The Newtown bee., 1894-02-16
peared for the plaintiff and Ebert o Hull for the defendant.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH NOTES.

At the missionary meeting on Sunday evening there will gladly be received books of any sort that will prove helpful and instructive to children, such as books of travel, biography, history, Bible stor- | ies, or like those of Mrs A. D. T. Whit ney and "Pansy" written especially for children. Sunday school papers and children's picture papers of every sort are also asked for. These will be sent through the American Board of Foreign Missions in Boston to missionary schools in Japar. Will not the children look over ther weil-read books and papers and see what they can spare?
 A large package of picture charts and cards was expressed on Thursday to New Haven, there to be packed in a box going to the hospital in Tong Chou, China.
 The home department of the Sunday school is to be reviewed, and the effort is to be made to place it in real and living connection with the main school. The Sunday school quarters are to be regularly distributed, collections taken, and it is hoped that some simple form ot examination can be carried out, so that it may be known that the study of the lessons has been kept up. Miss Ef fife WOlCOtt has consented to serve as leader of this department.
 The second meeting of the pastors class for instruction of the young people of the church in the leading principles of the Christian fai;h was held at the par sonage last Wednesday afternoon. The meeting was as fully attended as the first, and there ia the prospect that such instruction will be many times tpeated in the future work of the church. Christ V as spoken of as the reyealer of God. Without Christ's life and work we should know much less of God than we do now Christ came to the earth to express Gods love and Gods way of dealing with men. Christ's death upon the cross revealed two facts: It revealed the law of Gods life, showing that from all eternity the thought of IecOncilia- tion and winning love was in Gods heart, that He, the sovereign God, was will ling to pend Himself for His creatures, it revealed the law of our own livea, showing that we truly live the Christ life only when we suffer and make sac rifiCes for others.
 The Holy Spirit is not a mere figure of speech, nor an influence eXerted or thrown off by God. The Holy Spirit
 is God, equal with God, to be worshipp- ed as God. The Spirit continues Christ's work on the earth, conveys to us the benefits of ChriSt's dying love. cOnvinCes or sin, glNts repentance ana Ialtn, Is grieved by our uubelief, takes personal possession of the converted heart and makes it His temple.
 The Bible is a book, and yet the truer thought is that it is whole library of books. Other books are complied and written in six months or year, the Bib le was written in l l,G00 years. Other books are chain, the Bible is rope; hr ak one link of a chain and the whole chain ia useless, sever one strand of a pc and the other strands hold firmly as before. Through the Bible God has made revelation of Himself. Given personal God, and He must make Him. self known. The Bible is beyond all books. Place it beside the greatest books in any age, ar| it shines as a bea- con while they thrG, out a sickly flame. So we ask, Could it be possible that the God described in the Book has Himself superiutended it's writing? And we are COmDcllpd to answer Nes-T*