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other plans; I am counting on them!”— L. W. G. Ward in “Cameos from Calvary .” The Twelve took up the challenge of Christ to carry the Gospel to the utter most parts of the earth. That is why you and I are saved today. They were faith ful in the discharge of their obligations as Christians. The same challenge con fronts each one of us today to give the Gospel to our present generation. The work of Christ in the world will never be finished till He comes. “You are angry,” said a Negro fellow traveler to Dan Crawford, at the end of a fifteen-mile trek in the tall grass o f Cen tral Africa. “Why do you say so?” “Because you are silent,” was the reply. “Tell me more about it.” “In our lan guage,” answered the black man, “we say that if a man is silent he is angry. This is why we know God is angry—because he is silent.” “God is,silent!” The intrepid missionary was cut to the heart. He opened his pocket Testament and read to the man the first verse of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Much more, he went to work at translating the New Testament into the language of his Central African brother, and at building schoolhouses in which the people might be taught to read the word which God had spoken in Jesus Christ nearly two thousand years before. God was not silent. But the messengers to whom he had committed his Good News had been slow to tell it, as he had bidden them, unto the ends of the earth. A cave in Kentucky held the front page of the newspaper for a number of weeks. Men turned from politics, from pleasures and other pursuits to see if the entombed man had been rescued. A human sym pathy swept the race. The imprisoned man’s fate or fortune was the subject on a hundred million lips. It was a terrible calamity. A man named Collins was bur ied alive in a sand cave. Men rushed to his rescue and recovery. Certainly the whole world was akin a t this tomb of a human fellow. Sympathy was expressed on every hand. His rescue was the one topic of conversation. Some could not even sleep nights thinking of Floyd Collins. A shaft was dug down more than forty feet to reach him. Diggers worked day and night. Alma Clark, his sweetheart, visited the scene each day and prayed for the rescue of her lover. This tragedy created a dramatic action that stirred a continent. This is as it should be. There are around us men more lost than Collins. They are in the pit of the mire and clay of sin. They are in need of rescue! Where do we find folk concerned about the soul of man? Why are churches so inert when a world is so alert? Why no one sobbing at the prison house of Christless men? When James Calvert went out to canni bal Fiji with the message of the Gospel, the captain of the ship in which he travel ed sought to dissuade him. “You will risk your life and all those with you if you go among such savages,” he said. Calvert’s magnificent reply was: “We died before we came here.” And yet he would have been the last to talk about a sacrifice; it was not a life of sacrifice, but of real pleasure.— The S. S. Chronicle. It is a wonderful day of new begin nings to a man, when he finally and for ever stops asking Christ merely to help him. Christ does not want to be merely our helper; He wants to be our whole
life. He wants to be to us what the vine is to the branches,—everything. The vine does not help the branch; it and the branch are one, and whatever the branch needs, the vine does. The life of sus tained and complete victory consists only of Christ. “It is no longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me.” And so it is Christ forever 1 the Christ forever and aye! His life overflowing within me, whether I live or die; His for the daily service, wherever He sendeth me ; And His for the joy eternal, the final victory! —Sophie Titterington. If we believe that in Christ alone is found the truth that satisfies the intellect, the power that regenerates the life, and the hope that illuminates the future; if we believe that to men’s need of Christ there is no exception, and to His power to save them there is no limit; if we believe that He is the gift of the Father to all, that He died to make atonement for the sins of all, that He has been lifted up to draw all men unto Him,-—then we must believe that our first duty is to give the knowledge of the Saviour to all man kind.— Egbert W. Smith. “Ye Christian heralds, go proclaim Salvation through Emmanuel’s name; To distant climes the tidings bear, And plant the Rose of Sharon there.” WHERE DO YOU RANK? The Easy Yoke Mark Guy Pearse gives an incident oc curring in connection with a sermon of his on Christ’s invitation to the weary and heavy laden. “I had finished my ser mon when a good man came to me and said: ‘I wish I had known what you were going to preach about. I could have told you something.’ ‘Well, my friend,’ I said, ‘may I have it still?’ ‘Do you know why His yoke is light,.sir?’ ‘Well, because the good Lord helps us to carry it, I sup pose.’ ‘No, sir,’ said he, shaking his head, ‘I think I know better than that. You see, when I was a boy at ho.me I used to drive the oxen, and the yoke was never made to balance as you said. Father’s yokes were always made heavier on one side than the other. Then, you see, we would put a weak bullock in alongside of a strong bullock; the light end would come on the weak ox, the heavier end on the stronger one. That’s why the yoke is easy and the burden is light, because the Lord’s yoke is made after the same pattern, and the heavy end is upon His shoulder.’ ” 0 —I won’t. 10—I Can’t. 20 —I don’t know how. 30—What is it? 40—1 wish I could. SO—I think I might. 60—1 might. 70—I think I can. 80—I can. 90—1 will. 100—I DID. Check up on yourself. ate- m
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