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responds to it, and God’s spirit can
not truly be made manifest in you
if you are hurrying through His work
with your mind fixed on some tem
poral thing you wish to get to. There
is a fine old verse and text that I love
and that I never lose sight of in my
talking and in my writing, and it
reads thus, “Judge not, lest ye be
not judged.” So I want to have you
know I am not judging you, or criti
cising you, but merely calling your
attention to the modern tendency to
hurry through God’s work and ser
vices; and I now make an earnest ap
peal to you ministers, superintendents,
teachers, workers, to correct, as far
as it lies in your individual power to
do so, this tendency to hurry through
our Work for God; for it is a tendency
that leads further and further away
from the beautiful, spiritual union and
sympathy that should exist and con
stantly abide between God and His
workers.
TESSA W. RODDEY.
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SOME THOUGHTS I LEAVE WITH
YOU.
After all, this is the thing. Not
what he wants us to look like, or ef
fect, or do; but what He would have
us be deep down in our hearts. If we
fulfill this wish, the rest will be easy.
Take care of the fountain, and the
fountain will take care of the stream.
If we want to know Christ’s wishes
we must get them from Him, direct
It is the privilege of a Christian sol
dier to go to headquarters and to
take nothing at second hand. The
Bible is the captain’s order book. It
should be a delightful task to look
over this book, and study the plans
of the campaign, and leave his slight
est wish concerning the soldiers who
have part in it. Perhaps the first in
timation of a wish on the part of
Jesus is in the answer he gave to
John at Jordan, when He said, “Thus
it becometh us to fulfill all righteous
ness,” He seems to add, “This is what
I want you—my people—to have: the
spirit of obedience.” How beautiful
is this spirit in his own life from the
time when he was subject to his par
ents to that hour in Gethsemane when
He said, “Not my will, but thine, be
done.” Go through cne of the gospels
and trace the course of this spirit.
Another intimation of a wish on the
part of Jesus is in the first chapter
of John. Seeing Nathaniel coming to
Him, he says: “Behold an Israelite
indeed, in whom there is no guile.”
And thus I want each of you to be
guileless. He does not often express
a wish in so many words. You must
watch the undercurrent. All the while
He is talking He is thinking of the
hearts of these men whom He is pre
paring for His work. He wants them
to be this and that; to have such a
spirit; such and such qualities of
heart. One of the strongest is that
His disciplies have a forgiving dispo
sition. On every possible occasion He
calls attentin in sme way t this spirit.
Look through His life for these in
stances and study them one by one.
It may not prove pleasant reading,
but it is forgive or die. Forgive or re
main unforgiven. Be friendly to those
whom I love, or you can not remain
my friend.
EDWARD LEIGH PELL.
! “THE BIRD’S FRIENDS.”
By Miss Sadie Cleveland.
A merry crowd of girls and boys
had gone with their teacher, Miss
Douglass, after autumn leaves. They
were students in botany. The woods
were bright and beautiful. Our In
dian summer lasted long, and the
bright sunshine made the sumac and
alder a gorgeous red. The girls clap
ped their hands with joy. They were
the merriest crowd that had gathered
together in a long time.
Suddenly a loud clap of
a lowering cloud gave them warning
that a storm was approaching. Some
of the girls were frightened, for they
were in an oak grove, and they knew
that there was not much safety under
an oak-tree in time of lightning. They
began to hover around Miss Douglass,
and impeded her progress.
“Girls, don’t do that way,” said Her
bert, one of the larger boys. “If you
will all follow me, I will lead you a
short cut through the woods.”
Such a stampede as there was after
Herbert, who guided them all to an
old schoolhouse! As soon as they were
safely in the house the rain fell in
torrents and rattled against the win
dow-panes like marbles.
“Oh! doesn't it look pretty here,
Miss Douglass?” said Anna Moore. “I
was here the other day, and they had
a holiday, and were celebrating ‘Bird
Day.’ See how lovely the room is
decorated with garlands of flowers and
vines! and on the blackboard are
drawn pictures of birds and nests
with the sweet little eggs.”
Miss Douglass explained that the
Secretary of Agriculture had suggested
resolutions for a “Bird Day” holiday,
but few of the states had observed it.
Some of the states where the little
feathered songsters had been almost
exterminated and the drops had been
ruined by the bugs were glad to adopt
it. The students in this school had
formed a society for the protection of
the birds.
“Yes,” said Jennie; “and I am a
member of it; and Sunday I sat in a
pew near Mrs. Lane, who had two lit
tle blackbirds on her hat, and I
thought of our society for the protec
tion of the poor little birds, and mama
promised me next day that she would
endeavor to organize a society for the
same purpose in her neighborhood.”
“Look on. this board,” said Herbert;
“here is an oriole’s nest hanging from
this bough.”
“O look at these dear little brown
winged birds! They look like brown
leaves whirling by,” said Carrie Mell.
“Those are snow birds,” explained
Sam Jones.
Some of the birds were drawn with
colored chalk.
“Oh! isn’t that little wren too sweet
for anything?” said Jennie Rosser, “ft
has built its nest in an old hat up
against that house; and some of the
pupils have drawn it most artistic
ally on the blackboard.”
“And here is a dove,” said Annie
Mosit;” and see! the dove has the
olive-leaf, with the reference; Gene
sis viii. 11.”
“T wonder what this ‘No. 7’ by it
means?” said Rhoda. “Do tell us.
Miss Douglass, what it means!”
“Why yes! the ‘No. 7’ is considered
by some to be a consecrated symbol,
as it is mentioned so frequently in the
Holy Scriptures. You know the inter
vals between the sending out of the
dove the second and third times
was seven days each, and in the sev
enth month the ark arrested on Mount
Ararat. We will find some time all
the references mentioning the num
ber seven.”
“Well isn’t this a curiosity?” said
Lucius: “a bird divided into seven
sections, and each section named and
numbered; and would you ever guess
that there were thirty-four different
sections?”
“Yes; it is wonderful,” said Miss
Douglass. “See there the wood-thrush!
how sweetly it sings! Some one has
compared its notes to a chime of sil
very bells.”
Miss Douglass then told them of a
bird that built its nest near the altar
of a church in a certain town, and
whenever the organ was played the
bird would fly through the church,
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