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divided and engrossing. The love that gives Jesus the “preeminence in all things.” Where this is waning, lacking, the Founder of the Church proceeds to close it. And when he proceeds to close the church, advertising, visitation, mu sical and educational features, and even, pictures are powerless to keep it open. —Guy Edward Mark. “Wasn’t God Good?” When is God good? The question an swers itself—to anyone who knows God. God is always good. But do we always remember this? A business man . . . writes . . . : “A mother said to me up on the recovery o f her child from a serious illness, ‘Wasn’t God good to give us back our child?’ I was about to agree with her, when a thought fame to me as never before, and to her' surprise I said: ‘Yes; but would not God have been just as good and just as kind if your child had not come back fo you?’ Her answer was doubtful and without any enthusi asm. It is easy to give thanks and to speak o f the goodness o f God when we are having our wishes granted and every thing is going our way. But, when we realize that w.e are to thank God for all things, we are brought face to face with the serious fact that pleasure, gladness, gratification, are not essential features or factors in thanksgiving. In the midst of shadows, knowing that we are to thank Him for all that we are passing through, we are to find our motive and ground for thanks in faith and not in gratification. I have learned this great truth in the furnace as I was obliged to watch my only child, born with a wonderful soul but with a physical foundation too weak for any large superstructure, pass through untold sickness when a child, see change after change for the worse in spite o f every medical aid, saw her de velop convulsions that kept her filled with terror, then a mental collapse, and death. Only by faith in a God who could do nothing but the right, and holding to it with all the grip in my soul, have I been able to say, often in unspeakable agony, ‘I will trust, and I will give thanks.’ Does not true thanks spring from faith and trust in God, and not from pleasure and satisfaction?” This Christian business man’s testimony is a true and remarkable one, and is unanswerable. God is always good. God is always love. .Therefore we may indeed, with hearts overflowing with thanksgiving, trust and praise, and thank Him always^— The Sunday School Times. Dear Christ, this dawn I humbly pray That I may walk with Thee this day, So fully yielded to Thy will Thou Canst with Thine own Spirit fill My heart each hour. Take full control Of all the fountains o f my soul. Then naught of evil can alarm, And naught o f worldliness can charm. Then every life that touches mine Thine unseen Presence will divine And turn to Thee, the Crucified, And thus Thou shalt be glorified Because this day with Thee, my Lord, My soul walked forth in sweet accord. — Selected.
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by “obedient faith.” The same with Noah. It no doubt looked to the people as a very foolish piece o f work when Noah day hy day carried out God’s orders, and built the Ark, but he placed implicit faith in his Master and did what he was told. And when all those Israelites, day by day, in the face of strong walls and barred gates, marched round and round the city with out sword or spear, it might have pro voked the mockery and scorn of the en emy, or even o f others who knew some thing of God. But they took God at His word, did as they had orders, and it all came to pass. If they had had that kind of faith that wonders, or ventures, or doubts the promise, all their marching would have been useless. But faith works, and trusts and acts, and leaves im possibilities to God, “who spake and it was done, who commanded and it stood fast.” “For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a re warder of them that diligently seek him.” Dear reader, how much can you trust God? Does your life show your faith? “Obedient faith that waits on Thee, Thou never wilt reprove: But Thou wilt form Thy Son in me, And perfect me in love.” — Wesley. meeting when the real situation in the church is seriously faced. “We have ad vertised, we have had visitation days, we have varied the character of our services, we have provided popular musical and literary features, and we have even had pictures. It seems as though we have done everything that any church could do, and yet, we are losing ground. What shall we do ?■” I have just been reading a letter from the Founder of the Church. Among other things He says, “I know your doings and your toil and patient suffering. And I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, but have put to the test those who say that they themselves are apostles but are not, and you have found them to be liars. And you endure patiently and have borne burdens for My sake and have never grown weary. Yet I have, this against you—that you no longer love Me as you did at first. Be mindful, therefore, o f the height from which you have fallen. Repent at once, and act as you did at first, or else I will surely come and re move your lampstand out o f its place— unless you repent.” The lampstand, Jesus Himself declares, symbolizes the Church. The one thing that will keep the Church open, alive and successful is the presence of love like that the believer experienced when he first met Christ. The love that is sincere, un Who Is Closing the Churches 7 HAT more can we do ?” is the ques tion often raised in the committee w
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