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DRUNK ON FOOD The man who gets drunk on food may not abuse his family in the same way as the man who gets drunk on alcoholic liquors, but he is just as surely commit ting a sin against his body, and in time, when disease lays hold on. him, he will be incapacitated for performing his work and must necessarily neglect his family. We look with abhorrence and disgust upon the person who becomes intoxi cated on alcoholic liquors, but many persons are walking around who are drunk on food a great part of the.time. “ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are” (1 Cor. 3:17). ste ate WHAT’S THE HURRY? A missionary, asked why he labored so unweariedly, replied: “ One night going home across a field, I saw my lit tle boy coming to meet me. Suddenly he disappeared. The thought flashed across my mind, ‘There’s an oil well there, and he has fallen in.’ I hurried, reached into the well, and lifted him out; and as he looked into my face he said, ‘Oh, papa, why didn’t you hurry?’ These words kept ringing in my ears until God put a new meaning into them, and bade me think of others who are lost, without God and without hope in this world; and a message came from the heavenly Father, ‘Go and work in My name’ ; and then from the vast throng a pitiful pleading cry rolled into my soul as I accepted God’s call: “ Oh, why don’t you hurry?’ ” m MATTER OF DRESS If a girl dressed for prayer meeting the way she does for the front page of a magazine that goes into a million Chris tian homes, the meeting would promptly break up in disorder and disgrace.—L. A. Times.
keeps on running away from it all the time, thinking that it is still in front of him. It is our duty to show him that he has lost his way and in his eager ness to gain the prize, he is running fur ther and further from it. Christ has ful filled all his hopes, all his longings. All the promises in the Old Testament can only point to the Christ of the New. The Jew must know the suffering Mes siah before he can know Him as the glorified and reigning Messiah. He must know Him first as Christ crucified, and then he will know Him as Christ glorified.— From Hebrew Christian Alli ance Quarterly. jt e 3te LIVE BY THE MOMENT Few are the souls that give them selves up faithfully to God, in the order of His providence, as it is developed mo ment by moment. They have too much a will of their own, their desires run out too strongly in various directions, to accept readily and fully that “ daily bread” whatever it may be, which God’s providence now presents. It is here we find the occasion of so many falls by Christians. They do not live by the moment; they do not make soul and body appropriate to God’s time, which is the present time. But when, with a heart wholly given to God and in the exercise of faith, we live in the present moment, considered in itself alone and in its necessary and just rela tions, all goes right and well. -$■4. - ate ate PRAYER AND WORKS Sir Wilfred Lawson used to tell of a little girl who prayed that the trap her brother had set might catch no sparrows. On being asked by her mother why she was so confident that her prayer would be answered, she re plied: “ Because I went into the garden and kicked the trap to pieces!” “ Watch unto prayer” (1 Peter 4 :7). S E E P A G E 8 2 8
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