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STRATFORD. ONT.
Ontario's best Practical Train-
ing School,
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experienced instructors in each
of our three departments.
Commercial, Shorthand,
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Principal
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We have a full supply of Gunn'e
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pastry. Also a full line of Gunn's
cured meats—all government inspect-
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Baby Chick Feed
to keep your small chickens healthy
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Chicken Feed. Nothing better for
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Maple Syrup
Just arrived—a shipment of the best
Quebec Maple Syrup—for sale in 8i
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Broilers Wanted
Highest price paid for young chick-
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Always in the market for fat hens.
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itWo girls -excused themselves ands re.
jttred and Tom was enabled once more
to contemplate' the Kohinur more as a
Vessel of which he was master, and
jtess'ae an isolated corner of Arcady.
On of the first things he observed
:Was the presence of a stranger. For
}tome minutes, underneath his troubled
meditations, had stirred a vague un•
easy sense that he was being watched,
and happening to look In a certain di-
reotion, his glance encountered a man
'whom he had not before seen. He,
Promptly' walked up to the stronger
land demanded to'know what he was
doing on board. Wtnnard, the second
mate, was a witness to the episode,
and he took it upon himself to explain.
"die's all right, sir. Mr. Willard
Brought him aboard last night."
With the moral certainty that the
newcomer had been watching him all
afternoon, Tom went to his cabin.
Alone, he took up again the burden
of his doubts and uncertainties.
Should he not warn Willard that
Flint was close upon hie trail? What
would Willard think of the Man of
Iron's interference? Hie position
strongly urged bim to go to the char-
terer and lay the matter before him
Then his vacillating will would take
a pendulum swing to the other ex-
treme;
xtreme; he ought to go over to the
Claremont and phone Flint where Wil -
third was to be found; if the latter
Were really engaged in no dishonor-
able employment, then no harm could
aroma to him. , But then, if he
was to be believed, Tom would thus
be lending himself to the defeat of jus-
tice and right.
And so on, round and round In a dr -
Ole went hie thoughts, with no hope of
,arriving at a solution of the many din
Acultiee. If he could only talk to
Delia, alone, for half an hoar, perhaps,
she could help him. But he did not
tsee her again that day.
j Friday evening brought a change.
;The male element of Willard's party
ibecame animated by an unusual ac-
tivity. , There was much going and
eoming between the Kohinur and the
landing, and the girls retired before
'nine o'clock, as if to be out of the way.
And then, some. time close to mid-
night, Max Willard and two of his
'young men boarded the launch; but
now, instead of going over to the
Claremont landing, the little craft dnt-
tered away downstream and was eoon
;lost in the night,
Toni retired to his cabin, but could
not sleep, 'He was oppressed by a
sense of anticipation, a conviction that
something was about to happen. When
he heard the launch returning after,
two o'clock in the morning, he was
curious enough to go above to see if
anything would transpire to account
for the secret midnight excursion.
Willard came first up the ladder, is-
suing low -voiced directions to the two
men. Then they came, with consider-
able difficulty by reason of their un-
wiebdy burden.
As well as Tom could make out in
the darkness, in shape and size what
they carried was just such a box as be
used as a cotitainer for a coffin. The
three went quickly below with their
burden, and quiet reigned over the
Kohin
ur.
'In point of factefrom that time on
until the final terrible hour when de-
spair and horror laid their icy clutch
upon Tom Phinney's heart, an unnatt,.
ural calm seemed to prevent. It was as
if the yacht and all on board were
'subdued by an apprehensive dread of
impending tragedy.
' And stin'Tom could not make up his
mind as to what he ought to do.
' But thle intolerable high-tension,
!mental stress was in a measure re.
iieved by two occurrences of Saturday
kafternoon.
About three o'clock Mals 'Willard in.
istructed him to get up a full head of
'steam at sunset, and be in readiness
'during the night to drop down the
elver.
"Are we to clear tonight?" asked
Tom with considerable eagerness.
"I don't know positively yet," Wil-
lard replied in a lifeless tone. "When
the signal comes to get under way, it
will come in a hurry, and from then ole
ental we are well out at sea speed will
bea matter of considerable impel,
tante. You will know before Morn+
"Everything ,is in readiness." Tom
advised him.
That is very gratifying." The malty
uretic eyes rested searchingly upon the
skipper for a moment. 1
'_'_Captain P ehume," _Willard asked
The Slow, Sluggish, Torpid Action of
the Liver is,Responsiale for Many Ills.
Milburn's LaxaLiver Pi11s stimulate
the sluggish' liver, clean the coated tongue,
sweeten the obnoxious breath, clean away
all waste and poiscuous matter from the
system, and prevent as well as cure all
complaints arising from a liver which has
become inactive.
tenstipation, sick headache, bilious
headache, jaundice, heartburn, water
brash, catarrh of the stomach, etc., all
come front a disordered liver.
Mr. Victor B. McNeills, Sandstone.
Alta., writes: "I thought I would write
and tell you of my experience with
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greatly pleased with the results I re-
ceived by using them. I was troubled
with sick headac, ;afar a long time, and
would get so sleepy right after I ate m
dinner that I could not do any work.' A.
irletid of mine, from Toronto, visited
Me haat summer and he asked me to try
Milbura's I,axa-Liver Pills. $e told
pp they had done 'bins so much good for
stomach. I used several vials and
I found they did me' so much good that,.
II,can recommend them to any one suffer.
from liver trouble."
burn's Lasa -Liver Pills are 25c a
vial 5 vials for 91.00, et all dealers, or
direct on receipt of price by Tbs
. Daiwa co., Limited. Toronto, Ont.
NOT HELP HER
But Lydia E. Pinkhanl's Veg-
etable Compound Restored
Mrs. Bradley's Health
Her Own Statement.
Winnipeg, •Canada. — "Eleven years
ago I went to the Victoria Hospital,
Montreal, suiferingwith a growth. The
doctors said it was a tumor and could
not be removed as it would cause instant
death. They found that my organs were
affected, and said I could not live more
than six months in the condition I was in.
"After Icame home I saw your adver-
tisement in the paper, and commenced
taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. I took it constantly for two
years, and still take it at times, and
both my husband and myself claim that
it was the means of saving my life. I
highly recommend it to suffering
women."—Mrs. DRILLA BRADLEY, 289
Johnson Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Can.
Why will women take chances or drag
out asickly,half-hearted existence, miss-
ing three-fourths of the joy of living,
when they can find health in Lydia E.
Pinkbam's Vegeta-
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For thirty years it
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If you want s p e el al advice
write to Lydia 10. Pinkham Med-
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Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman,
and held in strict confrdenee,
after the pause, `0o I` appear comp
posed?"
"Why, yes," returned Tom in sari
prise. "I shouldn't have thought oth-
erwiao-"
Indeed, save for the burning brill
Ranee of his eyes, Max Wlllard'a mien
tvaa, if'anything, dull and dispirited.
' "'Well, than," he said, "it will'be diet
ticult to make you believe that no tune
ever labored under a greater mantel
and nervous strain than I do at this
'moment. God help us tall"
With which oryptio and disquieting
rutterance he abruptly walked away.
Tom bad not yet ceased pondering
the incident when Delia 'appnoaehed,
tone, She met him with a charming
dry ensile which, is his estiinatio
any compensated for all his boars of
loneliness, and her first words made
hiniforget his cares.
"Captain Phinney," she began,"d
qou know, it is downright splashof
you not to grant me at least a peep
at that cozy room np forward, where
you spend so much of your time."
t, "The chart -house?" he exclaimed/
'why, you can have It for a boudoir,
12 you want it. Come an."
Once inside, Tom instantly recog,
liaised what, no doubt, had been in test
girl's mind from the beginning --that
;while they might teik with absolute
assurance against being overheard, the
teumerone ports rendered them visible
to any of the men forward who cared
to look that way, and those of the,
watch who had occasion to pass on
one aids or the other.
"Oh, how comfy!" she exclaimed in
a low voice as soon as they had en-
tered. "If I was the Kohinur's skip-
per, you would always find me right
here."
"And I'll spend a good part of ma
time here, once we're out at'sea," Tom,
;responded, "and I hope you'll want to
end me often. But if you're judging
y these comfortable quarters that my
;lob's a sinecure, 'why, yon -you—"
"Have another guess coming?" she
finished for him.
He nodi3ed dejectedly. "'Mistaken'
was what I was trying to think of,,,
hough." Then, with an abrupt change.
of manner and tone, he went on:
"Delia, no doubt you have noticed
the past two or three days that I bave
�esen as worried as the dickens. It 18
Iad enongb to have charge of Wei
boat and know that something secret
ifs going on, without having an Inkling
jof what that secret is; a fellow is
abound to make all sorts of eattjeotnres;
end be suepiciems of ..Willard,. you;
now. The certainty that you eculdn't
be mixed up with anything trooped is
the one thing that's made me rather
ashamed of my own suspicions.
"But :I have reasons aside from ala
�tis for being worried, reasons yet;.
haven't the slightest idea of, that make
y position about as devilish a one as
a fellow ever got into. Until tide week
e never knew I had any nerves; now.
'I'm nearly a wreck."
"Perhaps," said the girl slowly, 'T
iknow more about the real cause of
your perturbation than you suspect."
"No," returned Tom, 'confidently,
"you couldn't. Remember the chum
,told you about whose cousin disap-
peared?'Well, some way she's involved
tin whatever it is old Willard's plotting
What's the matter?"
i His hearer had uttered a little cry,
and was now looking at him with a:
fihocked and puzzled expression,
"How' in the world," she demanded,
'"did you reach each a conclusion?"
• "I didn't," truthfully explained Tom.
1tBut a detective and Ruddy—that's
my chum --did because the missing
'girl's purse was found in that old
hoose where Willard hung' out eo
Wong*"
There was a silent pause while the
girl seemed to consider, and Tom
'watched her earnestly and fondly. At
last the fine hazel eyes met his with
ja sober look.
"What 3s it you want to knows" she
gravely'aseed,
"Della"'—Tom's voice lowered per.
`eeptibly and a serious note crept into
ae—eyou ought to know—you ought to
we—where my afiief interest lis
Continued nen week.
TO USE SNOWSHOES
REQUIRES SCIENCE
Wint' Constitutes a Necessity For
Indian and Trapper Is Fine Sport
For Town Dweller
Snowshoes are a strictly American,
form of locomotion 10 their origin,
as the Indians used them in their
winter travels before the white man
came to the ancient hunting grounds.
Nowadays they are used more for
sport than for serious work, save
among the trappers and frontiersmen
of the North. Even as a sport their
popularity declinedfor some years
and skating reigned supreme, but
lately there has been a decided re-
vival of snowshoeing.
The snowshoe is an elemental, ir-
reducible sort of thing. In form it
varies, but in principle it 'does not
alter. The club, the spear and the
sword evolved from the broken branch,
tee flung stone grew into the arrow,
and the canoe, no doubt, came from
a log, The first snowshoe, probably,
was invented by some savage who
found that he did not sink so deep
into the snow when.1 e stood on the
fallen branches c_ a tree. Wherefore,
he braided some of the brew:nes to-
gether and took them with him, and
later produced a shoe that was good
enough for his environment.
The frame of the present day snow-
shoe usually has two cross -bars, one
in front of the toe and one back 01
the heel, These bars stiffen the shoe
and give a shorter bearing to the
thongs in the part of the shoe where
meet of the weight comes. The toe-
bar of the shoe is a most useful, in-
teresting and dangerous thine for the
amateur. Of course, he sees that it
serves as anchorage for the heavier
thongs that rim the toe -hole. Also,
he sees that his toe is intended to
work up and down in that hole. What
he does not see is that, unless his
straps are just right or itis handling
of the shoes just right, his toe is apt
sometimes to land on the toe -bar in-
stead of be the toe -hole. In that case
he is in for a stumble and a tumble.
An Amateur's Troubles
The beginner may divine that his
toe must work up and down in this
hole, but what is his heel going to
do, and whet part does his ankle,ptay,
and how is tie going to keep the con-
trivance on his foot?
As to snowshoe fastenings, the In-
dian simply did the best he could. He
made his taste:.ings out of deer or
mooee hide. The trapper and lumber-
man improved ou these stretchy
things in sonic cases by using rags
instead of hide. Both trapper and
Indian used a permanent toe -strap
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WATCH is a delicate piece
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less attention than most
machinery, but must be lcleanei
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for a lifetime. It will pay you
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By Taking f Frust-a"tiaes ",
Says Capt. Swan
Life is very miserable to those who
suffer with Indigestion, Dyspepsia,
Sour Stomach and Biliousness. This
letter front Captain Swan (one of the
best known skippers on the Great
Lakes') tells how to get quick relief
from Stomach Trouble,
Pone 13uawnr,a, ONNT., May 8th, eeee.
"A tnan has a poor chalice of living
and enjoying life when he cannot eat.
That was what was wrong with Inc.
Loss of appetite and indigestion was
brought on by Constipation. I have
had , trouble with these diseases . for
years. I lost a great deal of flesh
and suffered constantly. For the last
couple of years, I have taken "I+'rnbt-
a-tives" and have been so pleased with
the results that I have recommended
them on many occasions to friends and
acquaintances. I an sure that "Fruit -
a -rives" have helped me greatly. By
following the diet rules and taking
"Bruit-a-eves"accordingto directions,
any person with Dyspepsia will get
benefit". H. SWAN
"Fruit -a -fives" are sold by all dealers
at soc. a box 6 for 92,50, or trial size
2gc. or sent postpaid on receipt of price
by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa,
adjusted at the rear end of tee toe
hole, and both trapper and Indian
passed the heel -straps back, allowing
them to rest diree"ly on that est
spot of a man, the Achilles tendon,
The trapper or the Indian could kick
his toe into the toe -strap, wriggle his
foot into the Ioop of the heel -straps,
and so put on his shoe without touch-
fne them with his hands, a trick the
amateur cannot at first master. Of
course, as the condition of the snow
varies or the temperature of the day
changes, the best of thongs will
Stretch or 'shrink a little. The trap-
per or the Indian wears his straps
very loose, and when they need
eiglhtening he aecompliabes this by
rolling them together at the heel,
He would consider It unprofessional
to be stopping all the time to adjust
knots or splices. The amateur, how-
ever, finds that his straps need con-
tinual adjusting. They stretch, and
his shoes fall off. They shrink, and
he feels agony at the back of his
ankle—an agony that not even the
five -fold woolen socks serve wholly
to mitigate, if he is wearing mocca-
sins or even the grain -leather shoe -
packs of tore North.
Shoe Always Drag
The shoe itself is, of course, never
lifted from the snow. The heel drags
all the time in the forward step. One
does not think of the shoe, or, at
least, should not think of ,11. Ile does
not plant it or plunk it forward, but
just allo'w's It to hang on the front end
of his foot, which drops down, per-
haps, a little more than :t doe§ when
wanting on . level surface. The rear
two-thirds of the shoe, lying back and
hanging tepee, will serve to keep the
line of the shoe correct, no matter
how loose the toestrap be. The ankle,
of course, must play with absolute
freedom, anal the tightly -laced street
boot would be an impossibility in this
work. You advance, after a time,
without much difficulty, letting your
shoes take care of themselves and
just raising the front cud enough, es
you lope forward, to clear the rear
Curve of the advancing shoe ahead of
the front c_:rve of the one that is on
or under the snow.
Tou will in time learn to walk with
that roll of the hips that is the secret
of the long distance pedestrian.
I RECREATION FACILITIES
One ofthe most notable features
in the development of municipal en-
terprise during the past decade was
the playgrounds movement. Its re-
markable popularity and growth may
be attributed to universal recognitiolt
of its value as a prime preventive
measure in the -interest of public
health and as the sole available means
of securing to the urban child one
Of the eesentiale of his existence.
It takes little persuasion, beyond
the silent, convincing proof of living
conditions iu our industrial centres,,
to induce city governments to come
to the aid of children whose only
playground is tate pavement or the
alley, The standard of future citizen-
ship depends too vitally upon their:
proper training to permit neglect of.
any means whereby that training may
be made to include a full share of
wholesome, character -forming games:
And, in view of the fsi1.0 a to secure
—one may almost say, the impose
sibi ity of securing—the necessary
facilities p
through private g vete -'and indi-
vidual initiative, it becomes the duty
of municipalities, as such, to under
Itake the .provision of accessible,
spacious, well-equipped and properly
supervised play and recreation cen-,
' trete It is a form of publfe enter-
prise to which no valid objection can
be offered.—Western Municipal News.
An Uncanny Little Creature
There really are gobbina. There
are a few running around at large in
the Philippine Islands. They're little
animals called tarsiers. They belong
to the 'Lemur family. Lemur is the
latin word for "ghost," which shows
that naturalists long ago were struck
by the resemblance of this family of
animals to weird ghosts and goblins.
I The uncanniness of the little creatures
which are greatly feared by the na-
tives, is increased ' by their goggle-
eyes and by the fact that the are seen
slinking around only in the dark.
A Little Goggle-eyed Goblin of the
Philippines
Co-operative Creameries
The growth of the co-operative
movement in Saskatchewan is shown
by the increase in creameries in that
Province. There were only four of
these in 1907 with a patronage of 213
and an output of 66,246 pounds of
butter, while last year there were
thirteen creameries with a patronage
of 3,625 and an output of 1,161,220
pounds of butter.
The Dairy Branch of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture of Saskatchewan
holds meetings throughout the Prov-
ince in. respect to the promotion of
dairying, tor which tine C,P.R. pro-
vides specially equipped cars.
Why We Say "Housewife"
In Old English, the .anguage of the
time of Alfred the Great, a loaf was
called a "half," and the woman who
kneaded the loaf and served it was
called "dige." The words were com-
pounded and "haltdige" or house-
wife, meanbng one who "serves the
loaf," came into use. Time changed
the title of the housewife to liedye,
then to ladye, and finally to lady,
which today isn't usually applied to
the busy housewife, but the woman
of leisure, who never takes time to
"serve the loaf,"
Pistol Shoots Celluloid Sail
Par indoor target practice a pistol
from which a ping-pong ball, is shot
he a spring has been patented.
Telescoplc Book Caae
'The shelves of a new hook case hold
two rows of books, one bebfnd the
other, the front portions of the shelves
dropping down on slides when pulled
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Lesson X,—Second quarter, For,
June Fi, 1915.
THE INTERNAATiONAL SERIES.
f'ext of the Lesson, I I Sam. z1, 22 to ell,
7a -Memory Verses, xii, 5, 6, la. •
Coition Text, Ps. li, 10—Commentary
Prepared by Rev. D..M,Stearns.
lesteitl of asafgning us a helpt'ul les.
son, such as chapter viii, which we
briefly touched upon in our last or the
beautiful story of David's kindness' to
the son of Jonathan (ebnpter ix), the
committee bee given us 111 this lesson
one of the worst phases of the human
heart, which is always anal only de-
ceitful above all things and desperately
wicked (,ler. xvii,'0, I0). Ile who alone
knows and can search the heart has
caused this and all similar records to
be written that we might see more
clearly that all are sinners and that
there is none righteous—no, not one—
but that Jesus Chrlst came into the
world to save sinners and that the
greatest sinner may be saved and the
greatest backslider forgiven and re-
stored. To find such a development of
our, sinful human nature f❑ such a
man as David ai'ter all that the Lord
had dune for him is truly humiliating
and should lead us all to say, "Woe is
me!" for who is there to whom the
prophet might not say concerning this
or some other phase o1' our sinfnl na-
tore, "Thou art the man" (211, 7).
When we remember that "the thought
of foolishness is sin" and that a sinful
look is err the sight of God equal to a
sinful act (Prov. xxiv, 3; Matt. v, 28)
and that, as U. 13. Spurgeon said,
"Whatever the Lord Jesus Christ
would not think or say or do is sin," it
leads one to cry out, "God be merciful
to me, a sinner," and to say, "If thou,
Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, 0
Lord, who shall stand?" (Luke xviii,
13; Ps. exsa, 3, 4.) But the comfort is
that Ile can make the vilest whiter
than snow (Ps. 11, 7). It is interesting
to note that, while the child yet lived,
David fasted one wept and lay all
night upon the earth, for he said,
"Who can tell whether God. will be
graefous to me, that the child may
live?" But when the child died and
the will of God was known then he
said: "Wberefore should I fast? Can
I bring him back again? I shall go
to him, but he shall not return to me"
(verses 15.231, When those clear to us
are sick and we cannot tell what the
will of God le for them and us It be-
comes us to wait earnestly upon Him
ror their breath, but always in sub-
mission to Iris will, Wben He bas
made plain Ills will, whatever it may
be, it becomes us to say, "Even so, Fa-
ther," for we know that "as for God,
His way is perfect" (Walt. xi, 20; Ps.
xviii, 30). In verses 24, 25, we have
the two names of Bathsheba's neat
child, Solomon and Jedidiall. The lat-
ter, as in the margin, signifies "be-
loved of the Loral," for the Lord loved
him incl sent by fne hand of Nathan
to name him. The Lord called him
Solomon bel'oro he w'as born, saying
to David, "Behold, a son shall be born
to thea who shall be a man of
rest. " eH d I will anal
quietness 8 untoanIsrael ingive hispeace days' (1
Citron. axil, 01. Fie said, "Eris name
shrill be Solomon," which, according
to rho margiit, means "peaceable."
Tberc aro ;just seven men in the Bible
store' who were named before they
were born—eve in the Old Testament
and two in the New Testament. Find
the others and consider there, Let us
give the rest of our time to the 'very
suggestive story of Mepbiboshetb in
chapter ix.
When David came to the kingdom he
made inquiry for any who might be
living of the house of Saul that he
might show them Sliminess for Jona•
thaw's sake, He fouled that there was
a son of Jonathan who was lame on
both feet, - his nurse having let him
fall when be was five years old as she
took him up to flee with him at the
time of his father's death (II Sam, iv,
4). His being lame because of the
fault of another reminds us that the
whole race i5 lame on both feet be-
cause Adam let us all fall. He was at
this time at Lo -debar, which signifies
no pasture, and that is where all sin.
ners are. His name also signifies the
condition of every sinner. David sent
to where he Was and brougbt him into
his presence, and Mephibosbeth fell on
tris face and did reverence. So the
sinner wben brought face to 'face with
the Saviour (that is by fallen feels like
saying, as Peter did when overwhelm-
ed with loving kindness, "I am a sin-
ful man,: 0 Lord" (Luke v, 8). David's
restoring to him all that be bed for -
felted because of Saul reminds us that
all we lost in Adam and more is given
back to us in Christ =lime in grace
for His name's sake.
How beautiful, to see elephibosheth
dwelling in Jerusalem and eating ems
tinuaily at the icing's table, even
though he eoelinueil lame on both his
feet (ix, 131. Every saved sinner is
privileged to dwell by Nell to .Teru-
salem, City of Peace. mut to feast upon
the soot! tellies provided by the king,
but while we stay in these mortal
bodies we will never get over out' lame-
ness, but will hero to say to the end,
":I know that in rue—that is, in my
dash—dweileth no goad allege (Rum.
vel, 18). Some. believers seemto take
pleasure' in talking of their tameness,
their love is cold, their faith Is wesbr,
they are this and that and very* misera-
ble sinners; Better far to keep their
lameness out of 'sight and enjoy and
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