The Presbyterian of the South : [combining the] Southwestern Presbyterian, Central Presbyterian, Southern Presbyterian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1909-1931, August 11, 1909, Page 9, Image 9

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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