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8 Con A NI By Mara Why not sing some of The hymns which w Through all the chatigin The songs that have ; They tell of things whit In thai "far away ho What need to sing, whe Of "billows that near The endless years of th Will not be a "transi And who would sing, b; Of "Death's cold, sul Naught will be heard Which the ransomed i 'Twill be a hymn of joj A song of redeeming And the minor strains \ Which here they hav When, in a land where Thc> shall sing the g THE DISCIPLIh By Rev. Thos (Printed by request Discipline in al In the earliest ages lodged in the head of tilt household both in the v tion and of admission to So did Isaac and Israel, committed the first fort r i crti tprmp..""" - *1 "h'?vv?oi,S3?) lo lllc p assist the father and n for this form of disciplin The second of these, t who err from the right, with the parent and the these officers of the Clu: One of the most vivid i I. Kings, i: 6. Adonijal of whom it is written, ' him at any time in savi A ~ .1 A A . . . nnu jAuonijan brought gray head of his father. The third form of di God entrusted not at all of the Church acting co we read concerning ofl them, tell it unto the CI the Church, let him he i a publican. . . . Foi ered together in my nai them." That is official ( Discipline Has Have we ever paused stances that are record* Y THE PRESBYTEF tributed CW SONG. aret H. Barnett. the songs of earili, cj so love lo hear; g scenes of lime, grown so doar? h shall be unknown, mic of the soul." li at anchor safe, us roll"? at beautiful land lent dream"; y the River of Life, ien stream"? of Earth's strife, in the song shall sing above. ' and praise, love. vill be heard no more, e sung so long; all is new, ;lad "New Song." IE OF THE CHURCH. . E. Converse, D. D. of Presbytery of Atlanta.) I Ages of the Church. of the Church, discipline \v : family. Abraham ordered 1 /av of training and of admoi the sacrament of circumcisic At the present day God h II of discipline, the training arent. While the pastor m lother, the chief rcsponsibili e still remains with the parei he duty of admonition, to the is placed by the Lord joint officers of the Church. In tl irch ordinarily act individual illustrations of this is found li was the one of David's soi 'His father had not displeas ing. Why hast thou done so the bitterest "sorrow upon t scipline, official censure, is to the parent, but to the eld< llectively. In Matthew 18: :ences, "If he neglect to h< lurch ; but if he neglect to ht imo meo as a heathen man a r where two or three are gal ne, there am I in the midst exclusion. Always Been Needed. to consider the number of i ed in the Bible in which G AN OF THE SOUTH. ? personally disciplined sonic on record? It would seem a _ lis the fact that all his child that he "scourgeth every soi 1. Ham and Canaan. 'I Noah, grossly and lustfully. Canaan, a servant of serva brethren." 2. Job was one of the i ... - - viuiuicii. vjuu described liii and escheweth evil. But ew discipline. It was severe < Job to say (42: 5), "I have h of the ear. but now mine ej abhor myself and repent in 3. Abraham. In Egypt sented Sarah as his sister, c was his wife. God disciplii to Pharaoh, and bidding th outside of the covenant to faithful. 4. When Jacob obtained disciplined him with twenty 5. Moses was ordered to record in the twentieth cha of speaking, be smote the 1 by barring him from a persi of Canaan. 6. Jonah was ordered to H,. 1 ^ H.1U3CU auti ooti sent heathen sailors recognized as his preaching to Nineveh, l,s people, Jonah showed an c ll" bilked him with the words, >n. Vch?? 7. Elijah murmured agai 1,1 take away niv life, for I am 1 a-^ Very gentle was the rebuk I - angel with bread and watei II and eat." ISC tj 8. Of all the consecrate . stands prominent. Yet evei j God gave him discipline. ! Corinthians we read of his in was sent to buffet him. is, ecj 9. Strangest of all, we r< ?" that God disciplined his own he chapter we read that "Th learned he obedience by the by Was not this discipine? T ;rs no censure. Yet this verse ijt the character of the man J< ;ar desire an illustration of this :ar thew we see Jesus suffering nd message, both by the Jews th- naum, and by the wise and ] of spirit cried, "Even so, Fatlu thy sight." If even the man Jesi in- Church court say that disci od twentieth century. May 19, 1909. of his people and put it is if God would impress on ren need chastisement and 1 whom he receiveth." hev insulted their father, God replied, "Cursed be mts shall he be unto his uost consecrated of God's n as one that feareth God en lie could be elevated by jiscipline. But it enabled card of thee by the hearing *es seetli thee, wherefore I dust and ashes." and in Gerar he repreoncealing the fact that she * led by coming in a dream e king of Egypt who was rebuke the father of the the blessing by deceit, God years of exile from home, speak to the rock. See the pter of Numbers. Instead rock. God disciplined him onal entrance into the land go to Nineveh and preach, a storm which even the as discipline. Again, after and the repentance of the vil temper. God again re"Should not I spare Nincinst God. "Now, oh Lord, lot better than my fathers."' e, when the Lord sent an r, and the message, "Arise (1 workers 011 earth, Paul 11 he needed correction and 1 In the twelfth of second thorn in the flesh, which ?ad in the fifth of Hebrews 1 Son, Jesus Christ. In that ough he were a Son, yet things which he suffered." rue the sinless one needed tells us that by discipline esus was elevated. Do we ? In the eleventh of Mat\ under the rejection of his ;, bv the oeoole of Can^r prudent, until his chastened ?r, for so it seemed good in is needed discipline, let no pline is unne:cs?ary in this