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FIGHTING THE STARS [Continue# from Page 287]
and whipped them into line. He has forced labor to work for food and clothes in the building of one of the mightiest war machines of all times. He is no fool. Those are indeed silly men who picture this little mous tached house painter as a charlatan and a clown. He is a gériius of the first order. Nor are we less foolish who picture the war leaders of Japan as mere dumb oxen with big teeth and their hair standing straight up like porcupine quills. These two groups of leaders have taken less than fifty bil lion dollars and have builded a war machine that now t e r r o r i z e s the world. We will spend two hundred billion in preparing to meet them. But Hitler and his partners are doomed. Nor are they doomed by our Submarines and birmbers, though God w ill use these instruments, no doubt. They are doomed because they forgot to determine the movements of God. They did not find out which way God is moving in these times. They did not join the stars. The ■: stars fight for humanity. The stars fight for human freedom. The stars fight for Christian ity. One day, not far ahead, these military dictators will join that ghost ly paradé of the Caesars, Napoleon, Alexander, the Pharaohs, and a thou sand like them, forever marching into the blackness of eternal defeat. They were defeated by storms and pesti lences and plagues and starvation and cruël winters and bottomless mud. They marched the other way from God. For the wisdom of the ages is to find out which way God is moving and to niqve with Him. , , Ministry to Soldiers Burdened for the needs of service men in distant camps and outposts, J. M. Crozier, Box 96, Reno, Pa., has undertaken to send selected tracts to military men whose addresses are sub mitted to. him. Where opportunity opens, he desires to carry on cor respondence with these men concern ing the way of salvation. The tracts are sent by first-class mail, hence are forwarded anywhere. Christians who have loved ones qnd friends in the service to whom they,would like to have Mr. Crozier send literature may send him the names and addresses of these men. Homer Rodeheaver Honored The gospel musician, Homer Rode^ heaver,, internationally known singing evangelist and formerly Billy Sunday’s famed song leader, was recently hon ored with a doctor’s degree at Bob Jones College, Cleveland, Tenn.
3. What Want I More? “The unsearchable riches of Christ” (Eph. 3:8). In the heart of London city, ’Mid the dwellings of the poor, These bright golden w o r d s were uttered: "I have Christi What Want I more?” Spoken by a lonely woman, Dying on a garret floor; Having not one earthly comfort— " I have ChristI what want I more?” You may have much gold and gran deur, ■ Yet by God be reckoned poor; He alone has riches truly, Who has Christ, though nothing more. Look awa'y from earth’s attractions, A ll earth’s joy will soon be o’er; Rest not, till thy heart exclaimeth— " I have Christi what want I more?” —Selected. 4. The Lighthouse of His Promise “Unto thy seed will I give this land” (Gert. 12:7). As soon as Abraham had fully obeyed, this 1 new promise broke upon his ear. And-it is ever thus. Disobey— and you tread a path unlit by a single star. Obey, live up to the claims of God—and successive promises beam out from heaven to light your steps,
1. Groans and Good Courage “These are the beginnings of sor rows [birthpangs]” (Mk. 13:8). We cannot escape peril and pain In these tremendous days, and we do not want to be without our share in'the birthpangs of the kingdom of God., . . What is travail but the price of the new life that can come no other way? . . . Not to our fathers, but to us, has come the privilege of living in these last days, when faith is soon to be merged in sight. Groans there are and roust be; meanwhile, “we are of good courage,” . . . for the coming King makes His home in our hearts.' —Mrs. Howard Taylor. The Comfort of God “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? . . . hope thou in God” (Psa. 42:5). As though he were two men, the Psalmist talks to himself. His faith reasons with his fears; his hope argues with his sorrows. These present troubles, are they to last forever? The rejoicings of my foes, are they more than empty talk? Why this deep de pression, this faithless fainting, this chicken-hearted melancholy? . . . To search out'the cause of our sorrow is often the best surgery for grief. A clearer view will make monsters dwindle into trifles. —Charles Haddon Spurgeon. 2.
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