T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S via the stage or the screen.” The fact is, one of the most costly things any girl can do today is to accept a position as a movie actress. The mother that dreams of her girl on the stage would do better in most instances io dream expectantly of seeing her girl’s body rest beneath the daisies. I have two girls and God Ijnows I would rather see them buried tomorrow than to know that they had paid the price (the thou sands have paid in order to he screen stars. The stage and screen demand not only the sale of beauty hut in many instances the sale of body, and in not a few the sale of virtue. God only knows what a girl has lost when she has so sold herself as that she will permit her all hut nude picture to he placed upon the pages of newspapers and magazines in order to advertise her physical charms as the wares of the movie or the stage. Her published nakedness hut tells the story of a soul, stripped of that womanly modesty, that glorious fidelity to Virtue’s holy laws that make a woman valuable and her charms inviting. Yes, Agnes Souret knew, for she had paid the price. She had been there, there in the emptiness of that experience where gold and fame and flattery lessened not the sense of loss, of cheated virtue, of wom anhood’s penury and shame. —Rev. Bob Shuler. - ^-1^. - m ite STIR IT UP Keep the graces active, cherish the faith. Did you hear Gypsy Smith: “ Papa,” said the lad across the table, “ there’s no sugar in the tea.” “ Oh, yes, there is, my boy.” “No, father; taste it and see.” “ Ah, but my lad, you haven’t stirred it.” A moment later— “ How is it now?” “ It’s all right, father; it’s sweet; I forgot to stir it up.” Then the swift, sharp application by this prince of preachers, to his congregation: “ Stir up the grace that is in you! Stir it up!”
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STAND FAST “ Stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong-” (1 Cor. 16:13.) In the last days many shall be as "clouds without water, carried about of winds.” And this is one of the special perils of these “ perilous times.” The winds are let loose, and are now performing their awful work of tossing hither and thither these empty clouds. Hence the instability that prevails. Men are “ carried about with every wind of doctrine.” They are not “ rooted and grounded in love” ; and having never “ tasted that the Lord is gracious,” nor rested their weary souls upon Him, they go about seeking they know not what. They want something that will fill them, but not going to the Divine fulness of the incarnate Word for it, they wander on in sadness of spirit, vainly trying to soothe their uneasy souls with every new doctrine or device that meets them in the way! All in vain. For what can be a substitute for God and His free love? I Amid all this instability, let us “ stand fast in the faith.” Let us be “ strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” Let us beware of novelties in religion. Let us guard against fickleness of opin ion and hastiness of decision. Satan will let loose his blasts and call up his storms; let us only moor our vessel firmer, and keep faster hold of the anchor, which is sure and steadfast, “ and which entereth into that which is within the veil.” Thus, in patience shall we possess our souls, for “ he that believeth doth not make haste.”— Morning Star. GIRLS, GET THIS! Agnes Souret, reported to he the most beautiful woman in Europe, said this: “ There is not enough money or fame in the world to make up for the price a woman pays when she sells her beauty
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