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spiritual truths are given to those who have little education, and poor brain, but who know God. — G u y H. K ing . There is no divine quest for supermen. God calls all sorts of people and chooses quite ordinary men and women for His great work.— S am u el C hadwick . "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God” (2 Cor. 5:20). ‘‘Workers together with God” are indeed privileged persons; separated from their own sins, they are called to Christ’s side to work with Him in delivering others, to be seech in Christ’s stead—to be His substi tutes before the world, while He is theirs before the Throne; made ambassadors, after being rebels. What union with Christ there must be; what one-mindedness, what Christ- calm, and yet what Christ-zeal! — C h arles A. Fox. JULY 10 The Greatest Thing "He that winneth souls is wise" (Prov. 11:30). They said to Lyman Beecher on his death-bed: “You have known a great deal; tell us what is the greatest of all things.” "It is not theology, it is not controversy, it is to save souls.” Matthew Henry said when dying: "I would think it greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.” I would rather win one soul to Christ than be the ruler of an empire or the rich est money king of the world, or to stand upon any other height, for this mountain of glory rises above them all and pierces the clouds and touches the very threshold of heaven.— C ortland M yers . JULY 11 God’s Tender Compassion “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee" (Heb. 13:5). It is most cheering thus to know that, although we err and bring upon ourselves many troubles that might have been easily averted, yet God does not forsake even His mistaken child, but on his humble repent ance and supplication is ever ready both to pardon and deliver. Let us not give up our faith because we perhaps have stepped out of the path in which He would have led us.-— A. B. S im pson . JULY 12 Imputed "But o f him are y e in Christ Jesus, who o f God is made unto us wisdom, and right eousness, and sanctification, and redemp tion" (1 Cor. 1:30). That same divine hand that delivered up His own Son . . . had placed them in Him; not giving them merely a supply of blessing but Himself. Moses asked Jehovah, "Show me thy way,” but the reply was, "My presence shall go with thee.” Was not that better than a map of the route? John Bun- yan, cast down one day by a sight of his own sinfulness, wondering how such a one JULY 9 Ambassadors
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as he could ever hope to walk the heavenly streets, suddenly remembered that He who was his righteousness was already there. — W illiam H oste . JULY 13 Shut In “The Lord shut him in" (Gen. 7:16). "Shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons" (2 Ki. 4:4). God sometimes shuts the door, And shuts us in, That He may speak, perchance, Through grief or pain. — S elected . JULY 14 "And the angel o f the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go . . . unto Gaza, which is desert" (Acts 8:26). How often in the midday of our career has an arresting hand seemed to bar our progress, has an arresting voice seemed to say, "Hitherto shalt thou go, and no fur ther.” . . . Philip perhaps murmured at the mandate given to him, yet it was this man date which made his name glorious; he founded in that desert the beginning of a kingdom. So it is with thy desert moments; they are moments of the grandest service . . . The heart which can tarry for Him in the solitudes of the wilderness is to Him the dearest heart of all.— G eorge M atheson . JULY 15 Dying in the Lord "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit" (Acts 7:59). A well-known hymn speaks of Stephen as: “The martyr first, whose eagle eye Could pierce beyond the grave, Who saw His Master in the sky, And called on Him to save. Like Him, with pardon on His tongue In midst of mortal pain, He prayed for them that did the wrong jj Who follows in His train?” Jesus is such a wonderful Lord, so gra cious, so faithful, so mighty, that neither tribulation, distress, persecution, death nor life, things present nor things to come, shall separate us from His love. Though Stephen was stoned by men, he could ask the Lord Jesus to receive his spirit, which the Lord did, and thus Stephen fell asleep in Jesus.
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