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C hoice N uggets If I were a cobbler, I’d make it my pride The best of all. cobblers to be; If I were a tinker, no tinker beside Should mend an old kettle like me. But whether a tinker, or whether a lord, Whatever my station may be, Determined to play second fiddle to none, I’ll climb to the top of the tree; Let who will be second, the first I’m de termined to be. A youth was rubbing his hands one day in self-congratulatory delight, as he said to his pastor, “I see my way to a first-rate business.” “And what then?” asked the other. “Oh, I suppose I shall marry and set up a house of my own.” “And what then?” was again the inquiry. “Why, I shall by and by retire, and en joy my fortune.” “And what then?” “Well, I suppose I must make up my mind to die.” “And what then?” The young man was silent, for now he saw what the other was meaning; and he had not thought of making provision for the future in the way of “laying up treasure in heaven.” In strong contrast with such a purpose in life is that of the artist who, when asked why he took such pains about a picture he had in hand, replied, “I am painting for eternity.” God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.— Robert Collyer. J Dr. Luther H. Gulick has said: “The best work that most of us do is not be gun in our offices or at our desks, but when we wander in the woods or sit with undirected thoughts. From somewhere at such times, ideas flash into our minds that direct and control our lives—visions, new aspirations and desires. The great ideas come largely during quiet and with out being sought. We need to do nothing at times when we are as well as possible arid when our natures are ready for their very finest product. The man who never takes time to do nothing will hardly do great things—will hardly have epoch- making ideas or stimulating ideals. We need occasionally to leave our natures un directed that we may receive messages by ‘wireless’ from the Unseen.” W h e n Thorwaldsen w a s a s k e d , “Which is your greatest statue?” he re plied, “The next one.” “If I cease to become better,” Cromwell is said to have written in his Bible, “I shall cease to be good.” Even the best may be bettered. Indeed, it must be bettered if it is not to grow worse. We are meant to advance always upon our past. All that we gain each year is meant to be, not a level on which we will stop, but a place from which we will ascend. This means that we must plan and purpose to go on to bet ter things—that good resolutions are necessary to moral and spiritual advance ment. For this reason, if for no other, good resolutions are a duty. A New York evening paper Saturday, May 21, 1927, the date of Lindbergh’s flight, contained, on one of the inside pages, a rather elaborate demonstration by some expert showing that Lindbergh Could not make his goal. But the first page of that paper, printed later, had flung across the top of it in gigantic let ters the news that Lindbergh had ar rived.
In an hour when we hear so much of wild petting parties, licentious dancing, and other delinquencies of youth, how refreshing it is to read in the papers of a covenant entered into by twenty splendid young students in the University of Ne braska, that reads like this: “I will live my life under God for others rather than for myself; for the advancement of the kingdom of God rather than my personal success. I will not drift into my life work, but I will do the utmost by prayer, investigation, medi tation, and service, to discover that form and place of life work in which I can be come of the largest use to the kingdom of God, As I find it, I will follow it un der the leadership of Jesus Christ, where soever it takes me, cost what it may.” Any one of those splendid young folks means infinitely more to the welfare of mankind than a thousand Valentinos, about whom the world makes much ado. The world seems to have lost all sense of real values. God still has His people, who are “the salt of the earth,” though the world knows them not. —o— T he D aily D ozen 1. Submit your will to the will of God. 2. Let the Spirit of God come into your life and give you sincere repentance for sin. 3. Confess your sin to God and your faults to those you have wronged. 4. Choose to be all He wants you to be. 5. Study, the Word for wisdom and understanding. 6. Draw near to God in prayer, and He will endue you with power. 7. Anoint your eyes with the eyesalve of truth, that your vision may be en larged, that eternal realities may be mag nified in your experience. 8. Be temperate in all things. 9. Serve others if you would have a song of joy upon your lips and enduring happiness within your life. 10. Build within your heart a castle.of character, whose stones are the golden virtues' of the sinless One. 11. Take the Lord into partnership with you; in business or in pleasure, at home or among strangers, let Jesus, as the senior Partner,, direct in your affairs. 12. In a word, “stand therefore, hav ing your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteous ness ; and your feet shod with the prepa ration of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith . . . and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit: . . . praying always, . . . and watching.” The list of qualities enumerated by President Coolidge as appearing in the files of the Militia Bureau of the War De partment concerning Charles Lindbergh, are worthy of preservation by all who feel that they have in them the possibility of growth. Here they are: Intelligent, Industrious, Energetic, De pendable, Purposeful, Alert, Quick of Re action, Serious, Deliberate, Stable, Effi cient, Frank, Modest, Congenial.— The Ohio Work.
Five World Problems B y C harles E. J efferson , D.D., L.L.D. Minister Broadway Tabernacle Church, New York City. Reviewed by Rev. H. W. Kellogg The problems discussed in this volume of 1S3 pages are those of India, the Philippines, China, Japan and Hawaii. The five chapters of the book are five lectures out of the eighteen delivered be fore his own people by Dr. Jefferson after his return from a year’s tour of the world. These lectures have the freshness that comes from swift, penetrating obser vation on the part of an alert mind that comes for the first time face to face with the subjects he discusses. The author makes no pretense of speaking with final ity on the problems discussed, but he has seen many things with clearness and has the ability to make his American audience see situations concerning which most Americans are but dimly informed. The problem of India with its vast ter ritory, its population of 330,000,000, its 222 languages and countless dialects, and its 330,000,000 gods, is far too complex even for a statement in a book review. The problem is more British than American, but is so vast that intelligent Americans cannot ignore it. The Philippine problem is our own. It cannot be settled with a wave of the hand. Shall we give up the Islands? If we do, it may precipitate civil war, political an archy, economic ruin, possibly a world war. Then, again, we need a commercial base near to the teeming East; we need a naval base; we need a religious base. Then the Islands are rich in resources and products. More than all, we have a sacred responsibility. They need us. On the other hand, why should we give them up? They do not want us. We promised them independence. They are becoming suspicious. The risks are not so formidable as they seem. We must get out some day. All of these arguments are elaborated in the book before us until we realize the magnitude and diversity of the Philippine problem. Similarly the problem of China, Japan and Hawaii are dealt with in clearness, and above all, with fairness to the peo ples involved. Until Americans can enter sympathetically into situations that in volve vastly more than our own political or commercial prosperity, we must re main hopelessly provincial. Fleming H. Revell Co., Publishers. Price $1.50. Dr. Calkins says though a preacher possess every other qualification, “if he lacks, or in proportion as he lacks, a deep vital and personal experience of God and of Christian revelation of God, he is sure to fail as a preacher. For preach ing is simply the uttering of one’s own experience.”
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