[IN THE TWILIGHT SIDE BY SIDE.]
By RUTH LAMB.
PART VI.
CORN OR STRAW.
“Let us draw near with a true heart.”
Hebrews x. 22.
I think we may spend an hour profitably, my dear girl friends, in contrasting the fair-seeming part of our lives with that which is real, true, and thorough.
It is good to be real in all things. True to the core. In thought, word, and deed to be the same human being as we wish our friends to think us. On this subject of reality I will tell you a story to begin with.
I dare say most of us joined in harvest thanksgiving services after we returned home last autumn; probably many of you joined in preparing for them, and in arranging the offerings sent by the congregations.
It was in autumn, but not this year, and in city and village churches the “Feast of Ingathering” was being kept. Daily songs of thanksgiving were going up to the God of harvest, in acknowledgment of the bounteous provision He had made to supply the wants of the teeming millions dependent on Him for their daily bread.