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Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah! Your work of praise with joy fulfill! “Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah, For He our Maker is! He made the heavens, the earth, the sky and seas, And all that therein lives; In Christ created He a holy race, Set free from death and sin. Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah! Ye creatures new give thanks and sing! “Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah, For He our Saviour is. From sin and death and hell He ran somed us, And sealed us each as His. Through Christ’s own blood He paid the precious price, He gave Himself for me. Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah! Give thanks, ye ransomed, ye are free! “ Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah, For He will come again. Upon the clouds of Heaven in glory, He comes to earth to reign. The sword from out His mouth shall smite the earth, With rod of iron He’ll break. Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah! His judgments all the earth shall shake! “ Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah, He comes to claim His own. He’ll wipe away the tear from every eye, And comfort those that mourn. In Him there is no need of sun or moon, And darkness shall be o’er. Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah! Give thanks, He reigns for evermore!” The Remembrancer Calendar This attractive wall-back calendar serves a double purpose—as a. re minder vof the date and as an aid to daily meditation on God’s Word. The cardboard mounting is 9x12 i n c h e s with a colorful country scene print. The calendar pad, placed at the bot tom of this card, provides a leaf for each day. The two daily Scripture reading portions represent the Old and New Testaments. These have been selected to coincide with the course of Daily Scripture Reading in which the Old Testament is read through in two years, and the New Testament and Psalms are read once each year. All of the material is related, and includes exposition, exhortation, comfort, gos pel, prophecy, etc. Price for wall or desk calendar, 85 cents each; 6 for
others to express different causes for my thanksgiving. Between my first and second, im prisonments, I was able to feach thè song to my family. In the days that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor and my second arrest, when my wife found herself with a family of five little children, alone, an alien in enemy territory, she used to. gather the little brood about her and sing this song that I was singing daily as I paced the cell of my new prison. She later testified that the words “Your work of praise, with joy fulfill” were a continual challenge to her to glorify God through praise during those dark hours. When I was moved froin prison to a concentration camp near our Harbin home, my wife was not permitted to visit me. But she took the children to a yard overlooked by the three-story building in which I was being held. As, from a distance, we looked into each others’ faces for the first time since our period of separation, they sang my song up to me, word for word, a song which had now become their song as well. “ Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah, For He is He that is! Unmade and uncreated God is He, And ne’er beginning His; Before all time'and to eternity, Jeho vah, God is He. Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah! Give thanks! He reigns eter nally! “ Give thanks, give thanks unto Jeho vah, For He of kings is King! Let every nation, race, each tongue and tribe, Unto Him praises bring; He rules the earth with Pow’r and righteousness, The waves obey His will; Clay Sheffield, Jr., M. D., is a bril liant, cynical, God-defying surgeon. One of the nurses of his staff is Paula Ammons, efficent and attractive, who is the sole support of her mother and blind young b r o t h e r . And Paula knows and loves Christ. The story is packed with suspense, action, and all the elements of technical excellence. Scenes in the hospital, in the home, in an improvised operating room on a swollen river, and in the mission field in the Kentucky mountains are all set forth with clarity and power. There are laughs in this book, and tears. Throughout, there is a gospel mes sage of beauty and importance. 188 pages. Zortdervan Pub. House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Cloth. Price $1.00.
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examples of this fact in the case of Abraham’s plea to the Lord for the saving of Lot and his family from the destruction of Sodom: Genesis 18:1-33. Because of the wickedness of the inhabitants, the city was to be destroyed by the Lord. However, Abraham entreated the Lord for the righteous citizens, and in honor of this plea the Lord saved Lot and his wife. This did not involve a change of God’s mind; it was a gracious act qf mercy in keeping with the words found in Proverbs 15:29: “ . . . He heareth the prayer of the righteous.” The incident bears out the truth found in James 5:16: “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth, much.” THANKS» TO GOD [ Continued from Page 407] of this confidence I was able to re joice even in what seemed a very serious predicament. I told him that, while apparently I Was' under the power of the Japanese government at that time, my trust was in One who was King above the Japanese emperor, and Lord over all the powers of the earth, and that actually the Japanese had no authority over me except as my Lord and King should allow.' I went on to tell him that it was the duty of all men to worship and bless and offer thanks to this great King. Then, starting with the univer sal sin of unthankfulness, I pointed out the sinfulness of mankind in gen eral and tried to make him see his own sin and need of a Saviour. I fol lowed .this explanation with the story of Christ who came to earth to die for the sins of His people, the One who is willing and able to save all who call on Him. Finally I told him of the joys of salvation which were, in fact, the basis of my thanksgiving. All the changing guards and the oc casional penitentiary officials who peered into my cell would in turn stop to ask the meaning of those words scribbled on the wall, and those lines became the opening wedge for hours and days of testifying. The Psalmist, speaking -of the new song of praise unto our God which he had received said, “Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in Jehovah.” We Christians had this promise ful filled for us there in jail, for many seeing our joy were -obered before God, and we believe the latter part of the promise will also be fulfilled, namely, that they ultimately shall “trust in Jehovah.” Praise Finds Expression Those words on the wall were the beginning of a song. The day after the first lines were given me, I added
O u r L i t e r a t u r e T a b l e The Doctor’s Return By Ken Anderson
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