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ture is not all smiles? There are the bursting of a mountain, a stream of fire, and a burning sea on the very spot where yesterday was the blooming of an Italian garden. God is love; penitent hearts find Him thus. God is a consuming fire, and impenitent hearts feel Him to be such. No one can study His providences without discovering the unyielding justice that forgives not, but holds the impenitent and self-hardened victim aloof for ever. Horace Bushnell wisely said: “The eter nal King is King indeed, and no such dis penser only of the confections and other sweet delectations of favor, as the feeble gospel of modern philanthropism requires Him to be, As certainly as God is God, and Christ His prophet, He will not come bringing pardons only, suing and suing to the guilty; but over against all obstinacy He will kindle His fires of justice, and by these He will reign—even where by love He can not.” 'T“o.— 11 The End of the Dance Here is a little incident in the life and ministry of Andrew Bonar. While in Kinrossie, a dancing school was to be started in Collace, about a mile and a half east of Kinrossie. It gave him- much concern, because some of his own people were to attend this dancing school. He made a full inquiry what night it was to commence, and the hour. He told them he would like to come himself. He did so, and when he got there' he found a goodly number present; some of his own members as well. The violin player was tuning his violin, ready to commence. The members looked the one to the other when they saw Andrew Bonar coming in. One or two dropped out. Then another two or three followed their example. Then a lot more left, until there were none left but Andrew Bonar and the violin player. Andrew said to him, “Where have all your people gonq-to?” . And the violin player did not answer a word. So Andrew spoke to him a word for his Master. This was the beginning of the dancing-class, and the end of it. /*■ -.“My father came into our house soon after I was married and looked around,” says Dr. Campbell Morgan. “We showed him every room, and then in his rough Way he said to me: ‘Yes, it is very nice; but nobody will know, walking through here, whether you belong to God or to the devil.’ I went through and looked at the rooms again, and I thought: ‘He is quite right.’ So we made up our minds straightway that there should be no room in our house, henceforth, that had not some message, by picture or wall text, to tell that we served the King” — o — The Walls of Your Home
Separate from Sinners "Separate front sinners’’SHeb. 4:14-16. T HERE are two aspects in which our Lord’s distinctness from sinners is impressively shown. First: His acts are never doubtful. There has never been a merely human life without some incidents that might be open to question as to truth and virtue. In Christ’s life there is no record of any, but a distinct impression is left on us that there were none to record. Second: His acts were never selfish. This is largely characteristic of human acts. It is too often the fly in the best pots of ointment. Christ’s acts were all done under a profound sense of duty and under a sublime impulse of love. The acts were right in. form, and the life and, feeling that inspired them were right also. Hence the Divine-human High Priest exerts the most ennobling and sanctifying power upon us. —o—■ The Character Test B e e t h o v e n was in the habit of playing his symphonies on an old harpsichord as a test. They .would thus be made to stand out in their true char acter, with nothing to hide their faults, or exaggerate their beauties. If, then, they commended themselyes to his ear, they were good, and might safely be sent forth to the world. Thus wisely may we test our character, endeavoring to ascertain how it manifests itself—not on great and rare occasions, or before the public eye, where there is a chance for display and applause, but in private, in the little, homely, everyday duties,-which attract no particular atten tion and reward us with no praise. If in the retired nook of your own breast, in the regulation of your thoughts and feelings-; if in the bosom of your family, in the monotonous round of home life each day, you preserve a sweet, serene temper, and go forward cheerfully, taking a real pleasure in. duty as duty, and in all these little matters' honestly strive to serve and please the heavenly Master; if, in a word, your piety sounds well on such an unpretending harp, it is good, genuine, tested; it will one day win acclamation from a vaster and nobler throng than ever was thrilled by the genius of Beethoven. ■—o— God Is Not All Smiles Some are ever harping on the words: “God is love,” as though they meant: “Love is God and God is nothing but love.” .Must not men be blind and deaf who fail to see and acknowledge that the God- Father in revelation, providence and na
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