October 1929
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Watch the mind. If we use our intel lect to justify wrong, or to think wrong, we shall make the heart anything but a beautiful temple. High thoughts tone up body and soul.— Morrison. I like to hear an engineer talk to his engine. I think the next things to men are machines like locomotives. If they should, by some accident, be transmuted and become endowed with thought and intelligence, they would make grand men 1 When I am traveling, the cars hardly ever stop for wood and water that I do not go out and see what the engineer is doing with his engine. I notice how closely he inspects the machinery. I have sometimes crept under the wheels myself when something had given away and the damage was being repaired, and seen, with admiration, how clean the very bot tom of the engine was where nobody looked at i t ; how all the axles and boxes, and other parts, were cleansed and in order; and I have often said to myself, “I wish I could make my people take as good care of their bodies as this man has taken of his iron horse today.” God made the human body, and it is by far the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand. It is a study for one’s whole life. If an undevout astronomer is mad, an undevout physiologist is mad der. The stomach, that prepares the body’s support; the vessels, that distribute the supply; the arteries, that take up the food, and send it round; the lungs, that aerate the all-nourishing blood; the mus cle-engine, the heart, which, without fire man or engineer, stands night and day pumping and driving a wholesome stream with vital irrigation through all the sys tem, that unites and harmonizes the whole band of organs; the brain, that dwells in the dome high above all, like a true roy alty—these, with their various and won derful functions, are not to be lightly spoken of, or irreverently held. The body is the temple of the living God. There has always seemed to me some thing impious in the neglect of personal health, strength, and beauty, which the religious, and sometimes clergymen, of this day affect. It is very often a mere form of laziness or untidiness . . . I should be ashamed of being weak. I could not do half the little good I do do here, if it were not for that strength and activity which some consider coarse and degrading . . . I could wish I were an Apollo for God’s sake! Strange idea, yet it seems so harmonious to me.— Charles Kingsley. One day a school inspector was visit ing a school and he arose to give a talk to the boys and girls. He chose the sub-, ject of “Patriotism,” and, as he pro ceeded, he pointed to the American flag that was draped on the wall, and asked impressively, “What is that flag hanging there for?” A boy replied, “Please, sir, it is to hide the dirt.” So many people wear the badge and emblem of Christian discipleship just to cover up some blemish, weakness, or fault in their lives. The real work of the Cross is to blot out sin, not to cover it up.
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“God Loveth a Cheerful Giver” Those who are living a life of faith are living very close to God. They are eager to know His full will for them. Having found His will they seek to obey it with alacrity. To them He is saying, “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone, but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit.’’ They should be living sacrificial lives. This should extend to their giving. They should give more lib erally, in proportion to what they have, than any one else. They should delight to give, for they are giving out of love to Him. They should be so eager to give that there would be no need of soliciting them. They should be eager to know where their giv ing is needed. They should be ever ask ing Him where to give. Then they should give with joy, happy to be able to serve in this way. God is greatly in love with cheerful givers. It is wonderful to know that God loves us. Of course He loves all men, but He has a special love for cheer ful givers. Then He rewards them wonderfully. If your corn of wheat dies it will bring forth much fruit. “He that soweth spar ingly will reap also sparingly; but he that soweth bountifully m il reap also bounti fully." The Lord does not choose to force our service. He knows that forced service amounts to little. We will reap just as we ourselves have chosen to sow. Bounti ful sowing, should be sowing up to the full measure of our ability. If we give to the full measure of our ability God will increase that ability. “Give, and it shall be given unto you ."— The Week Day Bible School World. Getting Help "When he came to himself, he said . . . I will arise and go to my father” (Luke 15:17, 18). There are two ways of getting help. The one is to go around to all your friends, and get disappointed, and then go to God at last. The other is to go to God at first. That is the shortest cut. God can make your friends help you afterwards. Seek God first, and His righteousness, and the help of friends will be added after wards. Out of all troubles the surest de liverance is from God’s right hand. Therefore from all troubles the readiest way to escape is to draw near to God in prayer. Go not to this friend or that, but pour out thy story before God.—C. H. Spurgeon.
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