THE KING’S BUSINESS
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He instituted this rite. He set the seal to His own sacrificial death. He pronounced it the blood of the new covenant. Pity, pity, pity those who refuse to bow to His authority, who refuse to come under the blood-sprinkled cross. The table of our Lord is the very center of the true church. It is the witness of the church to its faith in the blood covenant He has made with His own. But there is another day coming, a day in which He has promised to drink again with His own in the kingdom of/God, Glad day, festive day, coming day, in the upper room! Sad were the hearts of the disciples that day when He told of His coming sacrifice. Glad will we all be when we sit and eat and drink with Him in the coming day. “What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus my Jesus; What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus, my Lord.” A TEACHER once remarked that he who buys the truth makes a good bar gain. I enquired if any pupil recollected any instance in Scripture of a bad bargain. Answer No. 1—“Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.” Answer No. 2— “Judas made a bad bargain when he sold his Lord for (thirty pieces of .silver.” Answer No. 3—“Our Lord tells us that he makes a bad bargain who loses his own soul to gain the world.” A deaf and dumb boy was once asked, “What is truth?” He replied by thrusting his finger forward in a straight line. He was next asked, “What is falsehood?” to which he made a zigzag with his finger. A good example of the true and the false. Some people are so crooked they couldn’t hide behind a pretzel. While walking through one of the great stock yards in Chicago, a number of years ago,' I saw a large steer lead a company of beef cows up to the slaying pen. As
PRACTICAL POINTS (1) While the devil is loose, there will be a Judas in the camp. (2) Environment can do nothing to change the nature of man. (3) The test of the -traitor was the acid test. (4) The Lord set His solemn seal of eter nal doom on Judas. (5) Have you ever sold your Saviour for a song? Stop and think. (6) What glad news! A new covenant in His blood. (7) “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.” (8) How often do you respond to His request to remember Him, at His table ? the driver urged the cattle in, the old steer stepped one side and walked out, as the gate closed, ready to lead another company to death. They rightly named this steer Judas; he had betrayed thousands to death. One little betrayal of trust is often looked upon as a small thing, not worth mention ing; but notice these incidents: A jest once led to a war between two great nations. The presence of a comma in a deed lost to the owner of an estate, two thousand pounds a month for eight months. The battle of Coruma, in 1809, is said to have been lost by a dragoon stopping to drink while bearing despatches. A noted thief said the first step to his downfall was the taking of a half-penny from his mother’s pocket while she was asleep. The New Covenant of Blood .—This new covenant of blood is like a Hindoo and a New Zealander who met upon the deck of a missionary ship. They had been con verted from their heathenism, and were
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By W . H. Pike.
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