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The Energy of Maung Ngae
By Robert Bruce Thurber
A Mission Story of Real Life
By Robert Bruce Thurber
OUR fellow missionaries brought us a boy who said he wanted to work. We have had many such boys come to us who had never put their hands to anything in the way of labor, and a few hours of ordinary work have banished the idea from their minds. But Maung Ngae was said to be exceptional — and we found him so. He was an orphan, and had attended a Catholic school in Mandalay; but he left it because he wanted to work. With most boys, this means to us that they want money; but we decided to try this one.
We had a servant with whom we were very much dissatisfied. He stole from us, but we couldn't catch him doing it. The first night Maung Ngae was with us, the servant took my bicycle outside, saying he would clean it. It was unusual for him to do anything without being told, and especially at such a time; but we thought he was spurring up at the prospect of a rival. A few minutes later, my attention was called to the fact that both boys were gone. We hurried out, and found Maung Ngae returning. He said the servant was running away with the bicycle. I sent him racing down the road after the fellow, and I followed on. Soon I met both of them coming back, with our newcomer in possession of the wheel. Thereupon the servant was summarily dismissed. Maung Ngae had tried to prevent the theft, was strangled into silence, and beaten with the large air-pump till it was bent and broken.
This rather dramatic entrance into our acquaintance made a place in our hearts for the boy. His energy soon marked him. He actually stumbled over his own feet in order to reach work in a hurry. He went at it as if it were something good to eat. Before we got through telling him what to do, he had begun to do it. His fault lay in his impetuosity, and he made many exasperating mistakes. He used the dish towel for a rope, and the water pitcher for a dipper; but we had a boy before who strained the soup through what might be called his handkerchief, and so were used to such blunders. What a refreshing it was to have a helper who was anxious to work! It was like getting a breeze from a cooler clime.
Just before sunset on Sabbath afternoons, we gathered the boys into one of the schoolrooms and told the wonderful and fascinating story of God's dealings with men. Maung Ngae early wanted a Bible of his own, and carefully patched up with paper an old song-book that was given him. In these meetings, he sat on the edge of the seat, head bent forward and mouth and eyes wide open. The truth sank into his very soul, and he grew into a lover of Jesus. He was first in his testimony for God, and in the lead among the candidates for baptism.
But Maung Ngae's impulsiveness might lead him as quickly out of the truth as into it. The Lord has sent him some severe setbacks to help harness his ardor. He was looking forward to the reopening of school, that he might learn — his overmastering ambition. But he was suddenly taken sick, and it was found that he must undergo a very painful operation. For many long weeks, he lay on his back at the hospital, with his Bible on the pillow by his head. Those were days of trial and triumph. It was in the midst of the hottest hot season we have had for years, but he always had a smile and a pleasant word for his friends, and talked his blessed hope to his fellow inmates in the ward of pain.
At last he came out with his discretion increased and his energy not diminished. Then we found that his father was Chinese. This explains the energy, and does not detract from the prospect of Maung Ngae's becoming an efficient worker for the Burmese people.
The Father's Part
By The Congregationalist
WE would not for a moment underrate the great, noble influence exercised by the true mother; but the father also has a peculiar province in the guiding and educating of the child. The word of God lays more rather than less responsibility on the father than on the mother.
Until children reach the age of seven or perhaps ten years, they are usually more under the mother's influence and guidance; and if she be wise, she can hold them with ease. But when boys begin to associate more with older boys, it takes considerable manliness to keep them above heeding the sneer, 'Tied to his mother's apron strings!' If a lad can say with emphasis, 'My father says thus,' and if that father commands his respect, much weight is gained on the side of right. Even tho there may be, in the heart of every boy, a latent chivalry to women, yet with lads of a certain age it is not so easy to arouse as an ideal of manliness.
When girls reach the age of fourteen and upwards, tho their mother may be to them the type of love and goodness, the companionship and advice of their father will prove of still greater power over them. If he can walk, drive, or read with them, and discuss their studies and amusements, his society may be a lifelong stimulus and benefit. Fathers, be not so engrossed in amassing wealth to leave to children, that the child himself is lost to you and to the world.— The Congregationalist.
An Object-Lesson
An object-lesson in admonition is often more efficacious than storms of reproach. One day the colonel of an American regiment noticed a soldier on parade wearing a badly soiled pair of gloves.
"Corporal," said the officer, "why do you set the men such a bad example as appearing before them in dirty gloves? Why is it?"
"I've had no pay, sir, since I entered the service," returned the corporal. "I can't afford to have them done up."
The colonel drew from his pocket a pair of gloves, spotlessly white. Handing them to the corporal, he said quietly: "Put these on. I washed them myself."
It was a lesson for the whole regiment.
Avoid Making Others Uncomfortable
By Annie Laurie
I RODE down-town with a fidgety woman this morning.
The car was crowded, and the fidgety woman and I sat together on a little narrow seat — at least I sat; the fidgety woman fidgeted.
She trotted her feet, and fussed with her veil, and dropped her pocketbook, and rearranged her skirtcoat. She frowned, and cleared her throat, and turned around and looked out of the window on the right side of the car, then she flounced back and looked out of the window on the left side of the car.
Then she got a letter out and read it. Then she went to making notes on the envelope of the letter. Then she dropped her pencil and couldn't reach it, and a lanky boy across the aisle tried to get it for her, and turned red when two girls next to him giggled at his efforts.
Dear me, I thought, I wish she wouldn't fidget so; and then all at once, when I went to move, I found out that the sharp edge of a little box I was carrying had been poking right into the fidgety one's side, and that I had ridden at least two miles with my foot planted firmly on her dress.
No wonder she fidgeted.
I wonder if that isn't the way we do a good many times — blame people for fidgeting when we're the one who is making them fidget.
I know a man who says his wife nags him.
She does nag him. If you knew the man, you'd wonder how she had patience enough to live with him at all.
Have you a fidgety husband? Take notice; perhaps you're the one that's making him fidgety. Have you a sensitive friend who is always having her feelings hurt? Look out; you may have a particularly irritating way.
I suppose that fidgety woman hated the very sight of me all the way down in the car, and I sat there and wondered what on earth was the matter with her.
The next time I sit next to a fidgety woman, I am going to take a great deal of pains to make sure that I am not the one who is making her fidget. — Annie Laurie.
Light and Noise
By Cara S. Park
A MAN who knew little about electricity, had his house wired and a battery installed for the ringing of various bells. He thought that if a battery could ring a bell, it could make a light; and so he proceeded to run the wires up into his study. Then he adjusted a globe in the fashion of an electric light, turned on the current, and was greatly disappointed to find that he got no light.
About that time, an electrician came in, and seeing his predicament, said, "What is the matter?" "I don't know. I have a battery here that has been ringing all the bells for a long time, and it has never failed me. So I thought that it would light my study. I tried and failed." The electrician looked at him, and said, "Don't you know that it takes more power to make a light than it does to make a noise?" — Cara S. Park.
Under the Law or Under Grace?
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That question of "Under the law? or under grace?" is a constantly recurring one. Bible Students' Library tract No. 163 gives a careful answer from the Bible. Single copy, 2 cents; a hundred, $1.00. This office.
The Missionary Idea
By Mrs. A. E. Ellis
BY MRS. A. E. ELLIS
THIS little volume aims to be a suggestive help to every missionary worker whose heart has been touched with a sense of the world's need.
Part One is designed to stimulate a healthy interest in missionary work, both "Home" and "Foreign." Each of the 16 subjects is arranged in the form of a "Lesson" with carefully prepared questions.
Part Two consists of contributed, selected, and arranged matter which, besides its inspiring character, will suggest to the thoughtful reader ways in which missionary information may constantly be gathered and missionary sentiment encouraged.
Part Three gives an outline of the work done in mission fields since 1874, with a brief history of each mission and outline map of the more important.
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