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the day with her and when there re
mained only enough, time for me to
walk to the depot. I arose to start.
Mrs. Fellows said, "Oh, I want you to
meet our pastor, Bro. Small." I said, "I
will not have time for this." She said,
"He lives right on the way and very
near. I'll take my bonnet and accom
pany you."
I had just met Bro. Small and was
seated when a strange lady called and
seated near me, she asked a gentleman
present: "How did you like the ad
dress of Mr. Tovell?" If the name had
been Smith or Jones I would have paid
no attention to the inquiry, but the sin
gular name, Tovell, caught my ear. I
asked. "Who is this Tovell?" I was in
formed "He is a preacher the Yankees
sent South for preaching the funeral of
a man they had killed, and he delivered
a lecture about it." I told of the re
quest of his wife and said I must de
liver the message. The house was shown
me where I would find him. I hurried
away, saw a man on the porch, called
to know if his name is Tovell, when
he said, "Yes." I said come and let
me deliver a message. It was a great
comfort to hear about his wife and
daughter.
Who can explain this chain of cir
cumstances leading to such a result,
except It was directed by a gracious
God in His over-ruling providence?
Polytechnic, Texas.
MISSING GOD'S GOOD THINGS.
By the Rev. Garret Honderlink.
There are Christians to-day that have
a feeling of disappointment in their
hearts. They looked for a transforma
tion of life which did not come. They
looked for ecstatic feelings, but never
felt their thrill. Israel also often won
dered why they were not richly blessed.
They even made open complaints to the
prophets of Israel concerning God. They
thought that though they were untrue
and unfaithful to Him, God somehow
was under obligation to endow them
with all the riches of heaven.
To-day we recognize that everything
is conditional. Every promise that
God made to men was conditional. The
condition of being blessed is obedience,
and the individual or the nation that
does not obey God will miss the good
things which God has to give. The
condition for Joy and rest is fellowship
with Jesus Christ. The condition for
freedom from eternal condemnation 1b
being in Christ Jesus. The condition
for victory in a world where men are
meeting with defeat is faith. The con
dition for everlasting life is belief in
the Son of God.
How wondrous are the riches of God!
How these riches do bleps a soul! I
wonder why we folks are such fools
as to value them so little Why do we
strive for everything under the sun ex
cept the riches of God? Why are so
many church members utter strangers
to the highest and choicest of religious
experiences? Why be a spiritual
corpse, when we might vibrate with
health and vitality?
8cme folks are missing God's good
things through ignorance. For exam
ple, those that do not know what prayer
will do for them, will miss the won
drous blessings that prayer will bring.
There was a widow with three children
who was about to be turned out of her
home. She prayed to God for relief.
She told of her plight to a preacher's
wife, who, through poverty, was unable
to help. But she prayed that someone
might be sent with $25 in order that
this poor widow might not be put out
on the street. The godly wife of a
buelnee* man was doing her sewing.
A voice came to her telling her to go
to the preacher's home. She first ques
tioned the voice, Hhe asked God wheth
er It came from Him. A voice told
her to go and to take $21 with her. She
went to the preacher's home, was met
with a radiant face and a cordial hand,
and, before she could say anything,
the preacher's wife said, "I know why
you have come. You have come with
$-'5 to pay the rent of a poor widow
who was this day to have been turned ?
out." It was prayer that kept that
poor widow from being turned out of
doors, but had she and also the preach
er's wife been ignorant of the value
of prayer that day's close would have
found that widow and her few belong
ings out upon the street.
But more often we are deprived of
God's good tilings through our sinful
ness and disobedience. Too many are
pursuing after the world's pleasures,
and through their pursuit are losing
the good things of God. There are old
er Christians to-day that are sorry they
ever pursued after them. If they could
live those early days over again how
different they would be! God is Just
waiting to open the windows of heaven
that he may pour out a blessing that
there shall not be room enough to re
ceive it, and we shall cry out as Moody
once did, and ask God to stop filling
him with blessing.
Some folks miss God's good things
through their companionship. Com
panionships formed in clubs, or in
business, or in society, may be respon
sible for some folks' spiritual leanness.
Lord Chesterfield once said, "I have
known all the pleasures of so-called so
ciety. Others are amateurs and see
the stage from the outside and are
dazzled with the social glare. But I
have been behind the scenes. I have
seen all the coarse pulleys and the dirty
ropes, which exhibit and move all the
gaudy machines, and I do by no means
desire to repeat the nauseous experi
ence." . And yet. In spite of the testi
mony of such a man as Led Chester
field, and the testimony of hundreds of
others that have reveled In society un
til they were satiated thereby, and
turned from It with disgust and abhor
rence, folks do persist in pursuing after
its charms, and thereby miss Qod's
good things.
The Christian life is not always easy.
But neither is work from morning un
til night. Neither Is it easy to over
come all business difficulties. Neither
is it easy to learn to play like an artist,
or sing like an artist, or to paint like
an artist. It may not be easy always
to meet God's conditions for receiving
His good things, but to fight against all
that is evil, and to win a victory over
all that is evil, and to enjoy God's good
things ? such living is great living. ?
Christian Intelligencer.
EFFICIENCY.
Dr. Lyman Abbott wrote some years
ago in answer to a letter from Gil
more, the Model License Liquor Man:
"All physicians are agreed that the ex
cessive use of intoxicating liquor is the
most prolific cause of disease."
"All sociologists are agreed it is the
most prolific cause of poverty." "All
penologists are agreed it is the most
prolific cause of crime.'1 And if he
were writing it to-day he would doubt
less add: "The use of liquor as a bev
erage is the most prolific cause of In
efficiency."
A copper mining company In Ger
many persuaded 1,000 men to sign the
pledge and the output of the men in
creased (25,000 the second year.
The Dresden Bottling Works In Dres
den, Germany, discovered that they
were only doing twenty-nine per cent,
of a day's work on Monday after Sun
day's holiday drinking.
A Pennsylvania coal company said
they could lift 260,000 more tons of
coal in a year were it not for the s a
loon*.
Swedish marksmen were tested and
on alcoholic day* could average only
three hits out of thirty shots st ths tar
get ? ou the other days made twenty
three hits out of thirty shots.
A mountain climber, after drinking
two glasses of hoer, found it took him
twenty-one per cent, longer time to
reach the summit.
Four type-setters were given three
quarters of a tumbler of Greek wine a
day and lost thereby nine and six-tenths
per cent, in efficiency by the end ot
one week.
A number of accountants were given
daily in divided doses, tho equivalent
of three and one-half cups of claret.
After two weeks of this steady, mod
erate alcoholic allowance their average
ability to add one-figure columns had
decreased fifteen and three-tenths per
cent.
Secretary Daniels, of the United
States Navy, stopped the use of liquors
on our warships, but it is not commonly
known that Secretary Daniels took this
action after being shown that we were
sending nearly ten times as many men
to the hospitals for alcoholism in the
American navy as they were in the
British navy, and nearly fifty times as
many as in the German navy, and he
reasoned that if alcohol was sending so
many men to the hospital, it was un
doubtedly rendering inefficient a still
larger number of men who did not get
as far as the hospital, and, in the name
of efficiency, alcohol was banished.
M. Bark, the Russian minister of
finance, says, "The output of Russian
workmen has increased from thirty to
fifty per cent, since the sale of vodka
has been prohibited." ? Herald of Gos
pel Liberty.
A CHURCH MEMBER NOW.
The distribution of 5,000 New
Testaments by Mr. Yung Tao, who de
scribed himself as "not a church mem
ber" on the slip which accompanied
each book, containing a personal mes
sage for the recipient and calling at
tention to the merits of the Bible,
was mentioned in the September Re
view. Now the welcome news has
come of the baptism of Mr. Yung by
Rev. Chauncey Goodrich, D. D.f of
Peking. He writes that Mr. Yung
sent his motor car to take him to the
church service. In the afternoon of
the same day the celebration of the
Bible Society centennial took place
In Peking, and Mr. Yung made an
address, speaking earnestly of the
power of the Bible to change men.
"Half of the expenses of the celebra
tion," Dr. Goodrich concludes, "in
cluding the putting up of the tent,
which seated 4,000 people, were paid
by Mr. Yung. He has lately prom
iBed the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation $4,000 (Mexican) a year for
some of their educational work, and
he has In mind other work for the
church."- ? Missionary Review.
WHY SHOULD THE WORKINGMAN
BE LIQUOR'S "GOAT?"
Hy Charles Stelzle.
There is one outstanding fact with
reference to the groat mass of working
men ? all pay their fair share of the
tax bill In town, county and State. They
aro sure to pay these taxes, because
they must include them in their pay
ment for rent, groceries, clothing, and
about everything else that they buy.
Everybody knows that when taxes are
raised the landlord gets the extra sum
out of his tenants by raising the rent.
The same way with the butcher when
he pays 2c a pound more to the whole
sale butcher ho compels the buyer to
pay about 5c more per pound. The
same way with the coal dealer and
about everybody else with whom the
workinginan does business. The work
ingman is the utlimate payer of the
tax bill of the nation.
But not only docs the workingman
pay his own fair share of the taxes, he
is compelled to pay most of the taxes
of all non-producers. He must pay these
taxes ? no matter who else may evade
their payment, either through shrewd
manipulation or because of sheer in
ability. The Socialists have a fashion
of saying that every workingman car
ries on his back a non-producer. Wheth
er or not this statement is absolutely
accurate it's dead certain that every
workingman's burdens are heavier be
cause there are so many non-producers.
Without regard to others who are non
producers because they have great
wealth ? earned by others ? and, there
fore, need not work for a living, there
are vast numbers of men and women
and children being cared for in Insane
asylums, in penitentiaries, in alms
houses, in hospitals, in orphan asylums,
and in many other kinds of institutions
because of the direct or indirect re
sults of the use of beer and whiskey
and wine.
It has been stated on good authority
that liquor is responsible for 25 per
cent of the poverty, 19 pe^Sent of the
divorces, 25 per cent of the Insanity, 37
per cent of the pauperism, 45 per cent.
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