1188 T HE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S At the last election in California the Eddyites acted consistently when they voted for a law prohibiting medical exam ination of children in our schools and refusing to recognize the existence of contagious diseases.—A. C. TK
OUR COVER PIECE The beautiful painting of the th ree wise men reproduced on our fron t cover is th e work of G. A. Griswood of Riverside, Calif. Mr. Griswood is one of . our most enthusiastic boosters for The K ing’s Business, and a man whose talen ts we tru st th e Lord will greatly use in days to come. ai...... ninnili..... 1 g > p u r g p u n ’s f J r a p i * f o r % ( C r i t t r a §1 The following prayer we transcribe from a volume of Mr. == Spurgeon’s prayers published by Elliott Stock under the title “Thé ü Pastor in Prayer.’’ The date of this prayer was December 2nd, 1877. ü LORD, we have a burden which we must lay before Thee, and n 1 ask Thee to help us in it. We mourn over the condition of m 1 KSipC,jj Thy Church, for on every side as we look around we see men M rk*l!sP^| endeavouring to underm ine the doctrines of the Everlasting ü Gospel. Time was when a man was famous for lifting up his M n axe upon the trees of the forest, bu t now they w ith axes break down n the carved work of Thy sanctuary. They despoil Thy tru th . There is ü scarcely a single doctrine of Thy Word which the wise men among n us do not deny. Yea, and those th a t pretend to be the m inisters of Üj the Gospel are the first to speak against it, and to denounce it, and to n sanction license to sdn because Thou wilt not punish it, and to declare ¡1 ' th a t Jesus Christ is not Thy Son. O Lord our God, our h eart often ü sinks w ithin us; wë are ap t to wish to lay our hand upon the ark to == steady it, for the oxen shake it; bu t we know it is in Thy hand, and, H having spread th e case before Thee, we leave it there. Many a Rab- H shakeh’s le tte r have we read of late; behold, we bring it into the sane- == tu ary and spread it before the Lord. O Lord our -God, rebuke unbe- fi lief, rebuke th e scepticisms of those who assail both Thee and Thy WÈ Christ and th e Gospel of Thy T ruth. ü Give to those who know Thee intenser faith in the eternal verities, ü « burning into us by experience th e things which we do know. May m they be beyond all question to us! And may we never be ashamed 9 to glory in th e good old way, the way th e fath ers trod, the way which ü leads to heaven and to God! May we not be ashamed to vindicate n ü it and to bear reproach; for Thy Gospel has of old been a stumbling- ü H block, and to th e Greeks foolishness, and so we expect it ever to be M a stumbling-block to those who go after the way of s’uperstition, and H §= also to be foolishness to the wise men of the world! 0 God, again H confuse the knowledge of men by what they th ink to be th e foolish- m ness of the Gospel. Avain let it be seen th a t the foolishness of God is ü = wiser th an men, and t t e weakness of God is stronger th an men. O Jesus, n = Son of th e H ighest, we know th a t the tru th is powerful, because Thou Ü a rt th e soul of it— th e very essence of it. P u t Thy life into it, we gs = pray Thee. May th e E tern al Spirit go w ith every word which God- ü H sent m inisters shall proclaim! And may the Lord g ran t th a t as mists ü fly before the sun, and th e clouds before the wind, so erro r and super- ¡gj stitiqn may be driven away by the Rising Sun of Righteousness in all ü 1 th e glory of His brightness. 1 aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim P
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