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That is true Christianity which enables even the poor to become givers and even the rich to become receivers. —o— Never be ashamed to own that you have been in the wrong, which is but saying that you are wiser today than you were yesterday. — o — N o power can make a man do wrong without his own consent. Sinners are all consenters. — o — W e are enjoined to take no thought of tomorrow. But it won’t work if the note at the bank is due. —o— There is never a moment’s truce between virtue and vice. — o — The Spirit of God has to live with many people that you can’t. :—o— *>---- ^----------------------------------------------- «f £ READY BIBLE OUTLINES | “ The Father, Which Seeth in Secret” (Matt. 6:4-6) Our secret thoughts. The Lord, knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law. Psalm 94: U, 12. Our secret sins. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Psalm SI :4. Our secret deeds. Who will render to every man accord ing to his deeds. Rom. 2:6.' Our secret, longings. . For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. Psalm 10/ :9. Our secret prayers. O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. Psalm 65:2. By what we are .... That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst o f a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the Gospel; So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places. Phil. 1: 12, 13. world. Phil. 2:15. By what we suffer.
“Master, wilt Thou keep us, By Thy grace divine’; .: Always on the Lord’s side— Saviour, always Thine.” —o— Seven Words of Comfort
S EARCH -L IGHTS FROM THE WORD By Dr. G. Campbell Morgan (Permission Fleming H. Revell Co.) '
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Above. ■ • Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth be neath : there is none else. Deut. 4 :39. Around. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is. round about his people from henceforth even for ever. Psalm 125:2. Before. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night. Ex. 13:21. Beneath. The eternal God is thy refuge, and un derneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; ahd shall say, Destroy them. Deut 33 :2 7. Behind. And the angel of God, which went be fore the camp o f Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them. Ex. 14:19. With. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be, not dismayed: for I am thy G od: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Isa. 41:10. Within. Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Jn. 14:23. —o— The Death Knell Deut. 32:35. 1. The Inexorable Judgment—To Me belongeth vengeance and recompense. 2. The Inescapable calamity—Their foot shall slide in due time. 3. The Immediate punishment—For the day of their calamity is- at hand. 4. The Impending doom—And the things that shall come upon them make haste. —George E. Hall. Every fourth child born into the world, looks into the face of a Chinese mother; every fourth pair given in marriage, plight their troth in a Chinese cup of wine; every fourth orphan weeping through the day, every fourth widow wailing through the watches o f the night, is in China; every fourth person who comes to die is a Chinese.
“ The Child is Not Dead, But Sleepeth” (Mark 5 :40) In these words we discover our Lord’s outlook upon death. There was no doubt whatever that the maiden was dead as to her bodily being, her earthly conscious ness. Christ’s outlook on personality was such that He took in the whole fact. Death of the body was not cessation of being. The child was not dead'. She was alive. As to her consciousness of earthly things, she was asleep. Perchance Hier. father and mother had often looked upon her in her sleep in days o f health. While she was asleep, she was quite uncon scious that they were near her, and they could not communicate with her, save by ending the condition of sleep. Jesus told them that this was so now. From ordi nary sleep they could have wakened her. From this deeper slumber, they could not. But He could'; and that is what He pres ently did. He used the same words to describe actual bodily death in the case o f Lazarus, until the dullness of His disciples compelled Him to say plainly, “ Lazarus is dead.” This outlook upon death is full of com fort. Our Lord always stands by our dead and' says to u s: “ Not dead but sleeping.” He does not always waken them. Indeed He rarely did so in His earthly ministry. Such waking would mean for them return to all life’s fitful feverishness. Still they are not dead, and one glad day He will waken them again to bodily consciousness in a new and bet ter order. Then we shall gain them, and with them be forever with Him. *•----- :------------------------ ;---------------------
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