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got a great blessing at Keswick. They; asked him, “What can you say about it?”; “Well,” he replied, “I can say this: I was: a Christian before I came to Keswick. Christ was my King, but I am afraid He was a constitutional sovereign and I was prime minister. Now He is absolute Lord, and that has made the difference in my life and brought a blessing.” Aye,; that makes all the difference in the world. “Make Jesus King.” “Crown Him Lord of all,” and you will know the liberty of ' the glory of the sons of the kingdom.— Rev. W. E. Moore. Mar. 22. Obeying the King, Acts 26:19. A successful Christian worker lay dying, and some one asked him the secret of his life. He answered, “The secret of my life is that I have never, said No to Christ.” A great captain after a battle was talk ing over the events of the day with his officers, and he asked them who had done the best that day. Some spoke of one man who had fought bravely, and. some of another. “No,” he said, “you are all mis taken. The best man in the field today was a soldier who was just lifting up his arm to strike an enemy, but when he heard the trumpet sound a retreat, checked himself and dropped his arm without striking the blow. That perfect and ready obedience to the will of the General is the noblest thing that has been done today.” Mar. 23. Serving the King, Rom. 12:11. One morning a woman came to the minister and said, “Oh, I would give any thing to be in this work [series of evan gelistic meetings] actively and actually. I would give anything to have some living part in the work which is going on here next week in winning men and women to Christ, but I do not know what to do.” The minister said, “Are you prepared to give the Master the ‘five loaves and the two fishes’?” She answered she didn’t have that many. He said, “Do you sing?” She answered, “I try to sing.” Where upon the pastor said, “Will you give the Lord your voice for the next ten days?” She said, “I will.” The first night she sang a soul into the kingdom. —o— March 31, 1929 The Words of Jesus About Life Unending John 14:1-3 H eaven is B lessedness , for C hrist is T here How know I that it looms lovely, that land I have never seen, With morning-glories and heartsease and unexampled green, With neither heat nor cold in the balm- redolent air? Some of this, not all, I know; but this is so : Christ is there. How know I blessedness befalls who dwell in Paradise, The outwearied hearts refreshing, re kindling the worn-out eyes, All souls singing, seeing, rejoicing every where ? Nay, much more than this I know; for this is so: Christ is there.
tially destroyed by fire, and at last, after there had been riot and bloodshed and anything but purity or peace for years, the citizens of the town sent to the American Home Missionary Society, and said: “Can you send us a minister of Jesus Christ?” And if you were to go there today you would scarcely know the community, with its church spires pointing heavenward and its children in the Sunday schools, as or derly as most of the towns in. the land, because of the influence of the church. —o— March 24, 1929 Making Jesus King Matt. 21:1-17 “C aesar and C hrist ” “Proud Caesar came in strength of steel: The panoply of war was his. At his command, men poured forth life, The cities perished, nations fell. He left as heritage a blood-stained tide; He came, he scorned, he slaughtered— And he died. “The meek Christ came, His strength the true, A heart of love His panoply. At His command men found their life, The cities flourished, nations grew. As heritage, the reign of peace He gives: He came, He loved, He pitied— And He lives.” —o— Daily Scripture Reading Mar. 18. A False Idea, John 6:14, 15. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius de pend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him.— Na poleon I. Mar. 19. The True Idea, John 1:49. Christ is the “King Immortal.” The ad mirers of Charlemagne set up his poor corpse in its grave, crowned his pulseless temples and put a scepter in his bloodless fingers. Grim mockery! But our King Eternal not only never dies, but gives us also victory over death. Mar. 20. Deciding for Christ, Acts 2: 41, 42. A little girl who had been listening to a sermon which urged efforts to bring people to Jesus, said: “I think I’ll bring somebody to Him.” “Whom will you bring?” asked her father. “I think I’ll bring myself,” was the answer. That is always the way of obedience .—Sunday Circle. A young woman once refused to come to the Saviour, saying, “There is too much to give up.” “Do you think God loves you?” “Certainly.” “How much do you think He loves you?” She thought a moment and answered, “Enough to give His Son to die for me.” “Do you think if God loves you, He will ask you to give up anything it is for your good to keep?” “No.” “Do you wish to keep anything that is not for your good to keep?” “No.” “Then you had better come to Christ at once.” And she did. Mar. 21. King of our Lives, Acts 9 :6. I remember at one of our testimony meetings a man got up and said he had
flock, while the shepherd ate his supper. After he had eaten his supper he told the dog to put thè sheep in the corral. This she refused to do, but started off over the prairie. The herder put the sheep in and went to bed. About midnight he was awakened by the barking of the dog at the corral. He got up and to his astonishment found the dog with, a band of about fifty sheep that had strayed dur ing the day without the herder’s knowl edge. But the observant dog knew, and, though hungry and tired from the day, she had gone into the night, seeking untii she found. The shepherd dog did this out of fidelity to duty and love for the strayed sheep. How much better should a man be in his fidelity to his Master and his duty than a shepherd dog. How carefully flocks and folds need to be watched. Mar. 13. By Fellowship, 1 Jno. 1:3. Mar. 14. By Worship, Heb. 10:19-25. Rev. W. L. Watkinson, the great Eng lish preacher, once stated : “In the estab lishment of one of our great goldsmiths is a vast iron safe with many locks, contain ing immense treasure. But no one person can open that chest; the keys are in the hands of many trustees, and only by their concurrence can the hidden wealth be made manifest. Thus it is in the natural and in the spiritual world, the wealth of the divine blessing can be reached only through the brotherhood of saints. ‘Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together.’ ” The social genius of Chris tianity, concurrency, is one of its fore most features. There is peril in religious isolation. The sun of sociability is as necessary to soul health as to our bodies is the sun in the sky. True Christian com munion verily is the sun of the soul. Ac cess to soul wealth in worship is by the use of concurrent keys, consonant persons. The act of divine worship is the ines timable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adora tion .—Hosea Ballou. Mar. 15. By Officers’ Example, Acts 20: 17-31. After a great spiritual awakening in a certain church, a man who had united arose at prayer meeting and told what in fluenced him to take the step. Six months before he selected one of the prominent members and watched him closely in his church, business and social life. By sys tematic inquiry and careful personal ob servation he subjected him to six months of microscopic scrutiny. He said, “I thank God for that man. He stood the test. I was convinced of the genuineness of his religion and was thus led to accept Christ myself.” Mar. 16. By Its Ideals, 1 Tim. 6:6-16. What would any city or town or coun try be if you did not hinder the branches running over the wall and dropping part of the fruitage upon the ungodly and un deserving? F. B. Meyer tells us of some infidels who, many years ago, founded a town in Minnesota, in order to have a town in which the name of God or Christ should never be mentioned except in terms of profanity and vulgarity. They hanged Jesus Christ in the street in effigy and the place was full of blasphemy. He says : “I had to stay there all night some years ago in passing through that region, and I trembled for my life, while Ì stayed in the best hotel in the place.” The town was destroyed by fire and they tried to build it again—it was again par
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