September 1927
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“New mercies each returning day Hover around us while we pray; ■New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hope's"1of heaven.”
splashed with mud from the chariot wheels of men unworthy to loose, the latchet of their shoes. They, die in obscurity, some times in poverty, while the multitude woiship at,the shrines of the successful and the rich. But it shall not be so in the world that is to come. Other standards of measurement obtain there. Fidelity, not attainment; purity, not possessions; goodness, not position, are the things that count in the celestial courts. Many a pauper ,of earth shall wear the "diadem of kingship; many a name unknown to human annals shall blaze upon the bead-roll of honor in the Father’s house. “The patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever.” ',,’ “Heaven shall make perfect our imperfect life.” Let us not, then, be in despair if we seem to be unappreciated, overlooked, despised, downtrodden, here below. We can well afford to wait. All our sores will be healed; all the injustice will be righted; all the disappointment compensated, when we are once in Abraham’s bosom. =xx r r1 h » F “ I Book Premiums Offered to Subscribers Who Procure N ew Subscriptions CHOICE OF ONE BOOK FOR E VE R Y N EW FULL YEAR SUBSCR IPTION S E N T US 3 S imple L essons in B ible M arking .... (Brooks) D iary , of A D octor ’ s S on —Humorous ...... -.......................... .............-............ (Brooks) Is S alvation S afe ?—Discussion of the question of the true believer’s security........... (Brooks) S tronghold of T ruth .......................... (Thomas) C hristian S cience and the W ord of G od ............................................................. (Huling) T ruth F or Y ou —-Valuable for personal workers ................. (Sammis) R ansacking the S criptures —Valuable collec tion of Bible information.................. (Brooks) T he G ospel and its M inistry ......... (Anderson) K ey W ords to the K ing ’ s T reasury .. (Paxson) T he L ord F rom H eaven ... ............. (Anderson) S atan '........................................................ (Chafer) T he P rophet J onah ......... ...... (Dixon) W hat S aith the S criptures ?—Valuable refer ence book showing what Scripture says in an swer to important questions............ .(Brooks) T he S hepherd P salm ............................ (Torrey) T he G enealogies of C hrist ................ (Stillion) J esus —P rophet , P riest and K ing ..... (Torrey) L_XX The King’s Business A XT"...... «V—^
It will do us good to search them out that we may make them the subjects of thanksgiving. Our praises tend to become stereo typed, and therefore formal and lifeless; a new strain introduced into them will impart reality and vigor to the oblation. Moreover such a search will help us to' realize how multitudinous God’s mercies are : “Count your blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lor.d hath done.p*> The old songs are not, of course, to be despised or abandoned: they, also, should be sung, but with a fresh sense of gratitude which shall turn them into “songs of renewal.” But whether it he the old song or the new—let us sing unto the Lord. He delights to hear the melody of praise, and the singing Christian will be the victorious Christian. Devils flee in confusion when, from the full heart, the spontaneous “spirit psalm” is sung. The power of melody is a God-given boon; its exercise glorifies Him and bene fits the singer. ¿fey O ctober 1. “A little lower than the angels" —Ps. 8 :5. THIS is undoubtedly a mistranslation. It should be, “Thou madest him a little lower than GOD.” A moment’s consideration will convince us of this fact, •scholarship apart. The angels are but servants of God, we are sons —who ever heard of the son being a little lower than the servant in any well organized household? Moreover We are partakers of the Divine nature, which the angels are not, and cannot be. We do not take enough of the intimacy of our relationship to the Godhead, partly be cause we fail to realize it. We are^odlets—if the term is admis sible—with how much of the Divinity about us today, and with how large an heirship of it in the future, who can tell? Created in the image of God, though we fell from our-high estate, we are restored to it in Christ Jesus Who took our humanity1into the Divine, and so restored it to the position it was intended to occupy. There is nothing in the whole universe so near akin to God as man. This thought should surround our life with a gol den halo of glory, and its dignity should lift both that life and us above all that is petty, and commonplace, and mean. It should stir up in our hearts an all-absorbing ambition to become worthy of our origin; it should beget in us both an affection for our Father and a sense of our absolute safety, now and evermore. What can really harm those who are of the very blood royal of heaven ? Moreover it should make us indifferent to the toys and baubles of the world. When once we realize our true position,
“On all the kings of ~arth With pity we look down; • And claim, in virtue of our birth, A never-fading crown.”
O ctober 2. “Now he is comforted .’’—Luke 16:25.
LAZARUS had been a beggar—sick, despised, neglected— perhaps all his life; now he was comforted. In myriads of cases heaven will be a reversal of the conditions of earth. There are. many of God’s saints who fail to obtain recognition here. They toil on faithfully and diligently year after year,, un noticed and unrewarded, with apparently none to appreciate them; while others, less deserving, win the world’s favor and renown. They trudge on foot along life’s dreary road and are
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