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o f it all, a little garden, a little patch of God’s earth, with its face lifted up to the skies, as it drinks in the rain from heaven! Don’t you be troubled about your sur roundings, my dear friends; just get into the place God wants you in. If God wants you in prison, you had better get into prison quickly 1 Be where He wants you to be, and He will put a song into your heart.— A . L indsay G legg . JULY 18 “ Workers together with him” (2 Cor. 6 : 1 ). Working together, Aaron and Hur up holding the hands of their leader, a battle was won. Working together, guarding and building, Jerusalem’s walls were repaired. Working together, agreeing on earth as touching any one thing, prayer prevails for the twos and threes that pray in faith. T o gether in the upper room (Acts 1 :13,14), together now in heavenly places (Eph. 2 :6 ), together at the Lord’s appearing in the air (1 Thess. 4:17)—with what illus trations o f unity in Christ the Word abounds 1 The Lord’s people belong to be together—in faith, in service, in testimony. If there is a hindering wall between you and any child of God, dare to break it down today. All have a share in the beauty; All have a share in the plan. What does it matter what duty Falls to the lot of a man? Some one has blended the plaster, And some one has carried the stone ; Neither the man nor the master Ever has builded alone; Making a room from the weather, Building a house for the King ; Only by working together, Men have accomplished a thing. JULY 19 “H e saith unto his mother, Woman, be hold, thy son! Then saith he to the dis ciple, Behold thy mother"(John 19:26,27). If thou art really desirous of the priv ilege enjoyed by John, be, from love to the Lord, a faithful helper to His children. Become feet to the lame, eyes to the blind, the counsellor and father of the orphan, and thou wilt be taking His place on earth as_ did His disciple of old. Only apply to Him to open thine eyes, that thou mayest recognize His quiet and holy household, and even as He will say o f thee to those who form His spiritual church, “Woman, behold thy son!” so He also will say to thee, with reference to His weary and heavy- laden ones, “Behold thy mother 1” For tell me what would be wanting to make this world a kingdom of heaven, if that tender, profound, and self-denying love, practiced and recommended by Jesus, were para mount in every heart.— K r u m m a c h e r . JULY 20 "Whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin , . . the man Gabriel • . . touched me . . . and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding” (Dan. 9:20-22). Prayer is the rustling of the wings of the angels that are on their way bringing us the boons o f heaven. Have you heard prayer in your heart? You shall see the angel in your house. When the chariots that bring us blessings do rumble, their wheels do sound with prayer. We hear the prayer in our own spirits, and that prayer becomes the token of the coming blessings. Even as the cloud foreshadoweth rain, so prayer foreshadoweth the blessing; even as the green blade is the beginning o f the ¡¡« ^ -S elected .
harvest, so is prayer the prophecy o f the blessing that is about to come. — C harles H addon S purgeon . JULY 21 “A broken and a contrite heart, 0 God, thou wilt not despise” (Psa. 51:16). Is my sin against God of such great consequence? The small sins, as you call them—the sins of temper, and impatience, and envy, and jealousy, and care and dis trust, the restless pinning after some good that never has been yours and, you think, never can be yours—all these typical sins of Christians go on beneath the surface. How many come to think them a compara tively little evil, as nothing to be thought of, or dealt with, or taken away I A broken heart deals very differently with sin as in the sight o f God. A broken spirit can hardly raise its face out of the dust when it thinks o f the awfulness of sinning against God . . . A broken heart accepts what God says about deliverance. — J. E lder C u m m in g . JULY 22 “ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life” (John 10:10). Those especially who are young will do well to write it deep in their heart, that Jesus is not a thief. I put it frankly and baldly, that we may remember it the more. The thief comes to steal; Jesus our Lord comes to enrich. The thief comes to kill; Jesus our Lord comes to make alive. The thief comes to destroy; Christ comes to upbuild. He does not come to rob us of anything . . . He does not come with a set of injunctions as to things we are not to do, which seem to us very right and proper. He comes to us to bestow some thing upon us . . . Shall we believe it to its very depth o f meaning, that Christ takes from us nothing that is good and pleasant and beautiful. He comes to give us some thing, and the something more that He gives us is life.-—W . Y . F ullerton . JULY 23 “ When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek” (Psa. 27:8). A few young men, and a maiden in the
midst, were walking down the main street toward the town, when all at once she stopped, and not even stepping aside to the footpath, she took off her shoe, and she shook out a bit of grit that had troubled her . . . How many would have gone limp ing along, too proud to stop in the midst of the company and in the middle of the street, torturing themselves all the way till they reached their residence? Oh, the foolishness o f those who do not deal at once with that which hinders 1 . . . Oh, my dear people, if you are conscious o f God working through the Holy Spirit, calling your attention to some uncomfortable thing in your life, do take off your shoes, and ad just your soul, and adjust your mind, and adjust your body. This is holy ground. — B isho p T aylor S m it h . JULY 24 “ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart ” (Prov. 3 :S). “Fear thou not for I am with thee,” Blessed words of comfort said. Comfort for these days o f heartache, Strife and struggle, anxious dread. O Thou Christ, we claim Thy promise— How we need Thee every hour! Thou wilt take the burden from us. When we trust, we find Thy power. — L uella D e n n y . Tribulation” By Rev. T. Richard Dunham Forword by William L. Pettingill, D.D. Here is the most complete treatment of this subject we have found anywhere. It shows what The Great Tribulation is, when it will take place, whom it will affect, who will escape it, when it will end, and what the outcome will be. A complete study on this subject has long been in demand. Dr. Pettingill says, “ Mr. Dunham has put us all in his debt by writing on this subject, and his testimony as set forth in the chapters of this book will be found to be clear and convincing.’* B y all means get this book Paper 25c; Cloth 60c postpaid; 5 Paper $1.00 FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH STORE Box No. 67 Hoytville, Ohio A New Book on Prophecy “The Great
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