The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1904-07-22


Upon your downy pillowed bed.
u love thou hast within thy breast,
Ihe here's. one al above who guards thy rest
He giveth His beloved sleep"
Faint not when life's great trials come,
March on, breast forward, glance ahead;
and when the barriers all have fled,
And thou the dreary ages reap,
lie giveth His beloved sleep"
When last thy weary tolls are done,
me race Is run, the goal is won.
And when thou takest thy last rest.
lie still is near; thou shalt be blessed.
When mists athwart thy eyelids creep,
He giveth His beloved sleep"
-Jno. j. Marks.
How Character Is Made and Shown.
He was known to them i'm the break
ing of bread.-Luke, XIV, 50.
There are many wonderful and
glorious passages in the New Tesla
ment, but few more pathetic to my APP
prehension than that little story of the
walk of Emmaus, the disciples not re-
eognizing the Master, while yet their
1earts burned within them as they
talked with Him by the way. And
the story reaches its climax of beauty,
unfolds the sweetest flower of its sig
nificance where the disciples, rehears-
ing the details of the event, tell how
Jesus was known to them in the
breaking of bread"
How interesting and suggestive that
He was not known to them by any
sign that marked Him as the Messiah
or in any way pre-eminent, but by one
of the simplest things He had ever
done in their presence. One likes to
think of their recalling something
pleasant in His manner, some happy,
grateful look upon His face, as if He
were Gods minister in answering the
prayer Give us this day our daily
bread" which He had taught them
when they asked Him how to pray.
Perhaps the time when He sat at table
with them was the time when the
conscious burden of His ministry was
least oppressive and He unbent Him.
self in the most intimate and friendly
manner.
1t is very lovely to be thought OF
when alive and remembered when
dead as doing kind and pleasant
things. Among the thousands of exag-
gerated and pretentious epitaphs in
Mount Auburn there is one which
reads:
She was so pleasant.
think il one of the most enviable.
And there are many women and as
many men who earn it perfectly. They
do rot strive nor cry, but wherever
they go and whatever they do they
diffuse an atmosphere of comfort and
content, They make sick people we'll
and sad people merry. They dispel
the gloom from anxious hearts and the
fevered pulse is quieted at the cool
fountain of their unfailing cheer.
A great many persons are known to
their families and friends in the same
way as Jesus was known in the New
Testament story-by their behavior.
at the morning, monday, or evening
meal. Joy of the street." says the
Provencal proverb, curse of the
home" 1t is proverb which fits
many people like a glove. These are
men who spend all their pleasantness
and gayety on their companions in
business and at the club and have only
sour looks and cross words at home.
There are women who can smile and
smile" at the afternoon reception and
the evening party, and be anything but
agreeable in the uneventful round of
their domestic cares. But what men
and women are in this uneventful
round goes far not only to show their
true character, but to make it what it
Is for better or worse.
Francis Bacon said: God hangs the
greatest weight upon the smallest
wires" That would be dangerous me-
chanics were not the wires so many
that in their aggregate they are of as
great strength as that of the cables on
which our great suspension bridges
swing in air. The atomic theory may
be true or false in physics; it is GER
tainly true upon the spiritual plane.
All great actions. characters and
events are prepared for in silence and
obscurity by innumerable little seem.
ingly unimportant actions, refusals,
acceptance, disposition The roots
Of great character spread out like the
roots of q great tree. ten thousand
Hlaments drawing their virtue from
lhC udlh tGTluS anu secret Springs, ana
Welding each it's proper increment to
that great strength with which the
tree or character filings wide its
branches and defies the storm. Men
and women are best known as they are
most surely fashioned by such little
seemingly petty actions as the break.
ing of bread or the making of it, or
The tasks necessary for tho honest
earning of it, because the whole char
acter rushes into expression in every
part. because every part reports the
Ioundness or unsoundness of the whole
20 which it has contributed its due pro-
portion of those elements which in
heir aggregation and coordination
make up a human life.--Jown White
Chadwick.
The Constant Christian.
Consistency, stability among Chris