The Newtown bee., 1902-07-18

faithfully done, out Of sincere pur.
pose for good conscientiously main.
tanned, out of willingness in
helping Others continually manifest.
ed: these are they sometimes that
have come out of great tribulat ton, the
deep places Of experience, of toll, OF
persistency, OF prayer and faith, and
such only give these waters of life.
But the word is faithful which main.
tains that such more blessed gift is
given. The waters of life are deep, but
we have vessels that can reach them.
We have life that can possess them.
We are not confined to the shadows.
There are voices all about us to-day,
voices of pessimism, voices of despair,
and failure, and stated lust and unsatis-
fed ambition, voices which cry,-you
have no vessels to draw with,-man' s
life is a failure, a disaster. All things
are full of vanity, man cannot utter it,;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor
the ear with hearing; all pleasures is
seeming, all love is mere folly, there is
no good in life as it passes, nor any
good to be hoped for in the grave unto
which man goest. We hear all that
ceaselessly, continually, and as riches
increase, and pleasures flourish all the
more these cries fill our ears,-we have
no vessels to draw with life is not
worth living. And yet all the time
Jesus sits by the we'll side and says;
"Whosoever drinketh of the water
that 1 shall give him shall never
thi rst.''
LIFE HAS A SERVICE
that is perfect reward-life has a
pleasure that is pure delight; life has
an ambition, and the end of it is peace,
amongst all safety, amongst all I'M
rest, amongst all despair these
words are promise and life, because
things to eat do not wholly satisfy it
does not mean that life is a failure;
because you have made all the money
you need and yet are not really happy,
it does not mean that life is failure:
because you have not made much
money and do not have all you want,
or think you need, it does not mean
that life is a failure; because politics
are uncertain, and art f1eeting, and
friends sometimes thoughtless, and
perhaps thou are become as one whom
''disaster follows fast and follows fast.
err" nevertheless it does not mean
that life is failure; there are some
things that are always left, and in
those things we shall prove all things
new; there are ways, and services, and
affection, and aspirations, and these
bring into our hearts the true riches.
These write as nothing else can ever
do the benedicite-blessed are We in the
Lord-over life.
Now what are they? What are the
vessels that can go down to the waters
of life's refreshing even though they
be deep. What are the heart and
spirit activities which are fruitful un.
to joy and rest and peace-these of
which Jesus was speaking to the
woman Of Samaria-what are they:
Well they are old and simple as the
blessed Gospel. They do not depend
on great learning, or much possession,
or high place, or on anything but that
which you and 1 can have and have
to-day: and have a little more Of to-
morrow, and so have ever in wider.
larger measure through the growing
days OF an eternal life. They are
those things which may be summed up
in the old fashioned word Piety-piety
and all that that implies. Towards
God-trust in hope and patience
towards man, helpfulness and minis
try-towards ourselves, conscientious
ness and growth in grace. The Apostle
sums up all these at length when he
says: "The fruits of the spirit are love,
joy, peace, long suffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, meekness, tenn
perance." These vessels are such that
man can let them down to the deep
we'll springs Of life. AS Thomas KEN
pts wrote one who entered into these:
"That man is conqueror of himself.
and lord of the world, and friend of
Christ, and heir of heaven"
1t is as If some dweller by a tideless
sea, great Lake Superior or Black
Sea far inland where no rising and fall