ght down lies
about my family, and I read them so as to hear both sides; it would not
be long before some suspicion would creep into my mind. I said to a man
once, "Have you got a wife?" "Yes, and a good one." I asked: "Now what
if I should come to you and cast out insinuations against her?" And he
said, "Well your life would not be safe long if you did." I told him
just to treat the devil as he would treat a man who went around with
such stories. We are not to blame for having doubts flitting through our
minds, but for harboring them. Let us go out trusting the Lord with
heart and soul to-day.

How a Little Study Upset the Plans of a few Prominent Infidels.

It is said of West, an eminent man, that he was going to take up the
doctrine of the resurrection, and just show the world what a fraud it
was, while Lord Lyttleton was going to take up the conversion of Saul,
and just show the folly of it. These men were going to annihilate that
doctrine and that incident of the gospel. A Frenchman said it took
twelve fishermen to build up Christ's religion, but one Frenchman pulled
it down. From Calvary this doctrine rolled along the stream of time,
through the eighteen hundred years, down to us, and West got at it and
began to look at the evidence; but instead of his being able to cope
with it he found it perfectly overwhelming--the proof that Christ had
risen, that He had come out of the sepulcher and ascended to heaven and
led captivity captive. The light dawned upon him, and he became an
expounder of the word of God and a champion of Christianity; And Lord
Lyttleton, that infidel and skeptic hadn't been long at the conversion
of Saul before the God of Saul broke upon his sight, and he too, began
to preach.

GOLD.

-- What reason have I for doubting God's own word?

-- I just as much believe that God sent Christ into the world to be the
Saviour of the world, as I believe that I exist.

INTEMPERANCE.

Cast Out But Rescued.

I met a man in New York who was an earnest worker, and I asked him to
tell me his experience. He said he had been a drunkard for over twenty
years. His parents had forsaken him, and his wife had cast him off and
married some one else. He went into a lawyer's office in Poughkeepsie,
mad with drink. This lawyer proved a good Samaritan, and reasoned with
him, and told him he could be saved. The man scouted the idea. He said:
"I must be pretty low when my father and mother, my wife and k