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AUGUST 28 “But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree : and he re quested for himself that he might die” (1 Ki. 19:4). How do men pray when they yield to fits of despondency? We soon discover that Elijah’s prayer was a very foolish one. He asked to be allowed to die— when God had prepared for him a glo rious translation! How ashamed he must have felt when, in the years to come, he discovered that, had God answered his prayer literally, it would have meant an exchange of the chariot of fire and the upward sweep upon the wings of a whirl wind, for an ignominious and lonely death in the dreary wilderness . . . Yet we are all apt to pray just as foolishly when we get beneath our juniper trees. —F. J. H orsefield . AUGUST 29 "Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GodI . . . because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face. And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not” (Judg. 6:22, 23). Lord, give me the peace of Gideon. Give me the peace of mind that can sub sist amid stress of body; give me the calm of soul that can live amid storms of sea. Often is Thy peace bestowed when the world’s peace is denied. . . . Send me the calm that cannot be accounted for. Send me the peace that cannot be ex plained. Send me the joy which the world cannot justify. Send me the gladness in dependent of glitter, the radiance inde pendent of riches, the brightness inde pendent of earthly benefits. Reveal Thy rest in my wrestling, Thy crown in my cross, Thy kingdom in my cloud. Let there ever be a dove in my deluge. Let Thy Spirit brood on the face of my wa ters, and say to all the chaos, “Let there be light.” . . . So shall I learn that Thy peace is a peace that passeth understand ing. —G eorge M atheson . AUGUST 30 “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If. any inan will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and fol low me” (Matt. 16:24). It ought to be the great care of every one of us to follow the Lord fully. We must, in a course of obedience to God’s will and service to His honor, follow Him universally, without dividing; uprightly, without dissembling; cheerfully, without disputing; and constantly, without declin ing. This is following Him fully. —M atthew H enry . Lead on, O King Eternal! We follow not with fears, For gladness breaks like morning Where’er Thy face appears; Thy cross is lifted o’er us, We journey in its light; The crown awaits the conquest: Lead on, O God of might. —E rnest W. S hurtleff . AUGUST 31 “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou, common” (Acts 15:15). When the Prince of Wales visited India, there were a number of high caste people
because of my determination to stand on the right side of every question regardless of the cost. And when I have asked God for something, I have prayed that He would give it to me if it was right and withhold it from me if it was wrong; and do you know, God has always given me what I asked for, or He has given me something better.”— S elected . AUGUST 25 “Prove all things” (1 Thess. 5:21). I cannot but think that we are in a most dangerous period of human history as far as the advice here given us is con cerned. . . . In doctrine and in practice we need the judicial mind to weigh in the scales of human judgment that which is taught even by professed teachers of the truth, and that which is practiced as law ful by professedly religious men and women. God says to u s : “Put all things to the proof.” It is your peril and mine that we let ourselves come under the in fluence of men who speak or write or hold these abominations, and who practice things contrary to the will of God. Hold the truth tenaciously with the_ grasp of a man who feels he is in the midst of dan ger and peril, when the temptation is to let go the things which have been most surely believed in the church from the very beginning.—A. T. P ierson . AUGUST 26 “The Lord is with us; fear them not” (Num. 14:9). When an airplane is about to fly, it is faced toward the wind. The engine is then turned on full speed and the plane, fight ing its way against the wind, rises quickly. I will never forget my second trip alone with my machine. Having taxied out to the center of the field to take off, by mis take I turned with the wind instead of against it. I did not realize what I had done until I found that I was not rising, but was headed straight for a large shed! It was with difficulty that a crash was averted. How well this illustrates our spiritual life! It is only as we face the foe, in the power of the indwelling Spirit, that we are able to rise to heights sublime. If we go with the wind, we are in danger of injury from the things of the world that surround us.—E. E. N. AUGUST 27 “A fter this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hal lowed be thy name” (Matt. 6:9). The Lord’s Prayer, which stands in the heart of the Sermon on the Mount, forms part of our Lord’s teaching on prayer. And this, again, is but a section of our Lord’s teaching on almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. These three will be found to ex haust all the manifestations of spiritual life, to represent it in all its aspects. They embrace our relation to man—charity; our relation to God-^-prayer; our relation to ourselves—self-discipline. They show us man looking around him in his relation to the world, looking upward to God, and looking within at his own heart. They correspond to the threefold description of the discipline of grace in Titus 2:12: “We should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.”— “T he L ord ’ s P rayer ” by A dolph S aphir .
to its completeness, perfection, and vic tory. Oh, for broken hearts to meditate upon the cross! To know the power of the cross in our own hearts and to seek to make it known to others is truly a worthy object to live for. May the great wonders of the cross form, sustain, and satisfy our heart’s affection. Then, with ease and restfulness, we will be able to walk with God through the most painful circumstances.— J ohn F. G ray . 0 cross that liftest up my head, 1 dare not ask to fly from thee; I lay in dust life’s glory, dead, And from the ground there blossoms red Life that shall endless be. —G eorge M atheson . AUGUST 24 "No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly” (Psa. 84:11). Dr. Mullins once said: “If I have gain ed any success in my work, it has been A Beautiful, High-Grade Christian Home and School For Children “T he famous John Brown Schools a re o p erating a t Sulphur Springs, A rkansas, th e Julia A . B rown School for Children. W ith a half-million dollar plant, located in th e healthful, beautiful O zark hills, and w ith a stro n g staff of C hristian w orkers, this school offers an all-ther y ear p ro g ram a t very reasonable cost to children from six to fifteen y ears of age. T h e ideal of this school is “The best for th e best.“ F o r p articu lars w rite th e JULIA A . BROWN SCHOOL S ulphur Springs, A rkansas 20 Lessons in Exodus for $1 Wm. M. Smith, Supt., Union Bible Seminary, is add ing this course in lessons by mail to his popular courses in Bible Study. Other courses—Genesis, John, Revela tion, Bible History and Prophecy, and Homiletics. Each series 20 lessons for $1 postpaid. Order from: The Gospel Minister, Westfield, Ind. B o x o f 1 2 C h r istm a s G r e e tin g C ard s and 1 2 E n v e lo p e s . . . B o x o f 2 4 C ards and 2 4 E n v e lo p e s . . 5 0 c Every Card Steel Engraved and Every Envelope Tissue Lined. Agents Wanted. 2 5 c
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