The Newtown bee., 1907-03-22

satisfied with the six given, pursued to capture the seventh also. So man, not satisfied with the six days given of God for labor and gain, is trying to turn God out of the seventh day also. It can be done, but how irreparable the loss yet unwrftten history will af- firm. The transportation lines, steam, electric and team, affect only the gen. eral public. They bid for patronage, like the Sunday newspaper, which keeps many man from devoting the sacred hours to that spiritual nurture without which even the animal and intellectua! fail of satisfaction. Man is not simple but compound, trinity of body, mind and soul and, while the animal and intellectual suffer from neglect or abuse, there is nothing like spiritual atrophy to ruin the whole fabric. The divine in man cries out in it's need and hunger for light and life, and this Jesus the Christ came to satisfy, but, long before He came, Sa-
 viour of sinners and final Judge of all, God the Father set the Sabba tn as a seventh of time perpetually sacred to
 Himself, not for His selfish satisfac-
 tion, but that mans hungry soul might pause in it's quest for daily
 bread and information to drink at eternal fountains of living water and
 to feed in green pastures and beside SUllJ WaU0TS OI Il IS lOV6 ana peace.
 Wise Ben Franklin truly said, wi cious actions are not hurtful, because
 they are forbidden, but forbidden be- cause they are hurtfuf.' This is es-
 pecially true of the 4th command
 fop nas nos bs Seg
 it's value, bids for it's observance in
 wisest and tenderest love. The Sun.
 day question will never down, for,
 either God s day will be ignored and
 curse inevitably follow, or it will be
 is still heard, respected and obeyed.
 Better to keep it as His day, as His Word commands, in the spirit which He loves to bless than to sheer at blue laws and at those whose conscience calls for day-not of selfish pleasure or profit, but of that unselfish benefi- cence which is of divine origin. A safe rule of Sabbath observance is to cut
 out the selfish and make the day one of help. There is much selfish
 church going, which cares only for it's own pleasure and will not attend the
 service if pet preacher is absent or if
 rain or other impeachment makes at tendance a matter of denial. It is all
 most as bad as the big Sunday dinner
 that gorgesi it's own with never
 thought of the poor, the lonely, the
 unhappy.
 Day of all the week the best"
 May thy divine influence never fail in our beloved land! ''No art in life is fin CT than the art of waySide ministry. Not to have learned 1t is to miss out of ones life half the power of usefulness" observance than in that waYside min- 1 iStry, which feaSts, not that it may be bidden to feast in return, nor that 1t
 may glut animal craving, but which bestOws it's bounty of Sabbath leisure and worship in giving what it has first yD 0f n ind or of soul.
 Freely ye have received, freely give" Providence does not fail those who l make the Kingdom first, and Robins attention was directed to defunct paper at his old home in Freshton, to which his eye was called by one of that band of younger brothers, who were to be such support his journey through. | MT Child was as faithful friend as of yore and assisted in looking the field over, nor ever failed to the limit of his | utmost sympathy and generous assist ance. Another paper was published | in the town; the suspended paper, the Hive, had only worn-out equipment and few hundred unexpired subscrip- tions as assets, besides having bad reputation for frequent changes from one hand to another and the town it. self was too small for two successful | weeklies. Robin was by this time uuOIOuSuIy cQulppcu TUT ucWSpdpeI
 work, knowing both how to handle type and get the paper to press and | prepare matter for publication, but of press work itself and in provision of | the SinewS of war, the necessary dol l lars, he was not so we'll informed. It l was a fine opportunity of putting | knowledge at uSury to his own advan-
 tage, and, after careful deliberation, l the Hive was bought. A friend as
 sured him that failure was impossible | if he would only regard mOnay due | him as of no more right in debtors pocket than if the debtor had stolen
 it from him, and this view of the case certainly gave him confidence and courage in later collections. Taking
 again as his motto, "Fain5 heart new
 CT won, land his grandmother's, "Hope
 for the best, but be prepared for the
 worst," he put part of his limited cap | ital into a supply of paper for year.
 which MT Child drew to town from
 the station and left standing in a con- | spicuous place, where it might be an | object lesson as to the new proprie-
 tors staying qualities and his faith in | the new venture.
 Just make your best endeavor- | "Oheer, boys, cheerl No more of idle sorrowl
 Courage! True hearts shall bear us on our
 Hope points before to show the bright to-
 Let us forget the darkness of to-day" 1.-THE END.i
 COULD SHE HAVE DONE BETTER?