October 1929
504
T h e
K i n g ’ s
B u s i n e s s
A well may be filled as completely by the percolation of water, a drop at a time, as by turning a river into it. —«— October 16— “Everlasting" (Gen. 17:7). I remember once making a wreath of God’s everlastings: “everlasting hope,” “everlasting kindness,” “everlasting arms,” “everlasting righteousness,” “everlasting kingdom,” “everlasting name,” “everlast ing covenant,” “everlasting salvation,” “everlasting strength,” “everlasting Fa ther,” “everlasting Son,” “everlasting love.” And if we could only see it, this is God’s crown for us all. Alas, we crown ourselves with all but the everlasting, and when our crowns fade or are taken away, we feel that all the beauty and joy of life are gone! Why not have the immortal, the everlasting? They are offered to all! •—■Margaret Bottome. The greatest thing that we can learn is the resources and all-sufficiency of our God. The Bible is just a revelation of this manifold and many-sided truth. The won derful story of His dealings with His people in all ages is just meant to show us that we have the same, God still. The experiences of our own life come to give us an opportunity of proving the re sources of our own God. Every difficult situation is but a vessel into which He means to pour His own all-sufficiency. While we are straining to find God in a book or a prayer meeting or cloister, He is waiting for us out in the busy world where He is working all things in His wise and loving providences and making “all things work together for good to them that love Him.” Let us learn to take Him into the real things every day and then He will grow as real as the events which fill the story of our lives.— A B. Simpson. — o — October 18— “And being in agony he prayed more earnestly” (Luke 22:44). All prayer is not importunate. There are restful, quiet seasons and times when the heart prays and yet does not make petition but communes with the Father. At other times the desire becomes so in tense and the need so piercing that the spirit cries out in agony of desire. Those who walk in the Spirit will have these various seasons of prayer. Sometimes a little talk with Jesus; sometimes an hour of pleasant communion when not a voice is heard to break the stillness; and some times a mighty rush of the soul Godward in importunate, vehement cries. When one is faithful to God, the Spirit will di rect the method of prayer, and it will be varied according to the emergency of the hour. We do not realize how much God may use us as intercessors, praying back the bolts of wrath, and praying down showers of blessings.— Beams of Light. October 17— “Our sufficiency' is of God” (2 Cor. 3:5). October 19— “O God, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle" (Psa. 140:7). All day long the fight has waxed fierce against the hardly pressed soldier. The — o —
. .. P U ffX It is so in Christian experience. We ex pect to have our Pentecost as the early Church received hers. We desire to see wind and rain, and to know that God is baptizing u s; but this is not granted. There is no footfall of hurrying clouds, no coronet of flame, no gift of tongues. But, deep down,' the ditches are being filled up, yearnings are being satisfied, the capacity for God within us is being met, though it grows apace. God be praised that the success of His work is not gauged by outward signs 1 state definitely what you wanted? I think it might be well for us to write our prayers down, and then spread them be fore the Lord, as Hezekiah did his letter. We must be real! We must be earnest. We must not trifle with God. If you wrote a request for anything by letter, you would expect by every mail an an swer, saying yes or no. Do we pray that way? Let us find out whether, after all, we pray at all. Christ said: “What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.” —o— October 14— " If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it” (John 14:14). God wants us to ask Him for the im possible. God can do things that men can not do; He would not be God if this were not so. That is why He has gra ciously made prayer a law of life. “If ye shall ask . . , I will do.” This inviting promise from the Lord means that He will do for us what we cannot do for ourselves; He will do for others what we cannot do for them—if we will but ask Him. How little do we avail ourselves of this immense privilege! Some one spoke this searching word at Edinburgh in 1910: “We have lost the eternal youthfulness of Christianity and have aged into calculat ing manhood. We seldom pray in earnest for the extraordinary, the limitless, the glorious. We seldom pray with real con fidence for any good to the realization of which we cannot imagine a way. And yet, we suppose ourselves to believe in an infi nite Father.” The natural man calculates results. Calculations have no place in our relations with God, and in His relations with us. That matter which has been so burdening us just now, and with which we can see no way of dealing: how are we praying about it? In anxiety, or with thanksgiving? Worrying prayer defeats its own answer. Rejoicing prayer gets through. “In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Then will come the answer “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.”— Dr. Jozvett. —o— October IS— “Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall he filled” (2 Kings 3:17). This is God’s way of fulfilling the de sire of them that fear Him. We like to see the clouds blown forward through the sky, and hear the moan of the rising wind; in other words, we like to see God’s gifts on their way, or to have the sensible emotion of receiving them. Sometimes we have symptoms and signs that fill us with rapture; at other times, these are lacking; and we surrender ourselves to despair. Yet when we see neither wind nor rain, God may be most mightily at work.
m & u*-e
WANTED 1,000 men and women to place our Bibles, Testaments and Religious Books in homes. Big profit. Full or spare time. JOIN HANDS WITH US. Write today for free information. Established over 40 years. WILMORE BOOK AND BIBLE COMPANY Dept. 16, 443 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, III. Send fo r O u r New Catalog Today It will tell you all about this great School—now in its 26th successful year—and the wonderful National Academy Method that has meant success to over 200,000 enthusiastic students. Send for it right now, while you think of it. It is FREE. NATIONAL ACAD EM Y OF MUSIC Dept, 2 4 3 702 East 41st Street, Chicago AT HOME! Let us tell you how you can quickly and easily learn to play your favorite instrument, right in your own home and in your spare time. Music will make you popular, welcomed every where,and offermany big-moneyopportunities. Easy as A-B-C You need know nothing about music to begin. We give you personal, individual instruction right from the start and guarantee your satisfaction. Yon will be surprised and delighted that music can be made so easy and fascinating. Gonrses in Piano,Violin,Voice,Trumpet, Mando lin, Organ, Tenor Banjo, Spanish Guitar, Hawaiian Guitar. Surprisingly low cost; easy terms.
D o z e n . T r a y a n d g l a s s e s $ 6. 5 0 u p . q u a l i t y C o l l e c t i o n P l a t e s a t l o w p r i c e s . T R I A L O U T F I T . W r i t e THOMAS COMMUNION CO ., BoX 542 .Lima, Ohio
Sales Manager, Dept. AN TH E P R O C E S S C O R P O R A T I ON Troy a t 21st S treet . Chicago, Illinois Mrs. J . A. Ross A real opportunity to make a thousand dollars or more before Christmas for your church, your home or yourself taking orders from church people and others for America’smost attractively priced and widely known Christmas Greeting Cara Line with which Mrs. J. A. Ross of Los Angeles earns $3000 in commissionevery year,while Mrs. MaudeEnsor ofBaltimore has earned over $1000 in two months. We pay liberal commission in cash every day, also liberal monthly bonus, and furnish samples and everything necessary for you to do business with FREE. Address as follows: B IG PROF I T « . for xourClxixrcxi Organisation GOTTSCHALK’S METAL.SP0NGE REG . US . PAT . OF . iAc Modern Dish ClotK’ METAL SPONGE j SAT.ES c o r p o r a t io n D E P T A LEH IG H AM D MAS CHE R STR EETS Mrs. Maude Ensor _
'"■'WRITE FOR FULL INFORMATION*^*
Made with FlippingBook - Online catalogs