THE K I NG ' S BUS I NESS and for everything else both in time and in eternity. Mr. Huang was con verted during one of my furloughs and soon after moved to the city of Heng- chow, so I never saw or even heard of him until quite recently. Every Sunday morning at 9:30 at the Liebenzeller Mission believers gather at the Lord’s table to partake of His sup per in remembrance of Him, and I reg ularly attend these services. One morn ing I was deeply impressed by a prayer offered by a man who sat back of me. After the service I asked Mr. Wohlleber who the man was, and he told me the story of his life and said that he and his family had quite recently moved back to Changsha and were now living near to the mission. ONE THING TO CLING TO “ I have taken much pains,” says the learned Selden, ‘‘to know everything that was esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my disquisi tions and reading, nothing now remains with me to comfort me, at the close of life, but this passage of St. Paul, ‘It is a faithful saying and worthy of all ac ceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.’ To this I cleave, and herein I find rest.” NURSING OUR CAKES Men will not avail themselves of the riches of God’s grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret, as an-old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the • Lord; but, even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk bur dened. They take God’s ticket to heaven, and then put their baggage on their shoulders, and tramp, tramp the whole way there afoot.— Beecher.
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