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“Why, no,” said the man, “I have not met with any disappointment.” “Yes,” said J)anicj, “you were expecting something remarkable today.” “What do you mean?” said the friend- “Why, you prayed that you might be kept sweet and gentle all day long. And, by the way things have been going, I see you have been greatly disappointed.” “Oh,” said the man, “I thought you meant something particular. I remember at one of our testimony meetings a man got up and said he had got a great blessing at Keswick. They asked him, “What can you say about it?” “Well,” he replied, “I can say this: I was a Christian before I came to Keswick. Christ was my.King, but I am afraid He was a constitutional sovereign and I was prime minister. Now he is absolute Lord,1 and that has made the difference in my life and brought a blessing.” Aye, that makes all the difference in the world. “Make Jesus j^ing,” “Crown Him Lord of all, and you will know the liberty of the glory of the sons of the kingdom. A visitor at a school for the deaf and dumb once wrote this question on the black board: “Why has God made me to hear and speak, and made you deaf and dumb?” •The awful sentence fell upon the little ones like a blow in the face. They sat palsied before that dreadful “why.” Finally a little girl with trembling lips arose. Her eyes were swimming with tears. Straight to the board she walked, and, picking up the crayon, wrote with a firm hand these prec ious words: “Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight. ’ What a reply! It reaches up and lays hold of an eternal truth upon which the maturest believer as well as the youngest child of God may alike unshakably rest. When Mahmoud, the conqueror of India, had taken the city of Gujarat, he proceeded, as was his custom, to destroy the idols. There was one, fifteen feet high, which its priests and devotees begged him to spare. He was deaf to their entreaties, and seiz-
“The Chicago Vice Commission charges the dance hall with being one of the chief contributors to the delinquency of youth in that city, and the feeder of private and public prostitution.” “You can’t do down into the mine with that white dress on I” said one of a party of young women to another. She appealed to the miner who was conducting the party —“Can I not go in this,white suit?” “Why yes, Miss,” he answered, “you kin go down in it, but I don’t think you kin come out in white.” The dailiness of life is a great thing to learn. Day by day we receive our bread. Day by •day let us give account. of our selves to God. Day by day let us finish the work that is given to us to do. Let each day be a world in itself and let us not close the book until we can write at the bottom of the page, “It is finished.”—A B. Simpson. “It is not strange to hear certain dubious people assert, ‘I do not agree with St. Paul.’ I remember the first time that I heard this expression I looked at the indi vidual with astonishment. I was amazed that such a pigmy should say this of the great Apostle. It seemed like a cheesemite differing from a cherub, or a handful ^of chaff discussing the verdict of the fire. The weight of a load depends upon the attraction of the earth. But suppose the attraction of the earth were removed. A ton on. some other planet, where the at traction of gravity is less, does not weigh half a ton. Now, Christianity removes thq attraction of tjhe earth, and this is one way in which it diminishes men’s burdens. It makes them citizens of another world. What was a ton yesterday is not half a ton today. Mark Guy Pearse tells of the quaint Yorkshire class leader, Daniel Quorm, who was visiting a friend. One forenoon he came to the friend and said, “I am sorry you have met with such a great disap pointment,”
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