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“ YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN” Claim not your life as your own, Chris tian, It does not belong to you; lave not your life out alone, Christian, To others and God he true: He graciously sends you from heaven above This wonderful message of mercy and love, And O, He is waiting His great Word to prove, VYe are not your own,” ye are mine. Bought with the price that He gave, Christian, God whispers, “ Thy soul is mine;” Victor o’er death and the grave, Chris tian, The risen Lord now is thine. And up from the world when He comes in the -air, The Saviour will take thee, His glory to share, Then cease from thy worry and give up thy care, “ Ye are not your own,” ye are mine. Live for the world that is lost, Christian, Let others the good news know; Tell it, though great be the cost, Chris- • tihn, And joy will be thine below; Then when thou Shalt go to Immanuel’s land And see those you’ve helped take the Saviour’s blest hand; Thy heart, full of joy, will His word understand, “ Ye are not your own,” ye are mine. Give unto God what you owe, sinner, You owe Him your heart, your all; While you are living below, sinher, Take heed to His loving call: His promise to save and to keep you is true, In life and in death He will carry you through,
And bought by His blood, hark! He whispers to you, “ Ye are not your own,” ye are mine. Mrs. Geo. Tovey, Upper Fern Tree Gully, Victoria, Australia. (Musical rights reserved.) WHAT A DYING WORLD NEEDS Here is a fine testimony from the Missionary field, taken from the Guate mala News: One of the reasons we have had such marked success in the Guatemala Mis sion, is that we have never got past the Old Book. Instead of befuddling the baby souls of our new converts with in terpretative questions and critical tech nicalities, we keep them so busy with the Bible they have no time for theo logical bubbles and critical sophistica tions. There is enough logic in the ex perience of one twice-born man to smash any hyper-critical system that ever was hatched by a wretched ambi tion that was willing to wreck the king dom of God to win a reputation for being bright. Don Juan over there was a menace, a demon. He is now a benediction, a saint, and he owes it to the plainest surface meaning of the Old Book as interpreted by the commonest kind of common sense. That is the stuff we are preaching and printing. It is what a dying world needs and responds to for it has no use for theoretical re dactions and new schemes. What we need with the Bible is not so much to .analyze and dogmatize it, but to take its big determinative truths and to do what they say. Too much interpretation lands us in the gloomy, unexplored cave of Papal infallibility; and too much analysis, in the dismal swamps of a god less rationalism. We have no use for either in Guatemala.
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