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you can. Be thorough in all you do, and remember that though ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always des picable. Quit you like men; be strong, and exercise your strength. Work on ward and upward, and may the blessing of the Most High soothe your cares, clear your vision, and crown your labors with reward! The story is told of General Lee, that on one occasion he was in consultation with one of his officers in regard to the movements of his army. A plain farmer’s boy overheard the remark that he had de cided to march upon Gettysburg instead of Harrisburg. ! The boy telegraphed the information to Governor Curtin. The governor said, “I would give my right hand to know whether that is true or not.” A corporal standing .near said, “Governor, I know that boy; it is im possible for him to lie. There is not a drop of false blood in his veins.” Soon the Union troops were on their way to Gettysburg, where the most decisive vic tory of the war was won by the Federal forces. Thus character gives power and worth to any life, however humble. Char acter gives protection, character gives honor, character gives blessedness, char acter gives success, as someone has said, and there is no other. Work as hard when your employer is out of the room as when he is looking at you. If you make a mistake, own up; don’t try to hide it. If you must lose time at your work, through sickness, perhaps, try to make it up to your em ployer; give full measure of time as you expect full measure of pay. Honesty is as much needed in matters of time and painstaking as in money matters. Be an honest seller of labor.— C. E. World. Heaven knows, when there are so many abuses, we ought to thank a man who will hunt them out. I will never believe that a man has a real love for the good and beautiful, except he attacks the evil and the disgusting the moment he sees it! Therefore you must make up your mind to see me, with God’s help, a hunter-out of abuses till the abuses cease J—only till then. It is very easy to turn our eyes away from ugly sights, and- so consider ourselves refined.— Chas Kings ley. Alas! Many q f my little friends know too many secrets, which are even now destroying their innocence and virtue, and will yet cause them sorrow, bitter and lasting. I wish to give you a simple rule as a guide to you in the matter of secrets. When any companion says, “I’ll tell you a secret if you won’t tell anybody,” ask at once, -“Is it fit for me to tell my mother or my father?” and if they say “No,” then decide at once that it is not right for you to hear, A friend of mine the other day, a noble fellow, when a person was going to tell him an unhappy secret, jumped up, saying, “My father would not like me to listen to that. Good-night, sir,” and at once left the room.— The Happy Secret. Wihen speaking of a 'man who is chivali- rous towards women, we call him a
With the English army, instead of making a hurried retreat. One of these pub-( lished a book containing many interesting incidents of the siege. “The enemy,” said he, “succeeded in placing 32 guns on the heights above the town and kept up such an incessant fire that the troops and ci vilians were soon engaged in digging bomb-proof shelters. In a short time they learned to distinguish the different Boer guns by their sound, and gave them amusing names. Three of these large ones they called ‘Long Tom,’ ‘Puffin' Billy,’ and ‘Weary Willie.’ Then there was ‘Silent Susan,’ so named because the bursting of a shell was the first warn ing we got that it had been fired. ‘Bloody Mary,’ as you may suppose, was looked upon as a beast of a gun. On Christmas Day the enemy saluted the happy morn by salvos of shells. The first two that fell into the camps of Carbineers and the Imperial Light Horse, did not ■burst. When the shells were picked up it was found that wooden plugs had been in serted in the place of fuses, and inside the shells were plum puddings. On the outside were the words, ‘With the com pliments of the season.’” The associa tions of Christmas thus influence men on the battlefield, as is seen, until guns either lessen their destructive work or halt en tirely for a time, or even send plum puddings and the compliments of the sea son to those whom they are supposed to destroy. When the deepest meaning of Christmas is understood by humanity, and its great message is allowed full power in the hearts of men, then destructive guns shall be forever silent, and army shall no more meet army bent on slaughter. The truce shall be not merely for an hour or a day, but for all time. November 17, 1929 What Should Young Men and Women Expect of Each Other? 2 Pet. 1:2-11 D aily R eadings Nov. 11. Courtesy. 1 Cor. 13:4, 5. Nov. 12. Honesty. 2 Cor. 8:21. Nov. 13. Friendliness. Acts 16:14, 15. Nov. 14. Purity. 1 Tim. 1 :5. Nov. 15. Sociability. John 12:1-8. Nov. 16. Respect. Phil. 4:8. C hoice N uggets Four things a man must learn to do, If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely. Gladstone’s Advice to Young Men.—Be sure that every one of you has his place and vocation on this earth, and that it rests with himself to find it. Do not be lieve those who too lightly say, “Nothing succeeds like success.” Effort—honest, manful, humble effort—succeeds by its reflected action, especially in youth, bet ter than success, which, indeed, too easily and too early gained, not seldom serves, like winning the throw of the dice, to blind and stupefy. Get knowledge, all — o —
stood one morning at the door of his tent, the soldiers in blue in the distance, beside him the soldiers in gray, a battle being imminent, he offered a prayer like this: ‘O God, bring quick victory to one army or the other. O God, settle this cruel warfare, and send us back to our homes, to our God-given purpose of win ning men to Jesus Christ.’ ”— From “Men and Religion.” A French soldier who had been killed was found to have inside his tunic a Testament, upon the fly-leaf of which were written these words : “Given me at -----------:—. First despised, then read, and finally blessed to the saving of my soul.” —The Expositor. “One soldier boy sent him a khaki- bound copy of the New Testament such as the doughboys carried into the trenches with them, asking him to read it every day. He kept this agreement, never fail ing to read this khaki-bound Testament. And no matter how hard he had worked during the day, or how late the hour at night, he read that Testament and kept faith with the boys.” A pistol shot, fired June 28, 1914, in time of peace, started the greatest war in the history of the world; brought twenty-seven nations to arms ; cost ten million lives ; and destroyed fifty billion dollars' worth of property without count ing that used in actual war material, while over two hundred billion dollars’ worth of the productive wealth of the na tions that went to war has been mort gaged, much of which now seems unre coverable. The ten million lives lost in clude those sacrificed through atrocities and massacres as well as through battle. The pistol shot put an end to the life of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, at Serajevo, Austria. Now contrast that event, the pistol shot at Serajevo, and the unspeakably tragic train of events that followed in four years, with another sin gle event, the birth of a little baby boy in Bethlehem nineteen centuries ago, and the chain of events that have followed and will yet follow. One was Satan’s work, the other, God’s. A ship’s compass is so adjusted as to keep its level amidst all the heavings of the sea. Though forming part of a struc ture that feels every motion of the rest less waves, it has an arrangement of its own that keeps it always in place and in working order. Look at it when you will, it is pointing—trembling, perhaps, but truly—to the pole. So each soul in this life needs an adjustment of its own, that amid the fluctuations of the “earthen ves sel” it may be kept ever in a position to feel the power of its great attraction in the skies. A nation adjusted right to ward God will have peace. A world so adjusted will have peace. In his address at the funeral of former President Wilson, the Rev. Dr. James H. Taylor said:
When the Boers advanced on Lady smith in the Transvaal War some news paper correspondents threw in their lot
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