod
the dim and dusty ways of duty, not in
bitterness of soul, not in sourness of
spirit, but with smiling facs and serene
spirit. Hers was the drudgery of
teaching, but she madj her work
Divine through practicing her profes
sion as by the laws of God- George
Herbert's familiar lines:
A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery Divine:
Who sweeps a room as by thy laws
Makes that and th action line.
set the key-note of her life, and consti
tuted its dominant chord. The discord
between her aspirations and her cir
cumstances had been absorled into a
higher harmony, and through the mel
ody of this spiritual music the harsh,
stiff lines of life resolved themselves
into curves of beauty. She shaped the
intellects if young men and women
with a touch as firm as gentle, but she
also iinpreed her noble personality
upon their plastic characters. Her life
was but one of unnoticed thousands
lived year in and year out without com
plaint nay! rejoicingly by brave,
high-souled, sweet-natured women all
up; .nd down our land. Involuntarily
one thinks of the broken shaft as the
fit rymbol of these lives. Yet the
thought is unjust. The shaft is com
pleted in the upper airs of Heaven, and
the Master Workman Himself crowns
the pillar with its capital.
Why, then, should this li.'e be sin
gled out from rryriada of lowijr, unim
portant ones? Is it not merely an in
dividual, an atom in the mass? Yes
and no! There is no such thing as an
unimportant life in the universe. This
life was typical. It illustrates the pos
sibilities of the glory and grandeur
obtainable through greatness of char
acter, and of the value of existence.
It showed what the grace of God
and the love of Christ and the fellow
ship of the Holy Spirit, enable every
Christian to be and to do. This woman
had then home to her heart the
spirit of ne who said: "I can go
through this world but once. I may
never come this way again. Let me,
therefore, neglect no chance to do a
kindness." So our little pilgrim seized
her every opportunity to make people
happy. With culture of intellect she
united culture of heart and soul.
Every boy and girl and man and
woman that had the privilege of know
ing her can recollect acts and utter
ances of kindness from her.
This woman increased the sum of
happiness in the world, and lessened
human pain and wretchedness, by all
the force and reach of her being. That
matters are not so bad for you and me
as they might be is due to such happiness-making,
self-sacrificing lives as
these. Some of them passed away
centuries before we were born. Some
of them lived in the lands of the morn
ing. But their altruism has made our
lives less forlorn, and their little candle
has thrown its beams around the world.
A character in "Felix nolt" was glad
to have lived, because the world was
chiefly miserable and his life had
helped one who needed it. That was
the reason for the existence of
this woman now enskyed and
sainted. She was no angel. She was
but yet a woman, albeit dipped in
angel instincts. But bhe believed that
every life is a plan of God. She lived
hers as the Master, if in her place and
associations, would have lived it. She
thought with Shirley:
The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
Such a life is a glorious success. It
is an incarnation and revelation in
Divine humanity. It shines resplendant
in the white light of eternity. It
shows how close is glory to out dust,
and that the path of duty is the way to
glory. A benediction to all who come
under its hallowing influences, it is
blessed with the smile of God. It tells
on the ages, and tells for their King.
Interior.
Something to Learn and Regard.
There is a righteous retribution in
the providence of God which all should
learn and regard. Of necessity the law
of God is right, and therefore he that
does right is in harmony with God.
The laws of God do not average them
selves hurriedly, and therefore the
righteous man may suffer. He may be
censured, and held in disrepute for his
well doing, so that wicked men boast
themselves and say that righteousness
does not avail anything. But the sure
working of the providence of tlod vin
dicates him, and at the same time
brings upon wrong-doers the
legitimate results of their evil ways.
The law of God's providence is the law
of His righteousness, and all in har
mony with it will prevail in the end.
"If tne vision tarry, wait for it." "The
righteous is delivered out of his trouble,
and the wicked cometh in his stead."
United Presbyterian.
At War With the Law of God.
The temperature is the same to two
persons, but the one is comfortable,
while the other is fussing and fuming
about the "terrible heat." The differ
once is that one adapts himself to the
circumstances, and contentedly makes
th best of it; the other resists and
woiTies himself, and all about him, out
of all comfort. So in regard to all the
providence of God. The man who ac
cepts it as from God, and adapts him
self to it, is contented and happy, but
the other finds everything against him,
for he is at war with the law of God.
United Presbvterian.
SPARKS FROM THE ANVIL.
Ilright Saying from the Column of the
ICani's Horn.
What a little god some very big peo
ple worship.
Faith in God is the only sure cure for
worry.
Doubts are like bats; they can only
live in the dark.
St. Taul never carried a stick in which
to notch his converts.
No man can give in a way that
pleases God without becoming rich.
The devil walks beside the man who
goes to church with a long fuce.
The man who does no praying at
home often prays too much in church--
God is not in the religion that is nofc
using both hands to lift up men.
If big sermons could save the world'
the devil would soon be discouraged.
When a wicked man makes up his
mind to do right he is certain of God's
help. 1
Sin 'may try to hide its head, but it
can not cover up its tracks.
The man who tries to deceive others
is himself deceived by the devil.
The Pentateuch seems to trouble some
men to-day, but John 3:16 defies a crit
icism. Religion has begun to starve when
ever it beprins to walk with its bands in
its pockets.
You can generally tell how much re
ligion a man has by measuring it with
his own half-bushel.
Do not fool yourself. If the first man
was made with eyes and cars, his
Maker can both see &nd hear.
The man who does no good with his
money helps the devil every time ho
puts a dollar in his pocket.
There would be more success in lifa
if more of us were willing for God to
tell us where and how to work.
If you are over tcventy years old yoa
are living on an extended note. It may
fall due at any moment.
The reason so many Christians are
lean in soul is, so lew cf them hunger
and thirst after righteousness.
There isn't any use in going into the
church to work for the lxrd, if you let
the devil hold your purse.
Sell-denial is alxjut the last thing
some people undertake when they start
ol to be religious. . .