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among men. But the immortal Juno, always jealous of the off spring of her husband by mortal mothers, contrived by her arts that Hercules should be rendered subject to his cousin Eurys- theus and be compelled to do his bidding. This Hercules dis dained to do. Eurystheus, though a king in Greece, was a most commonplace sort of a person, with even less than ordinary courage, apd why should Hercules, the strongest and most famous man in the realm, make a slave of himself to this, his weakling kinsman, whom he scorned? This-thing which heaven willed Hercules declined to do. But as a result peace departed from his; soul, and he fell into such a state of mind that people began to think he was haunted by the Furies. He wandered out alone among the forests and the mountains, and in his despair’he felt as if the defftons from Hades were hunting him day and night. Restless and miserable, he sought the oracle at Delphi where he was told that if he would be happy he must obey, without question, the decrees of the gods and serve Eurys theus. The battle with his pride was not an easy one to win, but at last he took the road to the palace of his cousin, and as he went, each step became quicker, gladness filled his heart, the shadow left his soul and his troubled mind was at peace. It has ever been so. The story is told of a saintly old theological professor who ’lost his temper one night, and drove a fellow- townsman from his house. He went to bed, not to sleep, but to toss in agony through the night, and long before morning he arose' and, crossing the city, knocked at the other man’s door and said to him as the door was opened, “Oh, my brother, I have come to ask forgiveness. I did not have the spirit of Christ when I spoke to you as I did, and I am sorry I so mis represented the cause of Him whom I serve.” The man was much moved, for he was an unbeliever, and it was this con fession that became the means of his conversion, but the present point of the story is that the old professor \irent singing back to his home with a spirit that was light and free. God’s way may not always be the easiest way to take, but at the end of the way there is peace. “Thy precious will, Oh, conquering Saviour, Doth' now embrace and compass me ; All discords hushed, my peace a river, My soul a prisoned bird set free. Sweet will of God, still fold me closer, Till I am wholly lost in thee.”—W. E. B. —-o— Orion's Vision T he Gospel’ ^ sw J ransforming Restored Chmst>B E B of T he W orld I John 1:5,7; John 1:8,9; Eph. 1:18; Mai. 4:2. One of the most interesting myths is that which relates to Orion, the son of Jupiter, a giant and a mighty hunter, who fell in love with Merope, the daughter of the king of Chios, and sought her hand in marriage. During the days of his woo ing, he gave exhibition of his mighty prowess by clearing the island of its wild beasts and bringing the spoils of the chase as a present to his beloved. Impatient with her father’s delay in giving consent, he sought his coveted bride by violence, whereupon Oenopion, the father, enraged by such an act, de cided to rid himself of Orion’s presence. Accordingly, while Orion was in a drunken stupor, Oenopion put out his eyes and cast him out on the shores of the sea to die. Orion, however, instructed by an oracle to seek the rays of the morning sun, made his way to the east, and as he journeyed, gazing ever towards the rising sun, he received his sight again. Orion was afterwards, when killed by Diana, placed among the stars. Oh, my brother, those of us who have been “called .out of darkness into His marvelous light” know what it is to have the inner vision blinded by the god of this world, to have eyes that see
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