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Subject Illustration — An overcoming man. One day a carrier pigeon tapped at the window of Mrs. Hansen’s home at Kristiana. Instantly the window open-, ed and the wife of the famous Arctic explorer in another moment covered the little messenger LESSON with kisses and ca- CLLUSTRATIONS resses. The carrier W. H. Pike pigeon had been away from the cot tage thirty long months and had not forgotten the way home. The frail courier darted out into the polar air and flew like an arrow over a thousand miles of frozen waste, and then over another thousand miles of ocean and plain and forest to reach the window of its mistress. Here is overcoming power to deliver its life’s message. Obstacles often make the man. One man, a golf enthusiast, was tell ing another man how hard it was, on a certain course, to drive the ball over a ditch that lay between the tee and the green. “Why don’t they fill up the ditch?” asked the second man. An old lady was watching a game of tennis, and saw how often the ball was driven against the net. “Why don’t they take down the net?” she asked. If the time ever comes when all our ditches of trial are filled up and all our nets of diffi culty are taken down life will not be worth much to us. Praise God for the hard places. They made David. That sling was a part of David. What you do is a part of you. Over in England, not long ago, some one tried to substitute a typewritten page in a document. At the time the court called in an expert on typewriting. He considered the spacing, the position of the paragraphs, the appearance of sin gle letters indicating peculiarities of finger touch, etc. He proved to the satisfaction of the court, that the par ticular page had been written by a young woman, that she was a novice in
THE SECRET OF VICTORY Know God in secret? The outward manifestation of a victorious life is the result of secret victories. We must learn to slay the lion and the hear,— ambition, lust, temper, un kind thoughts. We must never boast. It is a sign of superficiality when a man boasts. The crisis brings out what is in a man,— reveals the principles which gov ern him. Faith was not created in David at this time. David sought the glory of God. So self must be ruled, world overcome, and Satan defeated. Let us go up against the forces of evil in the name of the Lord. Let us remember that back of Peter’s denial, there was sleep. Back of Judas’ betrayal, stealing. Back of Paul’s life, a desert experience. What is back of your life? PRACTICAL POINTS (1) Saul’s armor did not set well on David, but he had a chest protec tor better than a coat of mail. (2) Sinners with no ground for confi dence, may be overconfident, but saints with every ground, may never be overconfident. (3) We are not told to run from, but to resist the devil, and the best way to resist is to hit him first. (4) Use no carnal weapons, nor the man-made sword, but the “ stone cut out without hands” (Dan. 2: 45). C 5 ) Put the name of Christ into your sling. It is a “ savor of death” to the enemy, but a “ savor of life” to you. (6) Make your victory sure. Cut off the dragon’s head. Do not leave the field until you know that that sin is done for (ever). (7) When the Philistine is dead, he and his are done for; but the believer’s champion is victor through death (Heb. 7:25; 1 Cor. 15:55-571.
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