THE K I N G ’ S B US I NE S S in darkness needing light. He is in bondage and wants to be free. SUNDAY, Oct. 31. John 12:44-50. These Sayings of Mine. Christ is the incomparable teacher, the supreme and only authority in the spiritual world. For the greatest men to assume a similar attitude even in those departments in which they be came pre-eminent, would savor of in sanity. In Christ it seems simple pro priety. The Bible is a trustworthy text-book and an infallible guide in morals and religion. While it makes no claim in other directions, the first scientific error or historical inaccuracy is yet to be discovered in it. It was not written to tell us how the heavens go but how to go to heaven. Never theless since the same Spirit that gar nished the heavens inspired the book, it has an astronomical value of ab sorbing interest and the same may be said of all other departments of scien tific study. He who knows no other book but knows this book well, may claim a liberal education. HIS GRACE SUFFICIENT My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weak ness. 2 Cor. xii.9. God’s way of answering His people’s prayers is not by removing the pres sure, but by increasing their strength to bear it. The pressure is often the fence between the narrow way of life and the broad road to ruin; and if our Heavenly Father were to remove it, it might be at the sacrifice of heaven. Oh] i f .God had removed that thorny fence in answer, often to earnest prayers,* how many of us would now be castaways! How the song of many a saint now in glory would be hushed! How many a harp would be unstrung! How many a place in the mansions of the redeemed would be unfilled! If God answered all the prayers we put up to heaven we should need no other scourge. Blessed it is that we have One Who is too loving to grant what we too often so rashly ask.— F. Whitfield.
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