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should bother us most is the day of our life. Ernest Crosby says: So he died for his faith. That is fine— More than most of us do. But stay; can you add to that line That he lived for it too? In his death he bore witness at last As martyr to truth. £ Did his life do the same in the past From the days of his youth? REMEMBER ME “ Remember Me”—what words of grace! Our Savior’s last request; While thoughts of perfect, endless love Possessed and filled His breast. The garden and the cross in view With all their agony,— He sanctified the bread and cup And said, “ Remember Me.” Remember Thee! this feast of love, Thy body and Thy blood, We take in mem’ry, Lord of Thee, The Man, the Mighty God. — From an old hymn book, sent by M. E. Langdon.
that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins accord ing to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne, this Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are all wit nesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and haying re ceived of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear.” Finally we have the manifestation of it, which is works. We read in James 2:21-22, “Was not Abraham our father, justified by works when he offered Isaac, his son, upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect?” Faith always shows itself through •works- It is 'the only way. A man comes forward to the front seat and pro fesses religion. God reads his heart and knows whether or not the pro fession is sincere. We have read his works. He is what he professes to be or is justified before God by faith, but faith must do something. It cannot keep still. It must do something prac tical, and we judge of a man’s sincerity not by his faith but by his works, and so James goes on to say in verses 23 and 24—- “ And the Scripture was ful filled which saith, Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by. works a man is justified and not by-faith only.” The same Abraham of whom Paul speaks as being justified by faith is the Abraham of whom James -speaks as being justified by works. Paul represents him as being justified before God, and James represents him as being justified before man. I repeat, the only way to manifest that we are justifi.ed is through our works. Are we mani festing this justification ourselves? Some people are bothered about the day of their death. The thing that
FIRST BIBLE SCHOOLS Schools for Bible study were organ ized in upper Egypt and Armenia as early as the fourth century. In 1584 there were 743 Sunday Schools in Milan and vicinity. A Sunday School was es tablished at Bath, England, in 1665. They existed in Massachusetts in 1676 and Long Island in 1683. The modern revival of the Sunday School is generally dated from the establishment in Eng land of a Bible school by Robert Raikes in 1870. He was the editor of a weekly paper through whose columns his effort became widely known. There are now in the world over 300,000 Sunday Schools. Of these about 150,000 are in the United States. LET NO MAN TAKE THY CROWN!
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