The Newtown bee., 1906-06-01

Money is power, as knowledge is
power, and social position is power; but
there is higher and more precious
kind of power than either of these
the power Of the personal love of
Christ in the heart, mind, and will of
the Christian. I do not disparage the
use of money when l say that what
the world most needs Is the grace of
God in His saints, manifest in real
personal sympathy, friendship, sacri-
ice, fellowship, and personal helpful
ness. 1t is the personal love Of Christ
in spirit, towards those who need them.
and such spiritual and temporal help
as they can give.
One of the latest movements among
the more cultivated and christianized
is the College Settlement, which aims
to bring the best and most highly
favored into personal relations with
those who are poor, neglected and de-
graded. 1t is to give sympathy and
helpfulneSS by personal example, and
actual associations. There is no way
in which the difficulties of life are so
effectually metand overcome as by mutu-
al sympathy and understanding in the
name and fellowship of the meek and
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one-half of the world should not know
and feel the needs and sufferings and
difficulties which beset the other half;
and the sermons that are preached by
laymen, without words perhaps, are
often more effective than any other
means of grace. 1t is related of Fran
els uf Assist that one day he stepped
down into the cloisters of his
monastery and said to a young mon k,
Brother, let us 20 down into the
town to-day and preach" So they
went forth, the venerable father and
the young man, conversing. as they
around the iowly alleys, the out
beyond they wound their way, return
ing at length to the monastery gate.
Then spoke the young monk. Father,
when shall we begin to preach?" "My
child" said Francis, looking kindly
down upon the young man, 1--WE have
been preaching as we walked, and
those who have seen and heard us are
the people we have met"
There is nothing in the world that
we all prize so highly as real personal
| interest. If we look back over our
lives we shall find that the best things
that have been done for US were per-
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Christian love. 1t may have been a
word of warning in the hour of danger
or touch Of sympathy in time OF
sorrow; 1T may have been simply a bit
of fellowship in our loneliness; or the
use of money in time of necessity;
whatever it was which the persona
love of some one, as poor and depend.
emit as we are on the grace of God, and
common human sympathy, perhaps
We shall never forget that it was more
precious than silver and gold-it was
lOf the spirit of ]Ove-the deepest
most prevailing force of life.
There is nothing we more admire ir
the character of others than this gift
of the personal love of the Son of Man
which finds in every one brother ant
fellow servant, and thus redeems the
world from the curse of sin and selfish
ness by doing in humble simplicity a
our Lord and Master taught us b
precept and example.
"Such as have give l thee" Sucl
( as we have to give, such as we are abl
to do for others,-it may be one thing
or it may be another, it does not mat
, ter much, the chief thing is to do
= And let us think what that means
. How simple and humble His life! Ho,
: unpretending and unseltish! And {
all He did by His divine power, wis
dom and love it was not in His Ow
name that He did anything! He di
not claim any power of Himself alone
He came to do the will of the Fathe
- who sent Him. And His life was on
It of loving obedience even unto DEATH
u And so the best we can give is tina
: which we can really do in His name
I and for His sake. 1t is His work, nc
, ours. 1t is to His praise, and not tina
we may please ourselves. To sho
forth the love of the Saviour we mus