SELF-DECEPTION.
By the Bav. G. E. Arrowsmith, M. A.
Galatians 6. 7-6.-"Be not de-fhave a convenient season I will ceived
whatsoever a man send for thee," said Felix to Paul; noweth, that shall he also reap." and that is the unspoken thought
Self-deception is so fatally easy. of many a modern Felix. . . ... It is such a simple nutter, to delude] "Later on, when more convenient, ourselves, as we go through life, I will plant the good seed, but let into thinking that we are not sow-me have my fling now. I am young, ing at all.
a few wild oats won't matter" "Why," you say, "you evidently Later on? Yes, but that "later on" don't know me.
I am a most re- is very elastic, it stretches further served sort of person.
I don't and further away into the distance. believe in meddling in other
"To-morrow never comes," says the people's affairs. I keep myself proverb, and it is slow in coming strictly to myself." Indeed! But to the man who postpones his soul's what saith the Scriptures? "No salvation. "Time enough when I man liveth unto himself." You come to die to think about heavenly may think you are sowing no seed, things," anys a man. How dare he but you are, in other lives, as well after such words? What insolence as in your own, The man who to bid the Great God await his time drifts through life in amiable, aim and his convenience! Nay. "he Jess Inactivity may imagine that he not deceived. God is not mocked," is sowing no bad seed, but he is, s we now 30 shall We most for he is thoroughly selfish at heart, assuredly reap. and selfishness is SIN, and, so hel is sowing to the flesh as surely, as the most abandoned debauchee that ever lived. "Be not deceived!"
form
But there is another and a more subtle
of self-deception. Many a man deceives himself into thinking that he is sowing to the spirit when all the time it is fleshly crop. he is cultivating. There is no doubt as to the kind
A death-bed repentante is pus gible, I know, even at the eleventh hour Christ received and pardoned a penitent thief-und I thank God, for that.
this, repentance that is delayed till But my experience is the shadow of death is darkening the threshold is seldom sincere, for a lifetime of sin is not easily. thrown off at a moment's notice.
of an old writer who said, "Heaven There is awful truth in the words
of seed the drunkard, the blas-is not to be won by short, hard]
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SEAMEN'S STRIKE.
DIVIDED OPINIONS IN AUSTRALIA.
Melbourne, Nov. 6.
The seamen's executives are meeting at Melbourne and Sydney. to-day. There are indications | that the strike will be called off. At present there are twenty-twoj ships idle in Australia, which is the lowest total in the past three months. The strike is cutimated to have cost fifteen hundred thou sand pounds sterling up to now.. Reuter.
Sydney, Nov. 6.
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A meeting of striking has adopted rules for the new federated Seamen's Union Britain and Ireland, and- elected the strike leader Mr. Walsh as president.-Reuter.
Melbourne, Nov. 6.
The British striking seamen here have resolved to continue the strike, although the trades hall unions previously told them they need not expect further help.-- Reuter
COMMUNISTS ARRESTED.
DOCUMENTS IN SEVERAL TONGUES.
Brussels, Nov. 6. A man alleged to be a British
phemer; the har, is planting, he work at the last, as some of as take knows himself, and it is apparent degree at the university after Communist and a-woman com-
have known many old play-fellows imprisoned. mich irregularity and negligence. panion have been arrested and A quantity of docu-
to others. But the NOMINAL
Christian may hide his sin under
Quaint words, "but,
oh, so solemnly true!
EUROPE'S ECONOMIC
PROBLEMS.
a thin vencer of religious respec of the devil spring up suddenly ments written in German. Rus- tability and deceive even himself from their death-beds, and strike at
rinn, Chinese and Hindustani as to the carnal crap he is rearing.him treacherously, while he, with have been discovered.—Reater, Look at the Pharisee in the temple out returning the blow, only laugh- note his fat, sleek complacencyed and made grimaces in the corner hear his self-satisfied monologue of the room." with the Deity. "I thank Thee that I am not as other men: I fast twice a week: I give tithes of all that I possess." Poor, self-deluded fool! Was his prayer accepted? No, it was the sin-convicted publican who went home justified,
There is one form of self-decep- tion that is most Insidious and dendly in its effects. "When I
soldiers on the married roll are advised to make precautionary arrangements for sending their families to home addresses in: "order to avoid difficulties and dis-i comfort at the port of disembark- ation.
In those cases of men transfer- rod to the Home Establishment
proceeding to a unit where neither
few," wrote the late Dean Furrer, "I have seen death-beds not a and I know that he who thinks that he can make sure of death-bed repentance
is hanging the whole of his weight on the threadi of a gossamer over a deep and dark abyss!
"Be not deceived
MARRIED QUARTERS.
A SHORTAGE AT HOME.
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The attention of all concerned is drawn to the fact that owing to
GERMANY'S WILLING CO.
OPERATION.
Paris, Nov, 6.
The application of the Locarno spirit to the economic relations and industrial Germany's intention to co-operate in the economic restoration of Europe was exempli- fied by the presence for the first time of a German delegation, headed by the banker Von Men- delssohn, at the half-yearly meet- ing of the International Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Walter Leaf, the President, in welcoming the German dele] gates, said that they joined thei Chamber with the assurance that discussions in the spirit of loyal co-operation.
TOM
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