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least three respects: she found God’s comfort sufficient for it; she saw souls saved through it; and she took a new step forward in consecration to Christ because n f it. For the child of God, every sorrow could and should have these blessed results. “Our hearts are broken," she wrote, “ but through it all, we see only God’s hand. I have the con solation that I never gave to God a more beautiful, a more perfect gift, than that little boy,” , She was drinking deeply of “the comfort of the Holy Ghost,” and thus sustained, had the joy of seeing this sorrow as a background for soul-win- ning. Her letter continues: “The very day our baby went Home, I was talking w i t h an elevemyear-old girl and I said to her, ‘Marion, remember this: the .most important thing for you in your whole life is to love Jesus first—more than you love any person, any thing. If I did not know this, I c o u l d not bear Dickie’s going.’ The girl began to cry—not from sorrow over the baby’s death, but over her own relationship to Ch r i s t . Right then and there I dealt with her about her sin and about God’s faithfulness. ‘Do you suppose, if I accepted Him as Saviour He could keep me from swearing?’ she asked. With tears streaming down her face, she did accept Him. At the same time, in our front room my husband was dealing with another girl of the same age who had come to ask him to ‘show her the way to God’ . . . And so it was that on the very day that pur baby would have had his first birthday on ’earth, had he lived, two other souls had a spiritual birthday down here. We are prais ing Him, through our tears." Perhaps the most significant part of the whole l e t t e r was the closing phrase—indeed, it was the basis of the triumph that the message con veyed throughout. These wete the words—and by God’s grace may each of us who must pass through days of sorrow be able to repeat them sin cerely and from the heart: “Still lov ing the cost of following Him.” God Lost a Boy Speaking to audiences that packed the auditorium of the Church of the Open Door on January 10, Percy Craw ford, Director of the Young People’s Church of the Air, Box 1, Philadelphia, Pa., stirred instant and deep response in many hearts when he said: “You know — you who h a v e given your men to the service [ Continued on Page 79}
Around the King's Table LOUIS T. TALBOT, Editor-in-Chief
their cows. We were delighted at the prospect ,of having fresh milk. This arrangement brought Mar garet regularly to us, and gave us t time to know her and to witness to her in Tlapaneco from the Gos pel of John, the first d r a f t of which had just been completed. Of her own accord, she asked to be taught the Tlapaneco primer in order that she might read and teach her little boy. She has ac cepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her own personal Saviour and is not ashamed to witness for Him.", An estimated one and a half mil lion Indians in Mexico are scattered among fifty-two tribes. “Our South ern Neighbors’ Greatest Need”- (Pages 46 and 47) gives a glimpse of a tre mendous task. There are at least a thousand lan guage groups in the world which as yet have not received anything of the Word of God in their own fanguages. This figure is conservative, because it does not include mutually unintel
This Bible Number This issue of THE KING’S BUSINESS gives prominence to the Bible, in the same way that the preceding number emphasized prayer. We believe it is -honoring to God that special atten- tion should be given to these two im portant means of spiritual growth and stability. Particular attention is called to the cover picture, furnished by members of the Wycliffe B i b l e Translators group, Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Lemley. “This woman," they write, "“is our Margaret, the second Tlapa- | neco woman to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour. We first met her when . she walked five miles to our little hut in the mountain fastnesses of Mexico, to buy a five-cent bar of soap. Little Samuel was a tiny boy then, strapped to his mother’s back. Margaret offered to sell us cow’s milk as often as we would like it. Milk is a precious item here, as the people seldom milk
ligible dialects. Of t h e s e one thousand languages, at l e a s t ninety-five per cent have never been re duced to writing. The call is for linguistic training and patient translation work. Will you p r a y definitely for the meeting of this twofold need, to the end that the Word of God may be re c e i v e d , as God in tended it should be, “e v e r y man in his own language” ? beautiful letters ever to' be received in the editorial offices of this magazine came recently from a young mother who had been called u p o n to give b a c k to the Lord— with unexpected sud denness — the gift of a little son that had blessed their home. The r e s p o n s e of t h i s mother to her blindin’g- g r i e f was o u t s t a n d i n g in at The Cost One of the m o s t
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“ A n d t h i s is t h e v i c t o r y t h a t o v e r c o m e t h t h e w o r l d , e v e n o u r f a i t h “ (1 J o h n 5 : 4 ) .
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