said, "and the
text kept coming up in my mind, and I said I will try and become a
Christian." The tears rolled down his checks as he said, "I could not;
no sermon ever touches me; my heart is as hard as that stone," pointing
to one in the field. I couldn't understand what it was all about--it was
fresh to me then. I went to Boston and got converted, and the first
thought that came to me was about this man. When I got back I asked my
mother, "Is Mr. L-- living in such a place?" "Didn't I write to you
about him?" she asked. "They have taken him to an insane asylum, and to
everyone who goes there he points with his finger up there and tells him
to "seek first the Kingdom of God." There was that man with his eyes
dull with the loss of reason, but the text had sunk into his soul--it
had burned down deep. Oh, may the Spirit of God burn the text into your
hearts to-night. When I got home again my mother told me he was in her
house, and I went to see him. I found him in a rocking chair, with that
vacant, idiotic look upon him. Whenever he saw me he pointed at me and
said: "Young man, seek first the kingdom of God." Reason was gone, but
the text was there. Last month when I was laying my brother down in his
grave I could not help thinking of that poor man who was lying so near
him, and wishing that the prayer of his mother had been heard, and that
he had found the kingdom of God.

The Eleventh Commandment.

There are a great many people who forget that there are eleven
commandments. They think there are only ten. The eleventh commandment
is: "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven." How many of us
remember--ah! how many people in Chicago forget the words of the Lord
now in his wonderful sermon on the mount: "Lay not up for yourselves
treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do
not break through and steal." How few of our people pay any heed to
these words. That's why there are so many broken hearts among us; that's
why so many men and women are disappointed and going through the streets
with shattered hopes; it's because they have not been laying up
treasures in heaven.

"It's Better Higher Up."

Not long ago there lived an old bed-ridden saint, and a Christian lady
who visited her found her always very cheerful. This visitor had a lady
friend of wealth