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heart.'' I felt like looking- around to see 

 \vho it was tliat sjioke. In a little while 

 I caught myself again dwelling on some- 

 thing that was unhecoming a follower of 

 the Lord Jesus Christ, especially for a 

 man of my age. Then again came that 

 " still small voice." 



It would seem tliat my good friend 

 Ridgeway, of the Sunduij School Times, 

 has had a like expei-ience. See below, clip- 

 ped from his " Busy Men's Corner" : 



THE GREAT MYSTERY. 



There came from heaven a sound as of the ru.ih- 

 ing of a mighty wind (v. 2). Did you hear the 

 Holy Spirit? Have you ever had any intense re- 

 ligious experience in whieli you " certainly heard 

 something," and turned to see? Have you ever felt 

 the pressure of the Holy Spirit in a time of deep 

 feeling? Well, be sure there are lots of folks who 

 have had such visits from Heaven, and I am one 

 of theui. They are too sacred to talk about, and 

 some of them too holy to think too much and too 

 long about (2 Cor. 12:4). One of earth's greatest 

 mysteries is the mystery of the Holy Spirit. 



Now a word more, before closing, in re- 

 gard to the second text. It was David's 

 prayer. What does it mean that a hmnan 

 being should make such a prayer? A 

 friend of mine, who has been reading 



Gleanings for many long years, rejects 

 the Bible and its teachings. Let me ask 

 him where else in the whole wide world of 

 literature can we find anything like that 

 little text? Suppose the whole wide world 

 should make this prayer their prayer. The 

 first half-dozen words imply tliat David is 

 talking to his heavenly Father, God, who 

 created him in his own image. The next 

 half-dozen words recognize the fact that 

 the Creator reads even our thoughts. Then 

 how beautifully that word " meditation " 

 comes in ! and the idea of how this wonder- 

 ful thing is to be accomplished seems to 

 imjdy the imi)Ossibility of it, without help; 

 and this help he expresses as " my strength 

 and my redeemer.'' Does not this text fore- 

 shadow the coming of Christ the '' Re- 

 deemer " of the world? How many profes- 

 sing Christians are there who dare make 

 this prayer their prayer? We shall 

 indeed have a " new heaven and a new 

 earth " when the whole wide world can 

 honestly say, " Let the words of my mouth 

 and the meditation of my heart be accepta- 

 ble in thy sight, Lord, my strength and 

 mv redeemer.'' 



POULTRY NEWS 



" HOW TO MAKE HENS LAY. 



My good friends, I am glad to be able 

 to answer the above oft-repeated cjuestion 

 in just two words — love them; and, by the 

 way, those two short words will do a lot 

 toward helping things along in this great 

 world of ours. Love your work, and espe- 

 cially love your domestic animals; love your 

 plants and trees; and above all and over 

 all. love humanity. Yes, love poor, feeble, 

 infirm, neglected, and forgetful humanity. 

 Love even your enemies. Love humanitv 

 as God loved it when he " gave his only 

 begotten Son that whosoever believeth in 

 him should not perish but have everlasting 

 life." Let us now get back to the chickens. 



I have often mentioned my good friend 

 Abbott of Bradentown, who for years has 

 kept chickens away up into the thousands 

 or close to a thousand anyhow. But when 

 eggs were away down and feed away up 

 I fear he became somewhat discouraged ; 

 and last season, when honey brought such 

 a high price I think he rather neglected 

 his poultry. 'WHien I first met him last 

 fall I said, " Friend Abbott, how many lay- 

 ing hens have you?" 



"About seven hundred." 



" Well, about how many eggs are you 

 getting a day from your seven hundred 

 hens?" 



"Oh!" replied he, smilingly, "just now 

 we get six or seven — sometimes a little 

 more." 



" Why, you don't mean to say that you 

 get only six or seven eggs from about seven 

 bundled hens, do you?" 



He laughingly replied, " Mr. Root, I 

 shall have to acknowledge that I do not 

 pay much attention to the hens since we 

 have been so busy with the bees; and I 

 really do not know how many my man does 

 get; but it is very few." 



Now, friend Abbott had some hens that 

 came from my Lady Eglantine stock, and 

 I knew they ought to lay. I told him I 

 wanted to buy about a dozen hens for ex- 

 periment. I could tell tliem from the oth- 

 ers because they had leg-bands. Well, even 

 if they did have leg-bands it was something 

 of a task to hunt up a dozen of them out 

 of six or seven hundred. They were going 

 to take them off the roost, but neglected it 

 until I got around. So he caught them 

 with a pole with a hook on the end of it, 

 and this scared the whole flock so badly 



