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March 6, 1912] THE
them who might sit singly for the portrait, and
not lower the type.
There is no truer word in the Bible than that
a minister ought to be the husband of one wife;
and with that wife he should live on terms of
such perfect sympathy that slander shall die in
the presence of their perfect and reciprocal
affection. My wife has liberty to open all my
mail, but is strictly enjoined to open all that
is marked "Private." Alas for the minister with
a shallow, silly, gossipy, jealous, dictatorial, or
worldy wife! But he who is married to a good
wire and connaes in Her, can race almost any
situation where women are concerned, without
danger or fear.
Women know some things which men merely
guess at, and then guess wrong. There are matters
in which a woman's intuition is safer than a
man's reason. "That's a good letter, my dear,
but I wouldn't send it," says the ministers wife
You can advance argument which she cannot
answer, but she feels that she is right. Into the
stove goes the letter, if you are a wise man. And
when a good wife gives her husband a gentle
hint about any matter relating to other women,
he is safe in heeding it. He cannot aflord to
ignore it.?The Presbyterian,
tcrian.
PREACH CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED.
BY E. P. MARVIN.
We have an over-production of moral quacks
for sin-sick society and of modern boasting. The
great trouble with original "Orthodoxy" is that
men do not believe it, live it, and propagate it as
they should. Thank God, the present age presents
some better Bible students who live more
splendid Christian lives than any preceding
age.
The only solid foundation for virtue, honesty,
righteousness and penology, is found in the religion
of the Bible.
The whole world lieth in the arms of the
wicked one, and no one but Christ can deliver us
from this Apolyon.
We preach Christ as a Divine. Saviour. He
is "The Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Mierhty
God. the Father of the Ages. Divine names,
attributes, works and worship are ascribed to
him and claimed by him. Peter said, "Thou
art the Christ, the Son of the living God," and
Christ said, "On this rock (confession) will
I build my Church." Matt. 16:16-18.
It is a giganitic absurdity to regard Christ as
a mere man and yet a good man. liis pretentions
and claims are such as no mere man ever
put forth without bringing upon himself the
merited charge of fraud or lunacy.
Christ as a mere man could never save sin,
ners. "No man can hv rfny means redeem his
brother, nor give to God a ransom for him." Tmmanuel
alone is good enough to pay the price
of sin. We must
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown him Lord of all."
He will be Lord of all or he will not be Lord
at all.
We preach Christ as a loving Saviour. The
blood-bought Church is his body for life and
his bride for love. The most sacred thing in
the world.
"From heaven he came and sought her,
To be his holy Bride:
With his own self he bought her,
And for her life he died."
Greater love hath no man than this. Its
breadth, length, depth and height are measured
by the Cross. It is great, unspeakable, unchangeable,
and eternal. Eph. 3:14-21.
ITe preaches to the times who preaches a loving
Saviour for sinners and sufferers. Unfaithful,
unwise, or unspiritual leadership is ruinous
PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SO
to the church, and above all ceremonials stands
stands the royal ordinance of gospel preaching.
We preach Christ as a Sinless Saviour. The
Jewish priests who ministered for sinners must
first make an offering for their own sins but our
High Priest had no sin in him and so he could
take our sin> judicially on him. Once for all
his offering makes an end of sin, but theirs could
not. The blood once shed is final.
He challenged his foes to convict him of sin.
Judas, Pilate and even demons testified to his
sinle^sness.
And let it ever be memorable to the Draise of
womankind that a woman's voice, and a woman's
voice alone, was lifted in brave defense of
the Son of God on his memorable trial. Matt.
27:19.
We preach Christ as an Almighty Saviour.
Our foes are many and strong. Satan at the
head of his legions, is a being of great intelligence,
gigantic power and consummate craftiness.
"Old Satan is too strong for young Melancthon,"
but Christ is stronger than the
strong man armed. Christ had absolute power
over his own life and over all life.
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diseases and all demons instantly obeyed him.
Man alone, endowed with free will, refused to
obey him. He voluntarily surrendered his
Spirit on Calvary, and afterward rose triumphant
over the great enemy, death. He is the
Prince of Life, teaching us the way of life while
Gautama teaches the way of death, through
eighty millions of transmigrations.
We do not preach Christ a little in all religions,
and not much in many, but Christ all
in Christianity, and Diabolus in all other religions.
All others lack a Saviour for sinners
and sufferers.
We preach Christ as an atoning Saviour.
Christ did not die a martyr, to attest the truth
o^ his excellent moral teachings so that men
would believe, obey them, make merit and thus
be saved.
He certified his teachings by signs and wonders
and divers miracles.
A little study of martyrology will show that
his agonizing death stands in strong contrast
with the triumphant death of martyrs. Martyrs
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27 :46.
The Greek word for ransom has a preposition
prefixed nine times to make its meaning
unmistakable, signifying one thing given in
place of another. Christ was indeed a great
teacher, and he gives us a splendid object lesson
of virtue, holiness and self-sacrifice, but by
this alone he could never save a guilty sinner.
Sin must be atoned for and a new life imparted.
Great teachers and object lessons from
the first have often been sent to pagans, but
they have failed to make them good. China
has fifty thousand Ralph Waldo Emersons, and
India has one hundred thousand, but China
and India are as sinful and sorrowful as three
hundred years ago.
rnura DUTY TO AFFECTION.
Kindly actions begun from a sense of duty
blossom into affection, and afford some of the
sweetest pleasures earth can bestow. Active
industry, at first painful and arduous, unfolds
our powers and comes to be the source of keenest
satisfaction. Purity of thought, word and
deed, sought at first from knowledge of Christ's
righteousness, comes at last to be the natural air
which the spirit loves to breath. Thus duty of
every kind, containing within it the germs of
delight and beauty, will if cherished, develop the
? sweetest flowers and richest fruits, and the good
and beutiful thus clasp hands and claim kinship
forever.
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PURITY OF SPEECH.
Purity of speech means something more than
the omission of vulgar phrases that ought not
to be used by any self-respecting person. A
young girl should carefully avoid falling int>
slangy or careless modes of speech. You can
shut your eyes and tell whether the woman next
to you is a lady (or, should I say, a gentleman
by listening to her conversation. There has be i
in recent years a reaction against the word
"lady," because it has often been misannlied.
There is really no rea-on why we should not use
it in describing an attractive, polite and agreeable
woman.
A charming writer has given the definition of
lady as woman in a high state of civilization.
I am sure you prefer to be considered highly
civilized to being thought savage and barbarians.
When a girl says: "Gee whiz," "It was something
fierce," or "You're up against it," you
need nothing more to convince you that she may
be good-hearted and well-meaning, but?
Nobody wants to be stamped as common. To
say to any one that she is kind-hearted, goodnatured,
willing to serve a friend, and that she
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nuuesiiy pays ner way is to say that she is a
respectable member of society; but to add to
this that she is common and ordinary is to indicate
a fatal delect.
Purity of speech requires the omission of slang
and silly, supcrlluous phrases. The latter, while
perhaps not profane, are often not refined, md
show that one's associations have been with illbred
persons.
To think before you speak is an excellent rule.
You should make up your mind once for all
to use only grammatical words and phrases to
represent the thing you mean to say. Never
say "hadn't ought" or "aiu't," or use a singular
verb with a plural noun.
Most girls have gone through the grammar
school, if not further, and they have been taught
wuat is rigiu aiui wnat is '.vroug in training .sentences
in English.
Vocabulary is another matter.
We require a good stock of wor ls for daily
use, a working vocabulary; that is, partly by
our own pains and care,.ami partly by listening
to others who use good language, and partly by
every day reading a few pages in a book that is
worth attention.
No matter how busy one is, she should try
to keep uue good book 011 hand and read it
through page by page, although to do so may
occupy several weeks. iMore than most people
think, they enrich their vocabulary by regularly
attending church services. The habit oi listening
to seimons does more for you than its first
object, which is to lilt the mind into an atiuos
phere of devotion.
It adds little by little to your treasury of
beautiful and well-chosen words.?Aew 1'ork
Evening Telergara.
LUTCHER MEMORIAL CHURCH.
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its expression, which recalls the breaking of the
box of precious ointment for as long as this
splendid pile shall remain, "this also that she
hath done, shall be spoken of for a memorial of
her."
As Dr. Arthur O. Jones has so well expressed
it, "If there is light in the soul to see it, long
after the money which you may have put into
houses and lands and stocks and bonds, will have
ceased forever to yield you any revenue, the
money which with a faithful and loving heart you
invest in this house of Qod will be a real asset to
your souL"