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God’s best gifts to us are not things but opportunities. Be thrifty so that you may be gen erous. Some church members are like the old farmer’s pump— dried up in the summer and frozeq. in the winder. No matter how well equipped he may be the man who possesses a guilty con science fights to disadvantage. Many a man counted a fool by finan ciers has laid up in heaven a fortune they would envy. There is no thought that more trans forms a man’s life than the thought that he can tie his life up to the doing of the will of God. Man takes account of our failure but God of our striving. God chastens us with many instru ments but with one hand. There is no step of saintliness that is impossible to you if you have placed yourself in earnest under the discipline of Christ. Our responsibility never can cease so long as we have a life to live for Christ and a whole world still waiting for the Gospel. Humility is the acceptance of the place appointed by God, whether it be in the front or the rear. It is the emptiness of self which God fills. The central fact in the history of man is .Christ; the central fact in the life of men is God. Nothing is great without God. Noth ing is small with God. Faith in God makes all things possi ble. Hope in God makes all things en durable. Love to God makes all things enjoyable. Vice has many names, but it is every where the same departure from God.
Where prayer focuses power falls. Some people have heaven on their ton gue’s end but the world on their finger’s end. Hyprocrites are the greatest dupes the devil has. They serve him better than any other but receive no wages. He is the best teacher who follows his own instruction. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword but not so many as have fallen by the edge of the tongue. A mere profession of Christianity is like the plumes upon the hearse which bears men to their graves. Unhappiness is the hunger to get. True happiness is the hunger to give. To live the resurrection life in Christ is to lead many to believe in Christ as the Resurrection and the Life. The error of religion has been that it undertakes, to explain the Word when its work is to interpret it. If we lived nearer heaven we should have earlier notices of God’s purposes. In warm moments make your good resolution and in cold moments make your resolution good. Only God can prevent the intrusion of the evil past into the experience of the present. Ignorance combined with indifference may be disastrous^ enough, but heaven defend us from ignorance combined with zeal. No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself. Our business, is to do God’s will and God will take care of the business. The way to fill a large space is to glorify a small one. No man is so wise as he who realizes what a fool he is. A smooth sea can never make a skill ful mariner.
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