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May 19, 1904.
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P hands branches laden with cherries. tor of a religious periodical which
* It is said that Dr. Cotton Math- has a circulation of more than a
IN TIME OF STORM. weakest, side of human nature er’s great ambition was to be able hundred thousand a week during
' One may be fairly content to Think of it—God forgives! God to say that "he did[not know of any much of that time. Meanwhile I
walk in doubtful Tal. ont as the loves his enemies! God does good person in .the world who had done have published more than thirty dif-
ak m doubtful WayS so long as the to the evil and the goody «rr err him an ill office but he had done ferent volumes. Yet, looking back
sky is clear. But when trouble is human; to forgive, divine.” him a good one for it.” That was upon my work in all these years, I
comes what will we do if we shall Jesus himself acted upon his own what Wolff did as well. Let that can see more direct results of good
be found following our Lord afar command. Even when they lifted be your ambition. Live above your through my individual efforts for
off? If then there is a whole world him upon the cruel cross, and let meanness and littleness. Try the individuals than I can know of
between him and our trembling it come down into the ground, and oVing,heP u Way with all dis- through my spoken words to thou-
souls what will we do? Those who as the blood ran from his wounds, agreeable people, and you will never sands upon thousands of persons in
think they may give all their there was no revengeful feeling in Wish to try any other plan. Love religious assemblies, or all my writ-
thought to money-making and his heart—nothing but love; and s ha - be the conqueror. Examiner. ten words on the pages of period- •
pleasure-seeking will have a hard his prayer was: "Father, forgive —•— icals or books. In this I do not
time when storms arise. In that them, for they know not what they gave himself for others. think that my experience has been
hour all the worldly good they have do.” ’ A Moravian Christian heard of wholly unlike that of many others
eagerly sought will dwindle into in- Laurence Sterne, in -‘The Senti- the sufferings of the West India Who have had large experience in
significance Then shall. they feel mental journey,” says that a cow- slaves, and desired to be a mission- both spheres of influence,
the need of Christ. It is well it ard never forgives; it is not in his ary to them; but when he reached . Himself won to Christ by a reluc-
is right, it is safe to walk close by nature. And that .is true. Cicero them, he found they were driven to tant letter from a timid companion,
the side of the Master. Then when said finely of Caesar that he “forgot the field so early and came home young Trumbull soon realized that
storms arise, he will not be afar off. pothing but injuries.” That was so late there was no life or strength personal appeal to the unconverted
Selected. _ grand, but not so grand as to love in them to listen to his instruc- " as the most effective, and at the
eo. , your enemies, and to try to do them tions; neither did they believe that same time the most neglected,
LoOKING OFF UNTO JESUS. good. any man Whose face was White had method of soul-wmnmg Solemnly
If men in the city walk the pave- God acts upon this command- a heart that was other than black, he de dicated himself to this form of
ments with their eyes fixed upon ment in his treatment of us. How and they would not listen to him, . r1S lan. service. . , 1 determined
the gutters, what does it matter often he does us good when we don’t and he found, at last, that there thatdsnoved-hristandas Christ , , , .
though all the glories of a sunset love him. That is God’s rule. And was no way to preach to them un- loved souls I would press Christ on and.where.toi is notdespised
are dyeing the western sky? They only God can help us to keep it. We less he suffered with them himself, the individual.soul; so that none industry,is rewarded, and
will see none of them; and if Christ must have his spirit. He sold himself and was driven who.wereinthe proper sphere of ■ e man is the sovereign. Tar
stood beside you, closer to you than It is said that Louis XII, of afield with them/ that while he suf- my individual responsibility or in- beyond ourke enest.kentherenmay
any other, if your eyes were fixed France, had many enemies; ’and, fered and toiled as they did, he’ fpence.should lack the opportunity besme faro diyine event t»
upon the trivialties of this poor when he succeeded to the throne, might have opportunity to preach of meeting the question whether or We do not ask thnH^
present, you would not see him. he caused a list of these to be drawn to them the unsearchable riches of not hey would individually trust us ^ut he who itbereealedto
if you want to see him, shut out up, and marked against each of their Christ and follow Christ. The resolve I Us. But he who prays for God s
competing objects, and the dazzling names a large black cross. When Now I ask if there reigns a king made.was that whenever I was in kingdom to come here and now
cross-lights that come in and hide this became known, the men whose upon his throne that is so lordly s such intimacy with a soul as to be upon the earth, prays for something
him from us. There must be a names had the black cross fled, be- large a man as that poor sweating justified in choosing my subject of yery real to his faith He believes
«ookino off unto Tess herA 1 j? u -1 • 485 . -a „ ; pool, S"edu8 conversation the theme of themes in the future and final and perfect
looking off unto Jesus. mere cause they felt sure it was a sign Moravian, who for the sake of serv- oi tnemes ioL+cm "
must be a rigid limitation, if not ex- that he intended to punish them, inn and ‛aving these poor miser- should have prominence between 1618 J righteousness among men.
cision, of other.objects if we are to The King, hearing of their alarm, able dying slaves in the field sold us,.so that I moght learn his need, He believes that, there is atime
grasp him. If we would see, and recalled them, and gave them an Himself into Iffie estate to preach and meet it." most surely coming in which the
have our hearts filled with, the assurance of his good Will, saying he riches of Christ? The largest Personal evangelism became the last prodigal will have
calm sublimity of the solemn white that he had placed a cross beside conception of manhood is that passion of his life, and for his field his Father s house; in which the
wedge that lifts itself into the far- their names o remind him of the Xh kmws how to take itself as Doctor Trumbull turned to the man last.spear will have been beaten into
off blue, we must not let our gaze Cross that brings pardon to al; and "ho h D m consequence to those at his elbow. Seatmates in the rail- a pruning-hook, and from the eye of
stop on the busy life of the valleys he urged them, byhis own example, to whom it may make itself an offer- way-car, companions .in a country the repentant Magdalen the last
or the green slopes .of he lower and especially’ by the example of ing"" owr•a instruction-Se- drive, fellow guests at a hotel, fel- tear will have been wiped away.
Alps, but must lift it and keep it Eim who praved for His enemies, 1dted P ’low lodgers at the boarding-house. Without such a lively hope the
fixed aloft. Mediate upon Him, and to and do likewise 15 f officers and soldiers of his regiment richest of earth is poor, and we may
shut out other things.—Alexander A number of years ago Hamburg LAST WORDS or A GREAT SOUL, in war-time, old comrades in arms a one breathe the sigh of
Maclaren, D. D. was besieged. Wolff, the merchant, winner. whom he met again in post-bellum
* ” after having been fighting on the _ — m m days; business acquaintances, rel- "Alas for him who never sees
A HARD COMMAND. walls for a whole week without even The late Dr. Henry Clay Trum- atives, friends, Sunday-school chil- The stars shine through his cypress-
“Love your enemies, do good to having his armor off, was returning bull, for many years the leading dren, Bible-class students, Ro- trees!”
them which hate you.”—Luke 6 :27. to his home. Passing through his writer on the Sunday-School Times, man Catholics, Mormons, Moham- —♦—
This is one of the commands of garden he noticed that his cherry- won fame in various fields—as an medans, Jews, Maronites,, agnostics, “HE THAT EATETH ME SHALL
Jesus. It is as binding upon us as trees were covered with ripe fruit. oragnizer, a teacher, an editor and infidels, heard from him of the LIVE BY ME.
any of the Ten Commandments. It A thought struck him. He knew an author. But his supreme satis- Eriend that sticketh closer than, a To feed on Christ is to get his
is one of God’s commandments. At that the enemy was suffering from faction was found in winning souls brother. The thing to be noted is, strength into us to be our strength,
the time Jesus gave this command thirst. Might he not, by kindness, for his Master through personal not that he met with rebuffs, but you feed on the corn-field, and the
the people who listened had never secure safety for his city? Without contact with individuals. He, more that.s0 many even of those who did strength of the corn-field comes
heard anything like it. It had not delay he put his thought into ac- than most religious workers, stud- not immediately receive Christ, re- into you, and is your strength. You
been taught in the Jewish Scrip- tion, for he knew there was no time ied, understood and practiced the ceived his advances with courtesy, feed on Christ, and then go and live
tures. Up to that time it was to be lost, if the city was to be art of religious conversation with and thanked him for his interest in yor life; and it is Christ in you
thought that the only thing to be saved. He gathered together three unconverted men. This was his their spiritual welfare. that lives your life, that helps the
done to an enemy was to punish hundred children of the city, all unique distinction. This is what . The crying need of the Church poor, that tells the truth, that
him, to give him as good as he gave dressed in white, and loaded them entitled him to speak with authority 18. a generation of Andrews, who fights the battles, and that wins
—or rather, as bad as he gave. And with the luscious, refreshing fruit about personal evangelism, which Wil first find their own brothers, the crown.—Phillips Brooks.
though nearly nineteen centuries from his orchard. Then the gates he has so well done in the last book God send us pastors, officials and —•—
have rolled by, it is very imperfect- were thrown open, and they set out he sent out to the public—"Individ- members, who, uniting piety, cour- BAD DREAMS
ly understood and obeyed now, even on their strange errand. When the ual Work for Individuals.” age. and common sense, will look Indicate improper Diet, Usually Due
among Christian people. Truly leader of the army saw the gates of The book is full of encourage- their fellows in the eye, and bid . to coffee.
“the heart is desperately wicked,” the city open, and the band of lit- ment to the man who has neither them come and see.” For reach- One of the common symptoms of
and it is hard to love any one who tie white-robed children marching the talent nor the opportunity to iD8 one man at a time is the best coffee poisoning is the bad dreams
has injured us, and harder still to out, many of them nearly hidden by address large audiences. According W ay to reach all the world in time, that spoil what should be restful sleep,
do them good. the branches which they carried, he to Doctor Trumbull, the man with and the kingdom of God is near in A man who found the reason says:
A little time ago there was a pic- at once thought it was some trick by the small audience has the best that community where there is. a wasnke‛morphinesfend,could‛not
ture in Punch of an Anglican vicar which the townspeople were trying chance to do effective work. He Church which answers the descrip- Sleep at night, would roll and toss in
and an aged female parishioner, to deceive him while preparing for says: “As a rule, the intensity of tion of the Vaudois or Waldenses in my bed, and when I did get to sleep
The aged female’s feelings had been an attack on his camp. As the chil- the appeal is in inverse proportion the thirteenth century, as given by was disturbed by dreams and hobgob-
hurt by some ill things a neighbor dren came near, he was on the point to the area covered; in other words, the Papal Inquisitor Reinerius: and’ feel“bad"am day,To nervous i
had said about her. “Well, my dear of giving orders that they should the greater your audience, the "He who has been a disciple for could not attend to business. My writ-
friend,” said the vicar solemnly, all be put to death. But when they smaller the probability of your ap- seven days looks out some one ing looked like bird tracks, I had sour
“you know you must heap coals of came nearer, and he saw their pale peal coming home to a single whom he may. teach in his turn, belchings from the stomach, indiges-
fire upon her head.” “That I would faces and thin, starved bodies, he heart.” To confirm his opinion Mr. so that there is a continual in- heart, constipation, Pregularity of the
with all my heart,” quickly replied thought of his own children at Trumbull quotes that master of as- crease." Canadian Epworth Era. kidneys, etc.
the old lady, “but with coals at two home, and he could hardly keep semblies, Henry Ward Beecher: * “Indeed, I began to feel I had all the
shillings a hundredweight I can’t back his tears. ' Then, as his thirsty, “The longer I live, the more con- “THY KINGDOM COME.” tutubesnthatrhuraanafsshamnuutosufr,
afford it.” The old lady’s reply wounded soldiers tasted the cool, re- fidence I have in those sermons The petition for the coming of off coffee I felt as if he had insulted
shows that she misunderstood what freshing fruit, cheer went up from where one man is the minister and the kingdom implies a faith as well me. I could not bear the idea, it had
the good vicar said, but her reply every man in the camp, and the gen- one man is the congregation; where as a desire. Our Lord’s disciples suchaholdonme,andIrefusedtobe-
also gives the explanation of why we eral knew that he was conquered—• there’s no question as to who is do not know all that they want, but H58ut ithumaus Sut that no advice
do not forgive—it is, we think, too not by force of arms, but by the meant when the preacher says, they know what they want. They was ever given at a more needed time,
costly. We would have to swallow power of kindness and pity. When ‘Thou art the man.’ ” long for the presence and the reign for I finally consented to try Postum,
our pride, and to show a side of our the children returned, the general To show the value of personal of their heavenly Father. What and with the going of coffee and the
nature which we think is a weak sent along with them wagons laden work our author gives his own expe- that kingdom may be in all its de- havelgone Snittent harettrned.ei
side, and so we hold back. with food for the starving people of rience: “For ten years I addressed tails they do not profess to know; eat and sleep’ well now, nerves stead-
There is a mistake here. To for- the city, and the next day signed a gatherings of persons in numbers but what it is in essential aspects ied down, and I write a fair hand (as
give is not weakness; to love an treaty of peace with those whom he from ten to fifteen to five or six they devoutly realize. It may be You. can see), can attend to business
enemy is not showing the white had vowed to destroy. For many thousand each. In this work I went quite true that a multitude of sur- te monster Coffee/^ Name gseenomy
feather; to do good to our enemy is years after that, when the date from Maine to California, and from prises awaits the immigrant who Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich,
not cowardly. These are really the came round, it was celebrated by Minnesota to Florida. This gave me from Scandinavia or Sicily hastes Ten days trial of Postum in place of
strong things in character. And the a holiday, and was called “The an opportunity to test the relative to our shores; but he knows some coffee wi bring sound, restful, re-
very fact that it is so hard shows Feast of the Cherries.” The chil- value of speeches to gathered as- things beyond controversy. He LOokineach pkgefor thtfanous
that it is the grandest, not the dren marched through the streets semblies. Later, I have been, for knows that he is journeying to a little book, “The Road to Wellville.»
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