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IO Devotional 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