Truth is a trust. Whoever has it has it, not for himself simply, but for the world. Paul regarded himself a trustee of the gospel. The whole world were beneficiaries of the trust. From his day till now there has been a succession in the trusteeship. The apostle, with a spiritual thrift and economy taught him by the Spirit of God, committed the truth to faithful men, with instructions for them, in their turn, to do likewise, that the truth might never fail among men to the end of time.
    Baptists are peculiarly in the succession of trusteeship. When they were few and despised, without papers, colleges, or even the common rights of men, they felt the solemn obligations of trusteeship. They saw, under the gloom of spiritual ignorance surrounding them, certain GREAT PRINCIPLES taught in the Word of God, held them aloft amid the dust and smoke of mighty spiritual conflicts, and sealed their devotion to them in martyr fires. These principles spring out of the New Testament, and are for the guidance of the race to the highest destiny fixed in the mind of God.
    All real progress in the world is along the line of these princi-

    There is a tendency on the part of most professing Christians to be uneasy about the future -- to wonder if everything will really work out right. It would be so much easier to live a Christian life, they imagine, if God would only open up the pathway far enough ahead that they might see themselves clearly through.
    But God does not promise help until it is needed, nor to remove obstacles before we reach them. Yet whenever a REAL need appears His hand is always there to meet it. Just because they forget this, some worry about future difficulties. All such need to learn something of the principle on which God acts: "When thou passeth through the waters, I will be with thee". This promise may be claimed ONLY as one COMES TO THE WATERS.
    Others worry because they seem to have no "dying grace". WHY should they have it so long as they are in good health? What they need now is "living grace"; if one will trust God for grace to LIVE for Him NOW, then "dying grace" will be received at the time it is needed. God is always on time; His adequate supply will satisfy the needs of all who trust Him wholly. He Who has promised will always be found faithful to His Word.

Why will ye waste on trifling cares
That life which God's compassion
  spares?
While, in the various range of
  thought,
The one thing needful is forgot?

Shall God invite you from above?
Shall Jesus urge his dying love?
Shall troubled conscience give you
  pain?
And all these pleas unite in vain?

Not so your eyes will always view
Those objects which you now pursue;
Not so will heaven and hell appear,
When death's decisive hour is near.

Almighty God! thy grace impart;
Fix deep conviction on each heart:
Nor let us waste on trifling cares
That life which thy compassion
  spares.

"Love unbinds others by its own bonds."

    In my college days there was a boy in the class above me whom we called Tom. He was quiet and somewhat reserved, but was able, scholarly, and withal popular among the boys. We all thought he would make good when he went out into the world.
    Graduation Day came and with it the breaking of college ties and the parting of college friends. Thirty-five years rolled by. Then one day I heard that our college mate, whose full name was Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was to speak in this city. I went down to the great hall to hear him. There I found a splendid audience of four thousand Christianmen gathered to hear his message upon a great moral and religious theme. It was a magnificient address and captivated the audience with its eloquence and literary finish.
    At its close I went up and greeted him, and we had a pleasant chat about the old college days. He went back to the White House, and I wended my way down to a little two room office on the tenth floor of a city skyscraper. I sat there thinking of my old college friend. He was at the zenith of his fame. The eyes not only of the country, but of all the world were centered upon him. My own life was quiet, obscure hidden away in a little corner from whence I was sending out over the world simple devotional messages from the Lord. Yet, do you know, that as I looked into my own heart, I could not find one atom of envy toward my distinguished fellow collegian, nor of covetousness for his high position.
  Do you ask why? Simply because

    I had found the humble place to which my lot was cast to be God's holy ground of service, and that was the joy of all life to me.

    It is very heartening to receive so many letters from readers of the CLARION HERALD. Your words of encouragement are a real blessing. To be reassured that one's labor is "not in vain" -- that it is in some small way helping to encourage the hearts and strengthen the lives of God's people -- brings real joy.
    By God's grace, we are being enabled to herald the word of truth from Alaska to South America, from Japan, and the islands of the Pacific, on to Central Europe. Your prayers, letters and occasional help with postage is appreciated.
    Continue to pray for us. We do yearn to enrich other lives. E.G.

ples. They are intended and are suited to develop the highest type of manhood. They greaten the individual by forming his character after that of Jesus Christ, who was the world's one complete man, its most perfect gentleman, its truest and best citizen.
    Great States cannot be constructed of little people. A little man, narrow in his views of human rights and possibilities, narrow in his sympathies, without noble thoughts, can never make a great anything. And an aggregation of such people will make a State no better than the average of them....Nations have progressed as they have given hospitality to the great principles for which Baptists stand. That is only another way of saying that nations have risen in proportion as they have become genuinely Christian, and they have become Christian as they have accepted the teachings of the New Testament.