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“agleam with all the panoply of war.”. Now, of the differences mentioned the first is this: the birth that makes one a child of God is real, but this other is not. The story of Minerva’s birth is “the fictitious narrative of an event that never hap pened.” The second is that no man ever thus comes forth from the hand of the regenerating Spirit of God in sudden, mature and perfect sainthood. But it was “for the perfecting of the saints” that certain gifts were given unto men, ‘/for the edifying of the body of Christ, until we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of. the stature of the fullness of Christ.”—W. E. B. —o— ’ ■ Hercules A ttacked God’ D efiance of R ebellion A gainst , By the Pygm ies S ubm ission to . Psa, 2:4; Job. 33 ; 12 :13; Rom. 9 :20; Acts 5 :39. The folly of a man who lives in defiance of God! The pigmy creature of •a day who says, “I will not” to the infinite and omnipotent Lord God of hosts! The mighty Hercules, who was the earth-born son of Jupiter, became the national hero of Greece. As an .infant, it was said of hirii that he strangled two serpents with his hands. For a crime committed during a spell of insanity, sent upon him by the jealous Juno, he was afterwards compelled to perform a succession' of desperate undertakings known as “The Twelve Labors of Hercules,” Shortly after his defeat of Antaeus in their mortal wrestling match, he was found ¿sleep by an army of pygmies, who made preparation to attack him as if they were about to attack a city. They would prepare for battle while he slept and Count upon their numbers to overcome him when the attack was on. In the midst of it all the mighty hero awakened out of his sleep and laughed at them, and having laughed, he wrapped a large number of the little warriors up in his lion’s skin and carried them away to Thebes as a present to his cousin. Listen, “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall .have them in derision.” Oh, man, woman, why do you want to fight against the Almighty One? Can you not see that when, as a rebellious sinner, you go about shaking your puny, pigmy, little fist in the face of God, and smashing with your unholy life His divine laws and holy commands, you put God up against a very serious proposition ? He could annihilate you in a second if He wanted to. But He does not want to. He loves you, and in His love He gives you a Saviour instead of the stripes you deserve for your rebellion and your sin.—-W. E. B. ¿fe m What Have They Seen? "What have they seen in thine house?” (Isa. 39:4). Speaking on the above passage, Dr. F. B. Meyer said: “When our friends or visitors tarry under our roof, what do they see there? Do they leave us impressed by what we are or by what we have; by the jewels of our char acter or the wealth and variety of our entertainment? Is their thought of us that we are pilgrims and strangers, with our citizenship in heaven; or that, like Hezekiah, in the closing sentence of the chapter, we are principally careful that there should be propriety and serenity for our time at least? Impress your visitors with the Chris tian temper, the holy atmosphere, the courtesy, the mutual consideration and the affection of your household! These are the things which they should treasure as a holy retro spect. A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things that he possesseth.”
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