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Junior League Scripture It ID
March 20
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Literary programme lol
An evening with the book or Jonah
Opening Exercises
Hymn by the League
Essay-The Office of the Hebrew
Prophet 6 minutes) = Paul ol"yeh
Story of the Book Lenore Matheny
Authorship and Character OF tue
Book u ID Jones
Splendor and Power Of Ancient
Nineveh D II Peterson
Assyrian Mythology
Mrs J G Matheny
Hymn
Relations between Nineveh and Is
rel Mrs Y b Bishop
Sc Monstersa Rosa Wiseman
Character of Jonah a NJ Eastman
Effects and Spiritual Teaching OF
.Jonah's Preaching
Rev A @ Flaharty
Vocal Solo Elsie Slaven
Queries on the Book of Jonah.
Hymn and League Benedictlon
The Benefit Of Gratitude.
1t is IL good thing to give thanks
unto the Lord. - Psalms 92:l.
He means it is a good thing for
us-it is benefit to the mind. 1t
prevents some great diseases. Let
us take but one-the remorse OF
memory. Do you know what that
is? 1t is something very different
from the remorse of conscience.
The remorse of conscience is the
pain of having done wrong; but
the remorse Of memory is the pain
of having failed to enjoy yourself.
Have you ever felt that: have you
ever come to a time in which you
looked back upon the past and
learn how little you had valued it?
| know few moments so sore as that
To find that days were happy when
the days are gone, to learn that |
was passing through Elvsium, and
| did not know it; to see the light
on the hill only when~it is setting
that is one Of the saddest of all
experiences to me-to you. 1t is the
climax of pain when | must say
with the
"Oh. while my brother with me
played,
Would had loved him more"
My soul, wouldst- thou be free
from that pain--that renorse of
memory. Thou mayest be so; live
in present thanksgiving! Count
thy sunbeams Eowl Treasure to-
day The gems that are strewn upon
thy path! The love that is merely
retrospective is a. very painful thing
| would not have the wake to the
glory of a past only when it is past
desire one of the days of the Son
of Man after He has assembled. If
thy days of sorrow at any time
sh ould cloud thy days of joy, |
should like thee to be able to say,
"Well while they lasted, did APP
preciate them" There are some,
who want to feel at death that
their life has been val in show. /
would not have 1t SO with thee, Oh :
my soul, | should like when death
comes to feel that | had thorough
Iy enjoyed life-taken the honey
from the flower as God meant me
to take it. | should like to know
that ! had not defrauded myself of
my birthright; that | made room
for Others because | had had my
share. 1t will be a great solace to
me at twilight that | have basked
with conscious Joy in the heat OF
the dav. Therefore | shall bask in
it now. The cup of gladness which
my Father has given me shall |
not drink it, even unto the days!
| shall thank him for every bird
that sings. | shall praise Him tor
every flower that blooms. | shall
bless Him for every stream that
MARBLES. ! shall love Him for eve
ry heart that loves. There shall be
no removss Of memory when |
have thanked God for to-day.
George Mathesson.
| have seen in China missionar-
les houses thronged from seven
o'clock in the morning till dark by
those who were anxious for Christ
ian introduction, pleading and beg
ging for it; men who have come
two or three hundred miles, as IN
Manchuria, begging that Christian
teachers might be sent to them.
having heard from colparteurs and
those who had been in medical
missions enough to make them
long to know the way of God more
perfectly, and always the answer is
given, 1--WE haye neither men nor
money. isabella Bird Bishop.