August 1928
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A u g u s t 26, 1928 T ext: Phil. 3:12-
“ ‘Can’t I wear a white dress down into the mine?’ she asked, petulantly. “ ‘Yes’m,’ returned the old man. ‘There’s nothing to keep you from wearin’ a white frock down there, but there’ll be con siderable to keep you from wearin’ one back.’ ” There is nothing to keep the Christian from wearing his white garments when he seeks the fellowship of that which is unclean, but there is a good deal to prevent him from wearing white garments afterward.
A visiting friend was in the studio of the late Mr. Chase, the .famous American artist, and he asked him to show him his best picture. In reply Mr. Chase pointed- to a canvas that was perfectly blank, and said, “That is my best!” It was the imag inary dwelling-place o f an ideal which he had never realized, harmonies of form and color which he had seen but never cap tured and expressed. On that canvas he portrayed perfected glories which his brush toiled after in vain. There he saw his pattern in the mount. The glory receded before every attain ment. He was ever drawing nearer, and yet it always seemed afar off. But it lured him, and he followed after.
A u g u s t 23, 1928 Text: Dan. 12:3
Dr. Chalmers visited a dying infidel in Glasgow twenty-one times, and was refused admission every time. But at the twenty- second visit the infidel invited him in because he wanted to see a man who could be refused twenty-one times and still keep coming. And then Dr. Chalmers had a chance to tell the dying man o f Him who can save.
A u g u s t 27, 1928 T ext uMatt. 1:21
The Eskimos had no word in their language to represent the Saviour. Colemeister describes how he said to them : “ Does it not happen sometimes when you are out fishing that a storm arises and some o f you are lost and some are saved?” They said: “ Oh, yes, very often.” “ But it often happens that you are in the water and owe your safety to some brother who stretches out his hand to help.” “Very frequently.” “ Then what do you call that friend?” They gave in answer a word in their language, and he immediately wrote it against thé word “ Saviour” in Holy Writ, and ever afterwards it was intelligible to all of them.
A u g u s t 24, 1928 Text: Ezek. 33:8
In the early days of the late Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman’s min istry he was asked to visit a young man who was dying, and the friend who invited him to call, made the request that he should not speak to him about dying or becoming a Christian,' sug gesting that he should first o f all-win his confidence, and then on the following day, perhaps, introduce the subject of religion. “ I made my Way to the room,” says Dr. Chapman, “and sat down for half an hour talking to the young man about the music and the politics o f the city. Then I rose to say goodbye, taking his cold, white hand in mine, without a word concerning his future. Just as I reached the door I turned my face back, and his great eyes seemed to burn me through and through. To this day I have not forgotten the look of them. I went to my home, but could not rest. “Early the next morning I went back to the house and touched the doorbell. The door quickly,swung open, and I was making my way up to the room when the maid of the .house called me back and said, ‘Do you not know, sir, that he died half an hour after you were here yesterday afternoon?’ “ I do not know what any other man would say about it, but I have always felt that when I stand at the judgment seat of Christ I shall be expected to answer a question as to why I let that man slip into eternity without a warning.”
A u g u s t 28, 1928 Text : 1 Jno. 4 :4
It is said that during the Revolutionary War, General Wash ington came up, to the Brandywine with his army and they crossed over the bridge. Some^soldiers went out to him after ward and said, “ General, what had we better do with the bridge; burn it or leave it there lest the.enemy drive us back, and we shall want to retreat?” General Washington thought a minute, raised his hands'iin the great majesty of his mighty generalship, and cried out, “ Burn the bridge! It is victory or death!” That was the idea. ■ And so the Christian may go through this world burning all the bridges behind him, in no danger of being driven back, or overcome by his enemy.. W e are to believe at once, when we are tempted, that Jesus . Christ can conquer the adversary of all righteousness, and cast ourselves wholly upon His power.
A u g u s t 29, 1928 Text: Exo. 20:8
A u g u s t 25, 1928 Text : Eph. 3 :8
On the side of an English coal mine, limestone is in constant process of formation. When the miners are at work, the dust of the coal colors the formation black; when they rest, it is white. Fori each Sabbath, the formation has a white line; hence it is called “The Sunday Stone.” There is also a record o f the Sab baths o f all people, made by themselves as well as by their Maker. Well spent, the Lord’s day introduces a week o f content, but desecrated, it casts a portentous shadow on all the following days. The Sabbath is the door o f the week, the gates of the city. Let no Samson carry them away and leave the city unprotected.
When Andrew Jackson became President of the United States, he was, as is usually the case with presidents, over whelmed with office seekers. Among the number was a minister of the Gospel. Mr. Jackson said to the man, “And what do you do now?” “I am a minister o f the Gospel,” was the reply. Said Jackson, “ Then go home, my dear man, and preach, for I have no office so high as that.”
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