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December 1927
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We have walked together, fellow pilgrims, along another stage of life. The milestone is at hand, and we are about to part. There is something solemn in the last day of a dying year. We look back upon the pathway we have trod. Its joys and its sor rows ; its successes and its failures; its hopes and its fears, present themselves afresh. And as, “Mutely, the thronging visions pass,” there comes to us a mingled sense of elation and of pain; of thankfulness for the many mercies vouchsafed, of regret for the shortcomings and the omissions that have marred the record of its hours. It is a day of stock-taking, and the resultant balance is not all that we feel it might have been. It is a day of at tempted prevision, and we vaguely wonder what is in store for us in the coming year. Well, let us lay both the joys and the sor rows at our Redeemer’s feet. Seek we of Him the pardon of our sins; render we to Him the meed of praise which is His right for every blessing bestowed and for every victory won. And let us commit our future to His care: “He knoweth the way that, we take;” He will precede us, as ever, that He may prepare the path. “The end of the days:” are we not irresistibly re minded of the last, of all the days ; of that day when we shall cease our pilgrimage? The thought should not drive us to live beneath the cypress. The end of the days is but the beginning of the DAY; the night may darken for a moment about our heads when the earthly years are sped; but for those who love God the radiance of the resurrection morning shall glow on the Eastern horizon “And bring the glad sabbatic year, The jubilee of Heaven; Till that day, dear reader, Fare thou well.”
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Daily Illustrated Texts for 1928 J anuary 1 Texts: Gen. 1:1; Heb. 11:3.
BEECHER and Ingersoll were always great friends. Mr. Beecher had a celestial globe in his study, a present from some manufacturer. On it was an excellént representation of the con stellations and stars which compose them. Ingersoll was delighted with the globe. He examined it closely and turned it round and round. “It’s just what I wanted,” he said. “Who made this globe? Oh, nobody, Colonel; it just happened 1”
J anuary 2 Text: Matt. 10 :29-31
THE direct appeal of the Gospel to a young, fresh heart is the subject of a delightful story. A little Spanish boy in Vigo who became a devout Christian was asked by an Englishman what had been the influence under which he had acted. “It was all because of the odd sparrow,” the boy replied. “I do not understand,” said the Englishman, in surprise. “What odd sparrow?” “Well, senor, it is this way,” the boy said. “A gentleman gave me a Testament,—the Book of the English Mission,—and I read in one Gospel that two sparrows were sold for a farthing. And again in St. Luke I saw, ‘Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings?’ And I ‘said to myself that Nuestro Senor [our Lord] Jesus Christ knew well our custom of selling birds. “As you know, sir, we trap birds, and get one chico for two, but for two chicos we throw in an extra sparrow. That extra sparrow is only a make-weight, and of no account at all. “Now, I think to myself that I am so insignificant, so poor, and so small that no one would think of counting me. I am like
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