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saved. In their struggles the two men were thrown on the shore of a little is land and were rescued, but the boats containing the remainder of the crew were blown out to sea by the gale and lost. If we lose sight of self and think only of the cause of Christ, He will save us for all the glory which He is prepar ing for us. , A Jew’s Commendation. —In the city of Richmond many years ago a signifi cant event took place. A certain elevat ed part of the city was recognized by a real estate firm as destined to become the most fashionable part of the city. A little church building had been erected here and a mission church established. The members of this church worshipped their Lord with great enthusiasm. As costly residences were erected near the church, the owners finally became dis turbed by the singing. These ultra- fashionable people said, “It won’t do; they disturb the quiet of our homes with their enthusiasm. They appointed a com mittee to go to the city council with a petition and have the church declared a nuisance. They brought the petition to a Jew, having no doubt he would be the first to sign it. To their surprise he said, “Gentlemen, I cannot sign it. If I believed as do these Christians, that my Messiah had come, I would shout it from every housetop and on every street of Richmond, and nobody could stop me.” “They Shall Desire to Die, and Death Shall Flee From Them,” Rev. 9:6.—On bended knees, Jesus Yriqui begged Judge Crow today to sentence him to be hanged in expiation of the murders of Carlos Andrada and Juan Hernan dez on Christmas Day, but the court refused, sending him to San Quentin instead. Yriqui pleaded- guilty several days ago, interrupting his trial to do so, and today when brought into court for sentence he fell on his knees before the bench and supplicated the court to put him to death. “I am guilty,” he moaned. “I am bad. Every night I see the faces of those dead men before me. I cannot sleep or eat. I want to be hanged.” Judge Crow looked at the suppliant figure and ordered the court bailiff to hold Yriqui up while sentence was im posed. Then he sentenced the trem bling, moaning prisoner to life imprison ment in San Quentin.—Los Angeles Daily
So Many Hypocrites. —A visiting 'bish op in Washington was arguing with a gentleman friend of his on the desirabil ity of attending church. At last he put the question squarely: “What is your personal reason for not attending?” The gentleman smiled, in a no-offense- intended way, as he replied: “The fact is, one finds so many hypo crites there.” Returning the smile, the bishop said: “Don’t let that keep you away; there is always room for one more.” The Bible Self-Vindicating. —A Hin doo was brought to forsake idolatry through a leaf of the Bible that came into his possession, upon which was the 51st Psalm, the prayer of David for cleansing. This was his gospel for twenty years, then he met a missionary who gave him a Testament, when he ex claimed, “Twenty years I have walked by star-light, now I see the sun." When Wilmot, the infidel, lay dying, he placed his hand upon the Bible, and said solemn ly and with energy, “The only objection against that is a bad life.” The Veil Removed. —“The boy who was blind makes the best expression of taken off. When he opened his eyes in heaven to me,” says Dr. J. Wilbur Chap man. “The doctor had cut away the ob struction from his eyes, and the bandages placed there were removed one by one until after a little while they had all been silent wonder, as if a new world had been opened to him, he beheld his mother, and yet he did not know that it was she. Finally he heard her famil iar voice asking him, ‘My son, can you see?’ He sprang into her arms, exclaim ing, ‘Oh, mother, is this heaven?’ Heav en is vision; it is having the obstructions and bandages removed; it is looking into the face of our loved ones; it is seeing our Saviour face to face." “He That Shall Lose His Life, Shall Save It.” —Several years ago there was an account in a Boston newspaper of a three-masted schooner which was wreck ed off the Maine coast in a terrible storm on a cold, black night in December. The crew put out in two boats. One was so crowded that she was in imminent dan ger of swamping. Two of the men vol untarily jumped into the sea, thinking to lose their lives that the others might be
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