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never to be eradicated; never to be re moved in this life. I have been plucked as a brand from the burning, but the scars of the fire are upon me.” Betty, aged six, is something of a philosopher. The other day as she slow ly and painstakingly worked at the strip of hemming which was her first attempt at needle work, she thoughtfully re marked, “ The best thing about not put ting in crooked stitches is that you don’t have to pick them out again.” How many bitter hours we spend in picking out life’s crooked stitches that we never should have put in. A little newsboy, to sell his paper, told a lie. The matter came up m the Sunday School. “ Would you tell a lie for a penny?” Asked a teacher of one of the boys. “No, Ma’am,” replied Dick, very decidedly. “ For a shilling?” "No, ma’am.” “ Why not?” asked the teach er. “ Because when the sovereign was all gone, and the things got with it gone too, the lie is there all the same.” Sin Will Meet You Sometime. David’s sin met him in Absalom years afterward. A rich landlord once cruel ly oppressed a poor widow. Her son, a little boy of eight years, saw it. He afterwards became a painter, and paint ed a life likeness of the dark scene. Years afterward he placed it where the man saw it. He saw it, turned pale, trembled in every joint, and offered any sum to purchase it, that he might put it out of sight. Thus, there is an invisible painter drawing on the canvass of the soul a life-likeness reflecting correctly all the passions and actions of our spiri tual history on earth, eternity will reveal them to every man. Golden Text Hlustratlon. Into a mission in New York State, some years ago, came a young man and his bride. When the preacher gave the invitation for any to come forward who wished to receive Christ, these two went forward. They knelt at the altar and began to laugh and make light of the
a thousand shekels of silver is no temptation to violate the king’s command.
Subject Illustration. An earnest servant of Christ preached on the text, “ Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” Mic. 7:19. His little hoy, ten years old afterwards said, to him, “ Papa, when you were talking about the LESSON Cord casting sin into ILLUSTRATIONS the sea, you ought W. H. Pike to have said that sin w a s heavy l i k e stones, and would drop out of sight, or they might think it would float like corks on the top.” The boy was right, sin is like a stone; it weighs down the life and burdens the soul. How to Look At Sin. If you puncture an insect with a fine pointed needle, the effect could not be seen with the naked eye. But if you look at it through a powerful micro scope, you would see a large gash and blood flowing from the wound. Sin appears to be trifling until viewed through the Divine microscope, the Word of God. Then it is seen to be foul and pernicious. When David saw his sin through the prophet’s words it stag gered him. God Be Merciful to Me, A Sinner. Daniel Webster, the famous American politician and orator once spent a sum mer in New Hampshire, and every Lord’s day went to a little country church, morning and evening. His niece asked him why he went there, when he paid little attention to far abler sermons in Washington. He replied, “ In Washing ton they preach to Daniel Webster, the statesman, but this man has been tell ing Daniel Webster, the sinner, of Jesus of Nazareth.” Sin Leaves Scars. John B. Gough’s bitter cry was “ The Scars remain! The Scars remain! Scars
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