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THE K I N G ' S BUS I NE S S say that wherever Christianity has spread, the apostasy has spread also; insomuch that, although there are now and always have been indi viduals who were real Christians, yet the whole world never Aid, nor can at this day, show a Christian country or city.’ Does Mr. Stauffer know of one today?” MEET AT THE TOP The following is told of two stanch Scotch Presbyterians: Johnny Morton, a keen Burgher, and Andrew Gebbie, a decided anti-Burgher, both lived in the same house, but at opposite ehds; and it was the bargain that each should keep his own side of the house well thatched. When the dispute about the principle of their kirks, and especially the offensive clause in the oath, grew hot, the two neighbors ceased to speak to each other. But one day they, hap pened to be on the roof at the same time, each repairing the thatch in the slope of the roof on his own side; and, when they had worked up to the top, there they were face to face. They couldn’t flee, so at last Andrew took off his cap, and, scratching his head, said, “ Johnny, you and me, I think, ha’e been very foolish to dispute as we ha’e done, concerning Christ’s will about our kirks, until we ha’e clean forgot His will aboot ourselves; 'and so we ha’e fought sae bitterly for what we ca’ the truth, that it has ended in spite. Whatever’s wrang, it’s perfectly cer tain that it never can be right to be uncivil, unneighborly, unkind, in fac’, tae hate ane anither. Na,_ na! that’s the Deevil’s wark, and no God’s. Noo it strikes me, that maybe it’s wi’ the kirk as wi’ thi§ house—you’re working on a’e side, and me on the t’ither; but, if we only do our work weel, we will meet at the tap at last. Gie’s your han’, Quid neighbor!” And so they shook hands, and were the best °* friends ever after.
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GOD’S WAY AND OURS “ Then they willingly received Him into the ship; and immediately the ship was at the land whither thfey went” (John 6:21). These words occur in the account of the disciples’ crossing of the lake after the wonderful day of the miraculous feeding of five thousand. The Lord had sent His disciples into a storm, and they were “ toiling in rowing” when He came to them. Dr. Northcote Deck, in a study of this familiar experience, writes; ‘>We find to our astonishment that there were two ways of crossing the lake. There was the way the fishermen knew so well, the way of the boisterous wind and contrary sea * * * Yet, here, following the feeding of the multitude, the spectacle of Peter’s testing, and the reception of the Lord Himself into the boat, we meet one more miracle, often unrecognized, unrealized . . . . ‘Im mediately the ship was at the land whither they went.’ Here was a new method of travel! A new way of triumph over difficulties. And, oh, it is true! This life of service here,' beset though it often is with countless diffi culties, through the filling, the power, the operation of the Spirit, may be changed from a pilgrimage into a royal progress. There are, then, two ways of life, of service, for each pilgrim, who would be a stranger in the world. There is the toilsome way of fleshly effort which misguidedly attempts often so much, expects but little, and accomplishes still less. It is the way of many, too many, true believers. Yet for each of His own, there is God’s way of simple victorious faith in the name and blessed company of Christ, through the power of the indwelling Spirit.”— Henry W. Frost. gfe jjjjg The wise word should never be thrown away; the kind word is never thrown away.
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