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not give away so much to the miser able poor folks.” Farther on she saw a tiny cottage being built. “ And who is that for?” she asked. “ That is for you.” “ But I have lived in a mansion on earth. I would not know how to live in a cottage.” “ But,” answered the guide, “ The Master Builder is doing the best he can with the material that is being sent up.” The Life Worth While. Coleridge, the poet, in a letter written a fortnight before his death, ad dressed to his godchild says, “ On the eve of my departure, I declare to you that health is a great blessing; com petence obtained by honorable industry, a great blessing; and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful and loving friends and relatives; but that the greatest blessing, as it is the most en nobling of all privileges, is to be in deed a Christian.”—Whitecross. “ Ye of Little Faith.” Mr. Moody tells of his little boy who called to him one .day, “ Papa, I want a drink,” and then went on with his play. The father thoughtlessly kept on with his reading. Soon the child spoke again, “ Papa, I want a drink,” but he still kept on unconcernedly with his play and Mr. Moody continued to read. Presently the boy left his play, came and took hold of his father’s knee and said earnestly: “ Papa, I am thirsty. •I must have a drink.” “ As soon as X saw that the child meant what he said, I granted his request speedily.” When a man leaves his toys or his idols of pleasures or riches, he is in earnest and will get of God all that he asks and all that he needs. Golden Text Illustration. A Christian master in Paris, who was a Quaker, offered his four em ployees the choice of a Bible or fifteen francs as a New Year’s gift. The first three took the money, but the fourth, a lad of thirteen or fourteen years of age, said,. “ As you say the Book is
your strength for today. (8) The foremost thing is the will and work of God. Put .first things first. (9) Who lives for the world to come, will find it well worth living for. Subject Illustration. No Time to Live Christ. “ Clara,” asked a lady of an old school friend whom she was visiting, “ how is your husband getting on?” “ Miserably,” answered the wife. “ Why, how is that: isn’t LESSON he making a lot of ILLUSTRATIONS money?” “ O, yes,” W. H. Pike answered the wife, “ John is making a lot of money-—some people call him rich, but I call him poor. When we be gan life, we read together, we had our church, we had our social hours with friends. Now John has sold himself to work— he has no evenings— he has no Sundays— he puts everything back into his business and puts all of him self into it and is a perfect slave.” True Riches. A tourist, proud of his fertile home- country, visited the upland moor of Scotland. Looking out at the expanse of heather he somewhat contemptuously asked a Scotchman, “What do you raise here?” The peasant looked the tour ist straight in the face as he answered, “ Our land is rather barren and we do not raise much produce, but we built school houses and churches and raise men.” The richest harvest garnered in the .fields of time is a harvest of men. Is Your Banking Account in Heaven? A rich lady dreamed she went to heaven and saw there a mansion being built. “Who is that for?” she asked of the guide. “ For your gardener.” “ But he lives in the tiniest cottage on earth, with barely, room enough for his family. He might live better if he did
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