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“Are you still giving them the Bible?” inquired one servant o f Christ of another, as he sympathetically asked how the work of the Lord was prospering in his friend’s hands. “Yes,” was the prompt reply, “ I have nothing else to give.” Thereupon another friend chimed in, “Ah, that reminds me of the parable of the old mother herring saying to a young one, ‘R'emember, child, you are restricted to the ocean.’ ”— P ickering . II. A voiding G uesswork A little boy saw his father using a spirit level to see whether his work was “true” and straight. “What’s the use of being so careful, Father?” he asked.'’“It looks very good.” “Guessing won’t do in carpenter work,”, said his father, sighting along the edge of a board, and shaving it the least bit. “You have to be exactly right. Folks guess at too many things. God doesn’t like that way of living.” “ But there aren’t any spirit levels for living by,” laughed the boy, watching him. “Yes, there are,” said his father earn estly. “You’ll find them in the Bible. Try all your actions by that. Make them true and straight, and no guesswork about them.”— Five Thousand Best Illustrations, by Hallock. III. T he W ord of G od 1. To do God’s work we must have God’s power; To have God’s power we must know God’s w ill; To know God’s will we must study God’s Word. ^ B - S elected . 2 . A lady looking at Rembrandt’s picture of “An Old Woman” in the Metropolitan Mu seum said, “That is not a picture; it is the old woman herself.” So our hearts often feel when reading o’r hearing the Bible. “That is not a Book; it is God Himself speaking to our souls.” — S elected . 3. A feature o f this meeting might be a testimony period in which those present will tell o f passages from the Bible which God has made particularly real to them. Or, the members might read and comment upon Scripture verses which describe God’s Word and its power in human lives. Pos sible verses would be John 15:3; 17:17; Hebrews 4:12; 1 Peter 1:23, and 2 Peter 1 : 21 . IV. B ibliography D ealing w ith the I nspiration of the B ible Davis, George T. B., Fulfilled Prophecies That Prove the Bible, and Rebuilding Palestine AcCordmg~hr Prophecy. Kyle, Melvin Grove, The Problem of the Pentateuch. Orr, James, The Christian View o f God and the World. Wilson, Robert Dick, A Scientific Investi gation o f the Old Testament. V. O beying the C ompass Twenty-five years ago, much of northern Michigan was entirely new country, cov ered with dense forests. The best woods man was liable to lose his way unless he
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