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party pointed to a demure little frame structure that stood out welcomingly. “ T o a morning like this, a church just seems to belong, doesn’t it?” There were nods of assent, Eager hands pressed against the slightly sagging door and found that it yielded willingly. The building was empty, save for One unseen. From the hearts of the tiny “congregation,” praise welled up. Familiar lines of Cas well came'to mind: “When morning gilds the skies, My heart awaking cries, ’ May Jesus Christ be praised.” Somebody started a hymn, and the group joined in heartily. Informally, some one else, in line with the thought of the others, turned to John 21 ,and read aloud of that earlier day on which “ when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore” and “saith . . . , Children, have ye any meat?” For the ones who listened, Resur rection Bay became as the Sea of Tiberias. One met them there who greeted them and fed them with food for the Soul. O f Him they could say, as Peter earlier had testi fied, “ It is the Lord.” Back to the ship the little; company started. In a few hours, southbound,' the “ Baranof” began its return trip. All who were aboard had received some measure of rest, of change, of information. Some had formed friendships which eternity will enrich— friendships born of obedience to a dear Voice: “ Come ye yourselves apart . . . , and rest a while.”
light, trust at night, and trust in the morn ing, and you will find that the faith that may begin perhaps by a mighty effort, will end, sooner or later, by becoming the easy and natural habit of the soul. — H a n n a h W h itall S m ith . An inactive faith is the mere corpse of religion.— M ayor . APRIL 27 Guarding the Heart "Little children, guard yourselves from idols” (1 John ;5:21, R. V .), Idols— images of evil things— disturb the heart, excite the passions, awaken the ap petites, and very soon overwhelm the soul in a mischief which may be irrecoverable. “ Guard yourselves from idols.” “ Flee from idolatry,” writes another apostle. . . . If we go back to the Old Testament, we shall have Solomon warning to us to keep “our feet” and “ heart” ; and this is the great secret of all keeping, if the heart be kept. Let us see to it that we stand upon the watch and remain as warders at the gate. Good soldiers of Jesus Christ should never shrink from sentinel’s work.—J. B. F iggis . APRIL 28 A Living Miracle “ The heathen shall know that l am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when 1 shall be sanctified in you before their eyes” (Ezek. 36:23). My desire, my purpose under God, is to live the life which is the outstanding mir acle of the present age, a life supernatu- rally indwelt, supernaturally transformed, and supernaturally conformed. For such a life the divine provision is all-sufficient. The cross calls loudly to you, to us, to all the saved, to live daily this life. This above all miracles is the one the world needs most to see.—A. E. B ishop . APRIL 29 Burning and Shining "He was a burning and a shining lamp” (John 5:35, R. V .). Observe, John as God’s lamp not only burned, but shined. A lamp may burn without shining, owing to foulness or the need of oil. John “ was a burning and a shining lamp.” So may we be. Chrysostom remarks: “ He called John a torch or lamp: signifying that he had not light of himself, but by the grace of the Spirit.” Our divine Lord will supply both oil and cleansing to make us shine brightly and be useful if we will but ask Him.— R obert L ee . "I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God” (Rev. 3:12). I bought a book, and, lest some friend Should doubt my right of property, I wrote upon the clean new page The address and the name of me. So Christ has bought me with His blood, And written on my heart the same— His place, the New Jerusalem; Jehovah God, His glorious Name. — O pal L eonore G ibbs . APRIL 30 His Ownership
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travelers might take this trip, and play and laugh and exclaim over all the wonders of it. They might even get into fog, and out again. But when Christians travel to gether, they see brought before them spirit ual lessons at every turn.” She glanced about the group. “ How many others are thinking as I am?” she wondered. “Perhaps several are; perhaps only a few. He knows—the Saviour-Captain—He surely knows 1” . On Resurrection Bay Stretched out comfortably on the shores of beautiful Resurrection Bay, Seward, Alaska, lay dozing. The hour was not yet four o’clock, but already morning light, with that soft radiance peculiar to sum mertime in the North, was touching the snow of the surrounding “ sugar-loaf” moun tains and playing mischievously with the blue quietness of the bay. Unostentatiously, with the consideration of a guest arriving too early, the “ Baranof” made port. When the gangplank was lowered, eight or ten passengers imme diately disembarked. Tw o were children; among the others were a minister, a teacher, and a woman old enough to be a grand mother. They had not met that morning by prearrangement. Their voices muted for no special reason at all, they walked up and down the quaint short streets of the little town in the solemn silence of the early hour. “Why, there’s a church!’!; One of the
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