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According to Our Needs.

Sometimes one is led to think, as he
reads this record, what a splendid thing
it would be to be able to walk with Christ
on the water as Peter did. The power
Is not given to us because we do not need
it. God does not waste His gifts He
gives His people the power they need for
their everyday life. Moody taught this
truth to an inquirer. who asked him:
Have you grace enough to be burned at
the stake? Do You not wish that you
had? NO. sir: for l do not need it,
What ! need just how is grace 10 live in
Milwaukee three days and hold a con-
Vention."
Because we do need power to walk with
God on this prosaic earth the power is
gwen US. I'VE may have Gods presence
in our shops and Offices as we'll as in
the church" one has put it. LAS we
walk the streets we may hear the noise
less steps of the Unseen Guide in the
doing of daily work; even in our times Of
recreation God may be with us, and we
may walk with God / do not mean that
daily life is to be an ecstasy. We need
not be always conversing with our Friend
We are to do our work, and take our
play. But we are always TO feel Him
near. so that when we have aught to say
we may say it. when we need aught we
may ask it; when we desire, We may con-
verse with Him"
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A Church Member
i 5S i + + t t t j. i i ! IL

as he was turning disappontedly away a
little girl looked down from a window
aboVe and said: Dad has joined church F..
ne doesn't dare to let the neighbors see
hin selling whisky on Sunday; he saws
you must come around to the back door
IL you want to buy anything"
This illustrates the spirit in which some
people unite with the church ApparentIv
they are sincere. but in private they con-
TIME to be much the same as before thew
made 4 profession of faith
Even q child is known By his doinps
whether his ways be right and even a
child is able to understand the imDor-
tance of church members walking upright
ly-that is. practicing what they profess
being true TO what they believe to he
right. If child says he loves his moth
er and then disobeys all her Commands
no one will have any faith in his profes,
SION OF love; it is just so with the child or
man who says he loves God and disobeys
His precepts. We know that the truth IS
not in him. 1t pays in many ways to live
a consistent, clean, Christian life. The
church helps us to do this.
/ Comment on today's Junior Christian
Endeavor topic, What Does it Mean to
be Church Member'-I Timothy. 315.
Romans, 10:9-11)
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DR.. G. ". BAILEY ILL;
RECEPTION POSTPONED
Worlds Sunday School Convention Presi-
dent Suffers From Nervous Breakdown at
Philadelphia Home Veteran Of Civil
War-Leader in Church Activity.

r. GEORGE W. BAILEY, elected
president of the worlds Sunday
school convention at the recent
meeting OF that organization in
this city. has suffered Il nervous
breakdown and is now confined to his
home in philadelphia \ reception was
TO have been given i'll his honor Friday
evening in his home city. but at the last
moment was declared off on account OF
his illness.
He, however, AYERS that lie will be
hack in the harness" before long, and
expects to make the next worlds conven-
tion of the Sunday school workers in
Geneva, Switzerland. three years hence
one of the most successful III the history
OF the work.
DR.. Bailey is an elder in Tabernacle
Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. For
the last five years he has given time
and money exclusively to Sunday school
work. He was one of the leading spirits
in arranging for the convention at Wash
inEton. and to his efforts. it is declared,
much OF the success of the gathering was
due.
For more than a generation he has
been Il leader in general Sunday school
Jacobs and II. Clay Trumbuil he is
regarded as the foremost figure III the
realm of Sunday school activity. DR..
Bailey is the practical man of the
inner coterie of Sunday school leaders.
He learned the practical aspect of life
on a New Jersey farm near Paulsboro,
where he was born nearly sixtyn.ne
years ago.
He carried a musket in the civil war
and he taught school TO pay for a
me dical education Winning medical
diploma from the University of Pennsyl-
vania, he practiced medicine in Philadel-
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slar committed to the reformatory. He
believed, he said, that the law ought to
take it's course and he testified against
the prisoner himself, so that the thief
was sent to the reformatory for three
years.
But, though DR.. Hale upheld the law,
he did not any the less fail to care Tor
the Youthful criminal. Busy as he was,
he took time every week during the three
years to write personally to the thief
trying to wake up his seif-respect ana
stimulate his courage. When the time
was up he was ready with good posi-
ton. which his influence had secured. for
the former lawbreaker. The young bur
glar, who had come to regard him as
his truest friend went into the new po-
sition. proved himself worthy of 1t and
became a useful, honest. self-respectins
man. A weak mercy might have let him
sin back into crime. A loving justice
saved him.
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An interrupted Prayer.

When He was alone lie prayed. But
Ills prayers Were interrupted, He
realized that the disciples were in trou-
Bile: they Were in the midst of the sea
and. the wind being contrary, the waves
were das--ing against the boat Perhaps
Jesus could see the boat. for it was the
time of full moon. and there We're prob
anly breaks in the clouds. But even if
lie could not see the danger. He would
know of it, for He always knows. and in
stantly. every anxiety. every fear, every
Eeart thro5 of His people,
When lie knew that she distressed row.
ers needed Him He went at once TO their
relief. Perhaps at that very moment the
men were thinking, IF only Jesus were
here, as he was that other time when
the waves were boiSterousr' But Jesus
was there, In the early morning hours
between = and o'cIock-He came 10
them, walking on the water
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our rough roads His eyes looked upon
our temptations. not as a bystander bpt
as one who was tempted His Will stood
up against the thing to which we haze
yielded Therefore He knows how hard
it was to staad AGAINST how easy to
yield. The angels could never quite un!er-
stand that, Of course.
Then there are other great Things about
this, our Judge. He is not only one of
us, not only the Son of Man, but also
the Son of God. and. therefore, all-pow a.
full, alI-seeing. all-wise There could Be
no possibility OF a fact in our favor es-
Gaping His notice any more than fact
against us would do. His Gods eye
would see in us just exactly what was
there, no matter how we tried To con-
ceai it under a cloak Of righteousness.
The jury might be deceived. but lie,
never
The greatest thing about this j ,dge,
however. is that He loves us, and has
given His life for us; therefore, we know
that He will do all that power can do
to save us. IL under those conditions
we are condemned it is our own doing,
not His. How much more terrible. there
fore. the words depart from me-" Can
any more enduring punishment be than
just to be cast ont forever from the pres-
ence of the only one who ever loved Us
enough to give His life for us.
And yet. because Christ is also n man.
and knows our temptations, because He
loves us and wants to save us, because
He is just and merciful is no reason why
we should presume upon His loving kind
ness, His willingness to save. His SYM
pathy with us. for it Will not help Ms
one whit il we have pot taken the only
way OF salvation. Shall not the Judge
of all the earth do right?'' VIII God
break His own wise, right laws To save
u sinner? No. We hear many people
SAYING: ''Oh. God is a merciful and
kind Judge. II / do the best / can He
N-il1 soc th2t ! am saIeat y
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Never Ending School Days
TT i -

you long for the old associations and in
centive when you feel that the chance
you had for culture is gone.
The best school is the one that i'm
plants desire for more schooling. The
most successful teacher is he-or quite as
often she-who shows you how to study
and who opens before you alluring paths
OF thought and investigation. AS think
over the teachers who from my grammar
school days tried to insert knowledge into
my mind and shape the crude material
with which they had to do. into some
thing like the sembance of man, two
Or three stand out above the others. They
gave me impulse mot simply to get the
lesson for the day but to strike out ard
accomplish something in the world and
they exalted before me certain noble
qualities of mind and spirit
A mldle-aSed woman there was I'M
necessarily strict at times-so We thought
who always insisted on accuracy: that
we must get the answer TO sum lust
right. An elderly schoolmaster dnned the
idea of thoroughness into our dull minds.
A college professor, besides teaching us
philosophy. was himself the incarnation
OF candor and fairness, so when in these
later days l have been tempted to take
a partisan Or OCe-S'ded view of any uues-
ton his serene face has risen up before
me in rebuke.
Thus it is that we take along with us
into life the things that have been most
valuable to us in school days. And so
our schooling continues as we exercise in
larger realm the powers which have
been strengthened and nurtured by the
discipline of the schoolroom.
And the world of BOOKS is still at our
disposal, not our cd text books ONLY or
new ones, but the great, rich storehouse
of literature. And the world of men is
closer to us than it could be when we
were to some extent shut away from it in
the schoolroom. And the world of nature
and the universe of truth both pulsating
with the anlmatlng life Of God are right
at hand and how much we can learn from
them.
Your schooldays over? No, indeed. You
have only passed through the vestibule
of the temple. and before you stretches
the vast area of truth waiting to be dis
covered and applied.
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For Love of Christ.

1t is a mistake to think anything OF
tie kind; the deeds Of helpfulness that
bring recognition from God are not the
deeds done in the hope of reward, but
the deeds done just because we can't
help doing them; done for love Of the
Savior who died for us.
Such deeds Christ accepts as though
done by Him. This seems unDeiieva.ie.
but He distinctly states that it is 50 in
the picture He has drawn of the day
when He shall sit in His glory to judge
all the nations.
Then sha the King say unto them
on His right hand. Come, We blessed of
my Father, inherit the kingdom pre-
pared for you from the foundation OF
the world:
For / was an hungered. and We gave
me meat: l was thirsty and ye gave me
drink: 1 was a stranger. and ye took
me in:
Naked. and We clothed me; L was
sick. and ye visited me; was in prison
and We came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer Him.
saying, Lord. when saw we Thee an
hungered and fed Thee? or thirsty and
gave Thee drink?
..And when saw we Thee a stranger,
and took Thee in? or naked, and clothed
Thee?
-'Or when saw we Thee sick. or in
prison. and came unto Thee?
And the King shall answer and say
much as ye Gid it unto one Of these. my
brethren, even these least We did IL unto
me-"
r For the very same reason others viii
be told to, depart into punishment.
Then shall He say also unto them on
the left hand. Depart from me. We cursed.
into tine eternal ire which is prepared fpr
the devil and iIi,s angels:
-. ..For' was an h,nsefed. and ye gave
and no meat: l was thirsty and Ne gave
me no drink:
Il was a stranger. and We took me not
in, naked. and We clothed me not: sick,
and in prison and We visited me not.
aThen shall they also answer, saving:
Lord when saw we Thee AN hungered or
athirSt. q stranger. or naked, or siak,
or in prison, and did not minister uiro
Thee?
Then shall He answer them. saving:
verify. | say unto you. .naSmGCn rs yc
did it not unto one OF these least Ne I'D
it unto me-"
But today Jesus is not a Judge. He is
a Savior, and tfe shall help all those who
ask Him to spend lives OF loving service.
Comment on today's topic for Christian En-
deavor and other Young Peoples meetings.
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Why It Is Dark.

But because men are So slow to take
advantage of the opportunity to live thus
in conpanionship with the Lord there
is darkness and trouble in the world AS
the picture has been drawn for US:
Dark the stormy lake,
lie tarrias the tileiG shore,
While in tine boat they quake
They twelve and bend the useless oar.
DARK a lonely dark,
And Jesus had not come.
Dark in the world today,
In dcHS uf vice, in baunts of crime,
Where self and greed hold sway,
In heather lands of every CLINE.
Dark hiGe0Us dar1.
And Jesus had not come.
Dark in human soul,
That's barred from God. great longings crushed
Set its control
TIL cen the still. small voice is crushed
Dark wilifu dark
And Jesus has come.
Light of the world, He came,
Let more in darkness walk, aud death
Became shadowy name.
Il with you to the end" he saith.
Light, universal light,
And Jesus has come.
tComment today's international Sunday
school lesson. Jesus Walks the Sea-
Matthew, ii:22-3A
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Willing to Take the Trouble.

.It would have been far easier for Dr..
Hale to have let him go at first, the one
who told the incident further observes.
at would have saved the trouble OF
thinking about him and planning for HIM
during three years. 1t would also nave
seemed more kind TO many unthinklng
people. There is a great deal OF so-caiied
kindness in the world today along just
such labor-saving lines To love our TEL
low-men actively and wisely is a great
deal of trouble. To love them passlvely
and weakly is no trouble at all in COM
parison But it is the sort of love that
is the fulfilling of the law that pays
paws Just because it costs
And it is the sort of love God asks OF
us. He has told US that we are 10 De
irdc~ea according to our lives. If they
are spent in pleasing HIM, well and good; ;
if not sorrow and condemnation await
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angels, He will take His seat on His
glorious throne, and all the nations
will be gathered before Him, and He
will separate the people--just as a
shepherd separates sheep from goats
PLACING the sheep on His right and
the goats on the left. Then He, the
King, will say to those on His right,
Come, you on whom my Fathers
blessing rests. enter upon possession Of
the kingdom prepared for you ever
since the beginning of the world. For
when I was hungry you gave Inc food;
when l was thirsty You gave me some
thing to drink; when L was stranger
you took me TO your homes; when L
WIS h:.if-naked you clothed me; when
I fell rs You visited me. and when I
was in prison you came TO see me.
ON this the good will answer
Master, when did we see you hungry
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and feed you? or thirsty and gave You
something to drink? When did we see
you a stranger and take you to our
homes? or half-naked and clothe you?
When did We see you i'll, or in prison,
and come to visit your
Il tell YOU" the King will reply, $50
Tar as You did so to one of these my
brothers, however lowly, you did it to
me-"
Then He will say to those on the left:
Leave my presence, you On whom a
fire which is prepared for the devil
and his angels. For when | was hungry
you gave me food when | was
thirsty YOU gave me nothing to drink:
when l was d stranger you did not take
me to your homes; when 1 was half
naked. you did rot clothe ME, and when
was ill, and in prison, you did not
visit me
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kindly GiSDOS6d, OF IL lIe po IA
AGAINST the prisoner. or if he be just OF
unipst bv reputation. all these are vital
questions. For there always before 'he
prisoner as he sits awaiting MS tflai
comes the vision of the courtroom with
tho assembled witnesses and onlooRers,
nudge and jury. 1t does not help the
trembling soul much. who so THINKS OF
the final Judgment, to know that all the
shining angels sit upon the glorious
tbrone watching listening, peerless be-
ines who have never known or done
wrong. a keen and unimpeachable jury,
with clear vision and unsullied garments.
What mercy could the angels nave Tor
rs who have sinned, when they must
have known just all our crooked ways
and mistakes, and wrongdoings?
But it does help to know that the
nudge. on his glorious throne, is called
the Son of Man. He is one of us. born
of q woman. lived upon earth. knows all
the conditions, has been through them,
and vet never came under condemnation.
He knows better than the angels could,
and He is no aristocrat who could
have no sympathy with US, having al
ways tired golden streets and SWUNG
through gates of Pear' His feet have tired
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out OF school or college,
L., your education stops. On
the contrary, it is only
about half begun Now I am nifty
wears old and if l had stopped
learning, had stopped trying to better
myself 1 feel that my usefulness TO the
community would be pretty near an
end" SO spoke Mr.. Roosevelt TO
company at Khartum on the Nile, IN
which were number of young man
students. A good text, indeed, for a
baccalaureate sermon or address in any
mart of the world during this month,
when out from the temples of learning
GO so many young men and maldens
with high hopes and aspirations.
Ouite right it is to star these glor1-
o,1s graduating days. They mean work
q certain regimen con-
formed to- the completion of pre-
scribed course, certificate or diploma
fairly earned. We will give the seniors
right Of way for time aad pass up
the bouquets and listen appreciatively
to their orations and share in the vari-
Gus festivities as much as they Will let
us But when the applause has sub
sided and the crowd has dispersed and
the lights are out and the grads are
making their way homeWard under the
quiet stars we would like to whisper in
their ears: No. it isn't all over, it's
only just begun.
To be sure, the school of life won't
be quite like the place where you have
been spending these last few years
You will ind q different kind of furnl-
ture and an unfamiliar atmosphere.
You viii miss certain bells and regu1a-
tons. The absence of friends and
teachers whom you have learned to
prize will be hardest of all to bear. But
don't forget that school is still in SEES
sion. Let that thought be solace when
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tons. The greatest thing in the world
is a man. Not Il crowd of men. but just
a man. Made in the image of God, with
His attributes. with His spirit-breathed
life and power, he may gaze at the
mountains and feel that he is greater
than they. He may look out upon the
seas and say: Il am your master
Because Of this, we may take courage.
The thought of it will brace up that
chap who is down in the dumps. 1t will
straighten up the back of the fellow who
has been a drudge for so long that he
has forgotten that he is "a son of the
King. with all the royal heritage of his
Father.
Has somebody deprived him of his
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Importance than what he has accom-
plished. 1t is this by which he will be
longest remembered. This applies not
only To the great of the world but to
those who walk in the humber places
of life. Conduct is important but char
acter Is more important. For what Il
man is Will determine what he Will do.
We cannot set away from this great
fact-that every man stands absolutely
alone, just as though he were the only
man in all the world. While We may
think Zen masse and work in multi
tudes. and pray by regiments. and sing
i'll Dattalionss and trade by corporations,
nevertheless. there are times when the
individual stands out alone and when his
selfhood asserts its existence.
This fact brings tremendous RESPONSE
bilities, but it also has its compensa-
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niucent court at Jerusalem. At once they
proposed among themselves to take Hin.
by force to- make Him king
Reading their thoughts, Jesus quickly
made His plans so that 10 harm would
be done by the misplaced enthusiast
First, He sent His disciples aWay-fol
even they still thought He was to be q
great political king, and they would have
been tempted to welcome the interference
Of the people in order that He might be
forced to disclose Himself. Then Jesus
dismissed the people. Last OF all. He
himself slipped away into the obscurity
of the mountain where He could be alone
to think over the events of the. day and,
by communion with the Father, gain
strength for fresh service
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FXS FHEN / was a boy the good
Nv 4 old custom prevailed in our
NM home of singing hymns on
w Sunday night. Night service
in churches was rare in
those days. and so we had little Wor-
ship OF our own at home, and, beginning
at the youngest, each member of ths
family would choose q hymn. which we
sang heartily. When it came to my
father as the eldest to make the final
choice he very often selected this fine
old hymn of James Merrick. and we used
to sing it to that splendid tune called
"Ariel," arranged from Mozart. / can
feel the thrill OF delight even now as we
used to burst out i'll the familiar strains;
every one of us singing-for somehow IN
those days everybody used to sing-and
though l often grew little sleepy by
the time this hymn was sung. / sang
with my eyes shut as in dream that
glorious verse, Mother of cities, Ger
thy head and felt as if 1 was, indeed,
bidding the world farewell as the last
strains f1oated out. And then dear father
would open the Bible and read, and then
pray. committing us all to the care OF
out dear Christ ere we sought our rest.
We do not sing these old hymns and
tunes now. Indeed, I had a little trouble
in finding this hymn for our prayer to-
day. Perhaps we have improved our
hymnology little of late, and our tunes,
too; yet there was a dignity about these
old tunes and words which made an i'm
preston never to be effaced How grand
ly that old hymn of Isaac Watts used to
sound.
When can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies.
I'll bid farewell TO every fear
And wipe my weeping eyes.
Should earth against my soul engage
And fiery darts be hurled,
Then / can smile at Satan's rage
And face a frowning world.
Let cares like wild deuge come.
And storms of sorrow fall;
Nay ! but safely reach my home,
My God, my heaven, my all.
There shall battle my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest.
And not a wave Of trouble FOIL
Across my feeble breast!
We used to sing this hymn to an old
tune written by Dr. Hastings called OR
tonville." and my father facetiousIy called
it dot and so one because it moved
like lame man walking! Then there
was that other splendid hymn of Isaac
Watts, There is a Land Of Pure De-
light; and that wonderful hymn Of
James Montgomery, Prayer Is the Souls
Sincere Desire, Uttered or UneXpressed."
All me, how much the saints of past
generation delighted in those old songs
Of Zion.
But 1 am becoming too reminiscent for
a young man! The old days were no
better than these modern days: only it is
good for us to bring into our religion to-
day something of that grand old fervor
which our fathers knew. And this hymn
of Merrick's, $50 years old, has a ring in
it which opens well our meditation on our
dear Christ as the judge of all the earth.
For the true Christian should delight in
the thought of judgment; he knows he is
safe through the Lord who died to re-
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The Man Who Walked on Water.

The disciples were afraid at first, for
they thought they saw a ghost. but Jesus
treasured them. Instantly Peter, recog-
MIXING him. asked leave TO go TO Him on
the water. Jesus told him he might do
as lie wished. So he stepped from the
boat. So long as he kept his eyes on
Jesus. all was WELL but when he began