202 THE KING’S BUSINESS and common sense, and therefore resorts to this puerile form of'defense which will deceive no one, but which will lower General Funston in the estimation of fair-minded men. We are all liable to make mistakes, but when we have made a mistake so serious as was made in this case, the wisest thing to do is to own up our mistake. It is to be hoped that the Executive Board of the Baptist General Convention will press this matter in the quarters where it ought to be pressed, that is before the United States Government, and not through the public press.
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THE PURPOSES OF GOD MRS. EMILY LEADER In the Christian Workers Magazine T HE purposes of God! Displayed in every flower, 1 In sun, in moon and firmament, e’en in the summer shower. In dancing, glist’ning sea-waves, in tower ing mountains grand, In every whisp’ring brook and stream which ripples through the land. The purposes of God! How grand and wondrous sweet, - To know that in His purposes my life is all complete! Though threat’ning low the clouds may hang, though wildly storms assail, Secure and strong my anchor! His pur poses never fail. The purposes of God! Though earth with . blood be red, Though death and carnage everywhere in boldness seem to tread. Though pity seems forgotten and men their brothers slay, I know Gqd’s purposes, His plan, will be revealed some day. The purposes of God! There rests my weary soul, As on a rock in angry sea« when wild the billows' roll, There may I lay life’s mystery, its deepest grief and pain, Secure that over all'supreme, God’s pur poses do reign.
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