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CAN INFLATION BE CONTROLLED? [Continued from Page 9]
N O T E S on C h r is t ian End eavo r FOR YOÜNG PEOPLE
save in. Pharaoh’s granaries. God used that famine and the distress that ac companied it to exalt His own name, to bring the children of Israel together, as one people; to preserve the nation in a time of great diftress, and to set the stage for the Passover so as to clearly illustrate the redemptive work of Christ. The second inflationary incident to which we.direct attention is found in 2 Kings 6 and 7. Here, too, a famine was experienced, and Samaria was beseiged by the King of Syria. So great was the.inflation that followed (resulting from war and famine) that an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver and the fourth,part of a cab of dove’s dung 'for five pieces of silvèr. There comes a time when even silver and gold cannot buy food. The situation became so desperate that two women entered into one of the most awful contracts ever entered into by two people. They agreed that one would give her son to be eaten ■on one'day, and the other would give lier son to be eaten on the morrow. When the second woman failed to go through with thé contract, the first woman cried to the King of Israel for revenge. The King rent his clothes, blamed the situation upon Elisha the prophet, and vowed to bring about his death. In 2 Kings‘ 7 we read of heaven’s interposition at that hour of dire distress. It is one of the glorious chapters of the Word of God. Read it. It has a message for today as well. Since we have a God who sees to it that the fowls of the air are fed, though they do not have a barn to store food, nor are they able to sow seed in the earth and wait for a har vest, what Christian will arise to say that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is unable to do the same for us in this hour of' our crisis? Possibly further difficulties than(any of us previously have witnessed or imagined will take place. What then? Is He not able to deliver as He did in Elisha’s day? Who knows but that deliverance will come from heaven tomorrow through the .voice of the archangel and the trump of-God, and all the believing host will hear the cry, “Come up hither.” GOSPEL TENTS CANV A S TABERNACLES M ETAL SEAT ENDS SMITH MFG. CO., I) ALTOS, GA. 40 Years in Business________
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The Writers February 1 and 22—MORENA HOLMES DOWNING
Mrs. Downing (Morena M. Holmes, B. Chr. Ed. ’40). has been a leader of Martures Bible Clubs for girls and young women and has served in deputation work among young people’s, groups. In recent months she has been assisting in the work at the Honolulu home of the Naviga tors Christian Service Men, a group of U. S. Navy men in which her husband, James W. Downing, is a leader. A graduate of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in the Class of 1939, Mr. Hightower has been serving among young men of the, U. S. Navy, the Marine Corps, and the U. S. Army, at San Diego, Calif., where he and Mrs. Hightower, (Helen L. Brundage, ’39) have been in charge of the Naviga tors Christian' Service Men’s home for that area.
February 8 and 15—RICHARD'W. HIGHTOWER
FEBRUARY 1, 1942 FELLOWSHIP W ITH CHRIST’S PEOPLE ' R omans 12:1-5 By Morena Holmes Downing Introduction One o f the richest and sweetest parts of our heritage as blood-bought children of God is the fellowship that we have with other Christians. In many an Army Camp ,a young recruit is hungry to find a “buddy” who “speaks his language.” Uncle Sam’s Navy has men who are eager to know others who love the Lord and His Word. Missionaries in lonely out- stations count -the hours precious spent with those who know how to pray. Christians everywhere — on board ship, or on train or bus or plane—in all phases of life, long for the touch of a life in touch with Him! And yet, how easy it is to take these privileges simply as a matter of course! A careless, unthinking re gard of our relations one to the other can rob Christians of joy. Our Lord knew—and He knows—the small things in human associations t h a t make for congeniality or for irritabil ity. He saw the poison of petty jeal ousies, the sting of unkind words, the ache of a trust misplaced. But He knew how it could be overcome! So He said to His disciples, “A new com mandment I give unto ydu, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to an other” (John 13:34, 35). Young person eager to make Christ known, is your “identification badge” of love for other Christians easily seen?
For Those Who Have Topics I. PERSONS INVOLVED IN CHRIS TIAN FELLOWSHIP (Rom. 12:1). Raul addresses the “brethren” in this portion. As in the natural sense, brothers belong to the same family, so it is in the spiritual—those who are born into the family of God by sim ple faith in His Son are His sons (John 1:12). This is the only broth erhood of man that we find in the Word of God. But in this brotherhood are those of all nations, tongues, and tribes. Position, wealth, talent make no difference. “The ground is level at the foot of the cross.” Coming by way of Calvary, men are no longer “strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God” (Eph. 2:19). Fur thermore, they are loved by .Him (2 Thess. 2:13), and they are workers not only together but “workers to gether with him” (2 Cor. 6:1). How ever, there is a basic condition for complete fellowship with Christ and His people, and that is the full sur render set forth in Romans 12:1. II. POWER IMPARTED FOR CHRIS TIAN FELLOWSHIP (v. 2). It is an unloyely truth—but a truth nevertheless—that the natural man is born in conformity to the world and its sin and greed. Before there can ever be genuine peace, harmony, love, and other Christian graces, that man must become a “new ■ creature” in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. 5:17). Then he must allow One with greater power than himself—unlimited power—to transform his mind, conforming it to the things of God. God in the per son of the Holy Spirit can transform (2 Cor. 3:18); He intercedes for the
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