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usefulness of the Individual member
that prayer with the earnest desire and
effort for the Bavlng of souls does.
And where this desire Is earnest, obedient
to God's command, "Pray ye
the Lord of the harvest to send forth
more laborers into the harvest," "Ye
that are the Lord's remembrances keep
not silence," is not nearly so difficult.
I do not say that it is not difficult, for
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Experience shows that they can be led
to pray for what they want as naturally
as If they were speakng to their
own fathers; and the church is losing
heavily that fails to train them and to
n ake use of their faith. With older
children, and with women who have not
In their youth become accustomed to
praying with others, it is difficult to
commence, but will not continue so If
they use a crutch for a little while, and
then throw It aside. If the leader of
the class will write out a numlber of
short prayers, very practical specific
prayers, and get the members to read
them a few times and so get accustomed
to the sound of their own voices;
tnen to begin with their own sentence
prayers, the class will soon be able to
take part In this the most Important
work they can do.
Then they can be led to help the Lord
to answer their own prayers; and when
they pray for some definite person or
persons In whose life Ohrlst Is not yet
king, they may say at first, "Make
somebody lead that person to thee;"
"Make somebody give the money to
send thy gospel to the heathen;" but
after awhile as prayer becomes more
real to them, they will say and mean,
"l/ord make me feel that I must pray
for souls to be saved, but do not make
me ask anything for anybody without
being willing to be UBed of thee to
answer my own prayer If thou dost
choose me aa thine Instrument." "Lord
make me realize my stewardship, and
CHRISTMAS IS COMTJTO.
Here Is a Christmas suggestion 'or
the family that does not already possess
a high grade piano. If your old piano
Is out of date or If your home has
never known the delights of owning a
sweet toned Instrument,* why not do
away with the giving of useless, perishable
trinkets, JuBt this once and let
very member of the family unite In
presenting one big Christmas present
to the entire family?a high grade piano
that will last a life time and be a Joy
and a blessing to young and old alike
Mo home Is right without music and
?ne piano Is the king of all musical
'nstruments.
Don't wait until Christmas is upon
vour-Write today for your copy of the
Wutlful new catalog of the Presbyter'^n
of the South Piano Club that makes
o'ano buying so easy. Address Dudden
& Bates, Presbyterian of the South
P'ano Club Department, Atlanta, Ga.
AFFORDBY,
Kindergarten Normal School
The Fourteenth Session Begins October
i?ia. Regular course or two years,
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<amu( imrouuciory worn in UonntotClass
and Primary, and a short review
of Mentessorl Methods. Model and
practice Kindergartens. Students"
Residence. ELIZABETH SII.KM Aft.
I>rlnrlpai, 1204 North Charles Street,
Maryland.
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NOISBLeSTSSTdUST PROOF. Bett lor pew or altar
communion. Uki ahort, ah allow cap, gliM or aluminum
(indettructible) no lipping o< head. SaveaONtFOURTH
coat other aervlcca. Over 140M)churchea ate.
Jfnd lor catalog and "Special Introductory Orter."
fhomaa Goamualoe Service Co. Boa 3. Lima. Ohio
*?
Indian Runner Ducks $1
EACH. Year old. Time to raise flock.
HUtfNIMAKEB POULTRY FARM,
Normandj, Tenn.
THE PEESBYTEEl
not wlth-hold from thee that which is
rightfully thine." And hy and by praying
will mean doing. Without It our
societies are leading crippled llres with
it they can "run and not be weary."
Will you not try to organise societies
tor the young people and also for the
children. If you haven't them already In
your church? And will you not make
the study of home and foreign missions
the leading feature of such societies?
Our secretary of foreign missions,
Rev. Dr. S. H. Chester, Nhehville,
Tenn., will suggest good textbooks
for mission study, and good reading
matter for all ages. Miss Bartara
Lambdln, Atlanta, Ga., will do the same
for home mission study. The leader
should keep In touch with the Preabyterlal
Home Mission secretary and be
able to interest the class In that work,
also In work right at home, leading the
children to pray as well as to give to
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A good way to get the little folks Interested
Is to tell mission stories as
well as to read to them; to organise a
"Mission Story Telling and Prayer
Band." The mite chests can be made
the means of spiritual development.
Teach the little ones to try to make
some of their money; to fine themselves
a penny If they say anything against
anybody, to give a penny for a thankoffering
when they have had a good
time, or a nice present, or some blessing;
to deny themselves sometimes and
put the money they would spend on self
In the mite chests. Don't let them Just
ask parents for it. This same plan,
with larger amounts, is good for us
children of larger growth.
Separate societies for the boys and
girls are better for the larger ones.
They give the girls more opportunity
for development, for fitting themselves
to be used of the Lord.
MORE ABOUT THE PARABLE OF THE
LEAVER.
John If. Lyle.
Jesus spake In parables to hide the
truth from parts of his audiences, and
In studying them It is Important to
bear Mils In mind. "And his disciples
came and said unto him: "Why speakest
thou unto them In parables?' He
answered and said unto them: 'Because
it Is given unto you to know the mysteries
of the kingdom of heaven, but
to them it is not given. . . Therefore
speak I unto them in parables, because
they seeing see not; and hearing they
hear not, neither do they understand.'"
(Matt. 13: 10-13.)
A parable hae been aptly compared
to a nut?the story representing the
hull, and the truth, concealed thard-i
ho kern?'.
It Is i?.ipTofl*abIe *o spend too much
time on the story. It requires skill In
cracking a nut to get the kernel whole
and not mashed. So It Is In getting
the truth out that Jesus hid In the
story. Twisting and turning the story
this way and that to extract too much
from It mangles the truth, as does the
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by too many misdirected blows on the
hull.
The trouble that has arisen over this
parable of the leaven, and that Is being
aired In the press, comes of commentators
reading Into the story things the
lord never Intended to hide In It. 'In
the series of parables In which this one
Is found Jesus presents the kingdom oif
heaven In its various aspects and relations.
Dr. Deems says In "The Light
of the Nations:" "Jesus proceeds to
conclude hie series of parables by teaching
tin this one) the intense growth
of the truth."
Again, the Bncyc. Blbllea says:
AM OF THE SOOTH
"Leaven supplies two sets of figures,
one taken from the mode, the other
from the result of the process of fermentation."
The parable is very short: "The kingdom
of heaven is like unto leaven,
which a woman took and hid In three
measures of meal till it was all leavened."
(Matt. 13: 33, R. V.). That we
may be "given to know" the mystery of
the kingdom of heaven hid therein we
have but to study the truth about the
symbols used.
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The leaven to which Jesus likened
the kingdom of heaven was a piece of
sour dough, that scientists tell us was
full of living organisms. That Its effect
upon meal or other dough is due
to these organisms that permeate it in
vast numbers. Instead of corrupting <
meal or other dough It Imparts life to
It, and gives it the power to Impart
that life. It is a raoBt fitting type of 1
the life-giving truth of the kingdom
of heaven, that gives a life to the dead
soul that it transmits to other dead <
souls. *
The "three measures of meal" is a I
type of an individual human being.
Man is a trinity composed of soul, mind
and body. Hence, the use of the number
"three." If mankind in mass had
been meant, some other term, such as '
"mass," or "heap" would no doubt have
been used.
It seems clear that the aanect nf the 1
kingdom of heaven In relabion to the
individual is the truth wrapped up in
this parable. JesuB had, In other parables,
spoken on that occasion, present- '
ed Its aapect as related to the mass of '
mankind, and there was no occasion to
repeat. The truth doesn't leaven men
In mass. It takes them one at a time. '
By correlating these facts see how
beautifully this short parable of only 1
one sentence covers the great mystery
of man's salvation.
The working of the leaven Is Intense
and complete. It never lets up till "all
is leaven." It Is a true type of the
working of the Holy 'Spirit In sanctifying
the human heart. The divine truth
planted in the heart of the sinner remains
till all of the man, soul, mind
and body, Is made perfect as Jesus Is
perfect.
It is wide of the mark to read Into
this parable a prophecy by Its author
of the Introduction of corrupting doctrines
that would bring about the apoe- :
tacy of the Church of God. Jesus taught
hy direct statement that at his coming
the mass of mankind would not be
transformed by the gospel: "For," he
said on another occasion, "as the days <
of Noe were, so shall also the coming 1
or me aon or man De." ironm tne mnie
account of those days, there was prac- ,
tlcally no visible Church on the earth.
Again, Jesus on still another occasion '
asks this question: "When the Son of '
man cometh will he And faith on the
earth?" This being: Interpreted means ,
he will find so little that It will be a
question as to whether there Is any.
Hence, there was no occasion to hide
a prophecy of this sad condition of the ;
earth in this parable of the leaven.
Nor Is It a reasonable deduction that 1
because the mass of mankind will not
be leavened at his coming:, he In this
oarable likened the kingdom of heaven i
to leaven as a corrupting agency. The
Meg is abhoirent. There will come a 1
time orhan the mOI? manVln/l
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this earth will "all be leavened." Jesus i
In Catherine: by the leavening process,
one at a time, people for his own possession
ont of eaoh eeneratlon. and assembling
them in paradldse. At the <
end of this are he will send his angels
and rather nr> the wicked and all evil
end remove them from the world. And
"then, shall the righteous shine forth
as the sun In the kingdom of their
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Father." Thus will the mass of mankind
on the earth be "all leavened,"
by aggregating the myriads previously
and as Individuals leavened by the King
of heaven, whose working In Intensity
and completeness Is symbolized by the
working of the "leaven which a woman
took and bid In three measures of meal
mi 11 was all leavened." Then will
his people be "given to know" in full
the stupendous mystery of the kingdom
that their Lord's great wisdom concealed
In this little story of one sensentence.
When 1 was superintendent of the
Sabbath school of his church, the late
Dr. R. K. Smoot, of Austin, Texas, came
to my office one Monday morning, end
Bald: "You have a skeptic in your Sabbath
school. My little boy said at the
dinner table yesterday that his teacher
had told him that morning about a
woman who had put 'eleven Into three';
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three and he didn't believe the story."
That was thirty-five years ago, and
the public has never had the benefit ot
the little boy's comment on this parable.
It is given that they may have it.
Waco, Texas.
The Princeton Seminary bulletin for
May is a Centennial Number. It giveB
the details of the centennial celebration,
May 5-7, committees, arrangements, representation
of other seminaries, and addresses.
The sermon of Dr.- Francis L.
Patton, and the address of Drs. Robert
E. Speer, of New York, and James
Wells, of Scotland, make up the bulk
Df the pamphlet and will greatly interest
all Prlncetoniane.
We read that his disciples came to
him and said: "Lord, teach us to pray."
It is not recorded that he taught them
how to preach. I have often said that 1
would rather know how to pray like
Daniel than to preach like Gabriel.?
D. L. Moody.
Nature is but a name for an effect
Whose cause is God.
Never, never wait for post-mortem
praise. Speak the kind words which
love prompts, and remember that words
or roving Kinaness are me best possible
tonic which can be given/even to the
happiest of the mortals.?Kate Tannatt
Woods.
CAREFUL DOCTOR
Prescribed Change of Food Instead of
Drags.
It takes considerable courage for a
ioctor to deliberately prescribe only
Food for a despairing patient, instead of
resorting to the usual list of medicines.
There are some truly scientific phy
sicians among the present generation
who recognize and treat conditions as
they are and should be treated, regardess
of the value of their 'pockets. Here's
an Instance:
"Four years ago I was taken with
Bevere gastritis, and nothing would stay
on my stomach, so that I was on the
verge of starvation.
"I heard of a doctor who had a summer
cottage near me?a specialist from
N. Y.?and as a last hope, sent for him.
"After he examined me carefully he
advised me to try a small quantity of
Grape-Nuts at first, then as my stomach
became stronger to eat more.
i n.cyb 01 11 ana graauaiiy got so i
could eat and digest three teaspoonfula.
Then I began to have color in my face,
memory became clear, where before
everyt*ng seemed a Wank. My linubs
got stronger and I could walk. So I
steadily recovered.
4,Now after a year on Grape-Nuts I
weigh 153 lbs. My people were surprised
at the way I grew fleshy and strong
on this food." Name given by Posturm
Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read She little
book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
"There's a reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and fall of hnmnn
Interest.