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APR IL 26, 1936 HOW TO CONQUER OUR FEARS 1 J o h n 4:18-21; I s a ia h 41:10 Meditation on the Lesson
III. T h y W ill No service in itself is small,
is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city” (Prov. 16:32). “ Patience”—the rare grace, the Christ- like virtue. “ Let patience have her per fect work” (Jas. 1 :4). “Godliness” —, “ God-likeness.” “ Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Matt. 5:48). “ Brotherly kindness,” “Be kindly affec- tioned one to another with brotherly love” (Rom. 12:10). “ Charity”B “love” (R .V .), the climax. “ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God” (1 John 4:7). VI. S elf -C ontrol a n d P atie n ce A niece o f Clara Barton wrote this of her aunt: “ I think my aunt’s idea o f life lies in what she once said to me when, with feverish haste and impatience of youth, I was longing for great things to do. ‘Keep yourself quiet and in restraint,’ she said. ‘Reserve your energies, doing those little things that lie in your way, each one as well as you can, saving your strength, so that when God does call you to do something good and great, you will not have wasted your force and strength with useless strivings, but will be ready to do the work quickly, and well.’ ” — S elected . VII. Two W a y s to L ive There is too much cafeteria living—all self-service. Love never knows how much it gives, nor what it costs.— S elected .
None great, though earth it fill; But that is small that seeks its own, And great that seeks God’s will. Then hold my hand, most gracious God; Guide all my goings still; And let it be my life’s one aim To know and do Thy will. — A u th o r U n k n o w n . IV. L ivin g S tones When in your hard fight, in your tire some drudgery, or in your terrible temp tation, you catch the purpose of your being and give yourself to God, and so give Him the chance to give Himself to you, your life, a living stone, is taken up and set into the growing wall. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of the temple of which it is to lie a part forever, what patience must fill it as it feels the blows o f the hammer and knows that success for it is simply to let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills ¡— P h il l ip s B rooks . V. “ T h ese T h in g s . . . in Y o u ” (2 Pet. 1:8). “Virtue”—courage, strength. “ Be strong in the Lord” (Eph. 6:10). “Knowledge”—“ That I may know him” (Phil. 3:10). “If any man willeth to do his [the Father’s] will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God” (John 7:17, R.V.). “Temperance” — self-control. “He that
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