August 1928
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;S eptember 4, 1928 Text: Rom. 10:17-18
S eptember 7, 1928 Text : 1 Pet. 1 1
When someone asked the- aged poet Whittier which of all his writings had been most inspirational to him, he replied with tearful eyes and trembling lips;
A Methodist missionary, touring in South Africa, came across a crowd of natives'listening intently to the strains o f a phonograph as it reproduced “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” as sung by the Swazi chiefs at King Edward’s coronation. When the music ceased the audience-clamored to have the song ex plained, and the storekeeper, a Jew, told them the story of Jesus, whom the Christians cal,l .the Son of God. Thus in strange ways is the Gospel preached in the out-of-the-way places of the earth.
“ I know not where His islands lift Their,fponded palms in air: I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care!”
T h e B e lieve r In H is S o rrow s TF from the first man, Adam, down to the last born man, -*• all the, sorrows o f the human family were gathered to gether in one— every sickness, every infirmity, every want laid upon one man-^-you might see in that great load a faint picture o f the man Christ Jesus, for He bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. “ He was smitten of God, and afflicted.” . He was “ a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” And they, were not His own sorrows. They (sorrows) come o f sin. Had they been His own, then had He been a sinner. There are sorrows in this world because there is sin. There is no sorrow in heaven,- because there is no sin. There are sorrows among devils, because there is sin. There are sorrows among the lost, because there is sin. There is no sorrow among the spirits of just men made perfect, because there is no sin. It was because He took the place of the sinner that He bore our sorrows. Oh, ye men of sorrows, and ye women o f sorrows, behold in Jesus Himself the Man o f Sorrows! “ His countenance was marred more than any man’s, and His visage more than the sons o f men.” At the grave o f Lazarus, in deepest sympathy, He bore the sorrows of Martha and Mary, so that even the Jews said, “ Behold how He loved him.” And as He descended from the Mount of Olives, and beheld the towers of Salem, He wept over the city, for He bore its sorrows, He carried its griefs? And when He lifted His foot from off the mount of ascension, it was still as the God-man. Then, as He entered the gates of Paradise, list! what a shout of victory issued forth from thé shining armies, as they beheld Him back again— not as He was before He left them— but now as man1—the glorified man. And, oh, touching illustration ! See Him turning aside, as it were, from all their hallelujahs of bliss, and looking down— far down from the throne of glory, crying out, “ Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me ?” Oh, tender rela tionship ! Just to think that after going back to heaven, and listening to the new-born songs of the countless arm ies, He is yet touched by the afflictions of His members down here— He yet carries our sorrows as His own ; and so one are we that He asks, “ Why persecutest thou me?” —From L ife Truths.
•¡S eptember 5, 1928 T ext : Ëph. 5 :l-2
,: The story that Charlëé-'Slater1 tells'.bf i missionary in Africa Mûstrates who :a ;Christian IsU 'A missionary went to : a station in à new'"field and-began to ¡preacK Jesus Christ' The natives said,-“We1know Jes'us Christ. He used to live here.” “ Oh, no,” tke Tiiïssionary replied' “l i e never lived'here. : He died many ÿeàrü ago and arose ' again and: is n ow : in heaven.” But the nativdi Insisted that they knew Him. - 'It finally devèloped'that many years before this, a missionary had cbme to: this' heigh- hofhood and had'lived such ¥ godly life' among them' for a few ÿeafk that when: this second missionary came preaching about Jesus, the natives^coul’d see that the'first man'lived thé:very way thàt'Tesüs' taügftf and lived: Can the world see Jesus iff.yôü?'
S eptember 6, 1928 Text : Eph. 2:5-6
You have read of those tUen who dive for pearls in the Indian Ocean and elsewhere. Their method is this : They tie a rope to a stone, and then-fasten the^Stone to themselves-by the rope. Getting out o f the boat, the.weight of the stone takes them down to the bottom of the sea. When they; wish to rise to the surface of the water, what do they-do? To stay long at the bot tom would .mean death. They cut the. rope, and get free from the. Stone, and then with uplifted hands.'they rrse.irj Let lis apply this": A sinner in his sins is in the place o f death, and to stay there long wotild mean eternal death. Now How does the-sinner become delivered from the place of death? He'gets rid o f his sins. It was sin that pressed him down, and "kept him down, as the stone fastened to the diver kept him down. But when the sinner has fai.th in Christ; then the rope that binds us to our sins is cub and we are, free to rise.A n d how high doés the sinner, freed, from his sin, rise? He rises to .heavenly places in Christ. “-When.we were dead in sins, hath- quickened us together in heavenly places in Christ.” We'raise our hands to-our Saviour, and by the-power o f His Spirit: we cleave through death’s dark waters: and rise to light and love.
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