"The deals will be closed to-morrow. I believe the Lord has educated me in all this. I know He is helping me, and the money I make will all go to the Lord. I only want to provide for my grandchildren. All the rest will go to charity and missions." (Text.)
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BUYING, GOOD
Not very long ago a lawyer accompanied
his wife to a Harlem market in New York,
and while she made some purchases, he
watched a woman beside him select meats
for an unusually large order. So extensive
were her purchases that he grew interested.
Later he found himself forgetting quantity
in admiration for the judgment and care she
was exercising in her buying. After she
left, his curiosity got the better of him. "Do
you mind telling me," said he to the clerk,
"who that woman was? I think I never saw
one who bought so well."
"Not at all," was the answer. "She's Mrs. X, and she keeps a boarding-house on Y Street," naming a number almost opposite the man's home. "She personally inspects every piece of meat she serves on her table, and I tell you her boarders get the best. You can't fool her."
"I've found a place to take our meals in the next domestic crisis," was the thought that flashed into the man's mind. This kind of boarding-house keeper was not the sort he had known in the days of his bachelor wanderings.—The Evening Post.
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By-products—See Utilizing Seed.
By-products of Seaweed—See Utilizing
Seaweed.
C
Calf Intelligence—See Direction, Sense of.
CALL, THE, OF GOD
In the summer of 1871, Rev. Robert W.
McAll and his wife, visiting Paris at the
close of the war with Germany, and led by
a deep desire to reach workingmen with the
gospel, were giving away tracts in the hotels
and on the public streets, when a workingman
said: "If any one will come among us
and teach us not a gospel of priestcraft and
superstition, but of truth and liberty, many
of us are ready to hear."
Mr. McAll returned home, but above the murmur of the waves and the hum of busy life he heard that voice, "If any one will come and teach us . . . we are ready to hear." He said to himself, "Is this God's call? Shall I go?" Friends said, "No!" But a voice within said, "Yes." And he left his English parish and went back, and in a district worse to work in than St. Giles in London he began to tell the old story of Jesus. Soon the little place was crowded, and a larger room became a necessity; and sixteen years later that one gospel hall has become 112, in which, in one year, have been held 14,000 religious meetings, with a million hearers, and 4,000 services for children, with 200,000 attendants.—Pierson, "The Miracles of Missions."
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CALL TO BETTER LIFE, THE
When summer is ending the wild bird in
arctic zones responds to the call of the tropic
winds and perfumes and plumes his flight
for southern feeding-grounds. So the soul
of man is drawn and responds to subtle and
haunting attractions in the realm of holiness
and heaven.
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Call to Duty—See Responding to the Call.
CALLS AND CONVEYANCES IN THE EAST
A source of offense (in the East) are calls
formal in character. One can ruin his
social standing by going to make this call in
a wrong style of conveyance. A friend of
mine had bought a Chinese sedan-chair with
shorter handles than those of an ordinary
sedan. It was loaned to a millionaire from
New York to bring him up from the river,
and it caused the greatest excitement that
the city had ever known. People were laughing
for years over it. Why? Because those
shorter handles made of that sedan a spirit
chair, in which the ghost is carried at funeral
processions. It was just as appropriate as
if Dr. Anderson, of the First Presbyterian
Church up here, should receive a visiting
clergyman in a hearse down at the station
and bring him up-town in it. It is safe to
