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 school, "half a dozen of your brightest boys. I'll listen to them."

The next day half a dozen of the boys, ranging from ten to fifteen years of age, called on the Mayor. Each boy gave some reason why he believed the saloon ought to be taken away, until it came to the last one, a youngster of twelve. He looked the Mayor squarely in the eye, and gave as his reason:

"My school gives me a chance to be Mayor of Boston some day; the saloon can't. I think us boys ought to have all the show we can get to be Mayor. That's all I know about it."

The Mayor threw himself back in his chair and laughed heartily; then, straightening up, he said to the last spokesman:

"My boy, you have said more than did all the politicians and the teachers. You shall have the show to be Mayor. That saloon will have to quit business at once."

The boys gave the Mayor a hearty cheer, and marched out of his office. They had conquered, and were consequently happy and triumphant.

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CHANGE RENOVATES

Police captains find that if they change every man around to a different position about once in so often, it is good for the entire force. The managers of some business offices say that a good big jar is beneficial to almost everybody, and especially for those in danger of believing that they are indispensable. It is a most remarkable boy who is not improved, on occasions, by a genuine "calling down."—, "The Fighting Saint."

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Change Wrought by Time—See.

Changes in China—See.

CHANGES WROUGHT BY CHRIST

The geologist tells us that ages ago vast and horrible creatures filled the air and waters—fierce and hideous monsters swarmed and fought in the primeval slime; but in due time God swept away mastodon, mammoth, megatherium, and filled the world with mild and beautiful forms of life.

To-day we see moral changes wrought far more wonderful than any to which the petrifactions of the geologist witness; we see the power of Christ destroying passions far more terrible than the lizards, serpents, and crocodiles of the antediluvian world, creating graces sweeter and fairer than the choicest forms of perfected nature.—, "The Transfigured Sackcloth."

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Channels, Choked—See.

CHARACTER

That a life tells more than a creed is shown in this incident told in the Young Man:

Mr. John Morley said to a Presbyterian minister who was his guest: "How was it that your Church tolerated Drummond? His views were surely not those of the Free Church." "No," said the minister, "but we never took him seriously as a thinker. No one believed that he would shape the theological opinions of the Church. We regarded him rather as a religious influence." "Ah, yes," said Mr. Morley, "you are quite right; he wasn't a thinker." After some talk on other matters he returned to the subject: "You said a little while ago that Drummond was a religious influence. How did he show that?" "Well," replied the minister, "for one thing, he cleansed Edinburgh University life for several years." "Ah," said Mr. Morley thoughtfully, "that's better than being a thinker." It is never easy for the Church to drive out heretics who are not thinkers, but who purify by love the sources of spiritual life in men.

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As the light is rayed back from the flower and the wave, from the rock and the roadside, from all objects in nature and all ornaments of art, no matter from what center it emanated first, so the excellence of a character, when serenely and brightly exprest through life, attracts an immediate and instinctive response from all natures around it.—

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Character and Evil—See.

CHARACTER AND FAME

Fame is what you have taken, Character is what you give; When to this truth you awaken, Then you begin to live.

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