THÈ KING’S BUSINESS
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Travelers' in China relate that at the criminal courts there are two large books. The names o f those who are adjudged innocent are written in the “ Book o f Life,” and those guilty in the “ Book o f Death.” No name can be in both books at the same time. Neither can your name be in the Lamb’s Book o f Life while you are under condemnation, nor need you haye fear o f death and judgment if you are His. “ Dancing in the public schools in Boston is responsible for conditions o f immorality that are almost as bad as the white slave trafïiç,” declared Bishop W . F. Mallallieu, o f the Methodist Church in Tremont Tem ple recently, at the memorial service for the late Charles Nelson Crittenden, founder o f the Florence Crittenden missions. “There ought to be a state law against dancing in any public school,” he declared. “ The theater is a school o f vice and a destroyer o f morals and the nude statues and improper pictures sold on our street corners, and the vile literature which some journals publish—all these are corrupting the morals o f the young and lowering the standard o f morality among the older peo ple and leading to the white slave traffic.” A missionary to India once said, “ If a man is ill and I run for a physician and reach the doctor too late, I am not to blame. But if when I started to run I knew there was a horse ready to take' me faster than my feet would carry me and I deliberately ignored the horse and went on foot and returned too late, then I am to blame. I fear much o f my work in India has been on foot instead o f on horseback, has been in the energy o f the flesh rather than in the power o f the Holy Spirit.” .
The Unseen Hand Take heed that ye do not %our righteous ness before men, to be seen of them . . . . thy Father who seeth in secret shall recom pense thee—Matt. vi. 1-4- He held the lamp o f truth that day So low that none .could miss the w ay; _ And yet so, high, to bring in sight That picture fair—the world’s great Light— That, gazing up, the lamp between, The hand that held it scarce was seen. He held the pitcher, stooping low To lips of little'ones below; Then raised it to the weary saint, And bade him drink,' when sick and faint. They drank—the pitcher thus between, The hand that held it scarce was seen. He blew the! trumpet soft and clear, That trembling sinners need not fear; And then, .with louder note and bold To raze the walls o f Satan’s hold. The trumpet coming thus between, The hand that held it scarce was seen. But when the Captain says, “Well done, Thou good and faithful servant—come! Lay down the pitcher and the lamp;, Lay down the trumpet—leave the camp.” These weary hands will then be seen Clasped in those pierced ones—naught between. —Selected. “A friend who is orthodox enough to bother his head over what the higher crit ics do to the Bible is still o f the opinion that the Bible suffers a lot worse from the operations o f folks who are not as much critics as they ought to be. Studying the Bible may conceivably come out to a bad result for some folks, but not studying it at all, or not studying it, rather, always has bad results.”
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