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lA.3srSA.S CSfiCSlSTrAJtT ADVOCATE. THE SABBATH SCHOOL, BY REV. R. L. SELLE.

so. Then the devil shouted, and the night of hell rang with joy. Luther. The armor of light. I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen.

Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. A lighthouse sounds no drum, it beats no gong; and yet ar over the waters its friendly spark is seen by the mariner. So let your actions shine out your religion. Let the main sermon of your life be illustrated by 'all your conduct, and it shall not fail to be illustrious. Spurgeon.

Verse 13. At the entrance of one of our college chapels lies a nameless grave; that grave covers the mortal remains of one of its most promising ellows, ruined through drink. A ew weeks ago a wretched clergyman came to me in deplorable misery, who had dragged down his family with him to ruin. What had ruined him? Drink. When I was at Cambridge one of the most promising scholars was a youth who years ago died in a London hospital, penniless, of delirium tremens, through drink.

When was at Kings College I used to sit next to a handsome youth, who grew up to be a brilliant writer; he died in the prime of life, a victim to drink. An eloquent philanthropist went down under this curse. These tragedies are daily happening because drink is one of the surest of the devils ways to man, and of mans ways to the devil. Archdeacon Farrar. Verse 14.

Clothe yourselves with the mind of Christ. If a thing reflects no light, it is black; if it reflects part of the rays, it is blue, or indigo, or red but if it reflects them all it is white. If we are like Christ we shall seek not to absorb, but to reflect upon others the light which falls from heaven upon us, and thus we shall become pure and spotless, for this is the meaning of the white robes which the saints wear in glory. S. S.

Denton, Texa. Christ. We may use him as a mantle or dress or suit of armor wrapping us all up, defending us against all hostilities. He has in his word used almost every possible figure to teach iow near he is to us the literal par-aker of our nature; the sacrifice made oh our behalf; our Righteousness, through faith in his blood; he Head and Life-spring, to which we are united in an indescribable union, of deep, calm tide of life, spir-tual and eternal, ready to circulate hrough our being. We can put lim on as our panoply of light.

We can put him on as the Lord, surrendering ourselves to his absolute, while most benignant, sovereignty and will. We can put him on as Jesus, clasping he truth that he, our human brother, in all points as we are, yet divine, saves his people from their sins (Matt. We can put him on as Christ, our head anointed without measure by the eternal spirit, and now sending of that same spirit into his happy members, so that we are indeed one with him, and receive into our whole being the resources of his life. 3. It is our duty to put him on.

Across all the realties of sin Paul writes this, Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. Here is.that by which you can be more than conquerors. Take our iniquities at the worst, this can subdue them; take our surroundings at the worst, this can emancipate us rom their power. It is the Lord Jesus Christ and the putting on of him. -S.

S. T. ILLUSTRATIONS. Verses 8 10. Love is a compound thing.

It is like light. As you have seen a man of science take a beam of ight and pass it through a crystal )rism, and it has come out on the other side of the prism broken up in-o its component colors red and blue and all the colors of rainbow so Paul passes this thing, love, through magnificant prism of his inspired ntellect, and it comes out on the other side broken up into elements. The spectrum of love has nine ingredients: Patience, Love suffereth long; kindness, And is kind; generosity, Love envieth not; humility, Love Vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; courtesy, Doth not behave itself un seemly; unselfishness, Seeketh not her own; good temper, Is not easi ly provoked; guilelessness, Think-eth no evil; sincerity, Rojoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. You will notice that all are in relation to men, to life. We hear much of love, to God; Christ spoke much of love to man.

Religion is not a strange or added thing, but the in spiration of the secular life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this temporal world. Drummond. Verses 11 and 12. The devil held a great anniversary, at which his em issaries were convened to report the results of their several missions. let loose the wild beasts of the des ert, said one, on a caravan of Christians, and their bones are now bleaching on the sands.

What that? said the devil, their souls were all saved. Said another, drove the east wind against a ship freighted with Christians, and they were all drowned. What of that? said the devil, their souls were al saved. For ten years 1 tried to get a single Christian asleep, said A SUPERB SERIES We desire to again direct the at-ention of our readers to the avowed merits of the new religio-educational fine art series, Earthly Footsteps of he Man of Galilee, the distribution of which was lately begun by us. There are two features at least of his splendid publication which com-, mend it most highly to every Bible student and every one who searches he pages of history for confirmation of doubtful or disputed Biblical points.

In the first place, while the work, as its title indicates, is essentially religious, it nevertheless has a historical side, hardly less interesting and important, but which, upon reflection, the reader will see to be directly connected with the Biblical phases of the publication. For instance, though little is known -of the sojourn of Joseph and Mary in Sgypt, still the well-authenticated act remains that they did visit tnat country, and remained until the death of Herod. Many photographs are devoted to Egypt, ancient and modern, and the the reason for so doing may perhaps best be stated in the words of Bishop Vincent himself. He says: The Holy Land gets its name from the fact, that Gods chosen people ived in it; and as the Hebrews spent 430 years in Egypt, Egypt during that time may be regarded as the Holy Land. We have lingered in Egypt not simply to describe the objects of interest in the midst of which the Holy Family lived, but also in order to give some idea of the Egypt of modern times founded upon the Egypt of the past.

It will thus be seen that the work has a wide historical value and a lively present interest, since in carefully considered narrative and in well selected pictorial embellishments it practically covers a period of time from the beginning of the Christian era until the present day. Another unique and important feature of-the publication is found in the fact that its author and artist have during the- present year actually retraced the journeyings of the Savior and his Apostles, and in strict chronological order. Thus, it will be remembered they began at Nazareth, accompanied Joseph and Mary to. Bethlehem, where Christ was born, followed them to Egypt, their place of' refuge from Herod, after which they returned with them to Judea, and thence proceeded step by step through the short but eventful ministry of that Man of Galilee to Calvary and the Moint of Olives, after which the journeyings of His Apostles bearing the word of life to all nations are retraced through Asia Minor, Greece, and the Archipelagic Islands to Rome. At every point of interest both the views and descriptions depicit the scenes as they exist today, and they become a book which binds the glowing present to the glorious past.

Whatever ripe scholarship, keen observation, fine artistic perception, and mechanical skill can contribute toward the success of a publication has been lavished upon this work, and it thus becomes an invaluable adjunct to religious study, historical research, or the pursuit of art, and for all the above reasons it is again warm ly recommended to our readers. Lesson for March 24t h. PURITY OE LIFE, ROM. 13: 8-14. Golden Text.

Abstain from all appearance of evil 1 Thess. 5:22. Time. A. D.

60 or 58. Place. Written by Paul while at Ephesus. Rulek. Nero, emperor of the Roman World.

Doctrinal Suggestions. The authority of Gods law. DAILY HOME READINGS. M. Purity of life.

Rom. Tu. Dead to sin. Rom. W.

A living sacrifice. Rom. Th. Be separated. 2 Cor.

F. Resist. ames Be ye holy. 1 Peter 1:113:23. Su.

For Christs sake. 1 Peter THE LESSON STORY. When to the Roman Christians Paul wrote the vigorous verses we study today, neither he nor they were beset by the modern liquor question. Nevertheless the digest of Christian morals here given is one oi the best of all temperance lessons. These five or six moral precepts, if followed out, would banish from the community all selfish indulgence of appetite.

Paul. says, Owe no man anything (verse 8); Love thy neighbor as thyself (verse 9) Do no harm to any (verse 10) Arise from lethargy (verses 11 and 12) Behave with rectitude and discretion (verse 13); and Be enveloped and coated and cloaked with the Lord Jesus, just as an ancient soldier was covered all over by his armor (verses 12, 14). Think how utterly contrary to all this is the intoxication which piles up debts on the individual and the community; which sows the seed of hatred of our neighbors; which works more ill and harm than any other force in modern society; which affects the community with a sort of moral stupor, and seems at times to befog even Christian consciences; which is the most -fruitful source of vice and works of darkness; which fastens its shackles about a man that the slavery of its victims is more readily seen than the Christian armor of those who oppose it. The Epistle of Paul to the Romans is the most elaborate production. of the Apostles pen.

it is one of the profound' est theological treatises ever com posed, it is written in headlong and off-hand style, and from beginning to end it is characteristically a letter. Its date is probably A. D. 58, the fourth year of Neros reign. S.

S. J. LESSON POINTS. 1. There is a Lord Jesus Christ.

Let us remember, as if it were a new thing, that he, the Christ of prophets, evangelists, and apostles, is a Fact. Not that he was, but that he is. Sure as the existence now of his universa Church; sure as the observence of the historic sacrament of his death; sure as the impossibility of Galilean or Pharisaic imagination have composed instead of photographed the portraiture of the incarnate Son; sure as is the glad verification in ten thousand blessed lives today of all that the Chiistof Scripture undertakes to be to the soul that will take him on his own terms so sure, across all oldes and all newest doubts, lies the pres ent fact of our Lord Jesus Christ. Mrs. Sarah A.

McClees, national superintendent of department of sol diers and sailors, is spending another winter in Southern California. She is illst taking aggressive measures against the beer salooon, in military reservations and in the various branches of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The central branch located at Dayton, has the largest number of inmates, having capacity for accomodation of six thousandmen. The beer-hall is 120x50 feet in size, large enough for 300 men. It is filled with drinkers nearly all the time; the quantity of beer sold and consumed being 40 bar rels which brings in the reve nue of five hundred dollars each day to the Home.

Surely the United States Government makes drunkards on a large scale! Who can calculate the returns from this investment? Workingmen in his diocese have addressed a mememorial to the Lore Bishop of Norwich, England, praying him to extend the Church temperance work in every parish; for, they say, We can point to numerous parishes where the people, in great numbers, have simply been damned --both body and soul, and we fear are being damned today by the drink, and no hand has been, or is being held out by the church in the direction of temperance to them. 2. We can put on the Lord Jesus third; and I succeeded and left him.