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ure in proportion TO the increasing
problems OF mankind-Rev. William
Brandt, Presbyterian.
Working Our Salvation.
Christ does not lay up an infinite
bale of character cloth. from which
a suit of righteousness can be cut
of from a wicked man, stepped in
selfshness and sin. Character is an
achievement. No virtue comes I'M
asked, or stays unurged. Step by
step man climbs the steep hills of
difficulty and righteousness, with the
Divine Helper toiling at his side. We
work out our own salvation, but
God is a worker together with us,
and that insures success at the end
of the enterprise.--Rev. Dwight Hill
lis, Baptist.
Purpose of New Testament.
The purpose of the New Testa-
ment books is too evident to need
comment. We may sum up the pur-
pose of the Gospels with the final
words of the fourth evangelist:
'These are written that We might be-
lieve that Jesus is the Christ the Son
of God, and that believing We might
have life through His name" The
purpose of the epistles is expressed
by the same author, John: These
things write we unto you that your
joy may be FULL" and that We may
know that we have eternal life."-
Rev. James Peterson, Episcopal.
Looking Our Best.
oh, that men and women would
always wear their picture faces!
The photograph gallery has no right
to a monopoly of the amiable and
bright faces The artist ought to be
the most contented man on earth,
for people reveal to him only the best
in their natures, Cheerful counte-
nances are like blooming flowers and
singing birds along life's highways
Who is 1t that says that every one
ought to be beautiful at forty and
that no old person ought to be ugly,
for he has had all his life to grow
handsome REV Charles Park
hurst, Presbyterian.
Serving Our Purpose.
Do not be satisfied with the life OF
the eyes or the life of the ears; do
not let simply the intellectual part
Of your nature be stirred. Find the
spiritual world, enter into the great
revelation that the Spirit of God has
for you, that you MAY come out OF
every man that comes into this
world brings his work with him"
and so every man comes into this
world for his individual revelation Of
God, and 1t is only when the soul is
full of that revelation, which trans
forms all its life of the flesh until il
is as it were a beautiful Transparent
CIV through which God can shine to
man.-Rev. William Brandt, Pres
byterian.
Worth Of Character.
Young man, your life is before you
stretching out. To some of us the
greater part of our lives is behind
us, and every time see a young man
/ want to get him by the hand and
say, Young man. life well lived is a
magnificent thing. The man whose
life stands out clean, pure, holy, no.
BILE, this is the man who wins in the
end. You may win dollars and build
up a fortune, but If you don't win a
good name then your life is fall
ure, though you may die as mil
lionaire. Young man, you may win
an office in public life, but If your
name is not pure and good your life
will be a failure Character is the
mightiest thing, the mightiest capi-
tai a man can have.-Rev. James
Meade, Reformed.
Sowing and Reaping.
Evil is more skillful than Jap
anese gardener. Sin dwarfs the soul.
Selflshness makes a pigmy out of
one who should have had Godlike
stature. Yet mans first duty is to
grow. And every day he must test
himself by looking over his soul
fruits. The beginning Of growth is
with God. viii you surrender your
WHIP VIII you fling wide the gates
that the Husbandman of Time may
come into the garden? Have you
courage to swear fidelity to the great
convictions? No drifter on the tide
ever carried commerce; no idler In
the fields eger garnered stacks Of
grain. He that soweth sparingly
shall reap sparingly. Sins thistles
and burdocks will come unasked.-
Rev. william Peters, Baptist.
Our Treatment of Others.
Did 1t ever occur to you how diff
ferent the Lot of most of us would be
IL we all had given to us with the
same measure that we mete withal?
I If many we're done by as they do
they would receive little considera-
ton, small sympathy. minimum oil
generosity in this present world. But
| thank God there is a Benefactor who
overlooks and disregards mans un-
yorthinass and is continually be-
slowing gifts and blessings larger
| than he desires or deserves, larger
| than his willingness sufficiently ever
| to appropriate or appreciate them
| You MAJ sing Nearer. Ny God, u
| Thee" all the days of your life, but
| unless you give something along with
It. self, thought, means, love, it viii
be nothing more than sounding bras.
or tinlxling cymbal.-Rev. Walter
Mills. Episcopal