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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I NE S S mythical cross, nor a silver or gold cross to wear on a chain,—but the hated cross against which rulers rail and chief priests pronounce, and the multi tudes malign; the cruel cross where there are nails and blood and spear thrusts,—to take up such a cross and follow Him ! You cannot get many such men from the schools and seminaries now, for there men are confronted at every turn with question marks concerning the verity of God’s'Word, and the need of an atonement; there the atmos phere is perfumed with theories of the Fatherhood of God and the Brother hood of man; there it is “ milk and water” rather than “ iron and blood.” If we are to have men they must come from the school from which God-called the prophets, and from which Christ called His disciples; the school where faith lays hold of the prophetic Word and where the heart is laid^ against the heart of our Lord, and where from that heart has been imbibed the sympathy and compassion that compel a glad following to the uttermost parts of the earth with a Gospel of good news to the lost, a mes sage of salvation by grace to the lowly and to the lowest. , Money,—yes ! •Money to burn. But men,—alas, where are the men to come from? Men ready to bum if need he, bum at the stake? —T. C. H. as afe N oisy Nothings A man sought to contract with a hotel-keeper to deliver to him a car load of frog’s hind legs. It was more than the manager could think of using. “ Well,” said the man, “ I will bring you a hundred dozen.” But even that was too many. They finally compromised upon a dozen of dozens. When the frog-catcher returned he had secured a half dozen hind legs, and reported that he had seined the pond and finally drained it, and the'result was only the half dozen. He had thought from the noise they made that the pond was full. What a lot of noise the “ HIGHER CRICKETS” make! You would think from the fuss and feathers that they had discovered a new frog pond. You need not be afraid to contract with them for a carload of.mistakes and errors in the Bible. They can never make delivery. It is always the same old Jonah story, and the question of where did Cain get his wife. What a lot of noise they do make f But have you ever noticed that they never de liver the goods? Mary Baker Eddy said a brilliant thing and very apropos in this connection,—although she meant it for truth, “ The nothingness of nothing is nothing!’ ’ Meditate on it. __T. C. H. m m m OUIJAMANIA The ouija board is on the boom. The devil is certainly working over time, yes, all the time. He is working hard in the schools and churches, and won’t even let his followers go in peace to perdition, but is setting them crazy. Twelve hundred people in a little town in California,—El Cerrito__ are said to he subject to examination as to their sanity, following an epi-
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