they’re simply prejudiced against him anyway. 11. When your child gets into real trouble, apologize for yourself by say ing: “I never could do anything with him anyway.” 12. Prepare for a life of grief, be cause if you follow this pattern, you’re sure to have it.
what might be done. The school official pointedly urged him, “Resign from the presidency of those civic organizations which would demand your time and in terests. Leave those positions to the men who have grown families. Your boy has a great need for fatherly attention. Your first duty over the next five years will be to provide him with the neces sities of life, as well as with yourself. Help him with his lessons. Interest him in your business. Become his comrade and chum. Actually, in the final analy sis, the future of your boy depends pri marily on giving him your personal attention.” That school principal certainly spoke with real wisdom. How easy it is to get so busy and involved in many different things, and in the final analysis over look that which is the most important in the sight of God. When we meet the Saviour, we’re not going to have to answer as to how many business meet ings and committees we’ve attended, how good of a golf player we might have been, or even how active we were in church matters. But what we will have to face up to God is whether or not we brought our children up in the nurture and admonition of the Saviour. They’re our greatest responsibility! May the Lord help us to recognize these things, living as though nothing else in all the world were more important. WHAT IS ETERNITY? I stood with God on the edge of the world, and my hand was in His hand. I looked down the road at the past, as it stretched away in the dim distance, till it was shrouded in the mists of time. And I knew it had no beginning. And a little chill wind of fear flew about my head. God asked, ‘Are you afraid?’ And I said, ‘Yes, because I cannot understand how there can be no begin ning.’ So God said, ‘Let us turn and face the other way.’ And I looked unto glory, and my heart overflowed with joy unspeakable. It is better to be great in your little ness than to be little in your greatness.
Opportunities are never lost. They just go to someone else.
FUTILITY OF GRASPING In a certain home, a little girl was heard to cry in desperate agony. It seems that in a moment of childish play she had caught her hand in a very valuable vase. She was pulling and tug ging but she couldn’t seem to get it out again. Her father tried his best to help, but it wouldn’t budge. The unhappy solution seemed to break the expensive porcelain. Of course, that was better than injuring the child’s arm. Then, he got an idea. “Honey, let’s try once again. Just open your hand as straight as you can, and maybe I can put a little soap on your wrist. “Oh, no, daddy,” the little girl protested through her tears. “I can’t put my fingers out like that. Don’t you understand, if I did why I ’d drop my nickel?” She didn’t realize her folly. We may smile at her lack of understanding, yet how often we’re like her. We cling to that which is so insignificant. We cherish it most dearly when we need to let go so that the Lord can heap upon us His promised spirit ual riches and manifold blessings. Only when you surrender your life to His will can you find the fulness of satis faction and contentment in your expe rience of faith.
Religious differences are not nearly as disastrous as religious indifferences.
A FATHER’S DUTY A prominent businessman became rightly concerned about his son. He talked to the boy’s principal, wondering 20
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