THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS (4) The BLESSED called. Rev. 19:9. (5) The BLESSED raised. Rev. 20:6. (6) The BLESSED keeper. Rev. 22:7. (7) The BLESSED doer. Rev. 22:14. — J. Wilson Brown. SECOND COMING OP CHRIST The impossibility of getting rid of it. It is bound up with the doctrine of— Atonement—Heb. 9:28. On the day of atonement, after the sacrifice was offered, the priest went within the veil (presence of God) to make atonement. It was not really made at the altar, but within the veil. The atonement was not called com plete until the priest returned. Christ has gone within the veil (Heb. 7:25) to appear for us. Until He returns we do not reap the full benefits of His atoning work. Reliever’s perfection— 1 Jn. 3:2. The perfecting of our relations to God as sons awaits His coming. Corruptibility overcome— 1 Cor. 15¡BI SS; Col. 3:4; 1 Thess. 4:16-17. Not changed from corruption to inoor- ruption until He comes. ^eliverance of creation from the curse — Rom. 8:19-23; Isa. 35:1-2. P*xhortation to consistent living— 1 Pet. 1:13; 2 Tim. 4:1-2; 1 Jn. 3:3; 2:28; Titus 2:12-13. fulfillment of Israel’s promises—Rom,. 11:25-27; Eze- 11:17-20; 20:40-42. C ° d ’s victory over Satan—Rev. 19:11; . 20:3. —K. L. B.
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another, and two or three more, till they were rolling all over the floor. Mother laughed. “ ‘Now, Daniel,’ she said, ‘I’m going to teach you a lesson.’ “ So she put my little hands tight around one apple. “ ‘There,’ she said, ‘bring that and then fetch another.’ “ I’ve often thought about it when I’ve seen folks who might be doing ever so much good if they didn’t try to do too much at once. Don’t go try ing to put your arms around a year! And don’t you go troubling about the next week. Wake up in the morning and think like this: , “ ‘Here’s another day come. What ever I do and whatever I don’t do, Lord, help me to do this: help me to live to Thee!’ ” Give Him Yourself The other day a little girl told me she was going to give her father a pair of slippers on his birthday. “ Where will you get your money?” I asked. She opened her eyes wide and she said, “Why, father will give me the money." And just for half a minute I was si lent as I thought the dear man would buy his own birthday present. And the father loved his little girl for her gift, although he had to pay for it. She had not anything in the world that he had not given her. We have not any thing of our own to give to Jesus Christ. We" can only give Him back what belongs to Him.— The Youth’s Counsellor. Opportunities Forever Lost When the Lord comes and we are called unto the judgment seat of Christ, some of us will have a long, hard time of it in trying to explain to Him why we didn’t do more and betteF service. We can hoodwink the ministers of the Gospel and make them believe that we have done our whole duty, but we cam not fool the eyes of Omniscience. We
MONTHLY ILLUSTRATIONS Do One Thing Well
“ I can remember once,” says an old man, “ when I was a little boy, helping mother to store away apples, I put my arm around ever so many of them, and tried to bring them all. I managed a step or two. Then out fell one, and
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