brush up against it by mistake. When it fell to the floor, it broke into a myriad of pieces. He waited rather ap prehensively for the fight to begin, but instead, his wife laughed and told him, “Never mind, honey. It’s all right. You couldn’t help it. We can get another one.” A day or two later, when he was late for dinner, she gave him a big hug and assured him, “That’s all right, dear; I know you’ve worked hard and I don’t mind waiting for you. It’s worth it.” Before the week was over, he told her frankly, “I don’t know what’s come over you. That terrible temper is gone. I f the Lord can do that for you, you’d better remember to pray for me, because this is the kind of sal vation I need.” Perhaps there’s some besetting sin in our lives keeping a loved one from Jesus Christ, if not in your own house hold, perhaps right there in the neigh borhood. Are you showing others the love of Christ in trine of works not as a means of salvation, but as a proof of it. When we stand at the judgment seat of Christ, He is going to test our works (I Cor. 3). We are saved by grace, through faith and not of works, but rather unto works. Daniel seemed to specialize in ex ploits. When the edict came that they were all to eat the king’s meat, Dan iel was absolutely uncompromising. He purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself. There wasn’t anything negative about his testi mony either. When there was trouble over praying Daniel wasn’t an exhi bitionist who wanted everyone to see what he was doing. He knew God and without fear of man opened his windows to reveal his faith. Since he had always prayed with his windows open there was no need to stop now just because the king was annoyed. While he was thrown to the lions, he was almost oblivious of the situation. The person who didn’t sleep and who got up early was the king. Daniel was strong and did exploits because he knew his God. To the degree which we know the Lord will be the area whereby we show strength and do exploits. The question now resolves itself for each one of us personally, “How well do I know Him?” Commit your life to the Saviour afresh. Put Christ to the test and prove Him for yourself. This is the way you get to know Him bet ter. UNCONTROLLED TEMPER There was a Christian woman who had frequently requested prayer for her husband’s salvation. Still he re mained cold and hard. He didn’t hesi tate to tell the preacher when he asked that the reason was he didn’t see anything in his wife’s life that gave her victory over an uncontrollable tem per. When the pastor shared this with the woman, she felt terribly convicted, and vowed, with the Lord’s strength, that things would be different. It wasn’t long after that she was putting up a new lamp in the hall. She wanted to surprise her husband. When he came home, he happened to Miss Jennifer Hillis, daughter of missionary leader Dr. Dick Hillis,was presented the spe cial Alumni Scholarship Award by the gradu ates of theschool at a recent annual banquet. Dr. J. Richard Chase, Academic Vice President of Biola looks on at the timeof the ceremony. Dr. Hillis, a graduate of Biola, is Founder- Director of Overseas Crusades. 6
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