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I saw the nations rise and fall Like fire-gleams on ■ the whitened wall; I saw them draw the stormy hem Of battle ’round Jerusalem. Who trembled at my warning word? Who owned the prophet of the Lord? O prophet of the beating heart, For God’s great purpose set apart, Before whose far-discerning eyes The future as the present lies, Beyond a narrow-minded age Stretches thy prophet’s heritage; Through heaven’s dim spaces, angel- trod, Through arches ’round the throne of of God! Thy audience, worlds!—all time to be The witness of the Truth in thee! Whittier. NOT UP TO DATE A traveling-man, the story goes, one night found himself obliged to remain in a small town on account of a wash out on the railroad. The rain was still coming down in torrents. The traveling man turned to the waitress. “This certainly looks like the Flood.” “The what?” “The F,lood. You’ve read about the Flood, and the ark landing on Mount Ararat, surely.” “My! mister, I ain’t seen a paper for three days.” LITERAL INTERPRETATION “And when the prodigal son came home, what happened Tommy?” “His father ran to meet him and hurt himself.” “Why where did you get that?” “It said that the father ran and fell on his neck. I bet it would hurt you to fall on your neck.”
hands twice and heads are bowed for silent prayer. Another hand clap and the school is seated with a crash and the lesson begins. Then come the re view questions something on this wise: “Is there any God beside Jehovah?” “No,” with a mighty shout. What about people who worship idols?” “They are ignorant and crazy,” answers an older boy. Surely, heathenism is being dealt with here, and hopeful it is for Korea that these lively, growing children are being turned from the darkness of idolatry to the Light of the world.—Missionary Review of the World. Relative to the sermon by Newell Dwight Hillis which recently appeared in “The Family Altar,” and concerning which this magazine contained an edi torial in our February issue, we are glad to call attention to the explanation which has since appeared in The Family Altar. “It was very unfortunate that the sermon of Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis was allowed to go into the last number of the magazine. Its publication was re quested by some of our readers. It was read by one of the editors, but not with the care that should have been exer cised. It was a mistake, and we are sorry for it. The editor will take full responsibility for it, and thus hopes to relieve the League of any embarrass ment. Let it be distinctly understood, however, that neither the editor nor the League sympathizes with the teaching of the sermon relative to salvation.” ¿¿g jai AN APOLOGY
WHITTIER’S VISION I saw, far down the coming time, The fiery chastisement of crime, With noise of mingling hosts, and jar, Of falling towers and shouts of war;
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