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August 1928
A ugust 7, 1928 Text : Rom. 8 :26
Illustrated Daily Text Interesting Stories from Everyday Life
Prayer can be directly answered by denial. A godly man, with four ungodly sons,iprayed that when he came to die, his end might be so radiant with grace that his boys,' seeing how a Christian can die, might be won to his Saviour. The end came, and with it a great horror of darkness. His four sons, aghast, saw a fierce and terrible struggle, in which the dying saint felt himself forsaken by God; then he passed quietly away. The eldest son said: “ Boys, .if a good man, like our father, can have such a death, what shall be ours ?” and kneeling down, he prayed for pardon through Christ, and led his three brothers to the Saviour, For God can answer prayer for the unsaved while reserving to Himself the means. What a man hears determines what he is getting out o f life. Evangelist “Dick” Huston tells o f two friends who were walking along a busy New York thoroughfare, when one o f them asked his companion if he heard a cricket. His companion laughed and replied that no one could hear a cricket with the din o f trolleys an d .motor cars and trucks. The other stopped, lifted up a stone, and picked up a cricket and showed it to his friend. “ How could you hear it?” the incredulous friend asked. “I will show you,” and taking a coin from his pocket, he tossed it in the air. When the coin struck the sidewalk, several men near by put their hands to their pockets and looked about to see if they had dropped any money. “You hear what you are trained to listen for,” the nature lover observed.- “My ears are trained to hear the birds and insects and all the sounds o f nature.” Our Lord knew all about the many voices of earth that drown out the still, small ^oiceiqf God’s Spirit, so.H e warned, “ Take heed how ye hear.” And, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” “ Open my ears that I may hear Voices o f truth Thou sendest'clear; And while the wave-notes fall on my-ear, Everything false will disappear.” ' & A ugust 8 , 1928 Text: Mt. 11:15
A ugust 4, 1928 T ext: I’sa. 119:37-38
A few years ago some young men in Reval, tainted by Bol shevist hatred of religion, arranged a demonstration for the burning o f Bibles. One of their leaders was named Tond'i. In 1924 he was one o f the rioters who massacred many people in Reval. He was captured and imprisoned. Then he received a Bible in his cell, and the change wrought in him thereby may be gathered from letters he wrote to the Bible Society’s repre sentative in Esthonia. W e are allowed to quote this passagdpM “I thank God who has saved me, though so' late. Every night, after the signal for silence has sounded, I read the Bible, the precious Book. Formerly I hated it.and to burn it was a delight to me. Now it has become my truest companion. . . . The words o f Christ which I read in the Gospel of St. Matthew «^■‘•Come unto Me, all. ye that labour . . .’—give me boldness, to go to His fountain of mercy and take the wafer freely.”
A ugust S, 1928 Text: Eph. 6 :6
Philip Henry, one day calling on a tanner, found him so busy tanning a hide that he was not aware of his visitor’s ap proach until he was tapped on the back. The- man, starting in confusion, exclaimed, “ Sir, I am ashamed you find me thus.” “Nay,” '¡replied Philip Henry; “may the Lord Jesus when He comes fimd me discharging with the same faithfulness and zeal the duties of - my calling.” All work may be done as “ unto the Lord.”
A ugust 9, 1928 Text: Psa. 68:19
A ugust 6, 1928 Text: Prov. 29:25
R. C. Chapman once said to a friend, “ I have such a load burdening me.” “ I am so sorry,!’ the friend answered. “Yes,” said Mr. Chapman, “ but wait till you hear what my burden is— ‘He daily loadeth me with benefits.’ ”
That faithful preacher Henry Varley tells the follow ing: “We were sitting under the shade of an oak tree comparing notes and conferring one with another as to the best methods of service, especially in reference to effective preaching. ‘I always write my sermons,’ said my friend, ‘and then carefully revise them, so that if anything is written calculated to offend any of my hearers, I may at once erase it.’ This was said by a young clergyman,who was evidently anxious to make his mark as a preacher. Desirous to know that I heard correctly, I replied, ‘Do you mean that forcible statements, either of your own writ ing or from Scripture, concerning sin, and the terrors o f the judgment to come are either toned down or avoided?’ ‘Yes,’ was the reply; ‘if I think they will offend anyone, I do so.’ I fear this candid testimony indicates the reason why so many ministers are powerless amongst their fellows. ‘The fear of man bringeth a snare indeed.’ ”
A ugust 10, 1928 Text: 2 Cor. 6:17-18
A young art student began his long, laborious course o f train ing in a London art school. During those years he wanted to draw a portrait of Christ. He was much disappointed with his first-effort. He tried to reveal tenderness and sympathy, but only expressed weakness. He tore it up. He tried again. Again he was dissatisfied. Instead o f showing the power and manliness of Christ, he seemed only to picture anger' and hardness. He destroyed that. Then came the Great War. His art work came to an end. He went to camp and to the front in France. He was billeted
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