in their hearts, they would have
to leave the dinner-tables where filthy jokes are bandied about, there
being no women present. And in some workshops and mills, men and women
would have to speak out at the cost of ridicule and scorn. Yes, speak
out, when they hear that which is opposed to truth and purity made the
subject of daily conversation.

"STAND UP, STAND UP FOR JESUS!"

we often sing in our meetings, and yet some who sing these words are
craven in the presence of the foe. We should do well to take the advice
of the same song when it says,

"LET COURAGE RISE WITH DANGER,"

We should think that man unfit for a soldier's life who was not ready to
unfurl his country's flag, and let it be known for whom he is fighting.
What is the position of those who read this paper? Do you, in your
heart, believe that Jesus has the right to reign? Then shew it! Lose no
time to put on Christ! Let all men see that you believe in the
righteousness of our cause. Do not hide the love you have for Jesus. Let
not your chance of being honourably wounded pass by. In heaven, should
you reach it, there will be no opportunity of suffering for Him who loved
you to the death.

GIVE YOUR VOTE IN PUBLIC,

then, when we have won the election, you will not have to regret that you
came out too late to be of use.

XL. "WHAT CHRISTIANS MAY LEARN FROM POLITICIANS."

Many a time, during an election, we have wished that we could see the
church of God as much in earnest to send men to heaven as they are to
send those they vote for to Parliament. It must strike some of the
ungodly, when they have Christian men at them day and night

CANVASSING,

not taking No as an answer, but doing their utmost to win them--How is it
that this Christian, who knows that I never attend a place of worship,
has not shown one-hundredth part of this zeal to get me to go to chapel
or to begin to pray? Is he not likely to think;--after all, he does not
believe his Bible, or he could not be as careless about my soul as he is?

Men of business have no time to seek the souls of the lost; that is
parson's work; that must be left to Sunday;--and yet, we have seen,
during the election, keen, clever business men, up and down stairs,
calling on their neighbours, and making sure that they have given their
vote on the right side, and this in addition to many a visit paid since
the candidates were selected, and the time drew nigh for getting them
returned.