FROM THE PULPIT.
(Continued from Paga 2.)
The man who feareth, Lord, to doubt.
"In that fear dontteth Thee." The man who takes his whole need to God as simply and sincere ly as he can, will find the need reet in one way or another. He will find he is dealing with_no sleeping Saviour, but with One Who, whether or not it pleases Him to make the storm a calm. will not fail to pilot the vessel
These two incidents may be further regarded as illustrating the respective troubles which aro of our own making or imagining and those which befall in the course of duty. Martha's trouble was her own making. She was anxious and distracted about 'many things", that is great preparations, whereas the Master told her that little was needed and He had far rather be enter tained in a simple way. On the other hand, the boat en the lake was there by His own order, and the men who sailed it encountered the storm in doing. His behest. The distinction was clear, not that in every case it can be as clearly drawn. Vast numbers of the distractions and worries to which man complains he is born, are of his own fabricating, and not a few along the very line from which the Master turned Martha -making a show, departing from simplicity, cumbering life with an increasing burden of artificially created necessities which began "Little is need- as superfluities.
ed, said the Lord, and a return. to simpler tastes and simpler pleasures would cut the taproot of many needless cares which are wearing the life out of thous- ands who keep themselves from being happy by always striving after more
"Be content with such things as
have
is good Christian
re
counsel and very greatly needed. We are surrounded by tendencies which complicate life without ennobling it, and it is no easy matter to keep clear of them. But God cares enough for His children to let them feel the burden of the resulting anxieties. All these things do the nations. of the world seek after," said our Saviour once, and again to those who looked to Him for leadership, **but as for you. you need not, and you ought not."
**Carest
Thou Not." that we are anxious, without distraught, unrestful,
leisure to seek the better part or
mind to give to it?"
Yes, truly He cares, and the
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One of the most important surgirls suffering from scabies, were that whatever meets 1129 OD the path His will points out, can gical discoveries resulting from last month acquitted on charges but be part of the great scheme by the war has just been made by of desertion by the
Goole which all things work together Dr. Le Filatre, who has succeed-, magistrates." It was said the for good to them that love Him. ed in developing a new anne girls volunteered to be arrested It remains that we walk by faith, thetic that enables every possible in order to expose the facts. that we do not always understand kind of operation to be perform Mrs. Hopley, the administrator and need not affect to understand not only without pain but at Gateshead, said the workhouse the goings of Him "Whose Way is in the sea and His path in the without necessitating the patient used as a depot was clean, bat being placed in an unconscious she admitted, in cross-examin- mighty waters."
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