The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-14

the Central Presbyterian says: NO one
a LESSON FRONL 81 cteu
THE WEEDS. that these
things were
mid away in the ground when the lawn
grass was so uniform and so beautiful
Roots and seeds lay out OF sight, dormant
and all unsuspected throuS. the summer,
EiGing an opportunity to come out ana
fight for their lives. Our evil things are
not always hanging out their nass. Inc
uns!al,i dispositions and passions OIL the Ola
nature are often living beneath, ulsus-
pected and unfeared. What watchfulness
we need that they may be seized AMI
cast out on their first appearance!
we have an unpleasant suspicion that
these weeds were of our own planting
1t was last winters top-dresslnS, given
with cost and care, which brought the SEEDS
of alien and unwelcome things In the
literature spread broadcast over the land
and coming into every home there are the
seeds OF worldliness, of ungodlineSs, OF
error and unbelief In the education we
provide for the young there are lurking
roots of 1naterialism, and intellectual pride
and human vain-glory. Unseen, unsus-
pected, they are ready to come up in char
acJer and living. Home and society every
where need the one safe fertiliZing OF the
truth, as taught in the one Book, the law
of the Lord, which is perfect in the one
indispensable thing, converting the SOUL
The most striking characteristic of the
Christian system is the small and irsig-
niticant m
THE USE OF s TT uments
LITTLE THINGS by which it
accomplish
es overwhelming results. To human eyes
it sprang from a poor little babe. Graded
in a manger. Its great principle OF divine
seif-sacrifice has, shone over the world
and through all ages, and VIII snlne Tor
ever from the cross surrounded by scol-
fers and riumphing enemies
The keynote of offerings to God sounded
from the treasury of the temple as poor
widow nodesuy dropped her two mites
into the common receptacle.
The ointment Of a nameless woman.
faithful and true to the last, has been
redolent in the soul of humanity for two
thousands years, and could shed Its !er-
fume forever. lot of towards became
the glorious company OF the Apostles,
the greatest heroes of history. And
ruthless prosecutor OF women and Children
became the author of the chapter on char-
ity, dear brother Saul
A householder of our time tells how
family prayer, morning and evening, was
established in his big family, to please
tive, that was in his keeping and has
been KEPT. up by a poor old negro woman
to whom the privilege Of the h Holy Scrip
! lures and Morning Prayer IS all her life
because she can't read and unluckily,
don't know much Scripture, or the collects.
How shall we recognize the salt and the
1eaven that have effected the coming of
the Kingdom?
The early proclamation IS: Not by power
hJJf
Perhaps great dignataries; and councils
have done great work. ana controversies PM
have amused the devil But who knows
what the Insignificant and despised have
aocannisned2 God Observation-Disclosures
churchsasa,
The Southern churct, had no superior
specimen OF Christian gentlemen than the
Eir inia
A nrovD FOR Conference.
cErR1SrI n EBATERNITY. The refined
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hv +y,e,r r,o,,,ns suppressed every OUT