Cyclopedia of illustrations for public speakers (part 8 of 8)

Cyclopedia of illustrations for public speakers (part 8 of 8)

The materialist says: “Scientific history seeks the discovery of facts.” The Christian answers: “It is not so; scientific history seeks first the discovery of the forces which shape facts.” And the first wireless telegraphers conveying a message that saves the world were the apostles of Jesus Christ. After His ascension into the unseen from that wireless station named the upper room there went out the call C Q. (“This is the signal that something important has happened and that all other stations and vessels in the wireless zone must instantly stop sending and give attention. The next flash came C Q D. The added D meant danger, and the three letters together are a cry for help, a general ambulance call of the sea.”) And it was in response to the disciples’ call upon the invisible Christ there came rolling across the spiritual seas the ships of Pentecost. Those same wondrous vessels, thank God, are still pushing out from port in the unseen, not only to rescue, but to greaten and eternalize the life of every storm-lasht pilgrim! Truly, with a fresh and vivid power wireless ships publish the reality of the unseen. (Text.)--F. F. SHANNON.

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UNSEEN RESULTS

Dr. Buchanan, of Randolph-Macon College, tells of a lady who planted a rare rose-bush, worked around it, fertilized it, watered it, and yet saw no reward of her labors. But presently it was found that shoots from this bush had pushed through to the other side of the wall and were blooming in splendid beauty there. “Work on, undiscovered ones,” he says. “In the unseen world you may find your unseen roses in full bloom, scenting the air with fragrance.” (Text.)

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UNSELFISHNESS

There was a party of twenty-five boys and girls going upon a picnic, and when about to get into the carry-all which was to convey them to the picnic grounds, it was found that, with the utmost crowding there was room for only twenty-four, and one little girl was left standing on the ground, and was to be left behind. The disappointment was too great for her to control her feelings, and the tears began to fall, when one of her companions, named Alice, jumped out and said, “Don’t cry, Sadie; you get in and take my place; I have been many times, and do not care so very much.” The children had a very happy afternoon, but what do you suppose they thought and said about Alice?--JAMES T. WHITE, “Character Lessons.”

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This helpful poem is from The Outlook:

I thank thee, Lord, for strength of arm To win my bread, And that beyond my need is meat For friend unfed. I thank thee much for bread to live, I thank thee more for bread to give.

I thank thee, Lord, for snug-thatched roof In cold and storm, And that beyond my need is room For friend forlorn. I thank thee much for place to rest, But more for shelter for my guest.

I thank thee, Lord, for lavish love On me bestowed, Enough to share with loveless folk To ease their load. Thy love to me I ill could spare, Yet dearer is thy love I share. (Text.)

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See PATRIOTISM, DISINTERESTED; SELF-FORGETTING.

UNSELFISHNESS, EXAMPLES OF

When Peter Cooper, who founded the Cooper Institute, New York, had completed his apprenticeship, his employer esteemed him so much that he offered to give him the capital to start in business, but Cooper refused because of his invincible repugnance to debt. At the end of three years he had saved up $500, but his father being prest with debt, young Cooper gave the entire amount for his relief. He purchased a glue factory and soon obtained the reputation of making the best glue in the country. He became interested in many successful enterprises, employing thousands of men, and conceived the idea of an educational institute for the advancement of the sciences. Abram S. Hewitt, with a son of Peter Cooper, took over the father’s iron business, and at one time over 3,000 men were employed, and for six years they ran the business at a loss of over $100,000 a year rather than bring upon their employes the distress incident to shutting down the plant. Partly for this reason the business was run for forty years with only sufficient profit to pay the men, and still by judicious foresight in buying iron the firm cleared over $1,000,000 in one year. Their policy toward their workmen was always to take them into their confidence.--JAMES T. WHITE, “Character Lessons.”

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UNSELFISHNESS IN BIRDS

Sidney Lanier tells of a mocking-bird six weeks of age being kept in a cage with another young bird who was so ill he could hardly move. One day food happened to be delayed in coming, and Bob got furiously hungry. He called and screamed and made a great row. At last it appeared, and he took in his beak the ball of egg and potato, snatching it out of the hand, and then, instead of eating it, ran across the cage and gave the whole of it to his sick friend.--OLIVE THORNE MILLER, “The Bird Our Brother.”

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UNSELFISHNESS, POWER OF

The way in which an unselfish example can inspire a like desire in others is seen in this incident:

We two students roomed over on the north side of the building where the sun never entered, and we were often chilled to discomfort and we would not stand it longer. The bishop beamed upon us with benevolent surprize, and said:

“Why, young gentlemen, this will never do; you are not going to leave the school. True, our mission is slow in providing better accommodations, but they will come soon. Meanwhile, we are bound to do the best we can for our students. We expect you young men in the future to become the bishops and leaders in the Japanese churches. As for yourselves in particular, I’ll tell you what we can do. I have a good warm room on the sunny side of the school; now you young gentlemen come over and occupy my room and I myself will go over and take yours.” “Oh, no!” we both exclaimed; “we would not have you do that; we did not mean that.” “But that’s what I mean,” said the bishop; “that’s what will be done.” We again remonstrated and my fellow student, a Christian boy, began to weep with chagrin and brokenness of heart, and soon I found I, too, was weeping. I never before had seen anything like that and my heart broke under it. Why, sir, there was a light in that good bishop’s face similar to that which I think Saul saw on the way to Damascus.--H. C. MABIE, “Methods in Evangelism.”

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=Unsympathetic=--See SYMPATHY, LACK OF.

UNTRUTHFULNESS

Dr. Edward Everett Hale said that once he dreamed of playing ball with a companion, and of throwing the ball through a large glass window, and that the owner of the house came out and asked him if he threw the ball, and he said, “No.” Then the man pounced upon his companion, saying, “Then it must have been you,” and dragged him into the house and gave him a tremendous whipping. Dr. Hale said he experienced a feeling of meanness and degradation that was inexpressible; he felt himself to be the most cowardly wretch on the face of the earth, and had not a single word to say in his own defense. He stood ashamed of himself before his own conscience. He said the impression was so vivid that he never got over the remembrance, and through life was given a loathing and abhorrence of all forms of deceit.--JAMES T. WHITE, “Character Lessons.”

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UNWORTHY AIMS

When asked by a friend how he managed to wear always such becoming and elaborate cravats a British dude is said to have answered, “Why, my dear fellah, I puts my whole mind on it.” Such an answer is the measure of such a man’s mind. The aim was wholly unworthy of the attention given to it.

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=Unwritten Law Waived=--See DEVOTION TO THE HELPLESS.

=Upper Worlds=--See EVIL, PURGING FROM.

UPRIGHTNESS

Confucius, wishing once to give a lesson of supreme value in politics, pointed one of his pupils to a lofty obelisk and said: “Seest thou yonder tall object? In its uprightness is its strength.” (Text.)

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=Upward=--See ASPIRATION.

UPWARD LOOK

A story is told by the Rev. Silvester Horne of a college professor who often told in the class-room of thoughts that had come to him in the garden. The thoughts were often so beautiful, and opened up such vistas to the imagination, that the students, none of whom had visited the professor at his home, pictured the garden a very Eden--spacious, and a glory of trees and flowers. One day two of the students made a pretext to visit the professor and get a glimpse, if possible, of the garden. They were received and taken into the garden, which, to their surprize, they found was the narrowest strip shut in by high brick walls. “But, professor,” they said in their pained disillusion, “surely this is not the garden you are always talking about, in which such fine thoughts come to you?” “Oh, yes, it is,” he said with a smile. “But it is so small. We had imagined quite a large garden.” “But,” replied the professor, pointing to the clear sky studded with stars, “see how high it is!”

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The solar look is not only indicative of a desire in the individual to aspire to great and noble attainments for himself, it is sure to lead him to point out the upward pathway of the soul to others. Aspiration is an inspiration to altruism.

One of the most beautiful works of the celebrated artist in terra-cotta, George Tinworth, is his alto-rilievo of C. H. Spurgeon representing the great preacher surrounded by the children of Stockwell Orphanage, which he founded. Mr. Spurgeon with a heavenly smile is pointing to the skies and the children are gazing upward as he points. This statue is a vivid contrast to the one which stands in a square in Northampton, the monument to that pronounced infidel, Charles Bradlaugh, the “English Ingersoll.” The statue represents Bradlaugh addressing the people, but he is pointing directly downward. (Text.)

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Are not most of life’s fears due to the fact that we do not consider enough what is above us? The remedy is to look up.

When a goose goes under an arch she ducks her head; that is not because there is not space for her, but because she thinks there is not, and that is because she is a goose. Perhaps she does not see very clearly what is above her.--BOLTON HALL, “A Little Land and a Living.”

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Francois de Bonnivard, whom Byron has immortalized in his “Prisoner of Chillon,” was for many years immured in the dungeon of the castle of Chillon, which lay below the level of Lake Geneva, but from which he could hear the sound of the water constantly. One day a bird came and sang at his window the sweetest carol he ever heard. The music awakened within him an inexpressible longing for a look at the outer and upper world, all so free and bright to that bird. Digging a foothold in the dungeon wall he climbed to the little window, from which he saw the mountains of his beloved Switzerland, unchanged, capped with eternal snow, and that upward look gave him new patience and hope. (Text.)

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=Usage Rejected=--See EXPERIENCE A HARD TEACHER.

=Usefulness=--See SERVICE.

USEFULNESS PLUS MORE USEFULNESS

A young man who had worked up to the position of confidential clerk, became jealous of a new clerk, to whom his employer had just given a raise in salary exceeding his own. He went to his employer and said: “Are you not satisfied with my work and my faithfulness?” “Oh, yes,” was the reply. “Why, then, do you give this new man more salary than to me?” Instead of replying to the question, the merchant, who was a grain dealer, said: “Do you see that load of grain going by? Run out, and see to whom it is going.” The confidential man returned, and said it was going to Wilson’s place. “Run out and find out what they got for the grain.” He returned and said eighty-five cents per bushel. “Run and find out if Wilson wants any more.” He returned and said: “Yes, he wants another carload.” At this moment the new clerk came in, and the grain merchant repeated to him his first instruction: “Run out and see where that load of grain is going.” In a few minutes the new clerk returned and said: “The grain is going to Wilson’s; they are paying eighty-five cents per bushel, and want another carload.” The merchant, turning to the confidential man, said: “You have your answer. It took you three trips to find out what this man learned in one.” The new clerk had wit enough to know that the merchant did not care about where the grain was going, but if there was a probability of supplying some of the demand, and upon what terms.--JAMES T. WHITE, “Character Lessons.”

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USEFULNESS VERSUS DISPLAY

One of these little flitting society girls, compared to a substantial Christian girl, reminds me of a butterfly compared to a honey-bee. The butterfly flits here and there with its beautiful color, and nobody ever knows what it’s for or where it goes. The honey-bee flies from flower to flower, lighting with a velvet tread upon each blossom, extracting its sweetness without marring its beauty, and lays up honey to bless the world.--“Famous Stories of Sam P. Jones.”

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USELESS LABOR

If all the efforts wasted on such tasks as that described below were put into useful and constructive work, the world’s wealth would be far more rapidly increased.

Mr. William L. Stuart, a young man engaged in business in New York City, has performed the seemingly impossible feat of engraving the entire Lord’s Prayer on the head of an ordinary pin, to which he has added his name and the year, making altogether two hundred and seventy-six letters and figures.

Mr. Stuart did the work at odd times during his regular employment and with very ordinary tools, which seemingly are not adapted to such fine engraving. The pin was set in a block of wood, and a common engraver’s tool was used. A simple microscope, costing only about twenty-five cents, and known as a “linen tester,” furnished the necessary magnifying.

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USELESS STRUCTURES

Science speaks of useless physiological structures, as when we read in “The Descent of Man”:

Man, as well as every other animal, presents structures which, as far as we can judge with our little knowledge, are not now of any service to him, nor have been so during any former period of his existence, either in relation to his general condition of life, or of one sex to the other. Such structures can not be accounted for by any form of selection, or by the inherited effects of the use and disuse of parts.

Useless structures are not discerned alone by science. History and experience, in the large field of life, have seen them many times. The efforts of man have often reclaimed “useless structures.”

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USURY IN OLD DAYS

Our Pilgrims were few and poor. The whole outfit of this historic voyage, including £1,700 of trading stock, was only £2,400, and how little was required for their succor appears in the experience of the soldier, Captain Miles Standish, who, being sent to England for assistance--not military, but financial--(God save the mark!)--succeeded in borrowing--how much do you suppose?--£150 sterling. Something in the way of help; and the historian adds, “tho at fifty per cent interest.” So much for a valiant soldier on a financial expedition. A later agent, Allerton, was able to borrow for the colony £200 at a reduced interest of thirty per cent. Plainly, the money-sharks of our day may trace an undoubted pedigree to these London merchants.--CHARLES SUMNER.

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UTILITY

Many men decide values as Russell Sage did in this incident from The Saturday Evening Post, which illustrates the thrift which has always been present in all transactions made by Russell Sage:

A prominent New York financier says that recently, while on a tour of inspection over the Missouri Pacific system, President Gould took great pride in pointing out to Russell Sage the late improvements in equipment, and various new and ingenious devices and attachments. Among the latter Mr. Gould was especially pleased to show to Mr. Sage a certain device by which there is registered the speed of a train. The device in question resembled a steam-gage, and was connected with an axle, so that the pointer registered the number of revolutions every minute.

Mr. Sage examined the device with great interest. Then, after a moment’s pause, he looked up at Mr. Gould, and asked with great solemnity, “Does it earn anything?” “No, I think not,” answered the president. “Does it save anything?” “No.” “Then,” concluded Mr. Sage decidedly, “I would not have it on my car!”

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See CURRENTS, UTILIZING.

UTILITY AS THEISTIC EVIDENCE

Man reasons from himself to the great cause of things. That which is true of man may be true of God.

A prospect-glass or a forceps is an instrument; they have each a final cause; that is, they were each made and adjusted for a certain use. The use of the prospect-glass is to assist the eye; the use of the forceps is to assist the hand. The prospect-glass was made the better to see; the forceps, the better to grasp. The use did not make these instruments; they were each made for the use--which use was foreseen and premeditated in the mind of the maker of them. We say of each of them without a shadow of hesitation: If this had not first been a thought, it could never have been a thing.

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UTILITY, DIVINE

Preaching, like every other thing that God permits or ordains, can not be limited by human regulations. Rev. W. H. Fitchett says of John Wesley:

John Wesley heard at Bristol that his helper, Maxfield, had crossed the mystic border-line which separates an exhortation from a sermon, and the story has already been told of how Wesley rode post-haste to London to trample out the first sparks of what might prove to be a conflagration. His mother’s calm eyes and quiet speech arrested him. She made the one appeal which, to Wesley’s reason and conscience alike, was irresistible. This new and alarming phenomenon must, after all, be judged by the question: “Does God use it?”--“Wesley and His Century.”

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UTILIZATION

Darwin made the great experiments which have changed the whole aspect of natural history, with the common glasses of his house, and the common flower-pots in his garden.

There is a legend of an artist who sought long for a piece of sandalwood out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up the search when in a dream he was bidden to shape the figure from a block of oak-wood which was destined for the fire. Obeying the command, he produced from the log of common firewood a masterpiece.--HUGH MACMILLAN.

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Not so long ago there arrived at a Pacific port a ship from Belfast, Ireland, after a voyage that was in one respect remarkable. It appears that this vessel’s ballast consisted of about 2,000 tons of Irish soil. This, when leveled off, made a pretty good-sized garden patch, and the members of the crew, with commendable thrift, took it into their heads to improve it.

They planted a good stock of garden truck--cabbages, leeks, turnips, radishes, peas, beans, lettuce and other things. These came up in due course, and flourished admirably, especially while the ship was in the tropics, and the men had fresh “garden sass” to their hearts’ content.

As they rounded Cape Horn they replanted the garden, and by the time they reached the equator everything was again green and the table well supplied.

The two drawbacks were the weeds, which grew apace, and the inroads of the ship’s drove of pigs, which were kept in the “farm-yard attachment,” and which, on several occasions, when the ship was rolling heavily, broke out of bounds and, of course, did their best to obtain their share of the garden truck.

The last pig was killed and served with green vegetables just before the vessel entered the port on the Pacific. On the arrival of the ship the sod was taken to its destination, ready to be used again for terrestrial gardening.--Harper’s Weekly.

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A public sentiment that fluctuates irregularly can be as little depended upon in making progress as the sun’s energy noted in the following:

The energy falling upon an ordinary city lot should run continuously a hundred-horse-power plant. If all the coal deposits in Pennsylvania were burned in one second, they would not produce as much power as the sun furnishes us in the same time. The difficulty in the practical utilization of the solar energy lies in its extreme variability. In the morning and afternoon, when the sun is low in the heavens, but a small amount of energy reaches the surface, and even at noon a passing cloud will absorb the greater part of the solar radiation.--CHARLES LANE POOR, “The Solar System.”

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UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES

A writer on the coal areas of the nation says:

A good geologist, Baron von Richthofen, has reported that he has found a coal-field in the province of Hunau covering an area of 21,700 square miles, which is nearly double the British coal area of 12,000 square miles. In the province of Shansi, the baron discovered nearly 30,000 square miles of coal, with unrivaled facilities for mining. But all these vast coal-fields, capable of supplying the whole world for some thousands of years to come, are lying unworked.

If “the course of manufacturing supremacy of wealth and of power” were directed by coal, then China, which possesses 33.3 times more of this directive force than Great Britain, and had so early a start in life, should be the supreme summit of the industrial world. If this solid hydrocarbon “raises up one people and casts down another,” the Chinaman should be raised thirty-three times and three-tenths higher than the Englishman; if it “makes railways on land and paths on the sea,” the Chinese railways should be 33.3 times longer than ours, and the tonnage of their mercantile marine 33.3 times greater.

China is thus shown to be, potentially, the wealthiest coal-bearing country in the world. Actually, she is one of the poorest. The difference lies in her lack of utilization of that which is hers. So many a man fails of the best results. He possesses untold wealth, but he is morally and spiritually poverty-stricken because he fails to work the moral and spiritual deposit.

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UTILIZING SEAWEED

Owing to the formation of the coast, seaweed is present in great quantities along the shores of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The high tide leaves a long stretch of territory between high and low water mark, where it grows. As a fodder it is eaten by oxen, sheep, and deer in winter, and when boiled with a small quantity of meal added it makes a desirable food for hogs.

From seaweed, when reduced to ashes, are gained some of the most beneficent preparations in use to-day. Some of these are iodin, bromin, hydriodic acid, iodides of sodium, mercury, potassium, magnesium, and calcium. From it are extracted coloring matters, volatile oil, and its ingredients are used in photography. It is further employed as coverings for flasks, in the packing of glass, china, and other brittle wares, for packing furniture, stuffing pillows and mattresses, and in upholstering. The claim is made that furniture stuffed with seaweed is kept free of moths and other insects, owing to its salty flavor.

This weed is one of the best non-conductors of heat and finds use in thermotics, especially in the insulation of refrigerators and in refrigerating plants. It is also used between walls and floors to prevent the transmission of sound.

As the demand for this article is getting more active, large quantities are being gathered by farmers and fishermen along the shores of Prince Edward Island, dried, and prepared for shipment to the United States. (Text.)--Harper’s Weekly.

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UTILIZING SEED

“There isn’t one man in ten thousand who has the remotest idea of the vast number of uses to which the once despised cotton-seed is now being put,” said Captain B. J. Holmes, of New Orleans.

“From the clean seed are obtained linters and meats and hulls, the hulls making the best and most fattening feed for cattle that has yet been found. From the linters are gathered material for mattresses, felt wads, papers, rope, and a grade of underwear, and likewise cellulose, out of which gun-cotton is made. The meats furnish oil and meal, the oil after refining being now in almost universal use in the kitchens of this and other countries. Before refinement to the edible stage, the oil is known under many names, such as salad-oil, stearine, winter-oil and white-oil, oleomargarine being the product of stearine. The white-oil is the chief ingredient in compound lards. The original oil, also known as soap stock, has fatty acids used in the manufacture of soaps, roofing-tar, paints and glycerine, and from this comes the explosive nitroglycerine. I might also add that the meal, aside from its use as cattle provender, is transformed into bread, cake, crackers and even candy. Last of all come the doctors, who are saying that this wonderful seed is a boon to the sick, since from its oils an emulsion is prepared that has been known to be of value in tuberculosis and other ailments.”--Baltimore American.

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=Utilizing Soap-suds=--See SAGACITY SUPPLEMENTING SCIENCE.

=Utilizing Spider Threads=--See NATURE AIDING SCIENCE.

=Utilizing the Best We Have=--See CONSERVATION OF REMAINDERS.

UTTERANCE

Criminals, even those hardened beings who, ordinarily, laugh at everything, and show but little trace of what we call conscience, rarely keep their secret. It seems to burn them. They chalk it on the walls, and they betray it in their dreams. Their security depends upon their silence, and this silence they can not keep. At every moment their speech skirts the terrible mystery, and takes on a hollow sound which recalls that of steps upon tunneled earth. One guesses a gulf even when he does not see it. Revelation is more than a need; it is a necessity. It takes place sometimes in spite of ourselves and against our will. (Text.)--CHARLES WAGNER, “The Gospel of Life.”

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V

=Vacation Philosophy=--See ROUTINE.

=Vacuity=--See ORATORY; SOCIAL VANITY.

=Valuation, Extravagant=--See MYSTERY, VALUE OF.

VALUE IN RUBBISH

The rubbish of New York City is worth about $200,000 a year. The city gathers and carries its rubbish to the scows at the river-front. Then a contractor trims the scows and disposes of the litter. This operation costs him about $3,000 a week, or $500 each working day. For the privilege of handling the stuff, and winnowing it for goodly finds, the contractor, Celesto Di Maico, pays $1,750 a week, or $90,000 a year, to the city. This is $25,000 more than the previous contracts.--Collier’s Weekly.

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VALUE OF ONE MAN

Of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, The Episcopal Recorder says:

In these days, when every millionaire comes in for his share of just or unjust criticism, it is refreshing to read the kindly comments made on Thomas A. Edison and his work. Mr. Edison is an enormously wealthy man, but strange to say, we seldom think of Edison and millions in the same moment. The enormous force generated by this brilliant man is seen in the fact that his inventions and those which he has materially assisted have given existence to industries capitalized at more than $7,000,000,000, and earning annually more than $1,000,000,000, while they find employment for half a million people. Even these stupendous figures do not cover the facts, for no figures can begin to indicate the value of the service Mr. Edison’s inventions have rendered to mankind. If we could take out of every-day life those things that owe their existence to his genius, there would be quite a conspicuous gap, and Mr. Edison has not finished yet. The impress of this quiet man of sixty-three is possibly one of the greatest ever made by any one. Certainly his conquests of peace far surpass all the conquests of war.

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=Value Recognized=--See GENIUS CAN NOT BE HIDDEN.

VALUE THROUGH CHRIST

A class of medical students were being taken through the wards of a hospital. Their professor was showing them some strange case--a man who was a mere wreck, lying upon his bed hopeless and helpless, a broken fragment of humanity, a man who had spoiled his chances, sold his soul and body. The professor said in Latin, Fiat experimentum in corpore vili, “Let the experiment be made upon a worthless body.” But the man was an old university man, and before the days of his crash, he, too, knew Latin. He arose in his bed and answered back, Pro hoc corpore vili Jesus Christus mortuus est, “For this worthless body Jesus Christ has died.” And from every broken bit of the wreckage of humanity, and from every bit of your own soul’s life that is wrecked and broken, comes the same response to-day. God knows that for this worthless body Jesus Christ is on His cross still waiting to see of the travail of His soul.--JOHN KELMAN.

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VALUES

Charles Wagner, in “The Gospel of Life,” points a conclusion worth considering:

In finance, a figure is a figure. Two equal numbers have the same value, and a hundred dollars are twice fifty and twenty times as much as five dollars. But when intentions are involved, it is another matter; then the value of the figures depends no longer upon their size. This is what Jesus causes us to observe. Beware of neglecting the little pennies; there are pennies that are poems, there are pennies that have a soul.

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VALUES IN QUESTION

Money talks just as loudly in the realm of music as anywhere else. The despised violin, which merely is an incumbrance when it is thought to be worth not more than $10, becomes the chief ornament of the household when an expert says it is worth not less than $1,000. In Chicago there is a business man who owns a violin. He inherited it from his father, who was a musician. The business man does not play. One of his friends is a lover of violin music. That friend often had told the business man the violin was a good one, and that he ought to treasure it. The business man regarded the advice as that of an enthusiast. One day the argument became so warm the friend insisted that the question be settled at once by carrying the instrument to a professor of music, who is admittedly an authority on violins.

“Why, I wouldn’t carry that violin through the street for anything,” the business man said. “My friends would think I had gone music mad in my old age.”

“I’ll carry it,” his friend said quickly. “I’m not ashamed to carry a violin anywhere. Come along.”

They went. The professor was at home. The back and the belly, the neck and the bridge, the tail-piece and the sounding-post, all passed beneath his critical eye. “It looks all right,” the professor said. From the case he drew the bow and ran the hair several times across the cake of rosin. Then, striking A on a near-by piano, he proceeded to tune the instrument which for so many years had been held in so light esteem by its owner. After the violin was in tune he tested it, string by string, chord by chord, and harmonic by harmonic, in all positions. Then he began to play. The fulness, the richness and sweetness of the tone appealed even to the matter-of-fact business man.

“It is a genuine old Italian instrument, and I’ll give you $1,000 for it,” the professor said. The business man gasped.

“I’ll tell you frankly, it is worth more than that, but that is all I can afford to pay,” the professor continued.

“I can’t think of selling it,” the business man replied, with a halt in his speech. “You see, it came to me from my father. It is an heirloom. I thank you, however, for the test you have made and the good opinion you have exprest.”

The two men started away from the home of the professor, the business man carrying the violin.

“Let me take it,” his musical friend said. “You might meet some one you know.”

“I’ll carry it,” the business man retorted. “I don’t care how many friends I meet. And, besides, you might drop it.”--Chicago Inter-Ocean.

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=Values Rated=--See DISCRIMINATION, UNFAIR.

=Values, Spiritual=--See SPIRITUAL VALUES.

VALUES, STANDARD OF

When Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, asserted in the presence of Sir Joshua Reynolds that a pin-maker was more valuable to society than a Raphael, that ardent lover of his profession replied with some asperity: “That is an observation of a very narrow mind, a mind that is confined to the mere object of commerce. Commerce is the means, not the end of happiness. The end is a rational enjoyment by means of art and sciences. It is, therefore, the highest degree of folly to set the means in a higher rank of esteem than the end. It is as much as to say that the brick-maker is superior to the architect.”

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VANDALISM

In Egypt, travelers tell us about the destruction of palaces by vandals and Huns. The greatest architects and artists the world has ever known toiled upon the palace, and made it as perfect as a red rose; then came along these vandals--they ripped out carvings of angels and seraphs, that held a beauty that would pierce an artist’s heart, and with these carvings boiled their kettles. They pulled down the statues of Phidias and burned them into lime. They took the very stones of a palace and built them into hundreds of mean and squalid hovels. Soon where had been a structure for the gods, there stood hovels unfit for beasts.

In the same way many men treat the precious things of life and religion.

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VANITY

The fate of the soap-bubble is a lesson put into rime by Katherine Pyle:

“I am little,” the soap-bubble said, “just now; Oh, yes, I am small, I know”; (This is what it said to the penny pipe); “But watch and see me grow.

“Now, look! and reflected in me you’ll see The windows, the chairs and door. I’m a whole little world; did you ever know Such a wonderful thing before?

“And only look at my colors bright, Crimson and green and blue, You could hardly hope such a lovely thing Would ever stay here with you.

“And I feel so light!” the bubble cried; “I’m going now; good-by! I shall float and float away from here, Out under the shining sky.

“I shall float--” But puff! the bubble broke. The pipe near the nursery floor Never looked nor spoke, but went on with its work, And blew a great many more.

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See MARKS, COVERING.

VANITY, BLASPHEMOUS

Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga, was once listening in church to the Rev. Jedediah Dewey, the ancester of Admiral Dewey of Manila fame, who was offering prayer in which he was giving God thanks for the victory of the American arms at the battle of Bennington, when Ethan Allen chafed under the devout preacher’s neglect of his part in the conflict and success. Rising in his pew in the midst of the prayer, he said, “Parson Dewey, Parson Dewey!” The parson stopt and opened his eyes to see the source of the interruption, when Ethan Allen added, “Please mention to the Lord about my being there.” “Sit down, thou blasphemer,” thundered Mr. Dewey, “and listen to the praises of the God of battles.”

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VANITY IN DEATH

According to a recent magazine writer, Ann Oldfield, who once took “London by storm,” “being much caressed in the houses of great people and received in friendly terms at court,” is now chiefly recalled as an actress who, when dying, was concerned most with the “becomingness of the burial robe” in which she lay in state indeed in the Jerusalem chamber of Westminster Abbey, in the vaults of which she was entombed.

“Odious in woollen ’twould a saint provoke, (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.) No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face. One would not, sure, be frightful when one’s dead, And, Betty, give this cheek a little red!” (Text.)

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=Variation=--See FREEDOM THROUGH DRILL.

VERBIAGE

Certainly lawyers can not rail at theologians for adhesion to traditional forms.

An author who inveighed against the practise of lawyers drawing long deeds and settlements, thus satirized it: “If a man were to give to another an orange he would merely say, ‘I give you this orange’; but when the transaction is entrusted to the hands of a lawyer to put it in writing, he adopts this form, ‘I hereby give, grant and convey to you all and singular my estate and interest, right, title, claim and advantage of and in the said orange, together with all its rind, skin, juice, pulp, and pips, and all right and advantage therein, with full power to bite, cut, suck, and otherwise eat the same, or give the same away as fully and effectually as I, the said A B, am now entitled to bite, cut, suck, or otherwise eat the same orange, or give the same away, with or without its rind, skin, juice, pulp, and pips, anything hereinbefore or hereinafter, or in any other deed or deeds, instrument or instruments, of what nature or kind soever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.’” (Text.)--CROAKE JAMES, “Curiosities of Law and Lawyers.”

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VERSATILITY

The following anecdote is told of Cyrus Hamlin, a lifelong missionary in Turkey and the chief founder of Robert College in Constantinople:

One day at Bowdoin, Professor Smith delivered a lecture on the steam-engine to Hamlin’s class, not one of whom, perhaps, had ever seen a steam-engine. Those were the days of the stage-coach and the ox-team. After the lecture he said to Professor Smith, “I believe I could make an engine.” The professor replied, “I think you can make anything you undertake, Hamlin, and I wish you would try.” He did try, and succeeded. By working twelve and sometimes fifteen hours each day, he built a steam-engine sufficiently large to be of real service as a part of the philosophical apparatus of the college.--Youth’s Companion.

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=Versatility Required=--See DETAILS, PERIL OF.

VERSION, HIS MOTHER’S

A Bible-class teacher was telling of the various translations of the Bible and their different excellences. The class was much interested, and one of the young men that evening was talking to a friend about it.

“I think I prefer the King James version for my part,” he said, “tho, of course, the Revised is more scholarly.”

His friend smiled. “I prefer my mother’s translation of the Bible myself to any other version,” he said.

“Your mother’s?” cried the first young man, thinking his companion had suddenly gone crazy. “What do you mean, Fred?”

“I mean that my mother has translated the Bible into the language of daily life for me ever since I was old enough to understand it. She translates it straight, too, and gives its full meaning. There has never been any obscurity about her version. Whatever printed version of the Bible I may study, my mother’s is always the one that clears up my difficulties.”

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=Vessels=--See CONDEMNED, THE.

VIBRATION

The jar and discord of life may often be modified by balancing one discord against another or by changing the rate of effort. Sometimes to go faster in one direction or slower in another brings harmony and peace.

It is rather interesting to call attention to the recent improvement in the running conditions of the steamship Mauretania, which, it will be remembered, is driven by four steam turbines, and which recently damaged one of her propellers. While repairing the latter, advantage was taken of the opportunity to change the propeller-blades a little, and it is said the change reduced very appreciably the vibration of the vessel. It seems that there was more or less resonance between the vibration caused by the propeller-blades and the speed at which they were driven; so by throwing the two out of harmony, the effect is damped out. Doubtless similar conditions exist elsewhere and frequently are the cause of the entire trouble due to vibration, and by some slight change, throwing the apparatus or its support out of tune, the effect is removed.--The Electrical Review.

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See COMMUNICATION, PSYCHICAL.

VICARIOUS SACRIFICE

Dr. Turner, in his book on the Samoan Islands, tells the following incident:

The people were cannibals, the King, Mahetoa, leading in the horrible practise. His young son, Polu, hated the heathenish and brutal custom, and one day, when he saw a poor boy waiting to be killed and served as a tender morsel for the King’s dinner, he was touched with pity and said, “Don’t cry; I will try and save you.” So he drest himself in coconut leaves and had himself served just as tho he had been killed and roasted whole. The King came to the table, and looked down at the cannibal dish, saw two bright eyes looking up at him. He recognized his son, and the thought flashed through his heathen mind, “What if it were, indeed, my dear son, whose body had been cooked for my meal!” He was touched, too, by the magnanimity of his boy, taking the other lad’s place, and he abolished cannibalism by law from his kingdom from that day. (Text.)

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VICARIOUS SALVATION IMPOSSIBLE

There was a man who dreamed that he died and, seeking admission to paradise, was refused. He attempted to excuse his lack of religious faith and fidelity by the old pretext that, while he looked after worldly affairs, his wife went to church for both. “Well,” said the gatekeeper, “she has gone in for both!”

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=Vicarious Sight=--See FRATERNITY.

VICARIOUSNESS

There are men who reap consequences without having the advantages of the causes that brought them about. For instance, it takes the gout a good long time to grow in a family, but it does grow, and it often grows from a good cellar of port in the possession of an ancestor. Now, what I think hard is that a man should have the port without having the gout; and what I think more tragic still, is that another man should have the gout without having had the port. But still that is one of the great laws of life. We can not avoid it, and we dare not impugn its wisdom. Did we, we should be like the great civic functionary who determined to have a south wall built all around his garden.--GEORGE DAWSON.

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Charles Wagner, in “The Gospel of Life,” gives this interesting incident:

Something happened last winter, in Paris, that I shall place side by side with the mite of the gospel. You will remark the profound analogy, the close spiritual kinship of these two cases.

In the north wind of December a shelter was raised where warm soup was given to the unfortunate. A very old woman, who had long waited her turn, at length sat down and was served. Before she touched her portion, she noticed that a young, robust working man beside her had already consumed his with an avidity that betrayed that he was famished. At once she pushed her plate toward the workman and said to him: “I am not hungry, will you eat this?” The workman accepted. But some one had noticed all that had passed. As they went out, he took the old woman aside and said to her: “You were not hungry then?” “Oh, yes,” she answered, blushing, “but I am old and can bear it, and that poor young man was more in need of it than I.”

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VICE DEN DISPLACED BY MISSION

Persons passing No. 293 Bowery, formerly the Germania Assembly Rooms, were invited to come in and be “rescued.”

“This is Hadley Rescue Hall,” said the man at the door. “Please come in and be rescued while there is time. All are welcome.”

“What!” exclaimed an astonished man; “the old Germania a mission! Why, this place was one of the biggest gambling dens the city ever had, and next door was McGuirk’s ‘Suicide Hall.’ If I had the money that I blew in there I wouldn’t be walking the Bowery to-day in search of a nickel for a cup of coffee.”

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VICTORIES, DISASTROUS

Milman has told us how Pope John XXI, bursting into exultant laughter as he entered for the first time that noble chamber which he had built for himself at Viterbo, is crusht by its avenging roof, which that instant comes down on his head. And thus it is true, in a deeper sense, that many a triumph crushes and extinguishes all that is noblest in him who has won it. Doubtless, failure and defeat are bitter, but hardest of all to bear are not our losses but our victories.--Bishop POTTER, Scribner’s Magazine.

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VICTORY

Baldwin, an Englishman, who went to Africa only with the intention of shooting, one day put this problem to himself, after having been very nearly felled by a lion: “Why does man risk his life without having any interest in doing so?” The answer he gave to himself was: “It is a question which I will not try to solve. All I can say is that in victory one finds an inward satisfaction for which it is worth while to run a risk, even if there is nobody to applaud.”

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In 61 B.C., Pompey returned to Rome from the wars, having conquered the known world. He led a triumphal procession along the Via Sacra, occupying two days. In front were borne brazen tablets on which were recorded a list of the nations conquered and the trophies won in Africa, in Europe, and in Asia, representing nine hundred cities and one thousand fortresses. (Text.)

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See WINNING.

VICTORY IN DEFEAT

Billy Boy was in a very serious frame of mind; in fact, he was quite gloomy and dejected. To be sure, his side hadn’t won the cricket match, but that was scarcely enough to account for his present state of feeling. He had lost before, and usually with pretty good grace. But to-day no sympathy appealed to him, no cheerful encouragement won so much as a shadow of a smile. The hopeful, merry, happy Billy Boy had entirely disappeared.

Mother, whose experience with little boys had warned her of occasions when it was a case of “do-better-or-do-nothing-at-all,” as Hans says in the Grimm story, waited for the situation to develop, and at last the silence was broken. Slowly, seriously, solemnly, Billy Boy said it:

“Mother, God was on the side of the bad boys, and they won. You see, we fellows thought we would try awfully hard and not get mad or cheat or say bad words. And not one fellow did. And the other fellows did--like fury. I guess they swore. And they won and we were licked. God was on their side all right, and it’s not fair.”

Ordinary comfort and explanation availed nothing. The fact remained. The faithful little band that had tried to do right had been beaten by the rough little crowd that didn’t care anything at all about it. God was on the side of might--not right. This was self-evident and did not admit of explanation; and who wants comfort for injustice? Not Billy Boy. After a while father came in, and before Billy Boy saw him, mother had presented the case.

He thought carefully a moment. Then his cheerful voice was heard.

“Well, my boy, I hear you won out to-day.”

“Well, then,” in a voice of awful solemnity, “you heard wrong, ’cause we didn’t; we were licked.”

“Oh, but I heard that there were two contests; which did you win?”

“Why, I don’t know what you mean, father.”

“Mother told me about it. She told me you lost the match, but you won the big, important thing; you didn’t beat the other fellows, but you beat yourselves, and conquered all the anger and unfairness and bad language. Congratulations, old fellow! You won out and I’m proud of you.”

Billy Boy’s face was slowly undergoing a change. It was growing once more interested, happy, hopeful. “Why, that’s so, dad,” he said joyously, after a minute; “I didn’t see that. And God was on our side after all, wasn’t He?”

“Greater is he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city,” said the father, with a smile.

That night when Billy Boy said his prayers, this is the way he ended his petition: “And please, God, excuse me for the way I thought about you this afternoon. I didn’t understand.”--Congregationalist.

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VICTORY, ULTIMATE

The victory that comes beyond all life’s failures is the subject of these lines from Success:

There is no failure. Life itself’s a song Of victory o’er death, and ages long Have told the story old of triumphs wrought Unending, from the things once held for naught. The battle’s over; tho defeated now, In coming time the waiting world shall bow Before the throne of Truth that’s builded high Above the dust of those whose ashes lie All heedless of the glorious fight they won When death obscured the light of vict’ry’s sun.

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VICTORY WITH GOD

But yesterday I opened an English history. The scholar was recounting the events of the hour when Parliament prohibited slavery, in the English colonies. At that time, the author says, applause in those sacred precincts was unknown, but suddenly at the name of Wilberforce, all the members arose, cheered wildly, waved hands and caps, and in a tumult of enthusiasm, clustered about Wilberforce. But the one man who sat silent and overcome, perhaps was thinking of the hour when in Parliament he made his first plea. Then his seemed a hopeless task. The rich men of England drew their income from slavery and the sugar plantations. The whole moneyed system of England was involved. After Wilberforce’s first attack on slavery, he was left alone. Men turned their backs on him as if he were a leper. He ate his bread in solitude. When he wandered through the corridors of the House of Commons, he was alone, like an outcast. All great houses were closed to the reformer. Then Wilberforce wrote a little book on religion and conscience, and the moral state of England. But the bitter fight was transferred to a cathedral, whose canon thundered against the reformer, and defended the institution of slavery. But Wilberforce held on his way. He knew his God. He saw afar off Him who was invisible. And lo, the sword flashed, and he beheld the Prince of Peace marching to victory. Once there was Wilberforce, and in the shadow behind him one like unto the Son of God. Then, there was Wilberforce, and all England behind him, and the Eternal God over all, leading on, in whose name Wilberforce wrought exploits.--N. D. HILLIS.

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VIEW, THE NEAR AND FAR

How often would it happen that men who see evil in other men, and hold one another in distrust and contempt, would gain a different impression merely by drawing nearer together. Tit-Bits gives this humorous instance:

They met on a bridge. Each held out his hand, and they shook, and instantly realized that they were utter strangers. Had not one of them been a genuine Hibernian the situation might have been embarrassing.

“Begorra, that’s quare,” said Pat. “When we wor so far off that we couldn’t see eich other I thought it was you an’ you thought it was me, and now we’re here together it’s nayther of us.” (Text.)

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VIEW-POINT

In a poem, “The Mountain,” Edwin Markham shows how differently a mountain affects different minds:

Each builds his world forever, dark or bright, And sits within his separate universe. The shepherd sees in this green mountain top Place where his sheep may wander and grow fat. What to the drover is this lilied pool? A hollow for his swine to wallow in. Gold-hunters find upon this rocky peak Nothing but ledges for their ringing picks. But to the poet all this soaring height Smokes with the footsteps of the passing God!

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See LIFE WHAT WE MAKE IT; MOODS DETERMINING DESIRES.

=Viewpoint Changed=--See VALUES IN QUESTION.

=Views, Contracted=--See SELF-LIMITATION.

VIGILANCE

Richard III went out at twilight to reconnoiter; he found a sentinel fast asleep at the outposts. The King promptly stabbed him to the heart and left upon his breast a paper with the stern inscription, “I found him asleep and I leave him so.”

Sooner or later death, or something equally to be feared, overtakes every man who forsakes his duty and falls asleep at his post. (Text.)

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=Vigilance in Nature=--See NATURE’S AGGRESSIVENESS.

VINCIBLENESS

Men are like timber. Oak will bear a stress that pine won’t, but there never was a stick of timber on the earth that could not be broken at some pressure. There never was a man born on the earth that could not be broken at some pressure--not always the same nor put in the same place. There is many a man who can not be broken by money pressure, but who can be by pressure of flattery. There is many a man impervious to flattery who is warped and biased by his social inclinations. There is many a man whom you can not tempt with red gold, but you can with dinners and convivialities. One way or the other, every man is vincible. There is a great deal of meaning in that simple portion of the Lord’s Prayer, “Lead us not into temptation.”--HENRY WARD BEECHER.

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VIRTUE IN POOR GUISES

I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. I believe that she and every beautiful object in external nature claims some sympathy in the breast of the poorest man who breaks his scanty loaf of daily bread. I believe that she goes barefoot as well as shod. I believe that she dwells rather oftener in alleys and by-ways than she does in courts and palaces, and that it is good, and pleasant, and profitable to track her out, and follow her. I believe that to lay one’s hand upon some of those rejected ones whom the world has too long forgotten, and too often misused, and to say to the proudest and most thoughtless, “These creatures have the same elements and capacities of goodness as yourselves; they are molded in the same form, and made of the same clay; and tho ten times worse than you, may, in having retained anything of their original nature amid the trials and distresses of their condition, be really ten times better.” I believe that to do this is to pursue a worthy and not useless vocation.--CHARLES DICKENS.

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VIRTUE NOT TO BE COERCED

The most temperate crowd of men I know is in Sing Sing. There isn’t a single thief in the Raymond Street Jail. But pull down the walls of Sing Sing, and then you will discover the difference between a man whose virtue depends upon a wall and the man whose goodness depends upon a will.--N. D. HILLIS.

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VIRTUE, TIRING OF

We have come to a time when multitudes are tired of law, and duty, honor, justice, and the old solid and substantial virtues of the fathers. Now and then this rebellious mood voices itself in the lips of some restless youth who exclaims boldly, “I hate the very word duty.” Men are become like the cattle in the clover-field, that once the appetite is satisfied, tire of walking around knee-deep in rich, luscious grasses, and stick their heads through the fence, to strain toward the dog’s kennel in the dusty lane. It is a singular fact that a colt in the field, up to its ears in clover, as soon as it has eaten and is full, envies the poor old forsaken horse, out in the lane, a mere bag of bones, deserted by its owner and left to die, and eating dirt in its hungry desire for a single mouthful of grass-roots.--N. D. HILLIS.

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VIRTUES, TRANSPLANTED

A rare plant from the King’s Gardens at Kew, England, has floated down the stream to a little village in Surrey. Its flowers may now be seen, to the great surprize of botanists, growing on the banks of this village stream in fine profusion. So the flowers of humility, love, and faith, transplanted in us from higher lives may grow in the humblest lives, surprizing all around by their sweet fragrance.

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=Vision=--See ELEVATION AND VISION; INSPIRATION.

=Vision, Distorted=--See BLINDNESS CURED.

VISION OF JESUS

It was the vision of the Savior which transformed the whole being of Paul. And the apprehension of the person of the risen and ascended Son of God must forever change the one who has beheld Him.

Sir David Brewster says, in his life of Sir Isaac Newton, that the great astronomer on a certain occasion gazed steadfastly with his naked eyes on the sun shining in his meridian splendor. As a consequence, the impression in the retina was so deep that for days he could not see anything with distinctness--turn which way he would, he constantly beheld the image of the sun. He shut himself up for days in a dark room, but even there he could clearly discern the golden halo of the light. (Text.)

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VISION RESTORED

A young French girl, daughter of a famous painter, had lost her eyesight in infancy. She was supposed to be incurably blind. But years later a noted Paris oculist was consulted and performed a delicate operation which completely restored her vision. Frequently afterward she would run into her father’s arms and exclaim: “To think that I had such a father for so many years and never knew him!”

So many souls are blind and are ignorant of their Heavenly Father! (Text.)

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=Vision, The Larger=--See SELF-LIMITATIONS.

=Visiting, Vain=--See ACQUAINTANCES.

VITAL FAITHS

An institution has life in it. Cut any of the faiths of your fathers and they bleed. At the heart of a grain of wheat is a golden spot that holds the life, and a coming sheaf. You may strip off the outer hull, but touch that living heart at your peril. You may change the forms of your government, but, oh, guard the liberty of your fathers. You may change the wording of your fathers’ creed, but at your peril touch the providence of God, His Fatherhood and love, the way of life through Christ, the hope of immortality. You may change the method of worship on Sunday, but at your peril do not destroy it, until in one wild orgy of drunken pleasure, your children become mere insect “skippers,” dancing for a day on the surface of a poisoned pool, then to disappear forever.--N. D. HILLIS.

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VITALITY, LOW

Just as the body when at a low vitality is susceptible to colds, so it may as truly be said of the soul, when impoverished it falls a prey to temptation and sin.

The common theory that all colds are the result of exposure is a great mistake, inasmuch as exposure is not the direct cause of the trouble. Colds are caused by hostile microbes, or bacteria, which gain a foothold at a time when our vitality has been lowered by exposure. But there are many quarters of the globe where one finds it impossible to catch cold, simply by reason of the fact that there is no cold to catch.

Peary and his men during the months they spent in the arctic regions were immune from cold, tho they were constantly enduring exposure of every kind. They passed day after day in clothes so saturated with perspiration that by day they froze into a solid mass, so to speak, and the clothes cut into their flesh. And at night, in their sleeping-bags, the first hour was spent in thawing out. They returned to civilization none the worse in health, but soon contracted severe colds upon reaching there. People were much amused by the press accounts of how Commander Peary had taken cold while proceeding to dine with a friend in a suburb of Washington, the taxicab which was conveying him and his wife having broken down during a snow flurry in December.--Harper’s Weekly.

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=Vocabulary and Missionaries=--See SPEECH AND MISSIONARIES.

=Vocal Practise and Health=--See SINGING CONDUCIVE TO HEALTH.

VOCIFERATION

The Persians in their battles with the Scythians brought with them from Europe in their train a great number of asses, as beasts of burden, to transport the tents and the baggage of the army. These asses were accustomed in times of excitement and danger to set up a very terrific braying. It was, in fact, all that they could do. And it was effective, for the Scythian horses in their troops of cavalry, who would have faced spears and javelins and the loudest shouts and vociferations of human adversaries without fear, were appalled and put to flight at hearing the unearthly noises which issued from the Persian camp whenever they approached it. The battle was won by the braying of asses.

Any political campaign might stand as a testimony of the power of vociferation. But the really important issues of the world are never decided by the braying of asses.

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=Voice=--See AUDIENCE, INSPIRATION FROM.

VOICE, A SWEET

The sweet voice of Philip Phillips once charmed the Senate chamber at Washington and won a rare tribute from President Lincoln. It was toward the close of the Civil War. The United States Christian Commission was in session. Statesmen, generals and other leading friends of the Union were there. On being invited to sing, Mr. Phillips rendered Mrs. Gates’ “Your Mission,” beginning,

“If you can not on the ocean Sail among the swiftest fleet.”

As he proceeded every one sat spellbound. But when he reached the lines,

“If you can not in the conflict Prove yourself a soldier true; If where fire and smoke are thickest There’s no work for you to do; When the battle-field is silent You can go with careful tread; You can bear away the wounded, You can cover up the dead,”

the Senate chamber rang with a tempest of applause, and a note was passed to the chairman, Secretary Seward, from the pen of Mr. Lincoln for the singer: “Near the close let us have ‘Your Mission’ repeated.”

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=Voice, Knowledge of=--See TESTIMONY, A SHEEP’S.

VOICE OF GOD

There is an old legend of a nun. She had gone into the thick solitudes to listen to the forest voices. Seated in the shade of a tree she heard a song till then new to her ears. It was the song of the mystic bird. In that song she heard in music all that man thinks and feels, all that he seeks and that he fails to find. On strong wings that song lifted her soul to the heights where it looks upon reality. There, with hands clasped, the nun listened and listened, forgetting earth, sky, time and even self-listened for long centuries, never tiring, but ever finding in that voice a sweetness forever new.

Just such music, only infinitely sweeter, does the soul find that listens amid its solitudes to the voice of God. (Text.)

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VOICE, THE HUMAN

The author of the “Descent of Man” thinks even the human voice is prophetic of the ascent of man. Speaking of the “wonderful power, range, flexibility, and sweetness of the musical sounds producible by the human larynx,” he says:

The habits of savages give no indication of how this faculty could have been developed. The singing of savages is a more or less monotonous howling, and the females seldom sing at all. It seems as if the organ had been prepared in anticipation of the future progress of man, since it contains latent capacities which are useless to him in his earlier condition.

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=Voice, The Mother’s=--See FATHER’S VOICE.

=Voting=--See BALLOT A DUTY.

=Vows=--See GRATITUDE.

=Voyage of Life=--See LIFE A VOYAGE.

VULGARITY IN THE RICH

“Edward Everett Hale,” said a lawyer, “was one of the guests at a millionaire’s dinner. The millionaire was a free spender, but he wanted full credit for every dollar put out. As the dinner progressed, he told his guests what the more expensive dishes had cost.

“‘This terrapin,’ he would say, ‘was shipped direct from Baltimore. A Baltimore cook came on to prepare it. The dish actually cost one dollar a teaspoonful.’

“So he talked of the fresh peas, the hothouse asparagus, the Covent Garden peaches, and the other courses. He dwelt especially on the expense of the large and beautiful grapes, each bunch a foot long, each grape bigger than a plum. He told down to a penny what he had figured it out that the grapes had cost him apiece.

“The guests looked annoyed. They ate the expensive grapes charily. But Dr. Hale, smiling, extended his plate and said:

“‘Would you mind cutting me off about $1.87 worth more, please?’” (Text.)--Rochester Herald.

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W

=Wager, A Rash=--See WOMANLY WIT.

WAIT AND SEE

Be not swift to be afraid; Many a ghostly thing is laid In the light from out the shade, Wait and see.

Do not live your sorrows twice; Fear is like a touch of ice; Faith can kill it in a trice, Wait and see.

Why expect the worst to come? Pondered cares are troublesome, Joy makes up a goodly sum, Wait and see.

Better than your wildest dreams Is God’s light that for you gleams. When the morning cloudy seems, Wait and see.

--MARIANNE FARNINGHAM.

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WAITING

We often accomplish more by patient waiting than by direct effort.

There was a very balky horse in town which nobody could drive. A kind gentleman undertook to drive him through the White Mountains. His owner laughed, and said: “You can not drive out of town, much less through the mountains.” He said quietly, “I think I will manage him,” and he did, in this way. He filled the carriage-box with books, and when the horse balked he quietly flung the reins on the hook, took out a book and began to read, and waited patiently until the horse saw fit to start. This he did two or three times, and the horse was cured.

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See STATIC PROGRESS.

=Waiting for Enlightenment=--See DRINK.

=Walking=--See FOLLOWING INEXACTLY; GAIT AND CHARACTER.

WALKING FOR INSPIRATION

Much bending over the folio does not make the better part of poetry or of prose. It inheres as much in the physiological condition that results from the swinging of the legs, which movement quickens heart action and stimulates the brain by supplying it with blood charged with the life-giving principle of the open air.

In spite of his club-foot, Byron, one of the most fecund, if not the most moral, of poets, managed to walk about in the open to an extent that should shame the verse-writer of to-day, clinging to his strap in the trolley-car. Wordsworth walked all over the Cumberland district and the neighboring country. Wherever he happened to be he poked into every secret corner. Shelley, we are told, rambled everywhere. Despite all unseemly cavil as to Tennyson’s drinking habits, I should say that he drew more inspiration from his walks than from his wine. Goethe, who during his lifetime required fifty thousand bottles of the vintner’s best to sweeten his imagination, found his extensive walks about Weimar a source of great inspirational profit. (Text.)--BAILEY MILLARD, The Critic.

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WALKING WITH GOD

When a boy I remember distinctly seeing my father at a long distance off (almost as far as the eye could reach) on a road on which we were all accustomed to travel, as it was the highway to a big city. The one thing that enabled me to distinguish my father from other fellow travelers on that road was his manly walk. There was the graceful swing of the arm and directness of step, with his toes pointing in the right direction that quickly identified him from other men.

In the moral and spiritual world we are known by how we step, whether we are stepping with God or away from Him.--R. S.

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Jeanette McMillan writes in this poem of a life’s journey with God:

My plans were made, I thought my path all bright and clear, My heart with songs o’erflowed, the world seemed full of cheer, My Lord I wished to serve, to take Him for my Guide, To keep so close that I could feel Him by my side; And so I traveled on.

But suddenly, in skies so clear and full of light, The clouds came thick and fast, the day seemed changed to night. Instead of paths so clear and full of things so sweet, Rough things, and thorns, and stones seemed all about my feet, I scarce could travel on.

I bowed my head and wondered why this change should come, And murmured, “Lord, is this because of aught I’ve done? Has not the past been full enough of pain and care? Why should my path again be changed to dark from fair?” But still I traveled on.

I listened--quiet and still, there came a voice: “This path is mine, not thine; I made the choice. Dear child, this service will be best for thee and me If thou wilt simply trust and leave the end with me.” And so we travel on.

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WANDERER’S RETURN

A widowed lady of mature life mourned a runaway son who was lost to her for years. Her sorrow had silenced her song, for she was a cultured woman and an accomplished vocalist. But during a visit at a distant friend’s home she was induced to sing at a church service, choosing for her solo, “Where is my wandering boy to-night?” and, of course, sang it with much feeling; and after rendering the second stanza:

“Once he was pure as the morning dew, As he knelt at his mother’s knee, No face was so bright, no heart more true, And none were so sweet as he,”

the congregation joined in the refrain:

“O where is my boy to-night? O where is my boy to-night? My heart o’erflows, for I love him he knows, O where is my boy to-night?”

“Mother, I’m here,” responded a young man away back, making his way sobbing up the aisle. Among the converts that night was this returning wanderer. The Rev. Robert Lowry is the author of the hymn and tune.

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WANT BRINGS PROGRESS

How paltry, worthless, small and scant A world in which man knew not want, Where no ungratified desire Allured or drove him to aspire! Then welcome world of toil and hope Where every energy has scope! Brothers, in God’s great world rejoice, And harken to His cheering voice That calls man to the larger task And gives him more than he could ask. Let us in the assurance rest That what God does is always best.

--CHARLES WILLIAM PEARSON, “A Threefold Cord.”

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=War=--See ARMIES OF THE WORLD; MILITARISM; NAVIES OF THE WORLD; STRATEGY; TENSION, MORAL.

WAR, AFTER EFFECTS OF

The Civil War lasted four years. The number of those enlisted in the Union army was 2,113,000. The number killed in action was 67,000; died of wounds received in action, 43,000; while the total number of deaths from all causes was 359,000. I have no statistics of the Confederate army, but certainly they would largely increase the total casualties of the war. On the other hand, the Spanish War lasted but a few months. The total number of men mustered in was 223,000. The number killed in action was only 218--not as many as have been killed in many a single mining catastrophe; the number of those that died from wounds received in action was 81; the number dying from disease, 3,848. The total casualties during that war were less than the number killed in railroad accidents in this country during a single year. According to the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the number killed on our railways during the year ending June 30, 1908, was 3,764; the number injured, 68,989. Other years show a greater fatality. In the Civil War were some of the greatest battles of history and a terrible loss of life on either side. In the Spanish War, outside of two brilliant naval engagements, there were only a few skirmishes. The two wars taken as a whole compare about like a twelve-inch rifled gun with a small pistol; and yet, as we have seen, after the Civil War there was no cry for an increase in armament, no call for a navy to challenge the fleets of the world, a steady payment of the national indebtedness, a devotion to the pursuits of peace, and a magnificent enlargement of our industries and business, while after the Spanish War we increased our army, and we have been steadily building ironclad after ironclad, until now our navy stands second among the navies of the world.--DAVID J. BREWER.

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See SACRIFICE, TOO COSTLY.

WAR AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

In a sermon on the scientific indictment of war, Dr. James H. Ecob says:

Soldiers must be young men; not only that, but young men of the finest possible physical development. The question at once presents itself, What effect must it have upon the physical stamina of a people, if the very flower of its young men are led out and fed to the cannon? What would we say of a farmer who should lead out into the back lots the very flower of his stock and shoot it down, leaving it there as food for crows and foxes? At first we would cry, shameful waste? But a second thought, more fundamental and portentous, is, what effect must such a policy have upon the physical status or grade of the stock that remains. If the best are thrown away and only the second best are retained, progressive degeneration of the stock must result.

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WAR, COST OF

That we may better appreciate the present problem in its relation to the United States, attention is called to the appropriations made by the United States Government. For the year ending June 30, 1910, the appropriations for the army, fortifications and military academy amount to $111,897,515.67; for the navy, $136,935,199.05; and for pensions, $160,908,000. The total amount to be expended during the current fiscal year on account of wars and preparations for war aggregates $409,740,714.72. Compare these figures with the relatively insignificant sum of $32,007,049, which is the total amount appropriated for the use of the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the Government during the same period.

The total expenditures of the Government of the United States from its beginning in 1789 to 1909 has been as follows: For war, $6,699,583,209; for navy, $2,441,572,934; for pensions, $4,155,267,356. This aggregates the vast sum of $13,296,423,549 expended for war purposes, as against $4,466,068,760 expended for civil and miscellaneous purposes.

The average annual cost of the army and navy of the United States for the eight years preceding the Spanish War was $51,500,000. The average annual cost of the army and navy for the eight years since the Spanish War has been $185,400,000. The average yearly increase in the latter period as compared with the former has been $134,000,000, making a total increase in eight years of $1,072,000,000, or 360 per cent. This increase for eight years exceeds the national debt by $158,000,000. The amount of all gifts to charities, libraries, educational institutions and other public causes in 1909 in this country was $185,000,000, or $400,000 less than the average annual cost for the army and navy for the past eight years. What benefit has the nation derived from all this expenditure?

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See ARMIES OF THE WORLD; NAVIES OF THE WORLD; MILITARISM.

WAR DISPLAY

Edmund Vance Cooke writes of the cruise of the American fleet around the globe in the following significant lines:

This is the song of the thousand men who are multiplied by twelve, Sorted and sifted, tested and tried, and muscled to dig and delve. They come from the hum of city and shop, they come from the farm and the field. And they plow the acres of ocean now, but tell me, what is their yield?

This is the song of the sixteen ships to buffet the battle and gale, And in every one we have thrown away a Harvard or a Yale. Behold here the powers of Pittsburg, the mills of Lowell and Lynn, And the furnaces roar and the boilers seethe, but tell me, what do they spin?

This is the song of the long, long miles from Hampton to the Horn, From the Horn away to the western bay whence our guns are proudly borne. A flying fleet and a host of hands to carry these rounds of shot! And behold they have girdled the globe by half, and what is the gain they have brought?

This is the song of the wasters, ay, defenders, if you please, Defenders against our fellows, with their wasters even as these, For we stumble still at the lesson taught since ever the years were young, That the chief defense of a nation is to guard its own hand and tongue.

This is the song of our sinning (for the fault is not theirs, but ours), That we chain these slaves to our galley-ships as the symbol of our powers; That we clap applause, that we cry hurrahs, that we vent our unthinking breath, For oh, we are proud that we flaunt this flesh in the markets of dismal death.

--Christian Work and Evangelist.

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WAR, RACIAL FERTILITY AND

Overproduction of offspring--“race-suicide” by suffocation instead of by starvation--is responsible, we are now told, for the impulse that is driving the great nations toward war. Germany has outgrown her territory and must seize on some of Great Britain’s colonial overflow territory; Japan is similarly plethoric with population and must disgorge into our Philippines. This is the simple explanation of modern militarism offered by Henry M. Hyde, writing under the title that heads this article, in The Technical World Magazine. His theory has the advantage that most of the great world-movements in recorded history may be traced to this cause, from the Aryan migration to the daily influx of Poles and Hungarians on our own shores. After dwelling on the recent huge increase of armaments, the hasty building of dreadnoughts, the war-scares in England, the eager toasts on German battleships “to the Day”--meaning the day when the Kaiser shall turn loose his dogs of war on Britain--the writer goes on:

What is the matter with the world? What is the disease from which civilization suffers? And where are the physicians who shall prescribe the necessary remedies?

Pending an answer to these ancient and disputed questions, it is desired to point out certain facts which may help to explain the present situation and to ask whether, because of these facts, the nations may not, almost in spite of themselves, be driven into war?

In 1800 France had 4,000,000 more population than Germany. At that time both nations occupied approximately the same amount of territory, about 200,000 square miles each. The density of population in France was 134 to the square mile; in Germany it was 113.

In the last hundred years the fertility of the German nation has been so great that, in spite of the fact that it has sent more than 6,000,000 emigrants to the United States and millions more to other foreign countries, it has increased its home population to 64,000,000, nearly treble the number in 1800. During the same period the population of France, which has sent practically no immigrants abroad, has increased by less than 50 per cent. And, it should be remembered, in spite of Alsace and Lorraine, the territory of the two nations has remained practically the same--approximately 200,000 square miles each.

At present the density of population in the German Empire is 303 to the square mile. What that means may be grasped by considering that if the United States was as thickly populated as Germany is at the present time we should have 900,000,000 people--ten times our present population. In other words the present density of population in the United States is only 30 to the square mile.

If there were ten men to the present one on every acre in the United States some of us would certainly think of moving. Indeed, there is already complaint that the country is getting overcrowded. This year alone nearly 100,000 farmers from the Western States moved across the line into Canada, where land is still plenty and unsettled. If every man, woman and child in the United States was shut up within the limits of Texas, the Lone Star State would be little more crowded than is Germany at the present time. Put the strongest navy in the world across the Gulf from Texas and line the boundaries of the State with camps of armed men and one may get a fairly good idea of the German situation.

But--granted that Germany now holds all the people it can support--where may the loyal German go and remain under the German flag? The German colonies are small, scattering and not well fitted for the homes of white men. There are hundreds of thousands of Germans in various parts of South America, where the country is still undeveloped. But the United States holds all this continent under the protection of the Monroe Doctrine and forbids the hoisting of a foreign flag. Almost all the rest of the undeveloped world which is counted a white man’s country is part of the Empire of Great Britain.

Where and how shall the immensely virile and fertile Germanic race find a new home and a new empire over seas? Or will it, with the greatest army in the world at its command and a tremendous war fleet in the making, sit tight within its narrow boundaries at home until famine and pestilence sap its vitality and reduce its numbers? It may do that, it may allow millions of its sons to renounce their allegiance to the fatherland, or it may--the last terrible alternative is the one of which the world stands in dread.

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See ARMIES OF THE WORLD; MILITARISM; NAVIES OF THE WORLD.

WAR, THE HORRORS OF

After his splendid victory of Austerlitz was won and the iron crown of empire securely fixt on his brow, Napoleon, standing on the high ground, saw a portion of the defeated Russian army making a slow, painful retreat over a frozen lake. They were at his mercy. He rode up to a battery and said, “Men, you are losing time! fire on those masses; they must be swallowed up! fire on that ice!” Shells were thrown, the bridge of ice was broken, and amid awful shrieks hundreds upon hundreds of miserable wretches were buried in the frozen waters.

The crime of war is its wanton waste of human life. And so are the social wrongs that decimate our world. And so is evil in every form. (Text.)

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WARFARE, ANTIQUATED

The ordinary spear was eighteen feet long, or three times the height of the man, and from one inch to an inch and a half in thickness. The iron jaws of the head were two feet and a half in length.

With such spears the Massachusetts militia was trained for more than forty years, or until the outbreak of Philip’s war. I do not know how long they may have been used in Virginia. Poking Indians armed with muskets out of a swamp with a spear might do for imaginary warfare--but when it came to real fighting it was very ugly business. The desperate character of the conflicts with Philip and the necessity for the exclusive use of gunpowder became apparent, and the edict went forth that the militia, who were trained to the use of the spear, should take up the musket. With this edict the spear disappeared in this country forever. It went out in England about the same time. Thus do we learn the progress of the human mind in arts of destruction.--EDWARD EGGLESTON.

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WARMTH, LOST

A story is told of a certain pastor who mourned over a backslider in his congregation, once a regular attendant at the prayer service, but who had drifted away, and who for many months had not been seen in the “upper room.” Finally, unable to stand it longer, at the close of one of the meetings, in which the voice formerly accustomed to lead in prayer was sorely missed, the minister went straight to the man’s home and found him sitting before the open fire. The absentee, somewhat startled by the intrusion, hastily placed another chair for his visitor and then waited for the expected words of rebuke. Had the rebuke been spoken, no one knows what the reply might have been or what mistaken yet lasting anger might have been kindled. But not a word did the minister say. Taking his seat before the fire, he silently took the tongs and lifting a glowing coal from the midst of its fellows, laid it by itself upon the hearthstone. Remaining painfully silent, he watched the blaze die out and the last warm flush of life fade away. Then it was the truant who opened his lips to say: “You need not say a single word, sir; I’ll be there next Wednesday night.” (Text.)

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=Warmth of Christian Love=--See DOUBTS, DISSOLVING.

WARNING

A wasteful loss of fish life occurs by the sacrifice of millions of little fishes that are left to gasp out their lives on the meadows and grain-fields all over the great State of Montana owing to the irrigation ditches. To prevent this waste a paddle-wheel is installed at the head of a ditch to frighten back and prevent the fish from entering the intake. A law requiring this to be done is now in force in that State.

How many silly souls are warned away from danger-points in life by wise devices both divine and human!

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Julius Cæsar was at one time the idol of the Roman army. The ancient eternal city was at his feet. His foot was on the neck of his enemies and his word was sufficient to hurry his rival, Pompey, to an ignominious grave. The treasures of the world, power, dominion and wealth were at his command. Yet he had not the time as he went forward to the senate chamber on the Ides of March to read the letter handed him that warned him of the plot against his life.

Men are mercifully given time to live. But they are too busy to get ready to live, and too busy to heed the warnings that, if heeded, would save and prolong their lives.

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On an island off the Connecticut coast there stands, says Harper’s Weekly, a huge revolving platform whereon are placed eight large megaphones, each measuring some seventeen feet and having a mouth seven feet in diameter.

These horns are intended to cry warning to vessels at every point of the compass, the power being furnished by a steam-whistle. Their cry has been heard a distance of twenty miles, and when the wind is favorable it will carry nearly twice as far.

The instruments utter their warnings every fifteen seconds, each megaphone giving out its cry in turn, so that the warning notes make their way out over the water in every direction. There is a combination of short and long blasts for each point of the compass, so that mariners may know exactly whence the sound proceeds.

At Diamond Shoals, off Cape Hatteras, that graveyard of the Atlantic, where, by reason of the shifty character of the soil, it has been found impracticable to erect a lighthouse, the Federal Government has installed a contrivance held down by “mushroom” anchors. This instrument consists of two big megaphones, with a diaphragm vibrated by electricity. The machine is operated by clockwork, and, once wound up, shouts for many months without the necessity of any attention on the part of attendants. In calm weather the shout of this instrument is audible for a distance of twenty-five miles.

To be useful these warning voices must be heeded. So is it with moral warnings, of which the world is full.

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WARNING, AUTOMATIC

The spirit of God is a signal of warning to the soul when floods of evil are imminent.

Spain is subject to more frequent sudden inundations, perhaps, than any other country in Europe, and the necessity for some device to give warning may be appreciated. Such an alarm, ready night and day to notify the population along a river-bank of the approach of a dangerous flood, has been invented by Ramon Martinez di Campos, an engineer of Murcia. It is described as follows:

“The device uses the electric current; when an abnormal stage of the river is reached the water closes a circuit and thus starts an alarm signal at a great distance down-stream. In the present arrangement the automatic circuit-closer consists of a galvanized iron float which at high water makes contact with a fixt sheet of metal on a pole or a masonry support.”--Cosmos.

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WARNING MESSAGES

Once when the Persians and the Scythians confronted each other for battle, there appeared at the Persian camp a messenger from the Scythians, who said that he had some presents from the Scythian chief for Darius. The gifts proved to be a bird, a mouse, a frog, and five arrows. No explanation being given as to what the message meant, much curiosity on that point was manifested and many guesses were made. At length it was suggested that it meant threats and defiance. “It may mean,” said one, “that unless you can fly like a bird, into the air, or hide like a mouse in the ground, or bury yourselves like a frog in morasses and fens, you can not escape our arrows.”

The gospel message to us is not so ambiguous as this, but it is equally ominous if it be slighted.

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WASHINGTON, GEORGE

Perhaps one of the wittiest toasts on record is that of Franklin. After the victories of Washington had made his name well known throughout Europe, Franklin chanced to dine with the French and English ambassadors, when these toasts were drunk. The son of Britain rose and proudly remarked: “England--the sun whose beams enlighten and fructify the remotest corners of the earth.”

The Frenchman, glowing with national pride, drunk: “France--the moon whose mild, steady, cheering rays are the delight of all nations; consoling them in darkness and making their dreariness beautiful.”

This furnished Franklin with a fine opening, and his quaint humor bubbled over in his retort: “George Washington--the Joshua, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still and they obeyed him.”

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See LIFE, THE SIMPLE.

WASHINGTON’S GENIUS

Brilliant I will not call him, if the brightness of the rippling river exceed the solemn glory of old ocean. Brilliant I will not call him, if darkness must be visible in order to display the light; for he had none of that rocket-like brilliancy which flames in instant coruscation across the black brow of night, and then is not. But if a steady, unflickering flame, slow rising to its lofty sphere, dispensing far and wide its rays, revealing all things on which it shines in due proportions and large relations, making right, duty, and destiny so plain that in the vision we are scarce conscious of the light--if this be brilliancy, then the genius of Washington was as full-orbed and luminous as the god of day in his zenith.--JOHN W. DANIEL.

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=Washington’s Humility=--See LIFE, THE SIMPLE.

WASTE

Water washes everything, touches everything, impregnates everything. Nothing escapes it. Incessantly, everywhere, whatever it meets, is dissolved and finally deposited in the immense common receptacle of the oceanic basins.

This constant washing continually modifies the chemical composition of the earth’s surface, and it evidently does so to the detriment of the soil’s fertility, since the substances that make a soil fertile are just those that are soluble in water. This general sterilization is masked by local advantages. A valley like that of the Nile, for instance, benefits by the substances brought down from regions nearer its source, but in the long run rivers are always carrying to the sea an enormous quantity of fertilizing material that is lost beyond recall. (Text.)--PAUL COMBES, Cosmos (Paris).

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Petroleum and natural gas, which are supplements to coal, are subjected to wanton waste. Natural gas is now being wasted at the rate of a billion cubic feet a day, by being blown into the air. In Louisiana great spouting wells of gas are burning in the open atmosphere, doing no good whatever to anybody. It is estimated that there are thus consumed in that State alone seventy million cubic feet per day, more than enough to supply Boston, Baltimore, Washington, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Pittsburg.

If the present rate of increase of exploitation of highgrade iron-ore continues, the supply will not last more than fifty years. In the not distant future it is certain that we shall be obliged to turn to the lower grade ores, of which the quantity is vastly greater, but the smelting of these ores will make a much heavier draft upon our coal supply.

Like coal and iron, the output of copper and zinc has more than doubled during recent decades, and the product of the past ten years is greater than the entire previous history of exploitation of these metals in this country.

Each year, not considering loss by fire, we are consuming three and one-half times as much wood as is grown. It is estimated that we allow twenty million acres of forest to be burned over annually. Of the timber we take, from one-fourth to one-half is lost by our wasteful methods of cutting and manufacture. Already within a little more than a century of the life of this nation approximately one-half of our forest products are gone. Our system of taxation of forests encourages rapid cutting rather than conservation. We must reform our tax laws concerning forest products; we must eliminate forest fires; we must use economically the wood cut; we must reduce the total amount used per capita until the growth of one year is equal to the consumption of that year.

Our water resources, including water for domestic purposes, for irrigation, for navigation, for power, are enormous. As yet they have been only very partially utilized. Fortunately, the water continues in undiminished quantities, being ever withdrawn from the ocean through the power of the sun, and ever falling upon the land. It is a perpetual resource.--Collier’s Weekly.

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WASTE BY DRINK

A man, who had destroyed three happy homes through his drinking habits, was converted, and set to work to lead his friends to Christ. Some time after his conversion one of his mates, seeing how clean and happy he was looking, asked him jocularly if he had any houses to let. He knew the questioner was a heavy drinker, so he decided to give him a practical lesson. “Here, mate,” he said, “just take a look down my throat, will you?” “There’s nothing there,” said the other, after a careful inspection of his throat. “Well, that’s queer, for I’ve put three good homes and a grocer’s shop down that throat, drowning them in drink.” (Text.)

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See DRINK, EFFECTS OF.

WASTE OF LIVES

Of all wastes, the greatest waste that you can commit is the waste of labor. If you went down in the morning into your dairy, and found that your youngest child had got down before you, and that he and the cat were at play together, and that he had poured out all the cream on the floor for the cat to lap up, you would scold the child, and be sorry the cream was wasted. But if, instead of wooden bowls with milk in them, there are golden bowls with human life in them, and instead of the cat to play with--the devil to play with; and you yourself the player; and instead of leaving that golden bowl to be broken by God at the fountain, you break it in the dust yourself, and pour the human life out on the ground for the fiend to lick up--is that not waste?--JOHN RUSKIN.

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WASTE, STOPPING

The Agricultural Department has inaugurated a war on rats, not as a preventive of the plague or on account of health, but because of the great loss produced in the country by rats, and especially to farmers and producers. The department claims that a rat eats sixty cents’ worth of grain a year, and that the actual destruction caused by them amounts to over one hundred millions of dollars a year. The extermination of rats will be a great undertaking. Yet it could be accomplished by national effort were it not for the new supplies brought by ships. It is believed that by proper regulations even this supply might be cut off, or the rats killed before spreading. It would cost only a small part of the one hundred millions of dollars to exterminate the rat. The expenditure of ten millions under national authority would be economy.

There are moral wastes comparatively more destructive than the plague of rats, that all men should join in exterminating--the saloon, for example.

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WASTE, THE PROBLEM OF

Professor Marshall, the English economist, estimates that the British working classes spend every year not less than $500,000,000 for things that do nothing to make them either happier or nobler. The president of the British Association, in an address before the economic section, confirmed these estimates, and avowed his belief that the sum named above was wasted in food alone. Professor Matthews adds that so large a proportion of our housekeepers are brought up in town life and factory life that they do not know how to buy economically, while the cooking art has necessarily gone into decadence. He estimates the waste in the United States from bad cooking alone to be at least $1,000,000 every year.--Independent.

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WASTES, MORAL

One day in a public restaurant a gentleman, who owns a large fruit-orchard in one of the Northwestern States, was talking about what wonderful fruit was produced by his trees.

“Why,” said he, “I see in market here in Pittsburg apples selling at a good price that we wouldn’t even use out our way. We’d never think of selling them. Such apples are thrown aside as culls.”

There are a great many human culls, men and boys, who, because of some injurious habit, have lost their full market value. There is the cigaret cull, the boy who is blighting his future and depreciating his value as a member of society because of his nauseous habit. And there is the whisky and beer cull, the man who can not keep out of a saloon; good enough man, many ways, but nobody wants to employ him in any responsible position. Then we have the obscene cull, the individual who has some rancid story to tell to raise a haw-haw among companions as coarse and vulgar as himself. He may be a good workman, but morally he is a cull. Another man I know is the Sabbath cull. This is the man who goes about watering his garden on the Sabbath, or driving out in his automobile for the pleasure of the thing; who is sometimes seen on the train Sabbath morning with his golf-sticks going out to some country club grounds. They may have their thousands and live in the best houses on the avenue, but they are moral culls. These things are blemishes which show the character. (Text.)

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=Watchfulness=--See ASLEEP; DISGUISED DANGER.

WATCHFULNESS AGAINST ENEMIES

The conscience and will ought to guard character against its destructive enemies as the Brazilians guard their houses, according to the following account:

Rats have multiplied to such a degree in Brazil that the inhabitants rear a certain kind of snake for destroying them. The Brazilian domestic serpent is the giboia, a small species of boa about twelve feet in length and of the diameter of a man’s arm. This snake, which is entirely harmless and sluggish in its movements, passes the entire day asleep at the foot of the staircase of the house, scarcely deigning to raise its head at the approach of a visitor, or when a strange noise is heard in the vestibule. At nightfall the giboia begins to hunt, crawling along here and there, and even penetrating the space above the ceiling and beneath the flooring. Springing swiftly forward, it seizes the rat by the nape and crushes its cervical vertebrae. As serpents rarely eat, even when at liberty, the giboia kills only for the pleasure of killing. It becomes so accustomed to its master’s house that if carried to a distance it escapes and finds its way back home. Every house in the warmest provinces where rats abound owns its giboia, a fixture by destination, and the owner of which praises its qualities when he wishes to sell or let his house. (Text.)--Scientific American.

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WATCHING THE KETTLE

There is a bit of proverbial philosophy afloat to the effect that “a watched kettle never boils.” False philosophy this, whether taken literally or figuratively. In the one case it is an idiotic superstition; in the other, a stupid mistake; in either, a humbug and a cheat. Cease to watch your business kettle, and what comes of leaving it to take care of itself? It either becomes stone-cold or blows up. You don’t want your enterprise over-done, and you don’t want it under-done. Your object is to strike the golden mean between lukewarmness and the explosive point, represented, we will say, by 212 of Fahrenheit. How are you to stimulate the contents of your kettle up to the right mark--to make them ebullient without turning them into a dangerous element--unless you regulate the upward tendency judiciously? It is only the neglected business kettle that never boils to a good purpose. Suppose Lord Worcester, Marquis of Somerset, had not watched his kettle, and so had not observed the phenomenon of the flapping lid, forced into motion by the pressure of the escaping steam? If the marquis had not received that hint from his watched kettle as to the latent force of steam, who can tell what deprivation of motive power mankind would have undergone? Your moral kettle must be looked after, too, or it is more likely to freeze than boil. Morality without the warmth of feeling necessary to make it active, is not of much use. In fact, all the figurative kettles, individual and social, included within the range of human hopes and duties, require to be closely watched. The world is paved, as one may say, with the wrecks of kettles which would have been of incalculable utility if they had been properly managed--reformatory kettles, for example, which only require the fire of zeal to keep them going, and the guardianship of practical common sense to regulate them, in order to become valuable utensils in the kitchen of progress. To watch your kettle till it boils, and all the time that it is boiling, is the only sure way to provide against accidents.--New York Ledger.

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=Water and Natives=--See MIRACLES, EVIDENTIAL VALUE OF.

WATER OF LIFE

The briny waters of Great Salt Lake have been tried by the Southern Pacific Railway for a novel purpose and with remarkable success. Stored in tanks the fluid has been hauled over the line by water-trains and sprinkled upon the right of way. Under this treatment the weeds, the bane of the section-hands, have withered and died. After an experiment of sixteen months the scheme has now been permanently adopted. This briny water is a water which brings death to those things it touches.

There is a water we are told which brings life, higher than any material life, the water of life. It was made known to the world through the divine teacher. At Jacob’s well in the center of Palestine He declared Himself to be the water of life. Those who drink from natural fountains of water will thirst again, and the strength they gain, the refreshing they receive, will only be temporary. Those who come to drink of the true water of life will receive spiritual refreshing. This life-giving water takes away all foulness from the soil of the soul, by purifying it, by sweetening it, by enriching it. The weeds of sin in the soul are best destroyed not by the infusion of something more noxious, but by the infilling of the sweet graces of life.

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One of the most interesting creatures of California’s great desert is the tortoise. Frequently a school of them, that we usually think of only in connection with water, are discovered afar out in the desert where water is scarce and difficult to obtain. Dissection shows that in a convenient place upon their body is located a pair of large water-sacks. These the owner fills with water as needed and in this way it is kept supplied.

The man who has acquired character and experience so that he has moral and spiritual reservoirs within is equipped for every emergency. (Text.)

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At Huntsville, Ala., is a spring that supplies the whole town with an abundance of pure, fresh water. But the wonder of it all is that the flow of it is made to operate a wheel that pumps the water into the homes of the people.

The supply of water is the power of the water supply. God, who is the water of life, also sends all we need for the operation of all activities. (Text.)

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The sources of the soul’s water of life is in the hill-springs, but one may have to go down into the depths to find it, as these divers bring up fresh water out of the ocean:

The hottest region on earth is on the south western coast of Persia, where Persia borders the gulf of the same name. For forty consecutive days in the months of July and August the thermometer has been known not to fall lower than 100 degrees, night or day, and to often run up as high as 128 degrees in the afternoon. At Bahrin, in the center of the torrid part of the torrid belt, as tho it were nature’s intention to make the region as unbearable as possible, no water can be obtained from digging wells one hundred to two hundred or even five hundred feet deep, yet a comparatively numerous population contrive to live there, thanks to copious springs which break forth from the bottom of the gulf, more than a mile from shore. The water from these springs is obtained by divers, who dive to the bottom and fill goat-skins with the cooling liquid and sell it for a living. The source of these submarine fountains is thought to be in the green hills of Osman, some five or six hundred miles away.--Public Opinion.

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See SURFACE LIVES; SPRINGS OF LIFE.

=Waters, Lake=--See RENEWAL.

=Waters, Tempestuous=--See ADVERSITY.

WAY, DIRECTION OF

Years ago a young man in Providence, R. I., took up a loose leaf of a Bible to use for a wrapping. “Don’t use that,” said a friend, “it contains the words of life.” The young man put the leaf in his pocket. Later, taking it out again, he said, “I will see what kind of life it is that that leaf tells about.” The words in Daniel 12:13 caught his eye, and he read, “But go thou thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.” “I wonder what my way is and where it will end?” he asked himself, and the reflection at length led him to a new life.

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=Way, Knowing The=--See FAMILIARITY.

WAY OF GOD

Could I but know each step that I Must tread unto the end; Were I to have life’s devious chart, Complete, placed in my hand, With every burden there portrayed, And every task well planned, The joys to know, the griefs to bear, The causes to defend, How automatic life would be!

Thy way is best, hold thou the chart, Permit me but to know Each day, the duties to perform, Each hour, the way to go; And I, thy will, shall strive to do, As faith e’er stronger grows, And knowledge into wisdom blends, As stream to river flows, Until at last I meet with thee.

--FRANK L. CONNOR, The Progress Magazine.

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WAY, THE RIGHT

Wakutemani, a Sioux warrior, was an acknowledged leader among the young Indians of his tribe. He heard a woman missionary tell the gospel story, but tho he felt strangely drawn to Christianity, he threw himself more ardently into the heathen dances and practises. One day he said to the missionary, “I will try your way without leaving the old way for a year, and at the end of that time I will follow the way that has satisfied me.” She taught him to pray and gave him directions for living a clean, straight life. At the end of the year Wakutemani appeared painted and be-feathered to lead the young braves in the old war-dance. The dance was wild and calculated to awaken all the savage instincts; but during a pause in drum-beating, Wakutemani stept into the center of the circle and motioned for silence. “I said I would try both ways. This way does not satisfy me. If any others feel as I do, let them follow me.” Two young warriors, Many Bulls and White Sitting Buffalo, rose silently and followed him out of the ring. They went to the mission house and said to the missionary, “We wish to follow your way. Ours does not satisfy.” All three have now many years of consistent Christian life to their credit, and one has passed to his reward. (Text.)

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=Way We Look at Things, The=--See MOODS DETERMINING DESIRES.

=Wayfarer, The=--See PILGRIMS, THE.

=Wayside Ministry=--See CONTROL, DIVINE.

WAYWARD, SEEKING THE

Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman tells this story:

On one of the last Sundays that I spent in Philadelphia an Englishman gave an address to our Sunday-school. He told how a young girl had gone away to live a life of sin. He said, “Her mother came to my minister and asked him to find her daughter. The minister said, ‘Bring me every picture that you have of yourself!’ She brought him every picture and the minister dipt his pen in the red ink and wrote underneath the sweet face these words: ‘Come back.’ These pictures were placed in mission stations and halls. One night the girl, on entering one of these halls, found herself face to face with the picture. As she saw that sweet face that had looked down into hers with love, her eyes were blinded with tears, and when she brushed the tears away she read the two words, ‘Come back.’ She made her way out to the edge of the city, waited till night had fallen and, going up to her old home she put her hand upon the latch of the door and, behold, it yielded! She had no sooner crossed the threshold than she was in her mother’s arms. The first greeting she had from her mother was this: ‘My dear, this door has never been fastened since you went away.’” (Text.)

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=Weak Will and Whisky=--See LAST RESORT.

WEAKNESS AND STRENGTH

Storms may rend the giant oak Yet may pass the floweret by; Feeble lives may long be spared, Strongest men may soonest die.

--PASTOR CLARK.

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WEAKNESS, CONSIDERATION FOR

The dialog below indicates a good way of practising the Pauline injunction in Phil. 2:4:

“Here, boy, let me have a paper.” “Can’t.” “Why not? I heard you crying them loud enough to be heard at the city hall.” “Yes, but that was down t’other block, ye know, where I hollered.” “What does that matter? Come, now, no fooling; I’m in a hurry.” “Couldn’t sell you a paper on this here block, mister, ’cause it b’longs to Limpy. He’s just up at the furdest end now. You’ll meet him.” “And who is Limpy? And why does he have this block?” “Cos us other kids agreed to let him have it. Ye see, it’s a good run, ’count of the offices all along, and the poor chap is that lame he can’t git around lively like the rest of us, so we agreed that the first one caught sellin’ on his beat should be thrashed. See?” “Yes, I see. You have a sort of brotherhood among yourselves?” “Well, we’re goin’ to look out for a little cove what’s lame, anyhow.” “There comes Limpy now. He’s a fortunate boy to have such friends.” The gentleman bought two papers of him, and went on his way down town, wondering how many men in business would refuse to sell their wares in order to give a weak, halting brother a chance in the field. (Text.)

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WEAKNESS, HIDDEN

A tiny worm may pierce the heart of a young tree, and the bark may hide the secret gash. But as the days go on the rain will cut one fiber and the heat another, and when years have passed, some time when a soft zephyr goes sighing through the forest, the great tree will come crashing down. For at last nature will hunt out every hidden weakness.--NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS.

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WEALTH

Harold S. Symmes, in Pearson’s Magazine, writes:

Give of thyself. Man’s wealth depends, Not on the pence he holds and hoards, Not on the gift he well affords, But on the spirit-gold he spends.

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The danger of wealth lies in its tendency to smother sympathy and exalt selfishness.

Dr. W. B. Wright says that Henry Heine, the Jew, one of the most sparkling talkers in Europe, sat silent at a banquet until his Christian hostess asked, with some anxiety, “Why are you so dumb?” He answered, “I am studying a problem which I can not solve. I have been looking at these gold dishes, this fine linen, these splendid waiters, your great diamonds, and wondering what you Christians are going to do with the camel question.” (Text.)

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WEALTH AND WORK

The following account, indicating great motherly wisdom, is from a despatch from Chicago to the daily papers:

If Leonard Loeffler, six years old, has fallen heir to a fortune of $1,000,000 his mother will be sorry. It has been reported among the relatives of the late William Loeffler that his will, which will be probated this week, bequeaths his entire fortune, amounting to $1,000,000, to his grandson, Leonard, who is the son of Mr and Mrs. Frank Loeffler, and this intimation moved Mrs. Loeffler to express the hope that her son might not inherit riches.

“I do not want any son of mine to inherit a million dollars,” declared Mrs. Loeffler.

“Why?” she was asked.

“Because I do not think it does a child any good to have riches which he has not earned. If Leonard can get a fortune by working for it the way his grandfather had to do I shall be the proudest mother in the world, but there is no reason why he should have wealth unless he does earn it. I want my boy to earn what he gets. I don’t want him to get $1,000,000 for nothing. That is how much I think of money. It spoils children and removes the incentive for work, and it is work that shapes a career.”

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WEALTH, COMPARATIVE

A man who gets a million wants another million. If he gets ten millions then he wants to be as rich as Rockefeller. And then he wants the whole world fenced in and fixt up for him. What if a man is as rich as Rockefeller? What is that compared with the State of New York? And suppose a man owned the whole State of New York, what is that compared with the balance of America? And suppose one man owned the whole United States, what is that compared with the balance of the world? And suppose a man owned this whole world? Why, you could put two such worlds in your pocket, and go out to the dog star and stay all night, and you wouldn’t have enough to pay your hotel bill. This whole thing is comparative.--“Popular Lectures of Sam P. Jones.”

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=Wealth Diminishing the Smiles=--See POVERTY.

WEALTH, RIGHT USE OF

Some years ago an American gentleman was driving past one of the beautiful old homes in rural England, standing in its stately park. He asked the driver who lived there. “Oh,” said the man, “we used to have lots of aristocratic company there. They had plenty of money and they spent it freely. We poor folks were well off then. But now the place belongs to a woman, and she is a Methodist, and everything is going to the bad.” So spoke the countryman, and from his little view this loss of luxury and extravagance was all wrong, even for the poor man. But meanwhile there was another side to the picture. That estate also included a large tenement district in one of the worst portions of London. In wretched hovels, surrounded by saloons and low resorts, the miserable people paid their rents, exorbitant for such quarters, and these rents supplied the funds for the luxury and extravagance of the former owner. But now what has happened? The lady who owns the estate to-day is using her revenues, not for her own luxuries, but in bettering these homes, in driving out these saloons, and in creating a new spirit of love between her and her tenants. A few country yokels get less to spend for drink, but a great city population has more joy in living, and the bitter class distinction between riches and poverty is lessened.--DONALD SAGE MACKAY, “The Threshold of Religion.”

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=Wealth Statistics=--See MONEY-POWER IN CANADA; MONEY-POWER IN THE UNITED STATES.

=Weapons Displaced=--See WARFARE, ANTIQUATED.

=Weather Forecast=--See PROGNOSTICATION OF WEATHER.

=Weather Influencing Crime=--See CRIME, EPIDEMICS OF.

=Weather, The, and the Spider=--See INDICATOR, AN INSECT.

=Weaving=--See WEB OF LIFE.

WEB OF LIFE

Sit down by the side of an Old World lace-maker for a few moments. Fifty or a hundred bobbins, or spools, hang around a cushion in which there is a forest of upright pins. Every bobbin hangs by a thread that runs toward and among the pins. The onlooker sees the worker throw one bobbin over another, as tho she were playing with them. But how she knows which bobbin to pick up, and where to toss it, is a mystery. Out of the great complex of pins and threads comes a beautiful lace pattern, regular and beautiful. So the divine Weaver takes one and another of us, ordering us here and there, but keeping us always attached, like the lace-maker’s thread, to a definite purpose. As we look back over the past, we can see the wonderful pattern and perfect work of the weaver. Just what he is working out, for us and with us, now, we can not discern. But the lesson of the past is that the future will be good, and we can trust the Weaver of the indefinite to do all things well.

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WEALTH, INCREASE OF

The great increase of wealth in the United States through a period of eight years (1900–1908) is shown in the tables below. Does it not mean a corresponding increase of national responsibility?

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=Wedding Incident=--See RENUNCIATION.

=Wedge, The Entering=--See SABBATH DESECRATION GRADUAL.

WEED DESTROYER

Man’s enemies are not by any means confined to those he meets in his daily work. He has soul enemies which he has to reckon with constantly. Just as sure as the farmer can depend on a certain preparation to kill weeds, so can man depend upon a higher power to keep down and destroy our open and secret sins.

There is no dispute that we must meet the weed question with a certainty of success and at the same time it must be done in a very economical manner. In addition to what we may do with our cultivators and weeders and the growing of such crops as rye and winter wheat, by which we can destroy a certain class of weeds before they mature seed, we can also add that there is a system of weed destruction which is found in spraying. This is a matter which has come to the knowledge of men during the past few years. I learn from my reading that the first step in this direction was taken by a party in France. From that beginning it was taken up by men here in America, and it has now assumed a very practical form. The first spray was copper sulfate, or blue-stone, but this would be somewhat difficult to obtain. The present material which is largely used is a by-product turned out by the steel-mills. This is called sulfate of iron. This by product has been thrown away, but now it can be used for the destruction of weeds by making a solution of it and spraying fields that are infested with a certain class of weeds.--O. C. GREGG, The Northwestern Agriculturist.

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WEEDS, WARFARE AGAINST

Charles H. Spurgeon once said:

An old wall is so interpenetrated--every nook, crack and crevice--by the notorious ivy that, tho you may cut the vine at the roots, you can never thoroughly destroy it, till the wall itself is leveled.

Most weeds spread chiefly from their seeds, hence care should be taken to prevent the formation of weed-seeds. The more thorough we are in keeping out weeds, the easier our work. While we may not hope to get rid of all weeds, we may greatly lessen their numbers by keeping up a continual warfare against them.

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=Weighing Effects=--See PROBATION.

WEIGHT DIMINISHED BY ASCENT

A writer, speaking of variation to be seen in the column of mercury in a barometer, says:

If you prop up the tube, and watch it carefully from day to day, you will find that the height of the column of mercury will continually vary. If you live at the sea-level, or thereabouts, it will sometimes rise more than thirty inches above the level of the mercury in the cup, and frequently fall below that height. If you live on the top of a high mountain, or on any high ground, it will never reach thirty inches, will still be variable, its average height less than if you lived on lower ground; and the higher you get the less will be this average height of the mercury.

The reason of this is easily understood. When we ascend a mountain we leave some portion of the atmosphere below us, and of course less remains above; this smaller quantity must have less weight and press the mercury less forcibly. If the barometer tells the truth, it must show this difference; and it does so with such accuracy that by means of a barometer, or rather of two barometers--one at the foot of the mountain and one on its summit--we may, by their difference, measure the height of the mountain provided we know the rules for making the requisite calculations.

The higher one ascends, the less weight oppresses the climber. This is a truth also of the moral life. The higher one ascends, the less obstacles and weights he encounters. In the valley the demoniac writhes; on the mountain top Christ appears in His glory.

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=Weight Yielding to Persistency=--See PERSEVERANCE.

=Welcome Home=--See SONG AS A WELCOME HOME.

=Well-digging=--See MIRACLES, EVIDENTIAL VALUE OF.

=Well Done=--See EARLY RELIGION.

=Well Known, The, Unknown=--See LOCAL PRIDE.

=White Plague=--See TUBERCULOSIS.

=White Robes=--See BIBLE CUSTOMS TO-DAY.

“=White Slaves=”--See GIRLS, TRAFFIC IN.

WHOLE, SEEING THINGS

Our lives should be so organized and ordered as to move on at God’s pace so that they will produce a whole effect, a unitary total. Some men live by jerks, showing no conviction between to-day and yesterday.

If a spark or point of flame be rapidly swung around in a circular path it is no longer seen as a spark or point, but as a continuous circle. Drops of falling rain appear to the eye as continuous slanted lines or streams. This is due to the fact that the motion is too rapid to enable the eye to compass the diameter of the rain-drop, or the spark, before it has moved the distance of its diameter to a new position.

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WHOLENESS

A Chicago tailor displays a sign which announces that he makes trousers at “$1.75 per leg.” Inquiry reveals the fact that altho he uses a goose he is not foolish enough to furnish trousers with only one leg. One can not get trousers at his shop except their two legs be properly sewed together and one pays $3.50 for them. But the tailor compels editors to read his sign.

This fable teaches that two things even apparently complete when separate ought to be brought together if they are to be made practical.

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WHOLENESS OF CHARACTER

Foster, the distinguished essayist, said to a friend one day, “There is a want of continuity in your social character. You seem broken into fragments.” To this plain dealing the gentleman replied good-naturedly, “Well, I sparkle in fragments.” “But,” rejoined Foster, “how much better to shine whole, like a mirror.”

As the glory of gems is realized best when shown in a splendid necklace, so virtues impress most when many are combined in unity in the one character.

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WILFULNESS

Young America in feathers is almost as bumptious and self-assertive and needs almost as much guidance as Young America in flannels and lawns. Tho the parents may be as wise as Solomon, the youngster will be foolish and headstrong; he will call and shout when enemies are near; he will leave the nest before his wings are ready for service, and so place himself at the mercy of cats and other prowlers. As soon as he has even partial use of his wings he will wander into a thousand dangers and draw his devoted parents after him, for they can not desert him, and he will not heed their coaxing. In such cases the distracted parents have been known to attack and beat off their great enemy, the cat, and even to fly at man himself, sometimes with success.--OLIVE THORNE MILLER, “The Bird Our Brother.”

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=Will, Doing God’s=--See TEMPERATURE.

WILL OF GOD

The following verses are by John Hay:

Not in dumb resignation, we lift our hands on high; Not like the nerveless fatalist, content to do and die. Our faith springs like the eagle’s, who soars to meet the sun, And cries exulting unto thee, “O Lord, Thy will be done.”

When tyrant feet are trampling upon the common weal, Thou dost not bid us bend and writhe beneath the iron heel. In thy name we assert our right by sword or tongue or pen, And even the headsman’s ax may flash thy message unto men.

Thy will! It bids the weak be strong; it bids the strong be just; No lips to fawn, no hand to beg, no brow to seek the dust. Whenever man oppresses men beneath the liberal sun O Lord, be there! Thine arm made bare, thy righteous will be done. (Text.)

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=Will, Our, and God’s=--See TEMPERATURE.

WILL POWER

In “Louis Lambert” Balzac describes certain forces, when they take possession of strong personalities, as “rivers of will.” There is an impetus in these potential men which sweeps away all obstacles and rolls on with the momentum of a great stream. In men of genius the same tireless activity, the same forceful habit, are often found; nothing daunts them; nothing subdues them.--Christian Union.

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The late Lord Beaconsfield, in an address before the Literary and Scientific Institute of London, in 1844, on his early life, gave utterance to these impressive words:

“Man can be what he pleases. Every one of you can be exactly what he designs to be. I have resolved to hold a certain position, and if I live, I will.”

We do not know what that position was that Disraeli refers to, but we do know that he attained to the highest position possible to any man in England. He had much to contend with. He was of a Jewish family, but by the remarkable power of his will he ejected the Jew blood from his veins and pumped the blue blood of England in. He climbed into the seat next to the throne of the queen herself.

In contrast what a small conception some men have of their opportunities and privileges.

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People will insist on living, sometimes, tho manifestly moribund. In Dr. Elder’s life of Kane, you will find a case of this sort, told by Dr. Kane himself. The captain of a ship was dying of scurvy, but the crew mutinied, and he gave up dying for the present to take care of them. An old lady in this city, near her end, got a little vexed about a proposed change in her will; made up her mind not to die just then; ordered a coach; was driven twenty miles to the house of a relative, and lived four years longer.--OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

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See GREATNESS; MIND, THE HUMAN.

WILL, THE

God will not force the door of the human heart. The faculty of volition is a divinely-given prerogative, and our free will is not violated by any forcible means.

While the painting by William Holman-Hunt, known as “The Light of the World,” was yet in the studio of the painter a visitor stood admiring it. Suddenly he asked the artist, “Where is the key? I do not see one in the door.” Said Mr. Holman-Hunt, “Ah, no; the key is inside, and the door is locked not from without but from within. It can only be opened to admit the Savior who stands there and knocks if the tenant within chooses to turn the key.” The visitor understood the parable. (Text.)

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See MASTERY.

=Winds as Benefactors=--See NATURE’S RECUPERATIVE POWERS.

WINNING

Young man, What is your plan Of progress? Are you Going to pull through? Or will you lie down in the road And let your load Sink you out of sight in the mud? Have you white blood and pale, That curdles at the hard word “Fail,” And dares not face The chances of the race? Or, have you red, clear red, The good strong color All the great have shed In deed or thought, For every triumph wrought Out of what seemed full Of the impossible? Have you the nerve To serve Until you can master? To wait And work outside the gate Until you win The strength to open it and enter in? Have you the heart to meet Defeat Day after day, And yet hold to the way That upward leads, And must needs Be hard and rough To make man tough Of sinew and of soul, Before he sees the goal? Young man, Think on these things, What each one brings Is as you choose it; You make take The stake, Or you may lose it. Start in To win And keep straight in the way Unflagging to the end; Whatever it may be Is victory.

--WILLIAM J. LAMPTON, Success.

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WISDOM OF THE IGNORANT

It is related of the celebrated astronomer, Tycho Brahe, that one night, on leaving his observatory, he suddenly found himself surrounded by a tumultuous crowd which filled the public square. Upon inquiring the cause of so great a concourse, they pointed out to him, in the constellation of Cygnus, a brilliant star, which he, aided by the best telescopes, had never perceived. (Text.)

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=Wisdom Rejected=--See INTOLERANCE.

=Wish, A Boy’s=--See RETRIEVED SITUATION, A.

=Wishes=--See RETRIEVED SITUATION, A.

=Wishes Fulfilled=--See EARLY RELIGION.

=Wit and Business=--See ABBREVIATION.

=Wit, Ready=--See ECCENTRICITY.

WITCHCRAFT

In two hundred years thirty thousand witches are said to have been destroyed in England; and as recently as 1716, when the town was enjoying the wit and satire of the “Queen Anne men,” a woman and her child nine years of age were hanged at Huntingdon. Addison, with a mind that wavered between superstition and good sense, said he could not forbear believing “in such a commerce with evil spirits as that which we express by the name of witchcraft,” while, at the same time, he could “give no credit to any particular modern instance of it.” Scotland, which is regarded as an enlightened part of the empire, held with the utmost tenacity its faith in witchcraft. The Scotch, a vigorous people, put their hands to the work heartily. It was easy to find victims, since, as we have said already, they tortured until they confest. It is calculated that two thousand persons were burned in Scotland in the last forty years of the sixteenth century. A century later a witch epidemic broke out in the village of Mohra, in Sweden. A number of children were said to be bewitched, and familiar with the devil, who was described as wearing a gray coat, red and blue stockings, a red beard, and a high-crowned hat. The witches kept this exacting person supplied with children, and if they did not procure him a good many, “they had no peace or quiet for him.” The poor wretches were doomed to have no more peace or quiet in this world. Seventy were condemned to death, and twenty-three were burnt in a single fire at Mohra. It is noteworthy that a belief in this frightful superstition which destroyed more innocent persons than the so-called holy office was held by men of great intellectual power--by Erasmus, Bacon, and the judicious Hooker; by Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Browne, Baxter, and Sir Matthew Hale. And the old belief is not yet extinct in country districts. Only recently a man at Totnes accused his father of bewitching, or, as a “white witch” called it, “overlooking” his daughter, so that she suffered for months from a disease in the arms; and the people who live in remote villages may often hear of similar cases.--London Illustrated News.

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WITCHES, BELIEF IN

Dr. James B. McCord writes in Medical Missions:

The Zulu baby is born into the fear of witchcraft; in the fear of witchcraft he grows up, and when he sickens and is about to die, his one thought is that a spell has been cast upon him for which the charm can not be discovered. All his life long he dreads in lonely places to meet the inswelabova--an inhuman man, lacking only hair or fur to make him altogether a beast--a sort of beast in human form who rides backward on a baboon, ready to pounce upon and make medicine of the unwary traveler. In mature manhood he suspects his neighbor, his friend, his brother, and even his wife of having dealings with makers of charms and poisons. He walks with an uneasy feeling that an enemy may have put medicine in his path to harm him. From every possible source, from earth and from sky, from river and from forest, from friend and from foe, he is continually apprehensive of evil influence coming upon him and searching for a talisman to wear against it.

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WITNESS OF SERVICE

On one of the battle-fields of South Africa a young chaplain found a Highlander sorely wounded and with life ebbing quickly away. He asked him to allow him to pray, but the soldier said gruffly, “No, I don’t want prayers. I want water.” The chaplain secured, with great difficulty, some water, and then asked the refreshed man if he might read a psalm. “No,” said the soldier again. “I am too cold to listen to a psalm.” The chaplain instantly stript off his coat and wrapt it tenderly round the wounded soldier. And then, touched by the chaplain’s sympathy, the man turned and said, “Chaplain, if religion makes men like you, let’s have that psalm.” When Christians prove themselves loving and considerate for the sick and suffering, even the hardest heart melts.

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WIVES OF GREAT MEN

It is an oft-quoted saying of Dr. Johnson that “a man in general is better pleased when he has a good dinner on the table than when his wife talks Greek.” Racine had an illiterate wife and was accustomed to boastfully declare that she could not read any of his tragedies. Dufresny married his washerwoman. Goethe’s wife was a woman of mediocre capacity. Heine said of the woman he loved, “She has never read a line of my writings and does not even know what a poet is.” Therese Lavasseur, the last flame of Rousseau, could not tell the time of day. “How many of the wise and learned,” says Thackeray, “have married their cooks! Did not Lord Eldon, himself the most prudent of men, make a runaway match? Were not Achilles and Ajax both in love with their servant-maids?” Seven hundred people sat up all night to see the beautiful Duchess of Hamilton get in her carriage, but would one in a thousand lose a wink of sleep to get a glimpse of the learned wife of the pundit Yainavalka, who discoursed with the Indian in Sanskrit on the vexed problems of life?--The Interior.

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=Woman Suffrage=--See RETORT, A.

WOMANLY WIT

Foster, the State news paragrapher of the Cleveland Press, published a paragraph to this effect: “A Marion girl started her graduating essay as follows: ‘I am fairly worried out with the incessant pratings of the lords of creation on the duties and sphere of woman.’” The paragraph closed with the somewhat dangerous assertion that the editor would bet a new spring hat that the author of that discourse on woman’s sphere could not bake a loaf of bread. Two days later Mr. Foster received from Marion a large box. It contained sundry light loaves of bread and cake marvelously toothsome. An accompanying affidavit bore the solemn oath of the sweet girl graduate (who possesses the pretty name of May Williams) that she had, unaided, made the wheat-bread marked “Exhibit A,” the two specimens of cornbread marked “Exhibit B,” and the chocolate, “Exhibit C.” The notary’s seal of office was affixt to the affidavit, and it was settled beyond a doubt in Mr. Foster’s mind that his wager had been accepted. He therefore went out and lavished his week’s salary on a new spring hat.

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WOMAN’S SPHERE

She’s a woman with a mission; ’tis her heaven-born ambition to reform the world’s condition, you will please to understand. She’s a model of propriety, a leader in society, and has a great variety of remedies at hand. Each a sovereign specific, with a title scientific, for the cure of things morbific that vex the people sore; For the swift alleviation of the evils of the nation is her foreordained vocation on this sublunary shore. And while thus she’s up and coming, always hurrying and humming, and occasionally slumming, this reformer of renown, Her neglected little Dicky, ragged, dirty, tough, and tricky, with his fingers soiled and sticky, is the terror of the town.

(Text.)--Tit-Bits.

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WOMAN’S STRENGTH

There is no physical reason why a woman should be more feeble or diseased than a man. Stanley was furnished with two hundred negro women to carry his stuff into the interior of Africa, and he found them the best porters he had employed, altho he felt very doubtful about accepting their services when first proposed. The Mexican Indian woman is able to carry her household goods on her back with two or three babies on top when a change of location is desirable. Meanwhile her husband trudges bravely along carrying his gun. On the continent of Europe most of the heavy work is done by women. In Vienna women and dogs are frequently hitched together, and sometimes a woman is yoked with a cow to draw a load of produce to the city. Many of these peasant women will carry upon their heads a load of vegetables that few American men could easily lift. These women have the muscles of the waist and trunk thoroughly developed. Despite their hardships, they do not suffer from the backache or displacements, or other ailments which the women who dress fashionably are constantly afflicted with.--Phrenological Journal.

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=Women, Courage of=--See BRAVERY OF WOMEN.

=Women Fighting Disease=--See TUBERCULOSIS.

=Women Graduates=--See ALUMNÆ OCCUPATIONS.

WOMEN IN BONDAGE

In Korea woman is a useful member of society, for material interests hang on her hand. Once, on a walk by the city wall, we saw a man sitting on a stone weeping. His was a full-mouthed, heart-broken cry, as tho the world had given way under him. “Why,” we asked--“why all this fuss?” He looked vacantly at us for a moment, and then resumed where he had left off. We found that the trouble was about a woman, his wife; she had left him. “How he must have loved her to cry like that,” remarked a lady in the party. It was translated, but he resented it. “Loved her? I never loved her, but she made my clothes and cooked my food; what shall I do? boo-hoo-oo,” louder and more impressively than ever.--JAMES S. GALE, “Korea in Transition.”

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=Women in Finance=--See BUSINESS, RELIGION IN.

=Women in Persia=--See PERSIA, MOSLEM SITUATION IN.

WOMEN, INJUSTICE TO

She was a woman, worn and thin, whom the world condemned for a single sin; they cast her out of the king’s highway and passed her by as they went to pray. He was a man, and more to blame, but the world spared him a breath of shame; beneath his feet he saw her lie, but he raised his head and passed her by. They were the people who went to pray at the temple of God on the holy day. They scorned the woman, forgave the man. It was ever thus since the world began. Time passed on, and the woman died, on the cross of shame was crucified; but the world was stern and would not yield, and they buried her in the potter’s field. The man died, too; and they buried him in a casket of cloth with a silver rim, and said, as they turned from his grave away: “We’ve buried an honest man to-day.” Two mortals knocked at heaven’s gate and stood face to face to inquire their fate. He carried a passport with earthly sign, and she a pardon from Love divine. O, we who judge ’twixt virtue and vice, which think ye entered paradise? Not he whom the world had said would win, for the woman alone was ushered in.

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WOMEN JUDGING WOMEN

At a large dinner party in Washington, a lady sitting next to William M. Evarts, then Secretary of State, said to him: “Mr. Evarts, don’t you think that a woman is the best judge of other women?” “Ah, madam,” said Mr. Evarts, “she is not only the best judge, but the best executioner.”

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WOMEN, WARLIKE

In warlike times, when battle was the business of life and victory over a foe the highest honor that could be had, when home in the true sense there was none, and when castles were less houses for pleasant living than strongholds to shelter raiders and resist assault, women were as heroic as their age. If they were not so accurate in their aim as the archers, of whom it was said every English bowman “bore under his girdle twenty-four Scots,” they knew how to man the ramparts and defend the bridges as well as their lords themselves. Womanliness in the bower, dignity in the hall, courage in the castle--that was the whole duty of these noble women of a rude but manly age, and to their example, their influence and their shaping power as mothers England owes much of her greatness and half of her strength. Letting Boadicea pass as an example of the feminine fighting blood, we find in Dame Nicola de Camville an early specimen of the warlike political woman. She took the royal side in the famous war with the barons, and held Lincoln Castle against Gilbert de Gaunt, first for King John and afterward for Henry III, till the battle called Lincoln Fair broke her power. The beautiful Countess of Salisbury, she who was so ardently beloved by the third Edward, was another instance of feminine daring, in her case coupled with the loveliest and most graceful sweetness. Black Agnes was again a heroine of the virago type, and Queen Philippa, Queen Margaret, and others of the same kind honored their adopted nationality by their courage and devotion. Meaner women were as brave. In a skirmish at Naworth (1570) Leonard Dacres had in his army “many desperate women, who there gave the adventure of their lives and fought right stoutly.”--The Fortnightly Review.

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WOMEN’S FRIVOLITY

What most women want to-day is a donkey-load of Paris dresses for their bodies, an automobile to pull them around, an army of servants to hook them up and then to unhook them. The mammonism of men to-day is the outer and physical embodiment of the inner and essential vulgarity of the whole pleasure-loving mob of women on the avenues, with their sipping of cocktails at the beginning of the meal in great restaurants, their flashing of jewels, their parade of gowns, their killing of time through bridge and games of chance. Killing time! When these golden hours are more precious than the purple drops of paradise itself. Oh, these superficial, frivolous, vapid women, who have turned their beautiful bodies into something scarcely better than the wire stands that exhibit gowns in merchants’ windows. And they use their very beauty as exemption from duty!--N. D. HILLIS.

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=Wonders of Nature=--See INSECTS OF REMOTE TIMES.

WONDERS UNSEEN BY MAN

The insect must see a whole world of wonders of which we know little or nothing. True, we have microscopes, with which we can see one thing at a time if carefully laid upon the stage; but what is the finest instrument that can be produced compared to that with twenty-five thousand object-glasses, all of them probably achromatic, and each one a living instrument, with its own nerve-branch supplying a separate sensation. To creatures thus endowed with microscopic vision, a cloud of sandy dust must appear like an avalanche of massive rock fragments, and everything else proportionally monstrous.--W. MATTIEU WILLIAMS, “Science in Short Chapters.”

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=Word, Effect of a Tender=--See HEART-HUNGER, SATISFYING.

WORD IN SEASON

Buckingham, the war governor of Connecticut, one day met a young man named Simmons as both were walking along the street, and putting both hands on the young man’s shoulders, the governor said solemnly: “Simmons, we are none of us living as well as we ought to,” and passed on. Simmons, as an old man, declared that that act had a most powerful and permanent influence on his life. (Text.)

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WORD JUGGLING

There are three hundred and sixty-five prohibitions in the law, said the Rabbins, just as many as there are days in the year, and two hundred and forty-eight positive commands, corresponding to the number of members of the body, according to their anatomy; the whole number making six hundred and thirteen precepts. “There can be no more precepts or any less,” reasoned the wise Pharisees, “because there are just six hundred and thirteen letters in the decalog.” Or if one had not liked this interpretation, they would have given him another equally satisfactory reason why there should be just six hundred and thirteen precepts. In Numbers 15:38, the Jews are commanded to wear fringes, called in the Hebrew tsitsith, upon the border of their garments. Now, as there are eight threads and five knots in each fringe, making the number thirteen, and as the letters of the word tsitsith stand in Hebrew for the number six hundred, therefore, as was proved before, there must be just six hundred and thirteen precepts in the Mosaic law. To such silly word jugglery had the Pharisees recourse in placing upon men’s shoulders burdens too grievous to be borne.--The Golden Rule.

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WORD OF GOD FREED

When Elizabeth of England succeeded to the throne she was petitioned to release, according to custom, four or five principal prisoners. “Who shall they be?” she asked. The reply was: “The four evangelists and the apostle Paul.” (Text.)

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WORD OF GOD UNIVERSAL

The following is by Frank Dempster Sherman:

Not only in the Book Is found God’s word, But in the song of every brook And every bird.

In sun and moon and star His message shines! The flowers that fleck the green fields are His fragrant lines.

His whisper in the breeze, And His the voice That bids the leaves upon the trees Sing and rejoice.

Go forth, O soul! nor fear Nor doubt, for He Shall make the ears of faith to hear-- The eyes to see.

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WORD, THE, A HAMMER

Thor was the god of thunder. The most prized of all his possessions was his magic hammer. This was red hot, and always returned to his hand ready to be thrown again. He used it to drive boundary stakes, and also to punish his enemies. The ancient Northern peoples made the sign of the hammer, as later Christians did the cross, to ward off evils and to secure blessings.

What an allegory, all this, of the Word of God! (Text.)

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=Words=--See GLITTER VERSUS DEPTH.

WORK

It was while Moses was at his common task that the call came to him. This wilderness training was simply a third school which he entered to fit him for the great work of his life. When God wants a man he usually calls one who is busy among the commonplace things of life. Commonplace duties are always glorified in God’s sight. When God wanted a prophet he selected Amos from among the farmer-shepherds. When He wanted a poet He called a lad from keeping sheep. When He wanted an apostle He called a swearing tar from mending his net on the beach of Galilee. When He wanted a missionary He selected a Paul from among the tent-makers. When He wanted a deliverer of Israel He called a man from the commonplace duties of the desert. When God wanted to show man how much He loved him and honored toil, He chose to incarnate Himself in the carpenter of Nazareth.

“This is the gospel of labor, Ring it ye bells of the kirk; The Lord of Love, came down from above, To live with the men who work; This is the rose He planted, Here is the thorn-curst soil, Heaven is blest, with perfect rest, But the blessing of earth is toil.” (Text.)

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Paul was not ashamed to work with his hands, altho he had been brought up at the feet of Gamaliel and taught according to the perfect manner of the law. He had not forgotten the custom of the Jews, who always taught their sons in early youth to work at some trade or handicraft. A true saying is that “an idle brain is the devil’s workshop.” Miss Dryer, a Chicago missionary, in addressing the ministers’ meeting of that city in behalf of girls’ sewing-schools, made the significant statement that in all her experience of many years she had never known of a fallen woman who knew how to sew. (Text.)

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Man’s work is to labor and leaven As best he may--earth here with heaven, ’Tis work for work’s sake that he’s needing; Let him work on and on as speeding Work’s end, but not dream of succeeding! Because if success were intended, Why, heaven would begin ere earth ended.

--BROWNING.

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See GENIUS AND WORK.

=Work a Necessity=--See INDUSTRY AND LONGEVITY.

WORK AND ART

Between digging a ditch to drain a meadow and composing a sonnet, what is there in common? Nevertheless, if we look closely into the matter, the ditch and the sonnet are much the same thing. We might even fairly challenge that category of “useful” and “fine.” The useful are surely fine, for nothing is finer than use; and the fine, if they be not in a high sense useful, are not fine after all. The ditch is dug to increase the serviceableness to man of nature; the sonnet is composed to enable man to discern in nature a beauty (or serviceableness) to which he had heretofore been blind. From a broad standpoint, there is little to choose between them. The ditch is nothing in itself, but neither, strictly speaking, is the sonnet. They are both means to ends. The ditch is, perhaps, more distant from its end than the sonnet, but it is a link in the same chain. Moreover, the ditch will always be an honest ditch, but the sonnet may be false or artificial, and in that case counts for nothing, or less. The real difference resides in the person doing much more than in the thing done. A workman, building a wall, may have a perception of the value of the use he is performing, or he may not; only in the former case, of course, does he deserve the name of artist. The seamstress who plies her needle in our attic, or the poor man’s wife who must needs wash and scrub and darn and work all day long, and from year’s end to year’s end, if she realize the universal bearings of her industry, is an artist, and a nobler and more adorable one than she who sings for $5,000 a night.--America.

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=Work and Long Life=--See INDUSTRY AND LONGEVITY.

=Work as Witness=--See TESTIMONY OF WORK.

WORK ATTITUDE, THE

What is work--work not as mere external performance, but as attitude of mind? It signifies that the person is not content longer to accept and to act upon the meanings that things suggest, but demands congruity of meaning with the things themselves. In the natural course of growth, children come to find irresponsible make-believe plays inadequate. A fiction is too easy a way out to afford content. There is not enough stimulus to call forth satisfactory mental response. When this point is reached, the ideas that things suggest must be applied to the things with some regard to fitness. A small cart, resembling a “real” cart, with “real” wheels, tongue and body, meets the mental demand better than merely making believe that anything which comes to hand is a cart. Occasionally to take part in setting a “real” table with “real” dishes brings more reward than forever to make believe a flat stone is a table and that leaves are dishes. The interest may still center in the meanings, the things may be of importance only as amplifying a certain meaning. So far the attitude is one of play. But the meaning is now of such a character that it must find appropriate embodiment in actual things.

The dictionary does not permit us to call such activities work. Nevertheless, they represent a genuine passage of play into work. For work (as a mental attitude, not as mere external performance) means interest in the adequate embodiment of a meaning (a suggestion, purpose, aim) in objective form through the use of appropriate materials and appliances. Such an attitude takes advantage of the meanings aroused and built up in free play, but controls their development by seeing to it that they are applied to things in ways consistent with the observable structure of the things themselves.

The point of this distinction between play and work may be cleared up by comparing it with a more usual way of stating the difference. In play activity, it is said, the interest is in the activity for its own sake; in work, it is in the product or result in which the activity terminates. Hence the former is purely free, while the latter is tied down by the end to be achieved.--JOHN DEWEY, “How We Think.”

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WORK, CHRISTIAN

The verses below are true of every soul who really desires to do God’s work.

If we can not be the watchman Standing high on Zion’s wall, Pointing out the path to heaven, Offering life and peace to all; With our prayers, and with our bounties We can do what heaven demands; We can be, like helpful Aaron, Holding up the prophet’s hands.

Do not, then, stand idly waiting, For some greater work to do, For time is a lazy goddess-- She will never come to you. Go and toil in any vineyard, Do not fear to do or dare; If you want a field of labor You can find it anywhere.

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=Work, Daily=--See MELODY FROM DRUDGERY.

WORK DESPISED

A king desired a fine mosaic picture. The master-artist divided the stones from which it was to be constructed among his workmen, giving to each his own design. One artist considered his fragment too small to notice, and threw away the stone intrusted to him, saying, “It is of no worth.” When all the work was brought together, his stone was found to be the most important of all, the very centerpiece. He lost his place, and was branded upon the forehead with the words, “Of no worth,” as a penalty for his neglect.

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WORK DIVINELY INTENDED

As the clear and sensitive organ of the eye, which holds upon its tiny lens the masses of far stars and the mazes of their movement, was evidently made for this marvelous function; as the nerve of the ear, which takes eloquence, poetry, wit, applause, the tone of affection, the crash of the thunder-burst, the lively laugh of childish glee, and communicates each with instant fidelity to the spirit behind, was manifestly formed for exactly this office; so, just as clearly, the personal soul, with its judgment and its will, with its deep-seated instincts and its eager desires, with its unrest in indolence, and its thought that outruns attainment every instant, was made to realize its good by working. The date-tree in the desert is not more precisely preadjusted to its office!--RICHARD S. STORRS.

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=Work in Miniature=--See MINIATURE WORK.

WORK PROVING RELIGION

There is a story of a young minister who had just come to be pastor in a town, and he called on Hiram Golf, the shoemaker.

“Well, Hiram,” said the minister, “I have come to talk with you about the things of God, and I am very glad a man can be in a humble occupation and yet be a godly man.” The shoemaker said, “Don’t call this occupation humble.” The minister thought he had made a mistake, and he said, “Excuse me, I didn’t mean to reflect on what you do for a living.” The man replied, “You didn’t hurt me, but I was afraid you might have hurt the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe the making of that shoe is just as holy a thing as your making a sermon. I believe that when I come to stand before the throne of God, He is going to say, ‘What kind of shoes did you make down on earth?’ And He might pick out this very pair, in order to let me look at them in the blazing light of the great white throne; and He is going to say to you, ‘What kind of sermons did you make?’ and you will have to show Him one of your sermons. Now, if I made better shoes than you made sermons, I will have a better place in the kingdom of God.” (Text.)

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=Work, Quiet, Successful=--See VALUE OF ONE MAN.

WORK, THE TRUE WISDOM

When Frederick Temple, the late Archbishop of Canterbury, was a poor boy, wearing patched clothes and patched shoes, he had the good fortune to have a wise mother who stimulated and encouraged the right kind of ambition, and directed his zeal. One day the boy waxed critical over the inconsistency of English spelling, when his mother chided him gently: “Freddie, don’t argue; do your work.” The lesson was not lost on his open mind. He followed the sage advice. And long years after, when as primate of all England he had arisen to a position scarcely second to any in dignity and influence in the land, he acted on his mother’s counsel: “Don’t argue, do your work.”

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WORK TRANSFORMED

As the water drops of the storm-clouds are transfigured by the sunlight into rainbows, so the lowliest work is transfigured by thoughts of God shining through it. So it was with the old negro washerwoman who sang, as she climbed the stairs wearily at night after her hardest day, “One more day’s work for Jesus.” So it was with the Christian child in the mission Sunday-school, who was asked, “What are you doing for Jesus?” and replied, “I scrubs.”

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WORK VERSUS WORKER

James Buckham is the author of this poem:

“What hast thou wrought?” is the world’s demand. Where is thy product of brain or hand? That presented, the wise world says, “Take this place!” and the man obeys.

Somewhat otherwise measures God, Searches the soul with love’s testing-rod; Gets its innermost depth and plan; Ignores the product, exalts the man!

Whittier, in a similar vein, wrote:

Not by the page word-painted, My life is banned or sainted. Deeper than written scroll, The colors of the soul, Nobler than any fact, My wish that failed of act. (Text.)

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=Work, Unrecompensed=--See ILL-PAID WORK.

=Working Hard=--See ENCOURAGEMENT.

=Working Men and Church=--See CHRIST APPROVED.

WORKING TOGETHER

Faraday, the distinguished chemist, says:

The change produced by respiration so injurious to us (for we can not breathe the air twice over) is the very life and support of plants and vegetables growing on the surface of the ground. These latter absorb carbon--the leaves taking up the carbon of the air to which we have given it in the form of carbonic acid, and grow and prosper. Give them a fine air like ours, and they could not live in it, but carbon and other matters make them grow. All trees and plants get their carbon from the air, which carries off what is bad for us and at the same time good for them--disease to the one is health to the other. So we are made dependents not only on our fellow creatures but on our fellow existers as well, all nature being tied together by the law that makes one part conduce to the good of another. (Text.)

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WORKING WITH GOD

It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper’s song among the sheaves.

Yet where our duty’s task is wrought In unison with God’s great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatso’er is willed is done. (Text.)

--JOHN G. WHITTIER.

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=Workmanship=--See BEAUTY FROM FRAGMENTS.

WORKS DESTROYED

When Thomas Carlyle was writing his famous history of the French Revolution, and when he had the first volume ready for the printer’s hands, he one day loaned the manuscript to John Stuart Mill, his intimate and admiring friend. This friend’s servant girl, seeing the pile on the library floor one day, and wanting some kindling, unceremoniously put the whole of it into the stove and kindled the fire with it. Thus the priceless labor of many years was in a few moments swept away.

Mill came himself, pale and trembling, to break the news to the author. When he heard it, his spirit fairly broke down under the terrible disaster.

If the loss of a book is such a calamity, how unspeakably terrible will it be to have the works of one’s lifetime burned? There are men of whom the divine word says, “They shall be saved, but their works shall be burned.”

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=Works, Immortality in One’s=--See IMMORTALITY OF INFLUENCE.

WORLD IMPROVING

In the old days the bee-master to reach the honey killed the bees, but now he contrives to spare the bees, who continue to live on and share their own sweetness. A similar transformation is being effected in the hives of human industry. There is an attempt to get more justice, fairness, and even mercy, into commercial rivalries; to substitute some plan of cooperation for the existing competition, if that is possible. That glove-fights are being substituted for prize-fights is indeed a slow approach to civilization, yet the thinnest gloves are a concession to the rising sentiment of humanity; so in business, modern society is getting rid of certain naked brutalities of antagonism, and giving to reason and compassion a larger place. With aching head and aching heart, thousands to-day feel that the struggle for gold and bread is bitter enough; yet a better spirit slowly emerges, tempering the fiery law.--W. L. WATKINSON, “The Transfigured Sackcloth.”

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=World, Need of the=--See YOU.

WORLD NOT INDISPENSABLE

During the latter portion of his life, declares a writer in Everybody’s Magazine, Emerson seemed to live much in the world of souls, and came back with difficulty to take cognizance of physical affairs.

At the time of the Millerite excitement, he was walking one day down Bromfield Street, Boston, when he met one of his friends, who remarked: “This is the day when the world is to come to an end, according to the Millerities.” The Sage of Concord looked reflectively at his friend for a moment, and replied: “Ah, well, we can do without it.”

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WORLD, THE, IN THE CHRISTIAN

A ship in the water is good, but water in the ship is bad. A transatlantic liner, years ago, owing to some defect in one of its pumps, began to pump water into the ship instead of pumping it out. As they thought the ship had sprung a leak, they pumped all the harder, with the result that the ship only filled the faster. Presently the water rose so that their fires were extinguished. Then, thinking that they were going to the bottom, they abandoned the ship. Later on, some Englishmen found her tossing in mid-ocean, water-logged. Going on board, they ascertained the trouble, pumped her out, brought her in and secured $300,000 salvage money.

Just so the Christian in the world is good, but the world in the Christian is bad. The believer who allows the evil practises of the sinful world to dominate his heart can not possibly succeed; and yet there are men who, like those in the ship above mentioned, seem to pump the world into themselves as fast as they can.--A. F. SCHAUFFLER, The Christian Herald.

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=Worldliness=--See AMUSEMENTS.

=Worldliness, Vanity of=--See CHURCH INDISPENSABLE.

=Worldly Life=--See PLEASURE, MOCKERY OF.

=Worry=--See THINGS.

WORRY, DON’T

Do not hurry, Do not worry, As this world you travel through, No regretting, Fuming, fretting, Ever can advantage you. Be content with what you’ve won, What on earth you leave undone, There are plenty left to do.

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WORSHIP, ENFORCED

Some ministers would welcome the method described below for our churches at home:

Some interesting new methods and agencies are noticed in the Baptist Missionary Magazine as having been introduced into the missionary church at Sinwaugan, Philippine Islands. A band of policemen has been instituted to see that all the members of the church attend the services on time. These policemen hunt up delinquents, and if they can not give good reasons for their absence, bring them to church. In the church they keep order among the throngs of children who attend.

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WORSHIPER, A MOTHER

One of the first Christian novels of Japan tells of a widow, whose only son was a careless, aimless boy. His mother tried to inspire him with the lofty purpose of reestablishing their house, then in danger of becoming extinct. Her efforts were all in vain, until one day she took him to his father’s grave and kneeling there with him, sternly rebuked him in the face of the dead for his thoughtless life. Then drawing a dirk she handed it to him with this startling order: “Die, coward! Die with this dirk here and now! Then I will follow you!” In this way this Spartan-like mother aroused her boy so that he became a great and successful man. He never could cease to love and reverence her. He said: “The fire of my mother’s face burned into my soul and gave me the supreme decision of my life. Therefore, I am a worshiper of my mother.” This represents some of the best traditions of Japanese family life, and with such a basis, it is easy to see how welcome with many is the Christian truth, which emphasizes the duties of parents and recognizes the rights even of children.--JOHN H. DE FOREST, “Sunrise in the Sunrise Kingdom.”

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=Worshiping Idols=--See FETISHISM.

WORTH, ESTIMATING

The difference between a good job and a bad one is nothing--unless the man with a good one is a good man.

A certain office in Chicago had this fact demonstrated. There were two men on the pay-roll who had an equal opportunity for a new place, a place much in advance of that held by either. One of the men had a good job, the place of assistant to the head of a department. The other was only a clerk. The first man got $30 a week, the second was paid only $18. When the time came for the head to look around and select the man for the new position his eyes fell on the two under consideration, and he began to sum up their merits.

“My idea of a man for this new place,” he said, “is one who has proved by his steadiness, industry, and economy that he is ambitious, that he wants to and means to do well, and who, generally speaking, has shown that he’s a strong character. Now, while Johnson, at $30 a week, is obviously first choice for the place, I won’t give it to him until I’ve compared him with Nagle, who’s only getting $18. I’m going to look them over first and find out who really is the bigger man of the two.”

A week later the office was surprized and shocked to see Nagle, the clerk, get the coveted place.

“Why in the world did you do it?” a friend asked the boss.

The answer was short and to the point. “I looked ’em up, and found that Nagle was a better man than Johnson, in spite of the fact that the latter had the bigger job. Johnson has been getting $30 a week for two years. He’s single, but he hasn’t got a cent of savings in the bank. Nagle has been getting $18 for the same length of time. But Nagle has been taking care of his money, and now he has $300 to his credit in his savings account. Johnson goes out and blows in his money and doesn’t give a single thought to the future. Nagle plants a few dollars every week. Do you suppose there can be any question as to the ability of these two men?”

And when you think it over this is about as good a test of worth as any that could be made.--Chicago Tribune.

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WOUNDS, CURIOUS

Simon Stone was shot in nine places, and as he lay for dead the Indians made two hacks with a hatchet to cut his head off. He got well, however, and was a lusty fellow in Cotton Mather’s time. Jabez Musgrove was shot with a bullet that went in at his ear and came out at his eye on the other side. A couple of bullets went through his body also. Jabez got well, however, and lived many years. Per contra, Colonel Rossiter, cracking a plum-stone with his teeth, broke a tooth and lost his life. We have seen physicians dying, like Spigelius, from a scratch; and a man who had had a crowbar shot through his head alive and well. These extreme cases are warnings. But you can never be too cautious in your prognosis, in view of the great uncertainty of the course of any disease not long watched, and the many unexpected turns it may take.--OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.

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=Wounds of Christ=--See STIGMATA.

WOUNDS THAT SPEAK

The advocates in ancient Rome gave effect to their appeals by producing on fit occasions the living image of the client’s misery, and his claims on the compassion of the courts. Thus, when Antony was defending against the charge of pecuniary corruption, Aquilius, who had successfully conducted the campaign in Sicily against the fugitive slaves, and was unable to disprove or refute the charge, in the midst of his harangue, after appealing in impassioned tones to the services rendered to his country by the brave soldier who stood by his side--he suddenly unloosed the folds of his client’s robe, and showed to his fellow citizens who sat upon his trial the scars of the wounds which had been received in their behalf. They could not resist the effect of such a sight, and Aquilius was acquitted. (Text.)--CROAKE JAMES, “Curiosities of Law and Lawyers.”

Many a heart, like that of Thomas, has been softened and convinced by the sight of the marks of Christ’s passion.

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=Writing Life Records=--See RECORDS, LIVING.

WRONG RETROACTIVE

For he that wrongs his friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned.

(Text.)--TENNYSON.

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=Wrongs, Little=--See LITTLE SINS.

=X-Ray as Detective=--See DETECTION; EXPOSURE.

Y

YEARS, THE UNRETURNING

Each day the tide flows out and in, Each day the gray ships leave, Each night the mute-lipped stars appear, Each night the waters grieve; But from their distant harbor home Toward which our hearts are yearning, No more with laden ships of dreams We see the years returning.

Each year that passed the silent bar Went out beyond forever; Tho on the heights we watch and wait, The ships are sighted never; But in our hearts old memories Come to the heart’s discerning, And comfort us if nevermore We find the years returning. (Text.)

--ARTHUR W. PEACH, The Sunday-school Times.

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YOU

The personal note in these verses (author unidentified) gives force to the advice they contain:

The world is waiting for somebody, Waiting and watching to-day; Somebody to lift up and strengthen, Somebody to shield and stay. Do you thoughtlessly question, “Who?” ’Tis you, my friend, ’tis you!

The world is waiting for somebody, Somebody brave and strong, With a helping hand, a generous heart, With a gift of deed or song. Do you doubtfully question, “Who?” ’Tis you, my friend, ’tis you!

The world is waiting for somebody, The sad world bleak and cold, When wan-faced children are watching For hope in the eyes of the old. Do you wond’ringly question, “Who?” ’Tis you, my friend, ’tis you!

The world is waiting for somebody, And has been for years on years; Somebody to soften its sorrows, Somebody to heed its tears. Then doubting question no longer, “Who?” For, oh, my friend, ’tis you!

The world is waiting for somebody, A deed of love to do; Then up and hasten, everybody, For everybody is you! For everybody is you, my friend, For everybody is you!

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YOUTH OF THE HEART

If we would keep our spirits young we should learn this lesson from the trees, by Richard Kirk:

Master, I learn this lesson from the trees: Not to grow old. The maple by my door Puts forth green leaves as cheerily as I, When I was taller than this selfsame tree, Put forth my youthful longings. I have erred, Standing a bleak and barren leafless thing Among my hopeful brothers. I am shamed. I will not be less hopeful than the trees; I will not cease to labor and aspire; I will not pause in patient high endeavor; I will be young in heart until I die.

--Lippincott’s Magazine.

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YOUTH, USEFUL

A newsboy of only fourteen lately did heroic rescue work in connection with the disaster at the Alexandra docks extension, in Newport, Monmouthshire, England, descending sixty feet under the fallen and broken timbers to clear the way to where the bleeding and crippled laborers were lying. The lad with two hands to help, and with a clear brain and a loving heart, is a very important factor in this busy and often troubled world. (Text.)

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YOUTHFUL TENDENCIES

One of our illustrated papers presented a picture in a late issue that painted a very definite moral. It was labeled “Man in the Making,” and showed two well-grown boys in a trolley car, one crowded in a corner and reading “Dead-Eye Dick,” and the other sitting up thoughtfully and studying his geometry.

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Z

ZEAL

Dr. Bonar tells of a dream he once had. In his dream the angels weighed his zeal, and he was delighted with the result. It reached the maximum and turned the scale at a hundred. Then they analyzed it, and his delight vanished. For (out of the hundred) fourteen parts were pure selfishness, fifteen parts sectarianism, twenty-two parts ambition, twenty-three parts love for man, and twenty-six parts love to God. He awoke from his dream sobered and saddened, but resolved on a new consecration.

How much religious zeal (if analyzed) would prove even more corrupt!

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=Zeal in Teachers=--See TEACHERS, ALERTNESS OF.

=Zeal Overdone=--See HUMAN PASSION.

=Zeal, Unwise=--See UNNATURAL EDUCATION.

=Zones=--See PATHS, KEEPING ONE’S OWN.

INDEXES OF TEXTS

INDEX OF TEXTS IN TOPICAL ORDER

[In this index the text cited is judged to be appropriate to the illustration found under the topical head. The illustration itself will be found in its alphabetical place in the body of the book.]

A

=Ability, Gage of.= Phil. 4:13--I can do all things through Christ, &c.

=Accidents.= Psalm 91:16--With long life will I satisfy him, &c.

=Accusation Insufficient.= Josh. 7:23--And they took them out of the midst of the tent and brought them unto Joshua, &c.

=Acquiescence to Providence.= Heb. 12:13--Be content, &c.; Phil. 4:11--In every state be content.

=Advancement Rapid.= Eccl. 7:10--Say not thou, what is the cause that the former days were better than these, &c.

=Advantage, Working to the Best.= 2 Chron. 2:14--Find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, &c.

=Adversity.= 1 Tim. 6:12--Fight the good fight, &c.

=Affliction.= Lam. 3:31–33--For the Lord will not cast off forever, &c.

=Affliction, Uses of.= Heb. 12:11--Now no chastening for the present, &c.

=Age and Oratory.= Job 11:17--Then age shall be clearer than noonday.

=Age, the New.= Isa. 2:4--Neither shall they learn war any more.

=Agents, Insignificant.= 1 Cor. 1:25--The weakness of God is stronger than men.

=Agriculture.= Gen. 1:28--Replenish the earth and subdue it.

=Allurement, Fatal.= Prov. 1:10--If sinners entice thee, &c.

=Almsgiving.= Matt. 6:1-4--Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, &c.

=Altruism.= Isa. 61:3--Trees of righteousness, &c.

=Amity after War.= 2 Sam: 9:1--Is there any left of the house of Saul that I may show him kindness, &c.

=Ancient Art.= Eccl. 1:10--Is there anything whereof it may be said, See this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us?

=Anger.= Psalm 106:33--Provoked his spirit ... spake unadvisedly with his lips.

=Animal Dominion.= Rom. 1:23--And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into ... four-footed beasts, &c.

=Answer, A Soft.= Prov. 15:1--A soft answer turneth away wrath, etc.

=Anticipating Success.= Mark 11:24--Faith is the Victory, &c.

=Anticipation.= 2 Peter 3:13, 14--Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens, &c.

=Antipathies, Instinctive.= Rom. 12:9--Abhor that which is evil.

=Apparel.= 1 Peter 3:4--Whose adorning let it not be ... the putting on of apparel, but ... the hidden man of the heart.

=Appeal, A Living.= Luke 18:13--God be merciful to me a sinner.

=Appearance.= John 7:24--Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

=Appearances Misleading.= 1 Sam. 16:7--Man looketh on the outward appearances but, &c.

=Apprehension, Lincoln’s.= Lev. 26:36--And upon them that are left, &c.

=Arguing for Truth.= Jude 3--Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered, &c.

=Armor.= Eph. 6:10-17--Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, etc.

=Art, Devotion to.= 1 Tim. 4:15--Give thyself wholly to them, &c.

=Artifice.= Luke 16:9--Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

=Asking Amiss.= Jas. 4:3--Ye receive not because ye ask amiss.

=Asking, Boldness in.= Eph. 3:12--In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

=Aspiration.= Phil. 3:14--I press toward the mark for the prize, &c.; Psalm 41:2--Lead me to the rock, &c.

=Assimilation.= John 7:37, 38--If any man thirst, &c.

=Association.= Rom. 12:2--Be ye transformed, &c.

=Associations Mold Men.= Matt. 5:8--Blessed are the pure in heart.

=Atonement.= Psalm 32:1--Blessed is he whose ... sin is covered.

=Atonement Compelled.= Psalm 76:10--Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee, &c.

=Atrophy.= Prov. 22:6--Train up a child in the way he should go, &c.

B

=Badges.= Matt. 10:32--Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, &c.

=Balance, a Loose.= Eccl. 12:14--For God shall bring every work into judgment, &c.

=Ballot, a Duty.= Luke 16:8--Children of this world ... wiser than children of light, &c.

=Baptism Interpreted.= Matt. 28:19--Baptizing them in the name, &c.

=Beauty, Deceived by.= 2 Cor. 11:14--For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

=Beauty Perverted.= Rom. 7:13--Was, then, that which is good made death, &c.

=Bible a Handbook.= Psalm 119:105--Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, &c.

=Bible a Lamp.= Psalm 119:105--Thy word is a lamp, &c.

=Bible, as Bread.= Psalm 119:11--Thy word have I hid in my heart, &c.

=Bible, Regard for.= Psalm 119:97–102--How I love thy law, &c.

=Bible, Re-enforced.= 1 Peter 1:25--The word of the Lord endureth forever.

=Bird Notes.= Rom. 8:22--The whole creation groaneth, &c.

=Blessing the Ropes.= Psalm 127:1--Except the Lord build the house, &c.

=Blessings, Conquering.= Gal. 15:1--Stand fast therefore in the liberty, &c.

=Blessings Counted.= Psalm 139:18--If I should count them they are more in number than the sand.

=Blindness a Blessing.= Rom. 1:20--The invisible things ... are clearly seen.

=Blood, Cry for.= Gen. 4:10--The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.

=Bondage to Sin.= Psalm 59:3--Lie in wait for my soul, &c.

=Books, Poison in.= Eccl. 10:11--The serpent will bite, &c.

=Brevity of Life.= James 4:13--Go to now, ye that say, &c.; Psalm 90:9, 10--For all our days are passed away, &c.

=Building the Soul’s City.= Rev. 21:10--That great city, the holy Jerusalem, &c.

=Burdens, Bearing One Another’s.= Gal. 6:2--Bear ye one another’s burdens.

=Business, Religion in.= Rom. 12:11--Not slothful in business ... Serving the Lord.

C

=Care-free.= Phil. 4:6--Be careful for nothing, &c.

=Ceremony, Uselessness of.= Matt. 23:23--For ye pay title of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, &c.

=Chains.= Psalm 23:5--Thou preparest a table before us, &c.

=Character Conditioned by the Physical.= Mark 2:5–9--When Jesus saw their faith, &c.

=Character More Than Clothing.= Matt. 6:25--Is not the life more than meat, &c.

=Character Not Purchasable.= Prov. 8:11--For wisdom is better than rubies, &c.

=Character, Support of.= Gal. 2:20--Christ liveth in me, &c.

=Cheer, Signals of.= Psalm 43:3--Send out thy light, &c.

=Child, Faith of a.= Isa. 11:16--A little child shall lead them.

=Child, Leading of a.= 2 Sam. 12:23--I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

=Child, The.= Matt. 18:2–4--Jesus called a little child ... and set him in the midst of them, &c.

=Children Safe.= Matt. 18:10--Their angels do always behold the face, &c.

=Chivalry.= Acts 10:34, 35--Then Peter opened his mouth, &c.

=Choked.= Matt. 13:7--And the thorns grew up and choked them.

=Christ, a Therapeutic.= 1 Cor. 3:18--Changed into the same image.

=Christ Approved.= James 2:2–4--If there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, &c.

=Christ, Destroyer of Sin.= Rom. 7:13--The sin ... might become exceeding sinful, &c.

=Christ, Faith in.= Gal. 2:20--The life which I now live, &c.

=Christ, Goodness of.= John 8:16--Which did you convinceth me of sin?

=Christ in the Congregation.= Matt. 28:20--Lo, I am with you always.

=Christ, Intimacy with.= 2 Tim 1:12--For I know whom I have believed, &c.

=Christ Our Pilot.= Psalm 32:8--I will guide thee with mine eye.

=Christ Still Present.= Heb. 13:8--Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day and forever.

=Christ the Conqueror.= Rev. 19:16--And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

=Christ the Door.= John 10:7--I am the door of the sheep.

=Christ the Lamb.= Rev. 5:12--Worthy is the lamb, &c.

=Christ the Light.= John 8:12. I am the light, &c.

=Christ the Rejected.= Isa. 53:3--He is despised and rejected of men, &c.

=Christ Unavoidable.= Matt. 27:22--What shall I do then with Jesus, &c.

=Christ, Union with.= John 15:1-5--I am the true vine, &c.

=Christ’s Face.= Phil. 1:21--For to me to live is Christ, &c.

=Christ’s Love.= Phil. 2:6–8--Because obedient unto death, &c.

=Christian Spirit, The.= Neh. 2:11--So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days, &c.

=Christian Unity.= 1 John 4:7--Beloved, let us love one another.

=Christianity and Civilization.= Luke 2:30–32--For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, &c.

=Christianity as a Civilizer.= John 5:36--The very works that I do bear witness of me.

=Christianity Invincible.= Psalm 7:16--His mischief shall return upon his own head.

=Christianity, Social.= 1 Cor. 12:12–27--Many members ... one body.

=Christianity Succeeding Barbarism.= Isa. 55:13--Instead of the thorn, &c.

=Church, Deadness of the.= Rev. 3:1--Thou hast a name that thou livest, &c.

=Church, Guidance for the.= Psalm 32:8--I will guide thee, &c.; Psalm 78:52--Guided them ... like a flock, &c.; Isa. 58:11--The Lord shall guide thee, &c.

=Church, Joining the.= Num. 10:29--Come thou with us and we will do thee good, &c.

=Church-members, Working.= Rom. 16:9--Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

=Church, Mission of.= Matt. 5:14--Ye are the light of the world.

=Church, The.= Eph. 5:27--A glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle.

=Church Union.= John 17:21--That they all may be one.

=Churches, Dead.= Rev. 3:1--Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

=Circumstances, Taking Advantage of.= Matt. 7:12--Therefore all things whatsoever ye would, &c.

=Citizenship in the Kingdom.= Phil. 3:20--Our citizenship (conversation) is in heaven.

=Civics.= Acts 17:26--And hath made of one blood all nations of men, &c.

=Claim, God’s.= Prov. 23:33--My son, give me thine heart.

=Cleanliness.= Psalm 24:4--Clean hands and a pure heart.

=Cleansing, Difficulty of.= Psalm 51:7--Purge me with hyssop, &c.

=Clues.= Psalm 37:5--Commit thy way unto the Lord.

=Coincidence and Superstition.= Acts 1:26--And they gave forth their lots, &c.

=Common Sense.= Prov. 24:26--Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer (that answereth right words).

=Compensation.= 2 Cor. 4:18--While we look not at the things that are seen, &c.; Isa. 32:2--And a man shall be as a hiding-place, &c.

=Competition.= Phil. 1:27--Striving together for the faith of the gospel, &c.

=Conceit of Opinion.= Prov. 26:12--Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

=Condemned, the.= John 15:2--Every branch in me that beareth fruit, &c.

=Condescension.= Prov. 26:4--Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

=Conduct, Past, Unconsidered.= Gal. 3:10--Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things, &c.

=Confession, Unrepentant.= Matt. 3:8--Bring forth fruit meet for repentance.

=Confidence.= Isa. 30:15.--In quiet and confidence shall be, &c.; Luke 12:32--Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

=Confidence, Inspiring.= Matt. 5:42--Give to him that asketh thee, &c.

=Conformity.= 1 Cor. 9:20--Unto the Jews I became as a Jew, &c.

=Conscience.= Prov. 28:1--The wicked flee, &c.

=Conscience Benumbed.= Rom. 1:26--For which cause God gave them up unto vile affections, &c.

=Consecration.= 1 Cor. 9:16--Wo is unto me if I preach not, &c.

=Consequences.= Eccl. 10:8--Whoso breaketh an hedge a serpent shall bite him.

=Consequences, Irreparable.= Isa. 1:18--Tho your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, &c.

=Consequences, Unnoticed.= Eph. 4:30--Grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby ye are sealed, &c.

=Conversation.= Luke 19:10--Son of man is come to seek, &c.

=Contact.= Matt. 9:21--If I may but touch the hem of his garment, I shall be whole.

=Control, Divine.= Psalm 37:5--Commit thy way unto the Lord, &c.; Prov. 16:3--Commit thy works unto the Lord, &c.

=Conversion.= John 3:4--How can a man be born when he is old, &c.; Isa. 40:31--They that wait upon the Lord, &c.; 2 Cor. 5:17--If any man be in Christ he is a new creature, &c.

=Conversion, Not Unnatural.= John 3:4--How can a man be born when he is old, &c.

=Conviction, Unyielding.= Exodus 23:2--Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.

=Convictions, Strong.= Prov. 16:5--Tho hand join in hand, &c.

=Cooperation, Lack of.= Heb. 1:14--Are they not all ministering spirits, &c.

=Cooperation with God.= 1 Cor. 3:6--I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

=Cost Reckoned.= John 6:12--Gather up the fragments, &c.

=Countenance, Grace in the.= Eccl. 8:1--A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, &c.

=Courage.= Isa. 50:7--Therefore have I set my face like a flint, &c.

=Courage of Hope.= Joel 2:25, 26--And I will restore to you the years, &c.

=Courage versus Etiquette.= John 5:8, 9--Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed and walk.... And the same day was the Sabbath.

=Cross, Charm of the.= Rom. 1:16--For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, &c.

=Cross Imperishable.= Gal. 6:14. God forbid that I should glory, &c.

=Cross, The.= Gal. 6:14--God forbid that I should glory, &c.

=Crowd and the Exception.= 1 Sam. 9:2--From his shoulders upward he (Saul) was higher than any of his people.

=Crown, The Christian’s.= 2 Tim. 4:8--Laid up for me a crown, &c.

=Crying Beneficial.= Psalm 42:3--My tears have been my meat, &c.

=Currents of Life.= Ezek. 47:9--Withersoever the rivers come, &c.; Psalm 46:4--There is a river, &c.

=Cursing Forbidden.= Rom. 12:14--Bless and curse not.

=Cynic Rebuked.= Matt. 7:1--Judge not, &c.

D

=Danger from Below.= Rom. 7:25--So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

=Danger, Stimulating Exertion.= Matt. 7:13, 14--Enter ye in at the strait gate, &c.

=Darkness.= Psalm 139:12--Darkness and light are both alike to thee; John 3:20--Every one that doeth evil hateth the light; Rom. 13:12--Let us cast off the works of darkness, &c.

=Darkness Developing Character.= Job 29:3--By his light I walked through darkness.

=Darkness, Growth in.= Isa. 45:3--Treasures of darkness.

=Dawn of Christian Light.= Mal. 4:2--Arise with healing in his wings.

=Daybreak.= Exod. 16:7--In the morning then shall ye see the glory of the Lord.

=Dead tho Alive.= Eph. 2:1--And you hath he quickened, &c.; 1 Tim. 5:6--But she that liveth in pleasure, &c.

=Death as a Shadow.= Amos 5:8--Seek him ... that turned the shadow of death into the morning.

=Death, Christian Attitude toward.= Rom. 5:12--Death passed upon all men, &c.

=Death, Spiritual.= Eph. 2:1--And you hath he quickened, &c.

=Death, The Ring of.= Rom. 6:23--The wages of sin is death; 1 Cor. 15:26--The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

=Death, Untimely.= Isa. 28:10--I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave, &c.

=Deception.= Deut. 25:13--Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights a great and a small.

=Deception Exposed.= Num. 32:23--Be sure your sin will find you out.

=Deeds, not Appearances.= Matt. 7:21--Not everyone that saith ... but he that doeth, &c.

=Deeds That Talk.= Matt. 7:21--Not everyone that saith unto me Lord, Lord, &c.

=Deep-down Things.= 1 Cor. 2:10--The deep things of God.

=Deep Things.= 1 Cor. 2:10--Deep things of God.

=Deformity.= 1 Cor. 14:20--Be not children in understanding; howbeit, in malice be ye children, &c.

=Degradation.= 2 Tim. 3:13--Evil men ... shall wax worse and worse, &c.; Exod. 32:19--He saw the calf and the dancing, and Moses’ anger waxed hot, &c.

=Delay.= Gen. 19:17--Look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, etc.

=Delay, The Tragedy of.= Jer. 8:20--The harvest is past, &c.

=Demonstration.= John 7:51--Doth our law judge any man before it hear him, and know what he doeth.

=Depravity.= Isa. 1:18--Tho your sins be as scarlet, &c.

=Deprivation.= Isa. 59:9--We wait for light, but behold obscurity, &c.

=Depth of Resources.= Ezek. 34:18--To have drunk of the deep waters.

=Design in Nature.= Psalm 94:9--He that planted the ear, &c.

=Destiny.= Col. 3:1--Seek those things which are above, &c.

=Devices, Fatal.= Josh. 23:13--They shall be snares and traps unto you.

=Devil, The Chosen.= Judges 10:14--Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

=Direction.= Luke 9:51--He stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.

=Directions.= Psalm 119:105--Thy word is a lamp, &c.

=Directions Contrasted.= Isa. 53:9--He made his grave with the wicked, &c.

=Disappointment.= Isa. 49:4--I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought.

=Discipline.= Rev. 3:19--As many as I love ... I chasten.

=Discipline from Change.= Psalm 55:19--Because they have no changes, &c.

=Discontent, Divine.= Phil. 3:13, 14--Brethren, I count not myself, &c.

=Disease, Beneficial.= Psalm 119:67--Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word.

=Disguised Danger.= Matt. 7:15--False prophets ... in sheep’s clothing ... inwardly ravening wolves.

=Dishonesty.= Matt. 16:24, 25--Then said Jesus unto his disciples, &c.

=Divinity.= Acts 17:28--For in him we live and move and have our being, &c.

=Dominant Elements.= 1 Cor. 12:6--There are diversities of gifts.

=Doubt, Issuing in Peace.= Gen. 45:27--And when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.

=Dreams.= Eccl. 3:11--He hath set the world (eternity) in their hearts, &c.

=Drink, Heritage of.= Exod. 20:5--Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, &c.

=Drink, Peril of.= Prov. 20:1--Wine is a mocker, strong drink, &c.

=Duality.= Rom. 7:23--But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind.

=Duty in Death.= Rev. 2:10--Be thou faithful unto death, &c.

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=Early Promise.= Gal. 5:7--Ye did run well, &c.

=Early Religion.= Eccl. 12:1--Remember now thy Creator, &c.

=Earnestness.= Rev. 3:16--Neither cold nor hot; 1 Cor. 9:25--They ... for a corruptible crown ... we for an incorruptible.

=Eating and Character.= Phil. 3:19--Whose god is their belly.

=Economic Motives.= 1 Chron. 22:15--Moreover there were workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers in stone, &c.

=Economy.= Heb. 13:5--Be content with such things as ye have.

=Economy in Work.= Eccl. 12:11--As nails fastened by the master, &c.

=Economy of Energy.= Hosea 7:9--Strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not.

=Economy of Natural Resources.= Gen. 8:22--While the earth remaineth, seed time, and harvest, &c.

=Effacement of Sins.= Ps. 51:1--Blot out my transgressions; Ps. 51:9--Blot out all my iniquities.

=Egoism.= Gen. 4:9--Am I my brother’s keeper?

=Elect, The.= Rom. 8:29--For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate, &c.

=Elevation.= Deut. 34:1--And Moses went up from the plains of Noah unto the mountain of Nebo to the top of Pisgah; Isa. 40:9--Get thee up into the high mountain, Jerusalem that bringest good tidings, &c.

=Elevation and Vision.= Psalm 121:1--I will lift up mine eyes, &c.

=Emergency.= 1 Sam. 21:8--The king’s business requireth haste.

=Encouragement.= Eccl. 9:10--Whatsoever thy hand findeth, &c.; 2 Tim. 2:1--Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

=Endeavor.= 1 Pet. 3:13--Who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good.

=Endeavor, Constant.= 1 Cor. 9:25--And every man that striveth for the mastery, &c.

=Endurance.= Matt. 10:22--He that endureth to the end, &c.

=Endurance of Pain.= Heb. 13:6--I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

=Enemies Converted.= Rom. 12:20--In so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

=Enticement.= Prov. 1:10--If sinners entice thee consent thou not.

=Environment, Destructive.= 1 Cor. 5:6--Your glorying is not good, &c.

=Environment that Transforms.= Rom. 12:2--And be not conformed to this world, &c.

=Envy.= 1 Cor. 13:4--Charity envieth not.

=Equalization.= Lev. 27:8--According to his ability shall the priest value him.

=Ethical Principle.= John 7:17--If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, &c.

=Evangelization.= Mark 16:15--And he said unto them, Go ye, &c.

=Evaporation.= Psalm 63:1--O God ... early will I seek thee, &c.

=Evidence, Christian.= Matt. 7:21--Not every one that saith, Lord, Lord, shall enter, &c.

=Evil Beginnings.= Prov. 16:25--There is a way that seemeth good, &c.

=Evil Deflected.= 1 Peter 3:13--Who is he that will harm you, &c.

=Evil Disguised.= Matt. 23:27--Ye are like unto whited sepulchers, &c.

=Evil Self-Destructive.= Psalm 7:16--His mischief shall return upon his own head.

=Evil, Virulency of.= Rom. 5:12--Wherefore as by one man, &c.

=Example.= Gal. 6:2--Bear ye one another’s burdens, &c.; Heb. 6:12--Followers of them who through faith, &c.

=Example, Attention to.= Psalm 123:2--Behold, as the eyes of servants, &c.

=Exclusion from Heaven.= Matt. 25:10--And the door was shut.

=Excuses.= Luke 14:15–24--Began to make excuse, &c.

=Experience.= Matt. 7:35--Cast out the beam in thine own eyes, &c.

=Experience a Hard Teacher.= Matt. 23:3--Whatsoever they bid you observe, &c.

=Experience the Best Argument.= 2 Tim. 1:12--I know whom I have believed, &c.

=Experience, Value of.= Matt. 15:14--If the blind lead the blind, &c.

=Experiment.= Psalm 64:6--They accomplish a diligent search ... and the heart is deep; 1 Cor. 3:10--I have laid the foundation, another buildeth thereon; John 4:37--One soweth, another reapeth.

=Exposure.= Prov. 28:13--He that covereth his sins, &c.

=Extravagance, Censurable.= Job 27:19--The rich man shall lie down, &c.; Prov. 22:27--The rich ruleth over the poor, &c.

=Eye, The Searching.= Gen. 16:13--Thou God seest me.

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=Face, The, Revealing the Gospel.= Eccl. 8:1--A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, &c.

=Facts, Religious.= 2 Tim. 4:3--For the time will come, &c.

=Failure Transformed to Success.= Isa. 45:2--I will go before thee, &c.

=Faith.= Psalm 30:5--Weeping may endurefor a night, &c.; Heb. 11:1--Faith ... substance of things hoped for, &c.; Luke 12:24--Consider the ravens.... God feedeth them, &c.; Micah, 7:8--When I fall, I shall arise, &c.

=Faith, A Child’s.= Luke 18:17--Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom as a little child, &c.

=Faith and Power.= Acts 6:8--Full of faith and power, &c.

=Faith and Prayer.= Matt. 7:11--If ye then, being evil, &c.

=Faith and Support.= Matt. 10:9, 10--Provide neither gold nor silver, &c.

=Faith Better Than Sight.= 1 Cor. 5:7--We walk by faith not by sight.

=Faith Taught by Nature.= Psalm 147:9--He giveth ... food to the ravens, &c.; Matt. 6:30--If God so clothe the grass of the field, &c.

=Faith without Works.= James 2:17--Faith if it have not work, &c.

=Faithfulness.= 1 Cor. 4:2--Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

=Faithfulness unto Death.= 2 Tim 4:7--I have kept the faith.

=Falsehood.= Gal. 2:13--Other Jews dissembled likewise with him.

=Falsity, Inner.= Matt. 15:18--Those things ... come forth from the heart, &c.

=Family Religion.= Prov. 22:6--Train up a child in the way he should go, &c.

=Fasting.= Matt. 6:16--When ye fast be not as the hypocrites, &c.

=Father Animals, Unparental.= Psalm 27:10--When my father and mother forsake me, &c.

=Fatherhood.= Luke 15:20--When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, &c.

=Father’s Voice.= Luke 15:18--I will arise and go to my father.

=Fear as a Motive.= Eccl. 12:13--Fear God.

=Fear of God.= Eccl. 12:14--Fear God, &c.

=Fear of Man.= Jude 16--Having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

=Fertility.= John 12:24--Except a corn of wheat, &c.

=Fire, Cost of.= 1 Cor. 3:13--The fire shall try every man’s work.

=Fire, Heavenly.= Jer. 23:29--Is not my word like as a fire, &c.

=Fishers of Men.= Matt. 4:19--Follow me ... fishers of men; Luke 5:10--From henceforth thou shalt catch men.

=Flowers, Meanings of.= Matt. 6:28--Consider the lilies of the field, &c.

=Focusing the Eye.= Matt. 6:21--For where your treasure is, &c.

=Following Christ.= John 2:5--Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it; John 15:14--Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.

=Following, Inexact.= Matt. 7:14--Strait is the gate, &c.; James 2:10--Keep the whole law ... offend in one point, &c.

=Forbearance.= John 8:10, 11--When Jesus had lifted up himself, &c.; Rom. 12:17--Recompense to no man evil for evil.

=Forgiveness.= Matt. 6:14, 15--If ye forgive not, &c.

=Forgiveness, Conditions of.= Matt. 3:8--Fruits meet for repentance.

=Form versus Reality.= 2 Tim. 3:5--Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.

=Foundations.= 1 Tim. 6:16--If the foundations be destroyed, &c.; 1 Tim. 6:19--A good foundation; 1 Cor. 3:11--Other foundations can no man lay.

=Freedom Chosen.= Gal. 5:1--Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made you free.

=Freedom of Soul.= John 8:32--Truth shall make you free.

=Friendliness.= John 15:15--I have called you friends.

=Friends, Choice of.= Prov. 13:20--He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, &c.

=Fruit and Soil.= Mark 4:5--Fell on stony ground, &c.

=Fruit-bearing.= Luke 6:44--Every tree is known by his own fruit.

=Fruitfulness.= Psalm 1:3--Like a tree planted by the river, &c.

=Future Life.= 1 John 3:2--It doth not yet appear what we shall be; 1 Cor. 13:12--For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face, &c.

=Future Welfare.= Jer. 31:34--And they shall teach no more, &c.

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=Gain through Loss.= 2 Cor. 4:17--Our light affliction which is but for a moment, &c.

=Generosity.= Prov. 11:24--There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, &c.; Acts 20:35--It is more blessed to give than to receive; Heb. 13:16--But to do good and to communicate, forget not, &c.

=Generosity, Christian.= Matt. 25:40--Inasmuch as ye have done it, &c.

=Genius Can Not Be Hidden.= Isa. 58:10--Then shall thy light rise in obscurity, &c.

=Genius, Discovering.= John 1:41, 42--He first findeth his own brother, &c.

=Genius versus Tools.= Mark 9:28--Why could not we cast him out, &c.

=Getting and Giving.= Matt. 10:8--Freely ye have received, freely give.

=Giants.= 2 Sam. 22:36--Thy gentleness hath made me great.

=Giving Faithful.= Mal. 3:10--Bring tithes into the storehouse, &c.

=Giving through Love.= Luke 7:37, 38--Alabaster box of ointment, &c.

=Glory of Christ.= 2 Peter 3:18--To him be glory, &c.

=God, Greatness and Smallness.= Isa. 57:15--I dwell in the high and holy place.

=God, Immanence of.= Psalm 19:1–3--The heavens declare the glory of God, &c.

=God, Living for.= Rom. 11:36--Of him, through him, and to him all things.

=God our Strength.= Psalm 50:15--Call upon me in the day of trouble, &c.; Job. 5:19--He shall deliver thee in six troubles, &c.

=God Revealed in Nature.= Psalm 19--The heavens declare, &c.

=God Sends Gifts.= James 1:17--Every good and every perfect gift is from, &c.

=God, Sleepless Care of.= Psalm 4:8--In peace will I both lay me down and sleep.

=God Surrounding the Soul.= Acts 17:28--In Him we live and move and have our being.

=God, the Unsleeping.= Psalm 121:4--He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber, &c.

=Godlikeness of Man.= Psalm 139:17--How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God.

=God’s Care.= Deut. 33:27--Underneath are the everlasting arms.

=God’s Inscrutability.= Rom. 11:33--O, the depth of the riches, &c.

=Golden Age, the.= 2 Cor. 6:2--Now is the accepted time.

=Good for Evil.= 1 Peter 3:9--Not rendering evil for evil.

=Good in all Men.= Luke 19:10--For the son of man is come, &c.

=Good, Nourishing the.= Psalm 55:13--Instead of briar shall come up, &c.

=Good Out of Evil.= Gen. 50:20--Ye thought evil ... God meant it unto good, &c.

=Good Shall Prevail.= 1 Cor. 15:25--He must reign until, &c.

=Good Will.= Isa. 11:6. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, &c.

=Goodness from God.= James 1:17--Every good and every perfect gift is from above, &c.

=Gospel, a Medicated.= Jer. 8:22--Is there no balm in Gilead?

=Grace, not Growth.= Eph. 2:8--By grace ye are saved, &c.

=Gravity.= Eccl. 7:4--The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

=Greatness Called Forth.= Isa. 43:10--My servant whom I have chosen.

=Greatness in Men.= Gen. 6:4--The same became mighty men which were of old men of renown.

=Greatness Serving.= John 13:4, 5--Took a towel and girded himself, &c.

=Greed.= Matt. 25:40--Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

=Grief, Revealed.= Gen. 43:31--And he washed his face, and went out and refrained himself.

=Growing too Fast.= Isa. 3:4--I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

=Growth, Cause of.= John 3:5--Jesus answered, Verily, verily, &c.

=Growth, Evil.= 2 Tim. 3:13--Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, &c.

=Growth, Unconscious.= Matt. 13:31, 32--Another parable put he forth, &c.

=Guidance, God’s.= Psalm 73:24--Thou shalt guide me, &c.

=Guidance Evilward.= Eph. 6:11--The wiles of the devil.

=Guilt.= Job. 20:27--The heaven shall reveal his iniquity, &c.

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=Habit, the Power of.= Eccl. 2:20--Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.

=Happiness, Dearth of.= Isa. 48:22. No peace ... to the wicked.

=Happiness, Imparting.= Acts 20:35--More blessed to give than to receive.

=Hardness of Heart.= Ezek. 11:19--I will take the stony heart out of their flesh.

=Hardship, Missionary.= 2 Tim. 2:3--Endure hardness, &c.

=Hardship Vicariously Borne.= Matt. 8:17--Himself took our infirmities and bare our sickness.

=Harvest from Early Sowing.= Eccl. 11:1--Cast thy bread upon the waters, &c.

=Havoc that Spreads.= 1 Cor. 12:26--Whether one member suffer all the members suffer with it.

=Headwork.= Eccl. 9:10--Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, &c.

=Health, Economics, of.= Isa. 55:2--Eat ye that which is good, &c.

=Heart Interest.= Rom. 10:10--With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, &c.

=Heart, The.= Rom. 10:10--With the heart man believeth, &c.

=Healing Waters.= Psalm 46:4--A river, the streams whereof shall make glad, &c.

=Heaven our Home.= Heb. 13:14--For here we have no continuing city.

=Heights, Pressing toward.= Psalm 121:1--I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, &c.

=Help for the Helpless.= Matt. 11:28-30--Come unto me, &c.

=Helpfulness.= Rom. 12:13--Distributing to the necessity of saints, &c.; Luke 21:1, 2--Casting in two mites.

=Heredity.= Jer. 31:29, 30--The fathers have eaten sour grapes, &c.

=Heroism.= Acts 17:26--And hath made of one blood, &c.

=Higher, the.= Mark 10:29. There is no man that hath left house, &c.

=Higher Law, the.= Esther 4:16--I will go in unto the king, &c.

=Homage.= Phil. 2:9--That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, &c.

=Homage to Christ.= Rev. 4:10--Cast their crowns, &c.

=Home.= Hab. 2:5--He is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, &c.

=Home where the Heart is.= Eph. 1:14--Which is the earnest of our inheritance, &c.; Heb. 13:14--For here we have no continuing city, &c.

=Homesickness.= 2 Cor. 5:4--For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, &c.

=Hope.= Rom. 8:24, 25--We are saved by hope, &c.

=Hope Deferred.= Prov. 13:12--Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

=Hospitality in Old Times.= Heb. 13:2--Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, &c.

=House, the Mortal.= 2 Cor. 5:1--For ye know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, &c.

=Human Nature, Insecurity of.= 2 Sam. 22:47--God the rock of my salvation.

=Human Nature, Much Alike.= Acts 17:26--Hath made of one blood, &c.

=Humble Work.= 1 Cor. 12:14-21--In the law it is written, &c.

=Humility.= 1 Peter 5:6--Humble yourself therefore under, &c.; Luke 18:14--He that humbleth himself, &c.; Luke 23:42--Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom, &c.; John 13:–15--Began to wash the disciples’ feet.

=Humor Overdone.= Prov. 17:22--A merry heart doeth good, &c.

=Hymn, A Good.= Matt. 11:28--Come unto me, all ye that labor, &c.

=Hypocrisy.= Numbers 32:23--Your sin will find you out.

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=Ideal, the, Attempted.= Isa. 11:9--Nor hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, &c.

=Identification.= John 10:3--He calleth his own sheep by name, &c.

=Idleness.= Eph. 5:16--Redeeming the time, &c.

=Ignorance.= Hosea 4:6--My people are destroyed, &c.; Psalm 55:22--Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.

=Ill-fortune Becoming Good Fortune.= Deut. 28:13--And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail, &c.

=Image of God Reproduced.= 2 Cor. 3:10--Changed into the same image, &c.

=Imagery of the Mind.= Ezek. 8:12--Every man in the chambers of his imagery, &c.

=Imagination, Lure of.= James 1:14--Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lusts, &c.

=Imitation.= 2 Cor. 3:18--Changed into the same image, &c.

=Imitation of God.= Matt. 5:45--That ye may be the children, &c.

=Immigration.= Matt. 25:35–38, 43--For I was an hungered, &c.

=Immortality.= Isa. 26:19--Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise; Prov. 16:31--The hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.

=Immortality, Intimations of.= John 14:3--And if I go and prepare a place for you, &c.

=Immortality of Influence.= Heb. 11:4--He being dead yet speaketh.

=Immortality, Proof of.= Rom. 2:7--To them who ... seek for ... immortality, eternal life.

=Imperfections Corrected.= Eph. 2:21--In whom the whole building fitly framed together, &c.

=Impress.= Prov. 22:6--Train up a child in the way he should go, &c.

=Improvement.= Psalm 112:2--His seed shall be mighty upon earth; the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.

=Improving Time.= Eph. 5:16--Redeeming the time.

=Incentives.= Matt. 7:14--Strait is the gate, &c.

=Incitement.= 2 Kings 19:14--And Hezekiah received the letter ... and spread it before the Lord.

=Inconsistency.= Matt. 23:3--They say, and do not.

=Indecision.= Luke 18:8--When the son of man cometh shall he find faith, &c.

=Individual, Value of the.= Eccl. 9:10--Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, &c.

=Individuality.= John 2:24, 25--Jesus ... knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man.

=Individuality in Interpretation.= 2 Pet. 1:20--No prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation, &c.

=Individuals, God’s Care over.= Matt. 18:12--If a man have a hundred sheep, &c.

=Industry of Bees.= Prov. 6:6--Go to the ant, thou sluggard, &c.

=Infidelity Repulsive.= Psalm 14:1--The fool hath said in his heart, &c.

=Influence, Corrupt.= 1 Sam. 8:3--And his sons ... turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

=Influence, Posthumous.= Heb. 11:4--He, being dead, yet speaketh.

=Injury to Self.= 1 Pet. 3:13--Who is he that will harm you, &c.

=Inoculation.= Heb. 10:16--I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, &c.

=Insensitiveness to Beauty.= Matt. 13:14, 15--And in them is fulfilled the prophecy, &c.

=Instinct.= Prov. 30:18–19--Three things too wonderful for me, &c.

=Instinct, The Homing.= Isa. 35:10--The ransomed of the Lord shall return, &c.

=Intelligence, Animal.= Jer. 8:7--Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times and the turtle and the crane and the swallow, &c.

=Intelligence Outdoing Ignorance.= 1 Kings 18:21--If the Lord be God follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.

=Intemperance.= Prov. 23:31--Wine ... when it giveth its color in the cup, &c.; Prov. 23:21--For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.

=Intimacy with Christ.= John 15:4--Abide in me, &c.

=Investment, Safe.= Matt. 6:19--Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, &c.

=Invisible, Potency of the.= Rom. 1:20--The invisible things of him from the creation, &c.

=Invisible, The, Made Visible.= Rom. 1:20--The invisible things of him from the creation, &c.

=Irrational Laws.= Prov. 22:22--Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate.

=Irrigation.= Isa. 32:2--As rivers of water in a dry place.

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=Jesus, Second Coming of.= Matt. 24:42--Watch therefore for ye know not, &c.

=Journey to Heaven.= Heb. 11:16--But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly.

=Joy.= Phil. 4:4--Again I say, rejoice.

=Joy and Sorrow.= 2 Cor. 6:10--As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.

=Judging, Care in.= John 7:24--Judge not according to appearances, &c.

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=Knowledge through Experience.= 2 Cor. 4:13--We having the same spirit of faith, &c.; Luke 5:30--But their scribes and Pharisees murmured, &c.

=Knowledge, Unity of.= Colos. 1:17--By him all things consist (stand together).

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=Labor, Opportunity for.= John 4:35--Fields ... White already to harvest.

=Laughter.= Eccl. 3:4--A time to weep and a time to laugh.

=Laughter, Value of.= Prov. 17:22--A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; Gen. 21:6--God hath made me to laugh.

=Law and Grace.= Rom. 8:3--For what the law could not do, &c.

=Lawlessness.= Matt. 26:52--All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

=Leadership, Faithful.= Phil. 3:17--Walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

=Lethargy.= 2 Pet. 1:5--Giving all diligence, add to faith virtue, &c.

=Leveling.= Luke 1:52--He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

=Liberty, Spiritual.= Rom. 8:21--Because the creature itself, &c.

=Life, a Voyage.= Psalm 107:30--So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

=Life, Feeding the.= 1 Cor. 3:21--All things are yours.

=Life from Death.= Job 38:22--Treasures of the snow, &c.

=Life Learned from Death.= 1 John 3:14--We know that we have passed from death unto life, because, &c.

=Life, Origin of.= Gen. 1:2--And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

=Life Purpose.= Matt. 5:48--Be ye therefore perfect, &c.; Rev. 13:10--The patience and faith of the saints.

=Life, Self-propagating.= Matt. 13:33--Another parable spake he unto them, &c.

=Life, Spending.= Matt. 6:20--Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

=Life, Value of.= Eccl. 12:8--Vanity of Vanities, &c.

=Life What We make It.= Prov. 23:7--For as he thinketh in his heart, &c.

=Light.= John 3:20--For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved; Matt. 5:16--Let your light so shine before men, &c.; Matt. 5:6--Let your light so shine, &c.

=Light after Night.= Psalm 30:5--Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

=Light and activity.= Dan. 12:3--They that be wise shall shine, &c.

=Light as a Cure.= 1 John 1:7--If we walk in the light, &c.

=Light, Christian.= Matt. 5:14--Ye are the light, &c.

=Light Developing Beauty.= Psalm 36:9--In thy light shall we see light.

=Light of the World.= John 8:12--I am the light of the world.

=Light Preventing Crime.= John 3:20--Neither cometh to the light lest, &c.

=Light, Source of.= 1 John 1:5--God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

=Light that Cheers.= Matt. 5:16--Let your light so shine, &c.

=Limitation of the Senses.= 1 Cor. 2:9--Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard ... the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

=Little Things.= Song of Sol. 2:15--Little foxes, &c.; Luke 19:10--Faithful in that which is least, &c.

=Lives that Shine.= Prov. 4:18--But the path of the just, &c.

=Locusts as Food.= Matt. 3:4--His meat was locusts, &c.

=Longevity, Recipes for.= Exod. 20:12--That thy days may be long, &c.; Prov. 3:1, 2--Length of days, and long life, &c.

=Looking up.= Psalm 121:1--I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, &c.

=Loss, Gain in.= Phil. 3:8--I count all things but loss for the excellency, &c.

=Lost Chords.= Psalm 143:5--I remember the days of old.

=Lost, Finding the.= Luke 15:20--But when he was yet a great way off, &c.

=Lost, Seeking the.= Luke 19:10--To seek and to save that which was lost, &c.; Luke 15:4--What man of you having a hundred sheep, &c.

=Love.= 1 Peter 2:17--Love the brotherhood.

=Love a Finality.= 1 Cor. 13:13--But now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity.

=Love Driving Out Fear.= 1 John 4:18--Fear hath torment, &c.

=Love in Man.= 1 John 4:7--Love is of God.

=Love Indestructible.= 1 Cor. 13:8--Charity (love) never faileth.

=Love of Christ.= Heb. 2:14--Forasmuch then as the children are partakers, &c.

=Love, Practical.= Mark 12:30--Thou shalt love ... with all thy heart, &c.

=Love, Preservative.= 2 Cor. 2:14--Now thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.

=Love’s Acceptable Offering.= Gen. 4:3–5--And in process of time it came to pass, &c.

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=Magnanimity.= Prov. 24:17--Rejoice not when thine enemy faileth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth.

=Make-believe.= Rom. 6:11--Likewise reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin.

=Man as a Temple.= 1 Cor. 3:16--Ye are the temple of God.

=Man, Value of a.= Gen. 19:1--And there came two angels to Sodom, &c.

=Manhood.= Jer. 5:1--Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now.... If ye can find a man, &c.

=Manhood Recognized.= Matt. 10:6-15, 24--Lost sheep, &c.

=Manliness.= 1 Cor. 16:13--Quit you like men, be strong.

=Man’s Size.= Ps. 8:4--What is man that thou art mindful of him? &c.

=Margins of Life.= 2 Peter 1:5--Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, &c.

=Marking Time.= Exodus 14:15--Speak unto the children of Israel that they may go forward.

=Marks, Covering.= Prov. 28:13--He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, &c.

=Master Mind, The.= Phil. 2:5--Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.

=Mastery of Nature.= Ps. 8:6–8--Thou madest him to have dominion, &c.

=Mean, The Golden.= 1 Cor. 10:13--Who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, &c.

=Measure for Measure.= Matt. 7:10--With what measure ye mete, &c.

=Measurement.= 2 Chron. 16:9--For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, &c.

=Mediation.= Eph. 4:32--Even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

=Memory.= Ps. 119:52--I remember thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.

=Mercy, Limitation of.= Isa. 55:6--Seek ye the Lord, &c.

=Message, A Welcome.= Gen. 8:11--The dove came to him, &c.

=Methods in Religion.= John 10:16--And other sheep I have which are not of this fold, &c.

=Ministry, Difficulties of the.= Acts 2:23–37--Him being delivered, &c.

=Mind-healing.= Ps. 19:7–10--The law of the Lord is perfect, &c.

=Miracles, Evidential Value of.= Ps. 107:35--He turneth dry ground into water springs.

=Misery Exciting Sympathy.= Acts 17:16--His spirit was stirred in him, &c.

=Misfortune, Superiority To.= Acts 20:24--But none of these move me, &c.

=Mission Fruit.= Acts 4:13--And they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus.

=Missionary Martyrdom.= Acts 20:29--Neither count I my life dear unto myself.

=Missionary Results.= Mark 4:9--He that hath ears ... let him hear.

=Models.= Eph. 4:13--Unto a perfect man, unto the measure, &c.

=Modernity.= Isaiah 41:1--Keep silence before me, O islands, and let the people renew their strength, &c.

=Modesty.= Luke 14:10, 11--But when thou art bidden, &c.

=Mortality Resisted.= Hosea 7:9--Gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth it not.

=Motherhood in Animals.= Deut. 32:11--As an eagle stirreth up her nest, &c.

=Mother Love in Birds.= Deut. 32:11--As the eagle ... fluttereth over her young.

=Motive, Mercenary.= Matt. 6:16--They have their reward.

=Music of Nature.= Ps. 19--Night unto night showeth knowledge; Job 38:7--Morning stars sang together, &c.

=Music Reflects the Soul.= Ps. 137:4--How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?

=Mutation.= 1 Cor. 7:31--... For the fashion of this world passeth away.

=Mutualism.= Rom. 1:14--I am debtor, &c.

=Myself.= Ps. 8:4--What is man that thou art mindful of him? &c.

=Mystery in Nature.= Job 11:7--Canst thou by searching find out God?

=Mystery No Bar to Belief.= John 20:29--Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.

=Mystery, Value of.= Ps. 2:4--If thou seek her and silver, and searchest for as for hid treasure.

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=Names, Enduring.= Acts 4:12--None other name under heaven, &c.; Phil. 2:9--Name that is above every name.

=Nature, Dual in Man.= Rom. 7:21--When I would do good evil is present.

=Negative Teaching.= Gal. 5:14--For all the law is fulfilled, &c.

=Neglect of Opportunity.= Eph. 5:16--Redeeming the time, &c.

=Nervousness.= 1 Pet. 5:7--Casting all our care on him, &c.

=New and Old.= Eccl. 1:9--No new thing under the sun.

=New, Appetency for the.= Col. 3:9, 10--Seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man.

=New Birth.= 2 Cor. 5:17--If any man be in Christ ... all things are become new.

=New Faiths.= 2 Cor. 5:17--All things are become new.

=Night, God’s Presence in the.= Ps. 4:8--I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou Lord, &c.

=Note, A False.= Job. 19:4--I have erred, &c.

=Notoriety.= Matt. 6:2--That they may have glory of men, &c.

=Nourishment from beneath.= Ps. 1:3--Like a tree planted by the rivers of water, &c.

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=Oases.= Isa. 41:18--I will make ... dry land ... springs of water, &c.

=Obedience.= Eph. 6:1--Children obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

=Obedience in Spirit.= 2 Cor. 3:6--The letter killeth, &c.

=Obligation to the Church.= Phil. 2:12--Work out your own salvation, &c.

=Offerings Extravagant.= Ps. 4:5--Offer the sacrifices of righteousness; Ps. 116:17--I will offer sacrifices of thanksgiving; Exod. 30:9--Offer no strong incense.

=Old Age Incurable.= Ps. 103:5--Thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s; Ps. 90:10--The days of our years are threescore and ten, &c.

=Old, Encouragement to the.= Joel 2:28--Your old men shall dream dreams.

=Old-year Memories.= (=Past, Forgetting the=). Phil. 3:13--Forgetting those things that are behind.

=Omniscience.= Luke 8:17--For nothing is sacred that shall not be made manifest.

=One, Winning.= Zach. 4:10.--Who hath dispersed the day of small things.

=Opportunity.= Eph. 5:16--Redeeming the time.

=Optimism.= Ps. 103:2--Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

=Organizing for Work.= Eph. 4:16--The whole body fitly joined together.

=Ostentation.= Matt. 6:2--Do not sound a trumpet before thee, &c.

=Others, Consideration for.= Phil. 2:4--Look ... every man also on things of others.

=Overplus of Duty.= Matt. 5:41--And whosoever shall compel thee, &c.

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=Pain, the Angel of.= 2 Cor. 12:9--Glory in my infirmities.

=Painstaking.= Isa. 28:16--Therefore thus saith the Lord God, &c.

=Palliatives versus Prevention.= Prov. 22:15--Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it from him.

=Panic Through Fear.= Ps. 53:5--There were they in great fear, where no fear was.

=Parenthood in Savages.= Ps. 27:10--When my father and my mother forsake me, &c.

=Partiality.= Prov. 3:5--Lean not unto thine own understanding.

=Passion, Growth of.= Col. 3:5--Mortify therefore your members, &c.; Matt. 17:20--And Jesus said unto them, &c.

=Patience.= Ps. 37:6--He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, &c.

=Patriotism.= 2 Tim. 4:2--Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.

=Patriotism, Disinterested.= 1 Sam. 12:23--Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin, &c.

=Pattern, The Divine.= Heb. 12:2--Looking into Jesus.

=Peace.= Is. 9:6--... His name shall be called the Prince of Peace.

=Pedigree.= Heb. 1:12--Thou art the same and thy years shall not fail.

=Perishableness.= Heb. 1:11, 12--And thy years shall not fail.

=Permanent, The.= 1 Cor. 3:13--Fire shall try every man’s work, &c.

=Permanency.= Matt. 24:25--Heaven and earth shall pass away, &c.

=Perseverance.= Gal. 6:9--Let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not; John 8:29--The Father hath not left me alone; Matt. 18:20--Where two or three, &c.

=Persistence.= Gal. 6:9--And let us not be weary in well-doing, &c.

=Persistence in Missionaries.= Gal. 6:9--Let us not be weary in well-doing, &c.

=Personal Element, The.= Matt. 17:18, 19--Why could not we cast him out?

=Personal Evangelism.= Jas. 5:20--He that converteth the sinner ... shall snatch a soul from death.

=Philanthropy.= Mark 2:17--I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

=Picturesque.= Matt. 13:35--I will open my mouth in parables.

=Pilgrim, The.= Jer. 9:2--A lodging place for wayfaring men.

=Place, Filling One’s.= 1 Cor. 12:12–22--For the body is one, &c.

=Play Necessary.= Zach. 8:5--The streets ... shall be full of boys and girls playing, &c.

=Point of View.= 1 Cor. 3:13--Every man’s work shall be made manifest.

=Politeness.= Prov. 22:6--Train up a child, &c.

=Post-mortem consequences.= I Tim. 5:24, 25--Some men’s sins are open-beforehand, going before to judgment, and some men they follow after, &c.

=Poverty.= Ps. 107:41--Yet setteth he the poor on high.

=Poverty, Christian.= 2 Cor. 6:10--As poor yet making many rich, &c.

=Power in Self-repression.= Exod. 34:7--Keeping mercy for thousands, &c.; Num. 14:18--The Lord is long suffering, &c.

=Power through Union with God.= Eph. 4:6--Strong in the Lord, &c.

=Practical, the.= 1 Cor. 4:12--And labor, working with our own hands.

=Practise.= Hebs. 5:14--By reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil; 2 Peter 1:10--Give diligence to make your calling and election sure.

=Praise.= Ps. 34:1--His praise shall be continually in my mouth, &c.

=Praise-spirit, The.= Job 13:15--Tho he slay me, &c.

=Prayer.= Jude 20--Prayer in the Holy Ghost.

=Prayer and Effort.= Jas. 2:26--Faith without works is dead.

=Prayer for Others.= Jer. 31:13--I will turn their mourning into joy.

=Prayer in Secret.= Matt. 6:6--But thou when thou prayest, &c.

=Prayer, The Call to.= Matt. 6:7--Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do.

=Prayers, Views of.= Matt. 6:6--But thou when thou prayest, &c.

=Preaching the Word.= 2 Tim. 4:2--Preach the word.

=Precaution.= Joshua 11:15--He left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.

=Preparation.= Prov. 16:1--The preparations of the heart.

=Presence of God.= Ps. 24:3, 4--He that hath clean hands and a pure, &c.

=Presences Unrecognized.= Heb. 1:14--Are they not all ministering spirits.

=Pride.= Prov. 16:18–29:23--Pride goeth before destruction, &c.

=Pride in One’s Task.= Ps. 40:8--I delight to do thy will, O my God.

=Principle.= Daniel 3:18--But if not, &c.

=Prison Literature.= 1 Pet. 3:19--By which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison.

=Privilege.= Acts 10:34--God is no respecter of persons.

=Prodigal, The.= Luke 15:20--Ran and fell on his neck and kissed him, &c.; Ps. 27:10--When my father and mother forsake, &c.

=Profession versus Character.= Matt. 7:21--Not every one that saith Lord, Lord, &c.

=Professionalism.= Judges 16:20--I will go out as at other times before ... and he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.

=Progress, Modern.= Eccl. 7:10--Say thou not, what is the cause that the former days were better than these, &c.

=Promised Land, The.= Exod. 13:5--He sware unto thy fathers to give thee a land flowing with milk and honey.

=Promises.= 2 Peter 1:4--Grace and peace be multiplied, &c.; Luke 6:38--Give and it shall be given unto you, &c.

=Promises, Implied.= Luke 6:38--Give and it shall be given unto you, &c.

=Proof.= 1 Peter. 3:15--Always ready ... to give a reason for this hope that is in you.

=Proof by Experience.= 1 Kings 3:16–28--Then came there two women, &c.

=Proper Nutrition.= Isa. 55:1--Every one that thirsteth, &c.

=Prophecy.= Eccl. 8:7--For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be.

=Protection.= Jonah 4:6--And the Lord prepared a gourd and made it to come up over Jonah, &c.; Josh. 6:12–16--And Joshua rose early, &c.; Eph. 6:16--Above all, taking the shield of faith.

=Protection, Unseen.= 2 Kings 6:17--Open his eyes that he may see.

=Provocation, Silence Under.= Ps. 39:1--I will keep my mouth with a bridle.

=Pruning to Destroy.= Matt. 5:30--If thy right hand offend thee, &c.

=Punctiliousness.= Matt. 23:24--Strain out a gnat, &c.; Esther 4:11--Whosoever whether man or woman shall come unto the king ... who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, &c.

=Punishment, Profitable.= Ps. 119:71--It is good for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy statutes.

=Purity.= Ps. 51:7--Wash me ... whiter than snow.; James 1:27--Unspotted from the world.

=Purity of Associations.= Ps. 51:6, 7--Behold thou desirest truth, &c.

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=Quibbling.= James 2:10--Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, &c.

=Quickening.= Eph. 2:1--And you hath he quickened, &c.

=Quietness.= 1 Thess. 4:11--Study to be quiet; 1 Peter 3:4--Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.

=Quietness in Danger.= Isa. 30:13--In quietness and confidence, &c.

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=Race Loyalty.= 1 Cor. 9:27--But I keep under my body, &c.

=Reasonable Religion.= 1 Pet. 3:15--A season of the hope that is in you.

=Reasons.= Matt. 5:37--Let your communications be, &c.

=Reclamation.= Is. 35:1--The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; Jas. 5:20--Converteth a sinner from error, &c.

=Recognition by One’s Work.= Rev. 20:13--Any they were judged every man according to their works.

=Record, Keeping the.= Eccl. 12:14--God shall bring every work into judgment.

=Reflection, Imperfect.= Matt. 6:23--If the light in thee be darkness.

=Reformation.= Rom. 12:2--Be ye transformed, &c.

=Reformers, Erratic.= Jude 12--Carried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth; Eph. 4:14--Carried about with every wind of doctrine.

=Refreshing Springs.= Psalm 45:1--My heart is inditing (bubbleth up) a good matter.

=Rejection of Christ.= Matt. 19:22--But when the young man heard, &c.

=Religion, Allaying Fear.= Psalm 121:1--I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, &c.

=Religion, Family.= Gen. 18:19--For I know him that he will command his children, &c.

=Religion versus Business.= Matt. 6:25--Is not the life more than meat, &c.

=Reminders, Unpleasant.= Isa. 1:18--Tho your sins be as scarlet, &c.; Gal. 6:17--I bear on my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

=Renewal.= Ezek. 47:9--Everything shall live whither the river cometh, &c.

=Renewal, Spiritual.= Acts 2:1-4--Day of Pentecost, &c.

=Renovation.= Psalm 51:2--Cleanse me from my sins; Psalm 19:12--Cleanse thou me from secret faults.

=Renunciation, Complete.= Matt. 6:24--Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

=Repair of Character.= Isaiah 40:31--Shall renew their strength, &c.

=Repayment.= Joel 3:7--And will return your recompense upon your own head, &c.

=Repeated Effort.= Josh. 6:15--They compassed the city seven times.

=Repentance, Practical.= Matt. 3:8--Bring forth therefore fruits worth repentance, &c.

=Reputation.= Prov. 22:1--A good name is to be chosen, &c.

=Rescue.= Gen. 19:15–22--And when the morning arose, &c.

=Reservation.= Luke 18:29--There is no man that hath left house or parents, &c.

=Resignation.= Mark 7:37--He hath done all things well; Psalm 127:2--It is vain for you to rise up early, &c.

=Resolution.= Psalm 56:4--I will not fear, &c.

=Resources, Making the Best of.= Eccl. 9:10--Whatsoever thy hand findeth, &c.

=Resourcefulness.= Mark 2:4--And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was, &c.

=Responsibility.= Matt. 27:24--I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

=Restitution.= Ex. 22:3--For he should make full restitution.

=Restoration in Nature.= Psalm 119:64--The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy.

=Restoring God’s Image.= Gen. 2:27--God created man in his own image, &c.

=Restraint.= Jer. 14:10--Thus saith the Lord unto his people, &c.; Psalm 119:101--I have refrained my feet, &c.; Prov. 1:15--My son, walk not thou, &c.; Amos. 2:14--The strong shall not strengthen his, &c.

=Resurrection.= Heb. 11:4--He being dead yet speaketh, &c.

=Retardation.= Luke 2:52--And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

=Retribution in the Individual.= Rom. 2:6--Who will render to every man according to his deeds; Ezek. 18:4--The soul that sinneth, it shall die.

=Reverence for Parents.= Exod 20:12--Honor thy father and thy mother, &c.

=Revivals.= Matt. 14:23--He went up into a mountain apart to pray.

=Rewards, Spiritual.= Matt. 6:19--Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, &c.

=Riches, Imaginary.= Prov. 4:7--Wisdom is the principal thing, &c.

=Riches, Unrealized.= Eph. 1:18--Riches of his glory, &c.

=Right, Triumphs of.= Gal. 6:9--Be not weary in well-doing, &c.

=Right versus Expediency.= Daniel 3--We are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

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=Sabbath-breaking Rebuked.= Exod. 20:8--Remember the Sabbath day, &c.

=Sabbath, Observing the.= Mark 2:27--Sabbath was made for man, &c.; Exod. 20:8--Remember the Sabbath day, &c.; Exod. 20:8--Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

=Sacrifice.= Isa. 53:5--But he was wounded, &c.; John 15:13--Greater love hath no man than this, &c.

=Sacrifice, Filial.= Rev. 7:14--These are they that come out of great tribulations, &c.

=Sacrifice of Our Best.= Rom. 5:6--While we were yet without strength, &c.

=Sacrifice, Vicarious.= Rom. 5:9--We shall be saved from wrath through him.

=Safety from Water-brooks.= Psalm 42:1--As the hart panteth for the water brooks, &c.

=Saved as by Fire.= 1 Cor. 3:15--He himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

=Scars of War Healed.= Isa. 55:13--Instead of the thorn, &c.; Isa. 2:4--Neither shall they learn war any more.

=Science, Devotion to.= Psalm 8:3, 4--When I consider thy heavens, &c.

=Scruples, Minute.= Mark 7:8--For laying aside the commandments of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups, &c.

=Secret Things.= Deut 29:29--Secret things belong unto the Lord, &c.

=Secrets.= Deut. 29:29--Secret things belong unto the Lord, &c.

=Seeing, The Art of.= Mark 8:18--Having eyes, see ye not, &c.

=Seeking and Finding.= Matt. 7:21--Not everyone that saith unto me, &c.

=Self-confidence.= Gal. 1:10--For do I now please men?

=Self-consciousness.= Luke 2:49--Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?

=Self-control.= Prov. 16:32--He that is slow to anger, &c.

=Self-depreciation.= Rom. 12:3--Not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think.

=Self-effacement.= Rom. 12:3--Not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think.

=Self-flattery.= Prov. 27:2--Let another man praise thee, &c.

=Self, Forgetting.= Matt. 16:25--Whosoever will save his life, &c.

=Self-help.= Eccl. 11:6--Thou knowest not whether shall prosper, &c.

=Self-hidden.= Judges 7:16--Empty pitchers and lamps within the pitchers, &c.

=Self-limitations.= Isa. 54:2--Enlarge the place of thy tent, &c.

=Self-measurement.= Rom. 12:3--Not to think more highly of himself than he ought, &c.

=Self-sacrifice.= John 15:13--Greater love hath no man than this; 1 Tim. 2:5, 6--Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all.

=Selfishness.= Acts 20:35--It is more blessed to give than to receive.

=Selfishness Rebuked.= Phil. 2:4--Look not every man on his own things, &c.

=Sensitiveness.= Psalm 19:4--Their line is gone out through all the earth, &c.; 1 Sam. 25:3--But the man was churlish, &c.

=Sentiment Useless.= Jas. 2:16--And one of you say ... be ye warned, &c.

=Separation.= Isaiah 59:2--Your sins have separated between you and your God, &c.

=Serenity in Life.= 1 Peter 5:7--Casting all your care upon him, &c.

=Service.= Luke 2:49--Wist ye not, &c.; Matt. 20:28--The Son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister; Gal. 5:13--By love serve one another.

=Service and Sacrifice.= 1 John 3:16--We ought to lay down our lives, &c.

=Shame.= Jas. 1:23–24--A man beholding his natural face in the glass, &c.

=Shams.= Matt. 23:14--Ye devour widows’ houses and for pretense make long prayers, &c.; Matt. 23:27--Whited sepulchers; Matt. 10:26--There is nothing hid ... that shall not be made known.

=Shepherd, the Good.= John 10:1–16--Good shepherd.

=Signals.= 1 Kings 19:12--And after the fire a still small voice.

=Sin, Fascination of.= Prov. 16:25--There is a way that seemeth right, &c.

=Sin, Original.= James 1:15--When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin, &c.

=Sin, Sense of.= Rom. 7:13--That sin ... might become exceedingly sinful.

=Sin Without Atonement.= Joel 2:25--And I will restore to you the years, &c.

=Sins, Pet.= James 1:15--Sin when it is finished, &c.

=Sins of Youth.= Psalm 25:7--Remember not, the sins of my youth.

=Size not Power.= Psalm 8:4–6--What is man that thou art mindful of him, &c.

=Skill with Tenderness.= John 11:35--Jesus wept.

=Slave, for the Gospel’s Sake.= Eph. 6:20--An ambassador in bonds.

=Slaves of Pleasure.= 2 Tim. 3:4--Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.

=Small Evils Hardest to Bear.= Job 14:19--The waters wear the stones.

=Snobbery Rebuked.= Roman 12:3--For I say through the grace given unto me, &c.

=Social Christianity.= Jer. 23:29--Is not my word like as a fire, &c.

=Social Interdependence.= 1 Cor. 12:26--And whether one member suffer, &c.

=Social Progress.= Malachi 3:16--Then they that feared the Lord spoke often one to another, &c.

=Solidarity.= Rom. 14:7--None of us liveth to himself, &c.

=Solidity of Old Truths.= 1 Thes. 5:21--Hold fast to that which is good, &c.

=Solitude, Lesson of.= Psalm 139:18--When I am awake I am still with thee.

=Solitude, Training in.= Job. 35:10--Giveth songs in the night.

=Song and Suffering.= Acts 16:25--And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them.

=Song in the Night.= Job. 35:10--Giveth songs in the night.

=Song, the Gospel in.= Eph. 5:19--Speaking to yourselves, &c.

=Sorrow for a Lost Cause.= Joel 2:25--And I will restore to you the years, &c.

=Soul, Your.= Matt. 18:3--Except ye be converted and become as little children, &c.

=Sowing and Reaping.= Gal. 6:7--Whatsoever a man soweth, &c.

=Spirit, Fruit of.= Eph. 5:9--Fruit of the Spirit, &c.

=Spirits, Watching.= Heb. 12:1--Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, &c.

=Spiritual Declension.= Isaiah 63:11--Then he remembered the days of old, &c.

=Spiritual Nobility.= Isaiah 53:2--There is no beauty that we should desire him; Heb. 13: 2--Some have entertained angels unawares.

=Stagnancy.= Rev. 3:1--Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

=Steadiness of Providence.= Isaiah 42:4--He shall not fail nor be discouraged till he hath set judgment in the earth, &c.; Isa. 59:9--As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways, &c.

=Stedfastness.= Eph. 6:13--Having done all to stand.

=Straight Character.= Matt. 7:14--Straight is the gate and narrow is the way, &c.

=Strain, Nervous.= Esther 8:6--For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come upon our people? &c.

=Strength, Secret Source of.= Gal. 1:15, 16--I conferred not with flesh and blood, &c.; Psalm 25:14--The secret of the Lord is with, &c.

=Substances, Penetrating.= Psalm 18:35--Thy gentleness hath made me great.

=Substitution.= Matt. 8:17--Himself took our infirmities and bare our sickness.

=Subtlety.= Gen. 3:1--Now the serpent was more subtle, &c.

=Success.= Jer. 17:11--He that getteth riches but not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

=Success too Dear.= Matt. 16:26--What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

=Suffering, Fellowship with Christ’s.= Phil. 3:10--That I may know him ... and the fellowship of his suffering, &c.

=Suffering Transformed.= Rom. 8:18--The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared, &c.

=Suffering, Universal.= Rom. 8:22--The whole creation groaneth, &c.

=Suicide Prevented.= Acts 16:28--Do thyself no harm.

=Sunday Recorded.= Exod. 20:8–10--Six days shalt thou labor, &c.

=Sunlight and Starlight.= Isa. 60:19--The sun shall be no more thy light by day, &c.

=Sunshine.= Dan. 12:3--They that be wise shall shine, &c.

=Surface Lives.= John 4:10-15--Woman of Samaria.

=Synchronism.= Phil. 3:16--Let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

=System in Labor.= 1 Cor. 14:40--Let all things be done ... in order.

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=Tact.= 1 Cor. 9:22--All things to all men, &c.

=Talents, Buried.= Matt. 25:14–30--For the kingdom of Heaven, &c.

=Talents Differ.= 1 Cor. 12:4--Diversities of gifts.

=Teacher’s Function, The.= James 1:23, 24--Like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass, &c.

=Temperance.= 1 Cor. 9:25--And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things, &c.

=Temptation.= Matt. 6:13--Lead us not into temptation; Rom. 12:21--Overcome evil with good.

=Temptation, Plausibility of.= James 1:13--Let no man say, &c.; Matt. 6:13--And lead us not into temptation, &c.

=Temptation Resisted.= Matt. 4:8--All the kingdoms of the world, &c.

=Tenderness.= Matt. 12:19, 20--He shall not strive, &c.

=Tension, Moral.= Acts 27:23--God, whose I am and whom I serve.

=Testimony, A Sheep’s.= John 10:4--For they know his voice, &c.

=Testimony of Work.= Acts 9:39--Showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, &c.

=Tests.= 1 Cor. 3:13--Every man’s work shall be made manifest, &c.; 1 Cor. 3:13--The fire shall try every man’s work, &c.; Phil. 1:10--Sincere and without offense, &c.

=Thanks, the Solace of.= 1 Tim. 4:4--If it be received with thanksgiving.

=Theology as a Discipline.= Job, 11:7--Canst thou by searching find out God, &c.

=Thoroughness.= Eccl. 9:10--Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might, &c.

=Time, the Present.= James 4:13, 14--Go to now, ye that say, &c.

=Timeliness of God.= Isaiah 65:24--Before they call I will answer, &c.

=Timidity.= Prov. 29:25--The fear of man bringeth a snare, &c.

=To-day.= Heb. 3:15--To-day if ye will hear his voice.

=To-morrow, Uncertainty of.= James 4:14--Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.

=Tongue, the.= James 3:8--But the tongue can no man tame.

=Toughness.= 2 Tim. 2:4--Thou, therefore, endure hardness, &c.

=Tradition.= Col. 2:8--Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, &c.

=Tradition, Unmeaning.= Matt. 15:1–3--Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, &c.

=Training.= 1 Cor. 9:27--I keep under my body, &c.

=Transformation.= Rom. 13:12--Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light; Eph. 5:8--Ye were once darkness but now are ye light in the Lord.

=Transformation by renewing.= Prov. 4:23--Keep thy heart with all diligence, &c.

=Transiency of the Earth.= Rev. 21:1--And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

=Transient, The.= 2 Peter 3:11--Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, &c.

=Transmission.= Exod. 20:5, 6--Thou shalt not bow down, &c.

=Traps for Girls.= 1 Peter 5:8--The devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, &c.

=Tree and Fruit.= Matt. 7:17--Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, &c.

=Tribulation the Path of Glory.= Acts 14:22--We must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God.

=Triumph by Selection.= Eph. 4:22--That ye put off ... the old man which is corrupt, &c.

=Triumph in Death.= Act. 20:24--But none of these things move me, &c.

=Trouble.= Heb. 12:11--Nevertheless, afterward.

=Truth, Girdle of.= Eph. 6:14--Having your loins girt, &c.

=Truthfulness Rewarded.= Matt. 6:33--Seek ye first the kingdom of God, &c.

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=Unbelief.= Matt. 16:18--On this rock will I build my church, &c.

=Unconscious Greatness.= Rom. 12:3--Not to think more highly of himself, &c.

=Unemployed, Problem of the.= Matt. 20:6, 7--And about the eleventh hour he went out, &c.

=Unexpected, The.= Prov. 16:9--A man’s heart deviseth his way, but, &c.

=Union with Christ.= Gal. 2:20--I live, yet not I, &c.

=Unity.= Eph. 2:14--Who hath made both one; Rom. 7:18–25--When I would do good evil is present, &c.

=Unity Fundamental in Nature.= Col. 1:16, 17--For by him were all things created.

=Unknown Saints.= Matt. 20:16--The Last shall be first, &c.

=Unseen, Response from the.= 2 Cor. 4:18--For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

=Unseen Results.= Gal. 6:9--Not ... weary in well doing, &c.

=Unselfishness.= 1 Thess. 5:18--In everything give thanks, &c.

=Uprightness.= Psalm 25:21--Let ... uprightness preserve me.

=Upward Look, The.= Psalm 5:3--I will look up; Psalm 121:1--I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, &c.

=Utilizing Seaweed.= John 6:12--Gather up the fragments, &c.

=Utterance.= Luke 12:2--Nothing covered that shall not be revealed, &c.

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=Vanity in Death.= Psalm 39:11--His beauty to consume away like a moth, &c.

=Verbiage.= Matt. 6:7--They think they shall be heard for their much speaking.

=Vicarious Sacrifice.= John 3:16--Gave his only begotten son, &c.

=Victory.= Eph. 4:8--He led captivity captive, &c.

=View, The Near and Far.= Mark 6:49--But when they saw him walking on the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit and cried out, &c.

=Vigilance.= Matt. 24:43, 44--Take ye heed, watch and pray.

=Vision of Jesus.= 1 Cor. 9:1--Have I not seen Jesus, &c.

=Vision Restored.= John 14:9--He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

=Voice of God.= Deut. 4:31--Be obedient unto his voice, &c.

=Vulgarity in the Rich.= Psalm 49:6--They that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, &c.

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=Walking for Inspiration.= Gen. 24:63--And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide, &c.

=Walking with God.= Gen. 5:24--Enoch walked with God.

=War, The Horrors of.= Isa. 2:4--Neither shall they learn war any more.

=Warmth, Lost.= Heb. 10:25--Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.

=Waste.= Eccl. 1:7--All the rivers run into the sea, &c.

=Waste by Drink.= Prov. 23:31, 32--Look not thou upon the wine, &c.

=Wastes, Moral.= Matt. 5:13--If the salt have lost its savor, &c.

=Watchfulness against Enemies.= 2 Tim. 4:5--Watch thou in all things.

=Water of Life.= John 4:14--In him, a well of water, &c.

=Way, the Right.= Prov. 14:12--There is a way that seemeth good unto a man, &c.

=Wayward, Seeking the.= Ezek. 34:12--So will I seek out my sheep, &c.; Luke 15:4–6--The ninety and nine, &c.

=Weakness, Consideration for.= Phil. 2:4--Look not every man on his own things, &c.

=Wealth.= Mark 10:25--Easier for a camel, &c.

=Will of God.= Psalm 40:8--I delight to do thy will, O my God.

=Will, The.= Rev. 3:20--I stand at the food and knock, &c.

=Wisdom of the Ignorant.= Matt. 21:16--Out of the mouths of babes, &c.

=Woman’s Sphere.= Titus 2:5--Keepers at home.

=Word in Season.= Prov. 15:23--A word spoken in due season, how good is it.

=Word of God Freed.= 2 Tim. 2:9--But the word of God is not bound.

=Word, The, a Hammer.= Jer. 23:28, 29--And a hammer to break the rock in pieces.

=Work.= Mark 1:17--Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men; Prov. 22:29--A man diligent in his business, &c.; Prov. 12:4--A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, &c.

=Work Proving Religion.= 1 Cor. 3:13--The fire shall try every man’s work, &c.

=Work versus Worker.= Micah 6:8--He hath showed thee, &c.

=Working Together.= Rom. 8:28--All things work together for good, &c.

=Working with God.= 1 Cor. 3:9--Laborers together with God.

=Wounds that Speak.= Luke 24:39--Behold my hands and my feet, that it is myself, &c.

=Wrong Retroactive.= Rom. 2:1--Wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself.

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=Years, The Unreturning.= Psalm 90:9--We spend our years as a tale that is told, &c.

=Youth, Useful.= 1 Tim. 4:12--Let no man despise thy youth.

INDEX OF TEXTS IN BIBLICAL ORDER

[In this index are recorded Bible references to such texts as are judged to be appropriate to illustrations in this volume. The number found after each reference is the number of the illustration to which the text belongs.]

Genesis, 1:2, 1803 1:28, 56 2:27, 2750 3:1, 3087 4:3–5, 1926 4:9, 883 4:10, 262 6:4, 1308 8:11, 2020 8:22, 872 16:13, 1010 18:19, 2660 19:1, 1959 19:15–22, 2711 19:17, 725 21:6, 1761 24:63, 3417 43:31, 1314 45:27, 816 50:20, 1271

Exodus, 13:5, 2546 14:15, 1972 16:7, 670 20:5, 826 20:5, 6, 3280 20:8, 2795, 2798, 2799 20:8–10, 3110 20:12, 1881, 2772 22:3, 2745 23:2, 581 30:9, 2236 32:19, 723 34:7, 2418

Leviticus, 26:36, 126 27:8, 935

Numbers, 10:29, 436 14:18, 2418 32:23, 703, 1475

Deuteronomy, 4:31, 3412 25:13, 701 28:13, 1504 29:29, 2846, 2847 32:11, 2107, 2116 33:27, 1258 34:1, 889

Joshua, 6:12–16, 2568 6:15, 2693 7:23, 19 11:15, 2464 23:13, 760

Judges, 7:16, 2876 10:14, 761 16:20, 2529

1 Samuel, 8:3, 1606 9:2, 635 12:23, 2319 16:7, 118 21:8, 897 25:3, 2902

2 Samuel, 9:1, 87 12:23, 359 22:36, 1213 22:47, 1451

1 Kings, 3:16–28, 2554 18:21, 1651 19:12, 2942

2 Kings, 6:17, 2572 19:14, 1573

1 Chronicles, 22:15, 862

2 Chronicles, 2:14, 34 16:9, 1997

Nehemiah, 2:11, 415

Esther, 4:11, 2583 4:16, 1409 8:6, 3067

Job, 5:19, 1248 11:7, 2145, 3219 11:17, 49 13:15, 2433 14:19, 2981 19:4, 2203 20:27, 1328 27:19, 1005 29:3, 665 35:10, 3001, 3007 38:7, 2136 38:22, 1799

Psalms, 1:3, 1171, 2205 2:4, 2149 4:5, 2236 4:8, 1252, 2200 5:3, 3355 7:16, 422, 967 8:3, 4, 2835 8:4, 1968, 2144 8:4–6, 2967 8:6–8, 1987 14:1, 1603 19, 1250, 2136 19:1–3, 1236 19:4, 2902 19:7–10, 2027 19:12, 2686 23:5, 330 24:3, 4, 2486 24:4, 467 25:7, 2963 25:14, 3076 25:21, 3353 27:10, 1070, 2305, 2523 30:5, 1021, 1834 32:1, 162 32:8, 396, 434 34:1, 2430 36:9, 1841 37:5, 472, 567 37:6, 2314 39:1, 2578 39:11, 3382 40:8, 2508, 3471 41:2, 150 42:1, 2817 42:3, 644 43:3, 355 45:1, 2644 46:4, 648, 1361 49:6, 3414 50:15, 1248 51:1, 882 51:2, 2686 51:6, 7, 2597 51:7, 468, 2595 51:9, 882 53:5, 2296 55:13, 1270 55:19, 782 55:22, 1495 56:4, 2723 59:3, 269 63:1, 950 64:6, 998 73:24, 1324 76:10, 163 78:52, 434 90:9, 3521 90:9, 10, 288 90:10, 2241 91:16, 16 94:9, 742 103:2, 2266 103:5, 2241 106:33, 93 107:30, 1792 107:35, 2034 107:41, 2413 112:2, 1564 116:17, 2236 119:11, 221 119:52, 2005 119:64, 2749 119:67, 791 119:71, 2587 119:97–102, 238 119:101, 2751 119:105, 215, 216, 775 121:1, 891, 1383, 1885, 2656, 3355 121:4, 1256 123:2, 975 127:1, 252 127:2, 2717 137:4, 2138 139:12, 661 139:17, 1257 139:18, 254, 3000 143:5, 1889 147:9, 1046

Proverbs, 1:10, 65, 66, 920 1:15, 2751 3:1, 2, 1881 3:5, 2308 4:7, 2780 4:18, 1870 4:23, 3276 6:6, 1596 8:11, 343 11:24, 1190 12:4, 3497 13:12, 1442 13:20, 1160 14:12, 3452 15:1, 103 15:23, 3491 16:1, 2481 16:3, 567 16:5, 582 16:9, 3322 16:18, 2504, 2506 16:25, 954, 2954 16:31, 1535 16:32, 2864 17:22, 1467, 1761 20:1, 827 22:1, 2705 22:6, 164, 1065, 1555, 2405 22:7, 1005 22:15, 2295 22:22, 1679 22:29, 3497 23:7, 1825 23:21, 1653 23:31, 1652 23:31, 32, 3439 23:33, 465 24:17, 1945 24:26, 486 26:4, 514 26:12, 510 27:2, 2872 28:1, 538 28:13, 1003, 1973 29:23, 2504 29:25, 3246 30:18, 19, 1641

Ecclesiastes, 1:7, 3437 1:9, 2192 1:10, 92 2:20, 1337 3:4, 1757 3:11, 821 7:4, 1298 7:10, 33, 2537 8:1, 593, 1013 8:7, 2557 9:10, 901, 1360, 1584, 2728, 3231 10:8, 548 10:11, 273 11:1, 1356 11:6, 2874 12:1, 849 12:8, 1820 12:11, 869 12:13, 1080 12:14, 1081, 2633 12:41, 181

Song of Solomon, 2:15, 1868

Isaiah, 1:18, 549, 737, 2680 2:4, 50, 2834, 3427 3:4, 1318 9:6, 2325 11:6, 1277 11:9, 1479 11:16, 357 26:19, 1534 28:10, 695 28:16, 2293 30:13, 2605 30:16, 524 32:2, 498, 1682 35:1, 2628 35:10, 1643 40:9, 890 40:31, 572, 2690 41:1, 2077 41:18, 2211 42:4, 3057 43:10, 1304 45:2, 1020 45:3, 666 48:22, 1345 49:4, 777 50:7, 598 53:2, 3043 53:3, 406 53:5, 2804 53:9, 776 54:2, 2879 55:1, 2210 55:2, 1364 55:6, 2016 55:9, 3057 55:13, 426, 2834 57:15, 1234 58:10, 1200 58:11, 434 59:2, 2907 59:9, 738 60:19, 3114 61:3, 69 63:11, 3040 65:24, 3245

Jeremiah, 5:1, 1960 8:7, 1649 8:20, 727 8:22, 1280 9:2, 2374 14:10, 2751 17:11, 3089 23:28, 29, 3495 23:29, 1104, 2986 31:13, 2450 31:29, 30, 1396 31:34, 1183

Lamentations, 3:31–33, 43

Ezekiel, 8:12, 1517 11:19, 1349 18:4, 2766 34:12, 3453 34:18, 739 47:9, 648, 2683

Daniel, 3:16, 2785 3:18, 2510 12:3, 1835, 3116

Hosea, 4:6, 1490 7:9, 870, 2099

Joel, 2:25, 2959, 3011 2:25, 26, 605 2:28, 2242 3:7, 2692

Amos, 2:14, 2752 5:8, 681

Jonah, 4:6, 2567

Micah, 6:8, 3507 7:8, 1029

Habakkuk, 2:5, 1417

Zachariah, 4:10, 2248 8:5, 2386

Malachi, 3:10, 1223 3:16, 2989 4:2, 669

Matthew, 3:4, 1876 3:8, 521, 1136, 2697 4:8, 3193 4:19, 1106 5:8, 157 5:13, 3443 5:14, 440, 1840 5:16, 1832, 1833, 1853 5:30, 2579 5:37, 2622 5:41, 2284 5:42, 529 5:45, 1527 5:48, 1807 6:1–4, 67 6:2, 2204, 2278 6:6, 2451, 2455 6:7, 2454, 3383 6:13, 3190, 3192 6:14, 15, 1132 6:16, 1069, 2119 6:19, 1673, 2779 6:20, 1815 6:21, 1113 6:23, 2639 6:24, 2689 6:25, 342, 2667 6:28, 1110 6:30, 1046 6:33, 3313 7:1, 654 7:10, 1996 7:11, 1033 7:12, 459 7:13, 14, 660 7:14, 1116, 1570, 3066 7:15, 794 7:17, 3289 7:21, 710, 711, 951, 2528, 2852 7:35, 992 8:17, 1351, 3086 9:21, 560 10:6, 1961 10:8, 1212 10:9, 10, 1034 10:22, 908 10:26, 2932 10:32, 179 11:28, 1471 11:28–30, 1384 12:19, 20, 3198 13:7, 385 13:14, 15, 1634 13:31, 32, 1322 13:33, 1813 13:35, 2372 14:23, 2775 15:1–3, 3266 15:14, 997 15:18, 1054 15:24, 1961 16:18, 3317 16:24, 25, 795 16:25, 2873 16:26, 3096 17:18–19, 2352 17:20, 2310 18:2–4, 362 18:3, 3021 18:10, 369 18:12, 1592 18:20, 2341 19:22, 2651 20:6, 7, 3321 20:16, 3338 20:28, 2914 21:16, 3477 23:3, 992, 1574 23:14, 2930 23:23, 329 23:24, 2582 23:27, 958, 2931 24:25, 2332 24:42, 1689 24:43, 44, 3400 25:10, 981 25:14–30, 3170 25:35, 38, 43, 1531 25:40, 1195, 1312 26:52, 1771 27:22, 408 27:24, 2736 28:19, 186 28:20, 393

Mark, 1:17, 3496 2:4, 2725 2:5–9, 339 2:17, 2366 2:27, 2797 4:5, 1168 4:9, 2056 6:49, 3398 7:8, 2841 7:37, 2716 8:18, 2851 9:28, 1209 10:25, 3458 10:29, 1411 11:24, 105 12:30, 1919 16:15, 949

Luke, 1:52, 1779 2:30–32, 417 2:49, 2863, 2912 2:52, 2761 5:10, 1107 5:30, 1739 6:38, 2548, 2550 6:44, 1169 7:37, 38, 1125 8:17, 2246 9:51, 772 12:2, 3372 12:24, 1027 12:32, 527 14:10, 11, 2081 14:15–24, 982 15:4, 1893 15:4–6, 3453 15:18, 1075 15:20, 1072, 1891, 2522 16:8, 184 16:9, 140 18:8, 1577 18:13, 115 18:14, 1460 18:17, 1031 18:29, 2714 19:10, 551, 1269, 1869, 1892 21:1, 2, 1392 23:42, 1461 24:39, 3519

John, 1:41, 42, 1202 2:5, 1115 2:24, 25, 1587 3:4, 570, 575 3:5, 1319 3:16, 3387 3:20, 662, 1831, 1850 4:10–15, 3129 4:14, 3447, 3448 4:35, 1750 4:37, 1000 5:8, 9, 607 5:36, 418 6:12, 591, 3370 7:17, 944 7:24, 116, 1696 7:37, 38, 152 7:51, 732 8:10, 11, 1122 8:12, 405, 1849 8:16, 392 8:29, 2341 8:32, 1151 10:1–16, 2934 10:3, 1484 10:4, 3201 10:7, 399 10:16, 2022 10:35, 2968 12:24, 1091 13:4, 5, 1310 13:5–15, 1462 14:3, 1540 14:9, 3407 15:1–5, 409 15:2, 513 15:4, 1666 15:13, 2806, 2889 15:14, 1115 15:15, 1159 17:21, 448 20:29, 2147

Acts, 1:26, 475 2:1–4, 2685 2:23–37, 2030 4:12, 2151 4:13, 2042 6:8, 1032 9:39, 3205 10:34, 2517 10:34, 35, 380 14:22, 3292 16:25, 3003 16:28, 3105 17:16, 2038 17:26, 463, 1398, 1452 17:28, 805, 1253 20:24, 2039, 3294 20:29, 2053 20:35, 1192, 1347, 2894 27:23, 3200

Romans, 1:14, 2142 1:16, 630 1:20, 258, 1674, 1675 1:23, 96 1:26, 543 2:1, 3520 2:6, 2766 2:7, 1543 5:6, 2811 5:9, 2814 5:12, 685, 969 6:11, 1949 6:23, 694 7:13, 202, 389, 2957 7:18–25, 3330 7:21, 2158 7:23, 834 7:25, 658 8:3, 1762 8:18, 3100 8:21, 1783 8:22, 247, 3102 8:24, 25, 1441 8:28, 3508 8:29, 886 10:10, 1367, 1369 11:33, 1259 11:36, 1246 12:2, 154, 930, 2641 12:3, 2866, 2868, 2881, 2985, 3318 12:9, 107 12:11, 301 12:13, 1391 12:14, 650 12:17, 1123 12:20, 913 12:21, 3191 13:12, 663, 3273 14:7, 2998 16:9, 438

1 Corinthians, 1:25, 51 2:9, 1855 2:10, 713, 714 3:6, 586 3:9, 3509 3:10, 1000 3:11, 1142 3:13, 1103, 2333, 2398, 3206, 3207, 3504 3:15, 2831 3:16, 1953 3:18, 388 3:21, 1798 4:2, 1049 4:12, 2423 5:6, 927 5:7, 1035 7:31, 2140 9:1, 3406 9:16, 547 9:20, 532 9:22, 3166 9:25, 851, 907, 3183 9:27, 2606, 3267 10:13, 1993 12:4, 3171 12:6, 813 12:12–17, 425 12:12–22, 2377 12:14–21, 1457 12:26, 1358, 2988 13:4, 932 13:8, 1911 13:12, 1179 13:13, 1900 14:20, 718 14:40, 3160 15:25, 1275 15:26, 694 16:13, 1963

2 Corinthians, 2:14, 1920 2:6, 2218 3:10, 1516 3:18, 1525 4:13, 1739 4:17, 1184 4:18, 495, 3344 5:1, 1449 5:4, 1427 5:17, 572, 2194, 2195 6:2, 1264 6:10, 1695, 2415 11:14, 199 12:9, 2292

Galatians, 1:10, 2860 1:15, 16, 3076 2:13, 1051 2:20, 347, 390, 3327 3:10, 517 5:1, 1148 5:7, 848 5:13, 2915 6:2, 295, 971 6:7, 3023 6:9, 2336, 2339, 2345, 2347, 2784, 3345 6:14, 632, 633 6:17, 2680 15:1, 253

Ephesians, 1:14, 1425 1:18, 2781 2:1, 679, 692, 2602 2:8, 1286 2:14, 3329 2:21, 1551 3:12, 145 6:10–17, 131 4:6, 2420 4:8, 3394 4:13, 2075 4:14, 2643 4:16, 2272 4:22, 3293 4:30, 550 4:32, 2000 5:8, 3274 5:9, 3034 5:16, 1487, 1565, 2181, 2257 5:19, 3008 5:27, 446 6:1, 2215 6:11, 1326 6:13, 3059 6:14, 3312 6:16, 2569 6:20, 2973

Philippians, 1:10, 3208 1:21, 411 1:27, 501 2:4, 2281, 2894, 3455 2:5, 1983 2:6–8, 412 2:9, 1414, 2151 2:12, 2221 3:8, 1888 3:10, 3098 3:13, 2245 3:13, 14, 783 3:14, 149 3:16, 3159 3:17, 1774 3:19, 859 3:20, 460 4:4, 1692, 1693 4:6, 317 4:11, 23 4:13, 4

Colossians, 1:16, 17, 3331 1:17, 1740 2:8, 3265 3:1, 747 3:5, 2310 3:9, 10, 2193

1 Thessalonians, 4:11, 2604 5:16, 3347 5:21, 2999

1 Timothy, 2:5, 6, 2890 4:4, 3214 4:12, 3524 4:15, 136 5:6, 679 5:24–35, 2411 6:12, 34 6:16, 1142 6:19, 1142

2 Timothy, 1:12, 394, 996 2:1, 902 2:3, 1350 2:4, 3264 2:9, 3493 3:4, 2977 3:5, 1138 3:13, 722, 1320 4:2, 2317, 2462 4:3, 4, 1016 4:5, 3444 4:7, 1050 4:8, 636

Titus, 2:5, 3483

Hebrews, 1:11, 12, 2331 1:12, 2329 1:14, 585, 2491 2:14, 1917 3:15, 3249 5:14, 2425 6:12, 972 10:16, 1628 10:25, 3429 11:1, 1023 11:4, 1542, 1612, 2757 11:16, 1691 12:1, 3038 12:2, 2322 12:11, 45, 3299 12:13, 23 13:2, 1447, 3043 13:5, 863 13:6, 909 13:8, 397 13:14, 1379, 1425 13:16, 1192

James, 1:13, 3192 1:14, 1521 1:15, 2956, 2962 1:17, 1251, 1278 1:23, 24, 2929, 3178 1:27, 2596 2:2–4, 387 2:10, 1116, 2601 2:16, 2906 2:17, 1047 2:26, 2442 3:6, 3256 3:8, 3255 4:3, 144 4:13, 288 4:13, 14, 3244 4:14, 3253 5:20, 2353, 2629

1 Peter, 1:25, 236 2:17, 1896 3:4, 113 3:9, 1267 3:13, 906, 956, 1622 3:15, 2552, 2620 3:19, 2513 5:6, 1459 5:7, 2191, 2908 5:8, 3283

2 Peter, 1:4, 2548 1:5, 1777 1:10, 2426 1:20, 1590 3:11, 3279 3:13, 14, 106 3:18, 1229

1 John, 1:5, 1852 1:7, 1836 3:2, 1178 3:14, 1800 3:16, 2917 4:7, 416, 1910 4:18, 1907

Jude, 3, 127 12, 2643 16, 1083 20, 2439

Revelation, 2:10, 842 3:1, 433, 450, 3051 3:16, 850 3:19, 779 3:20, 3475 4:10, 1415 5:12, 403

7:14, 2807 13:10, 1808 19:16, 398 20:13, 2630 21:1, 3278 21:10, 294

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