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August n, 1909.
Devotional ai
"THEIR BODIES BEING STI
By Margaret
Gone are they, from o
The forms of those we
The hands we used to
.Which oft to us their
We fain had kept then
We miss, we miss th?:
But in the quiet gravei
And they are gone bey
But not from His. Th
Their bodies lie, He si
Them, in His loving, 1
Through all their quiet
Still in His work of lo>
He, who from death t
Their souls, redeems t
And He shall call ther
And, glorified, like to
They shall arise, no n
Hut in a land which k
Forever dwell with Chi
"GODLINESS WITH
By Dr. G. B.
Forty years ago an Italiai
anti, discovered a method o;
coloring of which was dec
made by the ancients, whost
anti abandoned holy orders
cute the hundreds of comm
secrecy of his workshop at
finest stained-glass window
him, and he guarded his sei
later lie was found dead of
the pigments he employed
had carried the secret with
men were called in to exam
one and all failed to penetrs
The only man who has \
ing photographs in color \v
ery, the secret of which is
Herbert Franklin, of Chicaj
colored photographs?of a i
is true?to the leading Amei
and the encouragement lu
he built himself a laborator
of spies, at the cost of $i2,c
Invention. In the preparati
_1 1 / - - - J _ i - i
cnarcoai nrc, anu one ciay wi
open the ventilators and w;
had refrained from divulginj
in consequence, although soi
that hid the secret remainei
pared is a problem that ha
day.
A man who discovered h
-explosive that would have r
to whom the German gover
lent of $100,000 for his inv?
THE PRESBYTERI/
id Selections
ILL UNITED TO CHRIST."
H. Barnett.
ur tender care,
iuicu au wen,
clasp, the lips,
love would tell.
1 with us here,
m everywhere;
s they lie,
ond our care,
ough in the grave
till doth keep
tender care,
, dreamless sleep.
,*e they share,
sternal saves
their bodies too;
ii frrmi thoir crroroe
Himself,
lore to die,
nows no death,
list on high.
CONTENTMENT."
F. Hallock,
i priest, named Luigi Tarf
making stained glass, the
lared to be equal to that
; secret has been lost. Tar;
and set to work to exeissions
he received, in the
: Ostia. near Rome. The
s in Italy were made by
cret well, for when a year
blood-poisoning set up by
, it was realized that he
nun. i ne cleverest workin
c the pigments, hut they
itc the dead man's secret,
et been successful in takas
a martyr to his discovlost.
Some years ago Dr.
*o. submitted a number of
somewhat crude nature, it
rican scientific institutions,
: received was such that
y, proof against the wiles
XX), wherein to perfect his
on of his plates he used a
len at work he omitted to
as found asphyxiated. He
5 his secret to anyone and,
me partially finished plates
d, the way they were pres
baffled scientists to this
ow to make fulminate, an
ev?lutionized warfare, and
nment offered the equivajntion,
unexpectedly came
%
OF THE SOUTH.
to his death in an explosion in
secret is a lost one.
There are, indeed, many lost
a lost secret but an open secrei
writing about when he said:
whatsoever state I am, there>
"Godliness with contentment
connected with a contented min
and worry and complaint at tl
dence. a mind trustful and c;
God's will, this is the highei
greatest gain. But we must
not something that comes to u
is. indeed, a secret to be lean
that he had "learned" it. he m
ten into the secret of it." The
he had been initiated into it by
rience, somewhat like a person
He used the exact Greek word
and secret rites of initiation in
teries, required of Athenian ci
tery of Christian contentment c
Kingdom should desire to be i
to reveal one of those Eleusin:
an "open secret" into which eve
mercial secrets are sometimes
of making kodak films, or for
iron, but this secret is free to a
out money?how to attain th
contentment.
I. First, get over the though
is to be happy. There is, to b<
ing poor, and it is a very cor
wealth; but there is no stain
can conclude when he is real
itself has 110 inherent power tc
of 11s happy.
II. Xeither does happiness
worldly honors as so many st
lies the head that wears a crowi
and genius, yet he says he nc
weeks of genuine pleasure- I
not give a peek of refuse whet
fame."
III. Neither is happiness fo
pleasure. Indeed, happiness s<
Happiness is found indirectly,
you will find it not. Do your
ness will come of itself.
IV*. What, then, is the secre
ment?of real happiness?
1. Make the least of your 1
really good circumstances once
I have not and count myself i
at what I have and count me 1
you have, and make the least <
2. Make the most of your litt
way you will get "the peace
aggregate of little things." "}
things as you have," says the
ter upon the enjoyment of yc
Make the most of the enjoymen
worry about those you have n
3. Do your best with your li
9
his laboratory and the
secrets but it was not
t the Apostle Paul was
"I have learned, in
vith to be content."
is great gain." Piety
d, a mind free from fret
le allotments of Provitlm
and satisfied with
>t possible riches, the
remember that this is
s in a natural way. It
ned. When Paul says
eans that he had "got
exact meaning is that
' some sort of an expejoining
a secret society,
denoting the celebrated
to the Eleusinian mystizens.
Into the mvsvery
citizen of Christ's
nitiated. It was death
ian secrets; but this is
ryone may enter. Coinkept,
like the process
manufacturing1 Russia
11 how to he rich withe
wealth of Christian
t that simply to he rich
s sure, no virtue in heivenient
thing to have
lard by which a man
Iv rich, and wealth in
) make a single mortal
consist in fame and
:em to think:. "Uneasy
11." Goethe had wealth
ver experienced five
Uirke said: "I would
it for all that men call
und in the pursuit of
flight is seldom found.
If you seek happiness
duty in life and happit
of Christian content
lttie lacks. A man of
said: "I look at what
unhappy. Others look
lappy." Look at what
if your little lacks.
le enjoyments. In this
that springs from the
Be content with such
Apostle. That is, "en)ur
present blessings."
ts you have and do not
ot.
ttle duties. They con