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Show Christian Xadearor Toptea. Idleness and Usefulness. Monday, Jan. SO, The idle talent; Matt. S: 14-30. Tuesday, Jan. SI, Idle words) Matt 12: 83-37. Wednesday, Feb. 1, Bowing, morning and evening; Eccl, lit 1-6. Thursday, Feb. 2, Untiring activity; 3 Cor. 11: 28-29. Friday, Feb. 8, The night comoth; John 9: 1-7. Saturday, Feb. 4, Laborers are few; Matt. 9: 38-38. 38-38. Sunday, Feb. o, Topic: Idle tn the market-plata; Matt. 20: 1-18. Many a man thinks he Is doing good things Just because he is not doing bad things. It Is not tolling In the vineyard vine-yard merely to retrain from robbing it. Some men got In the midst ot bustle and think they are busy. Standing forever In tho market-placo will not mako a marketman ot you. There Is work In the vineyard for all degrees ot skill. If you cannot prune vines, you can carry away the clippings. clip-pings. Are you waiting for soma one to hire you 7 Go and hire yourself to somebody some-body I There Is always some Sunday-school Sunday-school class to teach, soma sick to visit, some sad to cheer. Do not wait till you become a skilled agriculturist before you will enter Christ's vineyard. Working Is the only school for hlghor work. What though the eleventh-hour men received the same pay ns the first-hour nen? They remained eleventh-hour mon, didn't they? Do you covet that Itlel To know whether you are really at work In Christ's vineyard, do not ask 'ourself whero tho results are; ask rourself whether you are getting near-r near-r to Christ Illustration. Among tho "Logla," he newly discovered sayings attributed attribut-ed to Christ, Is this beautiful and suggestive sug-gestive ono: "Raise tho stone, and :hou shalt find mo; cleave the wood, ind there I am." Among the Interpretations Interpre-tations of this mysterious utterance that find the most favor Is this, that bnly the earnest laborer, the hewer of stone and the cleaver of wood, will find Christ, tho Carpentor. Aa Dr. Henry Van Dyke says In his beautiful poem on this subject: "This Is tho gospel of labor! Itlng It, ye bells of the kirk: The Lord of love camo down from obovo to live with tho men who work." |