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keep it and I know it will be safe in your hands. Take it, B— and don’t give me pain by refu sing it. Fellowship in Victory. A company of believers were sitting tog eth er contemplating th e coming glory of Christ. Said one of them , “C h rist is now m aking up H is body, and if you had choice, w h at p a rt of th a t would you p refer to be?’ One said, “A member nearest th e head.” ano th er “ near th e h e a rt,” ano th er p re ferred to be th e strong arm , u n til fin ally an old lady, who had remained silent, was asked, “Auntie, w h at p art of th e Lord’s body would you p refer to be?” She replied, to th e ir surprise, “ I would like to be th e heel.” “Why th e h eel?” they asked. She replied, “Be cause th e Lord Jesus will bruise Satan D uring a v isit to th e continent, Dr. Duff mpke th e acquaintance of Cardinal W iseman and for some tim e traveled w ith him , b u t when a t Antwerp he saw th e cardinal p ro strate him self before th e Virgin, he bade him courteously, b u t firmly, “ Good-bye.” As Chas. Dickens said in his letters, “ I don’t know w heth er I have men tioned before, th a t in th e Valley of Simplon, h ard by here, where (a t th e bridge of St. Maurice, over th e Rhone) th is P ro te sta n t canton ends and a Cath olic canton begins, you m ight separate two perfectly distinct and different con ditions of hum an ity by draw ing a line w ith your stick in the dust on the ground. One th e P ro te sta n t side, n eat ness, cheerfulness, industry, education, continual aspiration, a t least, afte r b etter things. On th e Catholic side, d irt, disease, ignorance, squalor and m isery.” Twenty-four Honrs of Fellowship. , A C hristian soldier, wounded in the Boer war, had every particle of feeling tak en from him. He was completely paralyzed. The only sense he had left und er H is heel sho rtly .” No Fellowship With Idols.
was sight. A friend by signs was able to converse w ith him and asked one day if God was real to him. He prom ptly replied, “ I have tw enty-four hours of sweet fellowship w ith God every day.” We are "called unto th e fellowship of H is Son.” 1 Cor. 1:9. v. 11. In w hatsoever sta te I am . . . content. We may no t be contented w ith our circum stances b u t we may be contented in them . We may always be contented w i t h COMMENTS FROM Christ and if He MANY SOURCES is w ith us, we K eith L. B rooks may be content ed in spite of circumstances.— K. B. We are sover eign over nothing un til we are sovereign over circum stances.— Sel. It is a mis erable th ing to be hanging on externals and so to be always exposed to th e pos sibility of having to say, “They have tak en away my gods.”— Maclaren. This is a special act of grace, to accommo d ate ourselves to every condition of life and carry an equal tem per of m ind th rough all varieties of our state.— Henry. Contentm ent w ith today’s lot makes candidacy for a b etter lo t tomor row.— P ark h u rst. It is well to be con te n t w ith w h at we have b u t never w ith w h at we are. To be content w ith little is difficult b u t to be content w ith much is impossible.— Eschenbach. Content m ent does no t trav el w ith fo rtune but w ith godliness.— Sel. My God, give me n eith er poverty nor riches b u t what soever it may be Thy wil) to give, give me w ith it a h e a rt which knows humbly to acquiesce in w hat is Thy will.— Scriver. There are times when we ought not to be content w ith our state bu t we always ought to be content in our sta te even when we are try ing to get out of th a t sta te into a b etter one. A man who has Christ dwelling w ithin will be independent of his environment. Torrey.
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