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Blessed Disappointment When Lord Clive, as a young man in the spirit o f adventure, set out from his British home for India, the ship upon which he sailed was caught in a terrific storm, and continuous adverse gales drove it far off the course, until it finally limped into a South American harbor. There the young traveler had to re main for many months before being able to get passage to India. During the long wait he acquired the Portuguese lan guage which qualified him when he did reach India to take an important posi tion with the East India Company, ulti mately resulting in his being appointed by the crown as Governor General of India. Do not deplore upsets; they may be God’s messengers. 0 0 0 Every man should keep a cemetery in which to bury the faults o f his friends. —The Christian Life A missionary in China has said, “ A great without is written in heathenism. “ Men and women are without a Bible, without a Sunday, without prayer, and without songs of praise. “ They have rulers without justice or righteousness. “ They have homes without peace, mar riage without sanctity, young men and women without ideals, little children without purity, mothers without wisdom and self-control. “ There is poverty without relief, ill ness without skill or care, sorrow with out sympathy, sin. without a remedy, and death without hope. “ All o f this is wrapped up in the words, ‘without Christ!’ ” —Union Gospel Mission, Seattle When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. —Proverbs 16:7. 0 0 0 Enough for the Family A pious gentleman was engaged in a certain branch of business by which he was rapidly increasing his wealth. When he had made about $50,000, the minister was one day conversing with him, and asked if he had not now better give up that kind of business. “ Oh,” said he, “ I have not yet made enough to give each of my children a single leaf of the catechism.” “ Why,” inquired the clergy man, “ how large is your family?” “ About 600,000,” was his reply. He looks on the whole family of men as his own family, and he is laboring for the salva tion of them all. Page Elevei 0 0 0 0 0 0 Without Christ
ends all?” “ I certainly do,” I answered, whereupon he said, “ You are a strange Christian.” I agreed again: “ I am sure of that; there is none other like me in the world. As a Christian I assert the belief that death ends all.” He said he had never heard such a thing, and I added, “ It is time you heard something new.” Then I explained my statement: “ Death ends all your chance o f doing evil; death ends all your jo y ; death ends all your projects, all your ambitions, all your friendships; death ends all the gospel that you will ever hear; death ends it all for you, and you go out into utter darkness. Death ends all my wan derings, all my tears, all my perplexities, all my disappointments, all my aches and pains; death ends it all, and I go to be with my Lord in glory.” He said: “ I never thought of that.” I led that man to Christ just by agreeing with him that death ends all.—The Alliance Weekly n n n One cannot closet himself with the Rose of Sharon without conveying the fragrance when he goes forth. —Waves o f Grace 0 0 0 Analysis of John 10:9 I am the door: the simplicity of the gospel. I f any man enter in: the universality of the gospel. He shall be saved: the certainty of the gospel. And shall go in and out: the liberty of the gospel. And find pasture: the satisfaction of the gospel.—Dr. C. I. Scofield 0 n 0 In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart. —John Bunyan In What Are You Trusting? Trust in yourself, and you are doomed to disappointment; Trust in your friends, and they will die and leave you; Trust in money, and you may have it taken from you; Trust in reputation, and some slanderous tongue may blast it; but Trust in God, and you will never be con founded in time or eternity! —The Preacher’s Magazine 0 0 0
When you brood over you\ troubles, you hatch despair. 0 0 0 T is Better ’Tis better to give a lovely flower To one who can see and know, Than to place a sheaf o f orchids rare On his bier to make a show. ’Tis better to say one loving word To him who can hear what’s said, Than to word a beautiful eulogy A fter your friend is dead.
’Tis better to do a thing today Than to wait for future years; Tomorrow may be a day too late And bring but sorrow and tears.
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver (Prov. 25:11). 0 n Q Vigilance Produces Dividends When Dr. Campbell Morgan was in British Columbia, he was taken to see the cherry orchards there, one of the loveli est sights o f the West. On all sides were trees laden with rosy, luscious fruit. Dr. Morgan turned to the gardener, and said, “ I suppose there is no difficulty in grow ing cherries here—the soil is so rich and the climate so delightful?” “ You are making a great mistake if you think so,” answered the gardener. “ All the year round I am fighting for the lives of these cherries, for they have enemies in the soil and in the air which would soon destroy them.” So it is in the cultivation of the Christian life; there must be constant watchfulness. Watch and pray. 0 0 0 Voltaire said, “I hate life; and yet I hate to die.” Paul said, “ For me to live is Christ; to die is gain.” —Listen 0 0 0 Death Ends All! Dr. Walter L. Wilson relates this ex perience: I was talking to an atheist one day, and he remarked, “ I do not be lieve, Wilson, what you are preaching.” “ You have told me what you do not be lieve,” I replied, “ perhaps you will tell me what you do believe.” He answered, “ I believe that death ends all.” “ So do I,” I agreed, “ shake on it.” “ What!” he exclaimed, “ you believe that death O C T O B E R , 1 9 4 7
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