The National tribune., 1894-11-29
BOOK AWARDED.
nIR E0II-CAII

OUR BOLL-CALL.
TThe letters VS.. MEM veterans son, v.d veter-
sn's daughter and Wv. veterans widow; members
associations will he marked ;. V. and d. vi
Elsie s. Perry. Is Howard street, Haverhill,
Mass: Maria Wilcox, v.d., Fredonia, N. ";
Ernest Luther. V. nephew, Fredonia, N. Y;
kittie Ball, v.d.. Tllie Ball, v.d.. Samuel Ball,
VS.. Edmonton, Ky. Total, 15074.
Alice Putnam, in sending the names of FREE
domains who desire TO join the Empire Circle,
says: This Circle is surely prospecting. AT
the meeting last evening two new members
were received and three applications presen ted.
The Empire Quartet. which was organized
just one week ago, show that they have been
at work. aud we expect they will soon be ready
to sing in public. ] think l told you in pre-
viops letter that we are reading The Under
ground Railroad by Eber Petit. Our next
meeting will he held at the home of our Sec e.
tary, who is a granddaughter of the author
above mentioned, and lives in a house which
once was station of the U. G. T. R.-the
Underground Railroad"
THE EPwoRTH LEAGUE AS HELPER.
DEAR C. G. FRIENDS: 1t was my privilege
to attend the fifth annual Convention of the
lewa State Epworth League al Des Moines last
week. We spent very enjoyable and profitable
time.
Among the many interesting and instructive
things we heard TO help us onward and up
ward were these words given in the literary
department about books aud pictures.
We need to be lifted out OF our narrow world
into q world of books--a world of beauty in
which may live and move and have our
being. Each may be tie poSsessor OF world
OF his own. We may he discouraged. may he
ready 10 sink beneath lifc's burdens, yet possess
friends unnumbered.
Through the medium of books we may feel
the inspiration OF al great thinkers. Through
hna Ht.A MI. II mr. ny T.it o. unR
corner of this great world.
Our thought and feeling expand by contact
with books. Books written by real thinkers
imrart strength to mental powers. There is
one honk winch sati fes mortal longing-the
Bible. 1t becomes 10 shape onr lives by its
teaching Study to show thyseif approved
unto God a workman that necdeih not to be
ashamed"
If we cannot afford the Injuries of this life,
we should not, at least deny ourselves books
and pictures. If we have books we have the
best of the world. and live not alone in our
little home in The city country, but in the
whole universe. Onr book friends 81 not criii-
else our dress while sse are reading, rs many do
when Te are ont in society.
Friends OF the &. :, we owe it to ourselves
and to those around us 10 make the hest of
tho mind God has u ven rs. What tempting
array OF books lie before ~. But let rs be care
fnl what ones Of the many we choose. We are
known by The books We read AS well as by the
company keep.
There are books which tend to destroy the
mind rather than bniid up, and while there are
more good hooks than ever read let us
choose only the best ones. that we may fulfill the
commandment +" Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart and with all thy soul
and with all thy mind" Loyalty
Ella F. CalkBs, Lacellc. Iowa.
THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER
Prayer is beautiful prayer is power. prayer
ia unity OF God aud man. prayer is comfort in
distress prayer is communion with God. Every
one must admire those lines OF TcBnyson in
" the Passing Of Arthur"
More ibirgs wrought by prayer.
Than Ibis world dreams Of Wherefore let thy
voice
Rise like fountain for me nj. hi aud day,
For what men better than sheep goats,
That noHri-Ii i'lind life within the brain.
II, knowing God, they lift not those hands of
prayer.
Both for themselves and those who call them
fTiend-
Far 80 the whole round earth IL every way
Bound by gold chains abont The feet IF God.
Rev. ]. S. Lemon, ID. d.
T0-YEAR CLOCKS.
Our brains are 20 year clocks. The Angel Of
Life winds them up once for all. hen closes the
case and gives the key into the hands of the
Angel of the Resurrection.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes