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IO commiserate the dumb amina or the infant who can not un< The child s sob in the i Than the strong man ii But the sufferer who could us still more. The condemn a high note when she says: Now, men of death, w< NV-r I /" or* oofTor ? m .1 Kn Epictetus, when his crue] warned him that if he struck leg, and, when the leg was 1 you so." The heathen writer, Celsu tion to the Christians, and asl suffering, ever say anything "No," was the fine reply, nobler?he kept silence." His silence speaks more lo us at least one way in whi fellowship of His suffering revile not again ; when afflii for our release. We are all our wrongs; we like to "li sacrifice can be very real if of it. Suffering has no me thing is that it be well bori uncomplainingly we bear o made conformable unto Hi Learn, then, from the sil XT!. i _ 1 T lnjui ms spoKcn worus. Le things, the value of the quiel rebuke; the need of waiting all, learn the nature of the s; low Him to make. Be less cause your voice to be heard better hear, in the silence, tli Church of Scotland Magazii I SHE GAVE One of the missionaries Volunteer Convention relate rident r>f devntion tn T rwi of Africa, somebody carried age girl sixteen years of a house of God on Christmas for they have a very beaut best gifts to Christ on Chris a poverty that you and I k of them could not bring anyl fctables, but this girl, just brought a silver coin wortl 1 handed that to the missior He was so astonished at tl thought that surely the girl r and for a moment he was a but thought he had better ta "At the conclusion of the and asked her where she ? / really a fortune for one in h< to him very simply, that in offering that satisfied her o\ * ? THE PRESBYTERIAN ils who must suffer silently, Jerstand his pain, silence curses deeper 1 his wrath. speak, yet does not, moves led nun in Marmion strikes ark forth your will, > still. [ master was beating him, : so hard he woud break his jroken, calmly said, "I told s, told this story in opposiked, "Did your leader, under so noble?" "but He did what was st>" udly than words, and shows ich we may enter into the s. When reviled, we can cted, we can wait patiently too fond of complaining of lave a grievance." But no we are continually talking rit in itself; the important ne. The more silently and ur Cross, the more are we s death." ences of Christ as well as arn from them, among: other : hour; the power of a silent ; for God's answer. Above icrifice He asks all who folrcady to strive and cry, and 1 in the street, that you may le still small voice of God.? le. HERSELF. at the Nashville Students' d the following pathetic in-d: "Over on the west coast the gospel to a young savge, and she came into the day, to bring her offering, iful custom of giving their tmas. They are poor, with :now nothing about. Most thing save a handful of vegsaved out of heathenism, h eighty-five cents, and lary as her gift to Christ, le magnitude of it, that he nust have stolen this money, bout to refuse to accept it. ke it to save confusion, service, he called her aside jot that money, for it was er condition. She explained order to give to Christ an vn heart, she had gone to a I OF THE SOUTH. neighboring planter and bound slave for the rest of her life f< and had brought the whole fin life of pledged service, and laid at the feet of her Lord." PASTOR OR PF We asked a friend, "How d< and received this reply: "We haven't one. Dr. X has no trouble in securing an been in my house since lie cam when we have formally invited "Does he devote most of his "A fair amount, I think, and I excellent; but visiting his pari; him; their private affairs do not "Is he faithful to the sick and "I have a neighbor, a patien been in for years from spinal 1 recently that she had not heard I asked her if Dr. X never "'Yes,' she said, 'he has bee him the first time, but he tried ing me how becoming invalid happy I must be in having su famous brother. The second i of time.' Is he ashamed of his "But," we asked, "may not tl be exceptional?" "I fear not," the friend respo several families who sorely n truest sense of the word." The same day we said to anot do you like your pastor?" "First rate," was his answer sensible and sympathetic; his p to much, for he does so muci hasn't time for the preparatior dureth unto everlasting life'; 1 affect the size of the congrega the habit of going to church, a of saints and sinners, are alwa> power which will bring down Sunday after Sunday." .These conversations were s< too many ministers of the gospt half a loaf to the throng which ing bread. Theological seminaries shoul rounded men, and the men t eager in the work of the Lord forth, that both pulpit -and past noblest. Our sentiments upon t by the well-instructed but foi asked at a luncheon which she tongue, responded, "I like eith< God asks of no one more t The poorest is asked only for 1 for the same. The gift is eqi from which it comes. June 9, 1909. herself out to him as a Dr this eighty-five cents, lancial equivalent of her I it down in a single gift 1 :EACHER? ) you like your pastorV* ?is a good preacher and audience, but he hasn't ie, two years ago, except him to dinner." time to study?" his sermons are, as I said, shioners seems a bore to : especially interest him." to those in affliction?" t Christian girl, who has trouble, and she told me ; a prayer for five months, came in." n here twice. I sent for to "cheer me up" by tell lism is to mc, and how ich an accomplished and /isit was a similar waste discipleship ?" lis neglect of opportunity nded. "I have known of eeded a minister in the ther acquaintance: "How . "He is a good fellow, reaching doesn't amount h social visiting that he 1 of the 'meat which en:>ut that doesn't seem to tion. Our people are in nd, like the whole world rs secretly hoping for the saving grace, so they go jbering. Alas, there arc ;1 who are content to give is hungering for the livid strive to furnish wellhemselves should t>c so in whose name they go toral effort will be of the his subject are expressed rgetful child who. when : would have, chicken or ir; I will take both." # s # han one is able to give, his heart, and the richest nally pleasing, no matter