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load that followed I turned the hippopotamus over to, and then they began with their long knives to cut it up and fight over it. I went into the tent and told Mr. Lapsley that we were saved. It was no surprize to that servant of God. He was so near to the Master always that he believed He would save us.—, "Student Volunteer Movement," 1906.
 * ing, "Leave your spear." The next canoe

(1742)

KOREA, WORK AMONG WOMEN IN

As I was going along a country road one day, I saw a woman going along with a hoe, and behind her was a man with a burden on his back; and this burden, as we drew closer, we saw to be the form of a baby. It was wrapt up according to the custom. They climbed the hill and put the burden on the ground, and the mother threw herself upon the dead form of the child and cried out her broken heart, while the father began to dig the grave. We tried to comfort her the best we could, but her grief seemed too deep, and she did not understand that Christ was the only one who could comfort her. The following Sunday I saw in our meeting one of our women who had been a Christian only about six months, a woman who had been told by her neighbors that if she became a Christian a very dangerous spirit would haunt her and bring calamity to her. She did not falter, but by and by her only child, a little girl, whom she dearly loved, was taken from her. This Sunday, as she stood with the tears streaming down her face, she told how the beautiful little girl had died, but that she did not grieve so much, because, as she said, "I am going to meet her there with Jesus." I could not but think of that other woman whom I saw heart-broken on the mountain-side just a few days before.—, "Student Volunteer Movement," 1906.

(1743)

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LABELS, MISLEADING

Not long ago this country woke up to the fact that with a good deal of our canned food we were not getting just what the colored label on the outside of the can led us to suppose. It was a shocking disillusionment to find that the label showed luscious peach jelly, when the inside of the can contained only some nicely prepared and flavored gelatine, quite innocent of any relation to peaches. The country at once had indigestion, and passed laws to keep the peaches and the labels in the neighborhood of the same can.

The labels on persons are also misleading, because one can see the label but not always the real person. The titles and degrees are supposed to be descriptive of the owner's brains, and sometimes they are; but they are not always accurate, and they never make brains. A university might confer a B.A. or an LL.D. on a lineal descendant of Balaam's beast of burden, and yet it would not make him wise.—, "The Fighting Saint."

(1744)

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LABOR

This song of labor is by Caroline A. Lord:

They are working, beneath the sun, In its red-hot, blinding glare, In the dust from the toiling teams, In the noise of the thoroughfare See them swing and bend, far down to the end With the rhythm of the strokes they bear.

The cords of the sinewy arms Stand out like the cable's twist; No blow shall miss and no stroke shall fail From the grasp of the brawny fist, As the shoulder swings when the pickax rings And the hand springs firm from the wrist.

Let the feet of the dainty shod Pass by on the other side, Where the youth of the slender back and limb Stands watching—the listless-eyed; While with sweat and with pain and the long day's strain These toil—and are satisfied.

(1745)