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July 21, 1909. was rich yet for our sakes bee down from the throne of the scepter and crown, turned his friends, and when here upon self," and so Paul felt that 1 be self-indulgent, nor think t ease and comfort. He felt t< years, that real Christianity, ti provoked, thinketh no evil," a meek and gentle Saviour shoit tn tn L'o r\A"nneo Knf ivy M??\v U1IVIIOV, Mill OUVU1U <11 ble construction 011 the condu He was likewise convinced "think of himself more highly and therefore had 110 right 1 bies" to be endorsed and adof not to cherish the spirit of "D pre-eminence." These reasons, or others eq fluenced Pan) in his refusal to ond missionary tour, and he i erned by the thought that "if the fault is his, but if he dec the fault is yours." He feels 1 a right to expect better thinj roundings had been favorabh a strong character. His moth tian, but of unmistakable cour fact that she opened her hou worship in the very face of op] He was a convert of the Aposl had taught him to suffer impri the nephew of a man whose p eralitv had made him famous t And yet in spite of all, he at a time when his presence ar ly needed. So his name has come dow branded with an ineffaceable doubtless repented, and in a gained the confidence he hac IprtpH Kv fliA T-Tr?Kr i??v iwi; u vv pels, yet there is a dark blot known among men, even at tli ter," the man who turned asid< But that is not all, nor th every subsequent age numen been only too willing to follov The "Quitters" are in every church. They enter sometim and awaken high hopes in tl people, but alas! the true char; ifest. Like Byends in Bunyar thev are much in evidence w less and the fields fragrant with the songs of birds, whc church is pleasant and prospe is popular and the choir rende they soon disappear when the come, or the preacher extends long to the vacant.pews whicl unsympathetic ranks. The "Quitters," like memb< f resemble each other, and yet 1 alitv. One quits because the ' ble," forgetting that "if a mat - - . THE PRESBYTERS :ame poor,"' and stepping : universe, laid aside his back upon his home and earth "pleased not himlis disciple ought not to oo much about his own X), as he taught in later rue "charity, is not easily nd so the follower of the Id not only be very slow, ways put the best possict of others. that a man ought not to than he ought to think," to expect all his "hob)ted, and certainly ought iotrephes, who loved the ually good, doubtless ini take Mark on their secseems to have been gova man deceives you once eives you a second time too, perhaps, that he had of Mark, for his sur: to the development of er was not only a Chrisage, as evidenced by these as a place for public position and persecution, tie Peter, whose example isonment, if need be, and iety and consecrated libhroughout the church, deserts his post of duty id assistance were great11 through the centuries, stigma, for although he fter years not only de1 forfeited, but was serite one of the four Goson his name, and he is lis late day, as the "quitz from the path of duty, le worst, he has left in dus followers who have v his unworthy example, community, and in every es with a great flourish tie hearts of pastor and icter soon becomes manl's "Pilgrim's Progress," hen the skies are cloudwith flowers and vocal :n everything about the rous, when the preacher rs entrancing music, but vivwuo ^aiuti aiiu tl id id his remarks a little too h sit before him in cold, :rs of other families, all lave their own individu"members are not socia1 would have friends he i'i lN of the south. must show himself friendly,1 show themselves interested overlooked by pastor or pi cause he "does not like the unfortunate enough to say, given offense, forgetting the servant can not release from ter, and that "He went into custom," although the servi then conducted by the mc ministry that the world has If the sinless Christ could ducted by imperfect men s 1.i. 4. ? 1 Ml! - - 1 uufjiu iu ue wining to uo sc ence of public worship mucl Another quits because "sc has hurt his feelings," or 01 forgetting that it is both \ Saviour, who gave His life gard His claims and desert conduct of one of his frail. I Another quits because "tl ing for money," forgetting simply as a police agency, gives to life and property, n tributions it receives. Hut what shall be done \\ and Barnabas were doubtle? duct, but they didn't stop tl i ney went ngnt on, believm "capture sinners as to coddl important to save sinners t as those whose names are air n't give all their attention i neither did they forget, or awhile, perhaps through the comes around all right, becc the service of the Master, 1 whose respect and confider still more highly honored by of one of the books of the Bi Rut the sad fact remains that he cpiit his post of duty, ineffaceable stigma. EVERY-DAY We want religion that sc the voice to melody, and fil and, checks the impatient e buke; a religion that is polit considerate to friends; a re family and keeps the husbat dinner is late, and keeps tin the husband tracks the n#v boots, and makes the husba and the doormat; keeps the bahv is cross, and amuses t structs them; cares for the them promptly; projects the vestmoon, and makes the h ern fig tree, bearing on its blossom and the glory of the a religion that shall interpc gullies and rocks of the hi souls that are traveling ove 9 " and that few, if any, who in church work, are ever cople. Another quits hepreacher," who has been or do, something that has it the imperfections of the responsibility to the Masthe synagogue as was his ces of the sanctuary were >st imperfect and corrupt ever known, perhaps. I worship in a service conurcly His sinful disciples ). If He needed the influl mnro dn t-h m >me member of the church (Tended him in some way. in just and unkind to the to save sinners, to dlsreHis service because of the rallible servants, ic preacher is always askthat the church, viewed pays, in the protection it lany times for all the con ith the "Quitters"? Paul ;s grieved by Mark's conicir work because he quit, g that it is as important to e saints," and that it is as hat are out of the church eady on its roll. They didto the man who quit, but forsake him, and after influence of his uncle, he >mes again conspicuous in lonored by the very men ice he had forfeited, and the Holy Ghost as writer ible. and will remain forever and so his name bears an RELIGION. jftens the step and turns Is the eye with sunshine, xclamation and harsh ree, deferential to superiors, ligion that goes, into the id from being cross when ; wife from fretting when irly-washed floor with his nd mindful of the scraper mother patient when the he children as well as in: servants besides paying honeymoon into the harappy home like the Eastbosom at once the tender ripening fruit. We want )se between the ruts and ighway and the sensitive r them.?Selected.