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THE CHRISTIAN NATION.
Vol, (Jl.
Voung People's
Topic
FOR JULY 19, 1914,
By Rev. A, A, Johnston,
Faithful in Little Things. Luke
1G:1U-13.
Psalms,—24:3-C, No. 58; 37:2.5-28,
little heads, the easier it will be. Xo
No. 101; 15:1-3, No. 2S; 119: Part 7:
rivet forged can stand the strain."
:i-'G, No. 324; 04:8-9, No. 169.
"No one rivet was ever meant to
Parallels.—Prov. 20:5; Dan. 6:4;
share it among you," the steam an­
Neh. 7:2; Luke 19:17; Acts 16:15; 1
swered. "The others can have my
Cor. 4:2; 2 Thess. 3:3; 1 Tim. 1:12;
share, I am going to pull out," said a
2 Tim. 2:2; 2 Tim. 2:13; Heb. 3:5;
rivet to one of the forward plates.
Heb. 10:23; Rev. 2:10; Rev. 19:11;
Rev. 17:14.
God's standard of a successful life
is not brains, nor brilliancy, nor
,1 il 1 r 1 Cl Where sick folks get well" '
"If you go others will follow," hissed on the outlook for strangers. She Just tne place to get thi very most out ol
the steam, "there is nothing so contagious
in a boat as rivets going. Why made her living by entertaining niustrated booklet free on request '
J 1 1. . 1 .... a vacation.
I know a little chap like you—he was men. She was an harlot. It ap- ^"e Attleboro Saoitarlum. Attleho.oJMa...
achievement, but faithfulness. Many
an eighth of an inch fatter though— pears reported that to these King two men as suspicious
were soon DAISY FLY KILLER te-«r
tracts and klUi til
a man has won fame and success who,
on a steamer—to be sure she was only
fliee. Neat, cleao, ornamental,
convenient,
characters. Ofh'cers were sent in
in the sight of God is a pitiable failure
because he has been false to his
1200 tons now I come to think of it,
search of them, Rahab receiving
in exactly the same place as you are.
cheap, LaatI all
better self, to his fellows and to his
He pulled out in a bit of a sea, not intimation of what was on foot determined
to protect them from the
metal, can'tspill ortip
seaBon. Made o:
God. When the darkness of death is
half so bad as this, and he started all
dispelled and the glad morning breaks
his friends on the same butt-strap, King, She laid her plans and carried
them out successfully. When
over i will not soil or
and God gives us our welcome, it will
and the plates opened like a furnace
in] ure anything.
not be, "Well done, thou brilliant servant"
or "Well done, thou successful
door and I had to climb into the nearest
fog-bank, while the boat went the pursuers were in the moun- There are opportunities in Medicine, Bold by dealers, esped-
oc
Have You Chosen a Profession
Guaranteed effective.
servant," but "Well done, thou good
down." "Now that's particularly disgraceful,"
said the rivet. "Fatter than tdins in searcn oi toe neurews, i^a j^^^g ,^ j^^.^ york homceopathic paid for $1, meditpin'5
in qpnrcVi nf the Hehrpwi; "Ra- '^"y Homoeopathic Medicine. 6 Send sent by for «presspi> cata-
and faithful servant."
Our meditation on this subject will
me, was he, and in a steamer of half ,l.„t, tiirnc Vip.r attpntinn ao-ain tn CAL HABOLS COLLEGE 80MESB, AND ISO FloweH SeEalb Ave., HOSPITAL. BiaoUn. «.(
be worthy, if many of us are impelled
to pray "Please God, I will he more
the tonnage Seedy little peg! I blush na.D turns ner attention again to royal s, copela»jd, a,m„m, d .Deanthe
spies and in the conversation new york,^ New York city, .^venueiA.esd
for the family, sir." "You see," he
went on gravely, "a rivet and especially
a rivet in your position is really the markable development of her faith. Roche's Herbal Embrocation
which followed we have the re- •—'
faithful, even in the little things, during
the coming months, in both home
one indispensable part ol the ship." The rays of Divine light now began
The Celebrated Effectual Remedy
and church." Remember
Many of us may occupy places no to penetrate the darkness of her without Internal Medicines, for
I. That Christ's Test of Character
more conspicuous than a rivet but soul, not to be baffled by doubt, not
is Faithfulness.
faithful rivets are just as necessary to be driven back by fear, not to
You recall His praise ol John the
as a true compass. "What God wants be hidden under a bushel but to be
Baptist, the distinguishing feature of
Hooping-cough
is men great enough to be small received, improved and followed.
whose character was fidelityto God
AD PDnilD for 120 rears hae met-with con-
and duty.
the wilderness to see A reed shaken
by the wind"—A man swayed this
way and that way by every confiicting
wind of opinion or passion. John was
one who stood four-square to every
wind that blew, in dungeon or in desert
he was splendidly true to his convictions
and this characteristic of his
won the Master's great praise when
he called John "the greatest born of
women."
As in all else, Christ is our ideal in
this virtue. He was faithful in his
"Because thou hast been faithful in a
very little, have thou authority over
humble home at Nazareth, as he ministered
to the diseased of soul and
ten cities."
body, and even "unto death.'' "It is
required in stewards that a man be Prayer Meeting Topic
found faithful" and Jesus demands no
other requirement.
FOR JULY 22, 1914.
II. That the world's work is done, By the Rev. J, M, Johnson.
almost altogether, by those who do
iRahab's Faith,—^Joshiua 2:21.
faithfully the things which are least.
We are blinded at times by the I. It was simple.
glory of the general who has won a 2. It was practical.
great victory, or ol the orator who
3. It was prevailing.
sways great masses of men, or of the
author who writes great books. Such Passages: Matt, 8:10. Mark 4:
men deserve our praise but the 40. Gal. 2:20. Luke 7:50. Matt.
world's real work, although not so 17:20. Luke 17:5. Heb, 2:4. 2
spectacular, is done by the humble Tim, 1:13, Matt, 12:21, Rom. 10:
men and women whose names are never
known. There is real heroism in
17, Matt, 9:22, I Peter 1:5, Heb.
the life of the girl who, year after 11:31. Rom, 12:3, Matt, 15:28,
year nurses an invalid mother or Heb, 6:12,
toils lor a motherless fajnily; in a
father who goes daily to unpleasant
toil that his children may have oppor­
Psalms: 121:1-4, No, 349, 63:3-
6, No, 168, 36:6-9, No. 97. 25:1-
tunities that were denied him; in a
son that gladly accepts limitation for
a widowed mother.
Perhaps you remember Kipling's
allegory concerning the rivet. "What's
the use'' a few hundred rivets chattered.
"We've given—we've given and
the sooner we confess that we can't
keep the ship together and go off our
enough to be used."
''What went you out into
III. That faithfulness in that which
is least is the road to power.
Daniel, Joseph and David would
never have reached the place of
authority il they had not been faithful
in a limited sphere. •Daniel in the
house of the prince of the eunuchs,
Joseph in the prison, David with th©
sheep on the hill-sides. The rudiments
of your future greatness are to
be found in the way you do your littl©
tasks today. It is the word of Christ
4. No. 61. 16:6-10. No. 29.
I. It was simple. The story of
Rahab and her confession is ex-
ceedingly interesting. In order that
A\'e might get clearly before us the
siiTi'pIicity of her faitli let us notice
for a little the circumstances which
called it forth. Two men 'were sent
to spy out Jericho. As they entered
t'he city gate and passed down
the street it is not to be wondered
at that they fell in with a woman y^E ATTLEBORO SANITARIUM
of Kahab S OCCU.patlOn. She was '"Whare tired folks getre.sted
We see her whole soul aglow with
heavenly light, and without the
least shadow of a doubt we hear
her making a most explicit confession
of her faith, not only in Jehovah,
as the God of the Hebrews
but as the only God of heaven and
of earth. Such is her confession as
we read in the nth verse. Upon
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2. It was Practical.
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hiding of the spies. For this act Address:
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(Continued on page 11,)
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