November 1929
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Crumbs from the King’s Table By the Editor
We Thank God OR the infallible rule o f faith and conduct. Its genuineness and value have been proved by his tory, by prophecy, by scientific discovery, by experience. For Jesus Christ, the Sacrifice of Calvary. He paid the debt that made us free; He is the mediator at the right hand of the Father, who has all power in heaven and on earth. He has a personal interest in every one of us; For the ever-present Holy Spirit. He is the represen tative of the Godhead on earth; He regenerates, He sanc tifies, He restrains. For the Church of God, the body o f Jesus Christ. It is made up of all believers in Christ and His finished work. He has baptized these believers into one body. For the manifestation of the Sp irifs presence in the Institute. There is no “bitterness and wrath and malice and evil speaking” among us. ‘God has given us a splen did student body of earnest young people, a faculty un surpassed, a working force without a friction. For restored confidence. From all over the United States and Canada, from every continent on the globe, have come letters of confidence from God’s people. The future of the Bible Institute is assured. “We shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord.” “Not unto us, 0 Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name be the glory.” For the glorious hope. The hope that puts spring in the step and song in the heart; a hope that purifies, ener gises, comforts. Hallelujah! ■ H u stlin g to G et th e Chores Done S OME years ago I met Mr. W. E. Blackstone, the author of “Jesus is Coming,” that splendid classic on the subject. I asked him if he was still looking for the Lord and, quick as a flash, he gave me this answer f “I ’m looking for the Lord every day, but I am hustling to get the chores done before He gets here.” The Lord did not reveal the truth of His coming for the Church as a pillow to sleep on. He set before us the glorious hope as an inspiration to a better service. The day of grace may soon close, but it has riot closed, and my heart is crying out to God for men and women who are last in the darkness of sin. Father God ,■ shine on the penitent soul that cries to Thee for help, and give him deliverance; shine on the rebellious soul that defies Thee and subdue him with the radiance of Thy love ; shine on the careless, and show Thy loving thought for him ; shine on the timid and fearful, and give them pictures of Thy compassionate omnipotence; shine on the strong, and double their strength; shine on the poor, and give them the wealth of Thy'glorious presence; shine on the rich, and show them what they give, not what they keep, en riches them; shine on Thy church, and send her forth a
curb to evil-doers and a praise and joy to the righteous; shine on the heathen world, and disperse their darkness of superstition and their clouds of iniquity with the light of Thy glorious Gospel; shine upon me, O Lord, and give me a new vision of a lost world and a mighty Saviour who is able to save unto the uttermost. A [Steadfast Spirit P ERHAPS our chiefest need is a steadfast spirit, espe cially so as we gird up our loins for a new stretch of pilgrimage. We do not need nobler ideals. *We are over stocked with ideals. We read of Henry Martyn, mourn ing that he had devoted too much time to public work and too little to private communion with God, and we vow to pray more. We recall the motto written on Green the historian’s grave, “He died learning,” and ¡we vow that each new day shall see some lesson learned from the great store of Truth. We read the noble words of an old saint: “Oh, to have a martyr’s heart, if not a martyr’s crown.” And we vow to give ourselves absolutely to witness and suffer for Jesus Christ. But, alas, our ideals fade within a few hours, and the withered petals are all that remain. We need the steadfast spirit. Only God can give us this. He can renew our will from day to day and diffuse into us His unaltering, unal terable purpose. He alone can make possible obedience to the apostolic injunction: “Be ye steadfast, unmove able, always abounding in the work o f the Lord.” Hear the comforting words of the apostle Peter: “The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Jesus Christ, after that ye have suffered a while, [shall] make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.” In the strength of God’s grace we can move resolutely and unfalteringly onward, like Columbus, undaunted by dis couragement; we shall cross unknown seas till the scent of the land we seek is wafted across the brief interven ing distance. Pray for a steadfast spirit. Look and Run A S WE look at Jesus Christ yonder in the Glory, He becomes a living fact in our consciousness and in our hearts, and just as the dying Hebrew gazing on the brazen serpent felt life and power through all his being, so, looking unto Jesus, we are cleansed, comforted, filled with His life and power, and we become like Him in our very natures and being. But we are to do more than “look.” We are to “run.” For there is an intensely practical side of faith. Let us run while we look and let us look while we run. Let us take our inspirations and exaltations with us and live them out in the quiet round of daily duty—better work men, better business men, better husbands, wives and children, because we are living in heaven while our feet are still treading the pathways on earth. “I suppose John is your best weaver,” said a pastor to the foreman of a factory where one of his people was
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