The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-13

The Epworth League lesson is found in
Feel. xii. ], Youthful Conservation
Remember now thy Creator in the days
of thy youth" The peculiar value Of
youth is its power for fixing ideals. This
is tho time of conversion. The reasons
for this are deepseated in the nature.
There arc psychological reasons for it.
1t is the national progress of unfolding
tho moral and spiritual powers. The
physical frame has been nourished and
developed until adolescence is attained
The mental powers have come into eX-
ercise and grown until judaAnent and will
arc maturing into self reliance and self
assertion. The child must soon be left to
walk alone The moral and spiritual
faculties have been awaiting birth into
conscious self direction. Obedience and
reverence have been taught, some force
of habit has been acquired; all this is
largely imitation and repetition and
memory work. Shall there be personality
and individual strength and character.
The gravest mistake which can be made
is to suppose that the youths from II to 20
are too immature to understand these
things and too unstable to commit them
selves decidedly. The fact is that the
great majority of those who ire Christ
ians made their choice before they were
twenty years of age. The vast majority of
the ungodly, vicious and criminal had
their turning point also in the years just
before they reached their majority.
For new beginners in the study of the
scripture it is recommended that this
week the thirteenth chapter of Hebrews.
known as the 'Admonition Chapter be
read and studied.
The question of salaried Sunday
school teachers has been brought before
Now York tiOr Thpro 70 n
few churches in the country rich enough
to pay salaries to pastor and teachers,
but it is the exception and not tho rule.
The average church finds it difficult to
pay the preacher.
NOTABLE DAYS IN THE CHURCH
CALENDAR.
Jan. 10 is the first Sunday after Epipha-
ny. The term Epiphany is from the
Greek and means manifestation or ap-
pearance. 1t is a. festival celebrated in
England on Jan. 6, the twelfth Gay after
Christmas. 1t is the anniversary of the
three occasions whereon Christ manifest
ed his glory.
January IA is dedicated in the
church calendar to st. Hilary, patron
saint of Parma, and the cathedral of that
city contains some of his relics In Eng
lsh Jurisprudence, the name Of this saint
is commemorated in Hilary term, one of
four terms of the courts of law, which
begins early in January and ends before
Easter.
Jan. II is dedicated to the memory of
st. Anthony, the originator Of the mon
astjc idea in Christianity. He is the
great misogynist of the church, and or
ganized the first anti-women crusade
He feared women and the lesson he most
impressed upon his followers was that
in dealing with women their only chance
of safety was in flight He is said TO
have stopped a plague of erysipelas in
France in .10S9, a disease since frequently
called st. Anthony's fire
Jan. IS is known as the feast
of the Chair of st. Peter, as it was on
this day that the apostle is said to have
taken the throne Of his Episcopate in that
city. and began his worlds control of the
church. 1t is a noted day in Rome