Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-12

should not be spoken. II It should be me
In book and questions were asked. the.
were not to be answered. If any one die'
his body was TO be taken away and tn
| children told they were gone away. Ye
| after all It was Impossible to keep Thu
knowledge from them. A little fish oil
the shore, or a tiny dead bird might bring
| the knowledge of this sorrow to the N
| And the narrator adds: Ours Is
| stranger mode OF dealing with ourselve!
| than was the fathers way of dealing with
his children. We tacitly resolve to play
game OF make-believe with ourselves
to remove to an incalculable distance tina
which Is inexorably near. And the feal
Of death with us does not come from the
nerves, bat from the will. Dsath ushers
US INTO the presence of God. Those OF
whom We speak hate and fear death be-
cause they fear God and hate His pres
ence. Now, 1t is necessary for such per
sons as these to be awakened from theil
illusion. That which is supremacy i'm
portant for them is TO realize that the
world is indeed drifting by; that there
IS an emptiness in all that is created q
vanity in all that is not eternal: that time
is short, eternity long"
Thnre are two reasons why we Should
not love the world. The first is thai W.
cannot love the world-that part of tn;
E'oi'ld that God hates. and that can never
te lov-l by Him-and the Father There
Is net room in any heart for the love o.
tha world and TIE love of the Father
The second reasC1 is that the world is
cot worth loving. 1t is like loving g
hubble. The bubble cxplodes into nothing
The world passes away. DR.. William
Alexander says: God mad and ordered
all things, Why should we not love them
with a holy and blameless love? Only we
should not love them in themselves; we
should not cling TO them forgetting Him
Suppose that some husband haaped beau
tiful and costly gifts upon his wife whom
he loved. At last with the intuition OF
love he begins to see what is the secret OF
such cold imitation of love as that icy
heart can give. She loves him MOTHS
riches, not the man; his gifts, not the
giver. And thus loving with that frigid
love which has no heart In It, there Is
no true love; her heart is, another's. Gifts
are given that the giver may be loved In
them. If it is true that the gifts are
nought when givers prove unkind, 1t is
also true that there Is a sort of adultery
of the heart when the taker is unkind-
because the gift is valuable, not because
the bestower is dear. And so the world,
Gods beautiful world, now becomes to
us an idol The world in Its essence is
subtler and thinner than the most IN
finitesimal of the bacterian germs in the
air. They can be strained off by the
exquisite apparatus of a man Of science.
At a certain height they cease to exist.
but the WOTiQ may DC wherever we az :"
carry it with US wherever we go, 1t 2sts
while our lives last. No conservation
can utterly Danish it, even from within
the churchs walls; it dares to be round
US while we kneel and follows US into
the presence of God.
We often speak of ''the world as con-
fined to the world of society and amuse-
ments. 1t is not always that The world
may creep into the life of the quiet
student. or the ascetic in a convent or
even into weary kitchen with its daily
round of work Sometimes the world
takes the form of books we should not
allow our minds to be filed witn-and not
always bad books either, just worldly,
foolish books with no help in them. One
may read such a book perhaps for a
reason occasionally, but to love them, to
take every occasion to fill the mind with
them to the exclusion of better things
that Is lust as much to love the world
and the things in it, as If one were to
spend every night whirling in mad
dance at n ball. or to become an habitual
attendant at the theater. or to take up
every leisure moment in playing whist.
Wherever something takes up the desires
Of soul that ought to be filed with
Jesus there Is the world.
Il pray you be occupied with God. We
want to get help, every one OF US, so that
in our daily life God shall be clearer to
u.s. God shall have the right place, and be
all in ALL "-Andred Murray.
Love Tim, and keep Him for thy
forsake thee. nor suffer thee to perish at
the last. '-Thomas A. kempis
There Is know what how, In the minds
Of men, a certain presage, as 1t were, OF
future existence, and this takes the
A. tr., ncf iSan a~n II
the greatest geniuses and most exalted
souls. Cicero.
Applied Truth.
A wealthy man who lived in a large and
beautiful home, was one day dying. His
little daughter slipped up to his side and
asked earnestly: Papa, have you got
a home in the land you are going tor
The man had spent his whole life in get
ting rich, and now when he had to leave
it he found he had no treasure laid up
in heaven.
Some one distributed some tracts on
board steamboat. A traveller in derision
folded one up and cut it in small pieces
with his knife. Then he threw the pieces
away. but one stuck to his coat. He
picked it up and looked at it curiously.
There was only the single word Cod
on one side. He turned it over and there
was the word "Eternitylr He went to
those two words burned into his brain
He went to the gaming table and began to
gamble, but the words haunted him
wherever he went, and at last through
those two words he was brought to
Jesus
Queen Elizabeth during her last illness
became melancholy, weeping much and
signing. When she was urged to go to
bed she replied to her lord admiral that
If he were in the habit of seeing such
things in his bed as she did when in hers
he would not persuade her to go there.
She once declared: Il am tied with a
chain of iron about my neck and when
her end came near she cried out: "A mil
lion for q moment!'
Louis Henri. Comte de Brenne, In his
Memoirs" tells the following story Of
the great Prime Minister Mazarln: IT was
walking some days after In the new apart
ments of his palace. 1 recognized the
cardinal by the sound Of his slippered
feet. which he dragged one after the other
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