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S T I L L A L I V E ! Yes, the first and oldest Mission Work for Russians, Tne Russian Missionary Society, founded by men from Spurgeon's College in London, has been doing its great work of love for 32 years and is still carrying on its blessed ministry of sending relief to persecuted Christians in Russia and the Gospel to every place where Russians are found. Your loving help with prayers and gifts will dry many a tear; will bring many a precious Russian soul- to Christ. Please pray—and send something now for the support of missionaries and for relief on the Russian Mission Field, and the Russians will thank God for you . . . Send at least "5 loaves and 2 fishes" and Christ will bless it for thousands. RUSSIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY, INC. Miss M. N. Fetler, Secretary 1844 W . Monroe St. • Room 21, Chicago, III • Write for free copy of THE FRIEND of RUS SIANS with details of our work. © COUNCIL OF REFERENCE: Drs. W. W. Ayers, H. W. Bieber. Clinton H. Churchill, W. E. Harris, C. E. Fuller, R. E. Neighbour, W. H. Rogers, W. L. Pet- tingill, Oswald J. Smith, L. T. Talbot, W. Graham Scroggie, Bishop Wm. Culbertson, etc. in the light of the fact that there is but little time left to serve, that Christ’s com ing draweth very near, we as "eleventh- hour stewards” must tell men of the gospel, e’er it is too late. Christian Stewardship: Its Result And what is the result of this steward ship? The most immediate outcome is that this sense of stewardship is a great awaken- er of power. And even more tangible is the ever-abiding joy that comes from serving Christ now. In this ,world I know of no joy equal to that of being His steward, serving Him with one’s whole being, depending wholly upon the Spirit of our Absentee Lord for power and guidance, and constantly expecting His glorious return. Oh, what lasting joy such a life brings! But the most joyful day in all our lives is still in the future. While we are faith fully serving our Lord in His appointed place, joyfully doing His bidding, a glo rious shout will be heard, and we, all of God’s stewards, shall see with our own eyes the Lord of the Estate, the One who, two thousand years ago, left with us His price less legacy of stewardship. All the artistic pictures we have ever seen of Him ^11 fade into oblivion when we see His face. All the earth-joys that have seemed so passing sweet, will prove but a foretaste of our meeting at His feet. , Thus it shall be that, in the light of His radiant face, and in the nearness of His Presence, we shall be called upon to give an account of our stewardship. We will be rewarded solely for our faithfulness in dis charging this stewardship. Perhaps some of our rewards will be great, but the greatest reward that can be ours, greater far than any wealth or fame that the world could ever offer, is to hear from His lips, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of Thy Lord.” This is our ambition, this is the goal toward which we are striving: to be faith ful stewards here in everything we do, that we shall not be ashamed before Him at His coming, and because of our faithful steward ship, we shall have sheaves upon sheaves of golden fruitage to lay at His feet, for He alone is worthy! O U R SA C R ED T R U S T [Continued from page 255]
DA I LY Devotional Readings A M ESSAG E FOR EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH
JULY 1 My Beloved "1 am my beloved's, and his desire is to ward me" (Cant. 7:10). Here is surrendering love, a losing of self in Him. It is not that we are holding Him, first of all, but salvation is actually His hold on us. Deepening love speaks of Him our Beloved, who loved us and gave Himself for us. This is our comfort, that we with body and soul, both in life and death, are not our own but belong to our faithful Sav iour, Jesus Christ.—D. H. W alters . JULY 2 Our Compass “F or to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Phil. 1:21). There is nothing so grand as the unity breathed into our else distracted days by the all-pervading reference to and presence of Christ. Without that, we are like the mariners of the old world, who crept timid ly from headland to headland, making each their aim for a while, and leaving each in evitably behind, never losing sight of shore, nor ever knowing the wonders of the deep and all the majesty of mid-ocean, nor ever touching the happy shores beyond, which they reach who carry in their hearts a com pass that ever points to the unseen pole. — A lexander M aclaren . JULY 3 God’s Longsuffering "Despisest thou the riches o f his good ness and forbearance and tongsuffering?" (Rom. 2:4 ). “All that the Lord hath spoken we will do” —bold and self-confident language! The golden calf, the broken tables, the neglected ordinances, the stoned messengers, the re jected and crucified Christ, are overwhelm ing evidence of man’s dishonored vows. — D . L. M oody . Depth of mercy! can there be Mercy still reserved for me? Can my God His wrath forbear? Me, the chief of sinners spare? Still for me the Saviour stands, Shows His wounds, and spreads His hands; God is love! I know, I feel; Jesus weeps, and loves me still. — C harles W esley . JULY 4 Forgetting "Forgetting those things which are be hind” (Phil. 3:13). There is a universal tendency to brood over the past and to think what might have been. This is out of harmony with our faith in God. W e should forget our sins. Paul had been a ringleader in sin. He had perse cuted the church and compelled men and women to blaspheme the holy name of Jesus.
If he had not learned to "forget” his sins, he would have been crippled for the rest of his life. God has forgotten our sins, if we are Christians. “I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,” He says. Let us, like Paul, forget “those things which are behind.”—R. A . L a psley . JULY 5 Things Above "If y e then b e risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand o f God” (Col. 3 :1 ). The Lord Jesus! Sitting up yonder in glory, with the scarmarks of earth on face and form, looking eagerly down upon us who stand for Him in the world that cruci fied Him—He knows. I imagine Him say ing, “There is that one down there for whom I died, who bears My Name; if I had the control of that life, what power I would gladly breathe in and out of it, but—- he is so absorbed in other things.” —S. D. G ordon . JULY 6 The Secret of Possessing "Moses my servant is dead; now there fore arise, go ov er this Jordan" (Josh. 1:2). Moses, whose very name is snyonymoils with the Law—man’s best unaided endeav ors—could never lead Israel into Canaan, even as man’s best unaided efforts can nev er lead him into a life of blessing, rest, and victory. Our heavenly Joshua alone can lead us there. The Canaan experience is not realized until, through the disillusioning experiences of the wilderness, we are brought to despair of attaining holiness through self-effort.—J. O swald S anders . JULY 7 True Service "I must work the works o f him that sent me” (John 9 :4 ). It is not enough to be busy: one must be busy about the right things. In presence of the blind man, the disciples proposed a theological discussion on “original sin,” but Jesus saw here only a call to service. Every circumstance related itself to the throne of God, and if it constituted itself a call to service, Christ was never in doubt. The fault of so many people today is that they dissipate their energies. Learn the Christian principle of selection, and do the things that you were sent to do by God.— S elected . JULY 8 God’s Choice "But G od hath chosen the foolish things o f the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the w eak things o f the world to confound the things which are mighty" (1 Cor. 1:27). Some of the finest work for God has been done by those who have been singularly ungifted; some of the deepest insights into
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