amongst so called Christian people God's promises through not appro- tongues, they would say more for than this-to convince them that a priating them. our religion than they do now. man can work with his brain and A heart. They will look at a man's hands, and say, "That man has not done much work in his time, or his hands would not be so white." fool's philosophy! A man may work and never take his hands out of his pockets; he may work, and have his hands gloved from morning till night.-Dr. Joseph Parker. Nuggets of Gold From Spurgeon in which not a little depends on the All love-making is a given contest given odds. Anon-The New Antigone. Death can hide in a drop and ride in a breath of air. Our greatest dangers lie hidden in little things. We must teach more by our example than by our advice, or else we Married men are generally of two shall be poor pleaders for the right. kinds: those who tell their wives Those who are evermore making everything, and those who tell them the hope of making it easy for them- tive merits of the two systems delight of hell are probably doing it in nothing. It is evident that the relapend upon the relative merits of the wives in question.-Marion Crawford-Mr. Isaacs. selves. The most of us are but featherbed soldiers. Our ways are strewn with roses compared with those who Difficulties imagined are apt to endured hardness in the olden time. arise. HELPFUL HINTS. FOR BIBLE STUDY. HELPFUL FOR Pastor. HELPFUL FOR Superintendent. HELPFUL FOR Scholars. A helpful, useful and valuable book to all lovers of the Bible.. our In true marriage the wife must give as well as take-give love and forbearance, and help and comfort. -Mrs. Amelia Barr-Jan Vedder's Wife. 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FINE PHOTOGRAPHS! All Styles and Sizes. Best work in the city Guaranteed at Reasonable AT KELLY'S. It has taken the lead C. W. VOGEL, all over. Professional Riders choose them now DEALER IN CHOICE Michigan. Work called for and de- No. 4 Fourth St., East of Court House. J. A. POLHEMUS, LIVERY STABLE, The best and most extensive in t. e city. HACK and 'BUS LINE to ALL TRAINS. The only line running to night trains. Orders for parties, etc., a specialty. Particular attention to the traveling public. Cor. Main and Catherine Sts. HENRY NEUHOFF, -DEALER IN THE GRAND SEWING MACHINE No. 3 W. Washington St. J. B. Cady, Paul Snauble, W, F. Bird, C. M. Stark, E. Hodge and A. Tucker. and Wm. Goodyear. TRUSTEES. TREASURER. W. W. Beman, No. 19 S. Fifth St. CLERK. W. H. Dorrance, Jr., No. 42 S. Ingalls Street. Superintendent, C. M. Stark; Asst. A. Tucker; Sec. and Treas., H. N. Shute, Ass't., Wm. Goodyear; Librarians, E. E. Mains, J. P. Bird; Choris ter, J. R. Sage; Pianist, Miss Jennie Bird. No. 12. The pastor will gladly receive at his home or had an assignment as yet. An un visit at their homes those wishing counsel upon religious matters, or those in trouble or affliction, or strangers, whether members of the church or not. His mornings are reserved for study; his Recent Additions to the Church. Mrs. Sept. 14, by baptism: Harry E. usually pleasant social and tea were had in connection with the occasion. Our State Convention. A goodly delegation from Ann Sept. 3, 1890, by letter: Prof. J. Arbor attended the anniversary meetThe Deacons and W. W. Beman, H. N. Chute Montgomery, Mrs. Lucy C. Mont-ings of our State Baptist Convention gomery, John H. Montgomery, 47 at Detroit, Out. 14-19. The splendid E. Catherine street; Mrs. Fannie edifice of the Woodward avenue W. Nichols, 1 Volland street; Church was the scene of the meetGeorgia S. Pickett, Morgan S. Pick-ings, and an excellent degree of inett, Charlotte E. Pickett, 41 S. In- terest attached to the whole occasgalls street. ion. The pastor and wife, Prof. and Mrs. Beman, Deacon and Mrs. Snauble, Prof. Tenbrook, Dr. Markley, Mrs. Doig, Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. Prof. Stevens, Mrs. Prof. Cooley, Dr. and Mrs. Dorrance, and perhaps others were in attendance. The absence of Dr. Haskell, through serious illness, convention as a whole, and from its occasioned the most marked expressions of sympathy and love from the SOCIETIES AND COMMITTEES, Com. on Membership and Discipline-Pastor, Hodge, 36 Thompson street. Deacons, S. S. Supt. and Dr. Haskell. Fi ance Com.-Messrs. Beman, Snauble and Chute Cora. on Sittings-Messrs. W. H. Dorrance, Sr.. Dodsl y and Goodyear. Com, on Music-The Trustees. Oct. 1, by letter: E. O. Holland, 20 Church street; Sardis E. Lawrence, 11 S. Fifth avenue. By ex Ushers. Messrs. Snauble, Feier, Chute, Dodsley, perience: Robt. Hunter, 104 W. Goodyear and Dowdigan. Ladies' Foreign Mission Society-Mrs. Carman, Huron street. Pres. Mrs. Sollis, Sec Ladies' Home Mission Society-Mrs. Stevens, Pres.: Mrs. Doig, Sec. Oct. 22, by letter: Mrs. S. A. Ladies Society-Mrs Nowland, Pres.; Mrs. Tucker, 14 N. State street; Joseph Goodyear, Sec. Young Peoples' Society-Pres., H. A. Macy. Temple Builders'-Miss Helen Woodin, Pres.; Miss Mona Tucker, Sec. SCHEDULE OF BENEVOLENT CONTRIBUTIONS. Second Sunday in June subscription for Min ister's Home, payable first Sunday in July. Second Sunday in September, subscriptions for State Missions, payable first Sunday in October Second Sunday in November, subscription for Home Missions, payable second Sunday in De cember. Second Sunday in January, subscription for Foreign Missions, payable second Sunday in February. Second Sunday in March, subscriptions for Ministerial Education, payable second Sunday in April. Last Sunday in each Month, collection for expenses of the Sunday School. L Markley, 23 S. Fifth avenue. It is to be hoped that the members Pew Assignment. Our seating arrangements were adjusted last month according to the announcement. Friday evening, Oct. 24, saw a large number gathered together for the choosing of seats which was satisfactorily accomplished for the larger part of the Congregation, and has been carried to further completion since. The committee (of which Dr. Dorrence is chairman) are still ready to arrange for sittings for those who have not individual Holmes, the president of the convenmembers. Dr. J. S. tion, made a special trip to Ann Arbor to convey the sympathy and love of his brethren to our honored member and former pastor. Special interest in the convention centered about the meetings of the trustees of Kalamazoo College, and those held in the interest of the new movement for the organization of a Michigan Baptist Young People's Assembly. The latter organization was formed with excellent prospects for usefulness. WHAT a pity that men cannot become as much interested in bettering the condition of their wives and the character of their children as in the care and improvement of road and farm animals. BEGINNINGS. THE story is an old one, but good, for all that. Said the camel: "It is cold out here; may I put my head within your door?" The merchant could not find it in his heart to refuse. Before long the camel's neck, as well as his head, was within the little room; then his shoulders; then his whole body. So the merchant was crowded out entirely, for the room was not big enough for both of them. We sometimes think it no great harm if we permit the beginning of a bad habit to enter our bosom. If it would stop there, it might not do so much evil. But no one knows where a bad habit will stop. It is quite as likely as not to crowd out every good thing. So look out for its beginning! THE religion of Christ effects not only the heart, Bishop Westcott. DON'T FORGET. THAT anxiety is easier to bear than sorrow. That talent is sometimes hid in napkins, audacity never. That good brains are ofnen kept in a poor looking vessel. That the time to bury a hatchet is before blood is found upon it. That mistakes are often bought at a big price, and sold at a small one. That if it were not for emergencies, but little progress would be made in the world. MR. GLADSTONE ON OUR LIFE. OUR life may be food to us or may, if we will have it so, be poison; but one or other it must be Whichever and whatever it is, beyond all doubt it is most eminently real. So surely as day and night alternately follow one another does every day when it yields to darkness, and every night when it passes into dawn, bear with it its own tale of results which it has silently brought upon each of us, for evil or for good. The day of diligence, duty and devotion, leaves us richer than it found us; richer sometimes and even commonly, in our circumstances, richer always in ourselves. But the day of aimless lethargy the day of passionate and rebellious disorder, or of merely selfish and perverse activity, as surely leaves. us poorer at its close than we were at its beginning. The whole experience of life in small things, and in great-what is it? It is an aggregate of real forces, which are always acting upon us, we, also, reactiug upon them. It is in the nature of things impossible, that, in their contact with our plastic and susceptible natures they should leave us as we were; and to deny the reality of their daily and continual influence, merely because we cannot register its results, as we note the changes of the barometer, from hour to hour, would be just as rational as to deny that the sea acts upon the beach because the eye will not tell us to-morrow that it is altered from what it has been to-day. If we fail to measure the results that are hourly wrought on shingle and sand, it is not because these results are unreal, but because our vision is too limited in its powers to discern them. When, instead of comparing day with day, we compare century with century, then we may find that land has become sea, and sea has become land. Even so can we perceive, at least in our neighbors-towards whom the eye is more impartial and discerning than towards ourselves-that under the stead, pressure of the experience of life, human characters are continually being determined for good or for evil, are developed, confirmed, modified, altered, or undermined. It is the office of good sense, no less than of faith, to realize this gr at truth before we see it, and to live under the conviction that our life from day to day is a true, powerful, and searching discipline, moulding us and making us whether it be for evil or for good.-[Address delivered in Manchester. LITTLE words are the sweetest to hear; little charities fly farthest, and stay longest on the wing; little lakes are stillest, and little hearts the fullest, and little farms the best tilled. Little books are the most read, and little songs the most loved. And when Nature would make anything especially rare and beautiful, she makes it little-little pearls, little diamonds, little dews. Multum in parvo-much in little--is the great beauty of all that we love best, hope for most, and remember the longest. E who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart, which can only be discharged to the dust. |