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ter not talk quite so much about her Saviour, had bet ter not boast about Him and His salvation so much, for, asked the f r i e n d , “What would you do if Christ should let you slip through His fingers?” “Oh, but I ’m one of the fingers!” replied the happy old lady. She was right. She knew that the Lord Jesus Christ had taken her into literal, inseparable, a n d eternal union with Himself. And there was no s l i p p i n g through His fingers when He had made her part of His own body. That is why He c o u l d say of her and of all believers:
really believe, by simple faith, moment by moment, that He is working the miracle of keeping us safe in His life and expressing His life in us and through us—that is victory. That is the victorious life. The truth and fact of every believer’s union with Christ is inexpressiblywon derful, inexpressibly pre cious. It is the secret of every victory, every virtue, everything we can ever know that is worth while. It is expressed, again, in that wonderful w o r d in Galatians 2 :20: “I am cru cified with Christ: never theless I live; yet not I, but C h r i s t liveth in me.”
Rest in the Lord e s t in the Lord, my soul, J m . Commit to Him thy way; What to thy sight seems dark as night, To Him is bright as day. Rest in the Lord, my soul, He planned for thee thy life; Brings fruit from rain, brings good from pain, And peace and joy from strife. Rest in the Lord, my soul, This fretting weakens thee; Why not be stillf Accept His will, Thou shalt His glory see.
“I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never per ish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand” (John 10:28). We cannot be plucked out of Christ’s hand because we are part of His hand. And that is how He keeps us “safe in his life.” Christ is our Saviour; Christ is our Lord; Christ is our life; He is our salvation and our safety. Christ is our vic torious life.
The story is told of an old lady who, late in life, re ceived Christ as her Saviour. She was radiant in her new-found salvation and Saviour, for she had “let go and let God,” fully yielding to Him and fully trusting Him. She was a new creation; old things had passed away; all things had become new (2 Cor. 5:17). She could talk of little else but Christ, her Saviour, and her boast was in Him. A cynical friend told her she had bet
THE POWER o/iLGOSPEL IN BELGIUM . . . By ED ITH F . NORTON
T r ium ph in S pite of D ifficultv Mr. John De Heer, who edits the Dutch religious journal, Het Zoeklicht, after speaking at our last Bible conference at Ghent in November, wrote of his impres sions as follows: “What grand things you are seeing in Romish Bel gium ! This, your third conference, has surpassed all ex pectations. We marvel, here in Holland, to see an audience of from 600 to 1,000 attending our Bible conferences, but how much more marvelous to see 500 people in attendance upon the Flemish conference in Ghent! How We thank God for the work of the Belgian Gospel Mission! Were it to shut its doors today, there would be ample reason to thank God for what it has already accomplished in that land. What warmth of character one finds in Flanders! With childlike simplicity the people receive the gospel, ignoring all dogmatic difficulties, and not only do they open their hearts easily to the message of salvation, but the truth of the filling of the Holy Spirit also finds ready access to their souls. As one of the mission workers ex pressed it, ‘The Fleming has a childlike attitude both toward those things which are evil and also toward the things of God, and . . . the children shall precede the older ones in the kingdom of heaven.’ “Your work is not easy there in Belgium. Testimo nies from your workers and believers made me think of the days of the Inquisition. They told me how, when a converted man loses his job, what difficulty the family finds to obtain any sort of help, even to a place in which
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since, on the heels of the armistice, we arrived in Belgium to inaugurate the Belgian Gospel Mission. Shall we ever forget that memorable evening in December, 1918, when our military car topped a small hill between Assche and Brussels, and for the first time we saw below us the distant lights of Belgium’s capital city! It is less than twelve years since we opened, in the heart of Brussels, our first gospel hall, which was destined to be speedily outgrown and replaced by one five times as large. The work has now extended throughout the country, and we have forty-five regular preaching stations in the nine provinces. In thirty-five of these posts, the mission owns its own buildings. On the pay rolls of the mission are inscribed the names of over seventy workers. If the wives of workers were also counted, the number would be well over a hundred. This rapid growth, which is in no way superficial, has been accomplished by intensive evangelism through the medium of colportage work, open air meetings, tent campaigns, and with the aid of two gos pel motor cars. The distribution of over ten million cop ies of the Scriptures, gospel portions, and tracts, since the inception of the work, is probably the greatest factor in the nation-wide interest that is being manifested today. From every side, we are receiving tidings of conver sions, and our people at the different posts are so giving themselves to prayer that we cannot help but feel that, if the Lord tarries a little longer, we shall see a mighty outpouring of the Spirit in revival in Belgium.
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