T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S poor bar must undergo to be worth this! But the more it is manipulated, the more it is hammered, and passed through the fire, and beaten and pounded and pol ished, the greater the value. Insufficiency of the World The nardoo plant is a pseudo-fern, found in the Australian swamps, and used by the aborigines as a substitute for bread. It has very curious effects when taken as food. It is appetizing, and, for the time being, seems to satisfy the crav ings of hunger; but its value as a food is negative, for it fails to build up the body or to supply stamina. Travelers lost in the bush have fed upon it, only to grow weaker after the temporary sat isfaction. There are so-called foods for the soul which are taken as a substitute for the Bread of Life, but give only mo mentary satisfaction, and create a fleet ing energy: their real soul-building power is nil, and the soul that relies upon them for nutriment becomes weakened (with out knowing it) even while feeding. Love Deeper Than Sin “God’s love is deeper than sin,” writes Dr. J. H. Jowett. “One night when I was crossing the Atlantic, an officer of our boat told me that we had just passed over the spot where the ‘Titanic’ went down. And I thought of all that life and wreck age beyond the power of man to recover and redeem. “ ‘Too far down,’ he said. Then I thought of all the human wreckage en gulfed and sunk in oceanic depths of nameless sin. Very far down. But not too far down for the love of God! Listen to this: ‘He descended into hell,’ and he will descend again if you are there. ‘If I make my bed in hell Thou art there.’ ‘Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.’ ‘He bore our sin,’ then he got beneath it. And there is no human wreckage lying in the ooze of the deepest sea of iniquity that His deep love canot reach and redeem. What a Gospel!”
1032 is satisfied with its bounties, and the anxious obtain peace. To omit the Cross, or to give it a subor dinate place in our preaching is not only to bear an incomplete testimony, but to be actually untrue to the New Testa ment. It is therefore the clear duty of the preacher to proclaim the word of the Cross with conviction and passion— con viction begotten of his own experience of the tremendous power lodged in the Cross to set the guilty sinner free, to give him peace with God and an assured position in the family circle of heaven, and pas sion that he may lead others to share in the inestimable blessings of redemption which have come to him through the death of Christ. a » j&B? Monthly Illustrations The Best Trick of All The Devil held a great anniversary, at which his emissaries were convened to report the result of their several mis sions. “I let loose the wild beasts of the desert,” said one, “on a caravan of Chris tians; and their bones are now bleaching on the sands.” “What of that?” said the Devil, “their souls were all saved.” “I drove the east wind,” said another, “against a ship freighted with Christians, and they are all drowned.” “What of that?” said the Devil, “their souls were all saved.” “For ten years I tried to get a single Christian asleep,” said a third, “and I succeeded and left him so.” Then the Devil shouted, and the night stars of hell shouted for joy.—Luther. God’s Perfecting Processes A bar of steel worth five dollars, when wrought into horseshoes, is worth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two thousand dollars; if into springs for watches it is worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. What a drilling the
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