SUNDRY READING

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10852, 29 April 1911, Page 5 (Supplement)

SUNDRY READING

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Whaie dio our footsteps tendl How should <ye 'know or i\>re. On with the hurrying throng, Laughing! or ibou'ed with cafe. Chasing the butterflies, bright

jewellsd things, Finding too late that our pleasures have wingl.*. Strive! if our way ihi hard Others are weak as wd. Hope foir 4-he gates of tho bridge Open with love's golden key. Let us help others as much as we may Over the bridge of -life wending otu' way. —Lilian Ei, Barbor. j » # * # Bjyond) all wealth, honor, or evc-n I hoa.l h, ia the attachment wa furm to noble soul, betaauso to become one with this g'ood^gieneirous, anjj true is to become in a. measure good, generous and true ourselves.—B'r Arnold.

Lit us) seiak tho friendship of Clirist that beingl in ' constant companionship with Him we. may bciHuine like Him. * ♦ * *

Spurgeon'a gi'andfathci', the • Rev. Jajß'.s Spurg'eou, had tin eXperiemeo of ti-easure trove. It was his habit nightly to pray under a. certain oak treo in ai secludexl wood in Honeywood Park. One nia'ht ho dreamed

that Satan appeai^l and threatened to tear him lo pieces if he follcAved his accustomed route to the tree. There was another ]>ath by which he might go in safety. I'-eunembleriug his dretilm, Spurg'ic«i felt sorely temptedl the rext, night to take the routu in which Slatan was not. But this wlould be to capitulate to the Elvil One. Trembling in every limb, he made his way by the path in which tho danger lay. Ho reached the goal in safety, and in prayer and son," 1 rsihmied thanks for delivery from peril. When the prayer" vas cndedl he rose to rtetiini. In hiy path lay a piece of aolidl gold "as largl.! as a curtain ring." Air— enquiry failing 1 to disci-War an own.r, ho. retained it, and when he: married had his wife'si AVtdding 1 ring made from his curious find.

When yiou make a mistake don't look back at it long. T'alkei a lesson from it and seek strength and wisdom from/ God that you may he. given tatter judgtmieait for the future and enabled not to make the sume mistake again.

There are no bounds to* the help which spirit can givtei spirit in tho intercourse of a nobler life.—JJis-hcp Temple.

* * * * I love to think that Christian friendship will 'ba one: of tho enjoymenta of Eternity. Here we We for a brief steason then Wo are parted. Theiro frieindship ia -eternal. FAMDTJISI HTMNIS WRifTT'EC* ON PANNES OiF GLASS. Two popular hymns have been written oil a, pane of glass. Miss Harriet Auber'si ibeautiful lines 1, "Our Host Redeem^eir, ei-e He bi-eathed," were writ-ten by the authoress, on a window-pane in h.er house at Hiddesdon. A dbalei' in clurios triad, to purchasa this interesting and pecxdiai manuscript from the owner of the house, after the death of Missi Auber in 1862', b!ut lie was unsuclcessful. The pane of glass Was sutosquently stolen, and it has never since been foulnd nor its fatie discovered. Ojntui-ieri ago Theotlulph, Uisjltop of Orleans, while in prisi-m at Metz, (voonposed the hymn, "AH glory, laud

and honour," which he wrote on the j window of his cell. As the usual I Palm Shmduy proceation ' passed through tho town-the Eimpiaroir heard' sounds of singing proceeding from the prison. Ho thereupon liberatitxl I tho bishop, wliosa hymn was afterwards regularly used! on each suc--5 ceeding Palm Sunday as a processioinal, tho dhoir takingl up each quatrain and the public johi.ing in singing the chords. WHAT A.' SIAVJa-WOiMAN I*l D. A slave-woman named Ogunro, Irvine; in thei Hale 'dountiy wtst of the' N'ifjfei', longed for freodoan, and woilct'd hard until gllie securedi it. Then sihe traivlyllwl to aiio.tli.sr regicn to enjoy life. There abe w:as ccinv'ei'ted to Christ. This g>a,ve Jier a new longing. Wli.at die now 1 aimed for was to tell tlio Hale people, among whom she had b.en a slave', what good things she lnvl learned. SiKe went back to U;\le, worked hard, eai'ned money, «jot a. chui'ch built, and a few year;-? ago she placed th'J churcli at the disposal of the nearest C'lu'istinr. pastor. # * * # KIJNBNESS. Ti'uo liindncw i« quick. to> appreciate tho kindness of others. How 'b:"iautifxd it is to &cc the 'way in vf] iich some (Salvationists ai'a al- j Avays l-eady with a repoit of souie- 1 one's g'oodinessi towards tliem ] Every- .' where thoj' find that ■so-meibody lu-s ] been before them witli scr.ie. ..Jiind t thought or kind act on •their behalf. (■ Instead of one pttolongjed groan about their mLsfortur.es. and nnre\va,rdcd 1 virtues,- they urc /ba'imfiil of stories ; abuut thr:ir g'cod fortiine:; amli if c tht-y had not had- anything very c kindly dono to them for a day or f twio, they ii.ro expecting 1 something 1 very shortly, and rejoicing over it ibt'jfora it domes to pass! Tliia is.th-a spiiit of kindness-; and i it is not. only kindness, it is the vci'y 1 highest wisdbm.. < "\\Tiat mien sow, they reap. Tiic } people who go about 'scattering seeds" f oif kindness' often come to the. reap- 1 ing of a rid 1 lialrVefet mmsh sooner ] than they expect. Jus/., as one sel- 1 fish and unkind act begtats another, a ijo every kind d;e?d dome, and CR rcry kind word spoken, calls forth other a kind tiling's which coma with bless- 1 iugv. in their train. ' • A\r.d those who ar'a thus on -tlio 1 look otit for kindness are grateful I aoubr.. Tlmnk you, is evei' on their i lips, becauso it is over- in their 1 hearts. They go about thanking i civbryone'; ■ theiy maOce everyone want. 1 to do them a good -turn if it i&i only t thus to earn a smile, or a hand grip, s or a -"God bless you for this F' or 1 soino other heartfelt token of grati- "> tude. 1

• # • • These kindly souls are tho very opposita to the pok>r folks who. find y> hard to raise a Hallelujah, and seldom siay "Thanlk you" to anyone, either at, home or anywhere else. Siifch people ai-o a walkir.«i cont.radicticn of the first principles of the Salvation Army!; They have never realised that their gi\*?.t business is to go about doing good and making people happy. They show thean- . selves in all things, not as the vninisitevd of iGcd and sis the sei-'vlants of all, but. as though they were seeking their own. —From "Biblei • BattleAxes," hv the Chief of the Staff. *•. « • How few havo the Spirit of God' as Ho is revealed to us in Christ; we • §bi?.]ievG the cause of s«v muc-l. uiu/ndlinoss is divldied aff«otions. The Roulft wlirt live, only for the glory of i God are greatly in demand, for b<<]i-. nesiJ is the very cinbodiuioiit of- [ divinity.—Thd Victoiy.