August 1927
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12,000 PEOPLE HELPED WRITE THIS FIVE-FOOT BIB LE A handw ritten Bible, five feet, two inches in height and three feet, six inches in breadth, to which 12,000 people have contributed, is being pre pared by the Bible Crusade Society of London. Twelve goat skins have been used to make the covers of the book. These covers are now on ex hibition while w orkers are getting into shape the many sections w ritten by clergy of various denominations, engineers and business men. The sheets of stout paper are being a t tached by means of linen hinges to strips of sim ilar m aterial which form the back of the book. It is sown with twine in the old fashioned way. It is hoped th a t the Bible when completed will be mounted on a m otor ca r and sent around the country.
thoughts feed upon God’s-truth. They are not like the man the Psalmist describes, who is ’^¡like a tree planted by rivers o f water.” • I f we are to be like trees, we must grow at both ends. The.tree sends up its strong trunk. Its wide branches furnish shade. Its flowers are for beauty: Its fruit is for the Satisfaction of man. But there will be no such devel opment in mid-air unless the tree has grown just as deeply on the other end. There must be that unseen, secret life K th e roots of the soul. There must? be meditation to reach down into the soil of God’s truth and draw up the living waters. All the sap the tree has must come up from the roots, and all the spiritual power and fruitage of the Christian depends upon his power to absorb the elements of the new life through communion with his Lord and meditation in His life-giving Word. . “Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power— Thoughts that ascend, like angels beautiful, A shining Jacob’s ladder of the mind.” V-L-, - Christian Individualism “L et every man be fully persuaded in his own mind ’ ’ (Rom. 14:5). H E R E is a principle of Bible knowledge applied by the Apostle Paul to the deciding.of the Sabbath issue, which perplexed many Jewish converts of the early church. It is one which certainly should be applied to every other controversy concerning matters which can be decided only by ascertaining what the Word of God teaches. The words are especially striking as applied to the Sabbath question. Some Jewish converts still clung to the Saturday Sabbath as a permanent obligation to be kept in addition to the resurrection day, or Lord’s Day: “One man esteemeth one day above another,” says the Apostle, “another esteemeth every day alike. L e t every man be fully persuaded in his own m in d ” Surely Paul could not
Mississippi Valley is a divine judgment upon them! Yet how many are quick to do this sort of thing! How great would be our own danger should God always cause us immediately to pay the penalty of our secret sins! Was it not this very spirit that Jesus rebuked when some came to tell Him of the eighteen on whom the tower of Siloam fell? (Lk. 13:1-5.) Does not that put in the same condemnation those who publicly charge that wars, pestilences, fires, storms, earthquakes, or other calamities which have befallen a people, are a divine stroke ? Chris tian editors have frequently made such pronouncements. We doubt their wisdom, even though it is undoubtedly true that much of the suffering of society is a direct con sequence of the toleration of open vice. Let us leave the judging to Him, and concern ourselves, as did our Sav iour, in doing what we can to relieve suffering, as we should desire others-, to do were we the victims. A Meditation on Meditation I T is said of the “blessed” man in Psalm 1, that he is a man who “meditates day and night” in God’s Word. We are wondering how many Christians there are in these days who know what it is to “meditate” even in the day time, to say nothing of in their wakeful hours. Meditation is a man’s spiritual index.' An index is placed in front of a book to indicate the contents. What do you meditate upon? That will tell you the kind of a man you are. And what is meditation ? It is to discourse with your self. It is the digestive system of the mind. By it truth is turned into spiritual nourishment. It assists memory to lock up the jewels of divine truth in the treasury'of the heart. If you are not growing, it is only for lack of nourishment, and how can one get nourishment without a digestive system? It is.only those whose thoughts are fixed on spiritual things who can experience the power of them in their lives. Much of the preaching and teaching today is like pouring water on a duck’s back. People do not let their
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