lives. The Lord Jesus stud, “There is no man that doeth anything in seeret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly” (John 7:4). No amount of culture, education, money, position, or power can make a sinful heart right eous and upright Only the Gospel of Jesus Christ can regenerate a man. Thousands of men and women have been reclaimed by the Gospel but not one human life has been changed from sinfulness to saintliness by the message of atheism or agnosticism. Each peanut has a sweet heart. No matter how peculiar the shell may be, when it is broken the heart may be reached. How good peanuts are. One can hardly resist them. When we buy pea- NEIGHBORS The persons next door— do we love them? Are we smiling and good-natured when A ball hits our roof and the children Run laughing and throw it again? The persons next door are our neigh bors So we are their neighbors, too; And we know they will watch us and test us To see if our "religion" is true. Our fellowship might not be the closest, And sometimes we even may fuss; But we've found that in loving our neighbors They're making better Christians out of us! .— 'Mildred Jeffery, Medford, Oregon nuts, we want to get at the hearts im mediately. We read that the Lord look- eth upon the heart of man. He knows the difference between the outer shell of profession and the inner substance of confession. The peanut has no value unless it is broken. Strange, isn’t it, that the sweetest graces usually emi- nate from the saddest sorrows. Men have found that the peanut is full of all sorts of excellent things for the body. The Word of God is like that; it has something for everybody.
\ f b y Dr. W alter L . W ilson O n e \ » th e Lord’s most wonderful creSJjbns is the little peanut. From lesson^Gpd made peanuts the way He wantedMhem to be. No man could ever do it. Ecclesiastes asks, “Who can make, that straight which God hath made crooked?” Peanuts are like people. Some are very badly bent, others are fairly straight, but none are absolutely perfect. The peanut is equipped with a dou ble covering. The outside is what everyone can see. It is harder and more tough than the inner shell. That is a thin skin, covering the nut itself. Folks do not see the inner one until the outer one is broken. Human lives are like this. There is an outer life which the public sees when we leave home, and the inner one revealed in the home. It is often of a much dif ferent type. Many men are delightful in their office life, but are crabs and hard to live with at home. Many who are kind and sweet to their stenograph ers are cruel and harmful to the sweet hearts to whom they swore their honor and love. What kind of a life do you live? Peanuts are developed in the dark. After appearing on the plant, they are covered up with soil and grow to per fection and maturity out of sight be neath the ground. It is so in our own
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