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visible has clothed Himself”—like the man who is living in the perpetual en joyment of God’s fresh life? Having been brought into perfect harmony with God, he appreciates everything in its true and divine relation— all in God, and God in all. He sings as only a child of the resurrection can sing: “Heaven above is softer blue, Earth around is sweeter green, Something lives in every hue, Christless eyes have never seen; Birds with gladder songs o’erflow, Flowers with deeper beauties shine, Since I know as now I know, I am His, and He is mine.” —J. G. M. April 2— “I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for ever more. Amen” (Rev. 1:18). Oh, take me not back through the long ages to a Christ that was! He is 1 He lives! He is here! I can never again be alone, never grope in the dark for a hand, never be forsaken or forlorn, never need a»guide, a master, a friend, or a husband to my soul. I have Him who suffices for uncounted myriads in the dateless noon of eternity. He who was everything in the yesterday of the past, and who will be everything in the tomorrow of the future, is mine today, and at each present mo ment of my existence,—here, and in all worlds! In Hebrews 13:8 the Revised Version adds a significant “yea” to bring out the emphatic accentuation which the writer lays upon the unchangeableness of Jesus. It is well placed. With what a thunder of assent might that word be ut tered ! All who are of this opinion an swer Yea! First the innumerable com pany of angels utter it, then the spirits of just men made perfect reaffirm it, then the universe of created things, the regu larity of whose law and processes is due OpenDoors andHungry Hearts inAllianceFields Recent letters from our world wide fields tell of golden opportunities for presenting the Gospel. From Cambodia we re a d : At Stung Chas, a recently opened village, seventy people within the last six weeks have decided to follow the Lord. One of them, Mr. Haum, is very zealous in spreading the Good News. In the Peruvian jungles two canoe loads of Campa Indians stopped a t the mission bungalow for food and received for the first time the Bread of Life. In the southern Philippines, Moros, Pagans and nominal Roman Catholics need the message of Christ. Two Moslem local leaders have expressed their belief th at Jesus is the Son of God. A young man from Sindangan knows the Subano dialect and is preparing to preach the Gospel among the pagans in the Subano field. In one house at Milbuk, two young Visayans were overjoyed at. seeing the Bible. They took three Bibles—Cebuano, Spanish and English. In Africa, a new station is being es tablished in French Conge, where heathen ism abounds. These are hut samples of opportunities and results throughout Alliance mission fields in many parts of the earth. Men, money, and above all, prevailing prayer and unceasing intercession are required. We covet your fellowship. Pray and obey God. The Christian and Missionary Alliance 2G0 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y.
ciples did, in a past tense— “we trusted.” But let us ever say, “I am trusting ."— Crumbs. The soft, sweet summer was warm and glowing, Bright were the blossoms on every bough: I trusted Him when the roses were blooming; I trust Him now. . . Small were my faith should it weakly fal ter Now that the roses have ceased to blow; Frail were the trust that now should alter, Doubting His love when storm clouds grow. —The Song of a Bird in a Winter Storm. —o-— March 31—Easter— “I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold,\ 1 am alive for evermore" (Rev. 1:18). Flowers! Easter lilies! ’ Speak to me this morning the same dear old lesson of immortality which you have been speak ing to so many sorrowing souls. Wise old Book! Let me read again in your pages of firm assurance that to die is gain. Poets 1 Recite to me your verses which repeat in every line the Gospel of eternal life. Singers! Break forth once more into ■ songs of joy; let me hear again the well- known resurrection psalms. Tree and blossom and bird and sea and sky .and wind, whisper it, sound it afresh, warble it, echo it, let it throb and pulsate through every atom and particle; let the air be filled with it. Let it be told and retold and still re told until hope rises to conviction and conviction to certitude of knowledge; un til we, like Paul, even though going to our death, go with triumphant mien, with assured faith, and with serene and shin ing face. A well-known minister was in his study writing an Easter sermon when the thought gripped him that his Lord was living. He jumped up excitedly and paced the floor repeating to himself, “Why, Christ is alive, His ashes are warm, He is not the great T was,’ He is the great ‘I am.’” He is not only a fact, but a living fact. Glorious truth of Easter Day. We believe that out of every grave there blooms an Easter lily, and in every tomb there sits an angel. We believe in a risen Lord. Turn not your faces to the past, that we may worship only at His grave, but above and within, that we may worship the Christ that lives. And be cause He lives, we shall Uve also.— Abbott. —o— April 1-— “We believe, that we shall also live with him" (Romans 6:8). God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, and this newness of life is' the crowning joy of union with the risen Jesus. We blunder when we make the mystic grace the goal; for we are the chil dren of the resurrection, and the goal is life so unspeakably energizing, fresh, free, and joyous, that words fail to de scribe its blessedness. This new life is so heavenly in its character that it makes its possessor responsive to everything with which it has affinity, both in heaven and earth. Who can enjoy the sounds and sights of this fair world—which are but “the drapery of the robe in which the In
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