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dent who was the leader of the movement for the reinstatement of Confucianism in China,—a striking illustration of the fact that the mere civilization of a Christian land does not, without Christ, help tot lift up a non-Christian land. But the moment Christ is one’s life, then the more educa tion one has the more efficiently can he be used in the service of his Lord. The very weapons that had been, used by Satan can then be turned against Satan. Education does ndt give us the power to do right; but the twice-born man whose mind is the mind of Christ can mightily use education— Sun day School Times. “W hatsoever ye shall ask in my name.” “In my name” is a vital condition. Amanda Smith tells of being in Africa and needing money and of praying for it and expecting it from America. She prayed for months and watched every ship that came in from America, but no money came and she re ports herself as being greatly distressed. In her distress she went one day into the woods to pray it out and to tell the Lord that He had never treated her in that way before. While she was there, as she re ports, the Spirit said to her softly, “Aman da ! Amanda! you are not asking in my name, you are trusting America. Cease to trust America, and ‘ask in my name.’ ’’ Amanda says, “I fell on the ground, con fessed my sins, and asked in His name only, and soon the money began to come from almost every country.” Are we not all in danger of making in some form Amanda’s mistake ?—Bishop Warne, in Methodist Review. W hen Clara Barton was engaged in the Red Cross work in Cuba, during the Span- ish-American war, ex-President Roosevelt (then Colonel Roosevelt) came to her de siring to buy some delicacies for the sick and wounded men under his command. His request was refused. Roosevelt was trou bled; he loved his men, and was ready to pay for the supplies out of his own pocket. “How can I get these things?” he said; “I
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W e can die in more ways than one, and certain forms of death are exceedingly worth while. If we have held a lifelong but mistaken conviction, the sooner we die to that conviction the better. A veteran Bible student and teacher, of whom D. L. Moody is said to have remarked that he knew his. Bible better than any other man in Amer ica, addressing an audience of ministers and Christian workers about a much misunder stood but richly revealing truth, quaintly said: “Some of you brethren may have to die hard ! I had to. But it’s better to die, and then to live again, than to keep on dying all the time.” The death that leads to a new life is not limited to that death of self whereby we enter into the life of Christ. Dying to our _mistakes is so much better than dying in our mistakes.—5. S. Times. “T he other day a little girl told me,” says a gentleman,“ she was going to give her father a pair of slippers on his birthday. ‘Where will you get your money?’ I asked. She opened her eyes like saucers, and she said, ‘My father will give me the money.’ And just for half a minute I was silent as I thought that the dear man would buy his own birthday present. I was not in the house when she gave him the slippers. But I | suppose when the father came down in the morning there- was the parcel between his knife and fork. And the father loved his little girl for his gift, although he had to pay for it. She had not anything in the world that he had not given her. You have nothing of your own to give to Jesus. You can only give Him back what belongs to Him.” S atan always rejoices in the increased ed ucation of those who are outside of Christ. For the training of the min.d does not help people to be good, but it does make them increasingly efficient in wrong-doing. J. Campbell White has called attention to the fact that it was a Columbia University stu
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