ual ought to
devote a portion of the time to his own edification. Prayer,
meditation, reading, ought not to be forgotten. Think of men devoting
six days a week to their body, which will soon pass away, and
begrudging one day to the soul which will live on and on forever: Is
it too much for God to ask for one day to be devoted to the growth and
training of the spiritual senses, when the other senses are kept busy
the other six days?

If your circumstances permit, engage in some definite Christian
work--such as teaching in Sunder school, or visiting the sick. Do all
the good you can Sin keeps no sabbath, and no more should good deeds.
There is plenty of opportunity in this fallen world to perform works
of mercy and religion. Make your sabbath down here a foretaste of the
eternal sabbath that is in store for believers.

You want power in your Christian life, do you? You want Holy Ghost
power? You want the dew of heaven on your brow? You want to see men
convicted and converted? I don't believe we shall ever have genuine
conversions until we get straight on this law of God.

SABBATH DESECRATION.

Men seem to think they have a right to change the holy day into a
_holiday_. The young have more temptations to break the sabbath than
we had forty years ago. There are three great temptations: first, the
trolley car, that will take you off into the country for a nickel to
have a day of recreation; second, the bicycle, which is leading a good
many Christian men to give up their sabbath and spend the day on
excursions; and the third, the Sunday newspaper.

Twenty years ago Christian people in Chicago would have been horrified
if any one had prophesied that all the theatres would be open every
sabbath; but that is what has come to pass. If it had been prophesied
twenty years ago that Christian men would take a wheel and go off on
Sunday morning and be gone all day on an excursion, Christians would
have been horrified and would have said it was impossible; but that is
what is going on to-day all over the country.

THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER.

With regard to the Sunday newspaper, I know all the arguments that are
brought in its favor--that the work on it is done during the week,
that it is the Monday paper that causes Sunday work, and so on. But
there are two hundred thousand newsboys selling the paper on Sunday.
Would you like to have your boy one of them? Men are kept running
trains in order to distribute the papers. Would you like