The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-16

~ SiiS uSI. odn she
win her battle for God and human
Yes, but only if she be
true to Hin and has the power of
goodness as Well as the form thereof.
THE BEEKs WE RE-READ.
Terse. Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
Peoples Societies-Christian En-
deavor, etc.-for February 21.-
"FavOrite Chapters of the Bible.
and Why."-Ps. 23:t-6.
(By William T. Ellis).
l have read Kipling's kim at
least a score Of times; Drummond's
Greatest Thing in the World re-
p~eatedly; Barrie's sentimental
Tommy half a dozen tines; and
Maclaren's For Conscience's Sake
in his "Auld Lang Syne'' equally Of
ten. No book is worth reading once
that is lot worth reading often. We
naturally return to favorite pas
sages. That is why every earnest
Christians Bible is illuminated on
certain pages, and opens almost of
itself to loved portions. Not all of
the Bible is Of equal value and interest
Nor do the same parts always make
an appeal to all persons. Each Of US
has his treasured chapters. This
Christian Endeavor topic provides
soihetiilhS ~ Tie mature o. an e&pe-
rience meeting, where every one
may tell of his finds to Others.
Certain chord on the piano will
set the chandelier to vibrating. So
particular passages from literature
and from the Bible especially
awake an answering response in the
readers OWn heart.
Of all the treasured words in this
Book which has been more assidu-
ously and intimately studied thar
any other, doubtless the most gener
ally priced is the Twenty-Five
Psalm, the "shepherd Psalm OF
David. What it has meant to un-
counted millions of Gods people
l throughout thousands of years pass
eS the imagination to grasp. Hunted
2 martyrs have pillowed their weary
5 heads upon it and slept in peace. II
the dark Of dank dungeons it ha:
: been a song and a stay. Aspiring
S youth and spent age AVE alike foun(
~sustenance in it's beautiful passages
= This immortal song meets human
ity's Common need for a refuge,
protector, a guide; we are all sheep
and these words turn us to the Shop
= herd Of our souls.
Literature which takes cognizanc
Of mans heart hunger and hOmeslck
ness, which promises him deliveranc
from the worlds weight Of woe,
the literature which writes itself int
the lives of men and women. Thu
the New Testament counterpart {
the Shepherd Psalm, and sharin
with it the favor Of Christians,
the fourteenth chapter Of Johns Cos
20 pellet not your heart be troubled.
The comforting, compasslona'
y Christ, in the midst Of His own sol
rows remembering the loneliness
g His friends, pictured to them
~ Fathers house, with its many home
- that never break up. Pernanence-
that is what our souls seek, and VIII;
20 Jesus promised in the words spoke
40 in this narrative Of His last night
human fellowship with His chose
- comrades.
Life lights up literature. fEavo
r tie passages are those which ha'
beenA made luminous by some Pc
ed sonal experience.
IS. When the lamp of faith burns 10
he and the soult's vision is dim, then
II: turn to the portrait gallery OF t
heroes Of faith in the eleventh cha
o. ter OF Hebrews, where a cloud
V witnesses TO the power Of faith a
he aligned in living array. Our hea1
take new fire and our eyes are 0pe
he ed; for faith cometh
he the word of God"
lid -
in Strikingly, The most moving br
il portrayal of the Man Of Sul4uN.
M mot found in one of the New Test
ad ment biographies, but in the Bo
of Of Isaiah. The ffty-third chapt
Fl. with its heart-stirring picture of t
in suffering Saviour, rdnks at least tn
among Bible passages in the pOpu.
he favor of Christians. Has all Hte1
ture any more alecInS llneS III
lot these:
He was despised, and REJECTED
yer men; a man of sorrows, and
&c ouainted With grief: and IS n fr'