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HE climax of May will be Whitsuntide, to celebrate the day on which God poured out the Spirit upon the apostles whom He, who was their Leader and Commander, had chosen. The

Pentecostal spirit is far beyond the ordinary human spirit. It came as "a sound from heaven to those who were in need of it on earth. Science, dealing with facts, materials and phenomena, has led men to doubt and decline everything that human reason or judgment cannot explain. The Spirit of the Life in Christ Jesus, dealing with God, who is infinite and far above ordinary facts, is ever leading men's minds to pure, simple faith and a childlike dependence upon God. Upon the cross, and from it, the Spirit of God sheds and spreads a glory that transfigures it, and all who come into the splendor and clearness of its truth. It never can be any more the symbol merely of sorrow and death. The race-types, the generation and the age in which the Church of Christ was, through the outpouring of the Spirit of holiness, born into the world, belonged to a nar

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row and selfish world. Each nation, and in fact largely each class and individual, lived for self, and held all other types of man as "barbarian." Among the Romans the same word was used for a "stranger" and an "enemy." So intolerant were the Jews in the age of Jesus that "if a heretic returned to the true faith he must die at once," partly (as Edensheim suggests) to expiate his guilt and partly to prevent another relapse. But into this condition of affairs the ever-extending Spirit came. For God so loved "the world" that He gave His only-begotten Son to us all, and "hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son." While the Spirit of God is of a most intense accuracy and zeal for the truth, it is nevertheless of the utmost forbearance; and those who, half educated, sit in partial darkness are encouraged to "come up higher." The Spirit of the Living God is working by the ingathering and adoption of those who have been identified only with the world; in the guilt of its sin and the peril of its death: The Spirit bestows freedom and abundant life.

THIS is an awfully discouraging time of the year," sighed Stella. "One just begins to see how many New Year's resolutions she's broken, and it's too late to make new ones. No use anyway. I'm just tired of life! It's such a continual drag, and I simply can't be a good Lutheran. I'm weary of this constant glorying in the past and being dead to the present. We are always talking of our glorious past and our sound doctrine, but where do the works come in? I'd just like to turn Methodist and get soundly converted. I believe I could be a Christian then, for I'd not have to crowd out all my emotions and trample down all my yearnings and be just orthodox. If I only had some one to tell my feelings to, but poor papa would just be grieved to know that I feel so toward the Faith of my fathers.' He's too good to understand poor sinners like me," and she drew a deeper sigh as she bundled away the heap of garments on which she had just finished the repairs and turned to smooth her hair before the little mirror on the wall.

It was a pretty enough face which looked back at her, except for the little frown of discontent in the forehead, at sight of which an angry spark flashed from her eyes.

"I'm really beginning to look old," she murmured, and turned away.

She was met at the door by a troupe of noisy children who greeted her excitedly. "A telegram, a telegram!" cried they as the oldest, a bright-eyed girl of fourteen, waved a yellow envelope in the air, "and addressed to you, too. Miss Stella Carpenter."

"Well, give it here and do stop your noise," interrupted their sister, irritably. "You would ruin any one's nerves. Edith, really you are old enough to__”

"Who is it from? Do tell us-we can't wait!" shouted the little ones, too eager to be grammatic, while Edith looked sullenly on the telegram tightly clutched in her hand.

"That's the way you treat us! The day before your birthday, too! Well, you'll see, Miss Stella."

"Oh, come, Edith; I'll read you the telegram and don't let's quarrel. I'm too tired to think what I say," coaxed Stella, and they were all quiet while she read:

"Arrive on midday train.

while she summed up all the work to be done in those three hours before midday. The day's tasks were about completed, but with her usual determination to excel Stella decided that "that old maid should find things as nicely ordered as if she lived in the house alone;" so off she started on her round of "going over things."

When the Rev. Mr. Carpenter ushered his sister-in-law into the fresh, orderly house his housekeeper was nowhere to be seen. A row of eager children greeted the guest, and Edith volunteered "Stella will be here in a minute. She just got dinner on the table and has gone to take off her apron."

"Does she do all the work?" asked Miss Fraser.

"Oh, yes," answered the fourteen-year-old, and she's cross enough about it sometimes." Upon this Stella entered, a flush of haste brightening her cheeks.

"You should not have gone to trouble for me," said her guest, after kissing her affectionately. "I came to help you for a while." She kept both her niece's hands in hers and looked straight into the tired eyes, and suddenly Stella felt that her idle wish of the morning was fulfilled, for here, in this orthodox Lutheran aunt, whose coming she had so much dreaded, she knew that she had found Some one to tell."

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The children were in a boisterous mood, and Stella looked worried as they sat down to dinner. Her father and aunt were soon in earnest conversation, and the girl noticed rather bitterly that they talked on the same old subjects: "This man's looseness," "The other's orthodoxy," "The unchurchly' proceedings of this brother," the "liturgical tendency" of another. But, as the meal proceeded, Aunt Stella found time to speak kindly to all the children and to heartily praise the viands. Stella also noticed that she did not speak bitterly against the different divisions of the Church, but mentioned the General Synod, General Council and Missouri Synod congregations of her town as if they were all sisters with no discord between them. Her eyes were bright, and she spoke as if she loved her Church and had drawn deep and refreshing draughts from its fountains, which her namesake thought so dried. The girl was in spite of herself interested and finally drawn into the conversation.

She sang softly to herself as she cleared up the dishes and put the room in tempting array for afternoon tea, which was to be as dainty as possible for Aunt Stella.

Then they had a long talk alone together