ADVENTURES IN SOUL WINNING By FRANK GRAHAM My home is thirteen miles from our Court House, and we had been here for five years without a telephone. My application had been in for a phone for over four years, although there were some fifteen or more neighbors who were also without this service. After all other known means had failed, I resorted to prayer. I prom ised God that if He would answer my prayers I would use my phone for His service and not to advertise my home number in my real estate ads. In less than two weeks the telephone company called to tell me that I would get my phone on the following Satur day. I have enjoyed it for more than a month now. However, no one else on my road has been able to get one yet. I run an ad like this: “Worried friend, things going bad for you? Tried the world’s way and it has let you down? Now try God’s way. I’ll pray for you and tell you about God’s simple plan of salvation. I’ve been in your shoes. I know Christ now and what He can do for you, too. Call Frank, Ph. days 3-3561, nights 5-2961.” Scarcely a day or night passes but what I get calls from white and col ored, poor and rich, who want to know about the plan of salvation. Since I started writing this letter, a lady called me whose husband is overseas. She has had a great deal of sickness, is out of Christ, and wants God’s plan of salvation. She is on her way now to my real estate office, not to buy a house, but to accept Christ. God is certainly blessing me in this way, and to date I have led 71 to Christ in the five years I’ve been a Christian, and 49 of these this year, since becoming a Gideon. Pray, fellows. It pays off, and then you are not going ahead of God. —The Gideon God was doing a new thing in the world, that the promise of the Father had come. It was a dispensational act of God. And ever since apostolic times, the Holy Spirit has been regenerating sinners who will accept the Lord Jesus, working quietly, even as our Lord foretold. “ The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit” (John 3:8 R.V.). T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S DR. TALBOT S QUESTION BOX (Continued from Page 6)
replied, “ I’ll give him every ham I have in the smokehouse.” —Unknown Happiness multiplies as we divide it with others. —The Gospel Banner Four Important Questions that Demand an Answer One Sunday afternoon some years ago I was in Westminster Abbey. I came to the grave where David Liv ingstone lies, there I read the words, “ Other sheep have I.” As I stood there I asked the Lord some questions which I want you to think about! Who shall bring in those other sheep if we do not offer our feet to go ? How shall they be brought in if our hands are not working to bring them in? How shall they hear if our lips do not speak to them? How shall they know of Your love if our hearts do not love them? —Bishop Taylor Smith Live as if Christ died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back again tomorrow. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming convic tion that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that about me, seemed insufficient for the day. —Abraham Lincoln NOW is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation. —Bible “ This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and un awed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribu tion of its powers uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amend ment, has a just claim to your confi dence and support.” —George Washington, “ Farewell Address”
PATRlOTISM— the nation has no better friend than the mother who lives for Christ and teaches her chil dren to pray. Don'ts for Christians “ Don’t seek a long life, Christ had a short one. Don’t live in luxury, Christ lived and died poor. Don’t live in pleasure, Christ pleased not Himself. Don’t live for fame, Christ made Himself of no reputation. Don’t live at ease, Christ suffered for you the shame and the scourge and the Cross. Don’t lose your opportunity and in herit an eternity of shame and re grets hereafter.” Christ gave the command, “ Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Are you obeying that command? — C. T, Studd He has attained to an eminent de gree of Christian grace, who knows how to wait. The approbation of God is more than the admiration of nations. He Silenced the Devi! If you find yourself getting miserly, begin to scatter, like a wealthy farmer in New York State that I heard of. He was a noted miser but he was con verted. Soon after, a poor man who had been burned out and had no pro visions, came to him for help. The farmer thought he would be liberal and give him a ham from his smoke house. On his way to get it, the tempt er whispered to him: “ Give him the smallest one you have.” He had a struggle whether he would give a large ham or a small ham, but finally he took down the largest he could find. “ You are a fool,” the devil said. “ If you don’t keep still,” the farmer Page Eighteen
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