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that strains the fiber of the soul? When Christ had just been speaking of His ap proaching death, James and John selfishly were seeking for honor, but the Lord said to them: “Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?” (Mk. 10:38). When they replied that they could do this, He implied, prophetically, that they should be partakers of His suffering. After Pentecost they received power from the Holy Spirit to endure hardship that other wise they could not have borne. When Paul was writing to the young minister, Timothy, he said: “Endure hard ness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ” (2 Tim. 2:3). He continued by describing the requirements for the warfare that is prom ised to every one who enlists in the army of the Lord of hosts, and he brought his ex hortation to a climax by declaring, “If we suffer, we shall also reign with him.” Although we know that the battle will be hot, victory is assured through the spiritual and moral stamina which the Lord Jesus Himself provides for those who have re ceived Him as Saviour. He said: “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). Are we willing to follow the Lord Jesus through hardship, privation, and perhaps death? Only His Spirit can strengthen us to consent to rigid discipline for Christ’s sake and glory. “Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” ! Through the power of the death and resurrection of our King we shall conquer! When Scott, the famous arctic explorer, appealed for men for his perilous expedi tion, 'literally thousands responded. Men pressed for a place, without conditions or reservations. Some even offered to meet all their own expenses. And for what? They did it for an undertaking that prom ised certain hardship and suffering, and the likelihood of death itself. I think of the words of Garibaldi, the great Italian patriot and liberator who said: “I am going out of Rome. I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions. I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles, death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not with his lips only, fol low me.” And they followed him! But it is an infinitely greater than Scott, or Garibaldi, or any human being that ever spoke, who here today challenges us with the words, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” His missionary enterprise has always been' marked by discomfort, privation, hardship, and danger, and to seek to eliminate these features from it would be to rob it of that which is its very essence and gives to it its highest value. Sacrifice has always been the soul of mis sions.— R obert H all G lover . ii . “I’ d L ove to B e a H ero , I f ------” There is one thing certain: Power can not be had without paying the price. This most of us are unwilling to do. We are like the little lad who said to his grand- Helps fo r th e Leader I. C hoosing H ardship
It is a matter of human experience that the gambling “fever,” once admitted to a life, shows a tendency to increase and to lead to further indulgence. Have you ever been invited to buy a ticket for a drawing for a turkey? Has some one urged you to bet on the result of an election or some other event of unknown outcome? f This temptation to get something for nothing, if yielded to, tends to destroy character and to lower all standards of ethics. The ele ment of chance appeals, and many are caught in the snare. The danger of depravity resulting from gambling is indicated by the heartlessness of the calloused soldiers who were casting lots at the foot of the cross where the Lord Jesus Christ hung as the sacrifice for their sins. They were so hardened that they could not see His tender love for them, nor sense the agony which He was enduring for their sakes. Can we afford to participate, even in a small measure, in that action which may lead us away from the Lord who loved us enough to die for us? It has been said that gambling bears the same relation to robbery that dueling does to murder. One man will meet another in a dark alley and take his life at the end of a pistol, and you call that murder; two men will meet each other in an alley and agree to shoot at each other until one or both fall dead, and you call that dueling. But the only difference is that in the first case there is one murderer, and in the second case there are two. One man will met another in a dark alley and take his money at the end of a pistol and you call that robbery; two men will meet each other round a table and agree to take each other’s money with dice or cards, and you call that gambling. But the only difference is that in the first case there is one robber, and in the second case there are two. —W. E. B iederwolf . II. R iding to H ell Some of the terms that are used among modern gamblers are very suggestive of the fearful and quick disaster to which gam bling hastens its victims. In some of the policy establishments, betting on two num bers is called a “saddle,” three a “gig,” four a “horse.” In all our American cities hun dreds and thousands of young men are leaping into that “saddle” or mounting into the seat of that “gig” behind that “horse” and riding or driving straight to hell—not only the hell of the future but the hell of the present .—Five Thousand Best Modern Illustrations, by Hallock. AUGUST IS, 1937 HOW MUCH MORAL FIBER DO WE HAVE? M ark 10:38, 39; L uke 9:57-62 Meditatibn on th e Lesson What is the proof of the quality of moral character that we possess? Does the stat ing of great and high ideals or of mighty ambitions indicate that one is inwardly pre pared to face up to and endure hardship .Helps fo r th e Leader I. Two R obbers
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