Show I RELIGIOUS THOUGHT GATHERED FROST TH RELIGIOUS RELIG-IOUS AND SECULAR PRESS Words of Wisdom and Thoughts Worth Pondering on Religious and Moral Subjects THE NARROW WAY If we could always be In heavenly places sanctified and still Could feel with reverent and rejoicing thrill The presence of the angels wid could isence see With purged eyes the rays of glory shine I Round a transfigured form sublime divine di-vine If we could always stand So near to Christ that we could casp his hand And follow where he led thro every day Beholding in those mild benignant eyes The radiance that illumines Paradise Unconscious and unheeding of the way If sacred rapture were lifes daily leaven I sacre Why that methinks were heaven But ours the mundane earth Surroundings that forbid us to aspire And sin which quenchea the celestial lire to unholy mirth Plea that woo us unhal Dark ure seasons when weak wavering from we our aim We doubt our Lord thro endless years the same Each for the others sake Sweet sacrifice of self tis ours to lake And ours to tread a steep and thorny road Where he the man of sorrows meekly went To freely be In willing service spent To point sad wanderers to the saints abode And so by lowly paths and strife well striven At last I attain to heaven Beatrice Clavton Prayer Prayer does not directly take away trial or its pain any more than a sense of duty directly takes away the danger of infection but it preserves the strength of the whole spiritual fibre so that the trial does not pass into temptation to sin A sorrow comes upon you Omit prayer and you fall out of Gods testing into the devils temptation you get angry hard of heart restless But meet the dreadful hour with prayer cast your care upon God claim him as your Father though he seems cruel and the degrading paralyzing embittering effects of pain and sorrow pass away a stream of sanctifying and softening thought pours into the soul and thatfwhich might have wrought your fall but works in you the peaceable fruits of righteousness The answer to prayer Is slow the force of prayer is cumulative cumu-lative Not till life is over Is the full answer given the whole strength It has brou it understood Stopford Brooke i WHEN HAVE TIME HVTIM When I have time so many things l do To make life happier and more falr For those whose lives are crowdejl now with ec afc rodc fIll f-Ill help desDair to lift them from their low desDairWhen When I have time When I have time the friend I love so well Shall know no more these weary tolling days I Ill lead her feet in pleasant paths always al-ways > 1 And cheer her heart with words of sweetest sweet-est praise When I have time When you have time The friend you hold so dear May be beyond the reach of your sweet I intent I May never Know that you so kindly meant To fill her life with sweet content J When you had time Now is the time Ah friend no longer wait To scatter loving smiles and words of cheer To those around whose lives are now so dear They may not meet you in the coming I jear Now is the Indianapolis time News I A Personal Revival Northern Christian Advocate You need not wait for the rest of the church to be revived before enjoying a personal revival I your assurance has grown dim you may at once secure a clear and joyful consciousness of your relationship to God by renewing your consecration doing works meet for repentance and trusting yourself without reserve in the hands of your Savior You may have an abundant spiritual life full of freedom energy activity serene peace and victoriout hopefulness You may be strengthened strength-ened for service Opportunities to help cheer and save others are abundant and you may be qualified by the divine I spirit to Improve them You may enjoy en-joy a blessed spiritual quickening that will free you from selfishness and envy making the prosperity talents promotion and Influence of others an increase of your own happiness God Is ready now to give you abundant grace to be faithful to all your vows and responsibilities and to run joy fully the shining way till you shall see and praise your Lord TH LORDS BELOVED Of all the good Lord loveth them Who help and love their fellow men In generous efforts who extol The greatness of some brothers soul soul I When days are dark and nights are long BJpit he who helps another on With honest heart and willing hand Secure his uncrowned honors stand Alas when life to him is oer I His deeds so good are known no more But memory lives in every mind That loves and prays for human kind William Macdonald Some Things Boys Ought to Know That good health is better than wealth That honest industrious habits are better than money That to know how to saw wood plow make hay or do any other kind of honorable useful work Is better than to know how to dance play cards play billiards or bet on horse races That manly boys love and obey their parents That to speak or even think disrespectfully disre-spectfully of women is to dishonor their own sweet mothers and sisters That the manly boy says nOto evil seducements and sticks to I That a clear conscience Is worth far more than the applause of men Reverence For the Bible There Is a sin nrevalent In our Households of which we take but little lte note which In fact we encourage either by an indifference to it or by an active participation In Its folly and wIckedness The use of the Word of God for th purpose of making riddles conundrums puzzling questions anagrams ana-grams etc out of it I we really be llevo In the jlivjne origin of the Bible can I be right to give it to the children dren that they may construe its words i into odd connections and make sport and laughter and legerdemain from its pages Is it likely they will reverence on other occasions what has previously been food for their amusement It Is not and we need not be astonished if the boys and girls who have been permitted per-mitted to turn the leaves of their Bibles Bi-bles for pastime and entertainment turn them in after year to find pretext for their infidelity Ladles Home Journal Dont Marry a Drunkard Lutheran Observer A young lady in Iowa against the earnest wishes of her parents and the advice of her friends married a man addicted to the use of liquor He had promised her he woul re form K that after they were married he would not touch a drop of liquor and she believed him A year of Cnarrled life was sufficient to dispel the Illusion The Husband drank deeper and deeper and sank lower and lower until at Jast the wife felt that she could live with him no longer and applied to the supreme court for a divorce Her petition was denied the court informing her that having voluntarily chosen I drunkard for a husband she must discharge the duties of dIschare n drunkards wife His failure to keep a pledge of reformation made before marriage said the court does not justify you in deserting him Having knowingly married n drunkard you must relationship make yourself content with the sacred |