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Moishe Be'r Yudelman died iii Brook lyn, leaving to his daughter $100 and one hundred gallons of wine. The rest of his money, it isn’t much, goes to “some insti tution in Jerusalem for the purpose of saying prayers for my soul.” If, as we all assume, Moishe Ber Yudelman has a soul, it probably knows now that what counts is the soul’s performance while in the body, not cash left to buy special favors after that soul starts on its jour ney. If Moishe could return he would tell his friends : “Do what you can while y{ju are alive, and remember the ancient Jewish saying has it,, ‘What you give in health is gold; in sickness, silver; after death, lead.’ ” February 24, 1929 Why is Christianity th e Only Adequate Religion? ■Acts 4:8-12; John 3:16 D a il y S cr iptu re R eading s Feb. IS1—The only Saviour. Acts 4:12. Feb. 19—The only true God. 1 John S :20. Feb. 20—Knowledge of God. Acts 17:22- 31, Feb. 21—Transforming power. 2 Cor. 3: 18. Feb. 22.riMoral light. Eph. 4:17-24. Feb. 23—Immortal hope. 1 Pet. 1 :l-5. An old story tells that the Empress He lena went to the Holy Land to find the holy cross. Excavations were made, and three crosses were found; but how were they to know which was the true one? They took a corpse, and put it successively upon one and another, and as soon as it touched the Saviour’s cross it started into life. Now we may test the divinity of Christianity in the same way. It makes dead men live. The Fiji Islander of today has lost, through years of Christian culture, the old savage look. The Christianized Indian has a much pleasanter and more attrac tive face than the old warriors had. None of us would recognize ourselves in pic tures of our old Briton and Saxon ances tors. The British Weekly coins the phrase lunar Christianity to describe the Chris tianity of those who substitute the ethics of Christianity for Christianity. It cer tainly fits. Moonlight is good and beauti ful, but there would be no moonlight without the sun. The moon is a great re flector, but a reflector gives no light un less there is light to be reflected. The ethics.of Christianity, as manifested in the lives of good people, are a testimony to Christ and a reflection of the great doc trines of the Gospel; but without Christ and His Gospel there would be nothing to reflect or testify to.— Herald and Pres byter. A river boat was once capsized and sank. Only a few knew how to swim. Presently, two means of escape appeared. A man from the bank threw out a rope to the perishing, and a few took advan tage of this means of escape. At this time, also, a huge log floated by, and a large number clung to it, feeling perfectly secure and even ridiculing those who were relying on the frail rope which was cast out to them from the shore. The few
who were holding the rope, however, were in due time hauled safely to shore; whereas those who had taken refuge by clinging to the log, large and secure as it appeared, were unconsciously borne on by the mighty current out into the fathomless ocean, where, in the end, they perished. “Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). An amazing article in The Moslem World describes the underground Chris tianity which has come into .being in re cent years, in Islam and which is actually organized with a supreme head in a cer tain city. These converts from Moham medanism have their password and secret meetings, forming a veritable Christian freemasonry scattered throughout the Moslem world. The writer, Mary C. Holmes, when attending one of these meetings at which the communion was be ing celebrated behind locked doors, was accosted by a rug merchant with, “Of a truth thou art our sister. Thou art the ■ first to understand us. We are Christian Christians.” “I sat in that meeting scarce ly able to credit my senses, and witnessed a fervor of devotion rarely seen, an or derly type of worship, hymns, Christian hymns, used only by themselves and sung from memory, throbbing with love for the Saviour of men. And women were there, Moslem women addressed as ‘sisters,’ and unveiled. ‘Are there others like you?’ I queried, incredulous. ‘Many,’ was the re ply. ‘And where?’ I next asked. ‘Every where,’ was the answer.” The devotion of these secret Christians to the Lord Jesus is thrilling. “I once saw one of them pick up from the ground a fragment of bread, carefully wipe from it every trace of soil, and then reverently kiss it saying, ‘I never can see bread on the ground to be trodden under foot. Our Lord said of bread, “This is my body broken for you.” It is sacred to me.’ ” Those who want evidence that Christ lives and is walking today in the midst of his churches can find it in this article. “Have you ever seen Him?” asked a candy vendor of Miss Holmes. “Whom do you mean?” she returned. “Jesus; have you ever seen Him?” “Only with the eye of faith,” came the disappointing rejoinder. “But with these eyes, these eyes, I have seen Him,” insisted the convert. So common is this experience in these circles of hid den believers that it is almost a test of discipleship. One of them told of being at a gathering in a neighboring city at which seventeen were present, and every one testified that he had seen the Lord Christ. They seem to doubt the reality of a conversion unless this testimony can be given. March 3, 1929 Recruiting for Christ (Consecration Meeting) Matt. 9 :35-38 D a il y S c r ipt u r e R eading s Feb. 25—Christ’s call. Matt. 11:28-30. Feb. 26—Christ’s recruiting. John 7 :37, 38. Feb. 27—John recruiting. John 1 :29-34. Feb. 28—Paul recruiting. Acts 16 :12-15. Mar. 1-—Peter recruiting. Acts 2 :41-47. Mar. 2—Recruiting the Gentiles. Acts 10: 44-48.
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