The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-05-09


Last Sunday evening, DR.. Whvte SPEAKING TO
ms class on Robert Bruce (the great Edinburoh
Reformation preacher, and author of the five "a
nous sermons on the Sacraments) incidentally re-
Ierred to the sanity Halyburton as a great admirer
OF Bruce Dr. Whyte said he had once presented
copy of "Halyburton' to a young minister who
had been settled in his first charge In RETURNING
thahks Tor the gift, the young divine wrote "But
OF course Doctor, have got past that kind of
thing now. A visit to Keswick however induced
the young minister to read and appreciate "EaIy-
burton" and thereafter he wrote DR.. Whyte apollo
giving for his ''impudent letter about Halvburton'
and stating that he had bought several copies to
send to his college chums. Some time afterwards.
while passing through the parish of his young friend
the Doctor astonished by old farmer putting
his head in at the railway carriage and saying
doctor, haze gotten a meenister, moor
Our good DIR. Cuyler accounts for the lack of con-
versions by decline of preaching to the uncon-
verified. He says that 'preaching to Christians has
been relatively overdone, and preaching to the i'm
penitent underdone.' Perhaps there have been too
many attempts to convert the impenitent by absent
treatment. We have heard fervd sermons addressed
to them when every person in the audience was a
protesting Christian.
Weel, John how are you to-day?" said a Scotch
minister to one of his parshioners on meeting him
ON the road "Gey weel, sir-gey wee" replied
John, cautiously, "gin it for the rheumatism
In my rlcht leg "Ah, wee John be thankful: for
there is mistake, you getting old like the rest
of us, and old age doesn't come alone" "AuId age
sir" returned johns 81 won'er to hear vel Aud
age has naething to do wit. Here's my ither leo
jist as auld, an it's quite sound and soopIe yet"
self-conscious young clergyman was "supplvinoo
the pulpit of country church After the service he
asked one OF the deacons, grzzled, plain-spoken
man, what he thought of "this mornings effort"
WAL" answered the old man, cpl tell We in
KIND o parable. 1t reminded me of Sim Peck's fust
deer hunt He follered the deer's tracks all right
but he followed em all day in the wrong direc-
4 ton. '-EUchaHge.
Discoursng of that tired feeling" that af-
. fects those engaged in benefcent work whether
in the pulpit or in pastoral work. or in other
forms of benefcence. Rev. J. III. Jowett recently
said: 81 believe that much WEAKNESS may be
accounted for in a way not generally mentioned
in the pulpit. I believe it is caused by sheer
bodily fatigue. And it seems to me that if
some of us went to bed little earlier and spent
a few more quiet evenings by the fire Christian
work would gain much thereby
1t will not do to laugh at good resolutions"
Did you know a person to undertake any
really great task without one?
"The heart that loves sets no time limit to
its service, stays to measure it's gifts for
Love must serve and Love must give"
Life can never be really happy if we do not know
what it really is to rise in the morning eager to
grappe with the days pressing duties, to 90 to
bed at night healthiy tired after day Of hard and
successful work.-Treasury
Bevity is said to be the soul of wit: but where
no wit Is brevity will not avail Even fool NAV
speak in monosyllables. and make an epipram which
brevity will not save from inanity