Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 25. (6/23/1910)

Review and Herald

Jun 23, 1910

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 23, 1910

CONSIDER HIM

Go to dark Gethsemane, Ye that feel the tempter’s power; Your Redeemer’s conflict see, Watch with Him one little hour. Turn not from His grief away, Learn from Him to watch and pray.

See Him in the judgment-hall, Beaten, bound, reviled, arraigned; See Him meekly bearing all; Love to man His soul sustained. Shun not suffering, shame, and loss, Learn of Christ to bear the cross.

Calvary’s mournful mountain view, There the Lord of glory see; Made a sacrifice for you, Dying on the accursed tree. “It is finished,” hear him say; Trust in Christ, and learn to pray.

— Selected.

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The Test of Faith and Sincerity

By Ellen G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE

RIGHTEOUSNESS is right doing, and it is by their deeds that all will be judged. Our characters are revealed by what we do. The works show whether the faith is genuine.

It is not enough for us to believe that Jesus is not an impostor, and that the religion of the Bible is no cunningly devised fable. We may believe that the name of Jesus is the only name under heaven whereby man may be saved, and yet we may not through faith make him our personal Saviour. It is not enough to believe the theory of the truth. It is not enough to make a profession of faith in Christ and have our names registered on the church-roll. “He that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.” “Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.” This is the genuine evidence of conversion. Whatever our profession, it amounts to nothing unless Christ is revealed in works of righteousness.

In the sermon on the mount Christ said, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” The test of sincerity is not in words, but deeds. Christ does not say to any man, “What say ye more than others?” but “What do ye more than others?” Full of meaning are his words, “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” Words are of no value unless they are accompanied by appropriate deeds.

Saying and Doing

This is the lesson taught in the parable of the two sons. In the parable the son who said, “I go, sir,” represented himself as faithful and obedient, but time proved that his profession was not real. He had no true love for his father. So the Pharisees prided themselves on their holiness, but when tested, it was found wanting. Of them Christ declared, “Do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.”

Self-righteousness is not true righteousness, and those who cling to it will be left to take the consequences of holding a fatal deception. Many to-day claim to obey the commandments of God, but they have not the love of God in their hearts to flow forth to others. Christ calls them to unite with him in his work for the saving of the world, but they content themselves with saying, “I go, sir.” They do not co-operate with those who are doing God’s service. They are idlers. Like the unfaithful son, they make false promises to God. In taking upon themselves the solemn covenant of the church, they have pledged to receive and obey the Word of God, to give themselves to God’s service; but they do not do this. In profession they claim to be sons of God, but in life and character they deny the relationship. They do not surrender the will to God. They are living a lie.

In the command, “Go work to-day in my vineyard,” the test of sincerity is brought to every soul. Will there be deeds as well as words? Will the one called put to use all the knowledge he has, working faithfully, disinterestedly, for the Owner of the vineyard?

The Heavenly Ladder

The apostle Peter instructs us as to the plan on which we must work. “Grace and peace be multiplied unto you,” he says, “through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. “And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.” If you cultivate faithfully the vineyard of your soul, God will make you a laborer together with himself. And you will have a work to do not only for yourself, but for others. In representing the church as the vineyard, Christ does not teach that we are to restrict our sympathies and labors to our own numbers. The Lord’s vineyard is to be enlarged. In all parts of the earth he desires it to be extended. As we receive the instruction and grace of God, we should impart to others a knowledge of how to care for the precious plants. Thus we may extend the vineyard of the Lord. God is watching for evidences of our faith, love, and patience. He is looking to see if we are using every spiritual advantage to become skilful workers in his vineyard on earth, that we may enter the paradise of God, that Eden home from which Adam and Eve were excluded by transgression.

Service to Our Father

God stands toward his people in the relation of a father, and he has a father’s claim to our faithful service. Consider the life of Christ. Standing at the head of humanity, serving his Father, he is an example of what every son should and may be. The obedience that Christ rendered, God requires from human beings to-day. He served his Father in love, with willingness and freedom. “I delight to do thy will, O my God,” he declared; “yea, thy law is within my heart.” Christ counted no sacrifice too great, no toil too hard, in order to accomplish the work which he came to do. At the age of twelve he said, “Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” He had heard the call, and had taken up the work. “My meat,” he said, “is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”

Thus we are to serve God. He only serves who acts up to the highest standard of obedience. All who would be sons and daughters of God must prove themselves coworkers with Christ and God and the heavenly angels. This is the test for every soul. Of those who faithfully serve him, the Lord says, “They shall be mine, . . . in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.”

Opportunity to Develop Character

God’s great object in the working out of his providences is to try men, to give them opportunity to develop character. Thus he proves whether they are obedient or disobedient to his commands. Good works do not purchase the love of God, but they reveal that we possess that love. If we surrender the will to God, we shall not work in order to earn God’s love. His love as a free gift will be

received into the soul, and from love to him we shall delight to obey his commandments.

There are only two classes in the world to-day, and only two classes will be recognized in the Judgment,—those who violate God’s law, and those who obey it. Christ gives the test by which we prove our loyalty or disloyalty. ‘If ye love me,’ he says, ‘keep my commandments. . . . He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. . . . He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.’ ‘If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.’

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH

By John Norton Loughborough

The Two Thrones—No. 3

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH

HAVING called attention to the throne of the Father, the reign of Christ upon that throne, and the termination of that fierce reign of grace, we will now note what is meant by Christ's own throne. In the announcement made to Mary respecting the birth of Jesus, we read: “He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.” Luke 1: 32, 33. Surely this kingdom can not be the one that he delivers up to his Father; for that rule comes to an end, as was shown in our last article.

Respecting Christ's kingdom and reign upon his own throne, we read in the Psalms: “Also I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.” “His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.” Ps. 89: 27-29, 36, 37.

As to the time when he takes his own kingdom, we read in Matt. 25: 31-34, 41: “When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. . . . Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” Surely there is no intimation in this scripture that when Christ takes his kingdom, there is to be a greater ingathering of sinners to his fold than ever before. The language speaks of “all nations;” and they are grouped in two classes, here represented by sheep and goats. Is there some other class to find special favor who are neither sheep nor goats—neither righteous nor wicked?

In the book of Revelation we have presented to us another view of Christ's second coming, in these words: “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords.” Rev. 19: 11-16. As expressed in Ps. 2: 8, 9: “Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.” This scene surely gives no intimation of a continuance of Christ's priesthood after his coming.

In the symbolic view given to the prophet Daniel respecting the setting up of Christ's kingdom, the stone smote the image upon the feet. Then the image was broken to pieces, and became as the chaff of the summer's threshing-floor, and no place was found for it. The material of that image, representing the governments of earth, is composed of the people. They are not converted into stone, but swept away like chaff in the wind. This is explained to the prophet to represent the setting up of the kingdom of Christ. It does not say, as a world's-conversion minister professed to quote it for his theory, “The stone smote the image, and rolled, and rolled until the whole image was converted into stone.”

Concerning the situation when Christ, having finished his priesthood, shall finally appear, we read: “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” Rev. 22: 11, 12. This language shows that just before Christ's actual appearance, the mandate goes forth in heaven that there is no more opportunity for securing pardon. Christ will then have closed his reign as a priest upon his Father's throne. Of that time we read, in Luke 13: 25, 27: “When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: . . . depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.”

The kingdom of Christ is first organized in the New Jerusalem. He has gone to prepare a place for his people, and, as expressed to his disciples, “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:3. In old Jerusalem there was a temple where a service was performed, shadowing forth Christ's priestly work in the heavenly city; but, in contrast with that, when the New Jerusalem kingdom is established, we are plainly told, “And I saw no temple therein.” Rev. 21:22. No work as priest will be carried on by Christ in that city; for his mediatorial work ceases when he resigns his priestly position on his Father's throne.

Lodi, Cal.

The Ordinance of Humility

By E. W. WEBSTER

E. W. WEBSTER

There are many who wonder why the instruction in the thirteenth chapter of John is not obeyed by the churches to-day, while other honest souls have never had their attention called to it. Still others reject it entirely, because it is not agreeable to the natural heart, excusing their disobedience on the ground that all that is necessary, and all that the Lord requires, is merely that his children be humble enough to do it, but that the act itself is not really commanded.

Just preceding the occasion on which this instruction was given, the disciples had been disputing about which should have the highest place in the kingdom; they were not clean of heart, nor fit to receive the bread and the wine which Christ was about to give them, emblems of true communion,—a thing they were not really enjoying. Instead, there was alienation and dissension. Jesus desired to wash all this away, and at the same time establish an ordinance for the church that would always take away similar feelings and conditions, and prepare the participants for the communion service.

It was the custom of the Jews to have the service of feet-washing performed before partaking of the passover supper. But because of the feeling in their hearts toward one another on this occasion, each apostle refused to perform this duty. Jesus waited a while, to see if they would do it. Then he, their Lord and Master, did what was their duty. He washed the feet of Judas first. This act of humility and love nearly melted the heart of Judas; but soon his feelings rebelled as he saw the Saviour so humble himself, and he decided not to own him

longer, and immediately gave himself over to Satan.

When Jesus came to Peter, that disciple said, proudly, “Dost thou wash my feet?” Jesus answered, “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.” From these words it is plain that the Saviour was doing something more than merely washing the feet of his disciples; there was more in it than the outward menial act involved. “Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.” Jesus did not say, “If I wash not thy feet, thou hast no part with me;” but, “If I wash thee not.” Then the washing of the feet is emblematic of a higher spiritual washing and cleansing. Peter saw it, and surrendered his pride and self-will, saying, “Not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.” He might have said, “And my heart, too;” for that was what was really done. This yielding to the Lord’s way in this matter was a surrender of heart on the part of the disciples which enabled the Saviour to say of them, “Ye are clean.” All were clean but Judas, who would not yield his heart to be cleansed.

After he had washed their feet, Jesus said, “Know ye what I have done to you?” Certainly they knew he had washed their feet. His question implies that something more had been done,—there had been a cleansing of heart from pride and self-importance. He was their Lord and Master, the Creator of heaven and earth, yet he did not esteem himself too high and important to do an act of humble service. Should they? Should we? What a rebuke to pride, jealousy, and arrogance!

Now come the words that establish this act as an ordinance of the church: “If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.” Ought is a command, an obligation. “For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.” Verse 15. If here is something we should do, how can we comply with the instruction without performing the act? An example is something for us to follow.

Notice the statement of the blessing that is in this ordinance: “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” Not, Happy are ye if ye think or say ye are humble enough to do them, but, “Happy are ye if ye do them.” How many blessings and joys are lost because this soul-cleansing, heart-melting ordinance is not observed more generally in its true spirit and meaning! Of this it might truly be said, “I will show thee my faith by my works.”

Though the disciples had before been perfectly cleansed physically, it was necessary now to cleanse away the lesser uncleanness of dust, that they might be fit bodily for the holy service they were about to engage in. Even so, they had once been cleansed from the great life-sin, when they accepted the Saviour; but there had been many lesser defilements since then, and before they were prepared for the bread and the wine,—emblems which typified a unity with one another and with Christ’s Spirit,—they must be cleansed again.

So we were once cleansed by Jesus in baptism (Acts 22:16; 1 Peter 3:21), when we accepted him; but since then we have committed sins and are defiled thereby, many times finding ourselves unclean. However, we are not thereby entirely separated from God and cast off forever from being his children; but we need cleansing again before we are prepared to take the emblems that typify a perfect unity with his holy, sinless life. The ordinance of feet-washing, coming before the communion service, gives time and opportunity to have everything cleansed from the heart and life that would unfit us for the latter holy service; and if rightly used, it is a great blessing to those who engage in it. Hearts are melted, lives and interests united.

But the ordinance of feet-washing was given to the church for another purpose also. Paul exhorts the believers thus: “Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself.” Phil. 2:5-8, A. R. V. After he became a man, he still further humbled himself,—he stooped so low as to become a servant of sinful men, and to wash the feet of servants, who were too proud and haughty to do that humble act themselves.

His coming to this earth, becoming a man, and suffering for us was as much a part of the work of salvation as his death on the cross, or his burial and resurrection. Why not as worthy of a memorial as the other two events? He gave us memorials of his death in the bread and the wine (1 Cor. 11:23-26), and of his burial and resurrection in baptism (Rom. 6:5-6); why not one also for his great humility? The ordinance of feet-washing is a constant reminder of this very important part of his work.

If all Christians in all churches had always followed this instruction, and practised this ordinance with its real significance continually in mind, how could pride and worldliness, jealousy and faultfinding, variance and alienation, arrogance and love of supremacy, ever have come into the church, and driven out so largely the meekness, humility, love, and unity that should ever mark the followers of Christ, and keep them separate from the world and its contaminating, blighting influences? It never could have been done. And as God’s people accept and practise this ordinance again, it will bring back the graces and virtues that will make them a peculiar people, and will fit them for a home, of love and harmony, joy and peace. May each of us have a part in this joy here and hereafter.

Seventh-day Adventists do not believe in or practise promiscuous washing of feet in the observance of this ordinance. They separate the congregation, the men washing the feet of the men, and the women the feet of the women, each class in a room by themselves. Wherever this sacred ordinance is observed, proper decorum, decency, and order should characterize the proceedings. With carefulness and circumspection let us serve the Lord in every ordinance of his house, being careful that we give none occasion for our good to be evil spoken of.

Orlando, Fla.

It Biteth Like an Adder

By DELWIN REES BUCKNER

DELWIN REES BUCKNER

SHAME on thee, boy, a-leaning over there, Unsteady, propped against the public bar! Thy straying feet indeed have wandered far If from thy mind hath slipped thy mother's prayer,— That prayer one evening, years ago at home, When thou didst promise on thy word that thou Wouldst not pollute thy lips with drink; yet now Thy mouth is lowered to drain the bubbling foam.

Recall thy vow, for conscience' sake, and dash The scarlet glass upon the polished floor. There is no loss, but gain. It is no sin E'en though the fragile vessel fall and crash Into a hundred jagged bits or more; For poison lurks — and speedy death — within.

Ambato, Ecuador.

The Value of Happiness

By R. L. Stevenson

A HAPPY person is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He is a radiating focus of good will, and his entrance into a room is as if another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether he can prove the forty-seventh proposition: he does a better thing,—he practically demonstrates the great theorem of the livableness of life. — R. L. Stevenson.

Life’s True Success

By B. P. Bourne

WE are going to be through this life before very long. The longest life is short when it is over; any time is short when it is done. The gates of time will swing to behind you before long. They will swing to behind some of us soon, but behind all of us before long. The important thing then will not be what appointments we had, or what rank in the conference, or anything of that sort—not what men thought of us, but what God thought of us, and whether we were built into his kingdom. And if, at the end of it all, we emerge from life’s work and discipline, crowned souls, at home anywhere in God’s universe, our life will have been a success.—B. P. Bourne.

How to Destroy Cockroaches

By A. E.

“SCAVENGERS of the household” is the name given to cockroaches in a recent number of Good Housekeeping. However, in homes that are neatly kept, their good offices are not desired; and it is well to know a sure way to rid the premises of their unwelcome presence. Pyrethrum powder, a dark-yellow powder made from daisies raised in California, is recommended as an excellent exterminator.

“The powder is not poisonous,” and can be purchased in any drug-store at from ten to fifteen cents a pound in bulk. The best way to rid a kitchen of roaches is to take out all articles that might be soiled by the powder, and then throw handfuls of it into the cracks and crannies where the roaches hide. In a minute or so they will be seen stumbling out of their retreats. They will tumble about and fall drunkenly. As a matter of fact, they are suffocating. Since they breathe through spiracles, or holes, along their sides, and not through their mouths, the powder enters into these spiracles when they attempt to run through it. After the kitchen has been well powdered, the doors and windows should be closed overnight. In the morning the dead roaches will be found lying scattered everywhere.”

Another excellent way to destroy cockroaches is to sprinkle the sink, shelves, and all cracks and corners thickly with powdered borax.

A. E.

How to Be Happy To-Day

By Elizabeth Town

If you were going to run a Marathon race, would you prepare for it by sleeping until the last minute, then tumbling out of bed in a hurry, throwing on anything that came handy, and starting off at your highest possible speed? If you did, you would certainly fall by the wayside before you had reached the halfway mark.

To every housewife each day is a little Marathon race with time. It is of the utmost importance how we get ready for that day, how we begin the race.

Man is threefold in being; woman, likewise. To live a successful day, the home-keeper must get her threefold being ready for her work. To begin well is half the race. To begin well is to make a successful day. To begin every day well sets a habit — the habit of success. Every human being desires to live a successful life, but we are too likely to forget that the successful life is made up of a succession of successful days.

It is very easy to make one day successful; and if you can make one day successful, you can make every day successful, with very few exceptions. Remember this, and take time to start your day aright.

When you wake up, wake up! Take a few physical exercises to set your blood circulating. You need not use over one or two minutes for these exercises. Select a few easy movements, which tend to correct the stooping which comes naturally to persons who are always working with their hands, and perform them in a room with raised windows:—

1. Bend your body backward and forward as far as you can, and sidewise.

2. Rotate it, hands and head limp, and hanging as far as possible.

3. Raise your arms above your head, inhaling as you do so, then bend downward at the waist and neck, knees straight, until your fingers touch the floor. See that your head bends downward with your arms, as far as possible. Exhale slowly as your body droops forward. This is a splendid exercise, but can not be done the first time, and should be practised with discretion by stout persons, and those who are delicate.

4. Stand in the corner, toes about sixteen inches out from the corner, hands on the two walls and level with your shoulders, one foot in advance of the other. Lean forward, arms level, chest just as far in the corner as possible without touching the walls, head and abdomen as far back as possible. As you lean forward, take a good, easy, full breath. Exhale as you step back. Repeat anywhere from five to ten times with the right foot forward, then five to ten times with left foot forward. The idea is to throw the chest out and upward as far as possible, bending head and abdomen back to correct the tendency to round shoulders.

Then bathe expeditiously, dress your hair neatly, and don a neat working dress, made for the purpose. See that your dress is fastened at the neck, your apron clean and whole. No woman can live a successful or wholly happy and useful day in rag-tag clothing.

Now, if you have put your attention and will into the minute or two of physical culture exercise, and have been expeditious and sensible in your bathing and dressing, you have occupied about fifteen minutes in getting your body ready for the day. The next step is to get mind and soul ready.

In doing well for your body, you have already done much to give mind and soul the right trend. Now take eight or ten minutes more to finish the work. Sit down quietly with your Bible, and open your spirit to God. Remember that you are getting ready to live a successful day in the most successful way, and that in order to do this you must have a new realization of power and wisdom for every emergency as it arises. God is ready to help you; it is for you to place yourself in an attitude to receive his blessing.

It is God in whom “we live, and move, and have our being,” and by whom we consist, by whom we are held together. As you sit quietly with him in the silence, think of him as directing your thoughts and your hands to something which will arouse and direct your inspiration for the day. Then open your Bible, and read for five minutes, either at random or where you left off last. Read leisurely, meditate, remembering that it is God’s thought which you are breathing into your soul and mind, to cleanse, regenerate, and direct you.

After your soul and mind are tuned for the day, the next thing is to plan your work.

Don’t plan too much.

Divide your day’s work up into three sections: First, absolute necessities; second, things that are almost necessary; and third, things that could go over to another day.

Put the fewest possible things in the first division, which of course includes your every-day household routine, getting the meals, etc. If you would live a successful day, this first division must contain, above all, several rest periods, which you should get in at certain intervals, no matter what happens; for you can no more live a successful day without breathing spells for the mind and soul than without breathing spells for the body.

Be very careful that you do not include as absolute necessities any of the things which can be turned over into sections two or three. These necessities are the things which you are going to do during the day, no matter what else goes undone.

In the second division of your day put the things that “really ought to be done,” but which could go undone.

In the third division put the frills which you want to do if you have time. This will give you a sense of proportion which will enable you to be satisfied with your day, even though many items of the second and third divisions go undone.

Make up your mind that the items in division one are to be done beautifully before you touch anything in divisions two or three.

In order to do a thing beautifully, you must have, first, time to do it in, all the time there is; second, power and wisdom to do it with; third, an ideal to work by. These things all belong to you inherently, and to every moment of your time. Decide what to do, and then do each one thing as if it were the only thing of importance in the world.

Put your whole interest and heart and soul into that one thing, and get all the fun out of it that you possibly can.

Unless you can enjoy doing each piece of your work, you are not doing it beautifully

and successfully. You are robbing yourself, and you are robbing those around you, who live upon your radiance as the planets live upon the radiance of our solar center. You are not only the housewife or home-keeper, you are a sun of light. Whenever you are grumbling or hurrying at your work, you are not shining.

To get joy out of the thing you are doing is the proof that you are doing it right.

That joy which you get out of doing is the reward of doing; and if you rob yourself of it, by hurrying or fretting, you are robbing also those you love.

Now you are ready to begin your day. Remember the Marathon runner who won, and begin easy. Concentrate upon getting ready for fifteen or eighteen minutes before breakfast, then begin your day easy until ten o’clock, and you have done three quarters of the work toward making a happy and successful day. The balance of the day will almost take care of itself. If you are doing your own housework, be sure to make your first duty after breakfast that of “tidying up.” Stack your dishes neatly, brush up your kitchen, put everything in place. Then begin with your living-room, and go clear through your house, putting everything in its exact place, dusting, using your carpet-sweeper.

Until you have made this little tidying up a habit, you have no idea what an amount of friction and unpleasant feeling it will save you. It is like having a clean new dress on! All day you carry in your subconsciousness the satisfaction gained from a sense of things being in order.

For years I followed this habit, and it took me not over ten or twenty minutes to go clear through my eight-room home, and put everything in order. I scanned everything again after the noon meal, and again before I went to bed. My children were taught to put things where they belonged, but in spite of that there was always a little tidying up to do after each invasion. No time spent on my housework was more satisfyingly remunerative than these little tours of tidying up. Hundreds of times I have thanked God and myself for the order of things when something unexpected has arisen. A sense of order is inherent in all life, and unless it is satisfied, one carries about a sort of guilty subconsciousness, which saps enthusiasm and power for whatever work one may be doing. Order is heaven’s first law, and every woman is happy while making a little heaven at home.

Lastly, remember to be thankful! Take a little quiet time for thanksgiving just before you go to bed; and as you go off to sleep, remember to be grateful, and to give yourself over completely to the care of Him who slumbers not nor sleeps. Tell yourself that you will sleep soundly and well, and that you will wake bright and full of interest.

These suggestions, faithfully carried out, will go a long way toward making every day a happy day in your home.—Elizabeth Town, in Good Housekeeping.

Christ in Me

By WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN

WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN

SPRING eternal, endless day, Life immortal and for aye, Radiant glory, joy divine, Waiteth for this soul of mine.

Hope secure and peace serene, Faith that views the yet Unseen, Love unfailing, grace divine, Strengtheneth this soul of mine.

Guide unerring, Saviour true, Who redeemed my birthright, too, Christ my Lord, and Friend divine, Dwelleth in this soul of mine.

Through him strengthened for the fray, By him guided all the way, With him waiting for the day, Lives this soul of mine.

Portland, Ore.

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