The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-27
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obedience, truthfulness and lovaltv -
Christ and the Father.
zd-We need 1t as a guide in practical
duties of life. For this end we sween a
wider circle in reading. Precept, exam
pie, exhortation, confession. history law
eplstie-all are aids in thfs matter.
Most people are inlpa tent of crft,c;sr,
lhough their actions and words may seem
to their friends so clear Fly la cking- In Ole
ments Of Christian consistency. If such
VIII read the Bible Faithfully thew will
IND the mirror held up to their own lives
and will recognize the imperfections
others see. but which have never before
been realized by their owners. No cor
rectioHsa and. no teacher is as faittfuI- i'm
PARTIAL patient and persistent as this
Bible studied under the guidance of the
Holy Spirit.
Sd--We should also read the Bible for
It's history literature and biography. 1
The most thorough students are most
deeply impressed by its value. Modern !
scholarship has opened new fields in the
search of fascinating interest. Some of
their con5ectures are startling, but the
outcome of all investigation has been to
establish on firmer foundation than ever
before the fact that these writings are
valuable, above all others the world has
for religion.
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.
The EpWorth League topic is found In
Acts xviii, 1912 The people of Berea
had a desire to know religious truth and
were open to receive new impulses and
enlightenment. Paul and Silas told them
that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah
expected of the Jews and predicted in
TIER sacred books. It WAS a startling
cation. They enteredAupon it earnestly: 4
Z they kept it UP persistently and conduct
ed it intelligently. Daily they searched
the writings of their holy religion to find
II jesus was the Christ. No other course
was so sure to yield the desired knowi-
Z edge and bring decision. 5s.si
The same thing is true today. No other
course will so greatly aid in development
OF Christian character and activity as
daily searching of the Bible.
What is the most helpful way to use
the Bible?
No one method is sufficient To simply
eat and sleep, that is not life-ie. not
human life. To be the slave of work-of
work that takes the joy. and serenity out
CT iife-that is not to truly live. To have
no time to think, to have no days to our
selves, to never let our minds expand
sthatsi is not to live To be self-centered,
that is not to live. Even to be conferred
in our families is not to fully live. Nor
is it living never to enter the atmosphere
of principles and feel their compelling
ana stranshguring power. Yes; real living
is in interpenetrating all common human
experience with the power of a good will,
irradiatlrg sorrow and defeat and loss
with the glow, of a mind that will not be-
aisheartened by them. Search the Scrip
lures and find out how to- live.
NOTABLE DAYS of THE WEEK.
/. Oct q is the twenty first Sunday after
trinity in the church calendar. 1 phis is
also the anniversary of the birth of Capt. !
James Cook, the navigator; of Il, f.
Wade, in 1900, an American (Ohio) states.
man; of A. t. Stewart, in 1902, a famous
New York merchant; of Whitelaw Reid,
: III 1887, now editor of New York Tribune.
Oct. % is the anniversary of the birth.
in 1892, of Erastus Fairbanks, scale
manufacturer, and twice governor OF
Vermont; also on Friday, 1872, or Anna
E. Dickinson. well known American
author and lecturer. "a 81
Oct. % is the day of St Simon and st.
Jude, apostles, who are generally repre-
sented together in pictures-Simon with
saw in his hand, mathematical of the
death he underwent, being saWn asunder;
! and jude with carpenters square, or
with a boat.
Oct. 80 is the anniversary of the birth
in 1875 of John Adams, second president;
of Roscoe Conkling; in 1925 American
senator and lawyer; of John Rogers, on
a Friday. in 1929, the modeler Of the
fef,o - E91Ecrn
Oct. 81. is a legal holiday in Nevada,
being. celebrated as the day on which it
became a state of the Onion. On this
night is Halloween la relic or pagan
times. The old idea respecting this night
is that a universal walking abroad of
spirits took place. In England parties
are given by young folks, and games in
dulged in. In, America the spirits walk
ing abroad are boys on mischief bent
in banging doors, nlisplactng gates, signs,
etc.
Nov. / is "All Saints Day.. when the
Catholic church honors all the saints not
otherwise eonmemorated, the reason
given being because we cannot particu-
lar1y commorate every one of those
saints in whom Gods graces have been
eminent, for that would be too heavy a
burden
Nov. 2 is All Souls Day in the church
of Rome, when they commemorate the
faithful departed this life, and special
prayer is made for those souls which are
undergoing, in an intermediate state,
purgatorial cleansing from sin by means
of punishment In many parts of Europe
it is the custom on this day to decorate
the-graves.
Nov. 2 is the anniversary of the birth,
in 1875, of James Knox Polk, eleventh
president; of Marie Antoinette. in 1885, the
Inflated queen of France, wife of Louis
XVI.