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| J'HE HIGHER LIFE
Selected Gem, Of 1ho,shi from Press and Fulps'
Of All SEGA.
Cglr;Gfs' Providence.

tar&lcd to US and its figures seem to
appear by the merest chance But
through the ages there does run "one
Increasing purpose, as Tennysoh
calls it, and everything, the least as
we'll as TIE greatest, has its place
Rev. II. (. Harlan, Reformed.
life A. Eta Rest.
Christ c&nae to enable all men to
live their lives st their very best.
The receiving Of Him as the master
OF ones life insures the adoption Of
tha purest motives and the higies.
standards of conduct. Christ is the
tTL9 light and life OF men. His
teachings iilumlno and unravel all
tie problems OF our human life. IN
HIM are All the treasures OF wisdom
ana kno hedge hidden.-Rev. Edw.
Eilt., Reformed.
Curing Social Ills.
Yondef is 4 field. full Of mingled
wLcat and taIeS. The reforner says,
Run q scyth3 over the field, and cut
everything down. But that univer-
sai moving cures nothing, The
scythe has left all the roots of thS
tares In the ground, and cutting the
teres down to day they spring up to-
m1rrcv. 4 Thousand social re~eid-
tipDs will not cure the .eGial ills OF
to 4av, until the tares Of seMshness
ard passion and sin ave III, rooted
Re-. W. SfIynep, Methodist.
T,,,,yerC;s and I'y.nisffnlcrts.
Css.siGQr the severity Of Jesus &c
to future rewards asl1 punishments.
Ii looks upen goodness as a root
tn viii Gevelop into the vine and
or" tiers Of happiness and good for
TT -. He beheli sins as seeds, 60
In award inevitable destruction.
Fo.ccasting that revealing day, and
IL Great Assize, with the utternost
OF severity in truth speaking. He
foretoid the harvest Of retributfon
thu should be ripened from the
sacls OF s;p.-Dev. F. Shannon, Me-
thCGist.
No Reason To Fear.
Think q moment: Your life is in
Co.'s heping. Therefore, you need
have no fear Face the world boldly,
and do what you have to do vita
courage. You shall rot fail. Your
life Ss in Goa's keeping; that means
that you are responsible to Him fer
Il. Live WGN hily of the trust He
has HeVesei ia You, putting away
co. ~ n. a.s<a ass .ss, sa1 stfi&-
Ing wiz, al year Asart "a Is q true
ch;'d OF Gsu. yeles life Is IN Hts
ke2 pi.rs; tien Dc rot worry ever what
my happen i-fe Or hereafter
Rev. NJ Luke, Unitarian.
Deceit CT Man.
Nothing is SO perilous as position.
She clerk Eaters his employer, that
he may secure promotion. The fol-
4ovcr fatteTs the man OF. political
s+&tton, tat he may use his superior
eslr selfish ends. Incense is burned
bafare men who sit OIL thrones Of in
Eserec igHl they are drunk with
vanity, and Think themselves deIni-
gods. When death punctuates the
bis, swollen bu5bls, the irideScent
or muddy water is left On the page
Of history. But Jesus Was the one
faichf~1 fHend eUr eaftll aas ever
knQwn.-feev. Chas. Locke, ketho-
dit BY fssoEal.
Conforming te Gods Laws.
TO Christ came Nicedemus by
night, and Jesus peeled him Of his
false measurements with remOrse-
less severity, and yet with the utter
mos Of onCcNra cement and hopes
you are in Gods world; in Gods
world the path of peace is the path
Of surrender to Gods will. Surrender
to Co.'s viii means Willingness 70 do
CCG work ID God S say hitherto you
have done Nicodcmus' work in Mic
odemus' way. You must be born
again, SO that you want to do God 5
wor4 in Gods way. Then the
house Of character will he built, not
On wood ana hay and stUbble of self
ighlosS, but upon the solid rock Of
Coz S will. Those plain words hurt
NiCodemus; every nerve quivered to
Th.~- compelled a read juNtment Of all
his plgns.-Rev. NJ. E. Harlan, Re-
formed.
The Limit of Life.
Tha limit CT Cur earthly life l. un-
der God's will The Mohammedans
be,'ev1 that God has fixed the hour
Wha+ every man is TO die and that
nothing can eitnsr hasten or post
pone it. A Turk will throw himself
IL The thick Of battle with a fury
am T4ckiessness found i'll no other
race, because he says if his time to
die has come he will die anyway, and
If it has not come, no one can kill
hi.l.
Some among us hold the exact op
pCsite Of this opinion and think that
natural law and the will OF man are
tre only factors entering into the
pTOblom OF the time of ones death
and that God has nothing to 90 with
It, The truth lies between the two
We are under natural law and when
death cGanes to us it will come in
the form of some process Of the ma
tetfal world of whrch we are a part
None the less, God will be there
ore-'ruHng tho calamity and utilizing
IT for the purposes of Els love-
Rev. NJ. y. Harlan, Reformed.
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