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D R . T O R R E Y LIVES AGAIN in Robert Harkness' true and intensely interesting - character sketch— CONTENTS: iPart One—Called of God, a man of faith, of prayer, of conviction, ra teacher, a personal worker, and evangelist. Part Two—His message: its theme, scope, simplicity, power, presentation, effect, and challenge. Bound in handsome Library cloth, gilt stamp, 127 pages, with P o rtrait, $1.00. Mr. Harkness will be recognized as a noted Gospel Song Writer, Pianist, and a Musical Associate of Dr-. Torrey. T h e Bible In stitu te C o lp o rta g e A ss'ii. 810 No. Wells Street, CHICAGO, ILL. REUBEN ARCHER TORREY: THE MAN and HIS MESSAGE
November IS—" And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and sai4, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me" (John 11:41). This is a very strange and unusual order. Lazarus is still in the grave, and the thanksgiving precedes the miracle of resurrection. I thought that the thanks giving would have risen when the deed had been wrought, and Lazarus was re stored to life again. But Jesus gives thanks for what He is about to receive. The gratitude breaks forth before the bounty has arrived, in the assurance that it is certainly on the way. The song of . victory is sung before the battle has been fought. It is the sower who is singing the song of the harvest home. It is thanksgiving before the miracle! Who thinks of announcing a victory- psalm when the crusaders are just start ing out for the field ? Where can we hear the grateful song for the answer which has not yet been received? And after all, there is nothing strange or forced, or un reasonable in the Master’s order. Praise is really the most vital preparatory minis try to the working of the miracle. Mir acles of all .kinds are wrought by spiritual power. Spiritual power is always pro portioned to our faith.— Sel. —o— November 16— “Rejoice evermore” (1 Thess. 5 :16). Do not lose your joy, whatever you lose. Keep the spirit of spring. “Rejoice evermore” ; “And again I say, Rejoice.” The loss of Canaan began in the spirit of murmurings. j “When the people com plained, it displeased the Lord.” The first break in their fellowship, the first falter in thejr advance, came when they began to doubt, and grieve, and fret. Oh, keep the heart from the perforations of de pression, discouragement, distrust, a n d gloom. Satan cannot crush a rejoicing and praiseful soul. There are heavenly notes which have power to break down walls of adamant and dissolve mountains of difficulty. The song of Paul and Silas burst the fetters of the Philippian jail; the choir of Jehoshaphat put to flight the armies of the Ammonites; and the song of faith will disperse our adversaries and lift our heart into strength and victory Sel, —o— November 17— “Man shall not live by bread alone, but f by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4). The Spirit works with and through the Word. What the metal is to the loco motive, what the wire is to the electric spark, that the Word of God is to the Spirit of God. If, then, we neglect the reverent study of the Scriptures, we cut ourselves off from the very vehicle through which God’s Spirit enters human spirits; and this is the great fault of our times. Christian people will attend con ventions, plunge into all kinds of Chris tian work, read many good books about Christian living; hut they give the Bible the most superficial heed, and it is for this reason that the Bible does not speak to them. If you would know all the wondrous beauty of the forest glade, you must not be satisfied with passing through it with hasty foot, and in company with a troop of merry children, whose ringing laugh- |
ter carries panic into the thousands of shy living things that, with trembling hearts, keep still in hole, and brake, and nest. N o; you must go alone, and sit quietly down on the log of some felled tree, and wait. Then the mystery of beauty will begin to unfold itself: the fairy bowers, the mossy glens, the interlacing boughs. Presently a note will sound from yonder bough, as the signal for the outburst of many sweet-voiced choristers, and the woodland will ring with the music of the birds, whilst the squirrel runs up some tree, and the rabbits come out to feed, and the young foxes play about their holes. All this is hidden from those who cannot wait. So there are mysteries of glory and beauty in Scripture, hidden from the wise and prudent, but revealed to babes. There is no book that will so repay time spent over its pages as the Word of God.— F. B. Meyer. — o—. November 18— “Nevertheless a f t e r - ward” (Heb. 12:11). Many people are wanting power. Now how is power produced? The other day we passed the great works where the trolley engines are supplied with electric ity. We heard the hum and roar of the countless wheels, and we asked our friend, “How do they make the power?” “Why,” he said, “just by the revolution of those wheels and the friction they pro duce. The rubbing creates the electric current.” And so, when God wants to bring more power into your life, He
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