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Horace Bushnell on Prayer W HAT the heart is to the living man, prayer is to the soul; what rest is to the weary, what joy to the mourner, what gold to the needy, what strength to the weak, what the breath and blood to the life—all that, to the troubled soul, is prayer. Sweet incense, precious in God’s sight, it enlightens the mind, nourishes confidence and hope, kindles love, in creases humility, begets in the suppli cant’s mind a renunciation of earthly things, and renders strong and lively his desire for things heavenly ; prayer pro duces unspeakable enjoyment, and crowns with supreme power ; for even the angels honor the supplicant who, in Jesus’ name, calls upon the holy, Almighty God.— Ger hard. No mere man could take the same at titude of supremacy toward the race and inherent affinity or oneness with God that Jesus Christ took, without fatally shock ing the confidence of the world by his ef frontery. Imagine a human nature saying to the world) “I came forth from the Fa ther” . . . “ye ate beneath, I am from above” ; facing all the intelligence and even the philosophy of the world, and saying in bold assurance, “B e h o 1d, a greater than Solomon is here”' . . . “I am the light of the world”—“the way, the truth, the life” ; publishing to all people
says, “We will come unto him and make our abode with him.” Imagine any, the greatest and holiest of mankind, any prophet or apostle, saying We of himself and the Great Jehovah 1 What a concep tion did He give us concerning Himself when He assumed the necessity of such information as this, “My Father is greater than I” ; and above all, When He calls Himself, as He often does in a tone of condescension, “the Son of man.” See Him also on the top of Olivet, looking down on the guilty city and weeping words of compassion like these, “How often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen doth gather her chick ens under her wings, and ye would not!” See Him also in the Supper, instituting a rite of remembrance for Himself, a scorned, outcast man, and saying, “This is my body—this do in remembrance of me.” For eighteen hundred years these pro digious assumptions have been published and preached to a world that is quick to lay hold of conceit, and yet during all this time, whole nations of people have paid their homage to the name of Jesus, detecting never any disagreement be tween His merits and His pretensions, of fended never by any thought of His ex travagance. His worth is seen to be so great, His authority so high, His spirit
and religions, “No man cometh to the Fa ther but by me” ; promising openly in His death, “I will draw all men unto me” ; ad dressing the Infinite Majesty, and testify ing, “I have glorified thee on the earth” ; calling to the human race, “Come unto me” ; “follow me” ; laying his hand upon all the dearest and most intimate affec tions of life, and demanding a precedent love . . . “He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me.” Was there ever a man that dared put himself on the world in such preten sions—as if all light was in him, as if to follow him and be worthy of him was to be conclusive or chief excellence of man kind ! Nor is there anything disputable in these pretensions, least of all, any trace of myth or fabulous tradition. They enter into the very web of His ministry, so that if they are extracted and nothing left transcending mere humanity, nothing at all is left. Indeed, there is a tacit assump tion, continually maintained, that far ex ceeds the range of these formal preten sions. He says, ‘Vf and the Father that sent me” ! What figure would a man pre sent in such language-—I and the Father? He goes even beyond this, and, appar ently without any thought of excess or presumption, classing Himself with the Infinite Majesty in a common plural, he
Prodigal Sons and Annuities T may perhaps be a new sug gestion to some that these two subjects might be helpfully combined. Leaving bequests to some young people is in one sense like pouring gasoline on a bush fire; it’s right dan gerous ! Take the case of an anxious mother’s solution of protecting a spendthrift son in view of her likely early decease: Instead of leaving a lump sum to her boy, an annuity payable monthly, nicely takes care of the probable loss of capital and at the same time keeps a point of con tact between him and a Christian organi zation with a heart to help those needing good advice. Bible Institute of Los Angeles 536-558 So. Hope Street Los Angeles, Calif. Gentlemen : Please send me, without obligation, 54..... ......... 6 \% lull your Booklet AA concerning “Annuity 59...............6%%mS Income Agreements.” 64 ...... ;.’....:..7 % ¡j“ 74_.............8 % ¡¡S Name.:........... ............................. ....... ....... . 79 ............. ~8%% jl™ 84 —....------ 9 % mu 89....______9 Address............ Yield Siu 4 efc. mu . ., iS 111 -4 Vz % ¡¡J .5 %%■“ RDI
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