Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1920-02-25

things shall be added unto you Wi
liam Colgate, Il lad OF 10. had to lea>
home, and met a canal boat oaptai
on the towpath, who asked him whel
he was going. ITO the city, to sec
my fortune What do YOU know no
to do! TO make soap and candle,
My boy, YOU may be the create,
soap manufacturer in the country,
YOU will build on Matt. G-33.', See
yc frs the Kingdom Of Cod Wi
! liam Colgate never forgot il. \
once he started in the Christian life
He opened an account with til
Lord and began to give one tent
Of his income for religious purpose:
! Later, as he prospcrcd, he gave two
/ tcnths, then half, and before hi
death was giving away nearly hi
whole income. He became cminentl,
successful, both as soap manufac
turcr, and as Il man of wide Chris
tan influence. First, not education
not money, not anything else but
1.-THE Kingdom of Cod Build tbs
Foundation first, then The supcrstruc,
ture. The highest buildings must
have the deepest foundations. The
Woolworth Building in New York has
foundations over ono hundred feet
deep, and rests on solid rock. So the
foundation Of Il true character will be
down deep, out of sight, but will rest
on the Rock of Ages
"What will you gain by becoming
Christians? First, this will keep ou4
OF your lives the things that harm.
Remember hat the bird with a brok-
Ell wing can never fly so high again,
and young person with bad habit
may overcome it, but it will leave its
scar. Boys, cut out cigarettes. 1t
is the universal judgment Of all COM
petcnt persons that they orc injuri-
Gus. A college president in my hear
ing announced to the young men, you
cannot play ball in this college I'M
less you sign the tobacco pledge be-
cause tobacco interfcrcd with physical
vlgor. On the Pennsylvania railroad
no engineer who smokes cigarettes
can run u fast train, because the
habit dulls the brain. Dcgeneracv
follows excessive cigarette smoking;
1t Is probably nearly as injurious as
opium. Eliminate the use of intoxi-
cants; remember the Sabbath Day,
to keep it holy. They who gain the
spiritual uplift of the Sabbath are
better fitted to cope with the weeks
task than they who waite its hours.
Have the best associations. what
we earn in the daytime goes into the
pocket; what we spend in the even
lug goes into the character Keep
Christ 'on the walls of your mind
The mother of a college boy visiting
him, found his study walls covered
by cheap, Objectionable pictures. She
said nothing, but went and bought
beautiful picture Of 'Hofman's
Christ and hung it there. Later, she
found the other pictures gone, and he
said "They did not seem to fit in with
That Christ picture
'"Put into your lives the things that
arc helpful. Put in prayer, not mere
" Saying prayers by rotc, but really
talking with your Heavenly Father.
Put in real Bible study, for this Book
will be a lamp to your feet and
light to your path. Put in Christian
work, which is the exercise you! soul
demands to be strong. Put the
Church into your life and your life
into the Church in sincere devotion.
Jesus knocks at the door of your
heart, my deaf boy and girl; will you
not lc. him in, that he may abide
with you" Then you shall climb to
he heights of your best possioili-
!, >"
An auIitncc Of women that filled
he Auditorium Of the Methodist
church Thursday night heard DR..
tccS on "thc goth century Sodon- |
Revised" While he followed similar
ines Of thought as in the talk to men
asst Sunday, it was particularly
lu.lp'cd 70 women, ana those present |
we're deeply moved by it,
1nstcaI Of "Profanity Street" he
used in his address to the women
'Gossiping Street" Gossiping, he
said, i, the ability to sec things as
hey arc not, and then advertise what |
hey assume to have seen, declaring
hat there was no nun or woman in |
he country whose future could be
made very different and embarrassing !
~ CT eating a wrong impression con-
'crnlng them by gossip.
Life is a struggle; none Of US are
IN Il holiday. 1t is Il battle ut best
% live in this world. We do not need
people 10 say unkind, uncharitablc
Kings about one another, but more
IF sympathy and prayer. Many n
Woman would have been saved from
'un if her own sister Lad been more
"Brcthrcn, if Il man be ovcrtakcn
n a fault, yc that are spiritual re-
store such q one in the spirit of
nceknc|S; considering thysclf, les,
no" also be tempted, Bear We one
mothers burdcnsy and so fulfill the
aw of Christ" In the name of the |;