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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S A French Roman Catholic was given a Bible. He began to read it to his wife. Soon he said, “Wife, if this Book is true we are lost.” (Lu. 19:10.) But reading further he said, “Wife, if this Book is true we can be saved.” (Jno. 3:16.) And soon they were saved. But One Guide Book “Are you still giving them the Bible?” inquired one servant of Christ of an other, as he sympathetically asked how the work of the Lord was prospering in his hands. “Yes,” was the prompt re ply, “I have nothing else to give.” Whereupon the other friend chimed in, “Oh, that reminds me of the parable of the old mother herring saying to a young herring, ‘Remember, child, you are restricted to the ocean.’ ” “All Scripture is profitable.” A country lad, who was about leaving his Sunday School and friends to go up to the metropolis to take a position there, was accompanied to his starting place by a Christian friend, who kindly said to him, “Now, my boy, recollect you are going to launch your craft on a dangerous ocean.” “Yes, I know it,” said the boy; and taking a Bible out of his pocket and holding it up, he added, “But you see I have, a safe compass to steer by.” The guide of young Timothy is still the best guide of youth. 2 Tim. 1:5; 2:1. Ruskin said, “All that 1 have taught of art, everything that I have written, . every greatness that there has been in any thought of mine, whatever I have done in my life, has simply been due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.” LESSON X—SEPT 7 v. 7. Converting the soul. The great means of the conversion of sinners is the Word of God and the more closely we keep to it in our ministry the more
likely we are to ■ COMMENTS FROM be successful. —1 MANY SOURCES Spurgeon. T h e Keith L. Brooks Hebrew t e r m s properly me a n “bringing back the spirit” when it is depressed by adversity, by refreshing and consoling it.—Walford. v. 8. Rejoicing the heart. There is no cordial of comfort like that which is poured out from the bottle of Scrip ture.—Sel. How many- precious hours do many spend not only on work days but holy days in foolish romances, fab ulous histories, lascivious poems—that they might be cheered and delighted, when full joy is only to be had in the holy Book.—Hardy. v. 10. Sweeter than honey. The sweetest joys fall to his portion who has God’s truth to be his heritage.—Spur geon. Well may we count those the sweetest hours which are spent in read ing the Scriptures (Jer. 15:16).-—Wat son. v. 11. By them warned. The Word of God shows thee the face of those lusts which Satan employs to de stroy thy comforts and poison thy soul. —Bowes. In keeping them great re ward. Not only for keeping them but in keeping of them there is great re ward. The joy, the rest, the refreshing, the comforts, the contents, the smiles,' the incomes, that saints now enjoy- in the ways of God are so precious and glorious that they would not exchange them for ten thousand worlds.—Thos. Brooks. As every flower has its sweet smell, so every good action has its sweet reflection upon the soul. — Trapp. Though we should not serve God for the reward, yet we shall have a reward for our service.—Venning. v. 12. Who can understand his er rors? He best knows himself who knows the Word.—Spurgeon. If a man cannot have absolution, of his sins until his sins be told by tale and number in the priest’s ear, in that as David says.
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