119 just and right, but it is inevitable. Yonder in the city of Memphis, Ten nessee, some years ago, a young girl stood at midnight on the bridge span ning the Mississippi River. The pity ing moon looked down in tenderness upon her and seemed to realize her dis grace. The cool waves whispered in vitingly to her, as she gazed into them and wondered If amid their silent depths there was not some rest for a betrayed and broken heart. At last the thought of her shame made death seem better to her than life, and to hide her sorrow she plunged down to a watery grave. Now listen! At that same hour, as the newspaper accounts later showed, in a saloon of that city, a sap-headed dude, in Half-drunken vanity, stood and boasted (though not knowing of her suicide) that his fortieth girl had been seduced and robbed of her virtue! Oh, tell me not that there is not a time and place where that awful wrong will be righted! Some say that they can not believe in a God Who has a hell, but I can no longer believe in God if He has nòt the purpose and the power to right that wrong; for that villain, so'far as the laws of earth are concerned, escaped. When the news of the suicide and of his connection with it was pub lished in the papers, he sneaked out of thè city, doubtless to continue his career uf infamy amid other scenes. The results of his crimes arc eternal in the wrecked lives and blighted souls of his victims, and to the last atom of his guilt eternal Jus tice will weigh out his due reward, self- imposed and fully deserved! FAITH IS VENTURE Faith is nothing else but the soul’s venture. It ventures to Christ, in op position to all legal terrors. It ven tures on Christ, in opposition to our guiltiness. It ventures for Christ, in opposition to all difficulties and dis couragements.—W. Bridge.
THE K I N G ’S BUS I NES S terness and strife in the state; but we need to face the fact that all of these unfortunate conditions have a deeper cause, and that is the decay of the home life of the people. Unless we strength en our homes and build them up, and especially unless we reestablish our family altars, and rear our children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, we must suffer the consequences. Well did Dr. Chapman say: “The influence of family worship is as lasting as eternity. Many a boy who appears restless at the family altar has an impression made upon him which comes back to him with tremendous force afterwards, when he is out in the world and is battling with sin. Many a girl is ¡kept from doing that which is inconsistent because of her recollection of- the trembling tones in her father's .prayer, and the sound of her mother’s voice in song. So many times we find ourselves drifting, and suddenly we stop as if a hand had reached out to lay hold upon us. It is impossible to drift further, and all because the hand was a memory, and the memory brought before us the time of family worship when our fathers were praying, and the very atmosphere of Heaven was round about us.” A house is not a home. Home is a spiritual fact; home is an atmosphere. One poor room-—the humblest tene ment in this city—-may be a true home if only the right spirit is there. And any man and woman who builds sueh a home will not only receive the bless ings of Almighlty God, but will have the consolation also of knowing that they are serving their country in high and holy ways and doing the noblest work this world will know until it is trans formed into the Paradise of God! The thought that a good God Would allow any soul to go ito hell is stagger ing to some superficial minds, but we need to remember that the results of sin are infinite and eternal, and there fore, eternal suffering for sin is not only
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