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S obligation. It is doing them do unto you. God knew there was i get intensely interested workers, and so he ma priesthood under the ol was entering upon her and again, "Take heed for he hath no parttnoi under the new dispens the Lord ordained tha shall live of the gospel. Surely our sessions o that has bound them, called upon the elders cause. If the pastor f matter see that some el speak out about the ne spent their lives in the 1 Whenever the cause i upon the people, and t Christ and our church ready and liberal respo If better salaries vver would be less need in tw i t> _i: t i > niisici uii iveuei. i na parts of our church sa creased more than thi years." And yet. how have been increased! possessed either by oui Think of ministers on i man on a railroad trail for their library, educa contributing to the mai man of God, living as gospel, and always brii ment to others. What old age? What hope li dren should he first be < Some may think he di severe, but those of us work of telief upon us Tator whetvhe savs nf are now in need: "Mar others receive today, co 'and that you may be avocations we pledge o monthly payments the per annum.' " In some three hundred, five hum the four hundred dollar you may be free from v irony? It is neither. If we can not. or will i we have, why do we millions of Christians oi indicted of the crime ol of righteous justice, found in the tears, hi clothes of ministers' fan This is the month wl the South is called upoi Ministerial Relief. We ter things for our old r go on. r r THE PRESBYTERL unto others as you would have i danger here?that men would in the work and yet forget the de abundant provision for the Id economy. And when Israel wars of conquest He said once that ye forsake not the Levite inheritance with thee." And ntmn \\'P rpnrl 4<1^ mv.wii .? v i vavi, l^Vtil 3U 1 Id LI 1 t they that preach the gospel 99 ught to shake off the lethargy The last General Assembly 1 to assist in presenting this eels that it is too personal a der is selected to stand up and ?ed of the ministers who have lard mission fields, s presented, the obligation laid he needs of these servants of mentioned, there is always a nse. e furnished our workers there renty-five years for the work of ive heard business men in all y, "Living expenses have inrty per cent in the past ten few of our ministers' salaries What business sense must be r ministers or by their wives! i salary less than a negro firei, buying the necessary books ting their sons and daughters, ly calls that ever come to the becometh the minister of the nging comfort and encourageprovision can he make for his as he for the widow and chil:alled home? raws the indictment a little too ; who have the burden of the will be ready to pardon Mr. the self-denying ministers who ly of them have received, and ntracts from churches reading, free from worldly cares and urselves to pay you in regular sum of four hundred dollars cases substitute two hundred, dred or six hundred dollars for s, but in every case read "that 1 Ji - * vunuiy cares. is it humor or It is pathos. It is a disgrace, not, take care of the ministers multiply our churches? The : the United States today stand wilful neglect, before the bar The evidence offered is to be eartaches, hunger, threadbare nilies. len the Presbyterian church in n to contribute to the cause of are beginnng to do much betninisters. Let the good work AN OF THE SOUTH. LIMIT ATM (II Cor. 12: The stream when on the Moves quickly along, But when 'tis buttressed i With hanks rnflf.rihhoil Then it becomes the torre: That subtle agency called When left to freely rise Would be most powerful, Hut no; in young Watt'i 'Twas when confined, and Man's faithful servant it > So human life, shut in by Of which this flesh is he Develops strength of mind To nobly do and da And wondrous deeds, or s Into creations new are wi in iiuiiiuiious, men, 01 lire Not liberty, is found That which wins best in d And makes the man abi In alt that's Godlike, nobl< That greatest love an JOHN MARK, THE By Rev. T. M. 1 He didn't desert, he simply away secretly under the cover deliberately stopped and refu He doubtless told Paul and reasons for not being willing I see fit to record them in his his to conjecture. He was perha sionary life. The glamour c away in the presence of real tri gers. A missionary's pathwa through flower gardens, and 1 and this case was no exceptior difficulties in it, but dangers, r imaginary ones, as the scenes at Iconium and Lystra very may be he had grown w possibly seasick, or at and anxious to enjoy onci and conveniences of city he had become "disgruntled" had occupied the place.of leat had been superseded by Paul, that he may have had some lit which.Paul, as the now leadc approve, and in a "fit of sulks, he returned to Jerusalem." B were, they were not satis-facto found him unreliably once, wa a second time. He doubtless believed, then, that a Christian ought to "end soldier of Jesus Christ," and difficulties and dangers to turr, of duty. He remembered that . . f July 21, igog. DNS. 5.) plain spread ont ill about and strong, nt fierce. 8 team, 'twould seem; i eyes not when free, vould be. 4 Ills : sir, that wills re; ubtle thought ought. t, ally strife ound e, grand, d praise comnjand. ?Exchange. "QUITTER." McConnell. quit. He didn't steal of darkness, but he just sed to go .any farther, his uncle Barnabas his to go, but Luke did not 5tory, and so we are left ps disappointed in mis>f romance soon faded ials, difficulties and dany does not usually run beside babbling brooks, Tlioro 1 ? ?. lliviv WC1C 11UL UUiy eal dangers, not merely witnessed a little later clearly proved. Or it eary of the journey, any rate homesick, e more the comforts life. Or perhaps because his uncle, who lership up to that time, Or it is barely possible tie pet plan of his own, :r, failed to sanction or " "departing from them ut whatever his reasons ry to Paul, who having o _:-i- i- ? ,o unwiniu^ iu^i isk mm as he afterward taught, lure hardness as a good so ought not to allow i him from the pathway the Master "though he j-2alm tfteT iWil