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SUPPLY IS IN CHRIjT
BY D. W. (’.WIN, D.D.
“My God Hhall snpply all your need,
according to his richea in glory in Chriut
Jeans." Phil iv. 19.
Have you ever, without intending
it and without bis knowing it, over
heard a i-piritual Christian in prayer?
Once the brother of Or. .Janeway
overheard, “in the email hours of
the night,” the doctor wrestling,
like Jacob, with bis Father Hod
“AVrer,” said he, ‘ did I witness
such pleas and pleadings,such bold
ness and humility, such helpless
ness and strength.” Once I over
heard my mother in Virginia pray
ing for me just before we walked
from our home to the church where
I preached. Such prayers ! These
explain the secret of Christian life
and power and victory ! Call the
roll of “the friends of God”? go
down alphabetically, from A to Z,
from Abel, the first saint who en
tered heaven, to Zinzendorf, the
fire-hearted missionary, all lived in
glowing, real companionship with
God, their Redeemer. Such a com
municant at the banquet of the
Lord, with the banner of his love
over him, was the Apostle Paul —
there primarily not as an apostle,
but as “ a sinner saved by grace.’’
iS'o he showed u« his great heart,
and our Lord’s Greatest Heart; so
he pointed us to our high station
and miniatured our grand de-tiny
in heaven ! Every epistle of Paul
is a “red letter,” and (if the figure
be not too strained) every letter is
dyed in the “ blood of Jesus.” and
borne into the soul by the “ Heav
enly Dove, the Holy Spirit.” Every
epistle is starred with great prayers
surcharged with great pleas. One
of these prayers is our text of to
day—its outward form is a promise;
its inner breath is a prayer.
Gathering some of its teachings,
let us consider,
I. EXPERIENCE WITNESSES TO DI
VINE: RELATIONSHIP.
What do we mean by “experi
ence?” Derived from two words
meaning “to try thoroughly.’’ it
means a thorough trial. The Latin
words literally mean “ logo through ”
Experience, then, is living through,
with, or by the obj-ct to which it
relates. Christian experience is
living through or thoroughly with
Christ, or “in Christ.” It is per
sonal, practical acquaintance with
God in Christ; it is spiritual knowl
edge due to trial of Christ. Such
vital union with Christ was Paul’s,
and belongs to every believer.
Paul here says, “ My God shall
supply all your need ... in
Christ Jesus.” The emphasis on
“wiy.” It is as if he says, ‘ ‘ Eure
ka’! I have found my God in
Christ: I have proven him ; I know
whom I have believed ; I have de
posited my soul in his hands and
I am persuaded—a conviction in
grained and fibred in my being—
that he is able to keep that soul and
to glorify it in that day.” A con
viction —a conquering of the soul
by an inwrought divine experience
—like Paul’s in kind, if not in de
gree—is the possession of every true
believer on Christ. God reveals
himself by incarnations, which, as
object-lessons outlined by himself,
may be rejected but never de
stroyed. Chiist Jesus is God’s
unique, supreme, only absolute in
carnation ; but every believer as a
“child of God,” is his minor incar
nation (taking out the feature of
absolute divine personality). What
took place in the birth of Christ
takes place in the new birth of
every Christian : the angel declared
to Mary, “The Holy Ghost shall
come upon thee, and the power of
the Highest shall overshadow thee ;
therefore also that holy thing which
shall be barn of thee shall be called
the Son of God.” So, in a true
sense, we “ become partakers of the
divine nature.” Now, the experi
ence of this relationship in Christ,
laid hold of by faith, is absolutely
unanswerable; it is God’s way of
showing men who he is, what he
does, and who we are. and what we
can do and be. God gives his
case to the jury based on facts, and,
what is so strange, those facts are
folks. Christ points to his disci
pies, saying, “ Ye are my witnesses.”
So many, yet so few (now); so un
like, yet so like; so imperfect, yet
so simple ; so independent, yet so
harmonious. Well has a German
writer said : ‘ Christians are the
world's Bible.” One of them is the
book of Genesis, to tell of God
making new creatures in Chiist
Jesus—he illustrates the beginning
of Christian life; another is Exo
dus, telling how the soul leaves the
darkness and slavery of sin to pil
grim itself to the better land, and
so on. One is a Song of Solomon,
another is a “Lamentation,” one
reflects more of the Old Testament,
another more of the New Testa
ment. All the regenerate, however,
are, at the core of their lives, one
in Christ, having one Captain, one
cause, one faith, are “ one army of
the living God,” fighting the one
good fight, assured that all will be
“conquerors and more than con
querors through him that loves
them.” Who can break such a
chain of evidence, formed by living
links? Who can blot out su?h a
book of testimony, composed of
“living epistles known and read of
all men?” Stand under a massive,
inky cloud. Look : no light there,
no peace there. Look again :it has
burst, it is fading away ; see the
rainbow, holding all possible col
ors in its wondn us arc ! Ask each
co'or whence it came. It echoes
back, ‘ with a mute eloquence
that pasHES speech, ’ its reply,
“ Yonder cun ;” Now go stand be
neath another cloud ; it the dense,
black cloud of lost humanity;
beneath it there is no light; within
it no peace; out of it come ever
the holts of terror and death and
the pitiless shower of woes —so it
covers our globe. But look again :
here and there that cloud is rift
ing; low down next the horizon
the cloud already grown thin begins
to n fleet hues of wondrous beauty
blending into a symmetrical arc;
the cloud drifts; the arc grows
slowly from the south toward the
north. L ok to the northern hor
izon ; behold, another arc is form
ing. Steadily, mrely they grow
towards each other. What will bs
the issue? How our hearts tingle
with the curiosity of hope and
wonder. But still overhead the
clouds, like angry cuttie - fish
massed in the deepest part of the
ocean, threaten to disgorge and to
whelm the world in ruin. Ob,
how long; how lung shall we wait
and watch? Alas! But “wi'h
God a thousand years are as one
day.” The arc is rounding,gleam
ing more brightly because of the
dark background : drop by drop of
inky vapor falls under the power
of yon creating sun. Look again ;
“ Son of man, what seest thou?”
Lo, the whole heavens are arcbed
with blend-d beauties of God’s Sun
of Righteousness. The millenium
has come! Like the sun, each
segment of that bow of humanity,
frescoed upon the bosom of eterni
ly, is globular, brilliant anti beau
tiful, promi-eful, perfect and di
vine. A redeemed man is the ful
filled pledge of God’s redeemed
family. Thus it is that Christians,
like Paul, can speak with such con
fidence. such asmrai ce, such certi
tude of a heaven wrought and
heaven - ensphered experience.
Hear our Chief say —and his
speech becomes the vernacular of
his tribe, “ Verily, verily I say unto
thee; we speak that we do know,
and testify that we seek ” “ Come
and see.” “0, taste anti see.”
Experience tests and testifies, tries
and tells, proves and proffers.
“J/y God—My God in Christ Je
sin—My God who has been true to
me will be true to you I have had
a glimpse into his infinite treasury.
I know what his love urges him
to do, what his wisdom has planned
to do, what His promise, fortified
by His oath, has bound him to do,
what His power enables him to do.
No case among you can be worse
than mine, and I tell you he met
and meets my needs,! and what I
needed and need you need; and
what 1 got some have gotten, all
may get.” So every believer, rest
ing his soul on the bosom of Jesus
can, does, in a greater or less de
gree, according to his fidelity and
the closeness of his fellowship with
Christ, exhibit himself as a trophy
of grace, as a sample of redemp
tion, as a pattern of mercy. So
experience manifestsand witnesses
to the Fatherhood of God in
Christ, to the Brotherhood of man ;
to the preciousness of Christ, to
the hallowing energy and love of
the Spirit of God. Grace received
bespeaks grace reserved; grace
tried affirms grace sufficient; grace
active betokens grace triumphant;
grace for one of the Hock assures
grace for all.
II—DIVINE RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPS
BENEFICENT CHARACTER.
Paul had a profound solicitude
for his brethren, his kinsmen in the
flesh, for the Gentiles to whom he
was specially sent, for saints and for
sinners. Hence, when he was about
to close his connection with these
Philippians, he makes this declara
tion,“My Godshall supply all your
need in Christ Jesus.” This
promis®, and wish as well, origina
ted in God, was fostered by God
and communicated to them by
divine authority. To be a child of
God is to do the will of God ; to
“ work what is well pleasing in
his sight through Christ Jesus.”
God works that we may work;
when he worksinus we work for
him.
Union with God in Christ makes
us godlike,---godlike in thought, in
feeling, in purpose and in action.
As a child of a king deports him
self like his father, so the child of
God represents him. This brings
his character into harmony with
“ whatsoever is true and honest,
and just and pure and lovely and
of good report.” So his Christlike
spirit is charged with pre-eminent
livingness; the quenchless germ
of the Christ-life is within and be
comes the carrier of life and health
to every part of the man. True
manhood springs from the God-
Man who is " formed within as the
hope of glory.” “Ye are complete
in Christ.” The complete God-
Man imparts his all-round com
pleteness to the person who abides
through faith in him _So the
manifold graces of Christ con
struct a character full of benevo
lence, and beneficence. There are
different types of believers : “ Star
differeth from star in glory.” We
are apt to grow onesided ; we are
apt to excuse ourselves on the
plea “ my temperament is different
from yours.” So some justify
rudeness by calling it candor, pas
sionateness by calling it zeal, in
justice to men by calling it loyalty
THE CHRISTIAN
to God. Put it down as a fact. Jf
I don't lovi man, 1 don't love God.
Paul’s beneficent character, be
gotten by God in Christ, showed
itself in these three things: (1)
Sympathy, his heart yearned over
all whom he me’, and all on whom
the curse rested; (2) Sacrifice,
“ Freely he received, freely he
gave.” “He spared not him
self;” bis Lord’s spirit was his;
(3) Service, “Whose I am and
whom 1 serve,” was his motto. So
every child of <» »d must spend and
be spent in his Father’s business.
Doing good is doing God's will.
“Can 1 do God’s will in sweeping
the house, in buying and selling, in
all the commonplaceness of daily
life?” Yes, and if you are never con
scious of doing these things “as
under the eye of the Great Task
mash r,” if you never have as your
supreme motive for doing these
things, conscious obedience to
God’s will, what difference is there
between men ? If you or I never
have had this motive we are not
children of God; and if we never
get this motive it “ were better for
us that we had not been born.”
These are forms that our duty
takes on earth, but these things
will be left behind when we die.
And if we have lived in them, for
them, without God in our life, we
will enter upon the “second death.”
But, if we have done these things
because we recognize them as God’s
appointments or channels through
which worked our supreme motive
to glorify God and our supreme
duty to obey him, then when we
enter eternity we shall take with
us the schooled habit of believing,
loving obedience to God’s will.
God will change the forms and
channels through which we shall
express our acquiescence in his
will. This is the teaching of the
prayer “Thy will be done on earth
as it is done in heaven.” Unless
we train ourselves to do his will on
earth we will never do it in heaven.
Christ as the only Begotten Son of
God did that will perfectly, and he
said : “Whosoever doeth the will of
my Father in heaven, the same is
my mother and brother and sister.”
“And this is the will of God, that
ye believe on his Son whom he
hath sent.” “This is th© will of
God, even your sanctification.”
Divine relationship developes
well being, well-doing, well-living.
111. BENEFICENT CHARACTER COM
MANDS DIVINE FULNESS.
“My God shall supply all your
needs.” Knowing the cause he
knew the effect. Linked with the
central generator of force he could
safely assert what that force would
do. He could “bind” when and
where God ordered him to “ bind.”
The believer becomes “ of
the Holy Grail,” in no sovereign,
efficacious sense, but he is God’s
agent. No pagan prison, from
which Paul wrote this letter, could
fetter his free spirit, “The word of
God is not bound.” Like Eljah
saying to the hostile Syrians at
Dotham, blasted with blindness,
the Christian is empowered both
by authority from his king and by
the irresistible loyalties and sym
pathies of his new life with and in
Christ, to sav to all, “Come. I will
lead you to your Master.” Know
ing the fountain he commands and
commends the stream. Once on
that stream be is assured that it
can never run dry, nor run into a
desert, forjhe knows “That every
thing shall live whither the river
cometh ”
No child of God can do aught
else but urge others to partake of
the feast which he has enjoined
with a satisfaction that is not sat
isfied on the shores of time.
“Come see my Lord.” Like the
Jewish maid, he urges even his foes
to go to the Prophet for healing of
the leprosy of sin. Like Stephen
he prays even for these who are
putting him to death.
“ In Christ all the fulness of God
dwelleth.” “Abide, dwell in him.
“Beverence the divinity within
you.” In touch with God. in affin
ity, alliance with “the King of
Kings,” the child of God holds in
his hands the resources and forces
with which he toils; he draws on
an inexhaustible treasury; he is
weaponed from a divine armory ; he
becomes the depository of almighty
force. “As his day, so his
strength.”
IV. DIVINE FULNESS INSURES FINAL
TRIUMPH.
“ All your need, according to his
riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
What marvelous measure of sup
ply, “according to his riches in
glory ! ” The wealth of God, in
finite. precious, eternal will set his
children “in glory.” the glory of
his church militant, and of his
church triumphant, the glory at
the foot of the Cross, and that at
the foot of the throne.
Need—not want —unsipplied
evokes failure; need supplied
guarantees success. The sense of
highest need is God-wrought, and
therefore God-supplied. How
sweeping is this promise, “All your
need ’ —spiritual needs pre-emi
nently. temporal needs intrument
ally. A profound sense of sin dis
plays our needs; as our view of
sin, so our view of grace. We ever
stand in need of faith and love and
hope and “every Christian grace.”
In the inner world of spiritual life
we find that relationship whose ex
perience and character makes us
conquerors.
“We die daily, we triumph
INDEX: THURSDAY, JULY 16. 1890.
daily.” I can do all things
in Christ Jesus who strengthens
me. Divine hunger and thirst ever
draws us to the “true bread” and
“water of life.” Every soul-in
stinct is satisfied by Christ; every
faculty is brought under his sway ;
every circumstance is threaded
with his purpose; every struggle is
generated by his omnific presence,
and crowning all will surely c me
an eternal victory.
0, see to it that your soul bows
down to two great facts, its
“Need” and its “Supply”
“ Sin ” and “ Grace ” are the two
great facts, themes, words of the
Bible ; and they must be seen and
known in your heart, as God sees
and knows them (in kind if notin
degree). See sin and grace in the
light of God’s Word, in the light of
the Holv Spirit, in the light of the
Cross, in the light of the Mercy
Seat, in the light of the Judgment- •
then “Look on him whom you
have pierced and mourn,”- -then
ever interblend. in your heart of
hearts. “ Repentance towards God
and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.”
For the Indkx.
Like Christ.
By A. B. MacCurdy.
The Apostle John says the time
is coming when we shall be like
Christ, because we shall see him
as he is. John had not only some
favorite words, but he cherished
some favorite feelings. He used
the appellation of “ beloved,” I
think, to as good advantage and
as often as any other apostle.
He knew how to speak it; it
seemed to suit his mode of mind.
He was so kind and amiable that
he obtained the degree of B.D.—
Beloved Disciple?' He was such
a one as all would like to speak
with, and have him call and visit
them. He would, no doubt, be a
favorite with children. If you
want the world turned upside
down—if some great error is to
be confronted and overthrown,
if you would see a kingdom shak
en with a mighty argument, you
would send for Paul, but John’s
mind was more like a garden of
flowers, presenting a variety of
odors and colors, all meek and
odorous, while Paul was more
like a storm in a forest, sallying
forth in crashing power on the
kingdom of anti-Christ.
But leaving this contrast of
gifts, I come to these comforting
words of John: ‘Beloved, now
are we the sons of God, and it
doth not yet appear what we shall
be; but we know that when he
shall appear, we shall be like him,
for we he is.”
can mean'
ing of “a Who can
trace out the ”resemblance be
tween the Father and his second
birth children? Who can enter
the holy of holies and report the
“Abba Father,” spoken there?
“'Tis mystery all immense—and free!
For, 0, my God, thou lovest me!'’
And loved, too as a son ! Ah,
joint heirship with Jesus Christ
involves a relationship the most
extensive and sacred known in
the universe It not only keeps
good all the birthright privileges
of the natural children, but it
also gives to the adopted a title
to that great and grand, and glo
rious inheritance which has more
recently been brought to the
throne by the Redeemer. The
redemption work of Jesus Christ
is a new infinity of derived glory
added to the infinite—an inherit
ance more rich and glorious: more
God revealing than all others,
outweighing in God-glorifying
revenue —the product of eternity
past. If the first rudiments of
the kingdom are so deep in mys
tery, what shall we do with the
higher problems of the science?
If the beginning of Christianity
is inexpressible, what shall we
say of the glorified state? We
cannot say where we shall
be as it relates to center or
circumference, latitude, or lon
gitude, neither can we say
how we shall be. Here we are
silenced by the Apostle. He
says: “It doth not yet appear,”
again“it doth not yelappear what
we shall be.” We do not see our
selves in this glorified condition
except by faith, but one thing is
known, “We shall be like him”
(Christ). This, if I understand
it, seems to make the being like
Christ, the condition of seeing
him as he is. If so, seeing him
means more than to behold him.
It means a perception of him —
yea, more still—a comprehension
of him —a comprehension which
can only be reached by similitude
of nature and experience. For
illustration, we cannot compre
hend the life of a fish, its ex
istence in the water, with its see
ing and breathing, is so far in
contrast with ‘ours as to
forbid our knowledge of his ex
perience. So of the small insect
whose existence lasts but a day,
spending its whole life in climb
ing over a grain of sand,and get
ing lost on the shady side of it'
there to die at evening of old age.
This is too near to nothing for our
knowledge. But, when I see a
man weep, I know there is an
guish. I see him as he is, for I
am like him. So Christ became
poor for our sakes.that he might
experience our poverty, becom
ing so like us that he could suffer
for us and with us. So he will
make us so near like him that we
may glory in his glory. As he
became like us in mortality that
he might experience our death—
so we shall be like him in immor
tality, that we may experience
his life. And as he came and died
among us, so we shall go and live
with him; and eternally live with
him! As he became like unto us
that he might sup with us—O,
what a cup was ours!—drugged
deep and dark with death and
hell!—even so,he will have us so
like him that we can come to his
kingdom and dominion, and sup
with him! Thanks be unto God
for this wonderful, wonderful
firospect, we shall be like him!
ike nim!! like him!!!
Natchez, Miss.
For the Indbx.
Led by the Spirit.
BY MRS. L. RICHARDS.
“For he whom God hath sent
speaketh the words of God; for
God giveth not the Spirit by
measure to him. John 3:34.
If the Lord Jesus Christ was
led by the Spirit in his earthly
ministry, in his humanity, how
much more does fallen and de
praved nature need to be led by
the Spirit?
After his baptism he was led
by the Spirit into the wilderness,
to meet Satan. The very first act
after entering into his work for
mally, and laying himself out to
service, was a hand to hand com
bat with Satan. The Spirit 1 d
him right to Satan and let Satan
try his power, his cunning crafti
ness, just as he had tried it be
fore, so successfully, in the gar
den of Eden, by argument and
temptation.
Tne question may be asked,
“Why was Christ led by the
Spirit into temptation?” If for
no other reason, to show to the
world that Jesus, the Christ,took
upon himself our very nature,and
that there is nothing required of
us more than was required of
him. “In all points tempted like
as we are, and yet without sin.”
It was not his divinity, for “God
cannot be tempted,neither tempt
eth he any man ’ Jas. 1:13. It
was his humanity that was tempt
ed: and it is Satan that tempts.
God permits it, as he permitted
his servant Job to be tried, that
the gold might be purified as by
fire, and the dross consumed,and
God glorified in his works.
The Spirit leads to combat.
This has been exemplified in the
lives of the saints. Need any
who lay themselves out for ser
vice in Christ’s kingdom expect
anything else? kingdom
of God is within you.” Within
the heart is the first battle fought.
The Spirit leads to combat, and
the Spirit, if followed, leads to
victory. “Thanks be unto God
who giveth us the victory through
our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ.” The combat is with the
powers of darkness, in some
shape or form. Peter says:
“Beloved, think it not strange
concerning the fiery trial which
is to try you, but rejoice in so
much as you are partakers of
Christ’s suffering.” On account
ol the weakness of the flesh, we
are taught to pray “lead us not
into temptation,” as away from
evil. The Spirit leads us away
from evil, while the carnal mind
clings to it as its very nature.
“The Spirit lusteth against the
flesh and the flesh against the
Spirit.”
Under the guidance of the
Spirit, “God will not suffer you
to be tempted above that you are
able to bear, but will with the
temptation make way of escape.”
Stand the test as Abraham did.
and a lamb for sacrifice is provid
ed. Submit; be willing to be
led, and the roughest way will
be made easy. Where the Spirit
leads there is safety even through
temptation, through trials,
through adversities.
Who are led by the Spirit?
“There is therefore, now,no con
demnation to them which are in
Christ Jesus, who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
“As many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons
of God.”
How are we to know we are ted
by the Spirit? “The Spirit wit
nessed with our spirits that we
are the children of God.” The fruit
of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
etc. “They that are Christ’s have
crucified the flesh with the affec
tions and lusts.”
In what way does the Spirit
lead? In the way of truth—in the
way that is full of light. “Thy
word is a lamp unto my feet and
a light unto my path.”
May we not be mistaken as to
whose leadership we are under?
‘ Beloved, believe not every spiriq
but try the spirits whether they
are of God.” If it were possi
ble, the very elect would be de
ceived. Satan is deception- itself,
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By Walter N Wyeth. D D. 3990
Fairmount avenue, Philadelphia,
200 pages. Price, 75 cents
This is the seventh in the series of
“memorials’' of pioneer work and work
ers in the missions of the Northern Bap
tist missionary societies. It is not only
a readable but an exceedingly interest
ing oook, and instructive as well. Dr.
Wyeth has gathered his materials from
many sources and woven them together
in very attractive style. His account of
the Cherokee and other tribes, now in
eluded in the “civilized” tribes of the
Indian Territory, is especially interest
ing. It has surprised us to see how he
has succeeded in ignoring, to a very
large degree, the work of Southern Bap
tists among these tribes. But as he
was dealing with the works of one body
we suppose he did not feel it his duty to
notice those which were done by an
other, and rival, body. This makes it a
very partial account of Baptist work
among the Indians but as far as it goes
it is good.
Southern Writers .Joel Chandler
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This is the first of twelve studies of
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remaining volumes equal this, the se
ries will be very valuable Maurice
Thompson will be the subject of the
second little book.
The Forum. July. The Forum Pub
fishing Co.. New York. Price 25 cts.
$3 00 year.
As usual there are many papers of
great interest in this number. One on
Jefferson and his Party will be read
with more than usual interest It is
written by Ex-Governor Russell, and it
may easily be imagined that its argu
ments are for gold. ' The Present
Outlook as Europeans View it,” by a
French writer.is an evidence of the lack
of knowledge of our affairs abroad, it
is absurdly inaccurate. Baron De
Hirsch proves a most interesting per
sonality in a short sketch, while “Mr.
Cleveland’s Second Administration is
an appreciative summary of the last
three years. Theodore Roosevelt as a
Historian, is by a Southern man. W. P'
Trent,of the University of the South It
will call deserved attention to the work
of a man of varied talents. “ Substi
tntes for the Saloon" gives a study of
the various devices to supplant the sa
loon by catering to the social needs of
men. It contains valuable facts.
North American Review. North
American Review Co., New York
50 cts. #5 00 a year.
•• The Right of Privacy’’ is a most
timely discussion of the legal right to
our own selves and our doings. Max
O'Rell has a characteristic article on
"Petticoat Government,” in which he
makes eome strictures on the influence
of woman in American life. Mrs. Spof
sered and Mis Bottome reply to him
and show a better knowledge of real
facts than the witty Frenchman. A
Common Coinage for all Nations” is
timely, while ' The Declaration of In
dependence in the Light of Modern
Criticism ” by M. C. Taylor, will inter
eat all students of history and politics.
Cardinal Gibbons contributes a paper
on • ■ The Teacher's Duty to the Pupil, ’
but we do not see that it displays any
thing like his wonted vigor.
The Atlantic Monthly. July.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston,
Mass. Price 35 cts #4.00 a year.
This is an unusually fine number. In
addition to its regular installment of
fiction and the comments on new books,
it has some articles of unusual value.
E L Godkin contributes one on “The
Real Problem of Democracy. ” This in
part a review of Lecky srecent work on
“ Democracy and Liberty." A Century’s
Progress in Science, by John Fiske, is
very suggestive. Two related articles
are “ Arbitration and our relations with
England," and "The United States and
the Anglo Saxon Future.” The series of
investigations in public school matters
gives us “Confession of Public School
Teachers,” Taken all in all, this is an
unusually attractive number.
The Chautauquan. July. Price $2.00
a year.
With thesummer months the readings
and studies peculiar to the Chautauqua
courses disappear from The Chau
tauquan and more general reading
take their place. F r.miner, t among
others are Chinese Labor Unions in
America, Beverages and Music from
the standpoint of Sociology. A short
sketch of Harriet Tubman, a negro wo
man prominent in the underground
railroad release of slaves, will be read
with interest. The coming session of
the Chautauqua assemblies is fully out
lined and beautifully illustrated.
McClures Magazine. A. C. Mc-
Clure Co., Lim’d. New York. Price 10
cts SIOO a year.
Kipling in India will be welcomed by
the many admirers of this writer.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps continues her
autobiography, dealing with Longfel
low. Whittier and • Holmes The Edge
of the Future or the Horseless Carriage,
gives full illustrations and descriptions
of this growing type of vehicle. The
Lincoln papers give his career as a law
yer in Springfield. “ Phroso ” the story
by Anthony Hope, keeps up its interest.
The Century for July opens with a
very interesting article on St. Peter’s
by F. Marion Crawford W. D Howells
begins a serial, entitled "An Open-eyed
Conspiracy; An Idyl of Saratoga.
“Glimpse of Venezuela and Guiana,”
with accompanying maps, enable the
reader to get a clear idea of the bounda
ries under dispute between the two
countries, and condition of the people
and prospects of the country itself. The
' Life of Napoleon Bonaparte” and “Sir
George Tressady” are continued, as is
The
IR/iSilO Bane
A Beauty.
Beauty’s bane is®
the fading or falling of
the hair. Luxuriant
tresses are far more to the
matron than to the maid whose casket
of charms is yet unrifled by time.
Beautiful women will be glad to be
reminded that falling or fading hair
is unknown to those who use
Ayer’s Hair Vigor.
also Mr. Bryce’s very interesting articles
on South Africa Fiction and story
make up the balance of a good issue.
News and Notes.
Rev 8. H Ford has a number of ar
ticles on the question of English Bap
tists and their preachers in the July
number of Ford'll Christian Repository. It
can be obtained by sending 25 cents to
him at St. Louie, Mo.
We have received the second volume
of the Living Topics Cyclopedia pub
lished by Johnß Alden, 10 and 12 \ an
dewater street, New York. The two
volumes cost only #l, and are full or
facts. This volume goes ae far as
Greece. It is up to date, brief and use
ful
D. Appleton & Co. publish a new edi
tion of Mrs. McHatten Replev’s "From
Flag to Flag.” It is a picture of the
war in the South, in Cuba, and in Mex
ico. It wid beof special interest now.
Results.
Many a boy goes out from a
pious home into the world, and
falling in with others equally
thoughtless —or reckless —fre
quents saloons and indulges in
the sham pleasures of those re
sorts, without stopping to com
pute what the possible and prob
able results of such a course may
be.
One of the first results will be
the loss of that integrity with
which he left the parental roof
tree. Losing that gem—and he
will pay it for his first “spree”—
he will find himself so much less
free, so much less his own mas
ter, and will sensibly sink in his
own respect as well as in the es
teem of others. Companions in
wrong doing never have for one
another that exalted respect sub
sisting between comrades in vir
tue, and it will not take long for
disrespect to cause another and a
worse plunge into the pool of in
temperance.
Sometimes the result is total
wreck for life. In fact it is rarely
otherwise. Step after step in the
slippery path is taken, until the
brilliant, promising boy is only
an outcast, scarcely a shadow of
the lad who started on the road
to perdition.
There are instances where
young men have reformed after
a few years of intemperance,
thereafter leading lives of sobri
ety. But in every instance a scar
has remained—a result has abid
ed. One young man who re
formed never dared taste a drop
of liquor in all thefoity five sub
sequent years of his life. The
result of an early indulgence was
loss of confidence in his own abil
ity to resist temptation in this
form, and the dread of lapsing
never left him for a day. Think
what it means to live always in
the shadow of a fear such as this,
and hesitate before you take the
first step toward its realization.
—Christian Herald.
Total abstinence from the use
of intoxicating drinks is not only
conducive to health but promotes
longevity. Rev. J. Read, for
many years a missionary in Af
rica, gives this testimony. “I
have been a teetotaler nearly the
whole of my life: lam now
in the seventy-second year of my
age, fifty-one of which I have
been a missionary, nearly forty
nine in Africa; I have traveled
much and worked hard, not only
in preaching, but at times at
manual labor, and never found
any need of stimulants, and am
still able to take my full share of
labor, nearly as much as twenty
years ago. I can still ride forty
miles a day without inconveni
ence.”
A certain lady had met with a
very serious accident, which ne
cessitated a very painful surgical
operation and many months of
confinement to her bed. When
the physician had finished his
work and was taking his leave,
the patient asked:
“Doctor, how long shall I have
to lie here helpless?”
“Oh, only one day at a time,”
was the cheery answer, and the
poor sufferer was not only com
forted for the moment, but many
times during the succeeding wea
ry weeks did the thought, “Only
one day at a time,” come back
with its quieting influence. — New
York Observer.
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