Light, Truth and Love

932 IMPROVEMENl ERA. do all she can to maintian the integrity and identity of China. England will second this movement, and now that Russia has led, there can seemingly be but one. outcome, and that is the withdrawal of the allied forces from the Chinese capital. England may feel chagrined at the march Russia has stolen, but in the end England will yield because she opposes the dismemberment of the empire and prefers the natural growth of her great commercial interests in that country. Germany is nonplussed. France will go as far as she reasonably can to satisfy her ally, Russia, so that it looks as if Russia had set the march for the other countries of Europe and for the United States. LIGHT, TRUTH AND LOVE. Let all my soul be filled with holy Light, That I may never falter by the way. Should darkness overshadow me, and night Shut from my natural eyes each guiding ray. Let Truth abide in me, a living source, That never can be quenched by floods of wrath; That fire cannot consume me, and no force Have power to turn my feet from duty's path. Let Charity, the pure, sweet Love of Christ, Envelop me, that I may keep aloof From all things which have hitherto enticed My being into ways that need reproof. Thus standing, where have stood the true and brave. Thus walking where the faithful ones have trod, I shall o'ercome the world, the flesh, the grave, And, mounting upward, dwell with Christ and God. L. L. Greene Richards.