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into a flock o’ birds I wanted to catch ?' ” A discouraged young doctor in one of our large cities was visited by his father, who came up from a rural district. “Well, son,” he said, “how are you getting along?”- “I’m not getting along at all,” was the an swer. The old man’s countenance fell, but he spoke of courage -and patience and hope. Later in the day he went with his son to the free dispensary. He sat by in silence, while twenty-five poor unfortunates receiv ed help. When the door had closed upon the last one, the old man burst out, “ I thought you told me you were doing noth ing. Why, if I had helped twenty-five peo ple in a month, I would thank God that my life counted for something.” “ There isn’t any money in it, though,” explained the son. “Money!” the old man shouted, “What is money in comparison with being of use to your fellowmen?” “Do not drift but steer.” “We can by our prayers make things happen.” “ I expected a direct answer to prayer, and I got it.” “ Society is to be bettered by individual regeneration and not by external legis lation.” “ It is much more important and profit able to know what God has to say on the subject than what men have to say.” “My morning watch I like to call my breakfast. For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” “A Christian is one who believes in Christ as his personal Saviour, who strives to please Him as his Lord, and who worships and adores Him, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, as very God of very God.” “W e must study the Word of God and view ourselves in that glass, asking God to search us and to know our hearts; to try us and know our ways and see if there be any wicked way in us. Mr. Speer, in his ‘Principles of Jesus,’ has brought out
“I prefer to travel,” said Mr. Vanderbilt once, “ in a train driven by an engineer with a Bible in his pocket.” And Mr. Stokes, another railroad mag nate, said at a Y. M. C. A. meeing: “The man at the, throttle, looking out at the darkness and facing death at any mo ment, needs a short, quick creed, ‘The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.’ That was the creed on which George W il liams founded our Association, and if we give it up the Association might as well be given up.” Get a Bible into every cab. A doniram J udson , Baptist missionary in Burman, having by parental gifts and per sonal presents made to himself and his late wife, together with the interest arising from the same, accumulated the sum of $6000, has given the whole of it to be expended for the support of missions to the heathen. This sum, added to $4000 which Mr. Judson re ceived on a former occasion from the Bur- man government as a compensation for ser vices rendered them, and which he pre sented to the board, makes $10,000! And consider that in addition to his property he has consecrated his talents and his life to the same glorious cause .—Old news item. “ W h en I was the young superintendent of a mission Sunday school in Hartford, there were in it scores of Roman Catholic children, and dozens of Jews. O f course it was necessary to be careful in dealing with such a gathering, lest we arouse their prejudices by unguarded remarks. One Sunday there came into the school a Pro testant preacher who had been trained as a Catholic priest. He wanted to address the scholars. I told him the state of things there, and said that he must be careful not to say anything that would offend the re ligious prejudices of the young Roman Catholics. Looking at me with surprise, because I felt it necessary to suggest that caution to him, he said, with true Irish wit: ‘ ‘D ’ ye think I’d be afther h’avin’ a stone
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