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J une 3, 1928 Text : 2 Cor. 3 :18
whom he had succeeded in converting—could anything look like a deadlier failure? And yet from that heroic death o f faithful anguish has sprung a great American Mission.
Dr. W. Y. Fullerton tells of a man who went out to China as a missionary, and as soon as he got there the people gave him a new name—-they called him “Mr. Glory Face.” And wherever he went to preach the. Gospel, many would gather together, be cause they wanted to hear “Mr. Glory Face” preach the Gospel. If there were more men like that in the pulpit and in the pew, there would be more people brought to Christ.
M ay 31, 1928 T ext: 1 Cor. 2:4-5
Dr. Cortland Myers gives this beautiful story in his book “ How Do We Know?” “ One of Scotland’s greatest preachers was Murray M’Cheyne. He died at twenty-nine years of age. Everywhere his%foot stepped Scotland shook. Whenever he opened his mouth there was an electrical force sweeping in every direction. Whenever he entered there was a magnetic per sonality that drew everybody toward him. He lived a wonderful life, and hundreds and thousands of people'followed him into the kingdom of God. A traveler, anxious to see where M’Cheyne had preached, went to the Scotch town and found the church. He told the old sexton he had come a long way and wanted to see where M’Cheyne preached. The sexton said, ‘Come on,’ and that old, gray-haired Scotchman led the way into M ’Cheyne’s study. He said, ‘Sit down in that chair.’ The traveler hesitated a moment and then sat down. On the table in front o f him was an open Bible. ‘Drop your head in the book and weep. That is the way our minister always did before he preached.’ Then he said, ‘Come with me.’ He took him up into the Scotch pulpit before the open Bible. ‘Now,’ he said, ‘stand there and drop your head in your hands over the book and begin to weep. That is the way our minister always did before he preached.’ ”
J une 4, 1928 T ext: Mt. 19:13
Gypsy Smith tells an interesting story of a clergyman who came to him in despair, confessing utter failure in his field and expressing the belief that he no longer had anything to warrant his retention in the ministry. “ Can’t you think o f a single thing in your parish that is encouraging?” asked the great evangelist. Puzzled and depressed, a ray of light at last broke, across the preacher’s face, as he said, “ I can think o f only one thing. The little children love me.” The big-hearted evangelist put his hand tenderly on the shoulder of the other and said, “My brother,, thou art not far from the kingdom o f God 1” Once upon a time there lived an old gentleman in a large house. He had servants and everything he wanted,, and still he was not. very happy*. When things did not go just as he wished, he was very cros^ At last1his servants .left him. Quite out o f temper, he went to a neighbor with the story o f his distresses. “It seems to .me,” said the neighbor sagaciously, “ ’twould be well for you to oil yourself up a littleiB;^ “To oil myself?” “Yes, and I will explain. Some time ago one o f the doors in my house creaked. Nobody, therefore, liked to go in or out o f it and avoided using it. whenever possible. One day I oiled its hinges, and it has been constantly used hy• everybody ever since.” “Then you think I am a creaking door,” cried the old gen tleman. “How do you want me to oil myself?” . “ That’s an easy matter,” said the neighbor. “ Go home and engage a servant, and when he do.es right praise him. If, on the contrary, he does something amistKdo not be cross, but oil your yoice and your words with the oil of love.” When the Alpine shepherds find the pasture getting short in the valleys, they have a simple method of leading their flocks to the heights, where they may find pastures green and new. The shepherd simply takes a lamb in his arms and begins the ascent. The bleating and calling o f the lamb furnishes the cue to the flock and they follow the shepherd. The Good Shepherd, .“ who giveth his life for the sheep,” often avails Himself of a similar method. The closer intimacy of the lamb o f the household sometimes finds the way to the heights, when the parents have well-nigh missed the path. God help us; in the rush and hurry, when “ life greatens in these later years,” not to grow out o f touch with little children. I f we do, we shall suffer irreparable loss. J une 5, 1928 Text : Prov. 15 :1 J u n e 6, 1928 Text: Isa. 11:6
J une 1, 1928 T ext: Mai. 3:10
There was a servdht of God who had a little girl, and he was anxious that she should be brought up to serve Him, and he wanted to teach her that we should give one-tenth o f our pos sessions to God. One day he called her into his study, where he had arranged ten piles o f money. And he said: “You see, I have ten piles o f money here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. •they belong to m e; but this tenth one belongs ‘to God.” The little girl said: “ Oh, father, are you going to keep all the nine for yourself ?K.i;'
J une 2, 1928 Text : 1 Pet. 2:20
“ I learned a good lesson when I was a little girl,” says a lady, BO n e frosty morning I was looking out of the window into my father’s farmyard where stood many cows, oxen, and horses, waiting to drink. The cattle all stood very still and meek till one o f the cows, in attempting to, turn around, hap pened to hit her next neighbor, whereupon the neighbor kicked and hit another. In five minutes the whole herd were kicking each other with great fury. My mother laughed and said: “ ‘See what comes of kicking when you are hit.’ ” “Just so, I have seen one cross word set a whole family by the ears,''on a frosty morning. Afterwards, if my brothers or myself were a little irritable, she would say: “ ‘Take care, my children. Remember how the fight in the farmyard began. Never return a kick for a hit, and you will save yourself a great deal of trouble’ ”
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