HAND-SHAKING is a power. The politician employs it with effect to win votes. The Devil's recruiting officers make free and constant use of it. The church only is chary in its employment. In the heartiness of their greetings, the saloons try to make it appear that the churches are cold, and have no cordial welcome for those who drop into their meetings. The result is that the saloons have gained, and the churches lost, many a promising, warm-hearted, socially inclined young man. A warm grasp of the hand might have retained them. The cordial feeling is in the churches. There is more real warmth in them than in the saloons, but the members have not been trained to show it. Let it be manifested. Organize a hand-shaking brigade, if necessary, of every member of the church. Stop after the prayer-meeting a little, for practice. Don't shoot for the door as if you were glad to get out of such a place. But don't shake hands as a mere formality—put your heart into it.—S. S. Times.