The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-16

But no sooner did St. Anthony open his eyes than he said Take me back. Take me back to my cell" ..nd when they took him back and left him there alone and he again saw the Satah'c tempter St. Anthony cried out saylng. Aha. thou arch field! Didst thou think I had fed9 So here I am again l, An thony, to defy thee! I ehaller~e all thy malice. I spit on thee. I hav" come hack to combat thee' Beautiful story that, though there Is not the best or gospel teaching In that legend.
 The Way to Resist.
 The Bible says, Resist the devil. and he will flee away from you" But the same chapter also says, Draw night to God, and He will draw nigh toyou." And one of the easiest ways we can draw nigh to God is to run away from temptation just as fast as we can. Our faith In God is not always like pure gold. IL IS more often like a clear, beautiful, fawless dla- mond. Bring your diamond too near the hot flames of the chemists retort, and you change 1t Into black lusterless charcoal. It Is not like running stream of water, clear as crystal. which when you plunge your finger beneath the surface and draw 1t out there Is left no hole but clear. running. smooth surfaced stream. It IS like a beautiful vase which when once shattered will always show the sears. NO man ever strengthened his gospel faith by reading a bad book. No man walks closer to Christ because he goes hand In hand with a blasphemons, evil companion. Run no useless or dangerous risks In ref- erence to your relationship with Jesus Christ Avoid that which is high
 But if we should be very careful thai we, like Enoch. walk close to God, how much more careful should we be that we ourselves by an evil example should not lead our loved ones into dangerous spirit ual placesl Because you are able to row out in a boat and leap overboard and swim back to the shore 1t does not fol- low that your son will have enough strength to fight through the breakers. Because we are able In one sense to go through certain temptations unscathed that Is no reason why those who are fol lowing after us will not fall If we lead them too near the dangerous preciples.
 Going Into Danger.
 How far reaching is our influence in leading others to seek their temporal and spiritual deathl I remember how, as lad, my companions led me into danger ous places; not that l wanted to go, but I went because they went. l was born with a fear of that which is high. l n- herited this from my mother TO LOOK up at a tall building makes me almost as dizzy as 10 look down. Yet when boy, again and again 1 have followed my companions over dangerous railroad trestles, spanning great rivers. When 1 looked down through the ties into the awful river depths below l have been so dizzy and faint that as l followed the boys. I got down on my hands and knees and prayed to God to give me strength to get over. Yet over those bridges went. across those dangerous trestles, be- cause I was afraid my companions would call me coward And thus. by our reck- less actions by our evil example we may be leading others into dangerous spiritual places where they will totter and fall into eternal death.
 Running Into needless temporal and snirituaI danger reminds me great deal of that beautiful illustration Dr. Wise once gave to depict the evil of seeking sin instead of fleeing sin. Many years ago the flames of an awful confiagration were wrapping themselves about home. Higher and higher they went They seemed to mock and laugh at the feeble efforts of men to subdue them Near by this home was an aviary containing nearly a thousand beautiful canary birds. As the flames crept nearer and nearer the owner. unable to remove them, opened