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Devotional
"HE WOUNDETH A
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So many things we cai
So much there is to
And yet, we trust. Oui
To Him we look for g
t ? ? -
??^ :tiiow ne woundeth
Then, when life's troi
Sweet faith will shine ti
And raise us hcavenw
Though sore afflictions
The Groat Physician
If on our wounds His hi
We may rejoice,?"Ou
All worldly avarice, trea
With fortitude unfailing
Kirk wood. Ga.
THE SURR1
My Dear Mrs. B.: It :
of the "full surrender"
men.
I believe; I am therefc
Now prav tell me wha
until I have 'made the "f
The young woman
"But she that livcth ir
liveth." The young ma;
sins. * And at the end of
in perdition. They had
might be true believers
they could not.
There is, however, as h
der? in an orthodox sen
ll'ovor'c ...HI -I-"'1 1? ?
..v * vi o win Mian uc uruii
'God's will. This is a pi
strives daily to fulfill his
when he has made good ;
when he first believed, 1
glory."
And now the question
to this full surrender?
Substitute full surrenc
ing extract from The W<
you- have my views to a
* "Holiness can never cc
any line of special theph
in accepting any peculia
vented and set forth by \
imagine that the proch
statements, phraseologie
men at once into this gr;
Dogmatic affirmations
the place of actual holy li
"it is tar more a life th
rather than a formal cr
mony.' The secret of it
metaphysics, but in insp
in the imitation of Chri
THE PRESBYTERIAN
and Selections
lND his hands make
[O LE."
a not understand,
make our souls afraid;
r Father lias cohimand.
;ui<lance and for aid;
and* His hands make whole," m
lbles are so hard to bear,
o cheer the chastened soul,
or/4 *-*?? ? ?m
?.u uii iuu wiuga ui prayer.
have faint hearts dismayed
sees and understands;
?aling touch is laid
r times are in His hands";
icherv and deceit
we may meet.
Margaret Scott Hall.
LNDERED LIFE.
seems to me that the theology
is well calculated to deceive
)re a saved man.
t sin I can refuse to surrender
nil surrender."
will hold on to her pleasures.
I pleasure is dead while she
II will continue in his grosser
life both will find themselves
heen led to believe that they
without a full surrender. But
as been admitted, a full surrense
of the term, when the height
into perfect harmony with
rogrcssive work. The believer
; covenant engagements. And
all that he surrendered to God,
le will "immediately pass into
arises, How are we to attain
ler for holiness in the follow:stern
Christian Advocate, and
dot:
>me as a result of a training in
Dgical terms. It does not consist
r and technical definations, invould-be
specialists who vainly
limed belief in some specific
s, and distinctions will bring
ace.
concerning it can never take
iving.
an a 'profession,' an experience
eed, a character than a 'testilies
not in abstractions, not in
>iration toward God daily and
st. It is to be won, if at all,
OF THE SOUTH.
through every clay's discipline
suffering, patience, self-denial
through careful.study of the 1
tation upon its truths; throug
ganized religious activities an
the ordinary 'means of grac
where every truly practical o
is in verity a holiness sern
meeting, the class meeting,
service."
THE CAMPHOR-1
It was early in the springt
sapling was being planted in
made bold to query of our la
in years: "Do you expect to <
camphor tree?"
un, certainly," was the rej
not have long to wait, eithei
to see the rapid growth it m;
year in California."
The following month was
every day we expected to s<
broken by the force that carri<
of sympathy for the little tre
to suggest to our landlord tl
wind.
"Yon told me to watch it
"but it surely can not grow 1
whipped about. It look's as >i
Then the man who from lc
culturist is considered an om
head as he smilingly rejoinei
sometimes, you know. I adm
look as if it was making muc
is that what seems bad for i
Now. if I had nlanterl it aft
passed, it would have held it
but what strikes you as det
only strengthening the tiny ti
sunshine of our climate. For
is, drives the roots deeper an
so that while it may appear
it is really getting rooted ant
orous growth."
The weeks and months hav
six months later, the then saj
little camphor tree that ever
began to play their part it 1
actully see it grow. And its g
sermon, for I have seen that
saying that the winds which f
gered the sapling but strengl
1 have been kept in mind of
sians: "That Christ may dw<
that ye, being rooted and grc
many times when I have bee
life's storms have so whippe
dren, I have remembered tli
Comforter has seemed to \v
being rooted and grounded
j
June 2, 1909.
: and trial; through work,
, helpfulness, and prayer; 1
iYord and profound medijh
the Church and its ord
philanthropies; through 1
e'?the public worship, 1
r spiritual Gospel sermon
ion; through the prayer
and every other form of
E. S. K. \l
REE LESSON. ||
ime that, noticing that a
front of our cottage, we
ndlord, who is well along 11
sit under the shade of that
idy rejoinder, "and I shall
r. You will be surprised
iL-pS fill's llPinnr irrviii- fi'cf
so windy, however, that
ee the tiny camphor tree I ]
id so much before it. Out
e, we even went so far as
iat he protect it from the
s magic growth," I said,
when it is so continually
it were dying alreadv."
>ng experience as a hortiicle
in his line, shook his
d: "Looks are deceptive
lit that the sapling doesn't
:h headway, but the truth
t is favorable condition,
er the windy season had
s own better, apparently;
rimental to its growth is
ee to endure the heat and
being whipped about as it
d deeper into the ground,
to be suffering at the top
1 grounded, re^tdy for vig
e slipped away until now,
pling is such a flourishing
sii\ce the whipping winds
has seemed as if I could
growth has been a constant
the planter was right in
rom our viewpoint endan:hened
the roots. And so
Paul's letter to the Epheell
in your hearts by faith, I
: I I ' 1 Mi- * <
iuuucu in iuvc, tc. Ana
n tempted to wonder why
d about some of his chille
camphor tree, and the
rhisper: "They are only
in love."?Selected.