Be Careful of Your Criticisms.
A WRITER says, "A few years ago I heard a sermon from a young man just beginning to preach. Had it been delivered in a classroom for criticism, it would have been severely handled. But it was a Gospel sermon, having the throb of real life in it; and it touched, among others, the heart of a bright girl of fifteen. After service I met her parents at the church door, and walked home with the three members of the family. We had gone only a little way, when the father remarked that he thought that young fellow should go back to the farm, if he could not preach better than that. Thereupon the daughter felt ashamed at being wrought up by such an inferior discourse and so banished the seriousness from her mind. She is now about twenty, fond of trashy novels and worldly amusements. Had that father, instead of looking at the sermon from the standpoint of a critic, judged of it from the standpoint of his daughter's need of Christ, and followed her serious impressions with serious words and importunate prayers of his own, he might to-day have been able to look back over six years spent by her in loving and serving the Lord."—Selected. Testimonies for the Church. By Mrs. E. G. White. Bound in eight volumes, of from 300 to 770 pages each, each volume containing a complete index of subjects. Volume 1 contains a brief sketch of the early life and Christian experience of the writer of the Testimonies, together with Testimonies Nos. 1 to 14. Volume 2 contains Testimonies Nos. 15 to 20. Volume 3 contains Testimonies Nos. 21 to 25. Volume 4 contains Testimonies Nos. 26 to 30. Volume 5 contains Testimonies Nos. 31 to 33. Volume 6 contains Testimony No. 34. Volume 7 contains Testimony No. 35, price, 75 cents. Volume 8 contains Testimony No. 36, price, 75 cents. Bound in cloth, per volume, $1.00; Full set, eight volumes, cloth, $7.50. Volumes 1 to 6 are obtainable in limp leather, with round corners, per volume, $1.50. Volumes 7 and 8 are also bound in limp leather, price each, $1.25. Education.—The object of true education and how it may be realized by the youth, the parent, the teacher, the writer, the tiller of the soil, and the business man, is the great theme of this book. Its first chapter is devoted to First Principles; following that are illustrations taken from the history of Israel. Master Teacher, Nature Teaching, the Bible as an Educator, Physical Culture, Character Building, the Under Teacher, and the Higher Course, are titles of other chapters. 321 pages. Cloth, $1.25. Address this office.