T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S proaches the true the more dangerous is it.” “Life cannot be good if the teach ing is bad.” “Doctrine lies at the root of life.” “It were better for us if we •had not heard some sermons, for our life was never the same after the hearing.” “The minister is an errand-bearer—he has to tell what God tells him in the Bible.” “Be true then, to God,” SQUEEZING AND SQUIRMING Ari illiberal Christian was listening to a charity-sermon. He was nearly deaf, and accustomed to sit facing the con gregation, right under the pulpit, with his ear-trumpet directed upward, to wards the preacher. The sermon moved him considerably. At one time, he said to himself. “I’ll give ten dollars:” again, he said, “I’ll give fifteen.” At the close of the appeal he was very much moved, and thought he would give fifty dollars. Now the boxes , were passed- As they moved along, his charity began to ooze out. He came down from fifty to twenty, to ten, to five, to - zero. He concluded that he would not give anything. “Yet,” said he, “this won’t do: I am in sc bad fix. My hopes of heaven may be in this question. This covetousness will be my ruin.” The boxes were getting nearer and nearer. TJie crisis was upon him. What should he do? The box was now under his chin: all the congregation were looking. He had' been holding his pocket-book in his hand during this sol iloquy, which was half audible, though, in his deafness, he did not know that he was heard. In the agony of the final moment, he took his pocket-book, and laid it in the box, saying to himself as he did it, “Now squirm, old natur’!” - IT CAN’T BE DONE All attempts to make the real Gospel palatable to worldly men must be unsuc cessful: it always was, and always will be “Foolishness” to such as are in the road to destruction: and the only way to render it inoffensive is to leave out or but slightly touch on the offensive parts of it.^Thos. Scott.
670 ual well-being as they were prejudiced against Christianity. After her Jewish difficulties were cleared up, the matter of a prompt and personal decision was again pressed upon her and she respond ed by saying, “X find it comparatively easy to believe that Jesus Christ died for others, but hard to believe He died for me .’1 The Word of God, with its mes sage, “He that heareth My Word and be- lieveth,” settled this last point. Then the question was asked, “Will you now accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour?” but lost in thought, and still undecided, she did not answer. The question was repeated; and raising both hands high in the air and dropping them' with force to the arms of the chair, she said, “I will.” “There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that re- penteth.” FEAR THE FALSE Here are a few quotations from a sermon by Dr. Joseph Parker: “False Prophets.” “Beware of false in everything^—false coin, false medicine, false direction, false promises and false prophets. False prophets allure men to the wide gate, under the pretence that it is strait.” “Let the word, false, go wobing other where, but let it keep a thousand miles from the snoddike purity of the Church of Christ.” “False teacher, false thinker, false pro fessor and false prophet. It is in that line that lying does its worst mischief.” “The swallowing power of some men is a painful mystery to- their Creator.” “I will tell' you what some men can do —they can strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. They will not believe in mir acles. Who can believe anything with so- roomy a •throat”? “In all ages the false has followed the true. I do not wonder, for even now it is an excellent speculation.” “Falseness brings the true to trouble.” “Of your own selves shall men arise and speak perverse things to draw away disciples after them.” “The nearer the false ap-
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