JULY 15. 1916 



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Now for the winding-up. The effect of 

 tliose few kind words, inspired by the Holy 

 Spirit, worked a transformation in that 

 dirty, dusty shoeshop; and, what is of far 

 more importance, the transformation was 

 also in the shoemaker's home. You need 

 not say the above is fiction, for there is not 

 a town or neighborhood in the whole United 

 States that will not furnish something par- 

 allel. Billy Sunday's faithful and earnest 

 labors are doing just what was done for that 

 lioor shoemaker in thousands upon thou- 

 sands of homes while I Avrite. The work in 

 Kansas in some respects, we are told, out- 

 stripped his former record. It is the out- 

 come of a faithful holding-up before a sin- 

 cursed world " the Lamb of God that taketli 

 away the sin of the world." 



some early colonists, and the holy exijeiiment of 

 brotherly love which that old hero William Penn had 

 the courage to try even with savages. — A Freelance. 

 Wisdom is better than weapons of war.— Eccle. 

 9:18. 



Somebody, I do not know who, has been 

 kind enough to mail me a postal card with 

 the following matter printed on it. It needs 

 no explanation. 



" Es far war, I call it murder." — James Russell 

 Lowell. 



" Amidst the thunders of Sinai God declared. 

 ' Thou shalt not kill.' " — Charles Stunner in " True 

 Grandeur of Notions," Lee and Shepard. 



By all means " raise your boy to be a soldier," 

 but have him enlist for the " higher soldiership." 

 Show him the difference between "carnal warfare" 

 and the " good fight " which some minds fail to 

 distinsuish. — A WeUu'isher. 



Ponder well the contrast between the bloody meth- 

 od of almost Indian-extermination as pursued by 



THE GREAT-GKANDDAUGHTER, THE LADY EG- 



LINTIKE CHICKENS, AND THAT NEW 



GARDEN CULTIVATOR. 



It has been one of the great pleasures of 

 my life to see things grow. I think I might 

 safely say that for 70 years or more I iiave 

 almost invariably looked over something 

 every morning to see how much growth it 

 has made during the night; and I examine 

 again several times during the day to watch 

 the gradual growth and improvement; and 

 especially do I like to see seeds push thru 

 the soil out into daylight; and it re.ioices 

 my heart to see hoys and girls gi'ow, not 

 only in physical stature, but, more than all, 

 in that rugged pathway from earth and 

 earthly things toward heaven and heavenly 

 things. Some years ago Mi's. Root made 

 the remark, in speaking of Huber, our last- 

 born boy, '' We shall probably not live long 

 enough to see him married." 



Well, thru the mercies of a kind Provi- 

 dence we have lived not only to see him 

 married, but to see him the father of a 

 bright little girl who visits her grandmother 

 almost every day when we are here in our 

 northern home. And we have lived to see 

 one of the grandchildren married, and who 



The great-granddaughter and her mother when- the baby was only 18 days old. 



