Sentence Sermons "It is better to fill a little place right than a big place wrong." * "Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving." * " It is not how long you live but for whom you live that counts." * * * "What a nation does on Sunday determines what it is the rest of the week." CHR IST 'S LOVE (cont.) answer for there is but one reason; I am here and there is no one to take my place. I just cannot permit this school to fail because of my personal ambi tions.” Friends, you can imagine how I felt when I got this reply. Here was a girl who, all her life, wanted to prepare herself genuinely so she could be what, perhaps, our concept of a real mission ary is. She had given up her dreams. She had given up her ambitions. Here she was in a far away place where few will ever hear of her—perhaps never see her work, but God is using her in the lives of these boys and girls. Day in, day out, no money, no recognition. This is a personal sacrifice to serve Jesus Christ where He has called her, and she has gone gladly, giving up the great desire of her heart. This, l would say, is a real mission ary! * * * "It is better to appreciate things that you do not have than to have things that you do not appreciate." * * * *
That Shall Ye Also Reap We are told to cast our bread upon the waters, for they will return to us with the increase. It was a warm summer day, several decades ago, when a young medical student, selling books in a farming district, stopped at a home and the door was answered by a young girl in response to his knock. In the matter of purchasing books, she had to tell him—“My mother is a widow and we cannot afford to buy anything.” The student was thirsty and he asked if he might have a glass of wa ter before going on his way. The young girl graciously suggested that they had a quantity of cool, fresh milk if he would enjoy that. He of fered to pay for the kindness, but she said, “No, my mother has taught me that a Christian should be kind to strangers.” Years passed. One day a woman was brought into a private room of the hospital with attendant nurses. The patient was too ill to notice any one, but the chief surgeon had rec ognized her and took particular in terest in the case. Weeks passed. One morning the nurse said, “You are going home to morrow.” Of course the woman was happy, but it was obvious that some thing was burdening her. Finally she turned to the nurse and said, “My bill, will you get it—it must be very large.” When she noticed the stag gering amount she wept. “How can I ever be able to pay it?” Then she looked down the lines as the services rendered were listed. A t the bottom of the bill she read the notation, “Paid in fu ll by a glass of milk.” The Lord Jesus says that when we offer a cup of cold water in His name He will honor it. Kindness is not a sign of weakness, it is proof that, as a Christian, our desire is to give a vital and living testimony for Christ. 10
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