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lodged at any moment. Reinforce ments did not come and they became anxious and fearful until they re ceived their Commander’s reassuring words, “Hold the fort for I am com- ing.” God calls for His faithful people — you and me—to hold fast in the work for Christ. But His Church, through its born- again believers must raise up a stand ard against the enemy through the power of our risen Lord ’til He come. Passing Through the Fire In thinking through items of in terest that might be known to you, we wonder if you have information relative to the fact that there is a place in the very heart of a flame which is cool and has no movement? Science tells us this is true. If a piece of paper could just get there without having to pass through the ring of fire, it would never burn or be harmed. Do you remember the story of the three Hebrew young men in the fiery furnace? They did not have even the smell of fire upon them. It is always when we are in the center of God’s will that we find perfect peace-, in the secret place of the Most High. This Easter period, the resurrection message is that you need not fear either fire or storm if you are where God wants you to be. The Bible gives this promise to those who are faced with testings and trials today — re member it, “When t h o u walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.” So we need not look for the fire of testings to be removed — rather that we may rest confidently upon the everlasting arms. O u r resurrected Saviour makes the victory and the power possible. 22
"What About Your Faults?" How easy it is to see faults in others that we overlook so quickly in ourselves. When Dr. M. R. ReHaan was a boy he played a trick on his grand father. While the elderly gentleman was having a nap in a favorite chair, the lad got some strong limberger cheese and gently stroked it on his mustache. When grandfather woke up he sniffed and grumbled saying, “This room stinks.” He went out-of- doors and met a neighbor and said to him, “there is something about you that stinks, too.” Finally, un able to get away from the odor, he declared — “The whole w o r l d stinks.” The story illustrates the fact that the smell, all the while, was right under grandfather’s nose. When we become bitter, sour, critical and fault-finding, let us fust stop to examine ourselves. The Bible says, “Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye but con- siderest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” (Matt. 7:3). Faults are like headlights on a car: those of others always seem more glaring than our own. Is Our Christian March Today To Be Historic Tomorrow? Do you ever get tired in doing the same thing and feel you are in a rut? I suppose we have all experienced that and yet, God wants us to remain faithful where we are. History holds the record of a most historic march. Do you remember General Sherman’s March during the Civil War? He had only a small band of soldiers holding a position in ad vance of the main column. The men were about to be dis
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