If you forget your sins, God will remember them; but if you will, con fess your sins, God will forgive and forget them. Tell Him So Ii you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, Helps you on your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you, Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Toward a sinner, lost and low, It might help him to do better If you’d only tell him so. Oh, my sisters, oh, my brothers, As o’er life’s rough path you go, If God’s love has saved and kept you, Do not fail to tell men so. — The M issionary Lutheran Scientifically, the world is round; spiritually, it is flat. —Vance Havner Not Thy Will, But Mine The story is told of a sick child who, the physician said, could not recover. The pastor was called in to pray. As he prayed, "Thy will be done,” . the mother interrupted, say ing, “Not that; my will: the child must live.” The child did live, and lived to break his mother’s heart and dis grace her name. —S. D. Gordon “ By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life” (Prov. 22:J/). No Laughter Then When H. A. Ironside was a little boy, his mother would draw him to her knee and talk to him of the im portance of trusting the Lord as his Saviour. Once he said, "Well, Mam ma, I would like to do it, but the boys will all laugh at me.” “Harry,” she replied, “remember, Page Sixteen
they may laugh you into hell, but they can never laugh you out of it.” —Suniluy In answer to the question, “How may my life be powerful for the Lord?”, Dr. James Cuthbertson an swered, “If God has all of you, you may have all of God; that spells power.” One Bible - A single Bible was left by a col porteur in a little village of Eastern Poland. Converted through reading it, the recipient passed it on to others, and two hundred more be came believers. On revisiting the town, some years afterward, the col porteur found a group of interested people, who gathered to worship. Instead of the customary testi monies by the members of the con gregation, the visitor suggested that verses of Scripture should be re cited. One man arose and inquired: “Perhaps we have misunderstood. Did you mean verses, or chapters?” “Do you mean to say that there are people here who can recite chapters from the Bible?” asked the col porteur in astonishment. The villagers had memorized not only chapters, but whole books of the Bible. Thirteen knew Matthew and Luke, and half of Genesis. One had committed to memory all the Psalms. The two hundred villagers together knew practically the entire Bible. The villagers exp la in ed : “We must, for this copy of thè Bible may be lost or taken away, and where could we get another?” The Book had been passed from' one family to another, and had be come so worn with use, that its print was hardly legible. May Poland have more such Bibles! —Faithful Words The penalty for cheap thinking is mental mediocrity. For Your Bible Here is a handy table, which will prove helpful for you in your Bible study:
A day’s journey was about twenty- three and one-fifth miles. A Sabbath Day’s journey was about an English mile. A hand’s-breadth is equal to three and five-eighths inches. A finger’s-breadth is equal to one inch. A shekel of gold was $8.00. A talent of gold was $13,809.00. A shekel of silver was about 50 cents. A talent of silver was $538.30. A piece of silver, or a penny, was 13 cents. A mite was less than a quarter of a cent. An hin was a gallon and two pints. An omer was six pints. When you are in the wrong place, your right place is empty. — L isten Cook Stove Apostasy The early church prayed in the upper room; the twentieth century church cooks in the supoer room. Today the supper room has taken the place of the upper room. Play has taken the place of prayer, and feasting the place of fasting. Hence, there is more fire in the range in the kitchen than there is in the pul pit; more full stomachs than bended knees and broken hearts. When you build a fire in the church kitchen, it often puts out the fire in the pul pit. The early Christians were not cooking in the supper room the day the Holy Ghost came; they were praying in the upper room. They were not waiting on tables; they were waiting on God, not waiting for the fire from the stove, but for the fire above . . . I would like . . . less use of the cook book, and more use of the Qld Book. Put out the fire in the kitchen, and build it on the altar. Let us have fewer dinners, and win more sin ners . . ] —The Gospel Tract Society The fourfold working of the wick edness of which Satan is guilty: he confiscates; he imitates; he exagger ates, and. he adulterates. T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
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