rules through
lust. Some he rules through covetousness. Some he rules through
appetite. Some he rules by their temper, but he rules them. And none
will ever seek to be delivered until they get their eyes open and see
that they have been taken captive.

-- When Christ was on the earth there was a woman in the temple who was
bowed almost to the ground with sin. Satan had bound her for eighteen
years; but after all these years of bondage Christ delivered her. He
spoke one word and she was free. She got up and walked home. How
astonished those at home must have been to see her walking in.

LITTLE FOLKS.

The Little Child and the Big Book.

I like to think of Christ as a burden bearer. A minister was one day
moving his library up stairs. As the minister was going up stairs with
his load of books his little boy came in and was very anxious to help
his father. So his father just told him to go and get an armful and take
them up stairs. When the father came back he met the little fellow about
half way up the stairs tugging away with the biggest in the library. He
couldn't manage to carry it up. The book was too big. So he sat down and
cried. His father found him, and just took him in his arms, book and
all, and carried him up stairs. So Christ will carry you and all your
burdens.

The Horse that was Established.

There was a little boy converted and he was full of praise. When God
converts boy or man his heart is full of joy--can't help praising. His
father was a professed Christian. The boy wondered why he didn't talk
about Christ, and didn't go down to the special meetings. One day, as
the father was reading the papers, the boy came to him and put his hand
on his shoulder and said: "Why don't you praise God? Why don't you sing
about Christ? Why don't you go down to these meetings that are being
held?" The father opened his eyes, and looked at him and said, gruffly:
"I am not carried away with any of these doctrines. I am established." A
few days after they were getting out a load of wood. They put it on the
cart. The father and the boy got on lop of the load, and tried to get
the horse to go. They used the whip, but the horse wouldn't move. They
got off and tried to roll the wagon along, but they could move neither
the wagon nor the horse. "I wonder what's the matter?" said the father.
"He's established," replied the boy. You may laugh at that, but this is
the way with good many Christians