. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. ready with expression of sym-pathy in word and deed. The men came together in abee and finished up the schoolhouse so that the familycould move into it and live. And then from friendsfarther away came other manifestations of love and in-terest, until, with a new and beautiful Little home anda better equipment than they had dreamed of getting,the Lamonts were bound to declare that, like Job, theirlatter end was more blessed than their beg
. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. ready with expression of sym-pathy in word and deed. The men came together in abee and finished up the schoolhouse so that the familycould move into it and live. And then from friendsfarther away came other manifestations of love and in-terest, until, with a new and beautiful Little home anda better equipment than they had dreamed of getting,the Lamonts were bound to declare that, like Job, theirlatter end was more blessed than their beginning. The Mfe of self-denying devotion to the good of othersis one to be sought, not shunned. In the first place,it disciplines and strengthens the powers of mind andsoul to meet the problems which are inseparable from thecause of God. In the seccHid place, while the life mustalways be one of sacrifice and self-denial, there is anunexcelled satisfaction in the experience of service toothers, which finds an echo in the appreciation it gainsfrom the friends of God near by and far away. It pays,from a double standpoint, to stay behind the back PRKACHING BY HAND GO YE into all the world, and preach the gospel toevery creature, was the great conunission givenby Christ to his apostles. And down through the ageshas come sounding the message to ourselves. Butwith it have come the commentations of two millenni-ums, to the effect that this preaching is to be done byword of mouth. Yet Jesus own comments and his ex-ample signify more. He himself always prefaced hispreaching with his practise. He laid hands on the sickand they recovered; he gave bread to the himgry, cloth-ing to the naked, deliverance to the bound. He gavefar more time to heahng than to talking, and out of hisown scanty store of money he relieved the necessitiesof the poor. To his disciples, then, when he bade them preach thegospel, he conveyed such an idea of preaching as theyhad witnessed in himself: not only
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