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true view of our coming Lord.”— R. M. Russell, President Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa. I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. We read part of this chapter (1 Cor. IS) in what we call the “burial service.” It is an unfortunate expression. Paul never talked of “burial.” He said the body was “soivn”—“sown in corruption,” “sown in weakness,” “sown in dishonor,” “sown a natural body.” If 1 bury a bushel of wheat, I never expect to see it again, but if I sow it, I expect re sults. Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!— D. L. Moody. Dr. J. H. Jewett tells how he once called upon a cobbler whose home was in a little seaside town in the north of England. He worked alone in an exceedingly tiny room. “I asked him if he did not sometimes feel oppressed by the imprisonment of his little chamber. ‘Oh, no,’ he replied, ‘if any feel ings of that sort begin I , just open this door.’ And he opened a door leading into another room, and it gave him a glorious view of the sea. The little room was glori fied by its vast revelations.”*;^ Pastor Gossner sent out into the foreign field 144 missionaries. Besides providing outfit and passage, he had never less than twenty missionaries dependent directly up on him for support. How he carried this and his other Christian work, a sentence from the funeral address read over his grave will explain: “He prayed up the walls of a hospital and the hearts of the nurses; he prayed mission stations into being and missionaries into faith; he prayed open the hearts of the rich, and gold from the most distant lands.” Through the courtesy of Mrs. W. L. S., during vacation the teaching Bible woman took fourteen of her weekly high school class to the seaside cottage for a three days’ mission. From the sunrise meeting held by the girls themselves through recreation
The crowning blessing of abiding in Christ is found in the assurance that “herein is my Father glorified.”— J. Hudson Taylor. “The leg you use must grow very tired,” remarked an onlooker to a potter working at his wheel. “No, it’s the leg that does nothing that gets tired,” ' was the reply. And it is the people who do most who are least tired in the Lord’s work. A sailor in a shipwreck was once thrown upoA a small rock, and clung to it, in great danger, until the tide went down. “Say, Jim,” asked his friends after he was res cued, “didn’t you shake with fear when you were hanging on that rock?” “Yes; but the rock didn’t,” was the significant reply. Christ is the Rock of Ages. Adoniram Judson, David Livingstone, John Scudder, Henry Martyn, Samuel Marsdon, John Ludwig Kraff became mis sionaries through reading missionary liter ature. World views on any subject are never taken by the ignorant. As Dean Vaughan has well said: “Know .and you will feel. Know and you will pray. Know and you will help.” Without persistent visitation we would not come in touch with new people in any large numbers, but we know that to an alarming degree homes are poisoned with insidious false doctrines and the necessary entrance with the true gospel message must be made, and made by a woman who loves her Lord and knows how to use the sword of the Spirit. Pray for this visitation work. “I am persuaded that the time has come when the coming of our Lord’ must be placed before the Church as ‘Our Blessed Hope.’ We are living in an evil day, when to some of our most intelligent Christians the conversion of the world seems to be the great hope. I am persuaded that we shall never get a fulcrum adequate for missionary effort until we find it in the
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