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Show MORE LASTING THAN REBUKE Minister's Simple and Sincere Words Had Much Effect on His Youthful Youth-ful Hearers. It was late Sunday afternoon, and two young men were returning from a .iay's fishing. One of them uttered an Dxclamation as he recognized Mr. Morton, Mor-ton, tho new minister, on the little rootpath that led up from the lake; but tho other hod met reproof before, and went on unconcernedly. "I suppose you don't go fishing on Sunday," he said to the minister, with a laugh, as the three met. "Jim and I don't make a practice of it, but tho morning was so fine It was a temptation." tempta-tion." "No, I never go fishing on Sunday," the minister replied. "You know Sunday Sun-day Is my busiest day. Hut I haven't any doubt that 1 do other things that are just as bad in God's sight." "lie spoke so simply and sincerely that his words had more weight with me than a hundred stern rebukes," the young man said afterward. "I felt that he was not putting us In a class by ourselves and preaching at us. Me knew that he had temptations of his own, even if they weren't our temptations, tempta-tions, and he knew that he was quilo as liable to fall as wc were. "I saw how shallow was my fling about his going fishing on Sunday. I knew by his face that he understood what it means to be shut up six days in a mill and then have the sunshine and the whole bright world outdoors beckoning to you before you're out of your bed Sunday morning Mo as much as said it would have affected him. too, if he'd been similarly placed; but after we'd talked it over, Jim and I both felt pretty sure how the tussle would come out. "We agreed, toward the last of the week, that we'd go and hear Mr. Morton Mor-ton preach the next Sunday. We liked his way of 'counting himself in,' and if a man speaks a dozen words that seem to strike the right Epot, tho chances are that he'll have more to say that's worth listening to. Me did, and neither of us has ever been sorry for thc change we made in our way of spending Sunday, It's a rest to get away from the things you've been carrying car-rying all the week; but sometimes, as Jim says, a man needs more strength to pick them up again than he gets from an excursion or a picnic or a day's fishing." Youth's Companion. |