February 25

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the last of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lustreth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are their, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness.

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, eradication, wrath, strife, seditious, betesies.

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revel-

lings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

26 Let us not be desirous of valinglory, provoking one another, envying one another.

"This is a rich coronet of graces, with which the apostle decks the character of the Christian believer. He tells us here what a spiritual life in Christ means, a life that has its ripe fruit in these real virtues of the man. It is no exact classification of the religious graces, but we may find an inward harmony, as if he thought of them as following a law of personal growth. Love, joy, and peace are the inmost dispositions of the heart, flowing from communion with the heart of Christ; longsuffering, gentleness, goodness are social dispositions toward others; and faith, meekness, temperance (or self-restraint) are qualities of conduct."—F. A. Washburn, D. D.

"He who has entered into the true spirit of love, and lives in it, and speaks in it, and sings in it, and works in it, is a Christian; but he who works, and sings, and speaks, and lives in any other spirit except that of love, is not a Christian. . . . He is the truest Christian who is becoming the sweetest, the mildest, the easiest to be entreated, the gentlest. He who is overcoming the obliquities of his natural temper; he who is working out, one after another, every part and element of his nature, so that he lives habitually in a Christ-like disposition, in a spirit of love, is the one that is growing in grace."—H. W. Beecher.

Closet Promise.—Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.—Psalm xxxvii. 37.

"'Tis not for man to tr.Be. Life is brief, And sin is here Our age is but the falling of a leaf, A dropping tear. We have no time to spot away the hours; All must be earnest in a world like ours

"Not many lives, but only one have we— One, only one. How sacred should that one life ever be— That narrow span! Day after day filled up with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil."

THE CHILDREN'S CORNER.

Breakfast Motto.—They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing—Psa. xxxiv. 10.

Weekly Proverb.—Doers and walls are fools' paper.—Poor Richard.

DAILY BIBLE READING.—GOD'S "PEAR NOTS."

Sunday.—To Joshua.—Josh. x. 1-11.

Monday.—In Isaiah.—xii. 1-20.

Tuesday.—In Isaiah.—xliii. 1-7.

Wednesday.—In Isaiah.—xliv. 1-8.

Thursday.—In Isaiah.—li. 1-8.

Friday.—In Isaiah.—liv. 1-10.

Saturday.—In Jeremiah.—xxx. 10-17.

"WHOSOEVER."

There are children on the floor, Conning Bible lessons o'er.

"Which word all the Bible through Do you love best?" queried Sue

"I like Faith the best," said one; "Jesus is my word alone."

"I like Hope;" "and I like Love;" "I like Heaven, our home above."

One more, smaller than the rest, "I like Whosoever best;"

"Whosoever, that means all— Even me, who am so small."

"Whosoever!" Ah! I see, That's the word for you and me.

"Whosoever will" may come— Find a pardon and a home. —Gleanings for the Young.

Be kind.—Eph. iv. 32

Last week we talked about kindness to persons. Now I want to talk about kindness to the brute creation. President Lincoln, walking one day with his secretary, stopped at a little shrub, and looked into it; then stooped, and put his hand down through the twigs and leaves, as if to take something out. His secretary said to him, "What do you find there, Mr. Lincoln?"—"Why," said he, "here is a little bird fallen from its nest, and I am trying to put it back again." Wasn't that kind of Mr. Lincoln? How much more tenderhearted than if he had done like some boys do, when they rob the poor birds' nests and carry off their eggs or young ones! I read of a little sailor-boy who took with him a pet kitten. His ship was wrecked off the Azore Islands. He was about to jump into one of the life-boats, when he thought of his kitten, and ran after it. Returning with it, the first boat was gone; but another was ready, into which he jumped. Of all the boats that started from the wreck, this only was saved. Had the boy forsaken his kitten, he must have perished with the first boat's company. It pays to be kind!

CHRIST'S TEMPTATION.

Do you often wonder why Jesus was tempted? Because Jesus, as man, was to suffer all that we suffer, and "to be tempted like as we are, yet without sin." He came to conquer Satan, and to deliver sinners from his power. This same Satan who tempted Jesus, tempts us now every day we live. Listen to what the Bible says about him: "Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour." We cannot see him with our eyes, nor hear his voice speaking to us, as Jesus could; but we can feel him in our hearts, filling them with evil passions, and sinful tempers, and wicked thoughts. Whenever we are inclined to be naughty, Satan is tempting us, but we must try to be strong and drive him away; and our Lord Jesus will help us if we only try, and will drive him away. Jesus speaks of little children as His lambs. He is the Good Shepherd who will save them from the roaring lion.

NINTH WEEK.

PEARL TEXT. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.—Gal. vi. 2.

Beside a sandal-tree a woodman stood And swing the ax, and, as the strokes were laid Upon the fragrant trunk, the generous wood, With its own sweets perfumed the blade. Go there, and do the like; a soul endowed

With light from heaven, a nature pure and great, Will place its highest bliss in doing good, And good for evil give, and love for hate. —Bryant.

Father thou knowest. Here we are all together. We would not live as if we were alone. Help us to speak and to listen, to teach and to learn. Help us to bear each other's burdens.—William Withrow

Be patient with men. Often a man speaks hurriedly. When he has come to himself, he feels he has made a mistake. He is not quite man enough to acknowledge his fault. If you hold him mercilessly to the record he has made, you will make an enemy. Be large enough to overlook his faults, and take him for what, on the whole, he intends to be. Many misunderstandings and serious differences would be avoided by obeying this. —Selected.

HELPS FOR THE DEVOTIONAL HOUR.