The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-28
TRUE PHILANTHROPY.

The Epworth League lesson for July
Is is found in Galatians VII, 1-10, covering
one Of Pauls effective epistles, 1rgin 2
his brethren to go forth and not, weary
in well doing. The friend who patiently
shows another the right way out of
error until the erring one. sees it and
resolves never to fall on that account, is
4 true friend. 1t may cost good de al
of effort, but it pays, and pays better
than the use of money.
The best gifts are not money and
things and cannot be estimated in dol
lars. A true friend is worth more than
all the cash one can give or another re-
ceiVe. And, however much you may
doubt it at first, it is, nevertheless, true
that there is nothing men give so rarely
as true friendship. Still, more singu-
lar, but just as true, there is nothing
people are so reluctant to receive as
true friendship. L costs so much that
few are willing to put themselves to
the expense and privation it involves
to give or receive. Men will five all
most anything else more willingly than
this. Have you ever tired to be real
friend to anyone? Have you studied
their needs until in the depths of your
soul there was an earnest longing to
impart to them the wealth of truth YOU
held and you have studied how you
might benefit them, regardless of your
own case? What time, what study
what anxiety and at times real anguish
it has cost Would money weigh
against all this? No one could buy
such interest; no price would pay you,
for money would not tempt you to suf-
fer so. But, on the other hand, moth
ing so rich ever came into your life
as that same experience. I do not
mean the gratitude returned, nor even
the satisfaction of success in seeing an
other life lifted. 1t all lies deeper than
this. The consciousness of being friend
ly rather the feeling of friendship itself,
is its own Compensation above all other
return.
NOTABLE DAYS OF THE WEEK.
July 2S is the eighth Sunday after
Trinity in the Anglican church and the
ninth after Pentecost in the Catholic
church.
July % is dedicated in the Roman Cath
Ollie church to ST Martha of Bethany,
patron saint OF cooks and housewives. she
figures in the gospels as the sister of
Lazarus and the friend of Jesus.
July 81 is the festival Of Ignatus 10y
ola. founder of the Society of Jesus.
or better known as the Jesuits He was
originally a Spanish soldier. He was
cdnOnlHeU. IN 16ZZ.
August is celebrated in Rome as St
Peters day, on which the church is il
Illuminated and the ceremonies are ~con-
Quoted with all the pomp of Easter.
August l in the days of Paganism in
England was Lammas day. which should
1atner have been Loafmass. of which the
Saxon name is a corruption. On this day
the ancient Britons celebrated the gifts
the Ceres : Offering a loaf made of
new era n; this custom was adopted by
| the early Christians, who contented them
selves with changing the object of the
worship, and the first fruits were thence
forth presented at the Christian affairs.
August is the anniversary of the birth.
in Maryland on a Friday in 1776, OF
Robert r. Roberts, known in his day as
the grandfather of all missionaries to
the Western Indians.
August 3 is the anniversary of the sail
ing at a. m. on a Friday, 1892 of Column
bus with, his fleet of three little ships
from Palos, Spain, with the object of
reaching India by westerly course.
He reached on Oct. u a country greater
now than India.