Dr. Potts might have added that out of that Bible class of Haldane, at Geneva came every conspicuous evangelical leader of France in the latter part of the century.
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TESTIMONY INDISPUTABLE
Elder Chang, a Christian from the Scotch Presbyterian Mission in Manchuria, recently visited Pyeng Yang, Korea, and gives the following report of what he learned:
Being strangers, we naturally looked up
some Chinese merchants, who, however, were
not Christians. "Who are you?" they asked
us. "Christians from Manchuria." "Are
there, then, Christians in Manchuria also?"
asked the Chinese. "Oh, yes, many of them."
"Are they the same sort as the Christians
here?" "We don't know. What are the
Christians here like?" "Good men. Good
men." "Why do you think so?" asked the
Korean elder. "Oh, a man owed us an account
five years ago of twenty dollars. He
refused to acknowledge more than ten, and
we had no redress. A few months ago he
became a Christian and came and asked us
to turn up that old account, and insisted on
paying it up with interest for all these
years." Instances like this are happening all
over Korea.—Missionary Review of the World.
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TESTIMONY OF NATURE
It is by carefully noting small and apparently
insignificant things and facts that
men of science are enabled to reach some of
their most surprizing and interesting conclusions.
In many places the surface of rocks,
which millions of years ago must have
formed sandy or muddy sea beaches, is found
to be pitted with the impressions of rain-drops.
In England it has been noticed that
in many cases the eastern sides of these depressions
are the more deeply pitted, indicating
that the rain-drops which formed
them were driven before a west wind. From
this the conclusion is drawn that in the remote
epoch when the pits were formed the
majority of the storms in England came
from the west, just as they do to-day.—Harper's Weekly.
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Testimony of Service—See Witness of Service.
TESTIMONY OF WORK
A story is told of a poor woman who, by
reason of her poverty, was kept from many
a service for her Lord which she feared He
might require at her hands—and she was
dying. She was saying to her young daughter,
who stood near the bed, that she regretted
her fruitless life, and was wishing
that she might have more to show the Master
when she met Him face to face.
"Mother," sobbed the daughter, "show Him
your fingers." Her hands were calloused
with work she had done unselfishly for
others in her Master's name. (Text.)
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Testing—See Permanent, The; Trial a Means of Grace.
TESTS
An English writer says:
About fifty years ago two eminent French
chemists visited London, and rather "astonished
the natives" by a curious feature of
their dress. They wore on their hats large
patches of colored paper. It was litmus paper,
and their object in attaching it to their hats
was to test the impurities of the London atmosphere.
Blue litmus paper, as everybody
knows nowadays, turns red when exposed to
an acid. The French chemists found that
their hat decorations changed color, and indicated
the presence of acid in the air of
London; but when they left the metropolis
and wandered in the open fields their blue
litmus paper retained its original color. By
using alkaline paper they contrived to collect
enough of the acid to test its composition.
They found it to be the acid which is
formed by the burning of sulfur, and attributed
its existence to the sulfur of our
coal.
It would be well if we all had some
kind of moral "litmus paper" with
which to test our moral atmosphere. Is
not God's spirit in us such a testing instrument?
(Text.)
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Oriental cloth merchants call in the sun as an expert witness in determining the quality of the finer products of the loom. Servants of the seller pass the web slowly between the purchaser and the sun. If no blemish is revealed by the flood of light which this incorruptible witness pours through warp and woof, the piece is passed and paid for as
