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A "IN THE SWEA Shalt Thou After Adam had sinned, cnce and uttered these wo inquiry. They give a fore the nature of a curse on J blessing? The curse for sin is foun but to Satan. "Behold th tie Dust shalt life." But immediately?i dress to Satan?God chang curse to blessing. Seeing friendship with the devil, ( lation and to change it rad enmity between thee and t seed and her seed. It shal of Satan. This is a promisi Then God addresses the a curse, but of redemptioi increase thy conception" sc spring be lost, the numbc later days, be greater than puts along with it the proi and woman has ever borne it there has been the hope c ly multiply." And in the < anticipated with joy its ex] This leads us on to the 1 puts no curse on Adam. I ?ate ground. "Cursed is Thorns also and thistles sh; curse on. the ground woul sons of Adam of the sinful livery weed reminds the 1 not what they ought to be it were not for sin. Evei that with some things God But this reminder is not is a means of sanctificatioi constant penitence for sin. is going to keep before sinf has learned the lessons of p last great day shall come, delivered from the bondag rious liberty of the sons of jected the same in hope," the curse, and of a share heavens and the new ear ground is a step in the pro Right alongside of -this sweat of thy face shalt tho words. "Cursed is th<? o-rmi doning love, surely we ma the latter phrase. Yes, anc "The sweat of thy face" "by which the sinner may f tion. An idle brain is the d some mischief still for idle assigns to us not idle hai though this is toilsome, yet The very weariness of t service he .barrenness < , THE PRESBYTERIA T OF THY FACE. Eat Bread." God called him into his presrds. To us they suggest an reful suggestion. Was it of Vdam? or in the nature of a d in the address, not to men. ou art cursed above all cat thou eat all the days of thy n the latter part of the ades the tone of his voice from that man has put himself in 3od offers to change this reically. He adds: "I will put he woman, and between thy II bruise thy head," the head e of redemption, woman, but in terms rtot of i. He promises "greatly to that even if some of her off:r of the redeemed shall, in if she had never sinned. He mise of chastisement on her, that chastisement; buf with }f a joy that God will "greatlays of the Hebrews, woman pectations. . ater promise to Adam. God le puts a curse on the insenthe ground for thy sake, ill it bring forth to thee." The Id serve ever to remind the ness and the ill desert of sin. husbandman that things are , nor What they would be if ry drought suggests to him i.is not well pleased, a curse; it is a blessing. It n It liplnc frt Kriti n litrn ? ~ W u> ???g mill IV This reminder of sin, God ul men until the last of them >enitence, and then, when the "the creation itself shall be e of corruption into the gloGod." For God "hath subin hope of deliverance from in the beauties of the new th. Even the curse on the gress of redemption, is the promise that "in the ?u eat bread." If the former nd," be not severity but pary look for pardoning love in 1 it is there. points to occupation in life ind help in resisting temptaevil's workshop. Satan finds hands to do. But the Lord ids, but busy fingers. And is it an aid to piety, lie toil renders us the same Df the ground. It make* us N OF THE SOUTH. feel the sinfulness of the suffering. And this is a tition. And then, the season* Especially the Sabbath 1 heaven ! How it makes stimulates us to' seek foi selves for that sweet resl And thus we see how e are made under the bene great and immeasurable 1 THE USUAL AT] Moved by the Sigel ir from a mad infatuatioi Chinaman murdered his seemingly encouraged h relations than those of ; Democrat, of New Orle. to the Christian ministry against missions to the abroad. Catching up, conservative and thougli problems, much of the contemporaries, it wil hastens?to "shock militc to reflect that this is 01 generalization is as unr< though often more inncK as to the facts in distant over and over again refi Hart, an enemy of fore state that "the pretend Orient professes belief e relief stores or for the English tongue and foreij however, the purpose of conversion is shown to b< If the author of this mos prejudiced statement wil relief stores" of our Pre for nearly fifty years cc in the heart of China, ai them there, and where t tion will be regarded a revelation. The Church there knows nothing ab< stores." If he will also aj of the thousands of ou become such in order to will make another revela world. Beyond the main where daily relief to pi those actually in pain, t never appear again and come with anv assertinri doctrines of the medical small hospitals and beyc or two ago in the awful 1 relief stores" exist solely of missions. The Churcl It has never provided tl The testimony of th< familiarity with the 1 July 14, 1909. : sin which brings with it the lesson which needs daily repe> of rest that follow the toil, -est. How it speaks to us of us long for heaven! How it r heaven, and to prepare ourt! ven the chastisements of earth firent hanH nf Hnrl > moonc nf jlessing. rACK ON MISSIONS. icident in New York, where, 1 and probable jealousy,, a Christian teacher, who had im to think of her in other i simple teacher, the Timesins, reads an oracular lesson r and to fathers and mothers Chinese either at home or contrary to its usual most itful editorial study of large yellowness of some of its lingly consents?yea, even int Christians." Not pausing le case only and that' hasty ;asonable as falsehood itself, ;ent; not stopping to inquire China, and snatching up the ited assertions of Sir Robert ign missions, it proceeds to ed Chinese 'convert' in the ither to share in the mission purpose of learning the gfn methods. In this country, the Chinese who counterfeit e even lower and more base." >t unworthy, uninformed and 1 tell us where "the mission sbyterian Church, which has mducted successful missions e to be found, and who put hey came from, his informas a distinct and remarkable which sustains the worker Dut any such "mission relief icertain and report how many r converts over there have learn the English tongue, he ition which will astonish the tenance of a few dispensaries, lysical suffering is given to he great multitude of whoni do not in the first instance i or thought of belief in the 1 * ' neipers; Deyond one or two >nd jthe help rendered a year ramine in China, the "mission in the mind of the opponent 1 knows nothing about them, lem. : men on the field, whose acts is practical and not . *A '*