The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-03

If the negative Christians are spending an evening with party of friends, they may not tell the lewd story themselves, but they will not rebuke that story when they hear someone else telling 1t. If they see another travelling the crowded paths of sin, they may not follow but they do not go forth and as Christian friend say: Brother, this Is not the way to Christ. Let me lead you into the right path' In other words, in their friendship to Christ they are like chameleon-changing their colors to suit their surroundings
 Woman's Stony Heart.
 The religion of these modern Laodi- ceans is like the wavering friendship of Marie Louise, one of the most contempti- ble characters of all history. The second wife of Napolean Bonaparte olung to no one. She had a heart of putty. As soon as she left her fathers palace she for got her father, her brothers and sisters and her stepmother. When her hus- band was dethroned Napoleon Bonaparte at once passed out of her life She had no further use for him and almost im- mediately formed an affection for Count Neippert, one of Napoleons btterest foes. She would not write to her ex- fled husband, and when Napoleon re- turned from Elba she was in mortal ter TOT lest her sins should find her out when the king of Rome, her only son, was dying, his mother cared no more for him than If he had been a peasants child. When Count Neippert died, Marie Louise almost at once formed sinful alliance with another member of the Austrian court. Her heart seemed to have turned from a heart of putty to one of stone. Her affections were as the waters of the G6 1lnwasf of hrnOl<a which pn1ld la and smile no matter what sun shone upon them. Her loving power was as dead as is the heart of a dried up mum my which has been buried a thousand years in one of the Egyptian pyramids and is now put under a glass case in the Cairo museum. So with some of us. Like Marie Louise, we smile on God when we are with God; we smile on Gods enemies when we are with God s enemies. We are never Gods true, firm disciples. We never uphold him We never fight for him. We are never ready to die for him as Christ died for us. Oh. that we might be faithful to God in rebuking the sins of others as well as true to him in reference to the personal actions of our own lives!
 Would that we might be as true to Gods love in every way as Dr. Joseph Leidy the great naturalist was true in his noble affection for dumb brutes. Some years ago Dr. 1eidy was featuring on natural history to the students of Swarth- more college, about ten miles out of Philadelphia. where he lived. To illus trate his subject he took into the class room three little mud turtles out of a nearby pond. After the lecture he locked these little turtles up in his lab- oratory, intending to turn them lose next day. That night Dr. Leidy was sum- moned to Germany by cable He had to catch the early boat for New York next morning. There was no train out that night to the college town So rather than let his little friends, the mud tur- ties. starve to death in the closet of which he only had the key. Dr. Leidy walked over the Pennsylvania hills to the college town and then walked back and caught the early morning train for New York. "Ah." said he to the col lege janitor, T could not go away and sail for Europe and think of those little turtles starving to death in my closet"
 "A little thing" you say. Yes, it was a little act but 1t was a noble act, which showed tender heart. Thus may our love to Christ be demonstrated. May 1t be a positive love. May we be true to him in the teachings of the cross. May we be true to him in the financial duties of the store. May we be true to him in our pleasures. Last, but not least may we be true to Christ in rebuilding sin wherever 1t Is found. And in our rebukes may we strive to lead the sinner into the spirit of Christs sacrifice.
 Copyright, 1905, by Louis Klopsch.)