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and to judge the Omnipotent One by man’s little laws?” “Nay, but, O man, who art thou that dis- putest with God? (margin'). Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus ?—Rom. 9 :20. “O the depth of the riches both of wis dom and knowledge of God! how unsearch able are his judgments and his ways past finding out 1 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who.hath been his counsellor ?”—Rom. 11:33, 34. “How were thine eyes opened?” John 11: 10. That was a practical question in thera peutics, how a birth-blind man could be made to see, if they meant to use the pre scription. But if they wished to know the metaphysical “how” of it, their question was a vain one. He could tell what jje did and what followed; who sent him, how he went, -how he washed, but how he saw he could not tell nor they discover. So we cannot tell how a man may be saved, but how he is saved no man knows. Much time, study and labor is spent to tell the “how?” that should be spent to “tell the story.” “D aniel Q uorum ” tells us this story: “When I was a little boy helpin’ mother to store away the apples, I put my arm round ever so many o’ them, an’ tried to bring them all. I managed for a step or two. Then one fell out, an’ another, an’ two or three more, till they was all rollin’ over the floor. Mother laughed. ‘Now Daniel,’ says she, ‘I’m goin’ to teach you a lesson.’ She put my little hands quite tight ’round one. ‘There,’ said she, ‘bring that, an’ then fetch another.’ I’ve often thought about it when I’ve seen folks who might be doin’ ever so •much good, if they didn’t try to do too much all at once. Don’t go tryin’ to put your arms round a year; an’ don’t go troublin’ about next week. Wake up in the mornin’ an’ think like this: ‘Here’s an other day come. Whatever I do,, an’ what ever I don’t do, Lord help me to do this —help me to live it to Thee.” One day at a time, one hour, one minute
A B rahman said to a missionary: “We are finding you out. You are not so good as your Book. If you were as good as your .Book, you would conquer India for Christ in five years,” B elievest thou ? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldly? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the con fession thereof, and the cross, follow one upon another.— Luther. Y oung and rather inexperienced girl teacher: “Children, you must be good and obey all the commandments, and if you do you’ll go to heaven and that will be perfect ly lovely; but if you’re naughty and do bad things, you’ll all go to hell and that would be perfectly ridiculous!’’ T he people of the United States have a good deal to say about hard times, but we are able to spend over five billion dollars a year for liquors, tobacco, jewelry, auto mobiles, candy, soft drinks, patent medi cines, chewing gum and a few other items of luxury. L ord , I have a busy world around me. Eye, ear and thought will be needed for all my work to be done in this busy world. Now, ere I enter on it, I would commit eye, ear and thought to Thee. Do Thou bless them and keep their work Thine, that as through Thy natural laws my heart beats, and my blood flows without any thought of mine, so my spiritual life may hold on its course at these times when my mind cannot consciously turn to Thee to commit each particular thought to Thy serv ice.— Dr. Arnold of Rugby. “C an the ant creep up into the brain of a man, to see man’s world as man sees it? Yet has man, whose whole world is in the eyes of God but as one ant in a universe, thought to creep into God’s brain, to see as He sees, to think as He thinks,
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