ught in this world by education and by culture. I remember when I
was a lad in Indiana being told of a celebrated Indianapolis physician
who advertised for the most helpless idiot child and the most hopeless
was brought to him. For weeks and months no impression could be made
upon that child. He used every day to take the child into his parlor,
put him down on the floor and then lie beside him with the sunlight
streaming in his face. He said over and over one syllable of a word
until at last the child caught it, and I remember as a boy seeing that
same child stand upon a platform, repeat the Lord's Prayer and the
twenty-third Psalm and sing a hymn to the praise of God [Transcriber's
note: part of page torn away here, and one, possibly two, words are
missing] is wonderful; but more remarkable than that is the work which
is going on in us day by day. We are becoming more Christlike; one day
we shall be _like Christ_. "But _when_?" you say. This is the answer:
"Beloved, now are ye the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what
we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like
him, for we shall see him as he is."

AN UNHEEDED WARNING

TEXT: "_My Spirit shall not always strive with men._"--Genesis 6:31.

For the truth of this statement one needs only to study his Bible and
he will find written in almost every book of Old Testament and New a
similar expression. At the same time in the study of God's word it
will be revealed to him that God has a great plan which he is carefully
working out. We must be familiar with the beginning and the unfolding
of this plan and with the conclusion he reached. When after the
rebellion of his people and their unwillingness to obey his precepts we
find him saying, "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man
on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I
will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both
man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for
it repenteth me that I have made them."

Then turning to the New Testament Scriptures we find almost a similar
expression when Jesus reaches the climax of his compassionate and
gracious ministry with the children of Israel. "He came unto his own
and his own received him not"; and in the twenty-thi