THE DAY OF REST.

Mataura Ensign, 28 January 1911, Page 3

THE DAY OF REST.

$ (Edited by Rev. T. Pauiin.) RISE TO FIGHT AXI) WiX! " i iit-y do Hi*' wrong who say ! •■■i.r.ie no more. V\ iH'ii once i kiiiii k and iad ;o iind you in, i'or every uay I stand >.: i. \oiir door Ami »ml .von wako and rise* to light and win ! 'u nil not ior precious chances passed a way. Weep noL ior golden ag> s en uie wane : Each night i i.'iiin the records of the. 'h'y, Ai .sunrise every soul is Itorn again. Laugh like a hoy a I splendors dial have sped, To vanished .jovs be blind, and <1 a!. a;.d dunii); -\iy judgments seal tiie dead past with its dead. Hut never bind a m-in-eni yi ; to come. Though deep in mire \%riup; not your hands and weep. I lend my arm io a'd v, 1 iA> say I ean !" Xo siiani'.'ia'. Ed olUe.iK!, I'Vrl' sank so deep. lint, ye! may rise and he again a limn ! Dost thou behold iiiy lost youth all aghastr Dost reel from righteous retribution's blow J 'i hen turn from blotted archives ol the past, And lind the Suture's pagi s while as snow ! Art thou a mourner:"' Ri.se tlice from thy spell; Art thou a sinner-' Sins may Ik* forgiven ; Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell, Each night a. star to guide thy feet to Heaven!" ELEMENTS OF REPENTANCE. Repenting has two elements in it—sorrow for sin, and turning away from sin. The psalmist put it right when he said : "I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies." Repentance is the result of looking into God's face and seeing there the pain of our misdeeds. It is the feeling of sorrow that comes when we look at the cross of Christ and see there what sin, our sin, has done. It is not so much the feeling of conviction that results from our thinking about our lost state, and the sad state of those who die without God and without hope, as it is the sorrow that our sin is so hateful to God and so harmful to His righteous rule upon earth. It is the state of mind of the child who feels sad at his disobedience, not so much because it fears punishment as that it has caused pain to those who arc dearer than life, and is determined not to cause his parents sorrow again. That is repentance. HEROES OF THE FAITH. For nearly fifty years John G. Paton watched Christ work and worked with Christ, in the New Hebrides. "In deaths oft," he .yet was preserved in such marvellous ways that we cannot wonder at his simple, childlike trust in a personal Heavenly Father's peculiar care. He proved the proposition that the way to know the truth is to do it: that the proof of God comes in putting Him to the test. The "New Woman" is finding many strange careers for herself; hut who of the most ambitious of these has dreamed of a career greater than that of the woman missionary who deliberately immunes herself in the foundations of a new nation ! J Fidelia Fiske chose to "'bury herself" in Persia ; and lo! her life is merging in a greatness and power that shine increasingly with the passing days. Some of llio heroes of the mission'; are Christians who never left their homeland, but whose interests and devotion has borne unreckoned fruit in that distant country. Morrison, Milne, Chauncey. Goodrich, Walter Lowrie, J. Hudson Taylor, John L. Nevius, I)r Griffith .John. James Meadows, Hunter. Corhett—how the names of the great servants of God in China mount up. The western world little knows what they have done but some day China will enthrone them in her hall of great ones. Verbeck, Brown, Stepburn, Neesima. i are names high upon the roll of fame of missionaries who were shaping forces in the life of the new Japan. They gave themselves to God and a nation, and only the succeeding centuries can rightly appraise the services which ;! . v their fellow missionaries rendered. LOVING OTHERS INTO THE Till" i II We need more than a clear knowledgi of ih truth in order lo go: e;! : <-rs hi sec the Intih. Wo may own know :i, • ■ truth and live the truth, an 1 y ; utter-j ly fail in winning others to live that truth for themselves. To knowing and doing we must add love—a loving in;:-, fidonee in others, freely and toilplantiy j expressed ; a quick appreciation el ill. ir j best [mints and a loving blindness, n• •,st of the time, t:> their weaker and unworthy side. Only thus can wo 1.-ad I them on to !;!" knewledg and :• - ' cepianoo of the truths that they la< !■■ ! isli'i e.-vd. ll we Would t ii'oou.t iy «•«•>. j the door in their recognition ;l trrd!>; do is to fil them ol iisii Inc.* to show our disapproval oi this in critical determination that they shall realise | their failure end adopt our course. Pro-' !~:;''!y no human being that, has •■voi' lived re-ponded to this course of tre:,;i.ent. V- i it is mistakenly adn:' 'is! ",- ed iiv some oi the best-meaning follow Chrisi. v/ho lei! t:> follow tl-ii vo "Him. •la ie-' lv: s v.ou'el never h-.w 's en wan