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I Grumbs GFrom the King’s ^able | g, — By the Editor “ The Greatest of These is ^Love” S R. CHARLES G. TRUMBULL of the Sunday School Times, in reading the thirteenth chapter f| o f First Corinthians to a company the other day, 43read the last verse as follows: “ And now abideth 0 ! fundamentalism, premillennialism, and love, but the greatest of these is love.” Some of us need the lesson taught by such a rendering. “ Now abideth faith.” “ The faith once for all delivered to the saints.” Faith in the authority and the integrity of “ And now abideth hope.” The great hope of the church is the coming of our Lord to meet us in the air. What a precious truth is taught in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17: “ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we be lieve that Jesus died and ròse again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming
Scripture; faith in the deity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; faith in the substitution ary work of the Son of God; faith in His resurrection; faith in the great fundamentals o f the Word. Faith abides. W h y should I knock any sinner down and drag him out, whether he be a modernist or a common ordi nary sinner, because he refuses to accept the truth of God ? “ The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of G od : for they are foolishness unto him: he cannot know them, be cause they: are spiritually dis cerned.” Why should I strike a blind man because he cannot see? As a young preacher I used to get angry with the lost; now I can weep when I see any man or woman hell-bound. I do not mean that we are not to contend earnestly for the faith; we should contend unto death. But that does not mean
of the Lord shall not precede them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of thè archangel, and with the trump of God: and.the dead in Christ shall rise first : Then we which are alive and re main shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air : and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” Frankly, . ! do not under stand why every Christian is not a premillennialist. But many Christians are not. There are thousands who love the Lord Jesus.and are walking softly be fore Him who have never heard any Bible teaching on the. sec ond coming of the Lord. How I. wish they knew the comfort o f that precious doctrine ! How I wish they knew how that doc trine opens up and displays the unity of the holy Scripture! J
Perfect Love Oh, Jesus, let Thy dying cry Pierce to the bottom o f my heart, Its evils cure, its wants supply, •And bid my unbelief depart. Slay the dire root and seed o f sin, Prepare for Thee the noblest place, Then, 0 essential Love, come in, And fill Thy house with endless praise. Let me, according to Thy Word, A tender, contrite heart receivers. Which grieves at having grieved its Lord, And never can itself forgive. A heart Thy joys and griefs to feel, A heart that can not faithless prove, A heart where Christ alone may dwell All praise, all meekness,, and all love. W§k-John Wesley..
that we should lose our tempers and' call names, or show our hatred for the one with whom we are contending. God expects us to adorn the Gospel. Do you remember when Paul and Silas were cast into the jail at Philippi? What a testimony they gave, what a sermon they preached! It was a sermon in song. Midnight in a Philippian jail with their feet in the stocks! But there was no anger; there was no resentment—-just a song from two loving hearts. Perhaps it was:
do not know why they are not looking for the imminent’ coming of the Lord. The Bible seems to teach it so plainly; and I want them to know. But no amount of ridicule or abuse will ever lead them to accept the joy and Comfort o f this precious doctrine. A little bit o f love might. I once knew two pastors in the same town, a town ojj less than ten thousand people. One pastor was a moderni ist and a postmillennialist. The other was a fundament talist and a premillennialist. The modernist did not hesi tate to severely criticize publicly his. fundamentalist neigh bor. But one night he and his wife, returning from a club meeting, lighted some*pape* in the fireplace which ignited with the clothing of the minister’s wife. She was horribly burned. Upon hearing of the accident the next morning; the fundamentalist minister went downtown and raised à thousand dollars among his business -friends to secure special medical treatment for the suffering one. He sent the money to the husband: Within half an hour this husband
“O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home!”
The unbelieving jailer and his household were led to Christ that night because the jailer saw something he did not have but which he earnestly wanted. Love won him, and he opened his heart willingly to the faith. “ The greatest of these is love.”
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