the first time, and I
shall take Him into the best room, not into the kitchen."

So he called his friends into the drawing room. There was a little
sneering, but he read and prayed. That man afterwards became Chief
Justice of the United States Court. Never be ashamed of the Gospel of
Christ: it is the power of God unto salvation.

A young man enlisted, and was sent to his regiment. The first night he
was in the barracks with about fifteen other young men who passed the
time playing cards and gambling. Before retiring, he fell on his knees
and prayed, and they began to curse him and jeer at him and throw
boots at him.

So it went on the next night and the next, and finally the young man
went and told the chaplain what had taken place, and asked what he
should do.

"Well," said the chaplain, "you are not at home now, and the other men
have just as much right in the barracks as you have. It makes them mad
to hear you pray, and the Lord will hear you just as well if you say
your prayers in bed and don't provoke them."

For weeks after the chaplain did not see the young man again, but one
day he met him, and asked--

"By the way, did you take my advice?"

"I did, for two or three nights."

"How did it work?"

"Well," said the young man, "I felt like a whipped hound, and the
third night I got out of bed, knelt down and prayed."

"Well," asked the chaplain, "how did that work?"

The young soldier answered: "We have a prayer-meeting there now every
night, and three have been converted, and we are praying for the
rest."

Oh, friends, I am so tired of weak Christianity. Let us be out and out
for Christ; let us give no uncertain sound. If the world wants to call
us fools, let them do it. It is only a little while; the crowning day
is coming. Thank God for the privilege we have of confessing Christ.

TRUE WISDOM.

"They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and
they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever."
Dan. 12:3.

That is the testimony of an old man, and one who had the richest and
deepest experience of any man living on the face of the earth at the
time. He was taken down to Babylon when a young man; some Bible
students think he was not more than twenty years of age. If anyone had
said, when this young Hebrew was carried away into captivity, that he
would outrank all the mighty men of that day--that all the generals
who had been victorious in almost every