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she liked the sermon. “ Very good,” was the reply, “ all but what he said about the ‘little white casket’.” The preacher had said that “ sometimes God permits a little white casket to come into the home in order (to remind us that there is another world beside this one.” She was thinking, God had no right to take that little rosebud out o f her home. But an Unrepentant heart keeps more people from receiving forgiveness than anything else. Henry Millington said when a boy his father shut him up in an empty room for punishment. After an hour his father came and knocked at the door and wanted to know if he was ready to be forgiten. “ No,” came the afiswer. At the close o f the second hour came the father with the same question, but from behind the locked door again came the answer “ No.” At the end of the third hbur his father came again and knocked, but when he asked the ques tion the boy spoke out through his sobs “Yes, father.” In a -minute the dour was unlocked and a kiss o f forgiveness was placed on his ,brow. is more needed today than a faith that has legs and hands and feet.— Torrey. Those who love not, win not.— Steele. The ques tion is not, how much you love to preach, but how much do yoju love those to whom you preach?— Echoes. , Some folks have a big wholesale way o f talking about “humil ity.” It’s all hot air. W e’ve got to come down to personal things and bring men one by one to C\ix'\stIF-McNeill: Less earnest men would have waited for a more favor able opportunity, but they had no guaran tee there would ever be an opportunity again|||-7' orrey. v. 4. They uncovered the roof. Faith and love always carry with them an inven tive head.— Selected. I believe in books and I am in for trained soul winners, but
The exchecker' refused to pay the bill because it was ' so-large, till the Czar was consulted in the matter. Jesus has paid a larger debt to purchase forgiveness for every one o f us than this. H indrances to F orgiveness .—The Phar isees reasoned about forgiveness, but did not receive any. A man may sit down to a table laden with the finest food-in the land. He may reason about the bread, about, the meat and the vegetables. He may complain about being hungry. It will do no good. I f he continues to reason about the food and does not actually eat he will starve at that table. The Scribes thought evil in their hearts. Some people are thinking evil about God, some about the Church and Christians and some about the Bible. A lady lost a little girl and 'some few months afterwards lost her husband. She began to think God was unjus'f in taking away these members o f the family. She continued to think evil o f God and shut His forgiveness out -of her life. A preacher stood at the Church, door shaking hands with the people. He heard a lady behind him ask another lady how v. 1. It was noised. If your church is empty, let the noise go through the town that Jesus is there in the power o f the preached Word. Some pew holders may quit but others will fill up the hole.— Mctieill. ■ v. 2. H e preached the word. Nothing this side o f heaven is so important as God’s Word.— Godbey. It is Bible verses that saves men from re-verses. Preach the Word.- -Way of Faith. When a preacher gets harmonized with God, he will have a good appetite for the Word o f God and he will preach it.— Short. The proof o f the Bible’ s inspiration is that when it is received, it does the work of God. No other book does.— Bashford. v. 3. They come bringing one. Nothing
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