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T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S Death is a toothless old tiger to the Christian. Don’t be afraid of it. You’re making too much of death. The grave doesn’t alter anything. It’s only a tun nel. Your body isn’t YOU. Your soul is the living, thinking being. What about your soul? Can you say with David, “Bless ¡the Lord, oh my soul”? An old Puritan said, “Take a look out of your graves every now and again.” He meant, run forward a little and imagine yourself dead and buried and the funeral over. Then take a look at the world and see how it’s get ting on without you—and LOYE NOT' THE WORLD. It will cure you of dab bling with th© world, whether it smiles or frowns at you. Twenty-four hours after you’re dead, What will the world care? Love not the world. Hold on to Jesus Christ and eternity. Think less of death.. It only emerges into the blazing light of the presence of Christ. What a blessing for some. - God deliver us from this invertebrate condition we’re in through want. of prayer to Him, the Guide and Deliverer of our lives. You won’t know till you meet Daniel in glory how he enjoyed his worship that day after the decree was out. The Bible will be sweeter to you when you’re maligned and bullied. Thank God for ANYTHING that makes us hang on to God. gwii[uiiHimHiiiinNiiii!iiiii|;iuuNuuniiiiui(uiiiiiijiuiiiiiiiiiui]iiuiiHiinHuiiiHiii{i)HiuMiiiHiiitiuing | SPENDING THE LORD’S MONEY | I (Paragraph from Resolutions I | Passed at World Conference on I | Christian Fundamentals.) | “We also take occSfeion to say 1 | that We are fully persuaded that | I men to whom God has given large i | means should make careful study 1 | both of the professorship and of | s the curriculum of study in those § I schools for which they propose 1 i any gifts; and in loyalty to God i I make their gifts to such schools 1 | and such only as believe in the l | very authority of the Bible and i i the very Deity of Christ and in I I our holy faith as voiced by the I I Book and represented by the i | Lord.” I fliiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiniiniiiinuiiiuiiniiiimmmniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiuniiiiuiniiiiiHimnnmiuiiiiMiS
ity. That’s the simplest—but the mightiest thing in the world. A great European scholar, John Dun can, was led into skepticism and athe ism. He believed in no God whatever. His mind couldn’t entertain the thought. But he came one day into a sweet child like faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior, with all his learn ing. He drifted into the habit of going to his room and .after blowing out liis candle at night, he would pray aloud. His housekeeper would hear him in his childlike prayer—“O, Lord Jesus, I’m just a little child.” Let me tell you, that’s the bravest, cleverest thing you’ll ever do—kneel down and pray. Ask the Strong One for strength and the Gracious One for grace. You’ll never be denied. There’s no lesson more needed for our own battle if it’s to end in victory. Oh, so many are utterly neglecting their only Strength. How much did you pray today? Without prayer, your foot will slip and you’ll fall. Abraham, one of the best believers, fell in Egypt. Prayer is not a weak thing. It’s the most intellectual and mighty thing. It was our Master’s all-conquering wea pon. Daniel kept right with God and God looked after the rest. But you say-, “Mr. MacNeil, suppose —suppose—Daniel had been killed for his faithfulness to the Bible and prayer? Where’s your story then?” You say you would suffer and be brave at all cost if God would work miracles to deliver you, but ¡there are no mir acles now. Who has been getting at you? You must be a soft snap for somebody who has the devil behind them. My dear friend, if Daniel was dead, the story would be the same. He would have beien dead by this time anyway, wouldn’t he? In fact the latest thing about Daniel is that he is dead. If he hadn’t died by the lions he would have died by the doctors. If you’re a true Christian, death has no reality to you.
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