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T H E K I N G ’S BUS I NE . S S of the soul with God 5s salvation. Har mony comes througl obedience. This is why the Greeks taught their children to sing. Salvation is similarity of feel ing with God, loving what He loves and hating what He hates. Is it conceiv able that John the Baptist and Herod could live together and be comfortable? Or that John Knox and Queen Mary could have fellowship in this world or in any other? A saint in hell would be happier than a sinner in heaven. Walk ing with God implies seven things, viz., going in the same direction, keeping step with God, talking with God, at ease in the presence of God, perfect confidence in God, pleasing God, and no separation from God. This companion ship involves harmony, humility and holiness. “Agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way with him.” | j SUNDAY, March 13. Matt. 26:14-30. The Lord’s Supper. Our Lord teaches us as much by His acts as by His words. Especially are His acts in the upper room significant while handling the symbols of His body and blood just before His crucifixion. Bread is the staff of life and is not more indispensable for the body than Christ is for the soul. He took the bread and blessed it. It was a volun tary act. He took on Him the likeness of sinful flesh. He was God manifest in the flesh. By incarnation He took a visible body that was to be the life of the world. He sanctified it in taking it and offered it as a sacrifice to God. Although He was crucified by wicked hands and slain, yet the breaking of His body was by His own willing con sent. In giving the broken bread to His believing disciples, He taught that the bestowing of the saving virtue of His broken body is in His own hands. “I give unto My sheep eternal life.” “Broken for you.” Here is substitu tion. There is none other name under Heaven whereby we must be saved.
MONDAY, March 14. Luke 22:14-21. The Meaning of the Cup. The life of the flesh is in the blood. In pouring out His blood, our Saviour was pouring out His soul unto death. The cup of suffering and sorrow was put into His hands by His loving and righteous Father. We cannot under stand all it meant to Him since He tasted death for every man. He even gave thanks for the cup which was the symbol of His agony and death. The giving of the cup to the disciples sug gests His desire that we should enter into the fellowship of His suffering and be made conformable unto His death. Phil. 3:10. They all drank of it. Mark 10:39. They became martyrs for His sake. To drink of His cup is to bear about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in the body. 2 Cor. 4:10. The partakers of His sufferings will be made glad when His glory shall be revealed. 1 Pet. 4:13. In observ ing the Lord’s Supper we do not honor Him as a teacher nor imitate Him as an example but remember Him as a Sacrifice and a Saviour in shewing forth His death until He come. TUESDAY, March 15. Exodus 11:1-10. The Redemption of the First-Born. A sentence of death is hanging over every home in Egypt. Israel is in Egypt and must be saved from it, while the ground on which salvation is be stowed must be made plain. The test is not one of character, for the children of Israel had shared in the sins of Egypt and if they are to be saved, it must be on some other ground than their own merit. It must be on the ground of an Atonement provided by God and accepted by them. The first born represented the family and the Judgment of the first-born stood for judgment upon all, while the re demption of the first-born stood for the redemption of all. Moreover Israel was the first-born among the
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