THE K I NG ' S BUS I NESS Ministering Takes Much Patient En durance. The old Scotchman said to a young candidate for-the ministry. “ You ha’ need o’ Bible. You will ha’ to study for that. You ha’ need o’ grace. You will ha’ to pray for that. tovl ha’ need o’ common sense, and if you ha’ no got that, you will ha’ to go back where you came from.” What the Gospel of Jesus Will Do. A seaman on returning home to Scot land after a cruise in the Pacific,' was asked, “ Do you think the missionaries have done any good in the South Sea Islands?” “ I will tSll you a fact which speaks for itself,” said the sailor. “ Last year I was wrecked on one of those is lands, where I knew that eight years before a ship was wrecked and the crew murdered; and you may judge how I felt at the prospect before me— if not dashed to pieces on the rocks, to survive for only a more cruel death. When day broke we saw a number of canoes pull ing for our ship and were prepared for the worst. Think of our joy and won der when we saw the natives in English dress, and heard some of them speak in the English language. On that very is land the next Sunday we heard the Gos pel preached. I do not know what you think of missions, but I know what I do.” , Golden Text Illustration. True repentance, like that of Zac- cheus, affects eye, ear, hand, foot. He saw he was a sinner, heard the message of salvation, took hold of Christ by faith, ran joyfully in the way of Obedi ence. Awhile past a United States official received a sum of restitution money from a man who said heGiad been con verted. The official said, “ I believe in his conversion more by this restitution of a hundred dollars than though he had given a thousand dollars to char ity.” J* ;
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In Jesus’ ministry how original and yet always free from the eccentricities that characterize many of God’s own who have been greatly used of the Lord. For instance, it is LESSON said of Dr. David ILLUSTRATIONS Porte that -he was W. H. Pike a great oddity. A N a p o l e o n head, joined by a short neck upon a very portly body, which stood upon a pair of remarkable spindle legs, cased in small clothes and silk hose. A striking figure with an uncommon mind. When fairly under way in the pulpit, his short, terse sentences jerked out with a nod of the head and a stamp of the foot or a rap of his cane which he sometimes carried into the pulpit. No description like this would fit Jesus. His is- the full round figure of Perfect Manhood, ministering to human need in always the right way. The Greatness of Christ’s Ministry. It was always in the Will of God ana by the Spirit of God. Therefore it was multiplied a thousand fold. As C. R. Scoville says, “ Christ, the One Shep herd is not going to the one mountain to save one lamb, but is sending us as a thousand shepherds into a thousand mountains to save a thousand lambs.” Ministering Takes Much Love. *** A love ministry never fails. “ A gentleman visited a convict, a notorious criminal, in his cell. He took his little child with' him. He endeavored to show the way that he had offended God as well as man. The man was unmoved. The little child had been watching him and went up and put her little hand on his knee, and looked up at him with the sweet confiding eyes of childhood. ‘Mr. Convict*’ she said, ‘I loves ’bo and God loves ’oo. The poor fellow brushed away the tears fast gathering in his eyes and said, ‘My God, I can’t stand this; it breaks my heart.’ ”
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