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May 22, 1912] THE
WHEN I GO HOME.
When I go home it will be evening,
And I shall hear my own dear people sing,
And see the lighted rooms, and take my place
As one of them, in that sweet time of grace.
When I go home I shall be very tired
Of struggling for the things that I desired;
But I shall be content to end my quest
Gaining the best things, peace, and love and
rest.
When I go home how sorry I shall be
Not to have brought more treasures back with
me!
Yet, though I be a failure, worn and poor,
They will not turn me from my Father's door.
When I go home I shall be travel-stained,
For winds have beaten me, and storms have
rained,
And earth has clung to me by vale and hill,
But they will take me in and love me still.
When I go home?oh, will it not be heaven
To be restored, accepted, loved, forgiven?
Sorrow and sighing are for those who roam;
I shall have found my bliss when I go home.
?Marianne Farningham.
THE SACRIFICES OF A GREAT LIFE.
For my own part, I have never ceased to
rejoice that God has appointed me to such an
office. People talk of the sacrifices I have
made, in spending so much of my life in
Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is
simply paid back as a small part of a great
debt owing to our God, which we can never
repay? Is that a sacrifice which brings its
own best reward in healthful activity, the consciousness
of doing good, peace of mind, and a
bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter?
Away with the word in such a view, and
with such a thought! It is emphatically no
sacrifice. Say, rather it is a privilege. Anxiety,
sickness, suffering, or danger, now and
then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences
and charities of this life, may make
us pause, and cause the spirit to waver and the
soul to sink, but let this only be for a moment.
All these are nothing when compared with the
glory which shall hereafter be revealed in and
for us. I ne;rAr made a sacrifice. Of this we
ought not to talk when we remember the great
sacrifice which he made who left his Father's
throne on high to give Himself for us.?David
Livingston.
LIFTING BURDENS.
While we bewail the pitiful phases of human
existence and grow moody and morbid
over what we call the misery of the world, let
us try what effect lifting the burdens off the
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and low, rich and poor alike, may have upon
ourselves and them. "When once we have
zealously set our faces to contribute our quota,
to give our small mite to the ameliorating of
the sadness which tempts us to miscall this
beautiful place which is our portion, we are
surprised to see how quickly we can evoke a
smile. In ourselves?in the men and women
of the world?lies a power to largely change
the conditions which make us call that sorrowful
which God mpnnt. tr? hp orlnH nr o +
Peacefully content. The centering of all our
interests upon ourselves, the giving up of our
whole minds to regret and self-pity, not only
c'ouds and darkens our own atmosphere, but
even reaches a point where we separate ourselves
from our dear dead by thinking far less
?f them than of our o>7n loneliness and loss.
PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SO
Unconsciously many, a widow, though she believes
herself devoted entirely to the memory
of her husband, is wholly absorbed in herself
and shuts out the reflection of the joy she
solemnly says she believes to be his portion as
truly as she shuts out God's sunshine by the
crape which covers her face.
Poverty, the grind of hard work, loss, are
not productive of a joyous spirit and a light
heart. If they are our burdens, the least in
spired spirit can detect the follv of henrtinc
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under them; if they are our neighbor's, the
idullest mind can see that every help our hand
can give eas<s not this man's trial alone, but
gives out a little joy to all in touch with him.
Either we are altogether hopelssly mistaken
in every argument of the Christian theory of
life, or it is unquestionably true that, whatever
may puzzle or discourage us, this earth
was created for the beautiful abode of happy,
grateful creatures who are sure that "light is
stronger than darkness, that love and life are
stronger than death, that good is mightier than
evil, and will surely triumph in the end."?
New York Post.
THE APPARENT POWER, Etc.
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freedom and fair play into a country of unbelinvnro
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conditions are already intolerable for every
one, who as a Protestant, knows and keeps
alive his sense of self-respect.
Catholics today may not only attack, but
even slander Protestant people, and doctrines,
and no important paper even deprecates their
abusive language, but we Protestants, in a
Protestant country, can not preach Protestant
doctrines without being accused of being
bigots and called narrow minded.
Catholics can organize a religious order
like the Paulist Fathers, which stands chiefly
for the conversion of Protestants and such
attempts have never been denounced as far as
I know as a bigoted proselytism, but no Protestant
can go to preach among Catholics without
being accused of bigotry and base proselvtism.
Catholics have organized a society like the
Knights of Columbus to defend the Roman
Catholic Church even in society and in political
spheres, and no important paper denounces
such organization as unfair and un-American.
Catholics are taking the Bible out of our
public schools and then discrediting this greatest
of American institutions by calling it ungodly
and pernicious. Finally they are establishing
their Parochial schools (wherein the
most bigoted Romanism is taught since foreign
friars and foreign nuns are largely the teachers)
and no important paper has warned the
nation of the tremendous and sinister influence
that must thereby be exerted in the near
future on American ideals and civilization.
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uutiiuncs unie tu say 10 a rrotestant party,
by no means can you marry a Catholic, unless
the marriage is performed by a Catholic
priest, and an oath is made that all children
springing from the union shall be Catholics
and that there shall be no interference with the
religion of the Catholic party, but no important
paper therefore accuses them of narrowness
and sectarianism.
Catholics can say from the confessional box,
from the pulpit, through their books and even
through bulls of the Popes that the children
of Protestant marriage are not legitimate. They
can say that whten a Protestant minister nm.
forms the marriage ceremony, he merely authorizes
concubinage. They can insult Protestant
daughters and wives since they do not
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consider them eanonicaly and lcgallj' married
at all, and no one finds such conduct unfair
and un-American. But we Protestants can not
spe?k of the Syllabus, a public and "infallible"
bull of a Pope, without being accused of
attacking the Roman Catholic people and
church.
Brethren, if you love your country, if you
care for fair play in the public press, if you
believe in the separation of Church and State,
if you believe in Protestantism, do your duty
and do it quickly, kindly and persistly. Inform
your friends and thnsp wVin i?r?ir +? vm-.
for spiritual leadership of what is threatening
in America. When some of your members advise
you to avoid certain topics in the pulpil
because of the presumable offense that Catholics
may take, tell them that it is neither fair
nor just, nor American, nor Christian to allow
the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to trample upon
what is dearest both to an American and a
Protestant and yet to remain silent. If such a
member be a deacon or an elder of your church
then let him know that you care more for your
country and your church than for human
friendship and financial support, more for the
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glory of men aud for human honor and posi
tion.
Let not the pastors appear always in awe
and retreating before the oncoming Roman
Catholic invasion, let them not seem to give up
the fight entirely and capitulate to the Roman
Catholic forces. Let there be no compromise,
by sinful silence, in their high standards of
right and justice in the vain hope, forever impossible
of attainment that there may be union
between the two churches. Friendship between
Catholics and Protestants as individuals can
be sought and obtained in many cases. If
Protestants are honest, frank and consistent
such a friendship will be a blessing but a closer
relation between the two churches is absolutely
impossible. I repeat once more, let
Protestants be friends, good and Christian
friends of Catholics, nothing but good can
come of it.
, Many Catholics are victims of the system
and they will turn from it as Paul did if
1'rotestants are patient and manifest for thera
true Christian love.
The more I think of the plans of God's providence
the more I am convinced that God pours
in Catholics by thousands not to crush Protestantism
but to give them better opportunities
to see more clearly the light of the gospel.
Let my readers invoke God's blessing upon
our General Assembly that they may deal with
this question with wisdom and tactfulness. To
ignore the Roman Catholic problem will be a
national calamity and to attempt to solve it
with false methods will give the Roman Cathblic
Hierarchy a new opportunity for advancement
and control.
Never before has common and concerted action
been so important for Protestantism as it
is today; never have the immigration problems
pressed for solution and immediate action ?.s
they do today; never have the opportunities
for good or for evil been so great for Protestantism
as they have today.
Let them think and solve the tremendous
problems, never forgetting that as Americans
we must show fair play always and everywhere
to everybody who stands for the American
Constitution. As Protestants we must, in our
solution of the problem, be loyal to the word
!of God, as Christians we must look for the promotion
of Christ's Kingdom and the light of
God's Gospel and the benefits flowing from it
for Roman Catholics.