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2 PRAIS Praise is more than 1 even from adoration. E tion are involved in it. soul's appreciation of \vl ,1? iiv uuta. This appreciation of t is more than mere homa feelings of the heart as sion by the mind. Fran the head. It' is due as thanksgiv because we are recipier praiseful because of the c giving sees the benefit, is because God is what 1 thank Him for what wc In nearly every case w Scriptures, praise is calle dom, power, goodness, n very basis of prayer. ] and divine attributes is < cometh to God must bel a rewarder of them that "Praise is comely." It er thing, the right thinj soul's appreciation of tl God. but it is also attrac thing about an act of si worshiper an object of to see appreciation. It but it respects the worsl cere. True praise will incit praise. "Come thou wit one who loves the Savioi Lamb of God he went Christ. So did Andrew called Nathanacl. l* nil meed of praise tc is infinitely beyond our itely more gracious thai That should not deter, can. A child may not he mother's love. But that the mother the tenderest Thoughts of praise mu must he outward ascrip high and lifted up. Eve tion of reason, as well ; this. Profession, expres hand in hand. Praise is due God in not occurred no lerfs tha red. Many a time God's which he has prevented, ought to thank God da committed!" Praise is due Him, too "We glory in tribulatioi distress for Christ's sak tresses are a part of th< links in the chain by \v the throne. THE PRESBYTERIAh ?ING GOD. thanksgiving. It is different loth thanksgiving and adoraIt is the expression of the lat God is aS well as-of what he character and acts of God gc. It involves the tenderest well as the loftiest apprehen;e springs from the heart and ing is due. We are grateful its of grace. We should be haracter of the giver. ThanksPraise sees the benefactor. It te is that we have occasion to receive. here prayer is enjoined by the d for. Recognition of the wisicrcy of God lie, indeed, at the Belief in the divine existence essential to prayer. "lie that ieve that he is, and that he is diligently seek him." is not only befitting, the propg, to tender, signalizing the ic character and goodness of :tive in itself. There is somcncerc praise that renders the admiration. The world likes may reject the object adored, liiper whom it regards as sintc ns to try to make others h us" is ever the call of every nr. As soon as Joh nfound the and lirmmrlit 1-iic Kr/\fli?? ..h .-r. wn.v,. tw . And Philip, too, at once > God can never be given. He highest conception and infin1 human mind can conceive, however, from giving all one able to fathom the depth of its should not keep it from giving offering it can bring, st have words or prajse. There tion of glory to him who is >.ry instinct and every suggests God's own Word, declares ;sion, and possession must go Christ for things which have n for those which have occurbest blessings lie in the things One has strikingly said : "We ily for the sins we have not , for the ills Ilis people suffer, ns also." "I take pleasure in e." The tribulations and dis e marvellous plan. They are hich He binds His people to I OF THE SOUTH. THANKS ALI The recurrence, of Thank remind us that gratitude in it with the lips and life sho season or to one day. Not < the "harvest home," but wh bounteous providence whic send forth the tender blade the plant, until under sunshi / out in all its fulness and is r should men adore the goodn for His grace. That a speci for thanksgiving is well. 1' its happiest observance will grateful all the year round, be only the culmination of j And "all the time" in tl time to come as well as time which it come* slirmlrl he i genuine that the soul will which has abounded in the future. God's unchangeable chief grounds for both assur that has never left us nor fc terday, today, and forever, absolute trust. And the fai things hoped for, the evidei make us thankful for those but sure to come. Not least in our though should be those gifts of Go< as a matter of course, which get them. Some of these ; sweetness of love, the con affection, mother love, hea less subjects for thanks g commonplace or general. r. other gifts. Let them not tempted to be absorbed in measurable or ponderable t THE MATTER WI' A well-known magazine 1 posium on this topic. Pr various forms of religiontant and others, have favor their opinions which vary a nominational creeds and na and sentiments whose gene [)> an wno love tne L-hurc mount position in the affai To affirm that there is n< Church would be to annoi which it certainly has not has infirmities and humiliat: But if we are to estimate il of its most prominent ch; organized society, at presc ( 1l1irr?ll 1C tllA 1inrV* + nf fVia " v" H?V 111 Ul ttiv > the pillar and ground of tli is Christ's body* His heri among men, through whicl unto himself. "For thoug November 17, 1909. . THE TIME. :sgiving Day should again the heart and expression of uld not be confined to one >nly when they are singing en they are witnessing the h makes the fertile earth , ana wnicn tncn develops ne and rain the plant comes eady to bear its rich grain, less of God and praise Him al time should be set apart ut the best preparation for be found in a heart that is Thanksgiving Day should >raise. lanks giving should mean : past. The gratitude from combined with a trust so know that the same grace past is guaranteed for the eness is, indeed, one of the ance and gratefulness. He jrsaken us is the same yes He is worthy of our most ith that is the substance of ice of things not seen, will things not yet in our hands ts at this special season d which are as a rule taken i are so general that we forire the power of faith, the lfort of hope. Home life, 1th, shelter, peace, are not iving because they are so They are the basis of many be forgotten as we are i the thought of the more dessings of the year. TH THE CHURCH. lias lately published a symominent men. representing -Jewish, Catholic, Protesed the reading public with .lmost as much as their denies. Some expressed views ral tenor may be endorsed h and appreciate its parars of men. othing the matter with the ince a millennial state to yet attained. The Church ions, its reverses and perils, ts condition upon the basis iracteristica in relation to :nt, we must say that the vorld, the salt of the earth, le truth. The true Church taCP His rpf\rocAtitotiu/> 0-? i he is subduing all things fh we walk in the n