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MY HEAR
You ask me how I gave my
There came a longing in my
I found earth's llowers wouh
i wept ror something that \
And then, and then somehoi
To lift my heart to Him in
I do not know
I can not tell you how,
I only know he is my Savio
You ask me when I gave ni
The day or just the hour I
It must have been when I w
The light of His forgiving s
Into my heart, so crowded
I think. I think, 'twas when
I do not know, 1 can not te
I only l.m w He is so dear s
SERVICEAB
By the Rev,
The life of faith is
lima \v<ts 11 witn -\DraIi
lowing incidents: Chedc
made a westward expcdi
of the people and prof.
Among those carried cap
his household. At .no
advanced against the in
merous servants, and so
he made a spirited night
to flight, and recovered t
his heroic and much apj
accept personal compem
Some years later, Ab
serviceable by his persi
Sodom. The wicked cit
within the scope of his
destroyed them, "he rei
Lot out of the midst of
The life of faith is ch
cause it is characteristic*
know, "came not to be si
his life a ransom for ma
of love; for only the
merits the Master's comi
among the good Samarits
of whole-hearted faith
hopefully for serviceable
It is said that: "One
ago, a lawyer on his wa
of a barber's shop door t
black who plied his trad<
although he knew him c
morning the boy was
missea nis orignt remai
little, when suddenly the
said:
" 'Mr. Bartlet, do vou
fpright, self-respecting
THE PRESBYTERIA
and Selections
T TO CHRIST.
heart to Christ? I do not know,
' scul so long ago.
1 fade and die.
rould satisfy
v I seemed to bear
prayer:
iur now.
y heart to Christ? I can not tell,
do now remember wel1
as all alone
pirit shone
o'er with sin;
1 let Him in;
II you when,
ince then.
LE SAINTHOOD.
Henry T. Scholl.
characteristically serviceable,
am, as is indicated by the folirlaomer,
and his allied kings,
tion, and possessed themselves
>erty of the Dead Sea cities,
tive from Sodom were Lot, and
little personal peril, Abraham
ivader at the head of his mime
allied chieftains. At Dan,
attack upon the foe, put ihem
he captives and the spoil. For
predated service he refused to
nation.
raham made himself laudably
stent intercession in behalf of
ies of the plain failed to mine
supplication; but when God
membered Abraham, and sent
the overthrow."
atacteristically serviceable, bedly
Christ-like ; and he, as you
erved, but to serve, and to give
ny." The life of faith is a life
"faith that worketh by love"
mendation. Such faith puts us
in class, and to men and women
many a soul in sorrow looks
sympathy.
morning, about twenty years
y to his office stopped outside
;o get a shine. The little booti
there was no stranger to him,
)nly by his street name. This
unusually suent. I he lawyer
rks and began to rally him a
: boy looked up in his face and
love God?' The lawyer was an
man, but neither a church at
lN of the south.
tendant nor much given to
toolv tlio
part of the boy; but he soc
in all seriousness. Xo on<
question before in the same
" "Why do you ask me t
rather awkward pause. 'W1
to you?' "Well. I'll tell yoc
got to get out; for the place
pretty soon, and a feller lik
Mother does all she can, bi
us, an' me grandmother's h
Yesterday I heard two men
God would help anybody tl
him they was in a bole. I
night, and this morning 1 m
somebody that knew him w
That bootblack cherished
the man to look to for servii
who is linked to God throu
love. Mr. Bartlet, unfortum
but the right man was disc
help desired was seasonably
time bootblack is living the
were given "many would r<
member of the bar in su<
church member and a wor
He loves boys; and the ft
once a bootblack understar
fellows who need a friend
.1 - rr .
luvmg viuu in a most cnect
East Palmyra, Wayne Co
LEAVING THE REST
He is a young man who, a
pastorate of a small, "struf
50,000 inhabitants. A chie
was raising money for the !
and the plan of campaign?
in a struggle?included pere
pastor, having his convictioi
running a restaurant and fin
eyes to see the difference
march, took the situation in
Immediately after one of
ne procured irom its leader
supplies and the net profit
carefully filed away until t
was over, when, one Sunday
the subject of church supp<
the restaurant plan was an
ness failure, a social failure
ducing in evidence of his poi
he had collected several r
which he had taken the prei
of his authorities.
He then laid down the prii
ship, expressing his con
church upon such principles
large blessing. Some fime
on dedicating the first fruil
in proportion as he had bl<
were to be made for the su
June 23, 1909.
religious thought, and he
an attempt at a joke on the
?n found that it was meant
i had ever askpd him th#?
way, and it staggered him.
hat, Bat?' he said, after a
liat difference does it make
i, sir. Me mother an' me's.
: we live in '11 be tore down
e me can't pay much rent,
ut you see there's three of
ime. I dunno what to do.
talking, an' one of 'em said
lat loved him if they'd tell
thought about it 'most all
ade up my mind I'd lay for
ell enough to ask him.' "
the correct conception that
:eable assistance is the man
gh a faith that wo.rketh by
itely, was not then the man,
*OVlMT*/l n 1 Kr J
.v. v.vu v? viivuuuj, ami inc
secured. Today the some:
life of faith. If his name
:cognize liiin not only as a
:cessful practice, but as a
ker in the Sabbath school.
:w who knew that he was
id his interest in the little
Helping them, for him,
ual way."
N. Y.
'AURANT BUSINESS.
few years ago, accepted the
ogling" church in a city of
f feature of the "struggle"
support of the local church,
if there can be a campaign
nnial suppers and fairs. The
is on the difference between
ancing a church, and having
between a struggle and a
hand.
the restaurant transactions
s statements of the cost of
:s of the affair. These he
he fair and festival season
r, he presented to his people
ort. He showed them that
unmitigated failure?a busiand
a spiritual failure, prosition
the cold figures which
nonths previously and to
caution to attach the names
aciples of Christian stewardfidence
that conducting the
? would brine a certain and
after this came a krmon
ts of one's increase to God
?ssed. Finally, when plans
pport of the church for an