hope we can go again. While in Turkey we visited the famous Top- kopi Palace in Istanbul. It was ab solutely fabulous to go into room after room after room, filled to overflowing with treasures beyond description. Each room contained some different type of exquisite wealth. One might be the silver- ward of the palace, solid silver, another of the necklaces of the palace, another the dishes of the palace with beautiful gold on each one of the pieces of porcelain. There were gold, diamonds, prec ious jewels to be seen encrusted in everything. Millions upon mil lions of dollars are in this decaying palace which has become a mu seum in Istanbul. One, however,
cannot help but be confronted by the seeming incongruity found just outside the palace wall. As you leave the grounds, you see people in the most abject poverty; men and women as well as boys and girls obviously in need of mone tary help, begging support, physi cally and perhaps mentally disin herited. All of that money in the museum and yet so much poverty just outside the walls. How often is it that we, as Cod's children, live in this same fashion? The storehouses of the Lord are readily available to us. All we have to do is ask, and to meet the con ditions, of course, which God has set down. What is your personal relationship to Him today?
Student Missionary Union outreach secretary, Marilyn Townsend; and Chuck Briggs, outreach director have been busy this year planning for the SMU team programs.
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