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more I know it the more wonderful it seems to me. I have been a Christian from my early childhood.” “But I can’t understand it at all.” I re plied, “No miracle is difficult to Him who hangs the heavenly bodies on nothing.” God says, “Is there anything too hard for me?” After a little more conversation he ac cepted a Gospel of John and some tracts and thanked me for them. I shall probably see him again. Bartimaeus teaches me what I must do. Casting away my garment I must spring up and come. In the writer’s home after breakfast the Scripture portion is read, each of the family reading a verse, then the comment (the longer of the two given above) is read ; a brief prayer, ending with the Lord’s prayer, repeated in concert, closes the service, which occupies about ten minutes. The cost of membership in the Associa tion, which includes the briefer comment, is four cents per year; with the longer notes, it is twelve cents. The supplies are sent from London, quarterly, to whoever is act ing as secretary in the church or locality, and the secretary in turn distributes them to the members. Further information and sample copies of the notes, etc., can be had by addressing Rev. John H. Hunter, Bible Institute of Los Angeles. The Heart of the Lesson Concluded from Page 515 man gravitates downward into the sensual man; the sensual man downward into the bottomless pit. ‘He that sows to the Spirit reaps life everlasting.’ The sequence is in evitable. Like breeds its like. Life springs of life and death eternal is the culmination of the soul’s present death to God and good ness. The future glory of the saints is at once a divine reward and a necessary de velopment of their present faithfulness.”— (Findlay, Passion .)
some people make a hell for everyone around them and they should be separated from the good.’ ” He said, “You don’t find a place in the Bible where it says there is a hell. There isn’t any hell.” I answered, “The Bible plainly says, ’The wicked shall be turned into hell.’” “Well, no one with any intellect what ever believes the Bible these days.” I said, “I believe the Bible just as it reads, from cover to cover. I have studied it and the Rebuilding the Family Altar Concluded from Page 494 Casting away his garment, he sprang up, and came to Jesus. The phrasing is graphic, vivid, pictorial. It was the work of an instant; and it was the transmutation of a lifetime. Bartimaeus might have concluded that, since he was so hindered by crowds, and since the Lord was so pressed and occupied, it would be wiser to wait for twetve or fourteen days, till Christ should return by that same road from keeping the Passover feast. But if he had waited, his blindness would have been per petual. For Christ did not return. The malefactor’s scaffold was preparing for the Son of God. No! there must be no post ponement, no procrastination. Casting away his garment, he sprang up, and came. This is how I should translate faith into action. It is not only from without that the dissuasions and obstructions come. They rise up from within. I am prone to delay the great decision. I trifle. I linger. “A foreign ambassador told the Grand Vizier that there were three enemies that would .eventually destroy the Turkish Empire— “Bakalum,” We shall see; “In-Shaa-Allah,” If it please God; and “Yarum Sabah,” To morrow morning; all excuses for putting off.” : More things than the Turkish Em pire are ’destroyed by these three enemies. My soul may be destroyed. I assure my self that, very soon, the Lord Jesus will be passing my way again. But Jericho did not see him in the future, and neither may I.
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