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THE KING’S BUSINESS
rich mine; but suddenly he checked him self. “This is not my business,” said he, and then he flung the rock as far' away as he could, and went on about his Master’s business. M ost people sleep on their sides, with their knees drawn up. Elephants always, and horses commonly, sleep standing up. Birds, with the exception of owls and the hanging parrots of India, sleep with their heads turned tailway over the back, and the beak thrust among the feathers be tween the wing and body. Storks, gulls and other long-legged birds, sleep standing on one leg. Ducks sleep on open water. To avoid drifting shoreward, they keep paddling with one foot, thus making them move in a circle. Sloths sleep hanging by their four feet, the head tucked in between their fore legs. Foxes and wolves sleep curled up, their noses and the soles of their feet close to gether, and blanketed by their bushy tails. Hares, snakes and fish sleep with their eyes wide open. Owls, in addition to their eyelids, have a screen that they draw sideways across their eyes to shut out the light, for they sleep in the daytime. “Christians” are found who sleep any where and anyhow, even “sitting in the seat of the scornful” or “standing in the way of sinners,’’ or bolt upright in the pew. M any Christians are much agitated about the storms which rock the Church and the tempests which from time to time beat upon her. They think the ship is going down. They forget that Christ is still in the ship. The disciples might have known that the ship could not go down with Christ in it. Knowing what He was they might have known that He could not come to so mean ingless an end. And so may we, knowing that Christ is in the Church, be sure that it cannot go down. Our panic is a shame to our faith and an io’sult to Him. Caesar
at the crisis of his fortunes, being in a storm on the sea, said to his frightened boatmen: “Fear not; you carry Caesar and all his fortunes.” So Jesus says to us: “Fear not; you carry Christ and His king dom.” Let us not be afraid of the storms of science and criticism which seem at times to be against the Church; they will only blow the Church onward in its course. The Roman general spoke presumptuously, for he was human, and his fortunes might have foundered, and they did. But if we believe that Jesus is divine we know that His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. How glad these disciples would have been if their faith had defied the storm and Jesus had wakened, as He would have, in time to save and praise their trust in Him. May we at least hear not the question, “Where is your faith?” but His gratified commendation of a faith like the centuries, so great as to excite even the wonder of the Master .—Sprecher (Luke 8:22-25). “I f you are on the gloomy line, Get a transfer. If you’re inclined to fret and pine, Get a transfer. Get off the track of doubt and gloom, Get on the Sunshine train, there’s room— Get a transfer. “If you’re on the worry train, Get a transfer. You must not stay there and complain. Get a transfer. The cheerful cars are passing through, And there’s lots of room for you_ Get a transfer. “If you are on the grouchy track, Get a transfer. Just take a happy special back— Get a transfer. Jump on the train and pull the rope That lands you at the station Hope- Get a transfer.
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