Along this downward path we find the table with wine on it, the candy shop that sells brandy drops, the saloon and wine rooms, the beer halls, and such dreadful places. Golden Text. Teach this, and show that to err means to get out of the way, into the wrong path. All who leave the upward way of Right and take this downward path of Drink have erred, they have made a dreadful and dangerous mistake, the worst they can make. Show children clearly how the giant Alcohol breaks down and overcomes body, mind, and heart. Tell how it burns the stomach, hardens the brain, takes away strength, hurts the eyes, makes the heart hard and unkind, because one who drinks is selfish and treats others cruelly when mad with liquor. Dwell upon the fact that those who begin young to drink beer or anything containing alcohol cannot grow as they should. Tell of a poor little baby that was fed on beer, and did not grow as other children. Tobacco, too, keeps back the growth. Those who wish to be strong will not use it. It is a slow poison. Temperance means to be careful about eating, drinking, or using anything that will hurt body, mind, and heart. Speak of the enormous waste of money in drink and smoke, and of what might be done with this money if spent in doing good and helping instead of hurting people. Guideboard: Touch not, taste not. Touch not Taste not The way to be sure of not being overcome by the giant is not to start on the downward path. Thought for teachers. Impressionable children will receive and take home temperance instruction that will tell upon their own lives, and may turn others that are beyond our reach. The primary teacher has the most hopeful of all fields for this work. We cannot overestimate the value of our opportunity. Let us take courage, be faithful, wise, prayerful, and persistent. LESSON IX. (November 30.) GIDEON AND THE THREE HUNDRED. Judg. 7. 1-8. GOLDEN TEXT: "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man." Psa. 118. 8. Primary Notes. Introductory. Tell story some water out in a basket. It seemed so useless and foolish that all but one refused to do it. One man said, "If he wants it done, and tells me to do it, I will do the best I can," and he went to work. He did not know that his master was trying him, to see what sort of a servant he would make. He only knew that the master knew best, and it was his business to trust him. Thought journcy. Again we will go back in thought to the land of the Israelites. The people are still suffering from their enemies. They have been saved by their judges many times, but have sinned and have been punished again. Now God, in his love and pity, intends to help them and save them out of the power of the Midianites, some heathen people who have sent great armies against them. Under an oak is a man named Gideon. God is speaking to him and telling him that he is to gather an army of his people and be the captain, leading them against the Midianites to win the battle, driving away and destroying the enemies. But it is all to be by the power of God. He tells Gideon just what to do. Gideon trusts and obeys. The plan. Tell about the gathering of the army, the sending home of all the fearful and afraid, the trial of the rest by the brook. the choosing of the three hundred who lapped as a dog laps the water, showing, perhaps, how ready they were to fight, as they did not get down and drink all they wished, but caught up the water in their hands for a hasty drink and ran on. Make clear the choice of small number, that the glory might all belong to God. The victory. The story is thrilling, however simply told. Every man "stood in his place." every man did as he was told, every man followed his captain and obeyed at the right minute, every man believed that God would give victory. It was not Gideon, but God, who had Order of Service FOR THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT. Fourth Quarter. Teacher. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Class. Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. All. For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even unto death. SINGING. WHISPER PRAYER. "Gentle Saviour, God of love, "May the lesson taught to-day, Draw thy little lambs to thee." Teacher. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. PRAYER. (Closing with the Lord's Prayer.) GIVING SONG. (Followed by offering.) RECITATION. and Bible Student's Magazine No. 12. THOMAS B. NEELY, D.D., LL.D., Editor. == The Rev. Charles Wesley, M.A. THE Wesley family has proven itself to be one of the most remarkable families of modern times. Any one of three or four of this marvelous stock would have been sufficient to establish its fame, and this was not limited to a single generation, for its successive generations produced great men any one of whom would have given celebrity to the name of Wesley. Indeed, there was almost a superabundance of genius, so that the brilliancy of one individual dimmed the luster of another. The Rev. Samuel Wesley, of Epworth, was famous as a scholar, a writer, and a man of forceful character, and his son Samuel, of the Westminster School and headmaster of Tiverton, was a distinguished scholar; but both Samuels were overshadowed by the son and brother, the Rev. John Wesley, whose long life as an evangelical reformer and ecclesiastical founder has given him deserved prominence in the thought of the world. For a similar reason, as the eminent father and the scholarly brother Samuel were, so to speak, eclipsed by John's steady and longcontinued brilliancy, so his brother Charles Wesley has suffered somewhat in comparison, and in popular thought has been placed in such a secondary relation that scant justice has been done; and yet if the |