other in New York. The first one
devoted all his time to amassing wealth. He had a son to whom he was
much attached, and one day the boy was brought home badly injured. The
father was informed that the boy could live but a short time, and he
broke the news to his son as gently as possible.

"You say I cannot live, father? O! then pray for my soul," said the
boy.

In all those years that father had never said a prayer for that boy,
and he told him he couldn't. Shortly after, the boy died. That father
has said since that he would give all that he possessed if he could
call that boy back only to offer one short prayer for him.

The other father had a boy who had been sick some time, and he came
home one day and found his wife weeping. She said:

"I cannot help but believe that this is going to prove fatal."

The man started, and said: "If you think so, I wish you would tell
him."

But the mother could not tell her boy. The father went to the sick
room, and he saw that death was feeling for the cords of life, and he
said:

"My son, do you know you are not going to live?"

The little fellow looked up and said: "No; is this death that I feel
stealing over me? Will I die to-day?"

"Yes, my son, you cannot live the day out."

And the little fellow smiled and said: "Well, father, I shall be with
Jesus tonight, shan't I?"

"Yes, you will spend the night with the Lord," and the father broke
down and wept.

The little fellow saw the tears, and said: "Don't weep for me. I will
go to Jesus and tell Him that ever since I can remember you have
prayed for me."

I have three children, and if God should take them from me, I would
rather have them take such a message home to Him than to have the
wealth of the whole world. Oh! would to God I could say something to
stir you, fathers and mothers, to get your children into the ark.

HUMILITY.

"Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart."--Matthew 11:29.

There is no harder lesson to learn than the lesson of humility. It is
not taught in the schools of men, only in the school of Christ. It is
the rarest of all the gifts. Very rarely do we find a man or woman who
is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and in
humility. I believe that it is the hardest lesson which Jesus Christ
had to teach His disciples while He was here upon earth. It almost
looked at first as though He had failed to teach it to the twelve men
who had been with Him almost cons