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April 1928
one day, “ I wish you would tell me how it is that I never come into this room without seeming to detect the fragrance o f roses.” The gentleman smiled and said: “ Ten years ago I was in the Holy Land, and while there I bought a small phial o f attar o f roses. It was wrapped in cotton wool, and as I was standing here unpacking it; suddenly I broke the bottle. I took the whole thing up, cotton wool, and all, and put it into this vase.” There stood a beautiful vase,' and he lifted the lid, and the fragrance o f roses filled the room. That fragrance had permeated the clay of the vase, and it was impossible to enter the room without consciousness o f it. If Christ be in us, the fragrance of the Rose o f Sharon will pervade and permeate our whole life.
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A p r il 10, 1928 T ext: 1 Pet. 1:3
After the. battle of Inkerman, in the Crimean War, some sol diers picked up a dead man for burial, and heard something tear. Looking more closely, they saw an open Bible upon which he had placed his bloody finger and the congealed blood had carried with the finger a portion of the leaf. Scanning the scrap closely, one of them read aloud the w ords: “ I am the resurrection, and the life,”—and with that text upon the finger o f the dead Chris tian they buried him..
A pril 11, 1928 T e x t: John 5 :25
An army chaplain tells o f having bivouacked with his brigade upon an open field, each soldier wrapped in his blanket, but with nothing over him but the cold, cloudy sky. On rising next morning, all over that field were little mounds like new-made graves, each covered with a drapery of snow, which had fallen during the night, and covered every sleeping soldier as if in the winding-sheet o f death. While he was gazing upon the strange spectacle, here and there a man began to stir, rise, shake himself, and stand forth in momentary amazement at the sight. It was a symbol o f the resurrection and failed not to make its im pression upon the beholder. (Trimner.) Paper—that article so useful in human life, that repository of all the arts and sciences, that minister of all governments, that broker in all trade and commerce, that second memory of the human mind, that stable pillar of an immortal name—takes its origin from vile rags. The rag dealer trudges on foot, or drives his cart through the towns and villages, and his arrival is the signal for searching every corner, and gathering every old and useless shred. These he takes to. the mill, and there they are picked, washed, mashed, shaped, and sized—in short, formed into a fabric beautiful enough to venture unabashed even into the presence of monarchs and princes. This reminds us of the resurrection o f the mortal body. When deserted by the soul, we know not what better the body is than a worn and rejected rag. Accordingly it is buried in the earth, and there gnawed by worms, and reduced to dust and ashes. If, however, man’s art and device can produce so pure and white a fabric as paper from filthy rags, what should hinder God by His mighty power to raise this vile body from the grave, and refine and fashion it like unto the glorious body of the Lord Jesus Christ? (Scriver.) A p r il 12, 1928 Text: 1 Cor. 15:38
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