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Repeated readings o f a selected Book from m any view points— saturation with contents • and m essage— test and grading results Just issued: REVELATION— TEN KEYS. Each reading o f this victory B ook is from a differ ent point o f view. Previously issued: Suggestion pamphlets for Genesis, Psalm s, Ecclesiastes, Am os, Luke, John, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thes- salonians. Others to follow . Enroll now : Begin the readings o f the Book selected; send for descriptive folder and en rollment blanks. Each course requires about ten weeks. No ch arges; voluntary contributions. Address American Home Bible Institute, Inc. 837 A llison St., N. W . W ashington, D. C. STUDY GOSPEL SONG PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT (B y Correspondence) with R O B E R T H ARKNE S8 Eighty Lessons Diploma Awarded Includes twelve subjects. Send fo r com plete free details to ROBERT HARKNESS 1632 Huntington Drive South Fasadena, California Few writers have come to such immediate fame as the author of “ Under Whose Wings” In Z enobia B ird ’ s new book she shows an even keener sympathy with young folk’s . problems and she tips her pen with the flame of genius. Youngsters, and oldsters also, will quickly succumb to the charm of this latest story. E Y E S IN THE DARK By A New Star in the Young Folk's Sky
ered, “Yes, Father!” Here again in this dark hour He murmurs that dear name over and over, to hush and quiet His troubled soul. In the garden He repeats it again, “O my Father 1” “Abba, Father 1” There is no medicine which will so cer tainly restore.— Selected. October 17— “ Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors” (Psa. 119:24). The saved soul finds in the Book a per fect storehouse of supply for the mind and heart and will. Faith-is strengthened, holiness is nourished,- and Christian ser vice is empowered. He who longs for per fection must be a constant reader of the perfect Book. - There is no need to be weak of faith; nor to be falling into inconsistencies of thought and life; nor to fail,in witness ing and seeking to win souls—if only the Word is diligently taken into the heart. It is perfect as a means of maturing the child o f God. The Book which has been life and salvation to the worker, will be so to others, as he refers them to the mes sages of God within.— William Olney. — o — October 18— “ Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy” (Lk. 21:36). The faithful servant must be ever on the watch for his Master’s return, and es pecially when the long hours o f darkness are beginning to wane before the touch of dawn. His fellow-servants may lie around, wrapped in slumber, but he is on the watch, listening for each footfall. We are surely nearing the end of this -age, as Peter was living at the end of his. The Lord must be very near, even at the door 1 Is it not time that we should arise, and stand ready, that we may give Him the earliest welcome and win His smile ? •;&*i$Dr. F. B. Meyer. These are especially times to see that we sow in righteousness. — Dr. Northcote Deck. — o — October 19— “Every living, substance that I have made will I destroy [Hebrew blot out] from off the face of the earth. And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him” (Gen. 7:4, 5). God can destroy sin. God will destroy sin. The people o f the earth were so given up to sin, saturated by it, living in it and of it, eaten up by it, that God’s great love for mankind compelled only one thing: His blotting out o f this vast black flood o f sin by a cleansing flood of water, and giving the race a new oppor tunity in the family that was not thus sold to sin. And that same love, and even the same method, in principle, is my hope today. God can destroy my sin. God will destroy my sin. He blots it out in a flood
October 14—" Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry” (Hab. 2:3). Our too general neglect of looking for answers to what we ask, shows how litfle we are in earnest in our petitions. A hus bandman is not content without the har vest. A marksman will observe whether the ball hits the target. A physician watches the effect o f the medicine which he gives. Shall the Christian be careless about the effect o f his labor? Every prayer of the Christian, made in faith, ac cording to the will of. God, for that which God has promised, offered up in the name o f Jesus Christ, and under the influence of -the Spirit, whether for temporal or for spiritual blessings, is or will be, fully an swered.. God always answers the general design and intention of His people’s prayers, in doing that which, all things ¡considered, is most for His own glory and their spiritual and eternal welfare. As we never find that Jesus Christ rejected a sin gle supplicant who came to Him for mercy, so we believe that no prayer made in His name will be in vain. The answer to prayer may be approaching, though we discern not its coming. The seed that lies under ground in winter is taking, root in order to a spring and harvest, though it appears not above ground, but seems dead and lost. — Bickerstetch, on "Prayer.” ■—o— October 15— "The meek will he guide in judgment” (Psa. 25:9). If sometimes the way be lonely and long, and the brambly thorn bushes on the sides scratch your face and hands, and sharp stones cut your feet, you can, if you will be quiet enough, find a new softness to the strong arm of the Guide around you, and a new fragrance in His presence beside you ; and that will make you grate ful for the roughness o f the road because it draws out more fineness of His love, and of Himself.—.S'. D. Gordon. —o— October 16— "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour : but for this cause came I unto this hour” (John 12:27). Who of us does not sometimes taste trouble beneath which the heart threatens to break down in helpless collapse? It is questionable if any life reaches its prime, or unfolds all its beauty, unless there have been some dark hours in which cries of pain have borne witness to the troubled soul. Where is the resort of the troubled soul? “Father!” This was Christ’s resort, and it may be ours. Our Lord hid Him self in this retreat when He was face to face with the mystery of divine provi dence which reveals to babes what it hides from the wise and prudent. “Even so Father!” The expression might be rend
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