Show RELIGIOUS NEWS j AND THOUGHT i GATHERED FROM THE RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR IRESS Words of IVIsclom oml Thought Worth Ionderlnp on Uel iou > and Moral Subjects t My wife is one of the sweetest little women in the whole world and I am not considered peculiarly cranky but some tmes differences would arise beginning I with the most trivial things which however how-ever being duly nursed became of monumental monu-mental proportions and often threatened I the peace of the family Of course I was I commonly the one to blame in fact as J I look back on it now I am sure I was I j I always to blame for I should have had I rwa wisdom to give way on the nonessentials i nones-sentials and gve little restraint and gentle talk win my little wife over to i my way of thinking But instead of I I that I feared I should sacrifice my dignity nity as head of the family by yielding So sometimes I went to business without my goodby less and two people were miserable all day But my little wife had an inspiration most women have when things come to the breaking pointand the next time our argument was drifting near the danger line she turned aside the collision by this womanly suggeston Howard dear lets quarrel tomorrow This war a proposal for an armistice What husband could refuse AH right I said we will put it off till tomorrow and we laughed and talked of other things But I tomorrow did not come Indeed tomorrow I tomor-row never comes its always S day ahead and if we can only keep our quarrels quar-rels till then there V I bp I heartbroken little wives at home and fewer blue husbaruu a uv office Lets quarrel tomorrowX 1L Junior in Evangelist t Cnn Ve Know GoiVs Will Concerning Concern-ing Ourselves We certainly can know it about many matters It always is Gods will that we do right instead of wrong so that when the moral difference is jMain duty is equally plain But this distinction is not always clear especiilly at first Moreover More-over sometimes our cinolce has to be made between actions or courses of con actons duct which are equally right morally but as to which God of course has a purpose relating lo us A young man has to face the question of his lifework whether to become a rrirrchant or lawyer law-yer for instance I 11 such problems as this in regard to which it Is least easy to determine what God wishes How are we to decide decie that It must be assumed as certain I has a definite will in this matter He leaves us our freedom of choice of I course but If we fail to perceive and do will cannot hope for the best results His we wi for it is be assumed sults It also is to certain that He has afforded or will afford seasonably sufficient light on the I ford sufcent Is path of duty Furthermore It always possible however difficult to decide correctly what duty requires A single step rectly He ty all which be in advance at once may aI for make us wait reveals and He may His del is a feature of a time when delay < n plan before the revelation but It never fails to come Congregationalist Direct Me world may come to me The wide wide today darkened For help for light upon the way So now I lift my heart and humbly pray Direct me 0 my God today No living soul may ask for help o comfort bring to me upon my way Nor or bereft of faiths Friendless forlorn bereft faits bright ray Forsake me not O Christ souls needs may be so great My own souls today to Head heart and hand are powerless Temptations stay wiles lest my weak will give way SlSwee Spirit succor mt Sweet The Golden Rule Touch > ot Taste Xot editor of the Indies TV Bok Edward edior man Journal in reply to a young Home asking Is not a young him wno wrote disadvantage when he at a man placed says I can at dinners refuses wine I nave attended only speak from experience dinners and tended a great many constant public attendant at am still a pretty I have never toucned a drop such affairs and yet I these occasions 2nd of wine upon to feel that I was been made have never Indeed I am placed at a disadvantage man that a young under the Impression wine is always at a distinct who refuses adherence to any A ttron advantage recornmeflda is always a recol good principle charactlr m the tion of t young mans eyes of hh cIder asked if total absti who To anotr js not a barrier to 504 I I notice from liquors he rephies 1 can honestly I success reples cial mans best anl highest social ay that success a YDln absalhlS is assUrel from Jut wine In KS tion as he ab Intodcants all of any sort bus dulgence in to any social POSI never helped a man contritiT it has nn time contraT 1 tion worth havhhmn lon attaining a position kept many from birth and good 1Jreedm to which by will entitled No young man wi they are entted of abstinence the principle abstnence that ever find barrier to any success from liquor is a otherwise On the I social commercial or his in is the one principle JIs other hand it til life which will in the long run help him more than any other I AsU of Him I ask of God moro than we What can life in spe with us in daily lfe have him dai I to wih of trial even unto cal service in hours valuing human love and the end While valuing sooner or later sympathy and brought out of dependence be must we Then he say s The himself all but hi1elf upon aI shall be with you he God of peace 31ml the fullness Lord t cannot grasp fulness Of this thy world to me depths line to sound the I I have no lnc lifes unfathomrl sea Yet Of lfes would unfathomet le my net I And be fulfilled by thee fulfHcu Womans Work I The Hoiuvs Which AVc Entertain As a body of belKvrs we have cause to rejoice for the hopes which we entertain j enter-tain We believe In the law of Christ Wo believe there is no true joy which doES not come from faithful and holy living and for tnte reason do we believe that lf Jo shotiM practice good work j They are acceptable unto God None but J righteous deeds bear spiritual pleasures and bring us to Inherit the kingdom of bring ert < God even In this world and since there is no joy in the future which can come from disobedience so there Is no true joy In this life which can arise from what sinners call the pleasures of the world The true Christian loves God for the reward re-ward born out of love and duty SuCh service God the Father seeks and rewards in his children Cniversalist A Glorioui Accompllalimcnt J One Is puzzled to name a more glorious glori-ous accomplishment than excellent speech There are man who are credited with the ability to talk well upon set occasions But we are forced to think that few If any of us habitually come up to the standard of the model person depicted Jn the last chapter of Proverbs She openeth her mouth with wisdom and In her tongue ton-gue is the law of kindness Nov it i it bo true that this is a model for all of us set by him with whom our account is and true moreover that we largely fait to consciously strive to attain this divinely divine-ly set standard it is fitting for us to consider con-sider the good and right way of speech that we may constantly follow ltIrei byterian Banner WImt It Coit Six hundred millions every year For whisky branJy rum and be rAnd r-And wheresoeer tns stream doth flow Are crime and poverty and woe Oh who shall stay this darksome river Must this black tide flow on forever Or can we hope with mortal breath To stay this mighty tide of death A living rampart must oppose True men brave hearts are sturdy foes While prayers in clouds ascend to heaven And Gods own help Is freely given All things are yours victorious faith Will turn away this tide of death The prayer and promise he has givn His will be done in earth and heaven Mrs K J Richmond Contentment Then let us one and all be contented with our lot July is here this morning and the sun is shing hot Oh let us fill our hearts with the glory of the day And banish every doubt and care > and sorrow far away Whatever be our station with Provi thence for guide Such fine circumstances ort to make us satisfied For the world Is full of roses and the roses full of dew And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips for me and you James Whitcomb Riley Responsibility for Others g We need not draw on the distant centuries cen-turies to find sxamples of our responsibility responsi-bility for others sin in our failing to interfere to prevent sin Today wickedness wicked-ness riots in consequence of our silence or our inaction Today are lives sad because be-cause we fail to speak Today wrpntr and evil are powerful because we loin the hand and close the lip The tempted are j yielding because ve stand by the tempter 1 tempt-er The pure are tried because we of or i no sympathy Lives tender are broken i because we stay not the destroyer Lives are lonely because we show no friendship friend-ship Its none of my business we say he is his own man It is your business j to keep others strong and noblcRs < r C F Thwing Separation front Christ A railroad train will go for some distance dis-tance upgrade after the engine is detached de-tached but it will soon stop and begin to descend by its own gravity In like manner a man who separates himself from Christ and abandons the church may proceed as usual for a distance but I he soon finds that his strength has departed I de-parted from him and he goes down and v down in motive and conduct until he is i a wreck on the highway of llfePhila delpliia Mlhodist Removing1 the llrlnrs We who are so careful toremove the briars from our pathway for fear they should inflict a wound yet strange ad it may seem we give no thought to the many wounds we inflict in either hearts by collecting and piercing them with the thorns that meet us in our daily Intercourse Inter-course with eadh other Catholic Universe Uni-verse Truth Is Eternal I There is a vast difference in spirit t e I txveen the man who is trying to bolster up the truth and the man who wants to I bolster himself by means of the truth I Those who are so afraid that the truth will suffer and be destroyed cannot more than half believe in the truth Presbyterian Presby-terian Banner Cannot He Recalled No wave on the great ocean of time when once it has floated past us can be recalled All we can do is to watch the new form and motion of the next and launch upon it to try in the manner our best judgment may suggest our strength and skill Gladstone Greater Than Faith Love is greater than faith because the end is greater than the means What is the use of having faith It Is to connect con-nect the soul with God And what is the use of being connected with God It ii to become like God For God is love Henry Drummond The Duty Which Ilc IVcnrcst The only way to regenerate the wprld is to do the duty which lies nearest us and not to hunt after grand farfetohed ones for ourselves If each drop of rain dhose where it should fall Gods showers would not fall as they do now Charles ICingsley Work for All There is work for each laborer in tha great harvest field but the Lord of the harvest must send forth where and how he pleases May we be much in the counsel of the Lord that we may bf instructed in-structed successfully to work for him Mrs Pennefather Oer the Itlniters head Wherever through the ages rise The altars of selfsacrifice Where love its arms has opened ride Or man for man has calmly died I see the same white wings outspread That hovered oer the masters head Whittier |