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KANSAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. 5 Perfection to be Aimed at. Alas! we khow very well that ideals can never be completly embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a very great way off, and we will right thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager production of reality" in this poor world of ours. We will esteem him no wise man; we will esteem him a sickly, discontented, foolish man.

And yet, on the other hand, it is never to be forgotten that ideals do exist; that if they be not approximated to at all the whole matter goes to wreck! Infallibly. No bricklayer builds a wall perfectly perpendicular, mathemtically this is not possible; a certain degree of perpendicularity suffices him; and he like a good bricklayer, who must have done with his job, leaves it 80. And yet, if he sway too much from the perpendicular, above all, if he throw plummet and level quite away from him, and pile on brick heedless, just as it comes to hand, such bricklayer, I think, is in a bad way. He has forgotten himself; but the law of gravitation does not forget to act on him; he and his wall rush down into confused welter of -Carlyle. God's Claims Upon Us.

The claim of God to Christ's service is the claim that rests upon us all. The Lord did not die to give us an portunity for self-seeking. We are not here on a vacation from God. He sends every man of wealth forth to be a savior of bis fellow- and the business man who fails to be a little Ohrist to the world has made a disastrous and irreparable business failure. A man of business has no more right to make personal profit the supreme purpose of his store, his shop, his carital.

his factory, his railway, than Jesus had to work miracles for personal profit. We have no more right than our Lord to direct our social, domestic, or financial affairs for personal ends. The Christian has no more right to an unconsecrated horse, or house, or dress than Ohrist to an unconsecrated cross. We are not our own; we are bought with a price; and nothing short of an unreserved surre der of self-interest to God's interest in humanity is moral or just. Not to be self-sacrificing in other's service is injustice.

To be unloving, even to the unlovable, is to be George D. Herron. How Old Must I Be? "Mother," a little child once said, "mother, how old must I be before I can become a christian?" And the wise mother answered, old will you have to be, darling, before you can love me?" "Why, mother, I always loved you. I do now, and I always shall;" and she kissed her mother. "But you have not told me yet how old I shall have to be." The mother made answer with another question: "How old must you be before yon can trust yourself wholly to me and my care?" "I always did," she answered, and kissed her mother again.

"But tell me what I want to know," she climbed into her mother's lap and put her arms about her neck. The mother asked again: "How old will you have to be before you can do what I want you to do." Then the child whispered, half guessing what the mother meant, "I can now, without growing any older." Then her mother said, "You can be a christian now, my darling, without growing any older." Then her mother said, "You can be a christian now, my darling, without waiting to be older. All you have to do is to love, and trust, and try to please One who says, 'Let the little ones come unto Don't you want to begin now." The child whispered, "yes." Then they both knelt down, and the mother prayed, and in her prayer she gave to Ohrist her little one who wanted to be -Revivalist. A Cheerful Face. Next to the sunlight of heaven is the cheerful face.

There is no mistaking it--the bright eye, the unclouded brow, the sunny smile, all tell of that which dwells within. Who has not felt its electrifying influence? One glance at this face lifts us out of the mists and shadows into the beautiful realm of hope. One cheerful face in the household will keep everything warm and light within. It may be a very plain face, but there is something in it we feel but cannot express; and its cheery smile sends the blood dancing through the veins for very joy. There is a world of blessed magic in the plain, cheerful face, and we would not exchange it for all the soulless beauty that ever graced the fairest form on earth.

It may be a very little face, but somehow it shines, and the shining 18 80 bright the ehadows cannot remain, and silently they creep away into the dark corners. It may be a wrinkled face, but it is all the dearer for that, and none the less cheerful. We linger near it and gaze tenderly upon it, and say, "God bless this dear, happy face!" We must keep it with us a8 long as we can, for home will lose much of its brightness when this sweet face is gone. And after it is gone, how the remembrance of it softens our wayward natures! When care and sorrow snap our heart-strings asunder, this wrinkled face looks down upon us, and the painful tension grows lighter, and the way seems less dreary and the sorrows less heavy. God bless the cheerful face! What a dreary world this would be without this heaven- -Exchange.

A Distinction. "Yes, I suppose you may call Eben a successful man. He does a good business, but to my mind he isn't prosperous." So said Mrs. Tracy to her sister, who had congratulated her on the purchase of a mill which he was thought to have bought at a bargain. "Wen," returned her sister, "it seems to me, everything he touches comes out just right.

He's the busiest man in town." "That's just it," retorted Mrs. Tracy "He's busy, and he succeeds in his doings, but that isn't prospering--not as I understand it. You see," con- tinued, "when we were first married he leased the little woolen mill on the stream, and we got along first rate. He wasn't overbusy, and we used to ride around together every afternoon and have lots of company and good times. "But he began to make money, and buy more wool and more mills to take care of, and more storehouses to put it in, until it takes about all his time to get from one mill to the other.

Sometimes I see him on a Sunday, but he is generally busy resting up to start again. He's about as much a slave as if he was chained in a galley." "Yes, but he does make money," said her sister. "Well, perhaps so, but it all goes to buy more wool. If anybody hankers for lots of wool in this world, that's one thing. Eben has any amount of wool, but when it comes to getting the real solid goodness out of life and enjoying it, he's forgotten how to do it.

Really, as I look at it, Eben is the most unprosperous man in Companion. The chimney has as much to do with the light as the lamp has. There is only one make of good lamp-chimneys; there are many of poor ones. Macbeth is the good one, the only one advertised, the only one worth advertising. Obituary, KURTZ.

-Abraham Kurtz was born Feb. 25, 1836, in Huntington Co. Penn. Died April'8 1896, aged 60 years 1 month and 14 days. He was married to his now bereaved wife on Feb.

4 1858. He was converted in his seventh year and united with the M. E. church. He was steward, trustee, Sunday School Superintendent, and class leader, at the time of his death at Spring Branch Woodston Circuit.

He had a clear evidence of his acceptance with Christ. At times he shouted the praises of God, and in triumph he peacefully passed to a blissful immortality. He leaves a daughters, two sisters, four brothers, one of whom is Rev. I. Kurtz of Alton.

He came to Kansas, Osborne county, in 1888 and located on the farm on which he died. His home was always made welcome to the preacher. The writer preached by request his funeral sermon, from Heb. 5:16. J.

G. H. ARMITSTEAD. Mary J. Kapp, was born Aug.

4 1854, came with her parents from Missouri to Kansas in the fall of '64, was married to her now bereaved husband April 12, 1875, died at her home near Ottawa April 17, 1896, of pneumonia. She leaves a husband, four children two brothers and one sister, beside a large circle of friends to mourn her loss. But what the church and community has lost, has been heaven's gain. She was converted and joined the church when 16 years old. Thus for 25 years she has been a living witness to the world of Jesus' power Ito save.

The funeral was held at the Wesley chapel, M. E. church, North Ottawa charge, on the 18th. Her funeral sermon was preached by Rev. R.

U. Ramsburg, a former pastor, from Psalms 17:15. assisted by Rev. IL. M.

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