Christian Cynosure . ikespirit was his course in putting away that whichhe was convinced was a stumbling-block in hisown pathway and in that of others! How com-pares it for instance with the self-indulgentposition of a certain Superintendent of a NewEngland School District, who having admittedthat the tobacco habit is expensive, uncleanly,almost always hurtful to children, and perhapssometimes to adults, concludes with the com-placent reflection that his cigar has comfortedhim in the past, and he will not malign it many a confirmed user of the bottle has saidjust that. And further and
Christian Cynosure . ikespirit was his course in putting away that whichhe was convinced was a stumbling-block in hisown pathway and in that of others! How com-pares it for instance with the self-indulgentposition of a certain Superintendent of a NewEngland School District, who having admittedthat the tobacco habit is expensive, uncleanly,almost always hurtful to children, and perhapssometimes to adults, concludes with the com-placent reflection that his cigar has comfortedhim in the past, and he will not malign it many a confirmed user of the bottle has saidjust that. And further and far more important,an uncleanly or physically-harmful habit, and theassociations connected with the habit, may maror stain the better part in man, long before thebody gives evidence of the progress of the workof impairment. As a practical query, the pertinency of whichI think is sufficiently evident—Which of the twoabove cited examples is most desirable to setbefore the cigarette-tempted children of thisgeneration?. LEBBEUS ARMSTRONG,Founder of the First Temperance Society. Among the various stratagenjs of Satan in oppositionto God and holiness, and for the purpose of destroyingthe souls of men, the institution of speculative Freema-sonry holds a pre-eminent rank. BIBLE LESSON. STUDIES IN THE NEW IX.—First Quarter.—March —Jesus at Nazareth.—Luke 4: TEXT.—He came unto his own, and his ownreceived him not.—John 1: 11. \(>ptn the Bible and read the lesson.]Daily Readings.—M.—Luke 4: 1-33. T.—Matt. 13: —John 2: T.—John 3: 1-36. F.—John 4: —John 4: 31-54. S.—Isa. 61: 1-11. COMMENTS BY E. E. FLAGG. 1. Christ in his native city, vs. 16-19. It seemsa most natural thing that Jesus should proclaimthe Gospel first in Nazareth, where he had spentnot only his childhood and youth, but the openingyears of his manhood; yet quite a period hadelapsed in his ministry before this first and onlyrecorded
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