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he wished to make a speed record for his trip. He succeeded in so doing, but for the whole length of his life he could not obliterate the sight of the man he so cowardly left to a watery grave. Heed the cries and distresses of those you pass along life’s pathway, and do not neglect to give a helping hand, or. you lose much joy in well-doing, and reap lasting remorse^ for withholding help. “ One kindly deed may turn The fountain of thy soul To loves sweet day-star, that shall o’er thee burn Long as its currents roll.” ^-Holmes. v. 5. Lot also. Lot is a type of the world-bordering, carnally-minded pro fessing Christian.— Gaebelein. All men do not receive the vision of God. They are followers, n o t COMMENT ‘ leaders, echoes, not FROM MANY voices. Abram was SOCRCKS supreme because God h a d called him. — Parker. Flocks, herds, tents. Abram became rich but we do not hear of any altar— in fact we hear of no altar in Haran and no altar in Egypt.—Moody. v. 6. Could not dwell together. Riches are often an occasion of strife and contention among relations and neighbors. Poverty and travail, wants and wanderings could not separate between Abram and Lot, but riches did.:—Henry. v. 7. There was strife. Believers always get into trouble when they go down into Egypt. Rev. 1:18.— 'Torrey. The first step in Lots downward course, note the six downward steps, v. 7. strift; v. 10, beheld; v. 11, chose; v. 12, pitched toward; 14:12, sat in its gate. —-Compan. Bible. Canaanite and Peri- zzite. The world overhears the church, and if we scbld and fret and throw haru words at; one another, the world may mock us and say, how mighty must their God be who cannot still the noise of their vanity and pride..—Parker. The
corpse should be dissected, but it would mean death to the operator. The cele brated physician, Dr. Guyon, arose and said, “ I devote myself for the safety of my country.” He immediately left the room, made his will and spent the night in religious exercises. The next morn ing he made the examination of a plague victim, wrote out the discoveries he had made threw the papers in a vase of disinfectant, retired to a con venient place and died in twelve hours. This giving of life to help others is common in these- days of fighting -for liberty. Helping Others, Lightens Ones Own Burdens. An old darkey said, It makes yo’ burdens lighter when yo’ helps to tote the load.” The excellent Mr, Moon, of Brighton, the blind friend of the blind, was pres ent at a meeting of blind people at Manchester and among the remarks he made was this: “When I became blind, as a young hoy, people; condoled with my mother on the ‘heavy dispensation’ with which I was afflicted. They were wrong, my friends, God gave me blind ness as a talent to be used for His glory. Without blindness I should never have been able to see the needs, of the blind.” Mr. Moon, used his affliction as a talent and published the Gospel in raised type in nearly 200 different languages and dialects to the blind throughout the world. We Are All Debtors. When we have it within our power to help another we are indebted to that person until we give him the aid, possible for us to give. Rus- kin said, “ Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subor dinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kind ness, but the committer of injury.” It is told that a Captain on a ship sighted a man on a piece of timber, but to his shame it is said he would not stop ‘theship norturntoward the man because
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