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February 6, 1902 THE LUTHERAN VISITOR a manifest desire and intent! n to help him, could I have saved that heart from breaking, and perhaps have prolonged that life for still further and greater use fulness in the church on earth? To me this brother’s death is a strong appeal to strive to do more to encourage and assist the “brethren,” and it seems to me that pastors and congregations ought to read in.it an earnest admonition to be more consider ate, more helpful toward their brethren in the Lord who are called to minister to them of the things of the kingdom of God. —D.. in The Lutheran. SOUHD THOUGHT. Bishop McTyeire used the fol lowing as a personal reminder: “In preparing for the pulpit I have sometimes desired that my sermon should be a good one. rather than it should bring sin ners to Christ, and have labored more to give it this quality than I have prayed for divine bless ing to give it success. I must avoid this error, for without God's grace what will human ef • forts avail toward saving souls? I now see that I have relied too much on the influences of the simple power of truth to convert sinnersand too little on the in fluences of the Holy Spirit to give effect to that truth, hence my sermons have often been addressed to the intellect rather than to the heart. It has followed that I have not expected.nor en joyed that Spirit in the act of preaching. What is divine truth but the sword of the Spirit? In preaching I have not generally looked for immediate results, but have endeavored to satisfy my- sely that I was sowing seed that at some time would produce a harvest.! But if.Godi is always willing to save sinners, and if the preaching of the Gospel is His chosen instrument for this purpose, why might I not al ways look to for immediate re sults? “When’I had done what I could, both in my study and my pulpit, I have not been, as I now think, anxious.as I should be to see the fruits of my preaching, and therefore have not followed my public, labors with much earned closet ‘prayer. I must avoid this error. How can I ex pect God to give me success if I do not ask it?” JUST THREE THINGS "I once met a thoughtful schol ar,” says Bishop Whipple, “who told me that for years he had read every book he could which assailed the religion . of Jesus Christ, and he said he would have become an infidel but for three things. “First, I am a man. I .am go ing somewhere. To-night. I am a day nearer.the grave} than I was last night. I have .read.all such books can tell. me. They shed not one solitary ray upon the darkness. They shall not take away the only guide and leave me stone-blind. “Second, 1 had a mother. I saw her go down into the dark valley where I am going, and she leaned on an unseen arm as calmly as a child goes to sleep on the breast of its mother. I know that was not adreain. “ 'Third, 1 have three mother- My Lung,. viih a bad cough. MTRU said I bad consumption. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and it cured me promptly. “ A. K. Randlet, Nokotnit, III. You forgot to buy a bot tle of Ayer’s Cherry Pec toral when your cold first came on, so you let it run along. Even now, with all your hard coughing, it will not disappoint you. There’s a record of sixty years to fall bach on. TSrct atm: lit.. Me.. II. All 4r«fflilt roaaall roar ic. If b* »ti take It. than do u ho •«?*. If ha loll- too nut to taka It. than don't taka It. Ha kaatra. Laaaa It with him Wa *ra willing. J. C. A V KK CO.. La wall. Matt. 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I would rather kill them than leave them in this sinful world if you blot out from it all the leaching* of the gospel." I believe in boys and girls, the. men and women of a great to mor row,that whatsoever the buy sowelh the’men sball reap. 1 believa in the curse of ignorance, ibe efficacy of , schools, in the dignity of leaching, and in the joy of serving others. 1 j believe in wisdom as revealed in human lives a* well as in the pages J of a printed book, in lesaona taught, not so much by precept as by ex ample, in ability to work with the banda as well aa to think with the bead, in everything that makes life large and lovely. I believe in beauty in the schoolroom, in the home, in daily life and in out of doors. I be lieve in laughter, in love, in faitb, in all ideals and distant hopes that lure ua on. I believe that every hour of every day we recei ve a j ust reward for all we are and all we do. 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