40 “ I am the light.” Then how very easily entreated He must b e ! The light needs no coersion—no persuasion to come near to us. We need not shout to the light; the light only seeks an opening, and on getting it will immediately enter in. The good Lord only waits' for an open mind and heart. “ If any man . . . open the door, I will come in.”—/. H. Jowett. The late Dr. Louis Meyer, whose death last summer removed a “ walking thesaurus” as to things Jewish from the American Church, was converted through attending a course of lectures' on “ Christ in the Book of Leviticus.” Giving up his profession as surgeon, he devoted the remainder of his life to the ministry and to work for the Jews, as well- as to literary efforts in behalf of his brethren. “While these dances (the ‘Turkey Trot’ and the ‘Tango’ ) are not permitted by the police in any of the public dancing places, they áre danced by fashionable people at private parties, which goes to show that in’ so-called society the parlor dance has; become even more demoralizing and dan gerous than the public dance halls. What a warning to parents who advocate select parlor dancing!” Speaking at the Moody Bible Institute, Dr. Campbell Morgan, after he had thor oughly studied the institution said: “ It is equipping men and women for special and specific work, which, if the general min istry of this country understood aright, they would always be endeavoring to avail them selves of the workers who are trained there.” Certainly this eminent Bible scholar and minister would say as much for.trie Bible Institute o f Los Angeles working in the same line and spirit. One o f the trying things I in a pastor’s life is that so many Christians only “ run well for a season,” then the pace slackens, and after that, the feet walk in forbidden paths. Dr. Torrey gives the following in structions to. young converts which we commend to all: • n
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(1) To keep looking at Jesus, (2 ) to study the Bible at least fifteen minutes every day, (3) to confess Christ every op portunity we get, and (5) to go to work to bring others to Christ.— XV, and T. We are not saved by prophets who will tell us all things, not even by a prophet Messiah. “ Our condition needs more than words." Christianity • is not the “teachings of Jesus,’’ “ the social principles of Jesus,” or the like: it is the judging, saving, heal ing presence of the Saviour God Himself. Wherefore while we study His teaching that we may rightly conceive Himself,-let us welcome this day and every day not His thoughts only but His Person. For it is not thoughts -we crave, “'but life —life that burns and destroys and reinvigorates, life that smites and saves. There is no record of a man getting a blessing from Christ when He was on earth who-didn’t get it in the act of obe dience. He Said to the man who had the palsy, "Rise,..t^ce up thy bed and walk.” The man might have said, “If I could have done that I would riot have been carried here by four men.” Do you think the Lord would have healed him? Not by a good deal. He said to the man born blind, “ Go to the Pool of Siloam and wash, and you shall get your, sight.” The man might have said, “What’s the use of my washing in the Pool of Siloam? I’ve done so many times.” The Hebrew - service fo r 'th e Day of Atonemerit Says: “ On the Day of Atone ment, blot out and make to pass away our transgressions, and our sins from be fore Thine eyes; as it is said, I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and thy sins I will not remember. And it. is said, I have blotted out as a cloud thy transgressions, and as a mist thy sins; return unto me, for I have redeemed thee. For on this day he shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you; from all. your sins before the Lord shall you be clean.”-
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