Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . nday-school in St. Louis, expressesthe opinion that instruction in missions will rescuethe religious life of our young people from lapsinginto disastrous sentimentalism. Missionary in-struction will develop from knowledge, interest;from interest, sympathy ; from sympathy, sub-stance ; from substance, prayer. The result is thecoming of Christs kingdom. ***Some one has illustrated the blessing that comesto a life spent in the companionship of Jesus bythe Dutch method of cultivating the rose. An in-ferior bush is planted near to one of superior qu
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . nday-school in St. Louis, expressesthe opinion that instruction in missions will rescuethe religious life of our young people from lapsinginto disastrous sentimentalism. Missionary in-struction will develop from knowledge, interest;from interest, sympathy ; from sympathy, sub-stance ; from substance, prayer. The result is thecoming of Christs kingdom. ***Some one has illustrated the blessing that comesto a life spent in the companionship of Jesus bythe Dutch method of cultivating the rose. An in-ferior bush is planted near to one of superior quality ;its anthers are removed to avoid self pollenization,and that it may be pollenized by its stronger neigh-bor. Gradually the rose thus treated takes uponitself the characteristics of the superior life of itscompanion. If self be sacrificed to make room forthe incoming of the superior life of Christ, the lifewill gradually lose its own inferior characteristicsand take on those of the Master. 159 160 YOUNG PEOPLES CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. [August,. Mr. John Willis Baerwas called in 1890 fromhis business life in Min-neapolis to the secretary-ship of the United Soci-ety of Christian Endea-vor. To this responsibleposition he brought theability and enthusiasm ofa successful business man,and his consecrated zealhas had a helpful influence upon the work andcharacter of tens of thousands of young people. Amagnetic speaker, he always receives an enthusias-tic welcome when he appears upon the platform ofa Christian Endeavor convention. Mr. Baer isan elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Bos-ton, Mass., and was a commissioner to the lastGeneral Assembly from the Presbytery of Boston. *In a recent address before a company of studentson the devotional study of the Bible, Dr. Fair-bairn insisted upon the need of earnest, faithfulstudy as a preparation for devotional reading. Hethought it unwise to take isolated texts for suchreading. The text is meaningless without the con-text ; you cann
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