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June 1928
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J une 10, 1928 T ext: Isa. 1:17
Illustrated Daily Text Interesting Stories from Everyday Life
Emily P. Leakey.tells the following: “Do cut that miserable little rose tree down,” said a thoughtless friend. ' “ It has never had a flower.” “ No, dear friend,” I exclaimed,;‘T will not; it may come to blossom yet,” and so it has this year. It has fifty roses on it that I counted myself with such joy, and they go on coming out. This makes me think o f some poor soul who has not yet come to Jesus Christ for salvation, and the life may appear utterly use less, but when he or she does know Christ, they will each one bear many roses for the Lord, drawing others to tflinlj: of Him and bless His Name. Yes, dear friends, think o f the rose tree that in due time brought forth roses to cheer others. “ I was sitting in the gloamin’,” says Harry Lauder, “ an’ a man passed the window. He was the lamplighter. He pushed his pole into the lamp and lighted it. Then he went to another and another. Now, I couldna’ see him. But I knew where he was by the lights as they broke out doon the street, until he had left a beautiful avenue of light. “ Ye’re a’ lamplighters. They’ll know where ye’ve been by the lights. Ye’ll want your son to be a noble man. Let him say wi’ pride when you’ve passed o n : ‘Ma faither lit that lamp.’ “ The first burst o f light that the world had was the lamp lit by Jesus, or rather He was the light Himself. He said truly, II am the Light o f the world.’ Ye’re in His succession. Be care ful how ye bear yoursel’s.” Silvester Horne tells how one day a friend took him for a delightful motor ride in Norfolk^ and as he was enjoying the exhilaration of sailing smoothly through glorious scenery and invigorating sea breezes at thirty-five miles an hour, he said to his host S ‘Thisr-is perfectly gorgeous—but what do we rely on ultimately for our safety?” And his friend replied: “ On some obscure anonymous mechanic. If he put his conscience into his work we are all right—but if he was a slacker, something may come loose presently and we shall be dead.” I wonder if many people realize that every necessity of life and every pleasure we enjoy is the result o f labor. W e are apt to forget this when things run smoothly. The food appears, the train turns up, the electric light is on tap, the letters'"are delivered, the streets are cleaned, the newspapers are on the table—but we owe it all to working men. . J une 13, 1928 T ext: Eph. 2:3 A young man who had forged a money order on the Chicago Medical College recently appeared before Judge Landis to answer for the crime. His father, a clergyman, championed his cause, and after judgment had been passed upon the case said in his behalf: “Your honor, I don’t believe the boy was responsible. I J une 12, 1928 Text : Jn. 4 :38 J une 11, 1928 T ex t: Jn. S:35
J une 7, 1928 Text: Rom. 2:6-7
We are told that at fifty-five years'of age, Sir Walter Scott owed more than six hundred thousand dollars. He determined! that every dollar should be paid. This definite resolution gave confidence and inspiration to every faculty he possessed. Every nerve seemed to say, “ The debt must be paid.” . Every drop of blood' caught the inspiration and rushed to the brain to add its weight o f force to the:power that wielded the pen. And the debt was paid. In his diary he wrote: “ I have suffered terribly and often wished that I could lie down and sleep without waking, but I will fight it out.” He did. Following that worthy aim, he made his name immortal.
J une .8, 1928 T ext: Jn. 6:44
A very striking method is now successfully employed for raising the cargoes of sunken vessels. A huge electro-magnet, operated' from the deck o f the vessel, is lowered to the sub merged cargo, and if it be of a character subject to the-influence o f magnetism, it is attracted and lifted by this power, and thus easily saved. There is a power from on high which came to seek and save that which was. lost. Down in the murky depths o f the waters of sin this magnet of love draws to itself sinful souls, and lifts them by its power to the bright sunlight and pure air above.
J une 9, 1928 T ext: Prov. 3:9-10
The story is told of a Scotchman and his wife who went to a missionary meeting. It had been well advertised that there was to be a silver collection. John put a shilling in his waistcoat pocket, and' a sovereign in his hip pocket; and he went to the meeting with his mind made up that if he was moved by what he heard he would put the sovereign into the collection plate, but if the address were a kind of "milk-and-water affair he would drop in the shilling. The missionary told about his work in the foreign field, and John was sp moved that he put in the sovereign. No sooner was the meeting over than his wife said, “John, what did you do?” “Mary, I put the sovereign in.” “What!” she cried. “And in these hard days, too!” They were getting a little heated, and at last John, said, “Mary, when I put that sovereign in the plate I had the assurance that God would reward me a hundredfold.” Three weeks later the postman brought him a registered letter. Without' stopping to read the 'contents he found' that it contained a check for a hundred pounds. He rushed in to his wife and said, “Mary, didn’t I tell you that the Lord would reward me a hundredfold?” And Mary, with a gentle smile, said, “John, why didn’t you put in two sovereigns?”
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