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 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 
 
 SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
 
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 By MRS W. W. DAWLEY 
 
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 DEC 30 19/5 
 
WILLIAM WALLACE DAWLEY 
 
 Dr* W* W* Dawley was born September 20, 1850, at 
 North Wilna, Jefferson County, New York* He re- 
 ceived his education in the Academy at Antwerp, in 
 Watertown High School, and in Hamilton College, 
 from which he was graduated in 1875, from the classi- 
 cal course, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts* In 
 the following year he received the degree of Bachelor 
 of Laws and was admitted to the bar in Utica* While 
 studying for the bar he was also vice-principal of Am- 
 sterdam Academy, and, after his admission, he prac- 
 ticed law in that city for one year* 
 
 But neither in education nor in law was he to do his 
 life's work* In 1877 he felt the call to the ministry and 
 entered Colgate Theological Seminary, graduating two 
 years later with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity* 
 During his seminary course he acted as pastor of the 
 Baptist church at Whitesboro* 
 
 His successive pastorates before coming to Syracuse 
 were at Guelph, Ontario; at the First Baptist Church at 
 Gloversville ; at the Woodland Park Baptist Church, 
 St* Paul, Minnesota; at the First Baptist Church in 
 Duluth; and finally at the Central Baptist Church of 
 Minneapolis* When Dr* Dawley went to Minnesota 
 it was a missionary field with very few strong Baptist 
 churches* The " Standard" of Chicago spoke of his 
 work there as follows: 
 
 "Dr* Dawley came from New York to Minnesota in 
 1887* During the seventeen years of his residence in 
 the state he has served as pastor of important churches 
 in the three largest cities in the state: Woodland Park 
 Church, St* Paul, six years; First Church, Duluth, 
 three years ; Central Church, Minneapolis, eight years* 
 
 "During his pastorate of the Central Church the in- 
 debtedness of $12,000 has been cleared off, the church 
 
building repaired and redecorated t the annual benevo- 
 lent offerings increased nearly 100 per cent t and by the 
 voluntary act of the church the pastor's salary increased 
 three or four times* There has been a net increase in 
 the membership of 120, and a flourishing mission has 
 been established* 
 
 "His work in the pastorate, however, does not by 
 any means show his value to the work in the North- 
 west, where he has been a tower of strength* Just to 
 mention some of the positions he has filled will indicate 
 how heartily he has entered into the denominational 
 life of the cities, in his pastorates, and the state: Pres- 
 ident of the St* Paul Baptist Union, president of the 
 Duluth Associated Charities, president of the Twin- 
 Cities' Baptist Ministers t Conference and the Minneap- 
 olis Interdenominational Ministers' Conference, mem- 
 ber of the board and executive committee of the State 
 Convention during nearly all his residence in the state, 
 moderator of associations and president Minnesota 
 Baptist Education Society* Generous and accommo- 
 dating, he has ever been ready to respond to calls for 
 service* Lecturing, delivering sermons at dedications, 
 assisting weak churches in evangelistic meetings, his 
 time and strength have been freely given to the larger 
 work of the Lord's kingdom while at the same time he 
 was faithful to the church of which he was pastor* 
 
 "Judicious as a counselor, able as a preacher, faith- 
 ful as a pastor, genial as a Christian gentleman, be- 
 loved as a friend and fellow-worker, Dr* Dawley, with 
 the experience of his extended service in the state, 
 easily ranks first as a leader in Baptist work in Minne- 
 sota/' 
 
 Returning east Dr* Dawley became pastor of the 
 Central Baptist Church in Syracuse* During the six 
 years of this pastorate a debt of $22,400 was paid, and 
 the church was signally blessed in all departments of 
 its work* 
 
In 191 the Central Baptist Church and the First 
 Baptist Church united, with Dr* Dawley as pastor of 
 the combined congregations* Daring the next four 
 years the magnificent temple now occupied by the 
 church was planned and built, the dedication being 
 held May 31 1 1914* For more than a year Dr* Dawley 
 served as pastor in the new building, but in April, 1915, 
 was compelled by illness to relinquish active work, and 
 in August was made pastor emeritus* 
 
 In many localities he has received signal honors* In 
 1899 Colgate University conferred upon him the de- 
 gree of Doctor of Divinity* Besides the various posi- 
 tions held by him in Minnesota as mentioned in the 
 quotation above, he has, since coming to Syracuse, been 
 president of the Ministerial Union and trustee of the 
 New York State Baptist Educational Society* 
 
 At the request of the American Baptist Publication 
 Society Dr* Dawley wrote a most valuable book enti- 
 tled 'Truths that Abide"* Of this book the "Watch- 
 man" of Boston spoke as follows: 
 
 " Truths that Abide/ Under this title Dr* W* W* 
 Dawley, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Syracuse, 
 has given a terse, brief treatise on theology for young 
 people* In sharp, simple phrases he presents the sub- 
 stance of many more voluminous volumes on system- 
 atic theology* Without the use of theological terms, 
 he states the evangelical views of God, man, the Bible, 
 salvation, sin, sanctification, church polity and of things 
 to come* The whole ground of theology is covered 
 from Deity to Eschatology, and yet the reader never 
 realizes that he is studying theology, so interestingly 
 are the points stated, and so naturally is the thought 
 developed* The little book is primarily intended for 
 young Christians, that they may be rooted and grounded 
 in the truth, but there are many older people who will 
 be glad to take this easy and engaging course in theol- 
 ogy with Dr* Dawley*" 
 
The "Examiner" commented on "Truths that Abide" 
 in part as follows : 
 
 "Twelve lessons on the most momentous themes 
 with which we are, in part, familiar, viz*, God, Man, 
 Revelation, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, etc* Old 
 themes, these are, but they are here presented and 
 compacted so as to make intensely interesting reading*" 
 
 He has also done much lecturing, two of his best 
 known lectures being "Grumbling" and "The Other 
 Fellow*" 
 
 In the midst of his many busy pastorates, Dr* Dawley 
 has always taken a deep interest in all agencies de- 
 signed for the uplift of humanity* His interest has 
 been particularly keen in the work of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association and in all lines of educational 
 work* 
 
 Undoubtedly the culmination of Dr* Dawley's career 
 is found in the uniting of the two churches, which now 
 constitute the First Baptist Church of Syracuse, and in 
 the erection of its wonderful house of worship* For 
 more than five years he has served the united churches 
 with complete success* Perfect harmony has prevailed* 
 Tremendous difficulties have been overcome* Enor- 
 mous financial burdens have been successfully provided 
 for* The membership has been largely increased, and 
 the church has been greatly blessed spiritually* 
 
 Tender as a woman, manly as the manliest of men, 
 combining the simplicity and directness of childhood 
 with the wisdom of ripe experience, sympathetic in 
 sorrow, yet cheerful and even jovial on occasion, un- 
 tiring in service, devoted to the work of his church and 
 of the Christian ministry, Dr* Dawley stands out today 
 as one of the foremost preachers and pastors of his 
 denomination in America; and, best of all, he holds a 
 position in the love and reverence of his people such 
 as it is given to but few men in all time and in all the 
 world, to inspire* 
 
3(an«arg 
 
 Happy New Year to each and all of you, whether 
 old or young* Happy may you be in doing all that 
 God may reveal to you as your duty* Happy may 
 you make others who are in need of a tender touch, 
 a radiant look, a cheering word, or a timely lift* Happy 
 may you make your church by your exhibition of a 
 real Christian spirit in all your dealings with others; 
 in your readiness to fall into line with what the ma- 
 jority think wise and best; in emphasizing the encour- 
 aging features of its work, and in thinking of your 
 fellow-members at their best* Happy may you make 
 those whom you have chosen to supervise the inter- 
 ests of the church by a cheerful co-operation with one 
 another; by giving to the extent of your ability towards 
 furthering the many activities in which we are engaged ; 
 and by daily interceding for one another at the Throne 
 of Grace* 
 
 New experiences, and sweet, in your whole life 
 may you realize. New avenues of service for God 
 and mankind may you frequently discover* New 
 views of God and His revealed truths may you gain 
 daily* New strength may you feel, infilling your 
 soul and invigorating your body* New love may you 
 find, thrilling your heart and impelling you to seek 
 the salvation of those about you* New pleasures 
 may you know, enrapturing your being as you see 
 that your labors are not in vain* New virtues may 
 you reveal, transfiguring your life* New graces may 
 
there be given you, crowning your character* Ne\ 
 friends may you make to help when the way is hard, 
 to lift with you when the burdens are heavy, and tc 
 stand by you when hopes are crushed and griefs bite 
 and sting* 
 
 A Year filled with rewards, rich and rare, for serv- 
 ices rendered in love and faith, without the thought 
 of recompense; a year abounding with successes fror 
 opportunities seized and seasons observed; a yea 
 like a beacon-light, guiding your way and beckoning 
 you on to to greater achievements ahead; a year made 
 memorable by the greatness of your faith, the grand- 
 eur of your thoughts and the growth of your spiritual 
 being; a year signalized by your championship of the 
 right, your conquest over the wrong and your charity 
 towards all people; this and more is what your pastor 
 would like to help you to be and for which he will strive 
 and pray* 
 
Jfatwarg 
 
 FIRST 
 
 I will help as many as I can t in all the ways I can t as 
 often as I can; and see in others all the good I can and 
 remedy all the bad I can* whenever I can t that I may 
 be a help to God and better things all I can* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 The new year will not be an oasis where we are to 
 settle down in indolent ease t but an opportunity for 
 strenuous and productive endeavor* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 The inspiration of life comes from the sympathetic 
 words and the sympathetic touch of those dear to us* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 God gives His personal supervision to your life and 
 mine* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 In spite of its mistakes the church of God is the best 
 society in the world to-day* holding out the highest 
 ideals and proffering the greatest helps to the feeblest 
 people* 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 Purity and power are almost synonymous in the re- 
 ligious world* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 Residences do not make or mar a city* but residents 
 do* 
 
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 EIGHTH 
 
 Let God come into a life as a companion, and a man 
 can be happy in a dungeon or a palace* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 If you are carrying happiness into a human life and 
 help to a human soul, you are on the highway to the 
 sweetest pleasure that ever thrilled your souL 
 
 TENTH 
 
 If you are in the Kingdom, remember there is an- 
 other out of it whom you ought to seek to bring into it* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 We ought to have kings crowned here — young men 
 born into the Kingdom of God and imperial in char- 
 acter* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 The church of God is an association of imperfect 
 people who are making toward perfection under the 
 tuition and superintendence of the Perfect One* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 
 Faith in Almighty God will not supplant your own 
 ingenuity nor make unnecessary your best judgment 
 and best work* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 God wants not so much leadership in great things 
 as people to do the inconspicuous things that may con- 
 tribute to a glorious victory* One Dewey, but many 
 soldiers! One President, but hosts of citizens! 
 
^(anuarg 
 
 FIFTEENTH 
 
 The possibilities of obedience to Almighty God are 
 very large, and the results both helpful and lucrative* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 God has always used the choice instruments of 
 youth for His purposes and the accomplishments of 
 His grandest achievements* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 Habit always carries us in the direction in which it 
 is itself headed* It may lead us to heaven, home and 
 happiness, or to peril, penury and perdition* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 It is a great thing to be a friend of Jesus Christ* for 
 it brings great disclosures of the divine purposes and 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 The way the members of a church do business will 
 settle how much business the church can do* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 Your life can contribute to the uplift of the world 
 and the down-bringing of heaven into that world* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 The faith that Jesus wants us to have is trust enough 
 in Him to do His bidding* This is obedience to His 
 revealed will* 
 
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^January 
 
 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 The joy of an obedient people was in a God who 
 could wring rain out of a blazing sky t could pile up 
 waters to make for them a dry pathway, could tunnel 
 mountains, make crooked paths straight, and bring 
 light out of darkness* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 Sacrifice is absolutely essential to true friendship, 
 and the delight of the true friend is to make that sacri- 
 fice. 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 Carving character is a choicer calling than cutting 
 coupons, and making manhood better than making 
 money* 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 The demand of the age is for drivers, not dreamers; 
 pushers rather than pouters; workers rather than wor- 
 riers. 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 
 Pleasures are meant of God for a wise purpose, but 
 they are not to be made the chief aim of life. 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 You will never know how weak your faith is until it 
 is tried, nor how strong your God is until you try Him. 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 Rejoicing is more refeshing than repining; singing 
 is more salubrious than sighing; smiling is sweeter 
 than scowling; whistling is more winsome than whin- 
 ing. 
 
Jfatmarg 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 The loveliest flowers sometimes bloom in unlove- 
 liest places, and the noblest characters can be builded 
 amidst the most unfavorable surroundings* 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 
 Temper can be modified, controlled, educated and 
 trained until it becomes tractable, thereby contributing 
 help to its possessor* 
 
 THIRTY-FIRST 
 
 It is a sin for you to be satisfied with the good 
 things when you can have the better, and you are sin- 
 ful to be satisfied with the better when you can have 
 the best* 
 
Jfabraarg 
 
 UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE 
 
 I walked into the vestibule of a photographer's 
 rooms the other day and stood near the rooms await- 
 ing some one to attend to my orders* As I stood in 
 the hallway I heard a continuous ringing of the elec- 
 tric bell, and wondered what it meant and who was 
 so persistent in his calls* Soon a gentleman ap- 
 proached me, and, as the bell kept ringing, I jokingly 
 said, "I am not ringing it/' He smiled and said, 
 "I guess that you are standing upon it/' He motioned 
 me to step aside and as I did so the noise ceased* I 
 had been standing on the electric button that had been 
 placed underneath the carpet so that each customer 
 would ring the bell as he came in, but I knew it not* 
 I had been setting in motion forces without knowing it* 
 
 So we are all unconsciously stirring up forces in 
 others' lives* We meet in society, congregate to- 
 gether in church, associate in business, or rejoice 
 together in festive throngs, and know not that we are 
 as surely awakening powers or giving direction to 
 impulses in others' hearts, as I was exciting the elec- 
 tricity while unconscious of it* We are unknow- 
 ingly to ourselves through our daily lives doing that 
 which may ring the bells of hope or toll the knell of 
 despair for those who are watching us while we think 
 not* 
 
Jfahrmtrg 
 
 FIRST 
 
 Great things, like happiness, come to men when they 
 are not looking for them, and many a jewel is espied 
 when seeking another's weal* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 Habit may be a benignant ruler or a satanic despot* 
 It is like gravitation, unseen but not inoperative* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 My part is to trust my Lord; His is to see that it 
 comes to pass* My part is to begin; His is to see me 
 through* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 Don't worry your soul thin fretting because of evil 
 doers, nor waste your strength worrying over troubles 
 that have not yet come to you* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 Perfect people are not over-numerous, neither do 
 they tarry long in this world* There never was but 
 one faultless Being here, and Him they put to death* 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 You can call Almighty God in a whisper and have 
 Him in your home if you call Him, and as a traveling 
 companion if you will invite Him to accompany you* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 Both happiness and hardship are brought into our 
 lives by others* Both weal and woe enter our homes 
 with some visitors* 
 
Jfabruarg 
 
 EIGHTH 
 
 Hope is anticipation with a reasonable ground of 
 expectancy* It has two elements, desire and expecta- 
 tion united* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 The church of God was original with God and given 
 to the world as the fruit of His wisdom and evidence 
 of His love* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 A man's life-work is like a deposit committed by 
 Almighty God to him; the way to guard the deposit 
 is to let Him lead the man in performing it* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 Purpose, plan and push are the trinity that bring 
 success* But not even two of them amount to much 
 without the third* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 God judges us by our designs as well as our doings* 
 He sees our aspirations, while our friends see only our 
 attainments* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 
 The weakness of one may be an over-growth of sin 
 and that of another an under-growth of grace* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 When God calls and opens the way He supplies the 
 means for the accomplishment of the end* 
 
Jfahruarg 
 
 FIFTEENTH 
 
 Every branch is itself taken away or has something 
 taken away from it; is either pruned or plucked* 
 
 5 SIXTEENTH 
 
 Three things are an abomination to God and a libel 
 on man — a know-nothing, a do-nothing and a be- 
 nothing* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 Faith in God coupled with your own capability will 
 bring you to a work you can do, and that work per- 
 formed will meet the exigency of the hour* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 Certain elements are necessary to true friendship: 
 First* agreement on the great fundamentals of life; 
 second, unselfishness; and third* unwillingness to 
 either give or take offence* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 Not he who rules over the most* but he who helps 
 the most* is the greatest man according to the divine 
 measure of greatness* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 It is the discovery in us of metal in quantities large 
 enough to pay for working that occasions our being 
 put into the crucible* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 It is a great thing to be near the kingdom* but it is 
 a greater thing to be in it* 
 
Jfrhrnarg 
 
 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 Great occasions evoke great powers for the accom- 
 plishment of great ends* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 Christianity is the only thing that gives you a hope 
 of the life that we live here and also of that which is 
 to come* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 It is a mistake to think the church is simply a ban- 
 queting place for Christians to enjoy themselves* It is 
 a drill house for discipline, a training place for toilers* 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 Make your life so tell that your home, your com- 
 munity, your nation, may be better because you have 
 lived and influenced them* 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 
 The thing that made Ruth famous was what she did 
 for somebody else, and that thing opened for her a life 
 task, big with possibilities and blessings* 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 You may have too many friends as well as too few* 
 Friendship, like money, may be a curse as well as a 
 comfort, a hindrance as well as a help* 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 Our character and our tastes determine what will 
 afford us pleasure in life* The way we develop them 
 early in life will settle what we will seek later* 
 
fUMr 
 
 If we could catch some glimpse of that which God 
 knows, some of these hard strokes would seem to be 
 the touch of a loving hand t and many of the obstacles 
 over which we have to climb would seem to be but 
 inspiration touching the gold crowned summits beyond* 
 
flM 
 
 FIRST 
 
 God not only forgives sin but He supplies every 
 need of the forgiven sinner* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 Character is a building unseen, but constructed by 
 works that are seen; an entity that cannot be handled, 
 and yet is the work of hands* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 It is easier to promise than to fulfill; to hire out than 
 to work out; to think what you'll do than to do what 
 you think* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 It is an awful thing to be a traitor, and because he 
 has been loyal once won't make acceptable his treason, 
 nor thwart its baneful results* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 ^ The Great Commission might be paraphrased thus: 
 Go everywhere; preach to every person and save every- 
 thing* 
 
 SIXTH 
 It is not what we have in the heart, but what we 
 express, that is a tonic to the tired toiler* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 We cannot make the departed happy by making 
 ourselves miserable, nor make the memory of them 
 sweeter by being sour ourselves* 
 
HM 
 
 E IGHTH 
 
 It is the greatness and immediacy of danger that 
 fire great souls and fascinate heroic men and women* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 If God has blessed you* He has done it for a pur- 
 pose* If God has delivered you* He has done it in 
 order that you might help someone else* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 The conquering church will be a consecrated church* 
 becoming triumphant by turning to the triumphant 
 Christ* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 A man may believe something without accomplish- 
 ing much* but he can't accomplish much without be- 
 lieving something* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 The mission of salt is to preserve, to cure and to 
 save* The Christian is placed in this world to save 
 all that is worth helping* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 The great question is not how we can get up to 
 heaven* but how can we get heaven down to earth* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 You can tell what a man wears in his heart by what 
 wares he keeps on his shelves* 
 
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 FIFTEENTH 
 
 The church that isn't ministering to this world isn't 
 Christian, for the Christ came not to be ministered 
 unto but to minister* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 Do not talk religion to a distressed soul until you 
 have tried to relieve his misery* A loaf of bread for 
 his stomach may open the door to his heart* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 You are not going to win many by printing dodgers 
 and hiring messenger boys to leave them at people's 
 doors* but you may by your personal presence and 
 help in their homes* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 When God opens the way it leads to something, — 
 something of worth and something worth doing* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 The world watches us six days in the week to learn 
 what we mean by what we do on the seventh* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 The man who creates a good habit in himself creates 
 a momentum that will help himself over the hard spot 
 ahead* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 Our friendships can either make or unmake us* ac- 
 cording to their character* 
 
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 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 Adherence to the principles taught by Jesus Christ, 
 other things being equal, makes you stronger phys- 
 ically than any other one thing* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 "The other side," that of the other fellow, is the side 
 we know too little about, and the side in which we are 
 too little interested* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 If God meant us to live half of our lives in the light 
 He meant us to spend a part of our time in delight* 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 Faith jumps on reason's shoulders, and from its 
 loftier outlook discovers what reason cannot see* 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 
 You cannot take Jesus Christ into your life and not 
 be a bigger and better person than you were before* 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 The time to put out the fire is before it has burned 
 the building, and the time to put away wrong-doing 
 is before it has ruined your life* 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 It is an exceptional thing for a man to give as much 
 to his church as to his lodge* 
 
jjjarrfi 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 Men may prove false, God never* Men may lie, but 
 God cannot* 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 
 God can never be surprised, and no enemy can take 
 Him unawares, neither can hard times throw Him into 
 bankruptcy* 
 
 THIRTY-FIRST 
 
 The mightiest thing in this world aside from Al- 
 mighty God is thought* Get a man to think and you 
 have made it impossible for him to remain long what 
 he is now* 
 
AM 
 
 TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW 
 
 The children of Ephraim fled from their enemies 
 in the day of battle because they had not fled from 
 their sins before the battle* Had they kept sin out 
 of their lives before they met their foe t they might 
 have kept their foes out of their city in the time of 
 conflict* If we wish to conquer the foe whom we face, 
 we need to look well to our living before we meet 
 him* We cannot do anything we wish to-day and 
 expect God will deliver us to-morrow when our tempt- 
 ations and foes get the best of us* 
 
April 
 
 
 FIRST 
 
 God never created a single thing unless He did it to 
 fulfill a specific purpose in His economy* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 Every time you let evil come into your life you are 
 weakening your ability for the work ahead. Present 
 sin means future impotence* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 The Bible is a religious book given for religious in- 
 struction, and not a treatise on science, philosophy or 
 political economy* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 Not all men that live in the same community are 
 alike in character and conduct, and will not be in their 
 compensation* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 God Almighty is calling to men to-day as in years 
 gone by to use what He has given in compliance with 
 a divine order* 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 Every one of us has two things to face, prospect and 
 retrospect; two things of which to think, that which 
 we hope for ahead and that which we have done be- 
 hind* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 Jesus Christ is a congenial companion, a faithful 
 friend, a powerful partner, and a sure Saviour* 
 
A*** 1 
 
 EIGHTH 
 
 Chariots of iron can't work in softened clay, but God 
 is not hampered by clods, wet or dry* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 The greatest work which has ever been done on 
 earth is trying to help our fellow men into the King- 
 dom of Jesus Christ* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 Just imagine what soldiers would do if each fought 
 just as he felt like doing! How much mightier and 
 more effective they are when working according to the 
 commander's mind* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 When impatient desire gets hold of the reins, your 
 carriage is apt to run into the ditch* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 A ministering church will grow in numbers, in spir- 
 ituality and in harmony* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 
 If your religion does not make you better at home, 
 truer in society, and more upright in business, do not 
 expect your acquaintances to covet it* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 Don't worry about dying grace, but seek living 
 grace* Live right and your dying will be right* 
 
April 
 
 FIFTEENTH 
 
 You ought to have some part in swinging a world 
 into line with Jesus Christ* and replevying a lost 
 world for God* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 God's purpose doesn't need any dishonest means to 
 help it along* nor His church artificial stays to keep it 
 from falling* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 Light and human disease are deadly enemies* and 
 light and sin cannot get along amicably in the same 
 heart* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 Jesus Christ means that you and I are to be what 
 He is* and proffers all that is needful to make us such* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 Christians must see God for the world* must hear 
 God for them and take God's grace to them* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 Tongue and temper are tied together, and he who 
 can control the one is master of the other* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 You can't sow tares in the shape of bad thoughts 
 and garner wheat in the shape of a good life* 
 
 
At» rtl 
 
 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 Take the present tense out of the twenty-third 
 psalm and you haven't much left* "Write IS in capital 
 letters* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 Custom is changeable and capricious* but Christ is 
 changeless and constant* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 What couldn't you do if instead of being moulded 
 you would mould sentiment* thought* conviction? 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 The best things in this world are not purchasable by 
 money* but both rich and poor can have them by co- 
 operation with God* 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 
 God wants to impart Himself to us and bring us 
 into loving fellowship with Himself and make us re- 
 cipients of His power for service* 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 God is willing to bear our burdens* forget our past* 
 forgive our sins* and look after our future* 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 Man* you may give your money* but God wants you 
 and will be satisfied with nothing less* 
 
April 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 Christopher Columbus came that he might discover 
 a world; Jesus Christ came that he might recover a 
 world* 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 The more you do, the more you will be able to do* 
 
»8 
 
 HE KNEW IT NOT 
 
 Late one winter night as I entered a street car, when 
 the thermometer registered something like twenty- 
 five degrees below zero, I saw a man come in carrying 
 a bundle in his arms, closely wrapped, while he had 
 no overcoat upon himself ♦ I wondered why he should 
 be out such a bitter night without an overcoat to pro- 
 tect him from the biting cold* As he sat down he 
 began to loosen slightly the wrapping around the mys- 
 terious package in his arms, and as he did so the pas- 
 sengers beheld a sleeping boy enfolded in the father's 
 own overcoat* To protect the little lad from possible 
 danger he had taken off his own coat and put it around 
 the child he loved more than he did himself* But 
 that slumbering lad was all unconscious of the love 
 that was shielding him in his repose* and probably 
 never knew how his father had shivered in the cold 
 night to keep him warm and safe* 
 
 Then said that heart of mine to me as I still gazed 
 upon the father and son* "so hath thy Heavenly Father 
 thrown about thee His protection in the hours when 
 thou knewest it not, when thou hast slumbered amidst 
 perils, or walked among dangers of which thou didst 
 never know*" 
 
ifa 
 
 FIRST 
 
 Faith that cannot be seen is not worth having, and 
 a religion that will not lift is spurious* True religion 
 is both tactful and tactual* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 Christ came to found a visiting religion, for pure and 
 undefiled religion is to visit others and keep oneself* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 Duty is always in the positive degree and present 
 tense* There is no superlative degree nor future tense 
 in duty* 
 
 FOURTH 
 Help us to carry joy not sorrow into another's heart* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 In every career you will find something worth prais- 
 ing, if you look for it* 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 Don't lose heart: Time won't be called until you 
 have a chance* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 That which Adam forfeited, Jesus Christ restores* 
 
ife 
 
 EIGHTH 
 
 It is not that which you have attained, bat that 
 which you are running after that fires the powers 
 within you* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 The mouth that opens oftenest to praise tastes most 
 of the sweets of Heaven* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 There isn't one in the cloistered cell, in the jangles 
 of the old world, in the prairies of the new world, or in 
 the bustling city, who hasn't fed on the wares of our 
 God* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 God never gave you a gift, whether head or heart, 
 mind or muscle, without having something in mind 
 tor you to do with it* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 The time a fallen one needs most a helping hand is 
 when he is trying to get up* 
 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 
 A rumor, like a snowball, grows bigger and bigger 
 the farther it rolls* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 The divine spirit makes a disciple dutiful, decided 
 and dauntless* 
 
ifa 
 
 FIFTEENTH 
 
 No ever-living brook of perennial bliss flows from 
 the heart in which no gratitude lives* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 If a man pats a force into another life, he has put 
 something into this world that will never die* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 Did you ever think of this: Think and thank come 
 from the same stem* Then he who thinks ought to 
 thank* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 A Christian is a man plus Jesus Christ* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 A man's ambition will determine largely not only 
 what he will be, but how he will end his life* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 Get riches, and then be rich in good works* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 Merit and manhood, womanhood and wisdom, can- 
 not be bought with money* 
 
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 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 It is easier to go with the crowd than to go against 
 it; easier to go with the crowd than to break through it* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 There is good enough in any of us to justify God in 
 seeking us, and evil enough in us to encourage Satan 
 in trying to gain us* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 Not where we live, but what lives in us, is the 
 prophecy of where we shall live by and by* 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 Grant, O Heavenly Father, that we may realize the 
 sublime possibilities that are ours! 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 
 The hardest problem I have to face is how to rule, 
 not others, but myself* 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 Society is swept with one craze to-day, another to- 
 morrow — fasting one day, feasting the next* 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 There is something abiding in the faith of Jesus 
 Christ* 
 
ifa 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 Our possessions may come by fraud, force or favor. 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 
 Let us keep alive the memory of our soldier-dead by 
 standing by the principles for which they fought, and 
 making secure the possessions which they won, 
 
 THIRTY-FIRST 
 
 What will satisfy people depends upon what is in 
 people* 
 
- 
 
 S"«* 
 
 I believe in a religion that has a dividend here and 
 now* I believe in a faith that works to-day* That 
 is all we need to know about it* I do not need to solve 
 high problems* I do not need to have a system of 
 philosophy* I do not need to know all about God* 
 All I need to know is that His trust works* That is 
 trust in God* 
 
31 
 
 ut» 
 
 FIRST 
 
 Oar richest blessings come to as when we are bea 
 ing our heaviest burdens, walking the gloomiest pat 
 way, or climbing the most rugged mountain* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 No storm can sink a bark that carries in it the Son 
 of God* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 You can judge a man by the enemies he makes* as 
 well as the friends he has* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 We are all builders, but none are contractors in the 
 matters of character* Each creates his own, and not 
 another's* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 A thing so small that we count it nothing is some- 
 times big in God's sight, and carries in it germs of | 
 splendid achievements* 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 You can trace every gift back to the original giver 
 —God* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 The common people have always been dear to God 
 and from them He has selected His choicest followers 
 and most efficient workers* 
 
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 EIGHTH 
 
 A church that has a spiritual knowledge and is will- 
 ing to reveal that knowledge will stand* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 God can make great use of a man who has made a 
 mistake, when he is willing to get away from it* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 What one stands for will determine what he will 
 have to stand against* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 The greatest thing for me is to know what to live 
 for, and then to live for it* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 Banes, bothers and burdens beset every believer, but 
 Christ is more than sufficient for them all* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 
 Three things will come to those who listen to God 
 and walk with him; success, stability and sustenance* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 One of the greatest inspirations of life is to be con- 
 scious that some one loves us* 
 
Jfrot* 
 
 FIFTEENTH 
 
 God's thoughts are like a piece of art carefully de- 
 signed and carefully thought out — like a piece of 
 tapestry, each thread colored to harmonize with the 
 others* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 Wealth never satisfies* The more a man has the 
 worse he wants more* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 You don't need to plant weeds to have them grow* 
 They grow of themselves, like sin, without cultiva- 
 tion* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 The reason God's word amounts to so little in some 
 lives is that it does not have a fair chance, being choked 
 to death* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 Salvation is free, but transportation isn't* It costs 
 something to carry Christ to the lost* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 Your home wouldn't be secure if you were to re- 
 move from it the protection of a Christian civilization* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 God has indissolubly linked together the home and 
 foreign field* There is in His sight only one mission 
 filled, the word* 
 
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 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 If there has ever been an act of Providence that can- 
 not be mistaken, it is the bringing to oar shore of 
 different nationalities to go back and tell the story of 
 Jesus Christ* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 Once get a glimpse of what God would have you be t 
 and you nevermore can be what you are and be con- 
 tented* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 Christianity is a real thing* the right thing* and the 
 thing for a sinful world* 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 It is easier to begin than to complete* to start in the 
 right way than to keep in it* 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 Christ has left us not merely a text book but a life* 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 It is better to blunder trying to do something than 
 to blunder in not attempting anything* 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 The test of Christians is not only in what they say 
 but in what they do* 
 
3I««? 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 May the lips human, to-day t express the message 
 divine! 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 
 There was never anyone in the world who did any- 
 thing worth while who was not found fault with by 
 some one* 
 
3«ig 
 
 I am thankful this America of ours is growing in 
 power and influence and I believe that this republic 
 of ours is to be a missionary to all lands and she will 
 have a voice that will reach farther and farther until 
 it will reach into the uttermost bounds of the universe* 
 
3Mu 
 
 FIRST 
 
 The man who can vote and won't vote, ought to be 
 voted out* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 In order to walk with God a man doesn't have to 
 get out of the world* Enoch walked with God and 
 men both* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 One of the great hindrances and dangers of our gen- 
 eration is that we have no time to hear the voice of 
 God* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 Human history in this nation is divine history* the 
 working out of a divine problem and a divine issue* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 God has exceedingly hard work to get us to do some- 
 thing without the pay for it being in sight* 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 Between you and God there is a gate* a flood gate; 
 you can open and shut it* just as you please* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 The happiest life ever lived is the life that is lived 
 by the faith of the Son of God* 
 
3Mjj 
 
 EIGHTH 
 
 It is a sin for you to allow others to do all the work 
 that God intended for you* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 Righteousness was never popular in this world and 
 it isn't yet* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 You can't keep good and evil in the same heart very 
 long* Either the evil must go out or the good will take 
 its departure* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 If we had better memories* we would be better 
 workmen and Christians both* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 Patriotism is a bigger thing than any party's theory 
 of finance* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 
 Christianity brings to mankind the hope of an end- 
 less life* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 Borderland Christians are in perilous surroundings* 
 The danger line is along the border* 
 
3Ma 
 
 FIFTEENTH 
 
 At it, all at it, and always at it, ought to be the 
 motto of every believer* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 Money is a thing a few people affect to despise, all 
 want, and none refuse* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 Custom may purify as well as pollute, be helpful as 
 well as hurtful* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 The way to conquer is to surrender to Jesus Christ* 
 The best way to keep your soul is to give it to Him* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 A most important point in your career is the begin- 
 ning* Make it right* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 Get on to the mountains of God and get a new 
 vision of His beauty, and how you will long for Him* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 What is in your mind presages what is most likely 
 to follow in your life* 
 
3Ma 
 
 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 The greatest bargains are not always fotmd where 
 the advertisements are the largest* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 It is easier to copy than to create, to imitate than 
 to invent* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 Seek that pleasure that shall inspire a life, that men 
 shall admire and God applaud* 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 First ground your soul in Him* and then investigate* 
 Take hold of the line that is securely fastened in the 
 light ere you begin to explore the darkened places* 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 
 It is a great thing for one who goes into battle to 
 have a general who knows both military tactics and the 
 lay of the land* 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 What we put away from us determines what is put 
 away for us t and also what will stay with us* 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 Friendship is a union of individuals founded on mu- 
 tual respect and esteem* 
 
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 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 The soul deprived of every comfort, and every 
 human resource may rejoice in the God of his salva- 
 tion* 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 The strength of a man's life is in his habit* 
 
 THIRTY-FIRST 
 
 It is not the water in the ocean that sinks the ship, 
 but the water in the ship, and not the evil in the world 
 but the evil in you that drags you down* 
 
2iK$mt 
 
 GLAD SERVICE 
 
 What the Lord wants of us is a willing and glad serv- 
 ice when called to do what may not be most tasteful 
 to us as well as when summoned to what is according 
 to our own hearts choice* One of our little girls in a 
 recent children's meeting showed that she appreciated 
 what her religion was intended to do for her t when 
 she prayed: "Dear Jesus t help me to do what I don't 
 want to do and do it pleasantly*" Love for Christ ought 
 to enable one to do without sulking the most distaste- 
 ful of tasks, even as Jacob's love for Rachel made 
 the seven years' service seem but a few days in spite 
 of the drought by day and the frost by night, when 
 sleep departed from his eyes* 
 
J^ugust 
 
 FIRST 
 
 There are two great sources of delight, anticipation 
 and reminiscence: the latter may be just as rich as the 
 former, if you choose to make it so* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 The exceptional service in the kingdom of God* and 
 out of it is the service that costs* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 Christ came that we might know how to live* not 
 that we might exist; to help us up, not to twit us with 
 being down* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 God t in order to encourage His people* gives them 
 promises* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 Baptism is not saving* but it is showing salvation* 
 It does not redeem a soul but it reveals the fact that 
 we have put our trust in Him* 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 There is nothing in all this world more emphatic 
 than contrasts* Ugliness never looks so repulsive as 
 it does beside beauty* and beauty never looks more 
 charming than when in companionship with homeli- 
 ness* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 The choicest human commodity is character, and yet 
 it is often destroyed for a trifle* 
 
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 EIGHTH 
 
 The difference between sin and right is the differ- 
 ence between concord and discord* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 Many people hear "the word" and nothing comes of 
 it, because the heart is preoccupied* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 If you do your best, you have done as well as any, 
 for no one can do better than his best* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 Piety can thrive anywhere, in the home* the office, 
 in the street, amidst evil surroundings or good* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 The world still admires and loves a man that dares 
 something* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 
 A promise is an assurance that something will be 
 kept or done by and by* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 If there were fewer itching ears in the world there 
 would be fewer tattling tongues* 
 
A u 5 ual 
 
 FIFTEENTH 
 
 Enoch was in harmony with God, with a heart at- 
 tuned to His heart, and so you can be* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 You can have the consciousness that you are accept- 
 able to God if you walk with Him* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 Christianity is not belief in a creed but trust in a 
 Christ* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 The best medicine that we get is sometimes bitter, 
 and the best lessons that we learn are often learned in 
 pain and hardship* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 If your plan is opposed to the will of God, it is doomed 
 to defeat* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 Riches don't make the pillow any softer for the head 
 when we come to lay it down for the last time* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 To give victory is God's part; to render obedience is 
 ours* 
 
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 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 It is the holding oat of a remedy, not the speaking of 
 a reproof, that is going to help this world* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 The thing that made Paul ready to die was that 
 there was life beyond* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 A spiritual inventory is a profitable thing for every 
 Christian* 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 Many a heart goes hungry for an appreciation that 
 is treasured up in a heart that loves but does not find 
 expression* 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 
 Any activity that we may put forth in another's 
 vineyard doesn't make ours secure* unless it too is 
 kept* 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 To acknowledge a truth doesn't save a man* Only 
 when he surrenders to it and lets it become operative 
 in his life does salvation come* 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 The purpose in our existence is to put something 
 into life that we do not take out* to leave at our de- 
 mise more than we brought when we came* 
 
J\u3«0i 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 Jesus Christ puts the choicest wares of heaven on 
 the low shelf within the reach of the humblest of 
 earth* 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 
 First to be told and then to tell, first to be taught 
 and then to teach t first to discover and then to declare 
 the spiritual truth within you, is the Christ -approved 
 way for His church* 
 
 THIRTY-FIRST 
 
 It is not what we know but what we tell that en- 
 riches others* 
 
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 ONE DAY AT A TIME 
 
 I remember when a lad riding into the country with 
 my father that we seemed to be approaching a high 
 and ragged hill around whose base ran a swift stream* 
 I could see no road either leading over the mountain 
 or around it* The road seemed to end just ahead* 
 I was worried as to how we were ever going to get 
 over the hill* I asked my father what we should do* 
 He simply laughed and drove right on* The roadway 
 was clear and smooth as far as we went and opened 
 up to us as we went ahead until I could clearly behold 
 a way leading around the mountain between its base 
 and the river* My trouble was in wanting to see too 
 far ahead* So many of our troubles come from our 
 desire to see more than a day's journey ahead* We 
 are exhausted by trying to carry the burdens of a 
 week or a year at a time* We have only to face to- 
 day^ troubles or carry to-day's loads now* We can 
 master them* Then let us do it, and leave to-mor- 
 row's until we reach them* 
 
FIRST 
 
 Sin, Satan and Selfishness are a triple alliance that 
 has been formed for your downfall and overthrow* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 Common services are good, but the uncommon one 
 is the one that taxes our purses, our minds, and our 
 powers in order to perform it* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 The "narrow way" and the "narrow gate" do not 
 mean narrow minds, for we are to be like God* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 Not only where one is but also what he has over- 
 come in getting there settles how much credit is dm 
 him* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 The sinner is welcome in God's house that he may 
 have pardon for every transgression and forgiveness 
 for every sin* 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 God's promises, oh, how comforting! Take them 
 out of our lives and see how much of consolation is 
 gone, and what emptiness is left* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 Habit is neither instinct nor intuition, but an acqui- 
 sition* 
 
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 EIGHTH 
 
 The best revelation ever made of the Christ, and the 
 most enduring monument that is ever built to His 
 memory, is a life animated by the spirit that animated 
 Him* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 As you choose, you live* The character of your 
 choice will determine the character of your conduct* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 Friendship may be a stumbling-block to ruin or a 
 stepping-stone to happiness* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 Three burdens are revealed in the Bible: The one 
 we ought to bear* somebody else's; the one we must 
 bear, accountability for our own lives; and the one we 
 ought not to bear, anxiety about the future, which God 
 is ready to take* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 It is the Rock that is higher than we for which we 
 are all longing — the Rock that is above the waters de- 
 fying the billows where safety is* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 Who can be a help like the God of Jacob? 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 Pleasures ought to be chosen that will leave a pleas- 
 ant taste, not a bitter one* 
 
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 FIFTEENTH 
 
 Temper is something for which we are neither to be 
 blamed nor praised, but for the control and use of 
 which you and I, and no other, are responsible* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 That which we create not may modify that which 
 we do create* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 Sin is "coming short," "missing the mark" — coming 
 short of God's ideal, missing the goal God has set for 
 us* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 Usage is unsteady and unreliable, yet it is followed 
 by multitudes who make it their god and guide* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 It is not sinful to love yourself, but it is a sin not 
 to love anyone but yourself* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 We thank Thee, O God, that Thou dost require us 
 to take only one step at a time* Give us grace to take 
 each step as it is revealed to us* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 Money procures many things, but not all things, nor 
 the most precious and abiding* 
 
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 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 Man can sell his soul but he cannot buy it back with 
 gold or silver or corruptible things* the only wares he 
 has left after bargaining away his soul* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 Be well-to-do, but learn to do well* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 A tongue may be a busy-body or a blessing-bringer* 
 a gossip-scavenger or a grace-sower* 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 Afflictions may be the weights that hold you down 
 while you are looking for the sparkling jewel, as they 
 do the diver while he picks the pearls frcm the ocean 
 bed* 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 
 When God gave you germs of greatness He ex- 
 pected growth in greatness* 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 When do you get the best view of Christ* when you 
 are riding on the high tide of prosperity or battling 
 with the deep waves of gloom? 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 The thing that costs us little we care little about* 
 
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 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 As you decide, your deeds will be* What you settle 
 in your mind will to a large degree settle what shall 
 come into your life* 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 
 Jesus Christ came to bring what we had not, not 
 what was ours already* 
 
(printer 
 
 SEEMING MISTAKES 
 
 One Sunday evening at an after-meeting a young 
 girl asked to be remembered in prayer* I intended 
 to speak to her before she went out* but instead of 
 going directly to her I went to the door to intercept 
 another with whom I wished to speak t intending to 
 speak to the other as she came down the aisle* Not 
 knowing her very well* I picked out the one I supposed 
 to be the right one and talked with her and found she 
 wanted to be a Christian* But after she had gone 
 out I ascertained from one of the deacons that it was 
 the wrong girl* not the one who had arisen* But the 
 spirit meant it all right and as a result I reached them 
 both, so that what seemed to be a mistake was the 
 carrying out of the spirits purpose* 
 
(fyttabtx 
 
 FIRST 
 
 It is not work but worry that destroys men* The 
 Bible teaches us that we should do our best and trust 
 the rest to God* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 God who created you with a free will will never 
 over-ride that will* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 Just as surely as there are two ends to a railroad 
 there are two ways and two destinies in life* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 Repentance will bring forgiveness but it won't re- 
 move scars* recover wasted strength nor rebuild 
 broken down walls* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 The right hand of the Most High can change your 
 sorrow into joy* your weakness into strength* There- 
 fore* look up* believing* cheer up* stand up* 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 I believe in science; I believe in religion; I believe 1 
 that God is the author of both* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 One's outfit for life in no inconsiderable degree con- 
 ditions the income from life* He impoverishes his 1 
 achievements who curtails his armament* 
 
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 EIGHTH 
 
 No man can build an eternal habitation for you* but 
 
 imany of us can contribute the means to propel you 
 and help you in deciding the style you will erect* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 It is a profitable thing for a person to sit down and 
 count the probable cost before setting out in an enter- 
 prise or upon a career* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 The great question is not what my neighbor thinks 
 of me, but am I like current coin before my God? 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 There isn't an emergency in your life when God 
 will not stand by you* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 God's plan is bound to succeed* Your contrary plan 
 may succeed for a while* but wait* the end is not yet* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 
 Divine wisdom consumed eighty years of Moses* life 
 i in getting him ready for forty years' work* but it made 
 a success of him* and glorified God too* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 We are so impatient that too often we are not willing 
 to wait long enough to consult God* and so plunge into 
 disaster* 
 
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 FIFTEENTH 
 
 Every man who has led a noble life has had an ideal 
 as an inspiration* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 We borrow trouble when we have more of oar own 
 than we can manage* and go a long way in imagination 
 to meet troubles that never come* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 Get a man's heart on something and you have an- 
 chored him* The heart's affections are stronger than 
 the intellect* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 Christianity is not merely a sentiment in the mind 
 but a sentiment clothed in everyday life* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 When you lose your self respect you lose one of the 
 holiest things in your life* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 To make blunders is not evidence of great ability, 
 yet no amount of ability will make one exempt from 
 them* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 It is easier to see what we have done than to see 
 what we are going to do* and easier to see the mistake 
 in another life than to see it in our own* 
 
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 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 A man docs not stand any less honored of men be- 
 cause he honors the Son of God* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 It is the thing for which we labor the hardest of 
 which we are most jealous* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 Bible religion in its spirit has fostered every brand 
 of human learning, and is a promoter of, not a foe to t 
 education* 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 Jesus Christ did not come into the world to create 
 intellect but to direct it* 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 
 When God gives anyone a power or possession, an 
 office or opportunity, it is given as a trust to be 
 administered by him for the general weal* 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 Riches in the heart are bad, riches in the hand may 
 be good* 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 In Christ I have a twofold revelation, — a manifesta- 
 tion of what God is, and a disclosure of what man is 
 intended to be* 
 
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 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 God does for us what we cannot* not what wc can* 
 Men could roll away the stone from Lazarus' tomb, 
 and they were asked to do it* The women could not 
 remove the stone from Jesus' sepulcher and angels die 
 it for them* 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 
 You can't accept a gift from Almighty God without 
 having a responsibility attached to it* 
 
 THIRTY-FIRST 
 
 The best test of loyalty to country is not fireworks; 
 not conning the laws of the land* but conforming to 
 them* 
 
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 IMPROVEMENT 
 
 God expects that the children shall be an improve- 
 ment upon their parents and provides the means for 
 promoting the end in view* 
 
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 FIRST 
 
 The Christian is here for business and that business 
 to correct and cure, to preserve and purify, uplift and 
 uphold all that makes for the best and purest in human 
 life. 
 
 SECOND 
 
 To tempt God means overdoing God's patience* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 Religion that will not run is risky, and faith that will 
 not follow is faulty* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 You and I must serve as crutches, if the weak ones 
 are to stand* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 If we would help with our hands, we would have 
 more hope in our hearts* 
 
 SIXTH 
 Over all the world's history is the eye of the Father* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 We must see God's footsteps and point them out to 
 the world* 
 
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 EIGHTH 
 
 If the world is going to be saved, we mast be in it, 
 bat we must be unlike it* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 Make your aspiration just as high as the life and 
 character of Jesus Christ* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 As the bride holds the first place in the heart of the 
 husband, so should the church be first among societies 
 in the Christian's regard* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 The crucial question is not what do you believe, but 
 whom do you trust; not with which school of theology 
 are you in agreement, but where is your deposit* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 The "ends of the earth" are coming to us, and it is 
 our business to reveal Christ to them* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 
 You can't get to heaven on the ladder of mortality 
 for one round is left out* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 It is not an evidence that you will succeed because 
 you can tell why another failed, nor a sign you are 
 perfect because you point out another's imperfection* 
 
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 FIFTEENTH 
 
 God has committed to you for keeping and cultiva- 
 tion the most valuable thing in the world, — a soul* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 Habit is not made in a single moment nor by a single 
 deed* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 If you shut Christ out, you shut out the choicest 
 agency in character formation* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 We have been placed in this world not to be amused 
 or admired, not to sigh or simper, but to be noble and 
 ennoble, and to stand up and lift up somebody else* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 
 Religion is a matter of attitude as well as attain- 
 ments, of disposition as well as deportment, of spirit 
 as well as service* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 There have been more friendships broken by a rumor 
 than by a deed f by misunderstandings than by mis- 
 deeds* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 The religion of Jesus Christ has a touch as well as a 
 tongue* 
 
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 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 You can't estimate a man's character by his pocket- 
 book or his bank account* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 Gaining a livelihood is not to be despised, but it is 
 not the sole purpose for which we have been placed 
 in the world and endowed with mighty powers of 
 mind and soul* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 We will have to come close to God if we save the 
 world* 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 You do not enter the narrow gate to the broad way t 
 nor do you enter the broad gate to the narrow way* 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH 
 
 Be thankful for things you already have; thank Him 
 for the experience you had in getting it; thank Him 
 for what you did not get, and thank Him for what you 
 have not yet attained* 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 Diligence is an instant, earnest endeavor* Make an 
 honest endeavor to do your best, and do it now* 
 
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 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 There is a place to begin as well as a way to begin* 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 There are two things that are worth doing t one is to 
 listen to God, and the other is to walk as He would 
 have you* 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 
 The book of Proverbs is one of the best things for 
 a business man, a good thing for a society woman, a 
 guide for a preacher, and a help for the boy and girL 
 
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 MOMENTUM OF HABIT 
 
 While walking along with a package in each hand 
 I came to a slippery incline, and as I attempted to as- 
 cend it I slipped back* Stepping back a few steps, I 
 ran until I had acquired a momentum sufficient to 
 carry me over the difficult place* 
 
 So by cultivating good habits we can acquire a mo- 
 mentum that will help us when we come to the difficult 
 place in life or to the hour of temptation* 
 
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 FIRST 
 
 It is easier to ask Him for what we want than to 
 thank Him for what we get* 
 
 SECOND 
 
 If God is willing to daily bear our burdens, dearly 
 beloved, let Him do it* 
 
 THIRD 
 
 The workman not to be ashamed is the one who 
 keeps at his task until it is finished* 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 Christianity is not simply a life service; it is a love 
 service* 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 Many kind words lose much of their value because 
 not spoken until too late* 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 Every one of us has something that no one else can 
 keep for us* — a vineyard of our own* 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 Another man may put a thought into your mind or 
 stir your soul, but you are responsible for what it does 
 there* 
 
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 EIGHTH 
 
 Sympathy is worth more than gold; it is beyond the 
 price of rubies* 
 
 NINTH 
 
 All the knowledge you have in your brain does not 
 enrich the world until you reveal it to the world* 
 
 TENTH 
 
 Because you are a Christian does not mean that 
 there will not be a trial for you, but that there will be 
 a trial-helper at your side* 
 
 ELEVENTH 
 
 Little! Oh, yes t little! But how God multiplies the 
 little, making a few loaves feed the thousands and a 
 handful of meal support a family* 
 
 TWELFTH 
 
 It is a great thing to be the object of another's af- 
 fection and to be admitted to the sanctuary of another's 
 heart* 
 
 THIRTEENTH 
 
 Jesus Christ does not force His way into any heart* 
 He stands at the door and knocks* 
 
 FOURTEENTH 
 
 Worry about things that have not come means in- 
 efficiency in things that are here* 
 
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 FIFTEENTH 
 
 A man that is going to have a harvest will do some- 
 thing beside look for it ; he will have to work for it* 
 
 SIXTEENTH 
 
 A thornless rose is an anomaly in nature* A life 
 made perfect without affliction is an unknown thing* 
 
 SEVENTEENTH 
 
 You may throw the rose out of the house* but the 
 fragrance still lingers in the atmosphere* 
 
 EIGHTEENTH 
 
 The success of your life depends largely upon your 
 improvement of the great and vital opportunities that 
 present themselves* 
 
 NINETEENTH 
 Winning out is a process; it is not a single act* 
 
 TWENTIETH 
 
 He who is fretting over the rain of yesterday cannot 
 enjoy the sunshine of to-day, any more than he who 
 is bemoaning the past can get joy out of the present* 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST 
 
 When one man's wisdom fails* it is a call for another 
 man to use his* 
 
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 TWENTY-SECOND 
 
 We are indebted to this world for some things we 
 did not order* 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD 
 
 The more you take up of another's burden, the 
 lighter will be your own* 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH 
 
 "Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift." 
 Never has there been one more precious. 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH 
 
 Love is two-faced. It looks two ways, toward God 
 and toward man. The commandments are summed up 
 in the word "love." 
 
 TWENTY-SIX 
 
 You cannot raise a soul from "the Slough of De- 
 spond" by a single lift, nor lead the enshackled from 
 thralldom by a single word. Keep at it. 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH 
 
 The church stands in need of people like Onesiphorus 
 who can do more than one thing. 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH 
 
 God does not say that when we enter the way that 
 leads into His kingdom that no enemy will be there, 
 but that He will be with us to meet the foe. 
 
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 TWENTY-NINTH 
 
 When God wants to make a strong character He 
 puts before the one who is to possess it something 
 hard to do* 
 
 THIRTIETH 
 
 The great need of a sinful world is not so much to 
 be reminded that it is wrong as a help to get right* 
 
 THIRTY-FIRST 
 
 In looking back over the past year, we may fold our 
 hands and bow our heads* saying not despondently 
 but hopefully, "God forgive me that it was not better," 
 and take for our motto for the coming year, "Better, 
 by the grace of God*" 
 

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