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Vol. 59;<br />
Prayer Meeting Topic.<br />
PRAYER AIEETING TOPIC<br />
FOR SEPT. 10, 1913.<br />
Rev. J. G. -McElhinney.<br />
Subject: Schools, Acts 7:22.<br />
Psalms 1911<br />
pjroblems of life and meet its point now that the same mUght<br />
close competition, realize their mis- almost be said of High School. In<br />
take in not getting more educa- the matter of higher education the<br />
tion, should be a warning to those young people must in some cases<br />
who think it is no use to go to<br />
school.<br />
lay aside their desire for it in order<br />
to care for or provide for<br />
Education does, or should result aged or invalid parents. Physical<br />
V^ersion vv<br />
No. in the development of the soul. weakness may also deter some<br />
25 7-12<br />
62 Through education, man's sympathies<br />
are enlarged, his ideals But in most cases where there is<br />
from completing their education.<br />
43 3<br />
116<br />
45 15<br />
122 raised, has usefulness increased, a desire for learning, with a few<br />
49<br />
I<br />
132 and when united with religion, exceptions such as the above, the<br />
78<br />
I<br />
205 his happiness and his capacity for effort should be made to secure it.<br />
119<br />
Part 2 310 good, greatly multipHed.<br />
Parents should encourage their<br />
COM^IENT.<br />
II. AVHERE GO?<br />
young .people to take as much<br />
This is the time of year In deciding this question two schooling as poss'ible, for the competition<br />
is so keen in every vo<br />
that parents and children all over others often arise: Where shall<br />
the country are beginning to think we make our home, and shall our cation that it requires a more<br />
about the opening of the schools, children be sent away from home through educational foundation<br />
The decisions which will be made to attend school?<br />
than it used to, in order to hold<br />
this Fall in connection with the In selecting a location for a one's own.<br />
scbool question, may be the turning home after considering the ques- •<br />
point in the lives of many of our tions of health, religious environ- ^QfjlJ^a PeOOlc^S ToOiC<br />
boys and girls and may determine ment, and! church privileges, the o r ' r'<br />
the destiny of many souls. one of most importance is that of<br />
I. W H Y GO? educational facilities. While there<br />
This is a question which parents are some who leave the opportunity<br />
and children need to study. Often for education; out of account in<br />
there is so much work to do on<br />
the farm, or the expense of living<br />
in the city is so high that it<br />
seems to require the combined effort<br />
of the entire family to meet expenses,<br />
and the parents are strongly<br />
tempted to keep their children<br />
out of school for at least part<br />
their desire to make money, there<br />
are a .great many who are not as<br />
careful as they ought to be, to<br />
locate within the bounds of the<br />
church. There are people of Covenanter<br />
.parentage, and many who<br />
have been members of our Church<br />
who have allowed the desire for<br />
of the year. Some children would money or educatation, or the<br />
rather play and some would rather matter of clima'^'e to take precework,<br />
some get a dislike for school dence over loyalty to the prinor<br />
for teacher, and some find it ciples of the church.<br />
20:1; 31:8; 2 Chron. 16:9; 20:20.<br />
hard to get the lessons and pass The same drain upon our Church HINTS FOR TALKS.<br />
the examinations, and finally say comes from sending our young Is faith an emotion? What<br />
"what is the use of going to school people to schools which are out of then do we expect when we pray<br />
inyv^'ay?"<br />
the bounds of Covenanter congre- for faith?<br />
When we study the lives of the gations. Parents make the mistake What means .besides prayer can<br />
educated men of the Bible, of of thinking that their careful inwhom<br />
Moses and Paul are the struction in the principles of the What is the difference between<br />
we use to strengthen faith?<br />
chief representatives, we can eas- Church will outweigh, in all cases, dead and living faith?<br />
ily see that if they had not ac- the influence of teachers, and felcepted<br />
the opportunity which (jod low students, "and pastors of the faith on those ;who see it?<br />
What is the effect of hearty<br />
gave them, for receiving an edu- churches which are attended while Why do we not increase in<br />
cation, they could not have done absent from home. This school faith ?<br />
the great work which He want- problem is one which is most vited<br />
them to do. ally connected with the growth<br />
Victory! That is a Bible word,<br />
The fact that the great and good and usefulness of our "beloved<br />
men of the past have valued edu- Zion." Christ needs the strength<br />
cation so highly as to provide for and service of all the educated<br />
free education, in itself should and consecrated young men and<br />
lead us to appreciate the opportunities<br />
W'jmen the Covenanter Church<br />
which we enjoy. The val<br />
ue of the schools in raising the<br />
can produce.<br />
III. HOW LONG?<br />
citizenship of our country to a<br />
higher degree of intelligence, is have a problem in answering this<br />
recognized in many of the States question. With some exceptions<br />
by the compulsory school laws on account of ill health, all chilwhich<br />
they have passed. The dren should get to complete the<br />
testimony of many persons who course provided by the common<br />
after they have come to face the schools. It is getting to the<br />
YOUNG PEOHLE'S TOPIC<br />
FOR WEEK BEGINNING<br />
SEPT. 7, 1913-<br />
THE IDEAL CHRISTIAN.<br />
HIS FAITH. I John 5:1-5.<br />
By the Rev. Geo. S. Coleman.<br />
Psalms. 4:6-8; 18:1-2; 23:1-3<br />
(us); 27:9-10, 15-16; 31:18-23;<br />
34:1-4 (L. M.); 91:1-2, 13-15.<br />
Bible References. Prov. 14:26;<br />
29:25; Isa. 26:3; Jer. 17:7, 8;<br />
Nah. 1: 7; Mark 9:23 ; (Luke 17:<br />
5; Rom i; 16-17; 11:20; 2 Cor.<br />
1:24; Eph. 2:8; 6:i6;i Tim. i:<br />
5; 6:12; Heb. 4:2; 13:5-6; Deut.<br />
a Christian experience. Christians<br />
are to win, they are to overcome<br />
the world, the evil attractions of<br />
all things around us. The American<br />
athletes overcame the world<br />
in brain and muscle at the<br />
wt have entered as contestants<br />
and if we will take the troubh<br />
we can win.<br />
Covenanter young people, you<br />
Bible constantly speaks in the lan<br />
guage of struggles, of determina<br />
tion, of victory. Jesus Christ, wh(<br />
was not an admirer of things a:<br />
they are, but of things as the}<br />
ought to be, lived a hfe of ef<br />
fort; and in His efforts He was<br />
(Concluded on page eleven.)<br />
STOPPED SHORT.<br />
Taking Tonics, and Built up on<br />
Right Food.<br />
The mistake is frequently made<br />
of trying to build up a worn-out<br />
nervous system on so-called tonics—drugs.<br />
New material from which to rebuild<br />
wasted nerve cells, is what<br />
should be supplied, and this can<br />
he obtained only from proper food.<br />
"Two years ago I found myself<br />
(m the verge of la complete nervous<br />
collapse, due to overwork<br />
and study, and to illness in the<br />
family," writes a Wis. young<br />
mother.<br />
"My I friends became alarmed<br />
because I grew pale and thin and<br />
could not sleep nights. I took<br />
various tonics prescribed by physicians,<br />
but their effects wore off<br />
shortly after I stopped taking them.<br />
My food did not seem to nourish<br />
me and I gained no fleshnor blood.<br />
"Reading of Grape-Nuts, I determined<br />
to stop the tonics and see<br />
what a change of diet would do.<br />
1 ate Grape-Nuts four times a<br />
day with cream and drank milk<br />
also, went to |bed early after eating<br />
a dish of Grape-Nuts before<br />
retiring.<br />
"In a-bout two weeks I was<br />
sleeping soundly. In a short time<br />
gained 20 lbs. in weight and felt<br />
like a different woman. My little<br />
daughter whom I was obliged to<br />
keep out of school last spring on<br />
account of chronic catarrh, has<br />
changed from a thin, pale, nervous<br />
child to a rosy, healthy girl and<br />
has gone back to school this fall-<br />
"Grape-Nuts, and fresh air were<br />
the only agents used to accomplishi<br />
the happy results."<br />
Name given by Postum Co.,<br />
Olympic games, and our hearts<br />
swelled with pride. The Germans<br />
Both parents and young people long for such a triumph; and they Battle Creek, Mich. Read the<br />
have already built their stadium little booklet "The ~' Road to Well<br />
for the next contest, ,they are apville,pointing<br />
in pkgs. "There's a<br />
trainers, they are making Reason."<br />
athletics a public enterprise, for Ever read the above letter? A new<br />
one appears from time to time. They<br />
they are determined to win. In<br />
are genuine, true, and full of human<br />
a far harder and greater conflict,<br />
interest.