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June 12. Friends Misunderstand. J o h n 16:1-3. June 13. Sacrifice of Time. 1 Tim. 4:13- 15. June 14. Sacrifice of Money. 2 Cor. 9 :l-8. June 15. Sacrifice of Friends. Phil. 4:1-9. C h o ic e N uggets “Walking behind a beautifully dressed young lady, this thought came to a man: ‘I wonder if she takes half as much pains with her heart as she does with her clothes?’ A little farther on he saw her spring suddenly forward to open a heavy gate for a poor old man with a loaded wheelbarrow, who wished to pass through into his yard, where there was a humble cottage. The girl received the thanks of the old man with a sweet smile. The stranger passed on, saying to himself: ‘She deserves the beautiful clothes, for she has a beautiful spirit.’ ” “During the Spanish-American War of 1898, Admiral Sampson desired one vol unteer from each ship in his squadron to act under Hobson in sinking the Merri- mac in the narrow channel leading to the harbor at Santiago de Cuba. Here the Spanish ships had taken refuge, and he reasoned this would practically insure their capture by the United States forces. ‘Fighting Bob’ Evans, in command of the Iowa, says ip his book, ‘A Sailor’s Log,’ that wh,en pne volunteer from his ship was ,called jor, explaining that it meant almost certain death, every officer and all of the six hundred seamen . responded; that when one was finally chosen—a man named Murphy—he was offered as high as $150 for his chance, but promptly re fused. The man who made the offer turned away with tears streaming down his cheeks because he was denied the privilege of risking his life for the glory of his country. A world-wide battle is raging between the forces of right and wrong. Christ, the Commander, is calling for volunteers for service at home and abroad. No volunteer will be denied, whether he can do much or little, for in this fight the weapon is the ‘sword of the Spirit,’ given uS bjr "our “invincible Leader.” Professor Peabody’s lecturfe at the Uni versity of Tokyo on the subject of “Lib erty, Culture, Service,” was so highly praised that the emperor wished to read it. The Japanese professor who was chosen to translate the lecture found great difficulty in choosing just the right word to translate the word “Service” in the title of the address, because the idea was not to be found in Japanese thought. It is a Christian idea.— Missionary Review of the World. A lady who was interested in Chris tian work in London wrote me once and said, “I have a meeting I want you to come and speak to. It is only a small meeting, and it will take nothing out of you.” I answered, “I cannot come: and it would be no use if I did come. If it takes nothing out of me it will do nobody any good.” It is the service that costs, and a cheap religion isn’t worth preach ing.— Gipsy Smith. “Two plowshares were made from the same pig-iron. One was sold to a farmer, who used it constantly. The other re mained on the shelf of the hardware store, unsold, until it was covered with rust. The farmer brought his wornout share, to get another like it. The rusty
large city to make his fortune. He found an advertisement that appealed to him, and answered it. He wrote and tore up many letters, and sat up all night before producing the one he finally sent. Within a few days he received an invitation from the advertiser, to come to New York for a personal interview, which he accepted. The first question asked him was, ‘Did you write this letter?’ as it was pushed toward him: Replying modestly in the af firmative, the man said to him: ‘The posi tion is yours.’ The boy’s letter, well worded, showing carefulness, neatness, in telligence, was the best recommendation he could have produced. Had he written hurriedly, carelessly, he would probably never have received a reply. He was the same young man who afterwards became the successful man who related the inci dent.” “The great naturalist Audubon thus de scribes his religious experience, and how communion strengthened and blessed him : ‘During my deepest troubles I frequently would wrest myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forest—and many a time, at the sound of the woodthrushes’ melodies, have I fallen upon my knees and there prayed earnestly to our God. This never failed to bring me the most valuable of thoughts, and always comfort —and strange as it may seem to you, it was often necessary for me to exert my will and compel myself to return to my fellow beings.’!This experience of great Audubon is 1not uncommon. It is the strange thing that happens when a soul waits on its God.” “In Wellesley College a special feature of the daily life of the household is the ‘silent time’ of the morning and the eve ning. Both at the opening and the closing of the day there is a brief period, marked by the stroke of a bell, in which all the house is quiet—every pupil is in her room —there is no conversation—no step is heard in the corridors and the whole great household, with its thronging life, is as quiet as if all its hundreds of inmates were sleeping. There is no positively pre scribed way of spending the silence in the rooms, but it is understood that all whose hearts so incline them, shall give the time to devotional reading, medita tion, and prayer. At least, the design of establishing this period of quiet as a part of the daily life of the school is to give opportunity for such devotional exercise, and lay its solemn hush to suggest to ali the fitness, the helpfulness and the need of such periods of communion with God. The bell that calls for silence at the same time calls to thought and prayer. In this rule of its daily life Wellesley College recognizes a sphere of life that is too thoughtlessly disregarded in this age of rush, and lifts up an example to the whole educational world, for which she is to be greatly praised,. and which those who are wise, whether in college life or in home life, will follow. Every Christian life that hopes to be consistent must have its daily ‘silent times.’ ” June 16; 1929 The Price of Voluntary Christian Service Luke 9 :S7-62 D a ily R eading s June 10. Self-Denial. Rom. 15:1-3. June 11. Loss of Comfort. Luke 9:57-62.
June 9, 1929 Thinking Things Through Luke 14:28-30; Prov. 16:22-25 D a il y R eading s
June 3. Behold the Ant. Prov. 6 :6-8. June 4. Thoughtlessness. Prov. 22:3. June 5. Look to the End. Mark 8 :36. June 6. Shallow Impulse. Luke 9 :57-62. June 7. Nehemiah’s Survey. Neh. 2:11-18. June 8. “We Are Able.” Matt. 20:22, 23. — o — C h o ic e N uggets Though a man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few 1 How many never think, who think they do. —Jane Taylor. “Charles Dickens said of the principle upon which the work of his life had been conducted: ‘Whatever I have tried to do in my life, I have tried with all my heart to do well. What I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. Never to put one hand to anything on which I would not throw my whole self, and never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was, I find now to have been golden rules.” ’ Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you, cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought there which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be. v4G. A. Sala. “Thought is a sculptor. The sharp chisel cuts deep or in light touches, but is ever more fashioning. Not in the face only does one’s thinking and feeling find ex pression, but in the whole physical bear ing. In step, in speech, in attire, in busi ness a man’s habitual thinking and affec tions find expression, for these things are only the outward expression of what is really going on within one’s invisible self, the spirit.— H.” We are so busy that we do not take time to think. We imagine that we must be forever on the go. Activity is only a part of life; it should be directed by thought.— Munroe. One mill lost much money because threads often broke in the looms. This led to a study of the cause; better thread was provided; breakage ceased, and money was saved. Thinking did this.— Miller. “A business man, who had ‘made good,’ addressed a business class of a Young Men’s Christian Association, and told of a country boy who wanted to go to a
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