The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-02
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Sabbath Lessons.
Notable DAYS.

The joy of service is not inconsistent
with hardships in service. This is
taught in the One Hundred and Twenty
sixth psalm: They who SOW in tears
shall reap IN joy. He that goeth forth
and, weeping, bearing precious seed shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing
bringing his sheaves with him" Sowing
is difficulty, a hardship. How much
more so in cast of famine, when every
seed may be of great value! But reap
ing follows sowing, and reaping is joy
Gus. When the Sown seeds have become
sheaves, what cause for rejoicing! Who
thinks then, of the hardships of sowing?
Those very ,hardShips only make the joy
of reaping surer and sWeeter. Service
without hardship is not near so Joy
producing as service that has been ac-
complished amid tears and sorrow. Sow
ing in sorrow produces reaping in joy.
Let us not expect that joy before it is
due, and then we will not be disappointed
and discouraged.
The temptations to sacrifice the Chris
tian's joy for the joy of the world is
sometimes very great But we should
not yield to il. THE joy of the world
worketh death, and death ends all it's
JOY, but the Christians joy only really
begins when death comes. Someone
has compared the joy of the sinner to
lightning-a flash and it is gone-and
the joy Of the saint to light, lasting,
healthful healing and beautiful" Which
we should chose is self-eyiGent.
ENTER THOU INTO THE JOY OF
THE LORD"
The Epworth league topic for March
is found in Psalm cxxyi., ST; Matthew
XIV, 1923. There is gladness in the joy
OF accomplishment, as when he enter into
the joy of the Lord To see all efforts
age and interest. In the active use of
our powers in right way we find life S
deepest pleasure. We must be doing.
Thought must reappear in things. We
must form and shape things to CORE
spond to ideas within. We must COM
pei things to unite( to increase, to do
our bidding. We not only discover what
is: we invent and create what never be-
fore was. We received talentS-one, two,
five. We return with added capital. We
have discovered. the secret Of the Lord S
riches. We have shared in His power.
UnconSciouSly to ourselves we have
grown into His way of doing and being.
In our fntentness to be faithful to His
interests and be able to5 give Him on his
return His own goods with rightful in
crease we have developed and expended
our own natures and become capable Of
cOmpanionShip and partnership.
1t requires NERVE" to do this-some-
thing more than nerves, 1t is the feel
ing power held firmly by will power to
the course approved by reason power.
There may Oe weeping at planting time,
sorrow at loss of good seed buried in the
earth when we may be pinched with hun
ger and crave it for food, but whatever
the call of appetite we go forth with that
precious seed and sow it instead of eating
it. Is there any joy in that? Perhaps
there is a kind of grim stisfaction in the
self mastery. We pull the belt a hole
tighter in the buckle to still the cravings
of hunger and swing the hands in wiCer
circle as we scatter the grain. We all sing,
we will sing in hope of harvest, in tri-
umph of right doing, in consciousness of
right use of the Masters goods.
Come again, rejoicing bringing
sheaves." Harvest is the singing time.
Not yet can we swell the full chorus of
Tnd don e in hn cd O
only, some in caring, and we must pa
tiently wait the filed out corn, ripe and
beautiful.
The future ioy will not be so much
because we bring added talents and gath
cred sheaVes as because we are admitted
to Christ's companionship and hear Him
say, well done!
NOTABLE DAYS OF THE WEEK.
March 2 is the third Sunday in Lent.
1t is also Independence day in Texas, and
a legal holiday. 1t is also the anniver-
sary of the birth of De Witt Clinton in
1862 and of Carl Schurz in 1929.
March is the anniversary of the birth
| in 1923 of DIR. Dio Lewis, the health re-
| former.
March is the anniversary of the birth
| of Count Puloski, in 1747, the Polish pa
| triot, who gave his life to the cause OF
| the American revolution; of Ron TT EN-
met, in 177S, the Irish patriot.
I March is the anniversary of the birth
| in 1912 of Gerard Mercator, the French
| geographer, known for the projection
| called by his name. Also anniversary OF
! the Boston massacre in NO. a forerunnel
| Of the revolution.
| March 6 is the anniversary Of the birth
| in 1475 Of Michael Angelo; of Gerrit Smith
| in 1871; of Gen. Phil Sheridan in 1881.
| March is the anniversaryEof the birth
| in 1891 of Goold Brown, the grammarian
| of E. P. Roe in 1888, divine and novelist.
| March 8 is the anniversary Of the brit
| in 1899 of Simon Cameron; of e. P. Whip