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and insults, he pushed away the rebel relative with his foot. No one could blame him for they all knew the wick edness of the man. Services had al ready begun as he moved forward to his seat. Suddenly, it seemed like the voice of God speaking. The minister read the words found in Matthew 18, “Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Jesus 8aith unto him, until 70 times 7.” Con science-stricken, the Kaiser returned to the side of his now repentant broth er who lay sobbing. Raising the dis heveled creature to his feet, he planted a fraternal kiss of brotherhood and forgiveness on his brow. Forever after the formerly wayward brother became his most obedient and trusted helper. Some say that this act of forgiveness was Kaiser Otto’s greatest victory, for it was a triumph over sinful hatred. We can only gain a forgiving heart by going to Calvary and seeing there how much our Lord has forgiven us. “And be ye kind one to another, tender-heart ed, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” (Ephes. 4:32). * * * If absence makes the heart grow fonder, how some people must love church and Sunday school! * * * SEARCH FOR GOLD Through the centuries, civilization has often been spread through man’s search for gold. I t was in the 15th cen tury that the Spaniards entered South America for such conquests, while in 1849 other gold seekers rushed to the new land of California. Two years later, discovery of gold there started the colonization of Australia. One can understand why for just one nugget
HEART POWER Did you know that your heart, if nor mal, beats approximately 100,000 times every day, a million times every ten days, and between 36-38 million times each year? Every hour your heart ex pends enough energy to carry a 150- pound man from street level to the roof of a three-story building. Every day it pushes from 5 to 10 tons of blood, de pending upon the size of your body, through your blood vessels. I f you at tain your allotted threescore and ten years, your heart, in the course of those seven decades, will have exerted enough force to lift the world’s largest battle ship 14 feet out of the water. How wonderful to know that this human heart can be employed to bring God’s redeeming grace and message of eter nal life to spiritually hungry and needy hearts. This is the purpose of Biola which, next year, marks its 60th year of preparing students for world-wide Christian service. * * * He who abandons himself to God will never be abandoned by God. * * * TRUE FORGIVENESS How strangely does destiny move l Years ago when Otto the Great en tered the cathedral of Frankfurt one day to attend services, he was ap proached by a poor, emaciated-looking man dressed in sackcloth. With raised praying hands, the profligate fell pros trate at the monarch’8 feet. The Kaiser suddenly recognized this penitent per son as none other than his own broth er. Normally, one would think such a reunion would be joyful. However, the sovereign couldn’t forget the evil man ner in which his brother had tricked him. Remembering the ill treatment
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