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Pearls from Palestine 
Matt. X : 1-22 
Che Calling of the Cuelur 
When. Jesus called to Him His twelve. disciples 
He gave them power and authority 
O’er unclean spirits for to cast them out, 
Torheal all manner of disease and sickness. 
Then sent He forth by twos the chosen twelve, 
To preach the gospet and to heal the sick, 
To cleanse the lepers and to raise the dead, 
To freely give and freely to receive. 
Unto the Gentiles, charged He, go ye not, 
Nor yet to the Samaritans, but rather 
Unto the straying sheep of Israel, 
Proclaiming that God’s kingdom is at hand. 
Take nothing for your journey save a staff ; 
Provide not in your purse gold, silver, brass ; 
Nor serip, nor bread, nor shoes, nor yet two coats. 
Is not the workman worthy of his hire? 
And into whatsoever town ye come, 
Inquire who therein may worthy be, 
And there abide until ye go from thence. 
Salute them unto whom ye come and let 
Your peace abide if they be worthy ; 
If not, then shall your peace return to you. 
And whosoever shall receive you not 
Nor hear your words, departing, shake the dust 
From off your feet, for verily, | say, 
For Sodom and Gomorrah it shall be 
More tolerable for judgment than for them. 
Behold I send you forth as sheep ’mong wolves, 
But not without a shepherd’s fostering care. 
Be wise as serpents, harmless as the doves. 
But of your fellow-men beware, for they 
To councils will deliver you and scourge 
You in your synagogues, and unto kings 
And governors shall bring you for my sake. 
But,in that trial hour take ye no thought 
What ye shall speak or how; words shall be given. 
It is not you that speak, God speaketh in you. 
Brothers shall unto death deliver you, 
And ehildren rise ’gainst parents for their death. 
All men shall scorn and hate you for my sake. 
But he that doth endure unto the end, 
He shall be saved. 
Who, therefore, shall confess me before men 
The same will I confess before my father. 
Think not I came to send peace on the earth; 
Nay, but a sword; for I am come to set 
A man at variance with his dearest friend ; 
In his own household he shall find his foes. 
He that doth love his parents more than me, 
He is not worthy me. He that would find 
His life, shall lose it. They that lose shall find. 
He that receiveth you receiveth me 
And Him that sent me. 
Joseph A. Torrey. | 
RANDOM THOUGHTS. 
By D. F. Lamson. 
No. LILI: 
Wisdom and good sense are valu- 
able assets, as well as goodness; in 
fact, much misehief has been done 
by well-meaning and excellent per- 
sons who have been laeking in judg- 
ment. One petition in our Litany 
might well be ‘‘From foolishness as 
well as wickedness, Good Lord, de- 
liver us.’ 
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To many much has been given in 
capacity and opportunity whose lives 
have been of little benefit to the 
world; the explanation being that 
they have lived almost wholly for 
themselves, their thoughts, interest 
and plans having had searcely any 
reference to the good or happiness 
of others. They may not have been 
selfish as we commonly use that 
term, they may have been in a cer- 
tain sense benevolent and. liberal; 
but self has had control in every- 
thing and been of paramount impor- 
tance; even their charity has had a 
selfish motive, it has pleased them- 
selves or it has gained them reputa- 
tion and praise; in a word, they have 
been self-centred, everything has re- 
volved. around the Ego. -And_ so 
their talents and opportunities hayve- 
been of little use to the world and of 
little good even to themselves; for 
ii is a law of our being and of the 
world in which we live that no life 
is of worth that does not benefit 
other lives. 
Are we going back to the Dark 
Ages and the times when examina- 
tion by torture was the custom? It 
would seem so, if the ‘‘Third de- 
gree’’ is not suppressed; that such a 
practice should be tolerated for a 
moment is a reflection upon our 
modern civilization that every right- 
minded person must resent. It is a 
survival of barbarism. 
That there is a tendency even in 
the highest civilizations to savage- 
ness and brutality has often been ob- 
served, and finds illustration in the 
last days of the-Roman empire and 
in the French Revolution; and if 
sente reports are to: be eredited, our 
own time seems to be no exception. 
Cne could not but lose heart some- 
times, if human remedial agencies 
and mere eivilizing forces were all 
we could depend upon, if the gospel 
according to Buckle and Spencer 
vere the only hope of the world. 
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