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June 28, 1911 ] T H E F
These are God's days. Leave them with
Him.
Therefore, 1 think, and I do, and ? journey
but one day at a time. That is the easy dav
That is the man's day. Nay, rather, that is
our day?God's and mine. And while faithfully
and dutifully I run my course, and work
my appointed task on that day of ours, God
the Almighty and the all-loving takes care of
yesterday and tomorrow.?Los Avgelcs Times.
PERILOUS TIMES.
2 Tim. 8:1.
Katharine Lampton Paxson.
ThiB know, Oh child of God!
That in the latter days
So perilous shall be the ways,
Not yet by mortal trod,
That only He, who counts thy hairs
Can safely guide thee through earth's snares
l>ost know that thou'rt adrift
On boist'rouB, alien seas?
t)08t khoW the eurrent'n fitrnncr onH owrl#f
To lull thy soul to case?
Transformed Into an angel bright,
The Prince of Darkness comes in light!
He knows thy heart's desire,
To glorify thy king?
He knows that with a wall of fire
Thy God protects His child.
Yet every hellish snare he weaves
Around the soul that still believes.
Washington, Mo.
A MOTHER'S OWN NEEDS.
"What is home without a mother?" Mothers
Ught to take time for a just appreciation of
their own value?that a home needs more than
a cook and general housekeeper: it needs the
tiue mother-spirit brooding over it to make it
a real rest and comfort.
luomer, learn 10 save yourseii. Ijook in tiie
mirror at the lines growing so deep between
your eyes. Listen to the sharp tones of your
own voice as your scolding makes your home
folks glad to leave you as soon as supper is
over.
You do not mean to be cross. You are simply
trying to accomplish more than God ever
expected of you.
. Just stop and think. Which is more important?
A circle of happy faces around the evening
lamp, or that John should have the little
rent in his coat mended immediately? Put away
sewing until tomorrow and show the children
pictures or tell them stories instead.
Which is better, a cocoanut pie for dinner,
or a plain lunch eaten under the peach trees
in the yard? Don't bake such hot things at
all in hot weather. Keep yourself cool and
your family healthier on fresh fruit and vegetables.
As soon as you feel tired, drop the broom, even
in the middle of the floor, and darken the room.
Then stretch yourself out on the sofa, let every
muscle become limp as a rag, shut your eyes and
don't keep planning out your next job. Stay
there five, ten, fifteen minutes, even if you can
not sleep?you will feel like a new woman when
you pick up your broom.
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That is harder than housework. Be sure to rest
for a few minutes, and if you like tea, drink a
good, hot cup and eat a bite before you think
about getting to work again.
Perhaps your heart is more weary than your
body. Perhaps it is one member of your family
with the unlucky gift of always saying the
wrong thing. Do not let one cross word bring
on another. Leave him to his own ill-temper,
and go apart for a half hour with your favorite
magazine, your music or your flowers. When
the clouds begin to pass, read over your most
comfortable Bible verse, and ask the Father in
heaven for wisdom to walk softly on to victory
over temptation. Remember that "One with
God is always a majority."?Exchange.
' R E 8 B ? TER1AH OF THE SO
SCRIPTURE STUDIES?IN BRIEF.
THE SERVICE OF THE WICKED.
That the wicked are the property of the Lord
as well as the righteous, none can doubt. They
are both alike created for his glory: and both
are to praise him. "Let the r>eonle n raise thee
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let all the people praise thee." "Let every
thing that hath breath praise the Lord."
The psalmist calls upon all creation, even
inanimate nature, the rocks and hills, mountains
and seas, everything in the heavens, above and
earth beneath, to join in the universal song of
praise: He makes no exception: So a special
arrangement was made for them, both in the
tabernacle and Temple, in the outer court which
was provided for the gentiles.
And yet Isaiah asks the question: "When ye
come to appear before me, who hath required
this at your hand to tread my courts?" (I. 12).
So the psalmist declares: "but unto the wicked
God saith, what hast thou to do to declare my
statutes, or that thou shouldst take my covenant
in thy mouth?" (Ps., L. 16).
These passages show that it is the dutv of the
wicked to serve the Lord, but for this service
Ihey are not qualified. They must first be
changed, and accepted in their person : God had
no respect for the offering of Cain, because he
had no respect for his person. If we go with
our offering to the altar, and find we have aught
against our brother, we are to leave our gift
there and go first be reconciled to our brother.
We are first to get right ourselves; first be accepted
ourselves, and then to offer our gift. This
is emphatically required of the wicked. Instead
of this radical change, he is seeking a compromise.
A judge of the Supreme Court of
Georgia, once remarked in my hearing, that he
"adored, but not worshiped:" In other words,
he was compelled to admire the infinite wisdom
power, and greatness of the Creator, but did not
see the use of any outward expression of these
things. He would be a secret worshipper; ready
to admit the superior greatness of the Lord just
as he would admit the power of an earthly mon
men. I5\it this outward expression is the thing
the Lord wishes and demands. "Let the redeemed
of the Lord say so." (Ps. CVII. 2).
He demands service as well as worship. Theie
is a wide difference between worship and service.
The one being the mere acknowledgment of the
divine power and glory, the other, the rendering
a wi'ling obedience. The devils in Hell render
the one but not the other. The unclean spirit in
the man among the tombs, worshipped Christ,
but no evidence that he served him: (Mark V. 7).
So the man in the Synagogue, with an unclean
devil, acknowledged his divinity, but nothing
mure. ^uuKe, iv. Liet not then the wicked
cheat themselves into the belief that they are
serving God when they are only rendering outward
homage to his greatness and power.
We would also remind them, that this is the
character of the service they will render hereafter,
"For every knee is to bow and every
tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father." And how grievous that
service will be. No force will be used. But the
manifestations of the divinity, wisdom power and
l< ve of the Saviour will be so overwhelming and
conclusive, that even his enemies, will be compelled
to acknowledge the same. Will not that
be one of the bitterest ingredients in their cup
of woe. To be compelled to admit the power,
wisdom, and goodness of one whom they cannot
love. Like Haman of old, compelled to honor
and worship as king, one they so despised in
meir heart. Oh, that they were wise, now freely
and voluntarily to chose him as their Saviour
and King.
Newnan, Ga.
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PEACE, PERFECT PEACE. ^
Peace, yea, perfect peace. What a heaven
lies within! All gleaming with a heavenly light
even in the midnight of this world of care! We
cannot enjoy true peace as long as sin remains
upon the conscience. As well might the ocean
be quiet while the tempest is raging, or the sea
bird rest on the wave when the storm is mixing
earth and sky. The more the conscience is en
ngntened, the more surely will it forbid peace
so long as sin remain, for its honest verdict is
that sin deserves God's wrath, and must be punished.
Every upright understanding assents to
the justice of that dispenastion by which "every
transgression and disobedience received a just
recompense of reward." To me, when convinced
of sin, it seemed that God could not be God if
he did not punish me for my sins. Because of
this deep-seated conviction, that great gospel
truth, "The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son,
cleanseth us from all sin," became a heavenly
message sweeter than the music of angels harps.
Then I saw, with glad surprise, that God in
Christ Jesus is "just and the justifier of him
which hftlipvptti " Ta ? ~ tl? ?1?*
iuc me glorious doctrine
of substitution was a well in a desert; and it
is so still. I believe it with my whole soul. An
honest man, if he be in debt, will always be
in trouble until the liability is removed; but
when his debt is paid, he leaps into liberty and
gladness. When I learned that my enormous
debt of sin had been fully discharged by the
Lord Jesus Christ, who did this for all believers,
then was my heart at peace.?C. H. Spurgeon.
USELESS MEMBERS.
"Yes," said Aunt Sarah, surveying her bandaged
wrist, "the doctor says it's a bad sprain;
and the minister says I know now how the
church feels in not having the use of its members.
The minister didn't mean that for just
a joke, either; he looked at me as if he wanted
to see how I'd take it. I had sense enough, too,
to feel I deserved to have him say it to me.
A word like that comes home pretty straight
when one of your members is useless and worse.
"I've never thought just what being a member
of the church meant hefnre t>?
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been one for thirty-five years. I've never felt
obliged to do what the church wanted done. I
felt it was a favor, my doing it at all, and half
the time I let someone else do it instead. When
J was through with work at home, and with
what things I liked to do outside, then I was
willing to do something in the church?if it
was the kind of work that suited me. I guess
I've been just about as useful a member to
the church as the sprained hand is to me, all
stiff and crippled, and refusing to bend more
than an inch or two.
"There's lots of things I need to do, but I
can't use this member to do them?that's certain.
That's the way the minister has felt about
me, I guess. I've been a useless member for
thirty-five years, that's the long and short of
it; and, if the rest of the members had been
like me, the church would have been paralyzed
as old Cousin Josiah Jones, that can't move
hand nor foot. I'm ashamed of mvsplf?T
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am?and things are going to be different from
now on," and Aunt Sarah nodded her head with
firm determination, as she looked at the chureh
spire from her window.?Forward.
The weapons of our Christian warfare are
mighty through God; and whether our spiritual
foes come with the world, the flesh and
the devil, or with the devil, the flesh, and the
world, in this order or that, it matters not.
The victory of faith is always assured.