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in such convincing words his profound con fidence in the faith in which he had lived, was a crowning service of inestimable value to mankind.— Harper’s Weekly. “One ship drives east, and the other drives west, - By the very same wind that blows, ’TIS THE SET OF THE SAILS, and not the gales, That shows which way she goes. “Like the gales of the sea are the waves of Fate As we journey along through Life, ’TIS THE SET OF THE SOUL that determines the goal, And not the storm nor the strife.” “I am the Door—The Entrance to Life. I am the Vine—The Strengthening of Life. I am the Light of the World—The Guid ance of Life. I am the Bread of Life—The Sustenance of Life. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life— The Development of Life. I am the Good Shepherd—The Atonement- in Life. I am the Resurrection' and the Life—-The Resurrection in Life.” Almost Saved “He went away sorrowful” (Matthew 19:22). A very sad sight was witnessed on the Atlantic two or three years ago. The officer of one of the big ocean liners noticed a small boat out in mid-ocean, and through his glasses could see that they were a shipwrecked crew. He stopped his steamer, and when his boat came alongside, he saw that the shipwrecked crew were in a very exhausted condition. A rope ladder was lowered and one by one the men climbed' it and succeeded in getting aboard the steamer. The last man to leave the boat was the captain of the shipwrecked crew. He was so exhausted that after climbing almost to the top of the rope ladder, he let go his hold, fell into the ocean, and sank never to rise again.— Kind Words.
Agonizing in Prayer John Welch of Spotland used to rise in the night and wrap himself in his plaid and pray earnestly for his flock. When his wife sometimes remonstrated he would reply, “Oh, woman, I have the souls of The love of money (1 Timothy 6:10, 11). three thousand to answer for, and I know not how it is with many of them .”—The Preacher’s Helper. “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than "the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, 'Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!” One Man’s Faith The paragraph of Mr. Morgan’s will which the newspapers emphasized in head lines and put at the top of the column, was this with which the will began: “I commit my soul into the hands of my Saviour, in full confidence that, having redeemed it and washed it in his most prec ious blood, he will present it faultless before the throne of my Heavenly Father; and I entreat my children to maintain and defend, at all hazard and at any cost of personal sacrifice, the blessed doctrine of the complete atonement for sin through the blood of Jesus Christ, once offered, and through that alone.” The papers were entirely right in their estimate. That was the most interesting clause in Mr. Morgan’s will, and, more than that, it was the most valuable legacy he bequeathed to the generation of men that is to follow him. It contains the pith of the Christian faith. They declare the basis of all the best and noblest and most useful characters that have developed in this world in the last two thousand years. To have a man of Mr. Morgan’s kind and size and prestige declare humbly and
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