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We’re Broadcasting Acts 16:25. “And the prisoners heard them” R. V. (,“were listening”) . P AUL and Silas, thrown into a dun geon ; their feet fast in the stocks— and at midnight they break into songs of praise! Mocking birds sing at midnight but jailbirds seldom sing. The heavenly strains rang out through the jail, the walls of which were doubtless accustomed to re-echoing profanity. The prisoners realized that there was a new spirit in the place. They were “listening in.” Oh, we cannot tell what we’re doing when we sing of Christ and His love. We are “broadcasters.” Tertullian said: “The limbs do not feel the stocks when the heart is in heaven.” John Bunyan said: “Though men may keep the outward man within these locks and bars, yet by faith of God I can mount higher than the stars.” It seems, sometimes, Christianity has done little for some of us. . We cannot stand the least persecution for Christ’s sake. ‘ The’ unbeliever sees that we are .'¿own in the dumps most of 'the time. Where are the Christians who, like Paul and Silas, -.can sing in the dark hours when everything is against them?’ In stead of growling, if we would start sing ing the songs -of Zion, we would often find light springing up in our own dark ness, Then we, should remember that our lives are “broadcasting” either for Christ or the devil. The listeners-in cannot fail to be impressed by spiritual melodies that come from Christians who are in adver sity. ' E—o— The Cheerful Christ J ESUS made : happiness wherever He came because He was happy Him self. He laughed pleasantly at weddings. He loved meeting people. He is constant ly cheering up despondent people. Cheer up, He says. Be of good cheer. Why, of course He was happy. The happiest peo ple in the world today are' those who are doing most for others and the people who have joyous ideas of God and perfect trust in God, and the people of boundless optimism who know that they must finally succeed, who know that death only means birth into a fuller life and that evil is a thing which one day must vanish forever. None of us could help being happy if we were like Him. “Add to this the joy of His life-work, helping unholy men to be holy arid un happy souls to be happy and feeling the infinite, happy, holy world above watch- I ing IJim with eager sympathy. In His
joy over a sinner won back to righteous ness Fie hears even the angels of God re joicing. “I don’t know where we got our wide spread notion of the Jesus of a sad coun tenance. Certainly not from the Gospel story. I suppose it originated in Isaiah’s prophecy of’ ‘the man of sorrows and ac quainted with grief.’ The great painters have persistently repeated that in their pictures and their pictures have made us carry it into His life story—to the spoil ing of it. ’ True He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Lovingly, thankfully we acknowledge it. But to feel for others and to die for others does not destroy the joy of a great soul. Nay, to such ,an one the enthusiasm of self- sacrifice is a joy in itself. Ask the lad who on the battlefield faces death in No Man’s Land to bring in a wounded com rade. To be able to die for men would be, I think, an additional element in the inner joyousness of Jesus. “Humanly speaking, it was gaiety of heart, that inner joyousness that carried Him through. , He never, lost if. Not even in the saddest days. Only three hours befpre Gethsemane He reminds His disciples how, happy they had been together and His last wish is that when He ris'r gone the joyousness which He had had all His life might remain with them and that their joy might be full.” The above paragraphs are from Dr. Smyth’s book “A People’s Life of Christ.” Christian Agnosticism “Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face” 1 Cor, 13:12. T HE “know-it-all” Christian is to be pitied. The Word’ of God is “a lamp unto pur feet,” a book for begin ners, a work for saints in their infancy.- How many are there who know even the primer of divine truth? The full glory of divine truth could not be revealed to the finite mind. The, study and enjoy ment of truth will be one of the greatest features of the heavenly state. Through all eternity there will be something new and interesting for us, yet, never a thing that will contradict the Scriptures. Then we shall be “face to face” with the Teacher of teachers. The resurrection morn will be a true sun-rising, the in bursting of a cloudless day on all the peo ple of God. The veil that hides from us the full understanding of the truth will be drawn aside. We will cease to think and act like children (v. 11), and love shall reign in the hearts of all forever. — o —
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