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J a n u a r y 10, 1928 Text: Mark 10:13-14
“Best” Books On Personal Ethics-—or Correct Christian Living
When Rev. Thomas Collins was' born, his father, John C. Collins, took him in his arms, put his left arm around the Bible, and put a pencil in his little fingers, and knelt down to give him to God, to bless his labors by word and pen. In after years this child grew to be a preacher, setting everything afire with his wonderful message. If more infants were sincerely and truth fully dedicated to God, and the dedication followed up by faith ful parental care and instruction, there would be more flaming firebrands for God and the right. Off from St. Augustine, Florida, is a revolving lighthouse, three hundred and sixty feet high. It has six sides. The glass is polished every day by the keeper, and through the clean glass the light gleams out for miles on the ocean to guide the mariner. When you enter the room of that lighthouse, the first thing the keeper says is: “Don’t touch the glass.” Keep the lenses of your life clean, my brother. “Let your light so shine!” Dr. J. B. McFerrin was General Bragg’s chaplain at the battle of Missionary Ridge. He found a Union captain wounded, on a cool November day of 1863. He knelt by his side, with Bible in hand, and said: “Captain, I am a Rebel chaplain and you are a Yankee soldier, but you are dying. God is our Father, and we are brothers. Let me read His word to you.” The wounded soldier said, “Oh, I am so thirsty, -so thirsty. Please give me a drink.” McFerrin dropped his Bible at his side and ran to the nearest water and brought him a drink in his hat. After he had slaked his thirst, McFerrin said: “Now let me read to you.” He said, “Oh, I am so coldl'l McFerrin took his own overcoat off and folded it around the soldier as tenderly as a mother "ever tucked the bed clothing about a child. Then the dying soldier looked up, with the tears trickling down his pale cheeks, and said: “Now, Chaplain, if there is anything in that Bible that tells why you, a Rebel chaplain, have treated me, a Yankee soldier, in this way, read that to me before I die.” A venerable colored minister who had been pleading earnest ly for foreign missions, closed with these words: “Bredren, I’ve heard-of churches dat’s dyin’ of ’spectability, I’ve heard of a church where de souls of de people is all shriveled up with self ishness, and I’ve heard of lots of churches like a barren desert, with no livin’ waters, no waters of ’freshment runnin’ in ’em, ’cause dey refuse to do de Lord’s will. But, bredren, who ever heard of a church dat died ’cause it did what de Lord said? Neber! Neber, bredren! Ef anybody would tell me of such a church in all dis wide universe, I’d make a pilgrimage to dat church, I would climb up its ivy-mantled walls, and to de top of dat temple, and say, ‘Blessed are de dead dat die in the Lord.’” Rowland Hill, the great English preacher, met face to face a very rich man and preached to him Christ and Him crucified. The rich man was very much interested, but seemed to be blind to everything the powerful preacher said. He pressed the accep tance of Christ on him. The man kept saying, “I cannot see it I do not understand it.” Rowland Hill took out of his pocket a pencil and paper and wrote on it the word “Christ” and held it up J a n u a r y 11, 1928 Text: Matt. 5:14-16 J anuary , 12, 1928 Text: John 13:34-35 1 t J a n u a r y 13, 1928 Text:. Luke 24:46-48 J a n u a r y 14, 1928 Text: Mark 10:25-27
The Romance O f Right Living
The Building of Character
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By H enry H ow ard T his is a volum e of sh o rt, expository serm ons fo r boys an d girls in w hich th e appeal of Bible exposition is enhanced by the call of ad v en tu re and th e challenge of courage. These serm ons rep resen t a d istin c t ad v an ce in th e a rt of p re a ch ing to th e y o u th of th e C hurch. They lay th e foundation fo r a real u n d erstan d in g of the Bible. C loth $1.50
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