this ass, you can be assured that He has a real and vital purpose for your life. Are you willing to seek His will and then do it? That unbroken colt knew his Master when the Saviour rode upon him. It was willing to submit it self to His direction. I t fulfilled a di vine purpose and has been remembered on the pages of sacred writ as a result. Even so, your life has a purpose for God. The Lord is saying today, “I have need of you.” Will you willingly answer and follow His bidding? WHAT IS A GRANDMOTHER? (As seen through the eyes of a child) A grandmother is a lady who has no children of her own, so she likes other people’s little girls. A grandfather is a man grandmother. He goes for walks with boys, and they talk about fishing and tractors and the like. Grandmas don’t have to do anything except be there. They’re old, so they shouldn’t play hard or run. It’s enough if they drive us to the market where the pretend horse is. (They should have some dimes ready.) Of if they take us for walks, they should slow down past things like pretty leaves or a caterpil lar. They should never say “Hurry up!” Usually they are fat, but not too fa t to tie kids’ shoes. They wear glasses, and they can take their teeth and gums off. They don’t have to be real smart, only to be able to answer questions like why dogs hate cats and how come God isn’t married. They don’t talk baby talk as visitors do, because it’s hard to understand. When they read to us, they don’t skip or mind if it is the same story again. Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don’t have television, because sometimes it seems that grandmothers are the only grownups who’ve got time. Many people want what they don’t need and need what they don’t want.
VALUABLE STAMPS Being an avid stamp collector, it was interesting to me to read about the estate of Louise Boyd Dale who died last year. Her holdings are to be auc tioned off. To give you an idea as to some values, there’s one envelope on which a r e affixed two one-penny stamps. The postmark is from M&uri- tius, a country off the African coast. The envelope is addressed to the Sec retary of the Bible Society in Bombay, India. It was purchased originally in 1897 for $250.00. Now, that’s quite an appreciation of two*pennies from its original postage use January 5, 1850. Today, nearly 120 years later, the en velope is purported to be worth any where from $150,000 to $200,000. That’s for just two one-penny stamps. Tremen dous is the value which man places on little scraps of paper. Yet did you know you have a paper which is even more valuable than these stamps? Whether published on India paper or newsprint, it is the Word of God which assures us that by faith in Jesus Christ we have a treasure of far more inestimable value. While these postage stamps are valued at nearly a quarter of a million dollar8, yet their owner is now dead. She couldn’t take them with her. No man can redeem his soul with money, with stamps or with any other com modity. Salvation comes only by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and through His shed blood. For without the shed ding of blood there is no remission of siA.
A person who is constantly afraid of saying something wrong will seldom say anything that is right.
CONSIDERING CROSSES Have you ever felt that your lot in life was really a great deal more to carry than other people you know? Our problems can seem so much more diffi cult. I t reminds us of the parable of a man who was so burdened down that he stumbled into a carpenter’s shop, putting in an order for a new cross. “This one’s too heavy for me to carry,” he complained. “I’d like to look over your stock of crosses to see if there
Man may make riches, however, riches will never make a man.
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