Remember that God is between you and your enemies. * * * The important question is not whether we have all of the Spirit, but rather if He has all of us! * * * Let us pray, "O , Spirit of God, first reveal Christ to me, and then reveal Christ through me today!" * Real leaders needn't always march at the head of the procession. * * * THE CROSS AND THE CROWN They borrowed a bed to lay His head, When Christ the Lord came down; They borrowed an ass in the moun tain pass For Him to ride to town. But the crown that He wore And the cross that He bore Were His own. He borrowed the bread when the crowd He fed On the grassy mountain side; He borrowed the dish of broken fish With which He satisfied. But the crown that He wore And the cross that He bore Were His own. He borrowed the ship in which to sit To teach the multitude, He borrowed the nest in which to rest. He had never a home as rude. But the crown that He wore And the cross that He bore Were His own. The thorns on His head were worn in my stead, For me the Saviour died; For the guilt of my sin the nails drove in When Him they crucified. Though the crown that He wore And the cross that He bore Were His own— They rightly were mine. — L. M. Hollingworth * *
A good heart does no HI . . . a better heart thinks none! * « * The rules of success won't work unless you do! * * * FRIENDS M A Y COM P LIM ENT us on our appearance et cetera, however, the mirror reveals that each passing day brings its bit of added age to leave w ith its. The day after John Quincy Adams had celebrated his 80th birthday, he was strolling down a boulevard in Boston catd met a friend who asked how he was feeling. Mr. Adams responded with a twin kle in his eye, “Well, Mr. Adams is very well, thank you — however, his house is sadly dilapidated. It tot ters on its foundation. The walls are badly shattered, the root worn. The building trembles in the wind and I think that Mr. Adams w ill soon have to move out; but he is very well in spite of the condition of his house." We, as Christians, should hold the same attitude toward life. When we came to Christ as our Saviour, we received eternal li^e. We know that the body may die but the spirit within the body w ill live on etern ally in glory w ith the Saviour. Lit tle wonder that Paul could say, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” — Phil. 1:21.
"In the days of the Old Testament it was a miracle if a donkey spoke, but times have certainly changed,"
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