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loving God who hates their sin. We may be very sure that the woman in this in cident understood that the Lord was not condoning her sin. Because we were once dead in trespasses and sins, we should have a heart of compassion and not one of con demnation. Even the Lord Jesus, the sin less One, was loving in His approach to a disclosure of a very grievous sin. Can we not trust His Spirit to work in us a like ness to Himself in ministering to others for His name’s sake? Helps for the Leader I . P racticing C hrist ’ s L ove The one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. What makes a man a good cricketer? Practice. What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good musician? Practice. What makes a man a good linguist, a good stenographer? Prac tice. . . . If a man does not exercise his arm, he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he ac quires no muscles in his soul, no strength of character, no vigor of moral fiber, nor beauty of spiritual growth. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is rich, strong, manly, vigorous expression of the whole round Christian character — the Christlike nature in its fullest development. And the constituents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless prac tice.— H en ry D r u m m o n d . II. S tu d y in g t h e W ord A gentleman in Bristol, in his last inter view with George Muller (says Dr. Dins- dale T . Young), said, “Excuse me, but how many times have you read the Bible through?” “Well,” George Muller replied, “ as you ask me, I may say that I have read it through sixty-six times, and I am now go ing through it for the sixty-seventh time, and it gets more interesting and sweet every time I read it.” That is the testimony of all Bible lovers. —Sunday School Times. III. C hrist ’ s C on stan cy Fair-weather friends vanish when we most need them; not so the “ friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” ‘-‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” but “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” How constant His love! He knew that Thomas would doubt and Peter deny, that all would forsake Him; yet He loved them to the end. Make His acquaintance. You will need Him . . . Claim His friend ship now; take the outstretched hand! —D. J. B urrell . Prayer Requested for Guam Writing from 1095 Spencer Street, Hono lulu, T . H., Mrs. Alice Price Logan re quests prayer for the missionaries at work on the island of Guam and for Scrip ture translation in this needy field. “ Guam is one of the most important stations in all the mission world,” she writes. “ It is full of worldliness”—and stands in need of the gospel of the Saviour’s love.
SEPTEMBER 26, 1937 FOLLOWING THE PRACTICES OF JESUS L u k e 4:16; J ohn 8:1-11 Meditation on the Lesson Last Sunday we considered the teachings of Jesus Christ in the light of modern needs, and we learned from Scripture that it was an impossibility for any individual to accept and truly follow the teachings of Christ without accepting Him first as Saviour. The same principle applies to the prac tices of Jesus Christ. It is self-evident that a human being could never imitate in his daily living the actions of One who was deity incarnate, for He knew no sin; He was God whose character is .surpassingly holy and righteous. By no amount of striv ing could we ever approximate His perfect, sinless, divine life which was expressed in faultless conduct and practice. But there is true comfort for us in the knowledge that Jesus Christ understands all the tests that we meet. “We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without-sin” (Heb. 4:15). The Lord Jesus Christ came to this earth for one purpose: “to seek and to save that which was lost” (Lk. 19:10). Having laved those whom He sought, He imparts new life to them, for He came that we might have life—everlasting life, which be gins when He is accepted as Saviour. Un til then, we are "dead in trespasses and , sins” (Eph. 2:1), hopelessly impotent and unable to meet the demands of the law which requires righteousness like that which the Lord Jesus Christ exemplified. Through our acceptance of the One who died to bridge the gap where we have fallen short, the God of righteousness in the person of the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us. Then another nature is given to us which enables us “to will and to do of his good pleasure.” The practice of the Lord Jesus set forth in Luke 4:16 claims our inspection and emulation. W “e read that it was His custom to go into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and to read the Scriptures. In coming to earth, He had definitely limited Himself to live as a human being, subject to all the needs experienced by mankind. He knew the place and the source of power from His Father; He knew that God had or dained houses of worship, and had pro vided a sufficient revelation of Himself in the Word. Although the Lord Jesus Christ was the Incarnate Word, He relied upon the written law of God for His direction, for He realized that therein the will of God was expressed. The same source of instruction is available to us today, and we must “ search the Scriptures” to learn of Christ and of the Father’s will. The Word of God also has admonished us concerning “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.”
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The tenderness with which the Lord Jesus dealt with the woman taken in adul tery is a wonderful example of personal work—the method of winning sinners to a
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