sirens. When the ship on which Or pheus was traveling came to the area of coastline where the sirens held court, he began weaving his entranc ing melodies. Now, the sound of the sirens seemed cheap and tawdry to the men. They much preferred Or pheus. As a result the ship was brought through safely. As we think about it, it might be wonderful if we could put blinders on the eyes of our young people, while stuffing their ears with sound-proof cotton. In this way they couldn’t hear or see the trash A N G ELIC FORCES I know that my way is protected by friends that no mortal can see, I know 'tis their voices that whisper so kindly and gently to me. For joys of the brightest have faded and hopes of the longest have flown; Since God and His angels are with me, then say not I journey alone. I know the dear Saviour is with me, He guards me by night and by day, He chargeth His angels to keep me, nor suffers my footsteps to stray. And when I behold them in glory— those friends whom such kind ness have shown. I'll thank the dear Lord and His an gels, who never have left me alone. and cheap things of this world. This of course isn’t possible; it’s not being realistic. There is something far bet ter, however, which is the music of our Saviour. There is no allurement of the world to entrance the heart of the one who hears the Lord Jesus Christ in all His power and majesty speak ing to the heart in an hour of weak ness and need. He alone can give the power to overcome sin for, “Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world!” Remember, God has pro vided us the complete armour with which we can overcome the devil, standing fast in the faith whereof Christ hath made us free.
USELESS W ORK An interesting ancient legend comes from the land of Greece concerning one Sisyphus, who was the king of Corinth. He was a very evil man. When Sisyphus died the gods supposedly had devised a most unusual punishment for him. Be cause of his wicked ways in life his continual judgment was to roll a large stone up to the very top of a long hill. Each time he got near the top, how ever, the stone would break loose and roll down again. The torture never ended. The legend became so well known that whenever anyone faced a very hard and endless job they called it a labor of Sisyphus. Longfellow wrote, ‘‘With use less endeavor, forever, forever, is Sisy phus rolling his stone up the mountain.” There is a very practical spiritual ap plication to the legend. To try to save yourself from the penalty of sin is like rolling a stone up an endless mountain. No one, apart from Christ, can push the sin out of his life. It can’t be done. This, however, is what God accomplishes for us in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. The huge stone of our sin was placed upon the Lord’s back. He carried it over the mountain of Calvary, hurling it once and for all into the depths of the deepest sea. Scripture assures us, He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree. There is no need to let yourself be weighed down. Turn to Christ who loves you and gave Himself for youl HOW TO SPEND 20 BILLION U.S. News and World Report re cently had an article entitled, ‘‘What the United States could do with 20 billion dollars.” That is the projected cost of getting a man to the moon. With that amount of money, every family in the United States could re ceive bonus of more than $1,000. We could pay off all of the federal debt which has been contracted in the past two and a half years. We could build 20,000 miles of super highways across the country. We could retire the mort gage debt on every United States farm. We doubt that any of our Biola students will ever be going to the moon. What occupies their thoughts, however, are the many areas of THIS world which have never been reached with the Gospel. 20
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