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* More Powerful Agencies Than Logic.
By Dr. I. K Funk.
! F unreasoning fear may bo creative of a reasoning fear, why
l may not unreasoning courage, confidence, hope, at times be
cr alive of ground "based ofi reason” for all of these ele
< : meets? JJke tends to produce like; courage, courage;
hope, hope.
In battle, as elsewhere, one of the chiefest things to
l ! the fear map is fear; of a many continent a battle has has been bee changed m lost, and because many of a time wild
panic. Fear is contagious, and so is courage, and both are
inspired far more easily by xumple and by appeals to sympathy and to the
was to faith rather than to reason. When Bismarck, in the times of the Franco
Prussian war, thundered out, "Germany fears nothing hut God,” his appeal
was to faith rather than to reason. Hours of argument would not have so
fired the German heart. And when Garibaldi addressed his soldiers, "Fol¬
low me and you shall have hunger, and sickness, and rags, and death,” their
enthusiasm knew no bounds. The appeal was to the unseen—to what is
beyond reason. And so Christ’s appeal when He said, ‘‘You shall be hated,
and hunted, and killed, but not a hair of your head shall perish; in your
hearts possess ye your patience,” and tens of thousands went down gladly
to death.
The mightiest of all human Impulses lie far beyond the plane of the
syllogism. If we would lead men upward it is surely well for us to knew
that reason is not the most potent facility, nor has it the cleares eye. M4r
velous as is logic, should we succeed in reducing the whole of mail to
that, level it is quite likely that we shall find that we have gone far toward
unchaining the tiger.
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Writing as a Business.
By E. S. Martin.
HY does any one take to writing as a calling? There are
W reasons enough. It is one way to get an honest livin .—I -. * and
a man may lawfully choose it, and may live by it, better or
worse, and be happy in the practice of it. Writing is both
a profession and an art. On its money-getting side it seems
to me not a particularly good profession. A successful law¬
* * yer or a successful doctor commonly earns more money
than a successful writer, and there are vastly more lawyers
and doctors who succeed in a measure worth talking about
than writers. But a man seldom takes to the profession of writing with mon¬
ey-making as his primary object, any more than he takes to the ministry or
to teaching for that purpose. He takes to writing because he likes it and has
a turn for it, or because he cannot wait to fit himself for some other profession,
or is debarred for some reason from other professions, or because opportun¬
ity offers. Once he commences writing and undertakes to live by his work,
he will probably want to get out of it all the money he can without sacrifice
of things that qre worth more to him than mere money, Mere money, for ex
ample, will not tempt a wise man, let alone a good one, to take service with a
newspaper which lie does not approve, nor to write trash, which, being capable
of better things, he knows to be trash, because the market for trash happens to
be better than the market for literature, Tbere is no great harm In writing
trash, soboit it Is not vicious, if a man can do no better, But for a man of
real talent and literary power to turn away from art, and the truth that art
must express, to trash and drivel is prostitution. It is a writer’s fluty to write
Ills best, and he cannot turn his back on that duty for long without paying
the penalty in reputation and in power.—Harper’s Magazine.
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Cost of Children
i By Wm. G. Lightbourn.
ET us recognize frankly that children cost money. Besides
J + 4 k food, A large clothing family and often doctors’ bills, bitter they poverty, require indecent room. crowd
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+ ing and a constant struggle with debt. It means that the
t * boys and girls must be taken early from school and sent
i * Into stores and factories or into the streets to sell papers.
J It means bodies lack of by education, healthful play, lack of and opportunity perhaps the to develop subjec¬
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tion of tender children to vicious surroundings.
The conscientious working-class parent, wishing to give his children a
fair start in life and looking forward to such consequences, refuses to sacri¬
fice ^he interests of his first two or three children by adding to his family
burdens he cannot carry.
He sees too that, meagre as his income is to-day, it would be much lower
were it not for the protection of his union. Now, the strength of the union
lies in its willingness to fight (strike) whenever and wherever its interests
are threatened. A strike is a contest, of endurance, and in such a contest
the man with a large family is terribly handicapped.
But strong as are these motives for limiting the size of a family, they
are as nothing to one other—the general uncertainty and insecurity of life
under present-day conditions. One such period of hard times as we are
going through this winter does more toward teaching self-restraint and
caution to working-class parents than all the preachers in Christendom can
undo in a generation.
Not Quite What He Meant.
The man who thought he had ihe
knack of saying pleasant things cal¬
culated to warm the cockles of the
coldest heart, was revisiting the town
in which he spent a summer twenty
years before.
"I’m Miss Meats. 1 don’t know as
you recall me,” said a coquettish el
derly spinster, approaching him in the
postoffice the day after his arrival.
The ready heart warmer turned
with his most beaming smile and
wrung her hand.
“Recall you!” he echoed, reproach
fully. “As if one could help it, Miss
Hears! Why, you are one of the
landmarks of the town!” Tit-Bits.
London has completed the steel
structure of its great stadium where
the Olympic games are to be held this
year. It is designed to accommodate ’
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Who Gets Them?
Teaclier—Who gets the wicked lit¬
tle boys that stay away from Sunday
school?
No answer.
Teacher—Come, you can tell us,
Casey.”
Casey—De White Sox gits some, an’
de Ctibs de rest.”—Bohemian.
Couldn’t Act Lifelike.
Stage Manager: “The girl that takes
the part of the sleeping beauty in the
show can’t go on tonight.”
Business Manager: "Why not?”
"She ate a Welsh rabbit and she
can’t sleep!”—Yonkers Statesman.
All in One.
Sunday School Teachoi—And you
have no brothers or sisters?
Little Edna—No, ma’am. I’m all
Lhe children we’ve, got.—New Orleans
Democrat! ’*
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM¬
MENTS FOR JULY 10.
Subject: Samuel Warns Saul and the'
People, 1 Samuel 12—Golden
Text, 1 Sam. 12:24—Commit
Verses 23, 2-1—Commentary.
TIME.—1099 B. C. PLACE.—
Giigal.
EXPOSITION.—T. Obey the voice
of the LORD, 13-15. Samuel had
spent a little time in dwelling upon
his own fidelity (vs. 2-f>), but had
Quickly passed to a recital of the mer¬
cies of Jehovah (vs. 6-12). God had
given them a king only because they
had demanded one (vs. 12, 13, 17,
lb). It was not God’s first and best
choice for them. Now Samuel calls
them to look upon the king whom
they had chosen and whom God had
given. The king they were called
upon to gaze upon was a fine speci¬
men pf a man (ch. 10:2,3), but how
poor a substitute for God, and how
hitter was the disappointment and
defeat Israel was to experience in
him. So will it always he with those
who desire an arm of flesh instead of
God to lean upon (Jer. 17:5, 8). But
God is long-suffering, and even yet
there was mercy and help for them.
In these verses we have the whole
secret of having the Lord for us or
against us. To have the Lord with
us, and consequently to have it well
with us, all that is necessary is (1)
‘‘fear the Lord,” i. e., hold Him in
that reverent regard that leads to a
prompt and constant obedience to His
will as expressed in His word (Prov.
8:13; 16:6; cf. 1 Jno. 5:3). (2)
“Serve Him.” (3) ‘‘Hearken unto
His voice.” (4) ‘‘Rebel not against
His commandment.” (5) “Be fol
lowers of the Lord your God” (cf.
Eph. 5:1). If on the other hand we
“will not hearken to - the voice of
Jehovah,” the hand of Jehovah shall
be against us. There can be no great¬
er calamity than to have the hand of
Jehovah against us. Samuel pointed
them to the whole history of Israel
as a confirmation of his words (cf. v.
9). For a comment upon vs. 14, 15,
turn to Lev. 26:1-39; Deu. 28:1-68;
Isa. 1:16-20.
II. Samuel Prays and God An¬
swers, 16-19. Samuel sees the need
that the people be brought to a deep
realization of their sin. A sign is
needed and he has faith in God that
He will give it. He acted under God’s
direction, hence the outcome. He
calls upon the people to stand still
and see the “great thing the Lord will
do.” The Lord is always ready to do
great and wonderful things for those
who call upon Him with an intelli¬
gent faith (Jer. 33:3). In Palestine
rains were almost unknown at the
time cf wheat harvest (cf. Prov.
26:1). But God gave thunder and
rainin answer t° Samuel’s prayer (cf. I
ch. 7:9, 10; Josh. 10:12; Jas. 5:16-
18). There are some who are too
wise to believe such stories as this,
but their wisdom is a wisdom borii of
ignorance and prejudice. No one who
candidly studies the evidence, both
doubt that God does give rain, as well
in d d irec“ a a n n y S w°e? e to Jrayt?!'To^bt
it is not scientific; for it ignores un
questionable facts. The Lord did pre
HiJdo “g^andM 1 he a had°saii e t d ha U tHe
would do. The result was that “the
people greatly feared the Lord ancl
Samuel.” Nothing makes God more
real to men than a direct answer to
prayer, and no man is more feared
than the man whom the world knows
has the ear of G^d. But the world
soon forgets (Ps. 106:12,13). The
sign was effective, the people saw
themselves as great sinners deserving
to die. That is the way in which we
all need to see ourselves. That is the
way in which we shall see ourselves
when we are brought, as Israel was,
face to face with God. They did not
feel fit to pray for themselves, but
felt the need of Samuel’s prayers.
III. Fear Not, the Lord Will Not
Forsake His People, 20-25. God’s
oft-repeated message to His pecple is,
“‘Fear not.” Here He says it t■, His
people even when they have greatly
sinned. But they had just made con¬
fession of their sin. There was par
don for them still, The devil de
lights to use our past sin to discour¬
age us. God says, “Though you have
sinned greatly in the past, fear not
and turn not aside from following the
Lard” (cf. Josh. 23:6; Ps. 40:4).
Though we may have sinned griev¬
ously in the past, still it is entirely
•possible for us to serve the Lord with
all our heart in the future. How true
it is of the things of this world, after
which the hearts of men go astray from
the Lord, that they “cannot profit nor
deliver.” If our salvation depended
upon anything in us we should never
be saved; but because it depends en
tirely upon Him, it is always sure. It
was the Lord’s good pleasure to make
Israel “ a people unto Himself” (cf.
Deu. 7:7, 8;-Matt. 11:26; Ro. 9:IS¬
IS; Jno. 15:16). It is the Lord’s
good pleasure to-day to make all who
receive Jesus as their Saviour and
their Lord, a people unto Himself (cf.
1 Pet. 2:9, 10, R. V.). For Samuel
to cease to pray for God’s people
would be for Samuel to “sin against
the Lord.” There are many pro¬
fessed Christians in our day who are
sinning against the Lord in this very
way (ef. Ro. 1:9; Col. 1:9; 1 Thess.
3:10; 5:17). But Samuel would not
only pray, he would also teach. Note
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