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“Well, Brother Rastus, what can you praise God for tonight?” “ Oh,” said he, “ today I put my whole wages in beefsteak. I was hurrying home to have a feast when miy shoe came, untied. I laid the beefsteak down on the street and tied my shoe. When I started to pick it up, it was gone and away down the street I saw a big dag running away with it.” “Well Rastus, what is there to praise God for about that?” “ Why, I have my appetite left. Halle- lujah!” .W, m m a n y w h e r e WITH JESUS Samuel Rutherford, writing from his prison, which he calls “ Christ’s palace in Aberdeen,”, says, “ I sat and thought of the Lord Jesus until every stone in my prison-house glowed like a ruby.” John Wesley, in his diary, tells of John Nelson, an early Methodist, thrust into a horrible dungeon for Christ’s sake, who could say: “When I came into the dungeon, which stank worse than a hog’s stye, by reason of the blood and filth that ran into it from .a slaughter house above, my soul was so filled with the love of God that it was a paradise to me.” Those who glorify God enjoy Him. — Sel. GREAT GRACE God’s mercy is so. great, that it for gives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favors and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God. As John Bunyan well says, “ It must be great mercy, or no mercy; for little mercy . will never serve my turn.” «—Sel. SURPRISES IN STORE .There will be three things which will surprise us when we get to heaven,— one, to find many there that we did not
expect to find there; another, to find some not there whom we had expected; a third, and perhaps the greatest won der, will be to find ourselves there.— Bowers. ‘♦HA!*’ AND “AH!” Ha! is the interjection of laughter — Ah! is an interjection of sorrow. The difference betwixt them is very small, as consisting only of the transposition of what is no important letter, but a bare aspiration. .How 'quickly in the age of a minute, in the very turning of a breath, is our mirth changed into mourning!—Dr. Fuller. RE GARDING THE SUMMER PROGRAM AT THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES The Christian Fundamentals Confer ence, under the leadership of Dr. W. B. Riley, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minn., has been invited by the Southern California Pre- millennial Association to hold its Fourth Annual Convention in Los An geles. This will be a rare opportunity to hear some of the most noted Bible preachers and teachers in the United States. The exact date has not been fixed, but the Convention wiill in all probability be held the last week in June, and will be immediately followed by the regular Summer Bible Confer ence conducted by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Detailed program has not been ar ranged, but the speakers will include such men as Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer; Dr. W. P. White; Dr. Cortland Myers; as well as some of the outstanding preachers in Southern California. We are making this .preliminary announce ment so that the readers of The King’s Business may be making their plans to attend as many of the sessions as pos sible. ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT
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