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Observations ought to
W hat the editor sees on
himself most, but he is
he is not trying to see f<
An earlier street car
showed us a different se
sweet-faced woman in
indicated a very recent
and patience were writ
gentleness and refineme
face, apparel and inanne
her hand carried a frugal
one of the great marts
work. It was not hard t
up the burden of her ow
haps, as in cases we hav
children were left hehir
twelve years old,?in so
room nest and its birdlinj
at the close of the day.
mother!
The gay young people
who kept everybody aw;
as much as they ought,
by, though there is no re;
excuse want of thought,
ed talk of being "off for
foolish denunciations an
of the prohibition State t
ing, and still less their
which one nineteen-yearbevy,
passed around, ev>
teen-vear-old shop girls
laughter at the folly of
silly girls!
4. ? ?? '
x iic ii <1111 was awnne a
majestic mountains. For
was condensed, as it w<
sweeping through a great
ture's masonry, a roarinj
one side and now on the
ing down the mountain <
the great river, jagged i
on either side, an occasu
gorge of more distant mo
sengers crowded the wii
not all. One dear old 1:
business-like, has just fin
ing companion, a mature
She has never been here
excitement and the exclar
her, she placidly gather"
lunch, calmly arranges a
packs her two big pasteb<
carefully puts the cords ?
shape. Not one glance d<
of nature's grandest work,
she had a frugal mind!"
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wur good triends, the
do not seem to be inclin<
hearted though yet inforrr
yet they think and prea<
we just as they. We are
ward connection. We sat
THE PRESBYTERIi
IE WING."
be as helpful as lucubrations,
his flights perhaps interests
not a whole-souled editor it
Dr others as well,
than we were wont to take
t of toilers. There got on a
widow's dress. Everything
bereavement, but resolution
ten in every feature, while
nt manifested themselves in
r. A plain little package in
lunch. She got off opposite
where hundreds of women
:o believe that she had taken
n and others' support. Pere
known, three or four little
id,?one of them eleven or
le charge of the plain twogs,
till she should come back
God bless the brave little
at yonder end bf the sleeper
ike last night did not think
That might have been passed
ason why mere youth should
But not so their loud-moutha
good time," their utterly
d ridicule of the "dryness"
hrough which we were passdrinking
beer and whiskey
old youth, the leader of the
en to the sixteen or sevenwho
were loudest in the
closing the saloons. Poor,
go rolling through the most
a score of miles the scenery
?re, in splendor. We were
: canyon, a huge cleft in nag
mountain stream now on
otner, lesser streams dashside,
here and there, to join
nasses of God-painted rock
mal glimpse through a side
untains; no wonder the pastidows
and platforms. Rut
ady over there, serious and
ished lunch with her travelson,
as we enter the gorge,
before, but ignoring all the
nations of everybody around
3 up the fragments of the
n A urro no
p?<v* ** t opo LilWUI) HCdliy I C"
:>ard boxes, covers them and
ibout them to keep them in
>es she give to the sublimity
"Though on pleasure bent,
Dear frugal old soul!
Associate Reformed people,
:a to respond to our warmlal
overtures on union. And
:h and act just as we, and
one in every way but outand
listened yesterday with
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AN OF THE SOUTH.
exquisite pleasure to their be<
preached with all the orthodc
servatism of the most "mosswithal
with such fervor, in !
and manner, and in such vivi
power as to make us wonde
could resist his appeals. He i
hvmns wllirli \\re>
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asked for still another. Why
and let us be one in name and
one in faith, in testimony, an
A day. there, is a mere ta
treat," Montreat. Shut in by
either side and at the end,
wooded, made musical by th<
cades in the bold stream at
hundreds of the coldest sprin
world's highway. The chari
much in the quaint and beaut
in the woods and rhododend
mountain sides, nor yet in 1
pure air, nor yet in its invit,
jducnu ncignis, nor yet in tl
inusicales, "method-study"
and the like in the auditoriu
pany gathered there and the
kindred souls. The day we !
thirty-nine Presbyterian preac
hushes and finding all. And th
a particularly good day for
should like to visit Montreat
up to the average or above ii
them ? But they say that tl
more. Then go, by all meai
gret it.
PROBLE
Unquestionably there are n
there is mystery involved in i
is scarcely an important trul
which if regarded in all its bea
its high source and its ultima
involve us in heights and de
explore. The mystery of r
Master expounded; the awemercy
and justice in our justif
the divine Spirit in sanctificat
fact of sonship in the family
pentance and faith and love,
tivp miH affcetinn ?
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divine energy?these all are 1
unto them, anticipation of the
less and endless joys, its emj
powers, our new glorified thou
scale?these all fill us with w
by their prospect.
But how remarkable and h
mystery, or unattained compr
in the Spiritual realm, but rati
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>i t itncu iiitti me unKnown
because it is too vast, or high,
and exceedingly circumscribe
therefore of attraction and proi
thrilled by the very knowledg<
September i, 1909.
>t known evangelist. He
'X and old-fashioned conbacked"'
amongst us, and
such earnestness of soul
idness and clearness and
r that any man present
iailP vifTOrOllclV flln rrr.^^1
o -o "'J SV"-'V1
the meeting, and once
not come to us, brethren,
I effort as we are already
d in ways!
iste of that glorious "rethe
great mountains on
in a huge cove, densely
i tinkle of scores of casthe
bottom, watered by
gs, it is yet close to the
m of it is found not so
iful cottages embowered
ron, and clinging to the
me aeiiciously cool and
ation to explore the ad!ie
thrice daily lectures,
meetings, "movements"
m, but in the rich comhappy
companionship of
spend there, we counted
hers without beating the
ey tell us that it was not
preachers, either! We
again on a day that is
t! Where will they put
tere is always room for
is! You will never reMS.
umerous difficulties and
our holy religion. There
th in the entire system
irings and traced toward
te significance, does not
pths which we can not
egeneration which our
inspiring balancing of
ication ; the processes of
ion; the over-mastering
of God: inwrought rethe
purification of moation
of the intellect by
ligh; we can not attain
heavenly life, its bounddoymeots,
our enlarged
ight planned on a vaster
onder as they charm us
o\v gratifying it is that
ehension does not repel
ler inspires and attracts?
in Spiritual truth is so
or refined for our finite
d vision. The element
mise prevails and we are
; that unknown and, for