MR. JOSIAH WINSLOW was a well-to-do farmer who lived near the city of N. He and his good wife, Amanda, had lived happily together on the farm for about forty years. Several years before the time of which I speak they had lost, by death, their only child, a son of about twelve years of age.
While tenderly cherishing the memory of the dead, their sympathies seemed never to embrace the possibility that children of other parentage could ever be received into their home and hearts to fill the aching void. During those desolate years of bereavement they sometimes addressed each other as "papa" and "mama," the custom seeming to bind them closer to the tender memories of the past.
At about the time my story begins, Mr. Winslow said to his wife: "'Manda, I believe I had better go to N. to-day and buy the overcoat of which we have been talking so long as a necessity. I have $10, which I believe is all I can afford to pay for one. And, as the sleighing is good, I will take a few bushels of apples along to pay for necessary groceries."
Accordingly at about ten o'clock Mr. Winslow drove into the city, and after putting up his horse at a "farmer's barn," he walked down the street towards the business part of the town.
Presently he met a little girl, thinly clad, and wearing shoes that were out at the toes. She was sobbing, but evidently trying to hide the fact. The farmer halted and said, "What is the matter, little one?"
"O, sir," said she, "I am so cold; and my feet ache so hard I could not help crying; but I tried not to, sir!"
"What is your name, dear?"
"Lillian Avery, sir."
"Where do you live?"
"With mama and little Willie in the alley, just around the corner over yonder."
In the meantime Mr. Winslow had turned about, and was walking with Lillian towards her home.
"This is a cold day for a little girl to be out on the streets. Where have you been?"
"I went to carry some clothes that mother and I had washed for Mrs. Sharp, to that big beautiful house you can see on the hill over yonder. That is where Mrs. Sharp lives. She wouldn't give me more than fifty cents for the washing, but mother said it was worth a dollar. Poor mama is sick, and could hardly do the washing. And little Willie is so hungry and cold. When Mrs. Sharp opened the door I saw a pile of cakes on the table, and smelled the good dinner cooking. I felt naughty towards her because she would not let me in to get warm, nor offer me one of the cakes, when I was so hungry and cold. She just took in the clothes and handed out the money, and shut the door."
"Where is your papa?" Mr. Winslow said.
"O, sir, papa got hurt and was sick a long time, and then died two years ago! When papa could work we all had warm clothes and plenty to eat; and we lived in a nicer house than we do now. And mama used to sing such beautiful things to us about Jesus and the happy land, and lots of things. But she don't sing much now, she gets so tired, and the house is sometimes so cold, and we get so hungry. But we pray every day that Jesus will give us bread, and some clothes to keep us warm, and some wood to keep a fire all the time. O, sir, why don't Jesus come and give us what we asked for? Mama says He will."
"He has sent me, dear, to get all you asked for."
"O, sir, did He? And can you help mama to get well, too? for I pray every day for her. Do you think Jesus would hear a little girl like me when I pray all alone, my own self?"
"Yes, little one, I am sure Jesus has sent me to make your mama well and happy again in a little while."
Arriving at the house, Mr. Winslow entered a dingy basement occupied by the family. Taking in the situation, he said to himself, "Josiah, I think, under the circumstances, that an eight-dollar overcoat will be good enough for you." With a promise to return and take dinner with them, he went out and ordered half a cord of wood to be delivered immediately. Then, going to a grocery, he filled a basket with a generous supply of provisions, and returned to the house. Having emptied the basket, he took it over to the barn where he had left his horse and cutter, and filled it with beautiful apples, not forgetting to pile a dozen eggs on top. In the meantime the wood had arrived, and a glowing fire, and a well-spread table, round which the farmer and the family gathered, brought cheer and thanksgiving that are easier to be imagined than described. The children said it was the best dinner they had ever eaten, and Mrs. Avery perceptibly brightened, a fact that Lillian was quick to notice and speak of.
After dinner Mr. Winslow said: "Mrs. Avery, I wish to purchase a jacket and some shoes for a little girl about the size of your daughter, and, as I know nothing about fitting by numbers, if you will let her go with me to the store to try them on I will be very glad."
Of course the wish was readily assented to. Arriving at the store, he said: "Lillian, I would like to have you select such things as you think such a little girl would like; for if they please you I am sure they will suit her very well."
First, then, two good warm pairs of stockings were selected. Then the shoe department was visited, and Lillian drew on one of the stockings, and tried on one of a pair of good calfskin shoes. "I think," she said, "she will be pleased with them, they are so warm and nice."
"Put on the other one, too, I want to see how they will look and fit. I think she will need a good pair of rubber overshoes too."
Accordingly the overshoes were purchased and fitted, and then Lillian made a move to take them off.
"Don't do that yet," said Mr. Winslow, "Come over here to this counter first and try on a jacket. Select one yourself." One was chosen that fitted nicely; but the price made Mr. Winslow shrug his shoulders and say to himself, "She has made choice of a very good article, that's a fact." Then, addressing Lillian, he said: "All the articles you have tried on I have bought for a little girl who is brave enough to go out in the winter storms on errands for her mother. She lives with Mrs. Avery, and calls her mama, and has a little brother by the name of Willie."
Lillian was so taken by surprise that she seemed dazed for a moment, then, bursting into tears, she dropped into a chair and covered her face with her hands. Mr. Winslow turned his head away, and the saleslady's eyes moistened with tears.
In a moment the little girl dried her tears; and on the bosom of the passing shower there appeared a beautiful bow of promise, for she said, "O, sir, I would rather do without the jacket if only poor mother could have a new dress, or Willie a pair of shoes!"
"Keep the jacket," said the farmer, "and pick out a dress pattern for your mother, and Uncle Josh will pay for it; and tell your mother it is a present from her own little daughter."
With the help of the saleslady the selection was made, and Lillian, clad in her warm suit, bade her benefactor a pathetic good-by, and departed for her home, into which she carried both surprises and joy.
After she had gone, Mr. Winslow said to himself: "There, Josiah, where's your new overcoat? Well, the blessing of the widow and fatherless is worth more to you to-day than any number of overcoats. The Lord helping us, 'Manda and I will continue to make that 'widow's heart to sing for joy,' as Job says, and the blessing of the fatherless shall be ours. We have got a good home, and have plenty of this world's goods, but have no children. Why not lift some of the heavy burdens of the widows and fatherless, instead of leaving our property, when we die, to thankless heirs to be quarreled over and squandered. How blessed it will be in the day of the Lord to hear Jesus say, 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, My brethren, ye have done it unto Me!'" A. SMITH.
THE SONG OF YOUR LIFE.
Don't let the song go out of your life;
Tho it chance sometimes to flow
In a minor strain, it will blend again
With the major tone, you know.
What tho shadows rise to obscure life's skies
And hide for a time the sun;
They sooner will lift, and reveal the rift,
If you let the melody run.
Don't let the song go out of your life;
Tho your voice may lose its trill,
Tho the tremulous note should die in the throat,
Let it sing in your spirit still.
There is never a pain that hides not some gain,
And never a cup of rue
So bitter to sup but what in the cup
Lurks a measure of sweetness too.
Don't let the song go out of your life;
Ah! it never would need to go,
If, with thought more true, and a broader view,
We looked at this life below.
O, why should we moan that life's spring time has
flown,
Or sigh for the fair summer time?
The autumn hath days filled with pæans of praise,
And the winter hath bells that chime.
Then do not despond, and say that the fond,
Sweet songs of your life have flown,
For if ever you knew a song that was true,
Its music is still your own.
—Selected.
Love’s Work Is Best Kept Secret
By Professor Drummond
PUT a seal upon your lips, and forget what you have done. After you have been kind, after love has stolen forth into the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again, and say nothing about it. Love hides even from itself.—Professor Drummond.
Share Happiness With Your Neighbor
"If you are acquainted with happiness, introduce him to your neighbor."
"THE QUALITY OF MERCY."
It was twilight; overhead a leaden sky arched, unbroken save by a rim of light just above the horizon, across which a band of pure, bright rose color gave promise of a sunshiny day to follow. To the shabbily-clad old woman standing on the wharf, no bright ray illumined the dull grayness of the coming to-morrows. Unheeding the roseate bar of light dancing across the ripples to her very feet, Grandma Morse was looking out into a vista of colorless, leaden days, stretching on and on, until the long-hoped-for end should come.
It is hard to find the glimpse of light in the future when one has just been turned out of a home, however poor, with nowhere to go and no friend to whom to appeal. And this was the condition which the lonely old woman was facing at that twilight hour.
A hand touched her shoulder, and Grandma Morse found herself face to face with a big blue-coated policeman. "Hadn't you better go home now, grandma?" he suggested. "It'll soon be dark, and you won't want to be away down here alone, you know."
"But I haven't any home to go to," poor grandma faltered; "I haven't anywhere in the wide world to go."
The officer looked perplexed. "I suppose," he said slowly, "that you'll have to go with me to the station-house. We'll make it as pleasant for you as we can, grandma, and you'll be better off there than here." And as the last rose tints faded from the western sky the old lady turned and followed the officer.
The matron was very kind, and made everything as comfortable as she could; but Grandma Morse, who had been arrested on a charge of vagrancy, was overcome with shame and misery.
Outside, the clouds were breaking away, and one by one the bright stars twinkled out. The clearest and largest of them all peeped straight into the tiny window, and sent a ray of white light over to the cot where the lonely, gray-haired woman lay struggling with her sorrow. At last, looking up, the dim eyes perceived the radiance of the cheerful, persevering star, and a gleam of hope pierced her own gloom and cheered the saddened heart. She thought of another cot, humbler than her own, over which a bright star had once rested, and into her consciousness floated like a benediction the words, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end." Comforted and quieted, the old lady sank into a peaceful sleep.
It was morning when she awoke, and the sun was shining brightly. Wondering at her strange surroundings, she arose and slowly dressed herself. Alone, in a station-house, with the terrifying prospect of a summons to appear before an unknown judge, the peace of the preceding night still remained with her; and it was with a song in her heart that Grandma Morse entered the court-room and took her place before the bar of justice.
The judge, a benevolent-looking man, looked keenly over the tops of his gold-bowed glasses as the old lady told her pitiful story in her simple, straightforward way—husband and children all gone, poverty, and final loss of home. That was all; but there were tears in many eyes when the tale was told.
"Can you take care of children, grandma?" the judge asked suddenly.
"Indeed, I can, sir," was the eager reply, "and love them, too."
"Then," said the judge slowly, "I have a home for you, with a dollar and a half a week besides. My little people are still mourning the loss of their own grandmother."
There was a flutter of surprise, even among those who knew Judge Rice best; but grandma herself was calm and happy.
"Alway, even unto the end," sang the chorus in her heart, and a gentle smile illumined the dear old face as she thanked the kind-hearted judge and quietly resumed her seat.
It was an arrangement never regretted by either, and Grandma Morse, adopted by her loving little charges into the place made vacant by the other grandmother, accepted with unquestioning trust and faith the home and care, which did, indeed, endure to the end.
And so it came to pass that the rose color crept into the twilight of Grandma Morse's gray afternoon, and the promise came true, "At evening time it shall be light."—Young People.
General Principles
By David Paulson, M.D.
SOME POINTS REGARDING FOOD. No. 1.
General Principles.
IT does not hurt the conscience of the average street boy to drop bad coins in the penny-slot machines. This fairly represents the amount of conscience most people have on the subject of what they put into their stomachs. The "best eating-house" does not at all mean one where the best food can be secured, food that contains properties that will build up brain, muscle, and blood, but one where the palate can be tickled the most. For the sake of the gratification of four inches of taste area, many are willing to allow the rest of the thirty feet of alimentary canal to go through any amount of agony.
It sometimes seems as if the cooks and undertakers have gone into partnership. We are now living in an age when labor-saving machinery enables a man to do the work that it formerly required ten men to do. Meanwhile, on account of the inventive genius of the cooks and caterers, humanity is fast becoming so weak that it now takes ten men to do the work of one. A prominent physician a few years ago asked thirteen hundred young men and women the question, "How many of you are as strong as your parents?" And only half a dozen of them dared hold up their hands in the affirmative.
The time devoted to studying the kinds of food that can form good blood and build up sound brain is far from wasted. It is the blood that heals; but if it is made from garbage, we can not expect it to have much healing and restoring power. The real root of the widespread ignorance on this subject is the fact that the average parent is far more proud that his boy can draw an artistic map of Asia, than he would be if the boy knew just what to eat. What is needed is health-food restaurants, cooking-schools, and the establishment of medical missions and lectures upon this subject to stand as beacon-lights and missionary agencies. These might usher in a better day. When the average girl graduates from high school, nobody supposes that she is able to go home and show her mother how to prepare a better meal of victuals.
Some say that this diet question is complicated, and somehow we must live and eat instinctively. Why not try to buy and sell land by instinct? A factory can not be run by instinct. People expect to go through painstaking preparation for such lines of business; but it does not require one-tenth as much brain energy to learn the essential facts about foods as it requires to become competent to run a factory, or to bring out a new invention.
DAVID PAULSON, M.D.
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1 "O FOOLISH Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose
2 eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? This only
would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works
3 of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish?
having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?
4 Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.
5 He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh
miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or
6 by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God, and
7 it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. Know therefore
that they which be of faith, the same are sons of Abraham."
NOTE.—We have just had a review of the first two chapters of Galatians, but we must remain with them, studying them from the beginning, until we have induced them to stay with us forever. The Word of God is living water, flowing from the fountain of life. If, therefore, it is in us indeed, it will flow forth spontaneously, and will not need to be pumped out. The doctrine of God is not like water that is forced up by machinery, but it drops as the rain, and distils as the dew. Deut. 32:2. Having thoroughly reviewed the preceding chapters, read carefully and question the verses composing this lesson again and again.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) How does the apostle address those to whom he writes? (2) What question does he ask? (3) What is indicated by this question? (4) What had taken place before their eyes? (5) How was Jesus set forth before them? (6) What is, therefore, possible for us? (7) What question indicates wherein the foolishness of the Galatians consisted?—"Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?" (8) What, then, was their foolishness? (9) How had they begun their Christian life? How were they now seeking perfection? (10) What further question is asked?—"Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain?" (11) What does this show as to the effect of their present course upon their previous experience? (12) What further question is asked concerning the supplying of the Spirit and the working of miracles? (13) What is the obvious answer to this question? (14) Is it by our works, or by our faith, that we receive the Spirit? (15) Since the Spirit is received by faith, how must life be retained? (16) Who is cited as an example of the working of faith? (17) What did Abraham do? (18) For what was his belief reckoned? (19) Who, therefore, are the children of Abraham?
NOTES.
1. THE Galatians had allowed themselves to be bewitched—that is, charmed and drawn away from God; "for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft." 1 Sam. 15:23. The serpent beguiled Eve, that is, he so fascinated her that she forgot God, and saw only what the tempter wished her to see,—the image which he conjured up. So the Galatians had been drawn away from the simplicity, the reality, that is in Christ. 2 Cor. 11:3.
2. THE churches in Galatia had had a very real and rich experience. They had known the Lord. They had seen Jesus Christ crucified before their eyes as vividly as had John, the beloved disciple. Yet Paul, who brought the Gospel to them, was not converted until years after the ascension of Jesus. This shows that it is every man's privilege to come actually to the cross of Christ, and to see Jesus crucified for him; then he can really be crucified with Christ.
3. NO MAN can call Jesus Lord except by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 12:3); it is evident, therefore, that no one can see Jesus crucified for him, and can receive Him, except by the Holy Spirit. Only by the Spirit can the Christian life be begun. It was "through the eternal Spirit" that Jesus offered Himself for our sins (Heb. 9:14), and it is only through the same Spirit that we receive Him.
4. THE foolishness of the Galatians was in thinking that by their own efforts they could perfect a work that could be begun only by the Spirit of God. As the work is begun, even so must it be completed. "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him." Col. 2:6. What utter foolishness for one to suppose that he is strong enough to carry a work to completion when he has not strength enough to begin it; that he can walk a thousand miles when he has not strength enough to take the first step! One who has such an idea may well be said to be bewitched. He is under a spell that deprives him of the use of his senses.
5. LET it be constantly remembered that the Galatians did not mean to give up their religion. They had not turned against the law of God, nor were they wilfully rejecting Christ, altho their present course was leading them unconsciously to all this. The false teachers who were perverting their souls claimed to be children of Abraham, and were setting Abraham before them as the model man, the type of the perfect Christian. But they were misrepresenting Abraham. They were teaching that Abraham was saved because of his circumcision, instead of the truth, that Abraham received circumcision as a sign that he was saved. So the Galatians, led away by the false brethren, were seeking salvation as zealously as at the beginning, but without understanding. See Rom. 9:30-32; 10:1-3.
6. IT is very evident that if the Galatians persisted in their new course, namely, that of seeking justification by their own works, all their previous experience would be rendered void. All that they had suffered (and the question of the apostle indicates that they had suffered much for the sake of Christ) would prove to have been in vain. If men leave Christ after once having accepted Him, it is the same as tho they had never known Him.
7. THERE is obviously only one possible answer to the question asked in verse 5, and that is that the Spirit was supplied, and the miracles wrought, by the hearing of faith, and not by the works of the law, done by any man. The kindness and love of God our Saviour appeared to us, "not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour." Titus 3:4-6.
8. "EVEN as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness." Mark the connection between verses 5 and 6. Remembering the obvious and necessary answer to the question in verse 5, we may read it thus: "He that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth it not by the works of the law, but by the hearing of faith;" and then in continuation of the thought we read, "Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Paul's Gospel work was in exact harmony with the Gospel that Abraham had. The men who were now troubling the Galatians, altho "Jews by nature," and boasting of their connection with Abraham, and claiming to be his children, had nothing in common with him. Only they who are of faith are the children of Abraham. The Galatians who had been led to think that by being circumcised, and working out for themselves the righteousness of the law, they would become children of Abraham, and heirs of the promises to him, were shown by Paul that they were being led astray. From this point we have Abraham, and God's dealing with him, set before us as the example. Only as we know the truth about Abraham, can we know the truth of the Gospel. Therefore study his life closely.
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LESSON XIV.—SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1900
REVIEW.
Golden Text: "Be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." James 1:22.
NOTE.—"Review by persons: Jesus, Peter, James, John, Moses, Elijah, Watchers, Twelve disciples, Seventy disciples, Gentile woman, Samaritan, Blind man, Shepherd, Pharisees, Priest, Levite, Lawyer, Rich man, Servants. Review by great doctrines: Faith, Forgiveness, Atonement, Eternal life, What Jesus is to man, The power of Jesus, The light of the world, The true nature of Jesus, Jesus a shepherd, Jesus a door, Jesus the bread of life, Jesus a helper, Seeking first the kingdom of heaven, Watching faithfully, The childlike spirit, The missionary spirit, The spirit of kindness."—Peloubet.
LESSON I.—Jesus Walking on the Sea. Matt. 14:22-33. Golden Text: "Of a truth Thou art the Son of God." Matt. 14:33.
LESSON II.—Jesus the Bread of Life. John 6:22-40. Golden Text: "Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life." John 6:35.
LESSON III.—The Gentile Woman's Faith. Mark 7:24-30. Golden Text: "Lord, help me." Matt. 15:25.
LESSON IV.—Peter's Confession and Christ's Rebuke. Matt. 16:13-26. Golden Text: "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me." Matt. 16:24.
LESSON V.—The Transfiguration. Luke 9:28-36. Golden Text: "This is My beloved Son; hear Him." Luke 9:35.
LESSON VI.—Jesus and the Children. Matt. 18:1-14. Golden Text: "Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God." Mark 10:14.
LESSON VII.—The Forgiving Spirit. Matt. 18:21-35. Golden Text: "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." Matt. 6:12.
LESSON VIII.—The Man Born Blind. John 9:1-17. Golden Text: "One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see." John 9:25.
LESSON IX.—Jesus the Good Shepherd. John 10:1-16. Golden Text: "The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." John 10:11.
LESSON X.—The Seventy Sent Forth. Luke 10:1-11, 17-20. Golden Text: "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few." Luke 10:2.
LESSON XI.—The Good Samaritan. Luke 10:25-37. Golden Text: "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Lev. 19:18.
LESSON XII.—The Rich Fool. Luke 12:13-23. Golden Text: "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:36.
LESSON XIII.—The Duty of Watchfulness. Luke 12:35-46. Golden Text: "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation." Matt. 26:41.
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