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B u s i n e s s
July 1930
Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain ascendancy; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature w ill; if the power of the Gospel is not felt through the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corrup tion and darkness, will reigri without miti gation or endS-Florida Baptist Witness.
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“ The Hill Mizar” P salm 4 2 :6.
If religious books are not widely circu lated among the masses of this country, and the people do not become religious, I do not know what is to become of us as a nation. And the thought is one to cause solemn reflection on the part of every patriot and Christian. 1f truth be not diffused, error will be; if God and His
“Therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermon- ites, from the hill Mizar.” Very often this has been quoted as if David meant that he would remember his God on the ground of some former manifestation of His favor. This misconception has been perpetuated by John Kent’s beautiful thought ;-«■ ■ Thy former mercies we recount On Mizar’s hill and Hermon’s mount. It is indeed very blessed to keep in mem ory the former mercies of our God, espe cially in times of present miseries. But it is very plain that David here records-his distress when driven by the rebellion of Absalom from his throne and from the service of the sanctuary. He remembers his former joy in the house of God; and now that he is deprived o f this holy priv ilege, he says in effect S -“ I cannot get to God’s house, as I have been favored, and as I now would rejoice to do: therefore I will remember God in the place wherein I now am, from the hill Mizar.” This simple and natural interpretation of the Psalmist’s painful experience se cures a beauty to his language which the misconception obscures. It is good to re member God wherever we may be placed by His gracious providence, especially when we realize that He never forgets us| —William WHeman. —o— Spurgeon, “ Being Dead, Yet Speaketh” T OVERS of Spurgeon and the sermons ' which he has left behind in print, will be interested in the following short ex tract, from the report of the Spurgeon Sermons Society, known as the S. S; S. God is evidently blessing the distribution of the written Word, as He did the spoken messages of the great preacher. During 1929, 122 grants have been made and over 18,000 English sermons have been distributed. We estimate that dur ing the past five years, including trans lations not less than 100,000 of Spur geon’s sermons;-' have been distributed. They have gone to many lands and have been welcomed by rich and poor alike. This year grants have been made to workers in Trinidad, Cawnpore, Travan- core, New Zealand, Buenos, Aires, Brazil, and other distant places, as well as in England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. Many have been given to patients in hos pitals ; others have reached lonely light house keepers; hop pickers have wel comed them; and in Gaelic they have reached those who cannot read them in English, in the islands and highlands of Scotland. The special feature of this year’s work has been the translation of the notes on Isaiah 53:5, “With his stripes we are healed,” into Portuguese, for cir culation in Brazil and elsewhere. We have also reprinted from sermon plates now in the possession o f the publishers, four well-known sermons that were out of print. We have had four special sermons published in booklet form. Our transla tions into Arabic and Gaelic wefe so much appreciated that second editions were called for.
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