The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-15

vices, marching up to the rostrum, and in
answer to Mrs. Chase's catechizing recit-
ing all the golden texts of the year. and
giving appropriate replies in passages of
Scripture.
But the most taking feature for novelty
was that OF filling up the ivy ladder with
flowers. A member of each of the twenty
one classes of the school went forward and
placed . basket of flowers upon round Of
the ladder until all were filed, the children
reciting some appropriate scriptural quo
tation or some suitable poem. These
baskets contained something beside fiow-
ers-they bore the contributions of the
several classes toward the Sunday-school
mission work Of the church.
The new superintendent of the Sunday
school, ID. L. Sitter, addressed the chill
dren, illustrating the coming of the chill
dren to Christ by q magnet, which easily
attracts little things. Apropos to this a
very small girl recited Little Things"
Mrs. Johnson sang "Suffer Little Children
to Come unto Me-" music by Gounod, and
little Annie Johnson sang "What / Was
Made for" Miss Jennie Johnson gave a
recitation.
Calvary Presbyterian church was beauti-
fully decorated with tiowers-roses, cotton
lilies, geraniums. fuchsias. clover bios
SONS, ivy, ferns, mimilus maple leaves.
In the morning the pastor preached a
sermon from the text Watch and Pray"
Matt. xxvi:41. He said:
We should watch our lips and tongue lest they
lead us into temptation. OF the many blessings
which our Creator has bestowed upon
us, one Of the most pleasing Is the gift
OF speech. In the use of this
God-gfven power, we may speak His love and
sing His praise. 10 Lord, open Thou my lips;
and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise"
But we must watch the tongue, lest IL should
become means of dishonoring God. Speaking
harshly and hastily often brings US into din
Guilty, and we have need to utter the prayer Of
the Psalmist: "Set watch, Lord, before my
mouth; keep the dooh OF my lips" An unruly
tongue is the means OF breaking the third com
mandment The devil catches the swearer With
their sin, but none to the swearer.
"What does Satan pay you for swearing?"
asked one gentleman of another. "He
don't pay me anything" was the reply. swell,
you work cheap-to lay aside the character of q
gentleman. to infiict pain on your friends, to
risk your own soul, for nothing-you certainly
do work cheap, very cheap indeed"
We must watch our actions. or rather the
heart, which originates and prompts those ac-
tons. We look upon the heart as the source of
love, courage, grief and pleasure. From the
teaching of the Savior we may learn that, If the
heart is right, the actions will be right. Make
the tree good and the fruit will be good. Iake
the fountain pure and the streams will be pure.
The second admotion is to pray. To pray
il 70 ask with earnestness and zeal, as for
q favor, or for something desirable to en-
treat, to supplicate. Our prayers need not
be long. We are not heard for our much
speaking. Nearly all the prayers recorded in
Scripture are short-that of the publican only
seven words, but those words were expressive
OF deep earnestness and sincerity. The prayer
of the dying thief was short, but other of the
sons of men had the same assurance of pardon
and acceptance. And the prayer which our
Lord taught his disciples was Short but it was a
model of completeness.
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