The Gavelyte, October 1908

J.,n TH8 (iA VF,LYTE, that Gor1':s opportunities and (;or1's stepping stones are frpquently hefore thPrn and still thPy pass thPm ignnrantly anrl depreeiatingly. Are we to et our individuat standarrl of i.,rosperity over again~t other men's? The of– ficer 111..iy tand upon the turret and sweep his gla s over all the horizon and drink in of thP stirring sea air, but it's well to remember the stoker in the enginP room and the ship's plowing forward. Does a man really bury his talents because he labor..; in an obscure place? I:, a man's usefulness hin– dered or his manhood checked simply because he's not on the quarter dPck? Has the strain of philosophy imparted in our immortal beings no noblPr con– reµtion of life's privileges? Abraham Lincoln once said, "The Lurd must have lo;ed the common people or else he wouldn't have mane so many of them". Created then for this purP.ose, the working out of His plans, the furthering of man's empire, the doing of God's will; think you, that with such a loving Creator the <'rea– ted will toil unrewarded and di satisfied? Think you that, the man of the mass, the man behind the counter, or on the harvest field, or in the obscure mission district must needs look shamefacedly upon thP countenance of his Savior at the latter clay? There's another illustration, it's a base-ball term, used to designate a player, who gives up all chance for base-ball glory, to work for the team as a wholt> - he's known a-5 an "inside worker" It seems to me, that after all, it i, th" in ide work, that will cuunt, be it of the quiet willing worker, of the one-talent man, or . imply a prayerful church member, and when the roll is called up yonder, the little un een kindnes es, the unap– preciated labor of the secret wurkers, the faltering and unselfish prc1.yer of father or mother for son or daughter, of a church for its pa~tor, or for a people will then be discovered to have been the cau e of many men' and many causes, earthly succe s Then, let us not think little of the ordinary worker, or of the ordinary opportunity, for wP little know what wondrou t.hing. we may be spurning. Current Events. PROF.F. A JIRKAT, A. M. ,'inc·P last wr rnrt t.he moon ha rolled around thP Pa rth five times. They havP hPPn fillt>d with important event. . Very prominent in thP public r,yp havP bPen tlw national political <'onventions. The Republicans nOJni-