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comfortable homes. How have our liber ties been secured ? By the blood of men who counted no service too great. Can we do that? William of Orange might have lived a long life, but he stripped him self of land and fortune, and planted him self in deadly opposition to Alva, and died a monument to the fall of Spanish tyr anny. Yes, my friends, in humbler spheres it is your privilege, and mine, in the house of this tabernacle, to choose between the alternative of conservation which is fruit less and an expenditure that is substantial, generous, and prodigal. It is a choice for us to make. Wrap yourselves in your mummy folds, and live for yourself or, in generous forgetfulness, live for God and country, and for fellowmen while you live, and when the hour comes, without fear, if need be, drop into the ground and die. Help us, O Lord, to endure as good sol diers of Jesus Christ. Help us to do our duty so completely that every day we do better and become better and be with Christ. Help us that we may be ready for death, and in that last encounter may be as brave as in all the other encounters of our lives. Give us this faith to the end. For Christ's sake. Amen.
nothing better to do than to play nurse to his body that he has to summer in the North, and winter in the South, and to clothe with purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, and give it now and then a trip to Europe—a body that is bound to die? There is your life. What are you going to do with it? There is your money. What are you going to do with it? Why, invest it, and be careful about your security, and don’t be careful about the interest, and keep on investing and reinvesting, until it will take the fig ures of astronomy to count it. As fortunes go now, astronomy is not in it. Invest it, and then what do you do? There are so many things that some people might do and do do, that so many more people might do. HELP THE CHURCH They might perpetuate their names by doing something for the Church, for edu cation, and for the world, and its moral, spiritual, and intellectual advance. God be praised for this! You, who have cast your bread of benevolence upon the waters of philanthropy hope that you will receive it after many days. This world’s history shows that our forests have not been cleared by the brawn of men who lived in
By Nellie McVey D O you know that your soul is of my soul such part, That you seem to be fiber and core of my heart ? None other can pain me, as you, deaf, can do; None other can please me, or praise me as you. Remember the world will be quick with its blame, If shadow or stain evef darken your name. “Like mother, like son,” is a saying so true, The world will judge largely of “Mother” by you; Be yours, then, the task—if task it shall be— To force this proud world to do homage to me. Be sure it will say, when its verdict you have won— “She reaped as she sowed—-lo! this man is her son.”
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