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th e Living God and F a th e r of Jesus Christ, he must mean th e tru e God and the divine Christ, and no t some pan theistic force or energy and some mere ideal man among men. U nitarians and agnostics are very free to condemn evangelical churches for unw illingness to co-operate, h u t th e tru th is th a t believers in an inspired Bible and a divine Christ have no fellowship w ith those who do no t believe in them . ASHAMED AT HIS COMING We may work and we may labor F rom the morn ’till setting sun ; We may plow and sow and h arvest ’Till th e course of life is run. B u t th e sowing and th e reaping, W ill be toil and mere “ hum d rum ” If our faith is never strengthened In th e blessed Coming One. We may g ath er in th e children We may teach them how to sing; We may tra in them in our churches And protect them ’n eath her w ing; But when we fail to tell them T h at th e Lord whose name we bring,' Will be coming in the glory; How un fair it is to Him! We have gone to church so often We have given to the Lord, We have prayed a t mid-week service And we’ve read His Holy Word. Still, we never have believed it, Tho’ its mention we have h eard ; But th e Lord is surely coming F o r it’s promised in His Word. When we stand w ithin th e portals Of th e city fair and b righ t; When we hear th e angels singing . And we jo in w ith all our m ight; Won’t we feel a “wee-bit” shamefaced T h at we didn’t read arig h t; About His Blessed Coming; And proclaim it day and night?
ta u g h t before he can teach. Hum ility and docility are the conditions of dis- cipleship. O teach me Lord, th a t I may teach The precious things Thou dost im part, And wing my words th a t they m ight reach The hidden depths of many a heart. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 81. P salm 90:9-10. The Story Of Life. The story of hum an life is an in te r esting, personal, trag ic and continued story. Its words aTe th e days, its sen tences th e weeks, its p arag raph s th e months, and its chapters th e years. It is punctuated w ith laugh ter and w ith tears, it is bound in sorrow, joy and hope, it is printed on th e white parch m ent of time. I t commences w ith the wail of th e new-born babe b u t it does not close when the tomb door swings upon its ru sty hinges. There is a sup plem ent and continuation in another world. Life is more th an a succession of days and months and years. It is m easured by heart-th rob s and ideals ra th e r th a n by figures on a dial. The longest earth ly life is only th e preface and th e title-page to an everlasting story. We have no t passed th is way be fore. W hatever kindly word we can speak, whatever helpful deed we can do, let us w ith p rayerfu l lips and willing hands accomplish, for we shall not pass th is way again. CAMOUFLAGED ARGUMENTS An exchange says: A leaflet of the American In stitu te of Sacred L itera tu re has th is sentence: “To be a Chris tia n means to tru s t th e Living God and F a th e r of Jesus Christ ra th e r th a n to in sist on a system of doctrine or r it uals.” This is camouflage. Evangeli cal churches do no t insist on a creed or ritu a l ra th e r th a n on faith . They do insist th a t when one talk s of tru s t in
—W. H. Pike.
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