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April 6, 1910.
to wait?only until the
shall we see the blessed
God.
When that godly man,
his wife, he accepted the
him. When he lost his c
had taken them and yiel
lost his eye-sight, he still
when his house burned dc
empty, swept away, he
"My Jesus, As Thou Will
ly comfort his soul passe
love to find expression i
and innumerable hosts of
WHAT SKEP'
In the first place, skep
boasting, but the effect is
It never makes a man's li
pier, or a heart more ch<
gressive, or a city more m
These things are not in th
is to take the comfort frc
the faith out of the Churc
city, and take peace out <
The skeptic is a man i
everything as untrue, curs
ity. Skepticism stands c
brings salvation. As sue
.4-1 t - ? ?" ' -
me iruits oi salvation, li
en lives with love, or mal
It can tell all about the
sition practiced upon the
erstitition which ruled ir
and can put God Almigh
crook of the finger or a t
Looking the ground all
good thing which can be
cism. All of its effects
plunge it into gloom. T1
tics are worthy of littli
themselves is exalted ai
burst. The opinions of <
depend somewhat upon t
upon them with mingled
WnillH tato 4-In* I"."
.. u *v ttj tilt I1U]
leaving nothing but desp
ing of a large following;
his disciples is small.?'
CHANGING PLA<
There is a difference b
fication. They are not tl
giveness is negative; it
Justification is positive;
tively righteous. When
our sins are taken off u
righteousness of Christ
words, by the death of 1
been a perfect interchanj
and you. By the death
place; and you step int
accept Him?the place
perfect acceptance before
THE PRESBYTERIAN
mansions are ready. Then
mission of sorrow and thank
the Rev. John Schmolke, lost
affliction as of God's plan for
hildren, he felt that the Lord
ded submissively. When he
trusted the Lord's way, and
wn and his worldly store was
wrote that beautjful hymn,
When bereft of all worldd
into its wealth of faith and
n song, as did David, Paul,
other saints in all ages.
riCISM CAN DO.
ticism can do a great deal of
always of a destructive kind,
fe any better, or a home hap;erful,
or a church more prooral,
or a nation more upright,
le skeptic's line. His business
>m the individual life, to take
h, to take the hope out of the
of the world.
of suspicion. He looks upon
;ed with falsehood and unreallirectly
opposed to faith that
:h, its influence is against all
t does not heal sorrow, quickce
a soul more like its Maker,
flaws in the Bible, the impoworld
by its writers, the supi
the formation of the canon,
ity out of commission with a
oend of the head.
over, we can not finH a ctnrrlo
placed to the credit of skeptimake
the world worse, and
lose who boast of being skepe
respect. Their opinion of
id inflated, ready to fall or
other people concerning them
he people, but God must look
pity and contempt. He who
3e of the individual or world,
air in jts place, is not deservvery
happily, the number of
Lutheran Evangelist.
CES AT THE CROSS.
iPtwppn fnrrrivnnAPe
?..? wii ivi^utiaoa cl i ILL J U5Uie
same by a long way. Foris
the putting away of sin.
it is the making of one posiwe
are forgiven of our sins,
s; when we are justified the
is put upon us. In other
Christ on the Cross there has
ge of positions between Him
on the cross, He took your
o His place as soon as you
of perfect righteousness, of
God.?(2 Cor. 5 :2i.)
OF THE SOUTH.
AN ILLUSTRATION IN M
One day a boy was sent to
seventh grade. He was a "bad t
in badness. Not only did his
conventional forms of badness, b
forms never before imagined t
o ""** *
his book. "See here, my boy,"
eral pages of notes against you.
too far already. We've got to <
You come to my office at four
about it." At that time he was
of paper and was told to write
fenses for which he had been se
After writing five minutes he st
the principal, "you haven't hal
Again and again the boy halte
minders was helped to resume,
was finished.
"Now," said the principal, "1
and go over the list, writing out;
of these items." The boy set a
and began to get pretty familiar
done, he was given a new sheet
very carefully in ink what he las
it was very late and the boy was
"New," said the principal, "ta
ink make as careful a copy as yc
to your mother." No the boy cou
said the principal in feigned surf
want my mother to know about t
mother know what sort of a bo
doesn't." "Does she think thai
"Yes." By this time the bov wa
up. "And you don't want her
a boy you are?" "No, I don't."
ing great perplexity, "we shall
else." Then, as if the idea had
he said: "Do you think you co
your mother thinks you are?"
could. "I'll tell you what we'l
that you have written into this
put it in my safe. And if you
this year, we will just chuck t
nace."?From an address by Pi
umbia University.
ANXIETY
What a vast proportion of ou
ious and useless ?
vuuuiugs
either our own or that of our dc
present blessings, slip by and w
flavor, and all for want of faith
for the tiniest insect in the sun
we learn the sweet trust in God <
us every day by their confiding
are so mutable, so faulty, so ir
He who is so watchful, so pit
giving! Why can not we, slipp
each Hav * -?1
J , naiiv lIUSUHgiy ovei
path, thorny or flowery, crooke
that evening will bring us slee
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ORAL TRAINING.
the Drinrinal (mm
^ HV/ill LliC
>oy." He had a genius
repertoire exhaust the
ut it embraced original
^he principal looked at
said he, "here are sevThis
thing has gone
io something about it.
o'clock and we'll see
i handed a large sheet
: out a list of the ofnt
up during the year,
opped. "Go on," said
f completed the list."
d, and by dint of reFinally
his long list
take this fresh sheet
a paragraph about each
ibout this dismal task,
with his record. This
, and told to copy out
;t wrote. By this time
> tired and hungry.
ke this sheet and with
>u can, to be sent home
Idn't do that. "Why?"
>rise. "Because I don't
his." But doesn't your
y you are?" "No, she
t you're a good boy?"
s crying and all broken
to know what kind of
"Well,.then," in seemhave
to do something
I just occurred to him,
uld be the sort of boy
Tl.^ I * *
uyjy uiougnt ne
1 do. We will put all
i envelope, seal it, and
are not sent up again
he whole into the fur-esident
Butler of Colr.
r lives is spent in anxconcerning
the future,
ar ones! Present joys,
e miss half their swept
in Him who provides
beam. Oh, when shall
our little children teach
faith in us? We who
ritable, so unjust, and
iful, so loving-, so for>ing
our hand into His
that day's appointed
A , i
u or straight, knowing
p, peace, and home?