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children came. One of the little girls asked the visitor: “Do you know who it was?” “Yes,” she replied, “she was talk ing about the missionary that lives in our village.” She had never heard about Jesus Christ, and when the teacher de scribed the beautiful life of Jesus Christ she thought she was describing the mis sionary. That missionary was a living witness for Christ, a walking Bible. Or, to change the figure, he was bearing the Christ-fruit, so the little girl knew he was a Christian. All who saw him knew he was a Christian, because he acted like one. It is the duty of every Christian to be a living witness for Christ. The testimony can be of two kinds, lip testimony and life testimony. We must both “by our lips and lives express the holy Gospel we pro fessé”
“Papa, I am thirsty. I must have a drink.” “As soon as 1 saw that the child meant what he said I granted his request speedily. When a man leaves his toys or his idols of pleasures or riches, he is in earnest and will get of God all that he asks and all that he needs.” “Clara,” asked a lady of an old school friend whom she was visiting, “how is your husband getting on?” “Miserably,” answered the wife. “Why, how is that? Isn’t he making a lot of money?” “Oh, yes,” answered the wife, “John, is making a ’ lot of money—some people1call him rich, but I call him poor. When we be gan life we read together, we had our church, we had our social hours with friends. Now John has sold himself to work, he has no evenings, he has no Sun days, he puts everything back into his business and puts all of himself into it and is a perfect slave.” It is the folly of a man, and his sin as well, that makes possible a home with such a poverty of fatherhood. A Scotch minister tells this story of a poor Scotch woman who went to her pas tor, in her extremity, and told him of her poverty. He kindly asked her if she had no friend or member of her family who could support or help her, and she an swered that she had a son, a bonny lad, but he was in India, in the service of the government. “But does he not write to you?” “Oh, yes, he often writes me, and sends the kindest letters, and such pretty pictures in them. But I am too proud to tell him how poor I am, and, of course, I have not expected him to send me money.” “Would you mind showing me some of the pictures?” said the minister, and so Janet went to her Bible and brought out from between the leaves a great number of Bank of England notes laid away with the greatest care. “These,” she said, “are the pictures.” The min ister smiled and said, “Janet, you are richer than I am. These are bank notes. You have a fortune in your Bible with out knowing it.” There are many Janets, and they are not all in Scotland. Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked. The grand corrective is the cross of Christ, seen in the sanctuary where the life and light of God are exhibited, and where the reverberation of the echoes from the great white throne are heard.— -R. S. Storrs. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them.— Bacon. Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.— Charron. Do not measure a man by what he has, but by what he is and what de does with what he has. Covetousness is the desire to have, and many are guilty of it who do not suspect its presence.— James D. March. We are stewards of our possessions. It is possible that we may work for riches that we may set them to work for God.— Jeffrey.
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February 17, 1929 How Much Should We Strive for Material Things? Luke 2:13-31 D aily S cripture R eadings
Feb. 11—Rich without striving. Gen. 13:1,2. Feb. 12—Striving too much. Gen. 31:1. Feb. 13—Jesus’ teaching. Matt. 6:31-34. Feb. 14—Paul’s faith. Phil. 4:11. Feb. 15—Work with God. Ps. 127 :1, 2. Feb. 16—Futile striving. Eccles. 2:11. A mill owner who had given half the money required to build a stately church, when asked what he thought of the ser mon of dedication, to which he had been outwardly listening, said: “The fact is, I. did not hear what the pastor was saying. I could not help thinking all through the service, as I looked at the spacious pro portions of this edifice, if it was a cotton mill, how many spindles I could set up in it.” The man was mill-hardened.— Dr. G. F. Pentecost. A tragic report once came from the diamond fields of South Africa, stating that several Europeans and a large num ber of native miners were entombed in the DeBeers pit at Kimberley. What empty mockery, in that hour of death, must have been the presence of the rich gems about them! But such accidents do not belong only to South Africa, nor to the diamond- pit alone; men may be smothered to death just as surely in a spiritual way.— Louis Albert Banks. When Jeremy Taylor’s house had been plundered, all *his worldly possessions squandered, and his family turned out of doors, he congratulated himself that his enemies had left him “the sun and the moon, a loving wife, many friends to pity and relieve, the providence of God, all the promises of the Gospel, my religion, my hope of heaven, and my charity to ward my enemies.” A man’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Mr. Moody tells of his little boy who called to him one day: “Papa, I want a drink,” and then went on with his play. The father thoughtlessly kept on with his reading. Soon the child spoke again: “Papa, I want a drink,” but he still kept on unconcernedly with his play, and Mr. Moody continued to read. Presently the boy left, his play, came and took hold of his father’s knee and said earnestly:
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