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EVANGELICAL VISITOR. MARRIED. -Married at the home of the bride at Souderton, Pa, March 1, 1902, by Rev. B. F.

Luckenbill, Milton S. Moyer to Elsie C. Gerhart, all of Souderton, Pennsylvania. -On March 19, 1902, at the home of Nancy Schmeidendorf, Preston, Elder John officiating, Mr. Oliver Cassel and Sister Matilda Wismer, all of Preston, were united in holy wedlock.

VARNER-On May 15th, 1901, twin children were born to Daniel and Mary Varner of Waynsboro, Adam Benoni died Aug. 16, and Beula Eva on Nov. 2nd. Funeral service was conducted by the Brethren Samuel Wingert and Jerome Burk. Interment at the Ringold church cemetery.

"Wake up my muse, condole the loss Of those who mourn this day; Let tears run down on every face, And every mourner pray. "The tyrant death came rushing in, And here, his power to show, With icy hand, he touched this child, And laid its visage low. "No more the pleasant child is seen, To please the parent's eye: The tender plant so fresh and green, Is in eternity." OUR DEAD. HEISEY-Died in Florin, Lancaster March 13, I902, Sister Sarah S. Heisey, wife of Joseph W.

Heisey, who died eleven years ago, Her age was 63 years, 6 months, and 4 days, She was converted and united with the Brethren many years ago, and led an exemplary christian life. She always had an open heart and hand in helping the needy. She leaves four brothers and two sisters to mourn their loss. Brother Henry and Bro. Levi Heisey, of Cumberland Bro.

Daniel and Christian Heisey, of Florin, Lancaster Sister Mary, wife of Benjamine Heisey, Lancaster, and Sister Lydia Heisey of the M. R. B. Home, Harrisburg, Pa. Funeral services were held at Cross Roads meeting house on March 16th and interment at Reich's cemetery.

Funera services were conducted by Elders Henry Hoffer and Aaron Martin. Text Rev. 7:16,17 The one stupendous fact which makes Easter the day of days for human faith and is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and hope in it the abolition of death in its dominion all whose life is hid with Christ in God. over To those who do not feel the thrill of this and the pulsations of this resurthought rection life, Easter is only an empty name. Selected.

THEN the sinking Captain steamer Murrell came Denmark, up with he had to decide between freight and people. The question was, "'Shall I save my bales of rags and let the people go down, or shall I throw over my rags, and save the people? It took the noble captain but a moment to decide. Over went the rags, and the people were saved. There are in this world thousands of sinking ships. They are morally and spiritually water-logged.

They are going down in an ocean of despair, unless rescue comes. With many Christians it is simply a question between precious souls and dollars. The church of Christ is not poor today. It is loaded down with money in the pockets of not a few cf its members. It is a question between rags and souls.

When you win a soul to God, you have transmuted your opportunity into immortality. Time, money, and talents may be so invested as to yield results for A. C. Dixon. RAGS OR SOULS.

What an awful difference there is in the look of a sin before you do it and afterwards! Before I do it, the thing to be gained seems so attractive, and the transgression that gains it seems so comparatively insignificant. Yes! and when I have done it, the two alter places; the thing that I win by it seems so insignificant; and the thing that I did to win it dilates into such awful magnitude! For instance, suppose that you or I anything that we know to be wrong, tempted to it by a momentary indulgence of some mere animal impulse. By the very nature of the case it dies in its satisfaction, and the desire dies along with it. We do not want it any more when we. once have got it.

It lasts but a moment and then is past; then we are left alone with the thought of the thing that we have done. When we get the price of our wrong-doing we find out that it it not as all-satisfying as we expected it would be. Every wrong thing that we do, whether big or little, will be like some of those hollow images of the gods that one hears of in barbarous temples; looked at in front, fair; but when you get behind them you will find a hollow, full of dust and spiders' webs and unclean things. -Alexander Mac- Thanksgiving is one of the most beneficent forces in forming character. It begets cheerfulness, content, radiance of face, and heartiness of human intercourse.

The man who is bent on discharging his debt in the way of the recognition of the kindly services of which every day he is the beneficiary, is sure to get a keener eye for the good about him, in others and in the world. The more sunshine he gives away, the sunnier will his own life become. Thanksgiving is one of these things of which it is true that, the more you give away, the more you have remaining, and for two reasons, -the giving is self-replenishing, and the giver is more and more filled with the thanksgiving of others. -Selected. We are living we are dwelling In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling To be living is sublime.

Hark the rumbling in the nations Iron crumbling with the clay Hark what soundeth, 'tis creation Groaning for a better day. Scoffers scorning, heaven beholding, Thou hast but an hour to fight; See prophetic truth unfolding, Watch and keep Thy garments white, Oh let all the soul within you, For the truth's sake go abroad; Strike let every nerve and sinew Tell on ages, tell for God. Selected. "It is impossible tolive any better than you believe." We Sell the Holman 3 Family, Reference, Pulpit, Cext, Devotional, Pocket, Ceachers', Hand and New Pictorial Teachers' 8 Bibles Testaments, Bible Dictionary, Linear Teachers' Bible. Write for our Catalogue.

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