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brook Oherith when the drouth fell,' but out of the disaster that threat- - sned there came to him a iew reve- lation of God and a broader mean- ing of life. 1 seems that when God has a new faith, a new truth, a new purpose to reveal to man, he sends him for 'a space into the isolation 'of the silent places. Elijah at the brook Cherith, Moses on the plain %f Mi- dian; Christ in the wilderness, face to face with God, with nature, with their own souls came into and in- spired knowledge of life's meaning and mission; > 3 Do we not find it so to-day! When the sun shines nature blossoms, the brook - babbles: and prosperity smiles, faith is easy, life joyous, God 'is good ; hut the brook dries, there 'comes temptation, suffering, struggle, disaster, and GOD SEEMS TO FORSAKE US, we 'are left to battle alone, doubt and pessimism 'assault us, never more; we think, will life be worth while; never moge will God show His face; then from the depths * there comes to us the new faith, the new truth; the new manifestation of Perhaps we are beginning to feel ourselves' & 'peculiar people; & special object of God's love; that we had reached a higher plane than the common herd, were coming in- to the spirit of the Pharisee, who the brook dries and. we cry, 'Lord,' me, a singer." Bo out of stress and tempts 'and doubt there comes faith, new strength, new God becomes the Go shine and the storm, of the just a the unjust, of the saint and the & ner, ahd there comes to us a deep- er sense of His fatherhood, a closer. sympathy with our fellows ; the uni- versal brotherhood is emphasized, In some way every one comes 10 the "dried brook.'" = #d THE "DROUTH"' may be a preparation for blessing, suecess, victory. Elijah went down from the mountain to the contest with the priests of Baal. In the solitude was revealed = to him the supremacy 'of the God that moves |. in the heart of nature, in the heart of 'man, over the gods made of wood and stone, worshipped by the hea- then in the vlain. The brook Chaorith may bring doubt and suffering for a time, but In the end will lead to.a saner hap- piness; a truer vision of God -- a God that works in the flood of springtime and drouth of summer, ivevitably, unchangingly, eternally, but beneficently along the way o law that is love, and the piling rivnlet and the dried brook are but different ways He has of blessing, leading, developing the individual and the race. Rev. Guy Arthur Jamieson. em eee ee THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 29. Lesson IX. Paul on Christian Love. Golden 'Text, 1 Cor. 13: 1-13 1. Love Completes All Virtues, and Makes Perfect All the Good Things of Life.--Va, 1-3. Eloquence, uninspired by real love, not seek- ing the highest good of the hearer, is but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal ; mere noise without har. mony, without meaning, without the soul of music. This'is true even if we had the gift of tongues be- stowed by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and could express in every language with the utmost eloquence, every rapt emotion, every highest experience = and ecstay of the human heart, that "harp of a thousand strings"; yea, though I have the eloquence and perfect language of the angels. On the other band, eloquence is one of the most powerful instru- ments of love in persuading 'men to repént, in moving men toward righteousness, in portraying the blessedness of serving Christ. De- spise not these gifts, but transform and give them power as the instru- ments of love. Then they are sweeb as the music of the angel harpers in heaven. II. The Spectrum of Love. The Quylities Which are Combined. in Perfect Love. --Vs. 4-7. The abso- lute importance of love, as an} essential part of all virtues and ac- tions, has been shown iu the first three verses. ' Our next duty is to learn what Jove is. Like life, love cannot be " gefined, but it can be described and recognized by what it does, by its ~fruits, by the ression of ite qualities, Tt is like life. grea tists tell in its estence, by qualities and qualities together do not mak life | vse a sompond: thin "Love is a compound Paul tells us, It is like light, As use them and may trust them un- failingly. . 1V. The Immortal Thres.--Vs. 13. And now, in conclusion, abideth' faith, hope, charity. Faith Abideth. We shall never ceasé to trust in God, for our souls can no more live in heaven. than they can here, without divine help and influence which 'come from trusting 'his as Guvernor, Helper, and Friend, = Faith will only - be stronger, more complete, in heaven than here. Hope Abideth.: For the more we gain the larger our vision of things to. hope for. ~The more we gain our ideal, the more glorious the ideal to ba gained. And this through eternal ages. We do not cease growing, developing, by go- ing to heaven: : Love the Greatest of All. But the greatest of these is charify. - Love. (1) Tt is greatest in its nature, neh- lest, deepest, happiest, most per- vagive, most heavenly. (2) It brings uk closest to God; makes us par- takers of his nature, his children: and heirs. (3) It is the ore thing withont which faith and hope are of little avail, (4) It is the most powerful, exerts the widest 'influ- ence for good, is the strongest mo- tive for the upbuilding of character. (5) It is universal. Every person, of every degree, 'may have this tove. More then all other things together it makes those that have it "free and equal." (8) With faith and hope, love is eternal. The longer one lives, the more love he can have. It will expand and &row forever and "ever, in increasing blessedness and glory, i Ow adios MAULED BY PANTHERS. Girl's Fierce Struggle in a Seaside i Clreus. A girl animal tamer, "Mlle. Alice,' was attacked and badly mayled by two panthers in the Ma- rine ens at Portobello, the sea "She was taking the animals the cages to the arena for<the formance at the time, The ps Abo een and ag 500) a ourtéen," except for bo in 'agriculture and gir home. Exemption from . sixteen only when the child ably employed." © 3 : _ 'Registries (at the cost of the State) to help parents to | : per work for i Li school. ; it Gel Every town and county ply continuous classes up age of seventeen. pe Children to be compelled to these classes and employ £| be compelled to give them to do so and punished for employ- ing children who do: not: go.' These classes tq give! instruction in the trades. trict. Physical 'training to be given. ri The report says that 170,00 dren between twelve and have 'left school entirely, wh large numbers are injured by wage- earning occupations, i O 2,- 000,000" between fourteen enteen, only one in four: any "education, "An increasing number of lind: || alley' employ nents tempt boys-and girls by high" wages, but give no permanent employment." : RSTRMANTIY RETIRING 4 WHITE MAN IN AFRI Lives of Men Who Reerult-Negroed : for Rand Mines: The labor agent' in Africa is 8 man who recruits natives for work in the mines. On the face of it the thing sounds prosaic e:ough, but iv is far from being so in actual fact, for. the recruiting has to be done in the remote native districts, often' hundreds of miles away from any white settlément, and fe agent has literally to take his. in his hands. 8 Up to ten years ago many li agents, even in nominally. Bri territories; were little more tl slave raiders, says a writer in London' Daily News. T have them going out with a dozen arn 'police' 'whose business it was: surprise a village after nighif and sapture all 'the likely-lookin men. In the Portuguese colon: the raids were carried out. on even larger scale 'by regular formed troops, though latterly: ugly temper of the natives | selves has made the business a one. I. remember yell an a in one of the big villages, within a couple. of minutes were more than a hundred st savages, armed with long boys poisoned arrows, crouching in Jungle just beyond the huts w ine. for the raiders: EN a n another occasion some Port native Soldiers ried to side resort near Edinburgh, Boot: | 3 e "|land/ : RNASE is very sweet, may bé Saat aad, Ee) est a , rever. left the ho INTELLIGENT To my mind the average girl is about the finest p) this country. Teh She is an intelligent, oa self-respecting, womanly gir the men of the €0 {proud of her, She usin ng: nokl rp ogee bul 'mént from those comes in: daily co; 'Bhe_ is usually lau and, owing to her genercsity, little extra comforts creep home. © : If any young man 'words let him remember that : | daughter 'makes 'a good wile. Do not. for a moment ; am decrying the home ox-! was short-lived; however, | : 'be 1828 Fernande enlisted the help: e onions French: arms, % aria fosad ¢ art. to say, I 'Fernando -