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accomplished the most i
there yet abides within
majnder. This is true
true of (iod. His pres<
the soul than all that I
of the Divine thought
honor: to be the recipi
to have eternal life. "\\
life."
wnat is the nature o
premc need of every hu
It is spiritual. The
seen by mortal eyes. It
spirit. Says Dr. Parkli
to keep time with the s
time with the sun. It a
water-bearer that the tri
The most difficult thin;
yet Christ judged her e
i.j mauv iui 1111S. 1
inspiration of the Alini
ing."
The Divine Presence
the processes of the hut
lantic coast there is a 1
A visitor to the light In
which the lamps are kej
nary petroleum. He h
nightly, and he sees th
large. Then lie is she
reflectors, and the keepe
of the oil lamps is she
night he dark and stori
the human mind is like
the light of the lamps
scions of the presence,
sity. the correctness, and
are increased incalculab
The Divine Presence i
is limited to some phas
man need. The Divine
hensive in its varied ap
holized by the pillar of cl
ites. Like the cloud it
effects of prosperity: li
when the darkness of s
in their sombre folds,
lives that the Divine IV
I low shall we cultiva
haps no one in the histo
been more conscious of t
life made a deeper impi
i.miner l.awrcnce, .\
a lowly lay brother ai
sixth century. In his 1
Presence," he says-, "Hi
God that He might tal
for the sake of Him eve
1 began to live as if tl
in the world * * * a
even in the height of m;
my mind everything th?
my thought of God."
As Hannah Whitehall
THE PRESBYTERS
llustrious of his achievements,
the man an incomputable reof
man : it is infinitely more
ence means infinitely more to
Ic lias done. To be an object
and care is an incomparable
ent of the Divine Presence is
'hom to know aright is eternal
1 this presence that is the suman
soul?
Divine Presence cannot be
works within the realm of the
nr<t -v.... ..a;....?
v.. . v, ? "I, U\ij usi > UU1 V. IUI K
un. We are adjusted to keep
vas just to a poor, unschooled
ith was revealed, God is spirit.
? that could he told her, and
qual to the lesson. The mind
here is a spirit in man. and the
ighty giveth him undcrstand?
is illuminating. It brightens
nan mind. On the Xorth Atight
house kept by a woman,
attse will be shown the oil by
it burning, and the oil is ordi;
shown the lamps that burn
at they are not noticeahlv
>\vn the bright and powerful
r explains how the feeble light
>t far out to sea, though the
my. The presence of God in
the action of the reflectors on
The mind may be unconyet
by means of it, the intcnthe
power of mental processes
lv.
s adaptive. Every gift of God
e of human experience or huPrescnce
is infinitely compreplications.
It was aptly symoud
and fire that led the Israelshields
us from the blasting
kc the fire it lights our path
orrow and adversity wrap us
There is no experience of our
esence is not fitted to cover,
ite the Divine Presence? Perry
of the Christian Church has
lie presence of God and whose
ression on his associates than
icholas Herman, of Lorraine,
mong the Carmelites, in the
liil - 1- - i
iiuc uook, rracticing the
aving given myself wholly to
ce away my sin, I renounced
;rything that was not He, and
here was none but He and I
nd every hour, every minute,
V business T drove awav
it was capable of interrupting
Smith remarks, "What T.roth
iN OF THE SOUTH.
or Lawrence' did. all can
nor any especial theologi
blessed 'practice* lie r
churches, nor stately ca
could either make or in;
were as one to him ; and
ground was as ??rancl a
tittulcs."
'INTO TH
Am
The beautiful seven
In the summer tit
And the mighty wa
In the season of c
We may see in the :
When the night's
The stars of the sun
' And the same han
Me who made the st
ne rolletli night's
And he turneth deat
To the morn of ar,
A day, o'er whose b
Shall drift sorrow'
For sin and pain ne1
The light of the b
DER
By Rev. J. Will
On a recent passage, t
1 entered into convcrsatit
seas, and who was master
"Do you fear the storm
"Xot in the least," he s
we are able to weather ;
ever swept across the mi}
Then said I : "Do you
"Xot to any extent, b*
a definite track along \vl
we know just about who
vessels on the highway oi
"What then." I said to
lie said: "We are mos
lict is a dismantled, unnu
ing to no harbor, a ship
a crew, and without a caj
As he spoke it occur rei
number of derelicts toda
who have no captain 011
out for no harbor, but dr
ace to all others who w
<>f no use to themselves i
ers. Some of these clerel
hut unfaithful to their du
Some of them, never ha^
come genuinely indifferer
a thought of great cheer
who waits to hoard every
fill that wluch has been
which has been weak, and
Captain of our salvation.
It wc are to have pou
ive must pay the price in
November 3, 1909.
do. Xo theological training,
ical views are needed for the
ecommends. No gorgeous
thcdral. nor elaborate ritual
ir it. A kitchen or an altar
to pick up a straw from the
service a> to preach to mulE
MORNING."
103 5:8.
star sisters,
ue, bright and warm;
rrior Orion,
old and storm,
iky abrive us.
dark shadows fall,
inner and winter,
d made them all.
ar-s In their glory,
shadows away,
h's (lark, dark shadow
i endless day:
rightness and glory,
s storm clouds no more,
rer shall darken
eautlful shore.
? By Margaret H. Barnett.
ELICTS.
>ur Chapman, D. D.
vhile facing a terrific storm.
>11 with a man who knew the
of the ship. I said to him :
aid. "for by good seamanship
almost every storm that ha-.
?hty deep."
fear the log?"
ecausc different vessels have
ucn ordinarily they sail, and
11 and where to expect other
the seas."
him. "do you tear the most?"
t afraid of derelicts. A dereinnetl
ship. It is a ship >ailwithoitt
a compass, without
)tain.."
l! to me that there arc a vast
iv all about us in life?men
i their vessel, who have set
ift idly with the tide, a menrould
lead the best of lives,
ind incapable of serving <>thicts
were once in the church.
tics, they have slipped away,
king known Christ, have heit
to the claims of God. It i,
however, that there is Due
r drifting vessel to make useuseless,
tb strengthen that
I that One is Jesus Christ, the
;cr with t~?ud and with men.
seli-denying service.