Friends intelligencer . act helps or hinders our brothers. We little know howfar our influence goes. We cannot see all of our audi-ence, and often those Avhom we do not see observe usmost closely. I can not help but feel that our most influential mo-ments are the ones when Ave are busy with the minordetails of life; when we are simply living ourselves;when the lamps of our soul burn with the brightnessfrom onr better selves. Not when we are conscious ofpeople watching us; not when Ave measure each moveand Avatch the effect upon others. It seems to me the Avorks of Jesus impress us mostin the t
Friends intelligencer . act helps or hinders our brothers. We little know howfar our influence goes. We cannot see all of our audi-ence, and often those Avhom we do not see observe usmost closely. I can not help but feel that our most influential mo-ments are the ones when Ave are busy with the minordetails of life; when we are simply living ourselves;when the lamps of our soul burn with the brightnessfrom onr better selves. Not when we are conscious ofpeople watching us; not when Ave measure each moveand Avatch the effect upon others. It seems to me the Avorks of Jesus impress us mostin the times Avhen he sits by the seaside, and, as themultitudes come to him. he talks to them of the sim-ple things of life; Avhen he takes his disciples and talksto them as one soul talking to another. Far more dra-matic Avas his trial before the Roman official, with thegrandeur and pomp of Roman laAv and power; but Ifioubt A\-hether many people are brought to lead Chris-tian lives by the tragedy played just before the cruci-. First-day After Meeting. by charles y. turner. Ella Kent Barnard, writing in the Journal of the FriendsHistorical Society, London, concerning the work of the lateCharles Y. Turner, says :—Charles T. Turners earliest muralwork was done in crayon on the blackened walls of the FriendsSchool, Lombard Street, Baltimore. Of the Lombard StreetMeeting he has made a large memory painting, which nowhangs in the Park Avenue Lecture Room, while a crayon pic-ture, First-day After Meeting, given in memory of his grand-mother, Rebecca Turner, adorns the library. [The memorypainting of Lombard Street Meeting will also be reproduced inthe Intelligencer soon.—Ed.] fixion, and if we study it AAre find that Avhich makes uswonder and marvel. So I come right back to our first proposition. Weshow the best and the worst that is in us when we areunconsciously living minute by minute our lives, with-out giving thought to hoAv it may be received by others. If we accept this to be tru
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