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the wisdom of Solomon and th e patience of Job. Much of the difficulty would dis appear, however, if God were taken in to account and if parents would avail themselves of his help: To begin with the child should be dedicated to God and then prayer will secure Divine assistance in overcoming inherited tendencies, in preventing unseemly habits and even changing the natural disposition. There are instances of children addicted to vio lent and uncontrollable outbursts of tem per of such character th a t some have re garded them as due to demoniacal posses sion, being so changed by prayer th a t the result seemed nothing short of m iracu lous. A child 'may be ruined by parental indulgence, or run wild through parental neglect or become what he ought not to be by perverse education, but if a child be dedicated to God and brought up in the nurture and admonition of th e Lord, his life will be a perpetual benediction, whose memory will be frag ran t While the world shall stand. '^14. , ■ Jfc Sfe IS THIS YOUR ARGUMENT? The following has been often printed, but it has a message for Christians, show ing the weakness and selfishness of the strongest arguments against missions, and we pass it on. Why I do not believe in foreign mis sions. 1. I have a friend who once met a man who said his wife’s second cousin had been on a tour around the world and he said the m issionaries were doing more harm than good. 2. The religion of other peoples is as natural for them as ours is for us and ju st suits their needs. We have no right to go out and disturb the faith and cus toms of such peoples as th e cannibals and bring them Christianity which is, of course, purely an American invention and happens to suit us. 3. There is so much need a t home, so many hospitals and schools th a t need to be supported th a t I do not believe in send ing thousands of dollars to the ends of the earth where there a re no hospitals and schools. Besides the people are ac
customed to dying out there and do not feel it as we do at home. '4. It would be better if the money used for foreign missions was used for the imm igrants in th e United States. They get so hard and spoiled after they have tjeen here for a while that some thing ought to be donei for them immedi ately on arrival seeing th a t unfortunately so little has been done for them in their own homes before they get heie. 5. Many of the young missionaries sent out to the foreign fields lose their lives there and I do not feel life should be risked in this foolhardy way. It is an other case of the modern disregard of human life about which I was talking to my wife when out in our car last Sunday afternoon, which fills the Mon day papers w ith awful accounts of auto accidents. 6. Foreign missions are not interest ing and I freely confess th a t 1 know noth ing about them.—Bromide -Smith. THE SENSITIVE DOOR “ In one of the great jewelry stores in the metropolis th ere is a safe th a t has a peculiar door. There are the usual heavy doors of steel, bu t outside these th ere is a simple, wooden door. Let any one so much as touch a finger to this wooden door, and an alarm is given in the office of a detective agency in an other p a rt of the city. W hat a lesson th a t sensitive door teaches about prayer! The door to th e Presence of God is a sensitive door. Touch it however lightly w ith the finger of faith and the word goes Up to th e ear of God. P rayer is not a m atter of sp iritu al mechanism, nor is it an artificial process of lifting one’s self to God, or bringing God down to earth. R ath er it is ju st the touch of faith upon the sensitive door, which opens to the Holy of Holies where God is.”—-Sophie T ittesington.
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