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138 Mis.sion Monographs.acquainted with their circumstances of trial means for religious purposes, have no right toor success that we shall have definite petition^ quote the example of that widow. I mustor thanksgivings to make for them. Let the pull you out from behind the widow and putmissionaries be reminded to send home specific youi conduct under a true light.requeots for prayer, and let them be taken up In the firstplace, gentlemen, I say,for definite remembrances at our monthly con-YOTJ ARE NOT widows.certs. For ourselves we have found great rpj^j^^ j^ ^j^g^g y^,„, ^^^^ breaks completelyblessing and profit in going through the mis- ^^^^ you are not widows. You are men.sionary list day after day at family worship. ^ widow often has hard work to keep the wolfThe heartfelt solicitude of the apostle to the ^om the door. She has often to fight a terri-Gentiles nowhere comes out more manifestly j,ig battle to get bread tor her chUdren. Shethan in the frequent recurrence of that saying, j^ ^^4^^ ^^^^ ^^^ helpless. You are men." Without ceasing I make menrion of you al- gj^^j^g^ stalwart men, and yet every time theways in my prayers."—^. T. Gordon in Mis- collectors go around you try to palm yonrsionField.g^j^^g ^^ ^^ widows ! Some of you are bach-DR. BOANERGES DISCOURSES ON elors. I have reason to believe that two orTHE WIDOW'S MITE. three of you are trying to induce some youngHaving learned that a number of people in ladies of the congregation to go to the marhiscongregation are in the habit of excusing "age altar with you. That is right enough,tbeir small contributions by alluding to the ^ut do you think any spirited young womanwidow's mite. Dr. Boanerges called tbem to- will give her hand to a young fellow who callsgether for the purpose of explaining to them himself a widow 1 Bo you think any decentthe exact nature of that Scripture incident. ai* ^i'^ gi^« ^is daughter to a fellow whoHe also desired to show to them that the wid "alls himself a widow every time the collectorow's mite could not be made a precedent for oomea around ? If you do, you are much missmallgiving, and to prove that the widow was *^8-ken. Young ladies worth having don't maroneof the most liberal givers ot whom we have 'y widows. Rtspectable men don't bring upany knowledge.good daughters and hand them over to sneak-Like some of the meetings held by modern '°° fellows who call themselves widows whenevangelists, the Doctor's meeting was " for ^^^y ^""^ called upon to do their part like menmer only." The congregation looked some- '"^ ^"y S^^'^ '^ork. if this talk about the widwhat" hara,' and its looks did not iu any way ow's mite cannot be stopped in any other way,belie its real character. The Doctor addressed I shall instruct the collectors to say to everyhimself to his task in plucky style, and spoke •"*" who drags in the widow to make his centas follows .collection look religious.Dear friends, I am credibly informed that MI TER, ARE TOi: A WIDOW?when you give a cent apiece for Home Mis- Notice again that this widow was ^oo>-. Yousions, and two cents for Foreign Missions, and are not poor. Heaven forbid that I shouldtwo cents for Colleges, you strike an attitude, say one word that would hurt the feelings oflook solemn, and say, " I give the widow's God's poor. May my tongue cleave to themite." My purpose in thii address is to show roof of mj mouth when I consciously utter ayou that men of property like you, who don't word that wounds the feelings of any of God'si-^e perhaps the ten-thousandth part ot vour children who have little of this world's goods,