Familiarity

Familiarity breeds contempt, not only when applied to men, but it Is in reference to our relations with things that are beautiful and things that are true. The rJigiously inclined people of Christ's day did not appreciate him because they were so often in his presence. To them He was but a common person, grown up from childhood among them - just the son of a earpenter. Had He come from a far country with that air of mystery about him whicl l lack of acquaintance f avors, His word: i would have been far more to. them t-Rev. G. D. Baker. Ours is the seed-time; God alono Beholds the end of what is sown; ' 1 Beyond our visión, weak and dim, ' 1 The harvest tiíae Í6 hid with Him. 4 Yet unforgotten where it lies, The seed of generous sacrifico, Tihough seeming on the desert cast, Shall rise with bloom and fruit at last. Bangkok, the capital of Siam, lg a floating city, containing 70,000 houaea, each oí which floats on a raí t oí bambeo. _ _ i.,. .ji