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July 21, 1909.
A GREAT CHRI
The late Mr. Reader Ha
scribed by the "Westmins
an "unusual welding of re
nence." Much of his law
companies; and one day 1
instructing him to appea
trates, with a view to per:
uor license to some premi:
railway corporations. T
guineas; but Mr. Harris r<
pany's solicitor. This doi
the incident should close h
of his most profitable clien
a week the brief was retur
dred guineas. This time
explaining that his refusa
that the increase of fee lefi
and thinking over it latei
ever that hp must pvncr)
company. The suspicion
when early in the next w<
of its directors, he said to I
not annoyed at my return
tor smiled an inscrutable !
"we were not annoyed, no
"Do," urged Mr. Harris, r
tinued the director, "yoi
brewer?" Mr. Harris ass<
tor, "was sitting on our b<
meeting at which our sol
turned the brief. 'Who'
bug?' he asked. 'Mark tl
and TM1 hel- vnn anvfhincr
you will, will you?' asked
all knew you, Harrfs. Wi
to one in five-pound notes,
every one of us. I've coll
no, we were not annoyed.'
Questioned one day as 1
Christian life and being a 1
with a smile: "The mos
which to be truly saintly i
matter of fact lawyers ar
ious influences, and a larg
men. Our Lord Chancel
have been Christian men.
is any honest business in
serve God and to work fot
The disposition in both 1
completely secularize the |
_ .t t e
sizes trie tuny 01 parents to j
which it is their business
public school's use or rejecti
amount of Bible reading o
in the schools exempts the f;
duty. The child is put in 1
mine its weal or woe. Th
God's covenant promise, anc
own child.
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THE PRESBYTERIA
STIAN LAWYER.
rris, K. C., of London, is deter
Gazette" as representing
ligious work with legal emibusiness
came from railway
le found on his desk a brief
r before a bench of magissuading
them to grant a liqses
owned by one of the big
he brief was marked fifty
Jturned the brief to the comrie,
he felt apprehensive lest
is business relations wth one
ts. To his surprise, in about
ned to him, marked one hunhe
sent it back with a note,
.1 was due to principle, and
t him obliged but persistent;
r, he felt more certain than
no more business from the
meant so much to him that
:ek he met in the street one
iim, "I hope you people were
ling that brief." The direcsmile.
"Oh, no," he replied,
t we! I'll tell you about it."
nuch relieved. "Well," coni
know So-and-so, the big
mted. "He," said the direcDard
for the first time at the
icitor reported you had res
this psalm-singing humhe
brief a hundred guineas,
you like he'll take it.' 'Oh,
the chairman. You see, we
e took the brewer on at five
, and he booked the bet with
ected my money since. Oh,
I
to the possibility of living a
lawyer, the late K.C. replied,
t difficult calling of all in
s that of the ministry. As a
e very susceptible to relige
number of them are godly
llors, for many years past,
I do not believe that there
which it is not possible to
Him."
this country and abroad to
mblic schools only emphagpve
that training in religion
to give regardless of the
on of religious training. No
r general religious training
ather and mother from their
their hands and they detere
faithful parent can claim
1 he only can claim it for his
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N OF THE SOUTH.
Quiet H
PRAYEF
O Lord, we thank Thee for s
Continue this strength, Lord, as
draw not Thy face from us, fo
of Thy glance we can not liv<
whirll is the rhief ctrennrtli ?-?f ?
lie can not fight on. But first g
is the bread by which man li
crave in the name of Jesus Chr
- REACHING BE
"If a man compel thee to g
with him twain," was the Savioi
His disciples the burden of gu;
traveler. Law and the spirit o
that men share with a stranger
and burdctfs of traveling. Chr
pass legal demands and act
When we have reached the lim
pose to double the distance oui
to look intently at us, and to
man he has found. He enters
vestigation. He opens to us a
tage. We may walk into the
and climb up the ladder of his
time that last hour of a journ
impression, conviction, convers
the rest of his journey very diflf
ceded it! Does the distress of
mand of you your money? Giv
yourself. He needs a heart b<
needs food and covering. The
driven life-mariner can find is
He who has mistaken the heai
and more terribly imperiled th
eler amid wild beasts, or won
beasts in human form, who w<
tear away righteousness and pu
UNSPOTTED FROM
The one absorbing theme of
personal, practical righteousnei
the good, however socially ob
inferior, of greater rank than tl
ed. It sets itself to expound and
and will see and consider noth
of the Epistles knew all about tl
reserved for poets, athletes, an
wreath they celebrate is the ci
They were in constant contact
sculpture, and architectures;
nized no beauty except that of
familiar with illustrious scholai
ophers; but they bestow theit
simple believer who keeps hims
world.?Rev. W. L. Watkins<
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v^onquesi.
The love of earth may fad
A parent e'en a child fc
But when the loves of ez
The arms of Goc\ his chi
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our
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trength to do Thy will.
> in old days, and withr
without the sunshine
e. Give us Thy hope,
lan, and without which
;ive us Thy love, which
ves, and for which we
ist, Thy Son. Amen.
DYOND.
o with him a mile, go
nr's way of laying upon
arding and helping the
f the people demanded
or neighbor the perils
ist would have us surfrom
loving impulses,
lit of the law, and pro
fellow-traveler begins
wonder what sort of a
upuu <111 iiiicic^ung indoor
of unusual advarirealm
of his thoughts,
appreciation. What a
ey is for conversation,
ion, and for making all
erent from all that prethe
poor and needy dee
him more. Give him
;side his more than he
best shelter the stormthe
open, loving heart,
t way is worse astray
an any mountain trav?e
even than they, the
)und him with sin and
rity.?The Examiner.
THE WORLD.
the New Testament is
5S. It dares to reckon
scure or scholastically
le most brilliantly giftl
establish moral worth,
ling else. The writers
te crowns and garlands
d heroes; yet the only
rown of righteousness.
with superb pictures,
they, however, recogholiness.
They were
rs, orators, and philos*
whole praise on the
ielf unspotted from the
Dn, in "The Supreme
e and fail;
rsake;
irfh are done,
Id will take.
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