The beauty of this thing, M. C., is that it isn't costing me or you a red. It's Uncle Rube who digs up on the quietude. And who pays him? Come, run abaft, don't ask us where we got our graft— our slice of pork. It's grand, good work, my dear M. C., to propagater thus for me and your constituents. O noble deed! To spread broadcast this precious seed. Not that the stuff will ever grow, or bear in kind. It's worth, you know, is that it's pork. -Y. D. Constit in Chicago Tribune.

The outlook for sheep, both as to wool and mutton, was never brighter than at the beginning of 1916. And with the churches, doings of interest in the different places of worship tomorrow. Lesson: (By B. O. Sellers, Acting Director of Sunday School Course, Moody Bible Institute.) (Copyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union.)

But the Christian Brotherhood. Lesson: (By B. O. Sellers, Acting Director of Sunday School Course, Moody Bible Institute.) (Copyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union.)

The Christ Church had tried threatening upon the disciples and this is generally pretty weak business, their threat meant danger and the disciples were not unduly puffed up over their deliverance. With all their believing friends they prayed and in response the Holy Spirit.  The Spirit-Filled Believers, 4:32
The two sections of this lesson are really one and are designed to bring out sharply the contrast between the Holy Spirit-filled church and an evil spirit-filled man. 