The Penn's Grove record., 1892-07-08

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An invalid lady who tried earning
her living as an authoress, at length
became discouraged through compe-
tition, and thought she would have
to give up. As she retired at night,
she lay awake for some time ponder
ing owe their scantiness Of funds, and
IN this gloomy condition she fell
asleep, to dream that a lady mission
airy came to her and said:
81 think we shall have to wait un-
til we pass beyond to fully estimate
the good your missionary stories have
done. They have already been in
strumental in adding many dollars to
our funds, and still their influence Is
growing wider"
Then the missionary handed the
lady's husband a letter and departed.
"Why this is a check" he said, as
he opened the letter.
sit is unlike any other check I
ever had," the lady replied; sit is so
much larger"
eyes, it is unlike anyyou ever saw.
1t is a check on the Bank of Heaven.
1t says you can only draw what is
really needed; yet you can get all you
do need, be it little or much"
Through surprise the lady awoke,
such sweet peace took possession Of
her soul as she realized what a rich
Father she had. Why had she been
afraid to trust Him? Now she would
go on, and when necessary to have
anything, present her check on the
Bank Of Heaven.
Dear Christian readers, we all
have checks on that same bank. Do
we fully realize it? Our father will
freely give us all things" GAN
things" must mean the supplying Of
our temporal as well as spiritual
needs. Christ was human as well as
divine, and knew the pangs of hunger,
and had mot where to lay His head"
seek We first the Kingdom Of
Heaven" and the necessary things
shall be added. "Having done all
stand fast" Stand fast in what?
Gods promises. This is faith.
II Christians only would live up to
their priyileges-this precious trust
ing in all things! We have the same
God to-day who fed Elijah, and made
the meat and oil to last; the same
Christ who multiplied the barley
loaves. Our men of wealth, handle
their bonds and checks, sitting down
with c~omplacency and at their ease;
yet their riches may take to them
selves wings, and fee away. These
checks on the Bank of Heaven are
sure. 1t has never failed, neither
have its funds deprecated; they are
above par every time.
THE cattle upon a thousand hills
are His. The earth Is the Lords, and
the fulness thereof" Come, ye chill
dren of a King, and draw upon the
bank; your Father Is rich.
why Young Men Are Out of Church.
We quote the following from an
article by Rev. E E. Rogers In N.
w. Congregationalist: Do we real
ize how much tobacco antagonlzes
our work? A moral paralysis is on
the church to-day In its relation to.
the tobacco habit. We seem bound
hand and foot and tied In tongue in
the matter of carrying forward an anti
tobacco reform. Tobacco is helping
to keep great numbers of men out
Of the kingdom of God by actually
drugging them into a state q spirit
ual insensibility. l remember read
ing years ago, n of Rev. George
Trask's famous sayings: "When a
young man has a cigar In his mouth,
he doesn't even want salvation"
Have we not been asking, with great
anxiety, why so few young men are
coming into III chuTchesp What
keeps them out? How can it be that
only five out Of every one hundred
young men are Ia the church? There
are other reasons doubtless, but here
Is one OF them which we surely have
Bet :ully considered. The spirit Of
the living God cannot do his most
effective work In a soul drugged and
supplied by a powerful narcotic. 1
would not want to labor as an evan
gelist In a church filed with spittoons,
neither would / want to go into a
smoking a to try TO persuade men
to leave OF SHINING and give them
selves to God.