August 1927
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All of the butterflies, all of the bees, All of the birds building homes in trees, And the moon reflected in calmest of seas, Can never reveal God’s love.
Not even the song of a bird on the breeze, Not even the music of rain on the leaves, No’t even the reapers binding the sheaves
Can ever reveal God’s love.
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Snow on a mountain rugged and steep; No, not the hue of a rainbow bright, Sun through a fleecy cloud, starting to peep, ÌMI q I No, not the stars watching o’er us by night, And a mother lulling her child to sleep No, not the sun sinking deep from sight Can never reveal God’s love. Can ever reveal God’s love. Even at dawn when all is at rest, Only the drops on Calvary shed, Even deep love in a mother’s breast, When to the altar His dear Son was led; Even the home with the ones you love best Only the fact that He died in my stead Can never reveal God’s love. — Can reveal God’s wondrous love.
highbrowism, to guard the Word of Truth against spirit ual thieves! It is the figure of a banker watching over securities— the wealth of others, that has been committed to his care. As the custodian of others he must be severely strict, prepared to defend their property at all costs to himself. The securities of our Faith are infinitely more precious than the title deeds to the greatest estates. They are not to be lightly loaned out to any newcomer. The Gospel minister takes his solemn oath in the sight of heaven and earth to defend the Faith once for all delivered. If, while still in clerical position, he betrays the trust, what can it be called except plain fraud? It is amazing in these days with what ease some will part with the grandest securities of the Faith on the merest hearsay evidence and the pure guesswork of self- styled “thinkers.” I f it involved no others than.them selves, the matter would not be so, serious, but in the case of one set apart to the Gospel ministry, hundreds of others are involved. They are open to the charge of being fraudulent trustees. Vicentius wrote: “A deposit is that which is entrusted to thee, not discovered by thee; what thou hast received, not what thou has conceived; a matter not of disposition but of doctrine; a thing brought to thee, not brought forth by thee—in relation to which' thou oughtest to be not author but guardian, not originator but follower.” When a Financial Committee Bucks J E SU S proposed to His disciples the feeding of a hun gry multitude. They, on the other hand, suggested that He send them away instead, that they might get food for themselves (Mk. 6 :3 6 ). Our first thought when Jesus sets a task before us is often to get rid of the responsibil ity—in slang phraseology, “to pass the buck.” But these disciples had something to .learn. Jesus directs, “Give ye them to eat.” The financial committee then reported that it was absolutely out of the question for two hundred pennies was all there was in the treasury. That sounds quite modern. Thus we often pin Him down to our little estimates. A great spiritual work is ruined because officials get to thinking only in terms of dollars and cents. Many things look impossible when we foil to figure Him in.
Note Jesus’ reply: “How many loaves have ye? Go and-see.”'), That’s where the rub comes. What have W E that isn’t working for God? He has His eye on what we have left, not simply what we’ve given. Are we ready to risk what we have in His hands? That’s the great ques tion. Until we are, it’s folly to talk of the impossibility of doing what He is asking us to do. Have YOU learned that you can’t lose anything by putting even your scant stores at His disposal ? Do you really believe that your own abundance depends largely on your own beneficence? (Prov. 11:24-25.) So it turned out with the disciples. Because they passed what they had through Christ’s hands, they not only accomplished a great work but had more left for themselves than they had in the beginning. Grain brings increase, not by lying in a heap, but by being wisely scat tered. Spiritual and temporal blessings also multiply in their distribution and not by being kept. as ^ ate The Sympathetic Christ W E have a Saviour who became man that He might be “touched with the feeling of our infirmities” (Heb. 4 :1 5 ). As glorified man, He appears now as High Priest for all true believers. What a comfort it should be to remember that He not only was but is man. Some imagine that Jesus, for a limited period, took part in frail humanity, but that when His purposes were accomplished the man forever perished and the spirit forever reascended to unite with pure Deity. But our Lord’s resurrection life should correct this notion. As Son of man He ascended. There is now “one Mediator—the MAN Christ Jesus.” As Son of man He is coming again in the clouds with great glory. This means that God now has a human heart. The present man hood of Christ conveys the deeply important truth that the divine heart is human in its sympathies. He can be touched now with the feeling of our infirmities because He was Himself tested as man here upon earth. His past experience has left certain effects durable in His nature. It has endued Him with certain qualifications and susceptibilities a’s our High Priest, which He would not have except for His earthly experience. Therefore we have the more boldness to come to the throne of grace, knowing that our Intercessor can feel for us.
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