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lived in conscious constant partnership with God. “If God be your partner, make your plans large,” he wrote on the margin of his Bible .—Great Texts and Their Treat ment. III. U nion W ith C hrist 1. Abiding in Jesus is not fixing our atten tion on Christ, but it is being one with Him . . . A man is abiding just as much when he is sleeping for Jesus as when he is awake and working for Jesus. Oh, it is a very sweet thing to have one’s mind just resting there!—J. H udson T aylor . 2 . The Christian life is not an engagement by contract between the Master and His servant. It is the union of two h ea rth s that of the Saviour and the saved—by the endearing ties o f the most intimate love. —G. B. F. H allock . IV. T he W ork of the D ivine C hrist Imagine one without genius and devoid of the artist’s training, sitting down before Raphael’s famous picture o f the Trans figuration and attempting to reproduce it. How crude and mechanical and lifeless his work would be! But if such a thing were possible, that the spirit of Raphael should enter into the man and obtain mastery of his- mind and eye and hand, it would be entirely possible that he could paint this masterpiece; for it would simply be Raphael reproducing Raphael. And this, in a mystery, is what is true of the disciple filled with the Holy Spirit. Christ by the Spirit dwells within him as a divine life. And Christ is able to image forth Christ from the interior life of the outward ex ample.—A. J. G ordon . SEPTEMBER 20, 1936 THE LAW OF LOVE WORKS 1 S amuel 24:1-22 Meditation on the Lesson In the account assigned for our lesson, there is adventure, excitement, danger, drama, and mercy—all woven together in such a story as could be written only by ■ one who was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Saul, the king, is seen going out with three thousand men to hunt David who had only about six hundred (cf. 23:13; 24:2). flow unevenly matched were the two companies! David and his men were hiding in a great cave near the Dead Sea, at a place called Engedi. They were evi dently far back in the darkness of the cave when Saul entered and prepared to lie down to sleep. Surely this circumstance offered to David an opportunity for revenge. It would seem that David’s men were right when they said to him: “Be hold the day of which the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee.” But David would not hurt “the Lord’s anointed.” Drawing near as Saul slept, David merely cut off a piece of Saul’s robe, yet even that action caused David’s heart to be troubled. The subject of the lesson would imply that love for Saul was the actuating mo tive that hindered David from harming the king. But David’s own statements would lead us to believe that it was his love for God which really influenced him. “He said unto his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my mas ter, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed o f the Lord.” In the last analysis,
the results are the same. If we love God supremely, we will love our fellow men. We will find that the law o f love works in human relations when first of all we are obedient to God. Love and humility are always eloquent. Saul was deeply impressed by David’s act o f deference. He “lifted up his voice, and wept,” and he said to David, “ Thou art more righteous than I . . . For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day” (17-19). The believer may safely wait God’s time for his deliverance or advancement. He need not—indeed he must not—seek to hurry matters over which God has control. And the Christian who shows genuine love for his enemies—because the love o f the Lord overflows in his heart—will find that bitter antagonism often gives way to con fession and surrender. How effective is the law of love ! In the convict who stood before him, and who was about to be pardoned, Gov ernor Stewart o f Missouri recognized a shipmate under whom he had served once as cabin boy. Addressing the convict, the governor said: “I want you to promise me that you will never again take a stick of wood and drive a sick boy out o f his berth on a stormy night, for some day that boy may be governor, and you may want him to pardon you for another crime. I was the boy whom you cast out one night. Here is your pardon.”—S elected . II. T he R eply of the P olished S hoes When in Egypt some years ago holding meetings among soldiers, J. Stuart Holden asked a big sergeant in a Highland regi ment—a man who was as bright and shin ing for the Lord as it is possible for a saved soldier to be—how he was brought to Christ. The soldier’s answer was this: “There is a private in the same company who was converted in Malta before the regiment came on to Egypt. We gave that fellow an awful time. One night, a ter ribly wet night, he came in . . . very tired and very wet, and before getting into bed he got down to pray. My boots were heavy with wet and mud, and I let him have one on one side of the head and the other on the other side; and he just went on with his prayers. Next morning I found those boots beautifully polished and standing by the side o f my bed. That was his reply to me, and it just broke my heart; I was saved that day’’-^-Sunday at Home. III. T he R oad of the L oving ' H eart A few months before the death of Robert Louis Stevenson, certain Samoan chiefs whom he had befriended while they were under imprisonment for political causes, and whose release he had been in strumental in effecting, testified their gratitude by building an important piece o f road leading to Mr. Stevenson’s Samoan country house, Vailima. At a corner of the road there was erected a notice, prepared by the chiefs and bearing their names, which reads : “The Road of the Loving Heart. Re membering the great love of his highness, Tusitala, and his loving care when we were in prison and sore distressed, we have prepared him an enduring present, this road which we have dug to last forever.” : ,—J. A. H ammerton . Helps for the Leader 1. P ardoned N evertheless
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