gems o f wisdom from “The Bible Institute Hour”
FOR MANY YEARS London Airport authorities have been trying to scare away seagulls from the landing field. They have tried to use noises horns, bells, air blasts, and other in ventive ideas but with no lasting success. A news item, however, now reports they have, at last, hit upon a successful idea, that of using a re cording by a popular “Rock and Roll” singer over a public address system. According to London Air port officials the gulls take off and remain away for 2.4 hours. Would it be facetious to say that, at least, here the Rock and Roll soloist really “sends them.” Well, seriously, there are all sorts of sounds in the world today. Sounds which will be playing upon your mind, bidding for your attention. Tunes, words, thought pictures . . . many unseemly, are bidding, but may our hearts be so tuned to hear the Heavenly Voice that we will not be distracted by the things of this earth. Now we can do this as the songwriter suggested by, “turning our eyes upon Jesus, looking full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.” * * * "You may whitewash yourself but only God, through His grace, can wash you white." * * * AN ACCOUNT WAS WRITTEN about a project conducted by inmates of an Ohio penal institution. O d d l y enough, they set up a business of making caskets. A brochure had been prepared by the men setting forth the advantages of their prod uct. One point especially advertised was that each of the caskets was
equipped with a safety catch. Pick ing up the story, one reporter asked -— safety catch — what for? No one seemed to know for sure, but thinking of life after death someone added, “It seemed like a good idea.” The Bible rightly asks, “How shall we escape if we neglect so great sal vation?” God’s safety catch is simply this, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” For you, death will become a “good night” on this earth, but a “good morning, the dawning of a new day in Glory.” * “ It is the Christianity we live, not the Christianity we possess, that the world is looking for." * * * WHILE RIDING ON A LOS ANGELES FREEWAY, just at dusk, we were startled by a strange sight that we had never seen before. The news paper next morning told of the mis sile that had been shot into the atmosphere from Vandenburg Air Force Rase in central California. /4s a taxpayer,' your attention has been drawn to items telling of the tre mendous cost of these operations. Many times these missiles misfire and thousands, even millions of dol lars, go up in smoke. A Director of one of the testing plants stated that often these failures are caused by insignificant parts costing only 25$. So we find in our spiritual lives that the great cost of failure there is due to some small, unconfessed sin — “the little foxes that destroy the vines.” A strange failure on our part when Christ stands so faithful and just to forgive us our sins. 6 * *
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