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"BREAD COR
Bv Julia
Bread corn is bruised that
The crushin
Must grind it first, ere it t
Itself alone.
Snow-white the meal, but
The golden |
And thus, hereby, a parabl
Of loss and
Not pearls, nor sparkling s
Are crushed
No gems in monarch's diai
For food are
That only which has minis
Is torn and
And afterward the measur
In this is foi
Life, health and growth, ai
Renewed am
Are debtors to the corn, it
In wholesom
Take meed of joy, nor shri
O broken he
In feeding those whom Go<
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WHO IS G
By G. Cam
My first acquaintance w
1886, when I entered upoi
originated. Going at the
then in oversight of the
conduct services for fourt
months, and thus had op
suits of his labors. I fou
followers of Jesus Chris
conversion of others. T1
brought to God under
Manv of them remain in *
this day, and retain their
tion for His cause. Durii
sy, and from the first my
brother beloved, and I co
sonal friend and a highly
kingdom and patience of
During these years I h
remarkable development,
very front of those who ar
gelist. His early life cor
were against the chances <
a higher viewpoint of coi
favor.
His lack of educational
ed likely to bar his progr
set himself from the first
ness which were niagnil
He has been a hard worlhas
found its reward in t
niiiro/1 o ?
^jmiivu (x ai^ric dim UCUVI
beauty. One of our grea
recently that he is one o
THE PRESBYTERIA
ind Selections
N IS BRUISED."
H. Johnston.
It may be life-giving,
g stone
>e food for living,
not till bruised and broken
grain;
le is spoken
gain.
tones with radiance clearest,
and bruised;
iem the dearest
> used.
try thus vital,
ground,
eless requital
and.
id power for highest daring,
i fed,
s life-germ sharing
e bread.
nk from blow and bruising,
art,
i will soon be using
part.
?The Interior.
IPSY SMITH?
ipbell Morgan.
ith Gipsy Smith was made in
1 work in Hull, which he had
invitation of the committee
work at Wilberforce Hall to
een days, I remained thirteen
portunity to observe the rend
very many whole-hearted
t in dead earnest about the
lese, most of them, had been
the preaching of this man.
he churches of the town unto
first love to Christ and devong
this time I often met Gipheart
was joined to his as a
tint him still as my close pervalued
fellow-laborer in the
Jesus Christ.
ave noted with great joy his
until today he stands at the
e doing the work of the evanisisted
of certain facts which
3t" his success, and yet, taking
nsideration, they were in his
advantages would have seemess.
He recognized this, ar.d
with a devotion and earnesticent
to remedy the defect,
cer and hard reader, and this
he fact that today he has ac;ry
that is full of force and
t London dailies said of hini
f the finest exponents of the
N OF THE SOUTH.
possibilities of Anglo-Saxon
John Bright.
It is possible to hear him
done, without detecting a fh
nunciation; and one is fillec
derful triumph in this direct
In his case the very early
of constant effort, and there
velopment consequent upon
too common among more i
his education long ago.
Greatly in his favor is th
of nature, nurtured near t
Spirit who breatheth where
to living contact with Chris
vironment was manifest.
To know him today is tc
freshness of woods and flo1
earth, and to breathe the fra
from the stifling atmosphcr
talk with him without takin:
of ozone. I lis most remark;
itual. In tone and temper,
spirit which are the fairest
life he has steadily advanc
ever is a child of God in on
character.
Though thus a child of tli
been pre-eminently that of
to great cities. It is one of i
spirit-reviving sights I knov
city folk, toilers in the factoi
professional men, and those
ten to him as he pleads v
cause of the Master.
Gipsy Smith is an cvanjj
bestowed by the Spirit of
ever was such in the history
moreover, we have a conspi
that the Spirit bestows sucl
endowment fitted to receiv<
110 conflict between a man
work of grace in him when
the will of God.
London, England.
USEFUL
It is related of the grca
friend said to him, "You, :
ness of piety," he promptl
thing better?the piety of u
IKpfitln^cc Jc tin If J
M...ww iu iiiv rvinvi Ilia I
piety that sits apart in ca
there are wrongs to be righ
the piety that is concerned i
emonials while the Christ is
city gate; the piety that <
Sunday arid feels a comfortj
to the Church," while it i
burdens and make all the sa
is bringing the millennium i
Every moment of resistai
tory.
j
November 10, 1909.
1 speech since the days e?t
again and again, as 1 have
iw in his grammar or pro1
with wonder at his w?nion.
lack has been the stimulus
has been no arrest of dethe
mistaken notion?alas !
avored men?that lie had
e fact that he was a child
o her heart. When that
He listeth brought him int
the gain of this early en>
catch the sweet, healthy
ivers and dear old mother
igrance of the life lived far
c of great cities. I never
g in a wholesome quantity
able growth has been spirand
those fine qualities of
. productions of Christian
v-vi, cl 11vl lUUdjr lliurc L IIciII
tward conduct and inward
ic country, his mission lias
a messenger of the gospel
the most heart-stirring and
/ to watch a dense mass of
-ies, clerks from the offices,
of culture and leisure, lisvitli
tender eloquence the
delist by right of a "gift."
God as certainly as thereof
the church. In his case,
icuous example of the fact
1 gifts on those by natural
? and use them. There is
as God made him and the
lie is utterly abandoned to
PIETY.
it Cromwell that when a
>ir, know well the usefuly
replied, "I know someisefulness."
The piety of
: tne world needs. 1 he
ves or monasteries while
ited and work to be done;
ibout phylacteries and cerbeing
crucified outside the
occupies its pew only on
tblc security in "belonging
illows others to bear the
crifices, is not the sort that
learer.
nee to temptation is a vie