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8 J; Devotional ; "OUR FATHER WH A Meditation or In his quaint way, M Lord's prayer: "The Lc flayer, is a letter sent tr There is the inscriptic whom it is addressed: ( The address, where se The contents, in sev close: For Thine is the The Seal: Amen. And, if you will, the d? There is not a pleasti which is not sweeter for Thank God that our us how to pray, began b we can never follow the manner pray ye," withoi the same blessings that it is evidently not for c that we are taught thus as the "All-Father," we c erhood of man. Our Father! Yes, yoi we be of one fold or not that men call life, we liv< if only we are Christ's. "Our Father" whethe with the spirit of childl those nearest to him, or ^ have wandered far awa; "Our Father,"?alas! the the sweetness of the tic Some have lost the fatlv some, alas! have the fath guide, protector, nor pr T?i pny mem i i ney can thought in the Lord's realize how blessed we : cry: "Abba Father," whi beautifully indicates a t yet childlike boldness,? not only knows that his is wise and and that h< to do. There is, to one who filial relation with a hun lation in knowing that God's love, never fear, his part. As soon as the heart "Abba, Father", the grea "What wilt thou have, springs up a fountain o: heart.?"the peace of G standing." Our confidence in the in time of need, to comft is strong in proportion on one who is wiser, m W THE PRESBYTERIA] mmmmmiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim and Selections j ICH ART IN HEAVEN." 1 The Lord's Prayer. [atthew Henry says of the jru s prayer, as mtieed every om earth to heaven, n of the letter, the Person to Dur Father, nt: In Heaven, eral errands of request, the Kingdom, etc. ite: This Day." ire which we enjoy on earth being shared with some one. Lord, when lie was teaching y reminding us of this. That divine command: "After this it asking for our brother man we ask for ourselves. For ?ur nearest and dearest alone to pray, but coming to God orne as members of the brothurs and mine, friend, whether ,?whether for the brief years j in a palace or in a cottage,? r we cling close to his side ike trust that characterizes .vhether, as poor prodigals, we y, and are feeding on husks. ;re are some who do not know : that binds father and child. er-love early in infancy, other er in name only. He is neither ovider for their wants. God not understand the sweetest prayer. They can not fully ire when we are permitted to ch as some one has said, most ender familiarity, a holy, and the boldness of the child who father loves him, but that he 2 can do anything he wishes has lost the sweetness of the lan being, an exquisite consowe can never be orphaned of neglect or estrangement on of the weakest man cries: t, loving heart of God replies: my child?" And thus there f loving, trustful peace in his rod wllirli nascpfh oil nnrlo# ' ' UI1 14 11VIVI ability of any one to assist us >rt us in time of great sorrow, to their strength. If we call ore influential, wealthier than N OF THE SOUTH. we are, we feel a certalr in addition to wisdom, are sure that he loves u wondering whether he that he will do it! But earthly parents a possess these oualifiratir liable to err, they are j are,?this Father is in 1 When he says: "I wi shall be my children," wise, a tender, and an so. And we know too children,?that there is us, but a glad welcome wipe away all tears fr< with a new and confider "Our Father which ai Greensboro, N. C. CHRIST THE By the late Rev. 1 As I look at all the wi and the array of tulips i arises?whence have th< all through the long, co away in the trunks and the bulbs which were b the reach of killing frosl there in order to preser\ gold and silver in the pearls in the deep sea to did discoveries of the a! Inrr (~?,1 1-1 -1 - iii^ ui w nai vjuu 11 ill d the morning of creatioi ures yet to be unfolded the heavens above us, s neath us. Now just as our all-w germs of life and the s< just as he has filled coal treasures for our digg Christ are hidden the tr edge." Jesus is the gi whatever is "hidden" in it is simply stored up t dependent, hungry, peop very few found out wha itual wealth and life he hid from the wise and and the philosophers, 1 the babes." The child-! the treasures of wisdom who hunger are brougl those who thirst are le When we feel our ignoi discover all the treasu knowledge. Childlike g ther and Chalmers, and "shepherd of Salisbury mine, and brought up th ictor T U rt J. ovv? x iia vv, l/v vii by }ohn, and the ore be< more richly at every str December 15, 1909. 1 amount of confidence, but if, and influence and wealth, we s, then we spend little time in will help us or not, we know l f _ 1 * nu menus, nowever they may >ns, are still human. They are subject to temptations, as we leaven. 11 be a Father to you, and ye we know that his will be a eternal love, for he has said , that heaven is home for his not only a place prepared for awaiting us, when God shall 5m our eyes. Therefore it is it joy that we say: i ?? i in ncavcn. S. O'H. D. TREASURE HOUSE, 'heodore L. Cuyler, D.D. ?alth of leaves on yonder trees, in yonder garden, the question ;y all come? Where were they Id winter? They were hidden the roots of the trees, and in uried down in the earth below ts. The Creator secreted them re them. So has he hidden the mtnoe frv A * + ? ? ^ ? i>?u\.o iu uv. uug 1U1, ill IU LUC ? be dived after. All the splenstronomer are simply the findway in the distant nebulae in i. There are countless treasto the explorers of nature in ind the strata of the earth beise Father has stored away the zeds to keep them for us, and beds and mines with precious ing aiter them, even so "in easures of wisdom and knowlreat inexhaustible storehouse; him is not concealed forever; here for the use of his needv. ile. When Jesus was on earth t a gold mine of truth and spirwas. All these things "were the prudent," from the rabbis >ut they were "revealed untolike inquirers found in him all and grace. It is so yet. Those it into his banqueting house; d to his deep, sparkling well, ance enough to go to him, we ires of spiritual wisdom and ;iants in intellect, such as Luchildlike peasants, such as the plain," all dug into the same e precious nuggets. As a ming for forty years in the Gospel 1 of truth "pans out" more and oke of the mattock. Wonder