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to .redeem time for- holy/duties. Time is precious and it is the best husbandry in the world to gather up' the fragments that none be lost.—Henry. As you read the Scrip tures never think how you read but WHAT you read.—Kemble. v. 29. Go near, join thyself. One of the greatest mistakes o f the church today is that we are trying to save men from a distance. -—Torrey. W e should study to do good to those we light in company with along, the road. O f those of whom we know" nothing else, we know this—they have a soul^S Henry. God does not expect us. to speak to everyone we meet about his salvation, but if we watch for His leading as to whom to approach, He will give it.—Torrey. v. 30. Understandest thou? Little sen tences spoken for Jesus save souls for eter nity.—Sel. Have your tools ready and God will find you work.—Sel. When you pass an unsaved man, don’t; forget that you may be to blame for his condition.—McNeill. Heard him read. It is easier for, some minds to learn by the ear than by the eye. Utterance aloud is a very powerful aid to mental retentivenessi—Parker. v. 31. Except some man guide me. Do not be distressed because you are puzzled and bewildered by religious mystery. The most advanced minds in the church have had to pass through precisely your experi ence. The path of the just shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Teachable ness is one o f the finest .characteristics of honesty.—Parker. He who truly lovés the W ord will be given the power to under stand what he loves—Bede. 1 The reason we find so many dark places in tlye Bible is for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our own hearts.|§| Tholuck. I never saw a useful Christian who did not know how to use his Bible. If a man neglects the Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him, but God cannot use M AN Y today would consider this Ethi opian negro “a back number,” but he surely sets us all an example in his attitude
him for there is nothing for the .Holy ■Spirit to work with.—Moody. 1 v. 35. Began at same Scripture. Scrip ture is to be its own interpreter, or rather, the Spirit Speaking in it.- Nothing can cut the diamond but.the diamond. Nothing can interpret Scripture but Scriptureefi-R. Watson. There is a great difference between, the reading that leads away from the Bible and that which'leads to. the Bible.—Pettin- gil. Preached Jesus.' The Scriptures tes tify o f Christ. Only in so. far as we per ceive, accept and declare their testimony can we have in them eternal life (John 5 :39) therefore, at whatever Scripture you begin, if the Spirit who not only breathed the W ord when it was written, but is still its light and life-giving interpreter, enables you to preach, you will preach o f tlaat Scrip ture—Christ.—Saphir. Come to the Bible through Jesus.. Coming.to it through the commentaries, is. much like looking at a landscape through garret windows over which generations o f unmolested spiders have spun their webs.—Beecher. One may read the figure on the dial but he cannot tell how the day goes unless the sun shines on the dial. W e may read the Bible over, but we cannot learn to purpose till the Spirit-throws the shadow of Jesus oyer it. —T. Watson, ,v. 36. What doth hinder? Let not con science bid you linger, or of, fitness fondly dream. All the fitness He requireth; Ts to feel your need o f Him.—Sel. v. 39. Went rejoicing. The interest which -a regenerated soul takes in, the Bible is founded on a personal application to the heart o f the saving truth which it contains. —Walexander. When you have seen Christ, every dreary note will, have been taken out o f your voice and you will have begun to sing with the birds o f summer.— Parker.
“ MY GIRLS” By Mrs. H. J. Baldwin.
toward God’s Word. What would you think of.your friend, if upon receiving your letter she cast it aside not even opening
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