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SYNOPSIS.
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At a vestry meeting of the Market
Square church Gail Sargent tells Rev.
Smith Boyd that Market Square church
is apparently a lucrative business enter
prise. Allison takes Gail riding in his
motor car. She finds cold disapproval in
the eyes of Rev. Smith Boyd. Allison
starts a campaign for consolidation and
control of the entire transportation sys
worl<J- Gail becomes popular.
Allison gains control of transcontinental
traffic and arranges to absorb the Ved
oer court tenement property of Market
Square church. Gail tells Boyd that the
oathedral Market Square church proposes
to build will be out of profits wrung from
squalor. At a meeting of the seven finan
cial magnates of the country, Allison or
ganizes the International Transportation
^pm,P an y. , Rev - Smith Boyd undertakes
Gail s spiritual instruction and 'Gall un
consciously gives Allison a hint that solves
the Vedder court problem for him. On
an Inspection trip in Allison’s new sub
way the tunnel caves in. Gail goes back
to her home in the West. Her friends lure
an< Arly back to New York. In the
S A of a struggle with the dregs of hu-
In Vedder court Rev. Smith Boyd
suddenly .finds that he is a real living
and loving—man. He proposes to Gail
out. on the verge of acceptance, she re
members their religious differences, and
refuses.
CHAPTER XVII.
The Public Is Aroused.
Clad in her filmy cream lace gown,
Gail walked slowly into her boudoir,
and closed the door, and sank upon
her divan. She did not stop tonight to
let down her hair and change to her
dainty negligee, nor to punctiliously
straighten the room, nor to turn on
the beautiful green light; instead, with
all the electric bulbs blazing, she sat
with her chin in her hand, and, with
her body perfectly in repose, tried to
study the whirl of her mind.
She was shaken, she knew that,
shaken and stirred as she had never
been before. Something in the depths
of her had leaped up into life, and j
cried out in agony, and would not stop
crying until it was satisfied.
“I need you to walk hand in hand
with me about the greatest work in
the world!” That was it; the greatest
work in the world! And what was
that work? To live and teach ritual
in place of religion; to turn worship
into a social observance; to use help I
less belief as a ladder of ambition; •
to reduce faith to words, and hope to i
a recitation, and charity to an obliga
tion; to make pomp and ceremony a
substitute for conscience, and to inter
pose a secretary between the human :
heart and God!
For just an instant Gail’s eyelids [
dropped, her long brown lashes curved
upon her cheeks, while beneath them
her eyes glinted, and a smile touched
the corners of her lips; then she was
serious again. No, she had decided
wisely.
There was a knock on the door, and
Gail smiled again as she said:
“Come in.”
Mrs. Helen Davies entered, tall and
stately in her boudoir frills and
ruffles. She sat down in front of Gail
and prepared to enact the role of con
scientious mother.
“Doctor Boyd proposed to you to
night,” she charged, with affectionate
authority.
“Yes, Aunt Helen,” and Gail began
to pull pins out of her hair.
A worried expression crossed the
brow of Aunt Helen.
"Did you accept him?” and she fair
ly quivered with anxiety.
"No, Aunt Helen.” Quite calmly,
piling more hairpins and still more
into the little tray by her side, and
shaking down her rippling waves of
hair.
Aunt Helen sighed a deep sigh of
relief, and smiled her approval.
“Gail, dear, you have shown a de
gree of carefulness which I am de-
I lighted to find in you. If you handle
all your affairs so sensibly, you have
a brilliant future before you.”
“I must be an awful worry to you,
I Aunt Helen,” observed Gail, and walk-
I ing over, she slipped her arm around
I Mrs. Davies’ neck and kissed her and
I looked around for her chocolate box.
I Gail’s maid came in, and Mrs. Da-
I vies bade her sister’s niece good
I night most cordially, and retired with
I a great load off her mind; and half
I an hour later the lights in Gail’s
I pretty little suite went out.
| If she lay long hours looking out at
I the pale stars; if, in the midst of her
I calm logic, she suddenly buried her
I face in her pHlows and sobbed silent
fl ly; if, toward morning, she awoke
I with a little cry to find her face and
■ her hands hot, all these things were
■ but normal and natural. It is enough
■ to know that she came to her break-
I fast bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked and
■ smiling with the pleasant greetings of
■ the day, and picked up the papers
I casually, and lit upon the newest sen
fl satlon of the free and entirely un
■ curbed metropolitan press!
I The free and entirely uncurbed met
■ ropolitan press had found Vedder
■ court and had made it the sudden
■ focus of the public eye. Those few
■ who were privileged to know inti
■mately the workings of that adroit
■master of the public welfare, Tim Cor
■man, could have recognized clearly
■his fine hand in the blaze of notoriety
■which obscure Vedder court had sud
■denly received. After having en
■dured the contamination and conta
■glon of the Market Square church ten-
ements for so many years, the city
had, all at once, discovered that the
condition was unbearable! The free
and entirely uncurbed metropolitan
press had taken up, with great enthu
siasm, the work of poking the finger
of scorn at Vedder court. It had pub
lished photographs of the disreputable
old sots.of buildings, and, where they
did not seem to drip enough, the
artists had retouched them. It had'
sent budding young Poes and Dick
enses down there to W'rite up the
place. It had sent the sob sisters
there in shoals to interview the down
trodden, and, above all things, it had
put prominently before the public eye
the immense profit which Market
Square church wrung from this or
ganized misery!
Gail turned sick at heart as she
read. Uncle Jim permitted four
। morning papers to come to the house,
and the dripping details, with many
variations, were in all of them. She
glanced over tow’ard the rectory and
the dignified old church standing be
yond it, with mingled indignation and
humiliation. A sort of ignominy
seemed to have descended up it, like
a man whose features seem coarsened
from the instant he is doomed to wear
prison stripes; and the fact which she
particularly resented was that a por
tion of the disgrace of Market Square
church seemed to have descended
upon her. She could not make out
w’hy this should be; but it was. Aunt
Grace Sargent, bustling about to see
that Gail w’as supplied with more
kinds of delicacies than she could pos
sibly sample, saw that unmistakable
look of distress on Gail’s face, and
went straight up to her sister Helen,
j the creases of worry deep in her brow.
“Mrs. Helen Davies was having her
coffee in bed, and she continued that
absorbing ceremony while she con
sidered her sister’s news.
“I did not think that Gail was-so
deeply affected by the occurrences of
last night,” she mused; “but of course
■ Omi
"Doctor Boyd Proposed to You To
night,” She Charged.
she could not sleep, and she’s full of
sympathy this morning, and afraid
that maybe she made a mistake, and
feels perfectly wretched.”
Grace Sargent sat right down.
"Did the rector propose?” she
breathlessly inquired.
Mrs. Davies poured herself some
more hot coffee, and nodded.
“She refused him.”
“Oh!” and acute distress settled on
Grace Sargent’s brow, with such a
firm clutch that it threatened to
homestead the location. Mrs. Sar
gent shared the belief of Rev. Smith
Boyd’s mother, that Smith Boyd was
the finest young man in the world; and
Gail’s aunt was speechless with dis
may and disappointment.
“I have ceased to worry about Gail’s
future,” went on Mrs. Davies compla
cently. “It is her present condition
about which I am most concerned.
She is so conscientious and self-ana
lytical that she may distress herself
over this affair, and 1 must get in Arly
and Lucile, and plan a series of gay
eties which will keep her mind occu
pied from morning until night.”
In consequence of this kindly deci
sion, Gail was plunged into gayety un
til she loathed the scrape of a violin!
The mere fact that she had no time to
think did not remove the fact that she
had a great’deal to think about, and
the gayety only added dismally to her
troubled burden.
Meanwhile, the free and entirely un
curbed metropolitan press went mer
rily onward with its righteous Vedder
court crusade, until it had the public
indignation properly aroused. Tho
public indignation rose to such a
pitch that, if the public had not been
busy with affairs of its own. and if it
had not been in the habit of leaving
everything to be seen to by the people
financially interested, and if it had
not consisted chiefly of a few active
THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
vocal cords, there Is not the slightest
doubt, it is worth repeating, that the
public might have done something
about Vedder court! As things were,
it grew most satisfactorily indignant.
It talked of nothing else, in the sub
ways and on the “L’s” and on the sur
face lines, and on the cindery com
muter trains; and on the third day
of the agitation, before something else
should happen to shake the populace
to the very foundation of its being, the
city authorities condemned the Ved
der court property as unsanitary, in
human and unsafe, as a menace to the
public morals, health and life, and as
a blot upon civilization; this last be
ing a fancy touch added by Tim Cor
man himself, who, in his old age, had
a tendency to link poetry to his prac
ticability. In consequence of this de
cision, the city authorities ordered
Vedder court to be forthwith torn
down, demolished and removed from
the face of the earth; thereby justify
ing, after all, the existence of the free
and entirely uncurbed metropolitan
press! The exact psychological mo
ment had been chosen. The public,
caught at the very height of its frenzy,
applauded, and ate its dinner in virtu
ous satisfaction; and Gail Sargent’s
distress crystallized into a much eas
ier thing to handle; just plain anger!
And so Market Square church had
persisted in clutching its greedy hold
on a commercial advantage so vile
that even a notoriously corrupt city
government had ordered it destroyed!
Her mind was immensely relieved
about Rev. Smith Boyd. She had
chosen well and wisely!
CHAPTER XVIII.
Rev. Smith Boyd Protests.
The doves which in summer flitted
about the quiet little vestry yard, and
cooed over the vestry door, would
have flown away had they been at
home; for it was a stormy affair, with
loud voices and clashing wills and a
general atmosphere of tensity, which
was somewhat at variance with the
red-robed figure of the Good Shepherd
in the pointed window of the vestry.
The late arrival was Josepn G. Clark,
and his eye sought that of Banker
Chisholm, before he nodded to the oth
ers and took his seat at the Gothic
table. Rev. Smith Boyd, who was
particularly straight and tall today,
and particularly in earnest, paused
long enough for the slight disturb
ance to subside, and then he finished
his speech.
“That is my unalterable position in
the matter,” he declared. “If Market
Square church has a mission, it is
.the responsibility for these miserable
human wrecks whom we have made
our wards.”
“We can’t feed and clothe them,”
objected Banker Chisholm, whose
white mutton chops already glowed
pink from the anger-reddened skin be
neath.
“It doesn't pay to pauperize the
people," supplemented Willis Cun
ningham, stroking his sparse Vandyke
complacently. Cunningham, whose
sole relationship to economics con
sisted in permitting his secretary ■to
sign checks, had imbibed a few prin
ciples which sufficed for all occasions.
“I do not wish to pauperize them,”
returned the rector. "I am willing to
accept the shame of having the city
show Market Square church its duty,
in exchange for the pleasure of re
placing the foul tenements in Ved
der court with clean ones.”
Joseph G. Clark glanced again at
Chisholm.
“They’d be dirty again in ten
years,’’ he observed. “If we build the
new type of sanitary tenement we
shall have to charge more rent, or not
make a penny of profit; and we can't
get more rent because the people who
would pay it will not come into that
neighborhood."
“Are we compelled to make a
profit?” retorted the rector. “Is it nec
essary for Market Square church to
remain perpetually a commercial land
lord?"
The vestry gazed at Rev. Smith
Boyd in surprised disapproval. Their
previous rector had talked like that,
and Rev. Smith Boyd had been a great
relief.
“So long as the church has property
at all, it will meet with that persistent
charge,” argued Chisholm. “It seems
to me that we have had enough of it.
My own inclination would be to sell
the property outright, and take up
slower, but less personal, forms of
investment.”
Old Nicholas Van Ploon. sitting far
enough away to fold his hands com
fortably across his tight vest, screwed
his neck around so that he could glare
at the banker.
“No,” he objected; for the Van
Ploon millions had been accumulated
by the growth of tall office buildings
out of a worthless Manhattan swamp
“We should never sell the property."
“There are a dozen arguments
against keeping it," returned the nasal
voice of old Joseph G. Clark. “The
chief one is the necessity of making
a large investment in these new tone
ments ”
Rev. Smith Boyd rose again, shut
ting the light from the red robe of
' the Good Shepherd out of quietly con
centrated Jim Sargent's eyes.
“I object to this entire discussion,"
he stated. "We have a moral obliga
tion which forbids us to discuss mat
ters of investment and profit within
these walls as iPwe were a lard trust.
We have neglected our moral obliga
tion in Vedder court, until we are as
blackened with sin as the thief on the
cross."
Shrewd old Rufus Manning looked
at the young rector curiously. He was
puzzled over tho change in him.
"Don't swing the pendulum too far.
Doctor Boyd," Manning reminded him,
1 with a great deal of kindliness. These
two had met often in Vedder court.
“Our sins, such as they are, are more
passive than active.”
It was, of course, old Nicholas Van
Ploon who fell back again on the '
stock argument which had been quite
sufficient to soothe his conscience for i
all these years.
“We give these people cheaper rent '
than they can find anywhere in the !
city.”
“We should continue to do so, but in i
cleaner and more wholesome quar- i
ters,” quickly returned the rector
“This is the home of all these poverty
stricken people whom Market Square
church has taken under its shelter,
and we have no right to dispose of it.”
“That’s what I say," and Nicholas
Van Ploon nodded his round head.
“We should not sell the property.”
“We cannot for shame, if for noth
ing else." agreed the rector, seizing
on every point of vantage to support
his intense desire to lift the Vedder i
court derelicts from the depth of their
degradation. "We lie now under the
disgrace of having owned property so
filthy that the city was compelled to
order it torn down. The only way in
which we can redeem the reputation
of Market Square church is to replace
those tenements with better ones, and
imp
I MIC/ I
I W ‘ wgac
She Came Into the Little Reception
“Cosy” to Meet Allison.
conduct them as a benefit to the
people rather than to our own pock
ets.”
“That's a clever way of putting it,”
commended Jim Sargent. "It’s time
we did sqpiething to get rid of our
disgrace," and he was most earnest
about it. He had been the most un
comfortable of all these vestrymen in
the past few days; for the disgrace
of Market Square church had been a
very reliable topic of conversation in
Gail Sargent's neighborhood.
The nasal voice of smooth-shaven
old Joseph G. Clark drawled into the
little silence which ensued.
“What about the cathedral?" he j
asked, and the hush which followed I
was far deeper than the one which j
he had broken. Even Rev. Smith Boyd 1
was driven to some fairly profound :
thought. His bedroom and his study |
were lined with sketches of the stu- I
pendously beautiful cathedral, the
most expensive in the world in which
he was to disseminate the gospel.
“Suppose we come back to earth,”
resumed Clark, who had built the
Standard Cereal company into a mon
opoly of all the breadstuffs by that i
process. “If we rebuild we set our
selves back in the cathedral project
ten years. You can’t wipe out what
you call our disgrace, even if you
give all these paupers free board and
compulsory baths. My proposition is
to telephone for Edward E. Allison, !
and tell him we're ready to accept
his offer."
“Not while I'm a member of this
vestry," declared Nicholas Van Ploon,
swiveling himself to defy Joseph G.
Clark “We don't sell the property.”
“I put Mr. Clark's proposition as a
motion," jerked W. T. Chisholm, and
in the heated argument which en
sued, the Good Shepherd in the win- !
dow, taking advantage of the shifting j
sun, removed from the room the light 1
of the red robe.
In the end, the practical-minded j
members won over the sentimental- ,
ists, if Nicholas Van Ploon could be
classed under that heading, and Alli- ;
son was telephoned. Before they
were through wrangling over the de
cision to have him meet them. Alli
son was among them. One might al
most have thought that he had been
waiting for the call; but he ex
changed no more friendly glances
with Clark and Chisholm, of the new .
International Transportation com- I
pany, than he did with any of the !
others.
"Well, Allison, we’ve decided to ac
cept your offer for the Vedder court *
property,” stated Manning.
"I haven't made you any. but I’m ;
willing," returned Allison.
Jim Sargent drew from his pocket
a memorandum slip.
"You offered us a sum which, at j
three and a half per cent, would ac- ,
crue, in ten years, to forty-two mil
lion dollars." he reminded the presi
dent of the Municipal Transportation
company. “That figures to a spot-cash
proposition of thirty-one millions, with
a repeating decimal of one; so some
body will have to lose a cent."
"That offer is withdrawn." said Al
lison.
"I don't see why." objected Jim Sar
gent. “The property is as valuable for
your purpose as it ever was."
“I don't dispute that; but in that
offer I allowed you for the income
earning capacity of your improved
I property. Since that capacity is
' stopped, I don't feel obliged to pay you
for it. or, in other words, to make up
| to you the loss which the city has com
i pelled you to sustain.”
“There is some show’ of reason in
' what Allison says,” observed Joseph G.
' Clark.
| Chisholm leaned forward, with his
1 elbows on the table, around the edge
of which were carved the heads of
winged cherubs.
“What is your present offer?”
“Twenty-five million; cash.”
“We refuse!" announced Nicholas
Van Ploon, bobbing his round head
emphatically.
“I’m not so sure that we do,” re
turned Clark. “I have been studying
property values in that neighborhood,
! and I doubt if we can obtain more.”
“Then we don’t sell!” insisted
Nicholas Van Ploon.
"I scarcely think we wish to take up
this discussion with Mr. Allison until
we have digested the offer.” observed
the quiet voice of Manning, and, on
this hint, Allison withdrew.
He smiled as he heard the voices
which broke out in controversy the
I moment he had closed the door behind
him. Being so near, he naturally called
■ on Gail Sargent, and found her enter-
I taining a little tea party of the gayest
j and brightest whom Aunt Helen Da-
I vies could bring together.
She came into the little reception
I “cozy" to meet Allison, smiling with
pleasure. There seemed to be a de
gree of wistfulness in her greeting
of her friends since the night of her
return.
“Os course I couldn’t everlook an op
portunity to drop in,” said Allison,
shaking he? by both hands, and hold
ing them while he surveyed her criti
cally. There was a tremendous com
fort in his strength.
“So you only called because you
were in the neighborhood,” bantered
Gail.
“Guilty,” he laughed. “I’ve just been
paying attention to my religious du
ties.”
"I wasn’t aware that you knew you
had any,” returned Gail, sitting in the
shadow of the window jamb. Allison’s
eyes were too searching.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
TIN HAT IS INNOVATION
Designer Puts Forth Many Reasons
Why It Should Be Accepted as
an Article of Attire.
The latest innovation in men’s ap
parel has been sprung by W. H.
Whiting of Jonesboro, Me. It is a tin
hat, with a band made of copper. He
fashioned the natty headpiece him
self. It is not only very light in
weight, but he claims that it is cheap
er than a straw “bonnet," lasts longer
and is absolutely rainproof.
Whiting's tin hat has a luster all
its own, something that takes the
shine off all other hats. It is more
showy than Mambrino’s helmet, made
famous by Don Quixote. Whiting s i
। hat is made of tin, common sheet tin. j
I the same kind of tin that baked beans j
। and sardines and tomatoes are put in.
It is built on a 1915 model and no
। fashionable youth of the town can I
' "put anything over" on him in the ■
: matter of style. It is neat, but not I
। gaudy, a tin body with a copper band. :
' not quite as brilliant as a ribbon with ’
I college colors, but more substantia! I
and quite as attractive. At least, it j
attracts plenty of attention when i
Whiting wears it on the streets.
BUYS DOG TO RECOVER RING
Man Kills Animal and Finds His S2OO
Gem in Stomach, as He
Had Suspected.
While William A. Thompson was
| trying to drive a pup away from him
the animal closed on his fingers and
pulled off and swallowed a S2OO dia- |
mond ring. Mr. Thompson was not ;
certain what had become of the ring. I
but when he failed to find it he sus
pected the dog He bought the ani
mal. nominally a ten-cent pup, from
H. R. Rogers, the negro owner, for
$lO after much parley, took the dog
i home, killed him and found the dia- '
mond ring in his stomach.
He was luckier than a man in a
। neighboring town who owned a valu
| able vase, a family heirloom. His dog
I poked his head into the neck of the
; vase and it stuck. The owner cut off ,
■ the dog’s head to save the vase and '
1 then had to break the vase to get out
the dog’s head to bury it.—Beckley
(W. Va.) Dispatch to New Yr.k
World
Mobilizing Brains.
Some world-famous names appear
I on the list of the consulting panel
I which has been added to the inven
। tions board. Sir William Crookes, O.
j M„ discovered thallium and invented
i the radiometer, among other valuable
I services to science, and has written
; books on such diverse subjects as
1 beet sugar, dyeing, calico printing and
: fertilizers. Sir Oliver Lodge is a high
| authority on wireless telegraphy and
: other matters. The other names are
' equally distinguished and show that
! England has at last waked up to the
I necessity of mobilizing the brains of
the nation.
Argentine Wines.
Production of wine in Argentina is
one of the most important industries
of the country. in 1913 the record
production of 110.090.000 gallons was
reached. Practically all of the wine
, produced in Argentina i- of a common
variety, and for table use only. The
exportation of Argentine wines is very
limited.
iNIDWIONAL
SIJIWSffIOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
Sunday School Course of Moody Bible
Institute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1915, Western Newspaper Union.>
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 14
DANIEL IN THE KING’S COURT.
LESSON TEXT—Daniel 1:8-15, 19. 20.
GOLDEN TEXT—Watch ye. stand fast
in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
-I Cor. 16:13.
This familiar story has been select
ed for the “World’s Temperance Sun
day’ —it is the first record of his
Babylonian experiences and is an il
lustrious example of those everlasting
principles which govern a successful
life.
I. Daniel’s Position, vv. 1-7. Ne
buchadnezzar, on the death of his
father, returned to Babylon from be
sieging Jerusalem to take the throne.
He carried with him Jehoiakim and a
number of young men, “in whom was
no blemish” (14). They were perhaps
twelve years old. Among these were
four who had been particularly se
lected for pious training and the name
of each is compounded with the name
of God; Daniel’s meaning—“God is my
judge.” They are now alone in a
licentious heathen palace and abso
lutely at the power of the king and
his court. Their names are now
changed; Daniel becomes Belteshaz
zar —“favored of Bel.” Such changing
of names is customary in most heath
en or Mohammedan lands even today.
A still greater danger or temptation
confronts these young men, viz., that
the king appointed them "a daily por
tion of the king’s meat” (Am. Rev. v.
5). To refuse to eat invited ridicule
and perhaps loss of life, but to eat
was to break the Jewish law as to
food (Deut. 12:23-25). See also (I
Cor. 8:7-10; 10:27-28). Their captiv
ity had been foretold (II Kings 20:17),
but a change of location and name
does not involve a change of heart as
many a tempted one has discovered.
These men in spite of natural appe
tites, danger of being thought pecu
liar, or even gratitude to king for lives
preserved refused to eat the king’s
meat and to drink his wine.
11. Daniel's Purpose, 13:13. The
real purpose of a man's heart not
alone governs his acts but reveals
what he is—God looks upon that when
he judges men (II Cor. 9:7; 8:12;
Luke 16:15). “Without will (purpose)
there is no character ” (Acts 11:23).
Daniel purposed “in his heart ’ not to
defile “himself." Nc compromise, no
trimming because of being away from
home, no partnership with the rich
and opulent court. Daniel was to be
“as clean as a hound’s tooth.” Men
who dare to stand alone always find
; co-operation, so Daniel found those
who stood by him (v. 12). Daniel ex
ercised great tact in his dealings with
the prince of the eunuchs but God
had evidenced his protecting and lead
ing care (v. 9) enabling him to win
' his way and persuade the eunuch to
allow the suggested test (v. 12). If
; Christian workers would exercise
I more tact they would more frequently
attain their desired ends (Luke 16:8).
, It is possible to be so unbendingly
puritanical as to lay us open to a
\ charge of Pharisaical pride. Daniel
illustrates spotless purity, inflexible
loyalty mingled with a sweet reason
ableness that always gains its ends.
Daniel had sufficient confidence in his
God and faith in his actions to be will
ing to be submitted to the acid test
of experience. His was a religion
that could stand without being tied.
111. Daniel's Profit (Reward), vv. 14-
21. Pulse denotes such vegetables as
beans and peas. Their diet was tc be
a general vegetable one. Samson as
a Nazarite drank no wine. This age
has yet to fully comprehend the
reasonableness and efficacy of those
ancient Jewish laws of sanitation and
diet. Myriads of men are today dig
ging their graves with their teeth.
The result of this test was that Daniel
i and his companions were delivered
; from transgressing God’s laws and
the prince of the eunuchs from being
punished bcause of the physical con
dition of his charges. Beauty, health,
and strength came to Daniel and his
. friends with the result of preferment.
' position, and influence at court (v.
19). They “stood before the king.”
(Rom. 14:10-12: I Cor. 3:10-15; II Cor.
5.9); (a) because of their unswerving
loyalty to God and obedience to his
Word (John 14-15: 16:26 R. V.); (b)
because of their life of prayer, for it is
the work of the Holy Spirit to give
unto us wisdom (Luke 2:15. Acts 6:
10) even as Daniel was thus blessed
(v. 17) the spirit bestows diverse gifts
(I Cor. 12:1-4-11); (c) and finally be
cause having a special place in the
purposes and plans of God their lives
were counted precious in his sight (v.
27). Verily, “He that doeth the will of
God abideth forever. ’
Temperance Application.—This les
son suggests the value of total ab
stinence.
"No user of tobacco has ever taken
first honor at Harvard.” —Longfellow.
Temperance and self-control must
begin in the home and be perpetuated
in the strength and power of God
which alone comes through an intelli
gent knowledge and obedience of his
Word. There is no way to win suc
cess except by means of a complete
victory; to compromise is to fail.
The loyalty of such is not earth
born and their victories are superhu
man.
