For Jesus' Sake

Kev. Camden M. Coburn, the new pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, appeared before his charge for the first time last Sunday morning, and made a very favorable impression. Mr. Coburn drew his text from Paui's second epistle to the Corinthians,- "For Jesus' sake." "I gi.ve up the theory long ago," said he, "that only Christians could die without fear. The percentage of suicides has increased to five times what it was at the beginning of this century, and we scarcely piek up a paper now-a-dajs without readingof some murderer who has mounted the gallows with a smile or a yawn. But it is the Christian who is willing to live and suffer,- and rejoice in doing it, as Paul did,- 'for Jesus' sake.' And this, too, not from fear or for reward, but for love, and in humble imitation of the life of 'the perfect man.' "What thelawyer, the statesman, and the physieian need is a letermination to work, not for saldi' A , but 'foi Jesus' sake.' What theïurches want is not so much amalgamation, as unity of effort and love. Let us woik, dear friends, on the principie of this text in the coming year, and our church will indeed be biest."