ness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, . . . in cold and nakedness.” But they were not looking at danger; they were looking to Christ who said: “Lo, I am with you alway.” Graciously He had preserved the life of each one. That He did not fail—that He cannot fail—is the testimony of those who have known the complete disruption of their own plans, but have had opportunity to prove the promises of God and find them wholly true in the deepest hour of trial. Is the sinking of the Zamzam in any sense a defeat ? Hay it not be heaven’s call to the church of God to shake her from her ease and awaken her to the responsibility of prayer for the world wide mission field? Behind the blocked seas to Africa and India, behind the compulsory shrine worship of Japan and Korea, behind their hostile governments, behind the closed door to China, stands one who hates the very name of Christ and who, down through the ages, has poured his venom on servants of the living God. Yet we need not cringe at his menacing threat, for in heaven above sits One who laughs ,at the puny strength of man, One who has “spoiled principalities and powers,” making “a show of them openly, triumphing over them,” One who has never once retracted His last earth ly command:
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the n a m e of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: . . . and, lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the age.” He knew what the end of the age would be. He knew the “wars and rumors of wars” that Satan would use to quench missionary zeal and to withhold from lost souls the knowledge of re deeming,love. He knew—He knows now — and still He says, “GO.” Let the church of God fall on her face be fore Almighty God, until over China,' Korea, India, Africa, the islands of the sea, she sees by faith and then by sight thé flaming letters glow: “Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.” Are the greedy wars of man, with Satan’s craft be hind them, going to keep the message of God from h e a t h e n lands ? Praying Christian, WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER T
God s Rainbow Left behind by the last lifeboat, two missionaries tightly clutched a Bible and Testament and plunged into the sea from the listing ZAMZAM. As they swam for their lives to a hastily launched raft, the Bible slipped from the hands of one and was lost in the depths. But later, when the two men spread their wet clothing on the German raider’s rail, the older man picked up the Testament, soaked and bedraggled. Reverently he thumbed its pages, opening ¿ad spreading it in the sun to dry. Suddenly words seemed to leap from the open page, while a rainbow—one of the five distinctly visible in a clear sky during those awful weeks of uncertainty—arched its brightness over the dreary deep. God was speaking again, as, centuries before, He had spoken to His servant on the seas: “NOW I EXHORT #OTJ TO BE OF GOOD CHEER: FOR THERE SHALL BE NO LOSS OF ANY MASi’S LIFE AMONG YOU, BUT OF THE SHEP" (Acts 87:22).
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