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ELLIS ONE LAYMAN AND HIS HER) | Good -vasevin:s LOOR - COVERINGS -1S-EASILY - EXPRESSED killed those who told long before of the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you, in your turn have now be- come betrayers and murderers; you who received the Law as transmitted by angels, and yet failed to keep it." That bold and direct application turned the dignified doctors of the law into raving beasts of fury. Leaping to- ward the young man, "they gnashed on him with their teeth." Aristocrats Became A Mob. Re . 'Dominion Linoleum ge ii SL EL SR Wa ed during the war. Systems have chang ed, and profound alterations in life have been effected, but war-made men are not leading the world, despite all predictions to the contrary. . This is in sharp contrast to what took place following the revolutionary beginning of the Christian Church. The experience of Pentecost produced leaders. Out of personal obscurity, in an insignificant province of the Ro- man Empire, there sprang into an em- inimce and power of ' leadership a group of men whose fame and force have persisted throughout twenty cen- tures. There is an educational value in a cataclysmic experience. An intense up- heaval of human spirit may awaken dormant powers more effectively than a decade in the classroom. That is why conversion has been synonymous 'with education ifmany a life. A first-hand experience of Jesus Christ has made over millions of men. For this reason some of us are crying, in season and out, from printed page, and from plat- form, that our grovelling day can be lifted above the level of the dirtf and shime of materialism and sensuality and short-sightedness and pettiness only by bringing men and women, boys and girls, into vital contact with the Christian religion. Nothing short of the Spirit of Christ is equal to the present human emergency, Seeking Sons of Stephen. What Christianity can do for the in. dividual life is thrillingly exemplified by Stephen, a layman, and the first Christian martyr, whose story is to- day's Sunday School Lesson. He was a product of the upheaval of the early Church. And he has been the spiritual progenitor of countless hero souls since. All thinking persons are concerned with the problem of putting stuff and fibre in the constitution of the oncom- ing generations. How (shall we make today's boys knightlier 'men than their fathers? Our day demands iron in the blood of #s men. How shal we im- part depth of conviction, this courage for. the sake of ideals, this strength and nobility of character which are civili- zation's crown? S-------- An Angel's Face, A Lion's Voice. Put on trial, and given a. chance to make his defence, Stephen preached a sermon. And what a sermon{ It roll- ed on, rich in its historical allusions, full of information and appeal, albeita rather conventional discourse, such as might be expected from the lips of the best preachers in any of the synagog- ues. That is, until it reached the end. Then, with startling unexpectedness, Imagine the flower of the aristoc- racy of the Hebrew nation becoming a hewling mob, crying with a loud voice, stopping their ears and rushing upon saintly-faced Stephen, and - hustling him outside the city walls, where they began to stone him to death. By the way, there is a gate in the present city of Jerusalem, leading out to the Mount of Olives, called "St. Stephen's Gate"; and there are hosts of great churches over the world bear- ing St. Stephen's name; the most not- able of them being the cathedral at Vienna. But I do not recall any gates or churches or pillars or ruins named after these members of the Sanhedrin, who thought themselves so great. They had power, but it was only for a day. -Alas, that the'custpdian of eter- nal truth so often falls into the hands of the local potentate with the power to slay. Luke, who was an artist with words, and knew how to bring out his con- trasts, pauses in his description of the fury of the Sanhedrin to show again the serene figure of Stephen who, "be- ing full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, "Be- hold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God." obstinate cases of Eczema, Psoriasis, Ulcers, Ring-- worm and Piles, are all om. successfully treated by this "wonderful herbal balm. _ B® 500. daw, 3 for 81 25 all dealers. NTR Baby's restless nights ~" might be avoided Scalded skin and other skin troubles are common causes of restlessness, and often cotld be avoided by care- ful bathing with Baby's Own Soap. ls 's skin, and prepares for sleep. 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Our imagination is stirred by the consideration of what Stephen beheld through the opened windows of hea- ven. Various eschatological questions arise, but we brush them aside to recall chiefly that it was Jesus Himself whom Stephen saw. The ineffable glory of the eternal kingdom seemed not worth speaking about when he could hold in full view his risen Lord, for whose sake he was rejoicing to die. "The bride eyes not her garment, > But her dear bridegroom's face; > 1 I shall not gaze at glory, But of my King of grace; Not at the crown he giveth, But on his pierced hand: The Lamb is all the glory Of Emmanuel's land." 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Great as was Stephen's sermon, his martyrdom was greater. The picture is*one that the world would not lose from its memory; for Christ's man died in Christ's way. At the very last, even as when he had walked in minis- try among the poor and lowly, Step- hen reminded people of his Master. His last words were like those of his Lord, --¢"Lord Jesus, receive my spi- rit," and "Lord, lay; not this sin to their charge,"--an 'echo of Calvary's "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." This parallel in the two death scenes must have set all Jerusalem by the ears.. "Behold, how these Christi diel" was on many a lip, and even the stern implacability of the Sanhedrin must have been shaken as they saw a faith that martyrdom could not blot out; the' Light shone the brighter for the wind that blew upon it. There are strange links in history, Stephens' was not the only. apparent defeat that led to a real victory. Most * | zealous among the mob of his murder- ers was a young man named aristocratic Pharisee eas Sa, on lost control of himself as some of the elders did and shouted and and fumed, but he kept watch © the coats: of those who stoned Sold by deed. While his philosophic mind must have been sorely puzzled yet his relig- ious training taught him that this pes- tiferous Christian sect must be wiped out by force. Saul, Saul! how little you know that the torch that Stephen dropped from his bruised and proken hand was to be picked up by you and carried as a blazing beacon 'across the known world and throughout the ages! As dramatic as the death of this young LOVELY ENSEMBLE FOR SUMMER | hen. He thoroughly approved of the man was to be Saul's conversion to the faith for which he died. Most of the Christians were driven out of Jerusalem by this persecution; and they went everywhere preaching the Gospel. In his death Stephen ac. complished more than in his life. The fury of persecution tested the infant Church and challenged her faith. The Argument of Force. Intimidation has always been a fav- orite weapon in the Church and in the State. I once knew 2 young man who had withstood for principle's pany o lesiastical When the fight promised to become serious, one of the latter bluntly ad- "| dressed the young man and said, "If you persist in speaking, you will lose jake a the pro your position, and then what will you | do? You cannot get another like it that will pay you so much money." The young man continued, and of course lost his position. But that only released him for a vastly larger and more remunerative service of the truth. This Stephen lesson will be taught apart from the needs of the times un- less the truth is brought home that there is crying demand today for the martyr spirit in every walk of life "In- fluence," "pressure," L" are ex- erted in politics, society, business and ¢ professions, almost without shame. 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