CHILDREN are not born Christians. They may pray with you at the family altar. Let them keep up the practise taught them from their babyhood, but remember there comes a time when God calls for the hearts of your children, and unless a definite step is taken then, and a definite surrender made, you have no right to look upon them as Christians.
A view of the ruins of the Sanitarium after the great fire of February 18. The building in the distance is the dormitory, now, together with the three large buildings formerly owned by the college, used as a Sanitarium. It is said that notwithstanding the fire, the Sanitarium was able to care for more than one hundred of its three hundred guests. Workers are taking hold of the work of rebuilding nobly. The employees are each giving all they earn, except sufficient for board and room. Many souls are responding with liberal offerings for the continuation of the noble philanthropic work of the institution. Photographs of this scene may be obtained by addressing B. O. Bacheller, Battle Creek, Mich.
It seems to me that the reason our churches are filled with young people who know little or nothing of the joy of the Lord is that back in their lives somewhere they were encouraged to do as Christians do without coming to Christ as a sinner and receiving a sinner’s pardon. A mistake made here may not only rob them of years of blessing, as it did me, but it may rob them of life eternal.—Mrs. Wm. Gibb.
