scouts to learn the cause. When they reported, he said to General Ingalls:
"Haven't we some kindling on this side of the line? Why don't we strike a light for the young Pickett?"
In a little while bonfires were flaming from the Federal line. A few days later there was taken through the lines a baby's silver service, engraved: "To George E. Pickett, Jr., from his father's friends, U. S. Grant, Rufus Ingalls, George Buckley." (Text.)
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See Christmas.
GOODNESS FROM GOD
When we see the million rain-drops of the
shower we say, with reason, there must be
one great sea from which all these drops
come. And when we see, as it were, countless
drops and countless rays of goodness
scattered about in the world, a little good in
this man, and a little good in that, shall we
not say, there must be one great sea, one
central sun of goodness, from whence all
human goodness comes? And where can
that center of goodness be, but in the very
character of God Himself? (Text.)—Charles
Kingsley.
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GOODNESS IN THE BAD
That human nature is a kaleidoscope of
good and bad, rather than one stripe of plain
color, receives a striking illustration in the
case of one Vinzenzo Juliano, who was confined
in the Newark jail on a charge of
murder. According to a report, it was
noticed that the prisoner grew weaker and
more meager day by day. His wife visited
him regularly, and she invariably carried
away a small parcel. The suspicions of the
warden were aroused and he made an inspection
of the bundle, to find it contained
the ration of food with which the prisoner
had been supplied. Inquiries followed, and
it appeared the prisoner was starving himself
to provide food for his wife and children,
who had no other means of support.
On learning this fact, the warden doubled
the ration, and took further steps to keep
the family of the prisoner from utter destitution.—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
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Goodness, Peril of—See Christ, Goodness of.
GOSPEL, A MEDICATED
An ingenious Frenchman, it is said, has
been experimenting in the manufacture of
medicated honey. He keeps his bees under
glass, giving them only flowers that contain
the desired properties. In this way, he claims
to obtain different kinds of honey—for influenza,
for indigestion, for asthma, and for
many other forms of ills that flesh is heir to.
Better than medicated honey is a
medicated gospel that meets the multiform
and variegated moral and social
ills that afflict our world. (Text.)
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Gospel, Influence of the—See Christianity, Practical Proof of.
Gospel in the Philippines—See Latin
America and the Gospel.
GOSPEL MAGNIFIED
The scientist tells us that rich meteoric
dust first fell on our earth as soil for the
earliest vegetable life. And ascending from
the scenes they loved, the apostles, with their
memories, the musicians with their solemn
Te Deums, the artists with their transfigurations
and crucifixions, the cathedral-builders
with their sublime conceptions of worship,
the philosophers, and the poets, rained the
richest associations down upon that gospel,
whose ideas had lent them their greatness.—N.
D. Hillis.
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Gospel, No Substitutes for—See Preaching Gospel.
GOSPEL, SENDING THE
M. B. Banks writes a missionary lesson after the style of "Mother Goose":
Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating a very queer pie;
He saw in a trice
It held everything nice
From the lands where the mission fields lie.
From Ceylon came the spice,
And from China the rice,
And bananas from African highlands;
There were nutmegs and cloves
Sent from Borneo's groves,
And yams from the South Sea Islands.
There were nuts from Brazil
All the corners to fill,
And sugar and sago from Siam;
And from Turkey a fig
That was really so big,
Jack's mouth thought, "It's larger than I am."
