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M Young Peop THE PALACI TodIc for Sundav. July 18: The Palace Beautiful. Ephei Daily I Monday: Lions in the way. Tuesday: In good compan; Wednesday: How to overc Thursday: The peace char Friday: Divine provision. Saturday: Armor for the fn From the summit of the H tian came in but a little whil< bounty and grace was a rich after our severest trials God c zatlon of His love. But even between the Hill have a trial of his faith. The fierceness affrighted him. Bi rection was given him to kee road. This he did, and found either side and could not h Timorous need not have be Christian. The Palace* Eeautiful prov communion, discourse and fe Piety and Charity were the 1 In their wise converse Christls age. They heard and rehearr record of others' faithfulness the beauties of the place, am I of the Delectable Mountains. Christian was armed here is strength in companionship Especially is there blessing The theme is too little used the rich promise attached to Lord spake often one to an( and heard it, and a book of fore him for them that fear uppn his name." From this Palace, and its C out towards the sunrising. I him, needed blessings in vie would directly descend. The Piety and Charity made hope him to brave the dangers Jm which he was clad when he i hands. God had a way to ] forts and conflicts. Their soji ' arity' will bring them peace Conversation and thoughts irlng and recounting his d nora will tHriie* nnf ovil o o much time can not be given < attention can not be paid to of how to be so familiar wit natural or difficult to talk of at the Cross, our ascent of th< the gaping jaws of the lions themes for rejoicing and pra Stand like a kni When sin aliu One error makes And glorious t Kor the knowled And leaves in th A bird with a b Never soars as g L_ THE PRESBYTERIA le's Societies S BEAUTIFUL. Pilgrim^ Progress Series. VII. jians 4:7-16; 6:10-17. Readinas. Daniel 6:16-23; Psalms 91:13. f. Colossians 4:2-6. ome the flesh. Hebrews 12:1-8. aber. Isaiah 26:1-4. Matthew 22:1-14. ay. 1 Thessalonians 5:8. lill Difficulty the Pilgrim Chrisi to the Palace Beautiful, whose treat to his soul. Immediately iften gives us the sweetest reali and the Palace he must needs re were lions In the way. Their it he was cheered on. The dip carefully in the middle of the that the lions were chained on arm him there. Mistrust and en alarmed nor have alarmed ed a place of sweet Christian llowship. Discretion, Prudence, aithful entertainers and guides, in gained new strength and cour1 his experiences, they read the i and success. They inspected i gave Christian a distant view for his further journey. There and study of others' experience, in discourse about the Lord, by his people, and that despite it. "That they that feared the >ther; and the Lord hearkened ' remembrance was written beed the Lord, and that thought hamber of Peace, too, he looked nspiration and hope were given w of the valleys into which h6 words of Discretion, Prudence, i spring in his breast and fitted it before him. The armor with vent forth fitly came from their jrepare his people for all comourn in the home of wisdom and and provision. i of Christ and his good, and leeds of grace to ourselves and sociations and temptations. Too ho study of the Lord. Too much the lesson, learned at his feet, h him that it will never be unhis love. Our losing the burden i Hill Difficulty, our escape from in our pathway should be daily Ise. gtat In armor reth thee; i life less fruitful han It should be. ge of sin is deadly, le soul a stain; iroken pinion high again. ' 11 UMi 11 * r N OF THE SOUTH. Prayer 1 THE KINGDOM THAT i EVEF Dan. 2:44 Week Beginning It. is a perennial source of coml Redeemer's Kingdom is indestrv times and through many long pe been tempted to become alarmed 1 of the Sacred Oracles and institu ark, but in marvelous ways and 1 Kingdom over which our Lord rul integrity and in its power over tt There is scarcely a human in source that has not assailed this 1 and with desperate determinatioi Kingdom, under the command of true to the imperishable principles witnpsspd thp fall nf Uo m""' "?' saries, while itself, bearing unfalt< hoping in its God, has given evid< . not be accounted for by any thee ity or endurance. "Where is the Where is the disputer of this w foolish the wisdom of this worli The native hostility of man to voted life of the spiritual kingd< sumption of the world-wide rejec ciples and requirements. The c are by nature carnal?is enmity ject to his law. Yet the minds t est, sweetest light into civilizal Redeemer's Kingdom and have blessings they have conferred up> fruits of his grace. A kingdom transform hostile aliens into willii supplant narsn judgments with bitter fruits of unbelief with the eousness, must have in it a viti far more than human. As we witness the advance of guises in which it appears, the i enticements present themselves, ceaseless persistency, we are al Christian character be obscured of Christian service be overwhel godliness. Such would inevitably man agencies employed the sole he that is for us is more than al The Kingdom of Christ is ind( ereign God, the Mediator of the "Wherefore seeing we have a king let us have grace whereby we ma; reverence and godly fear." "Thy Kingdom, and thy domining endv tions." AVOIDING "OPE A sure way to fail is to accept good. "The duty of refusing to do in these columns and elsewhere need to be reminded of it. Ther done, close to every man, than an who attempts to do it all only lei things to which God would reall; Ministers and laymen who are t world and of the kingdom must would render their best service t "open door" is to be entered, issues" increases a man's efflcien sure; but the moment his chief ' his attention to that which is api between the two. And there nee one's duty; Gog will always make - ; ^ July 7, 1909. Meeting r . SHALL SAN DFORU45. g July 11. . fort and confidence that our ictible and eternal. Many rlrwlo tko "llttU a 1." 1 *vuo, iuc uLtic uutn. lias tor its safety; the guardians tions have trembled for the through terrible ordeals the es has been preserved in its le transitory affairs of men. istitution of formidable rekingdom with deadly malice n to overthrow it, but the Him who rules over it, and i on which it is founded, has entless and powerful adverting testimony to truth and ?nce of a vitality which can >ry of merely human sagacwise? Where is the scribe? orld? Hath not God made the holy light and the' deam would warrant the pretion of its unwelcome prinarnal mind?and all minds against God. It is not subl?at have diffused the cleardon have belonged to our declared that whatever an the world have been the whose administration can ig and devoted subjects, can loyal convictions and the placable (?) fruits of right- ? ility and a potency that is worldliness, the attractive lew forms in which its old their endless variety and armed lest the beauties of and the chaste institutions med with the floods of unf be the case werp the hn. guarantee of survival, but 1 that are against us. istructible because the sovnew covenant, is its head. ;dom that can not be moved, y serve God acceptably with Kingdom is an everlasting ireth throughout all generaN DOORS." evwy opportunity for doing i good" has been pointed out many a time; yet we all e 1b more that needs to he y one man can do: and one ssens bis usefulness for the f have him devote himself, ictlve in the affairs of the bear this in mind if they o God and man. Not every A certain amount of "side, cy for his chief work to be work is being hampered by irt from it, lie must choose d never be any doubt as to that plain.- *