WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE DOING.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12569, 11 August 1906, Page 13

WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE DOING.

ii - i [■; YERS^Sx r LOUIS -:-7 The separate puMfcotion of fourteen 7 at Yailima by Robert 7 ? y « Stevenson, says an English ' LOU r nuit be welcome to many I T not noces* to the Edin--1 They .fford u« a ~ of tho devotional pli-asint fc. r lv au mterest- -- * er \ks Stevenson writ**:iM pr-iuc- M»f l)ia yer, the direct ..With my husband. pia. wfifiii ho 7 tm %?" stovenson's account of From .- I,m at Yuiliraa we take a ■■wains wor„h-P ,at J \™ . h hy . fpw sentences:-- 11* sc v w«. «, ■i^ SaPa cr in Engli-h, ,»..«* lowing bllt more often from ■ times improniptu q _ c] ' th ° '■£_? the ire. Luuioes of the day. in <r with tut en f 0 _ Koro 1 «SK tongue and tho ■' Sion t concert of the Lord. i Pmycv, themselves ? by X simplicity and f nne is.etiucK oy tt Per . ; sanity in point of literary ' hapS thß „ , fay Sto some reader* to ll} » time vi unfair. Of ' m,icll '*- nJreoial note of classic PS for'nj!°Sder h of"fnmily or pub- - 1,. \w=o lor any rnn}o rato many of .- t>-e'ns 6 0% SntinS? with his own S 2 much being said by . way of c veaT, one may go on to pra.so most hSrtily these beautiful specimens ot de, Tn Vo!v conspicuous in the note of thanke i \7J- fnr d-iilv mere es. At a feast in Va Ima on the" Americnn /'Thanksg.v- ---' ;„, Day" Stevon-on. in acknowledging he Sst of his health, avowed himself thankful" for hie own bW i.E_T We know, too, from his poem -S Celestial Surgeon." how bpo and I,Jinoi a sin he judged sullen .ngrati- ," to be. Veiy sincere, therefore, ""h iSthcsp;: "Wo thank Tpe for this place in which we dwell; for the love which unite*, us; or the Sice «ccorded us this day; for the " }" ?,??U tt-hieh wo expect tho morSP fo th. &7tho SSk, tho food, .' IZ' the bright that make our , fives delightful; for our friends .in all ' S of tin- earth, and our friendly ■ good, and help i» to bo better." The refwonce to being good is naive- .' eoroe might say presumptuous. It, Cvcr, there is any fan t from which Stotvmon was free, it »«-*-"*,«». oiune-s. "We are good" is rath«r . an incemious way of expreasrng the truth that human nature is not wholly ivU And for this mnfilo referenceto tho goc-ln«s in us we have many. othora reflecting a poignant sensoot .tho reality of sin—references tolraiJty, deScienc}*, offences, broken purposes ot cood, and idle endeavours against . evil " Help us to look back on the long way that Thou luust brought us, ' on the long days in which we ihavo been J berved, not according to our deserts, '- but onr desires; to the pit and tho ' miry clay, tho blackness of despair, the 11 horror of misconduct, from which our yi. feet have been plucked out. For our W mm forgiven or prervonted, for our ,? shame unpubliehed, we bless and' ttoank : Thee, 0 God."

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