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law. O f .many another could this doggerel be truthfully spoken concerning a man: *Who spent his health to get his wealth. And then with might and main He turned around and spent his wealth To get his health again,” THE SOUL NEEDS IT Third, man has a soul. A great jurist recently said: “ In this strenuous age, our republic, instead of making light of one Sabbath, ought to have two each week, not only to re pair its jaded nerves, but to tone up its moral sense.” We have not fulfilled all the command when we have rested the body and diverted the mind. The soul has its rights, and not to recognize them is to leave our nature a truncated cone, the highest, finest part left undeveloped. We read of Jesus that “He went as His custom was into the synagogue on the Sab bath day.” That His soul might keep its tryst with God, have larger breathing space, clearer light, and glimpses of .the cen ter of the spiritual universe, in which our spirits join and have their being. If Jesus needed that privilege, much more do we ordinary men. The shell fishes on the sea-shore live without water while the tide is out, but they depend upon the tide’s return. If any of them are tossed by the waves beyond the reach of the tides, they die. Our souls are refreshed and nourished by communion with our Father in prayer, and through the means of grace provided by Divine worship on the Lord’s Day. I t is then we lay hold of our best yearnings, and stiffen them into fighting fibre for victorious warfare with the world, the flesh and the devil. The artist Turner kept on his easel a handful of precious stones of beautiful colors. For a half hour each morning he would silently sit and gaze at those glorious tints. He said he did this to keep his color-sense acute. If the artist’s eye needed that influence to keep its color sense toned up, surely
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