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opened the mayor’s eyes. He still does not oppose women in saloons, but believes that if they will sit at tables, the situation will be improved. The Chicago Tribune o f De cember 30, 1933, quotes him as saying: “ After a few weeks o f noting the general effect of women drinking at coun ters, I am convinced that people generally regard it as an obnoxious practice . . . Women at counters just don’t seem to mix.” . . . It is interesting to note that it is the standing or siting position of the drinker which agitates the saloon apologist—never the thing that makes the saloon the menace it was and is—liquor . . . Certainly the good men and women o f America will not stand idly by while the modern saloon, which they were promised should not come back, destroys the bodies and souls o f thousands o f boys and girls in every city which has liquor control— control by liquor. “ This,” declares William D. Upshaw, Prohibition Party candidate for President, “ is Prohibition’s hour of travail and sorrow.” In a news release issued by the Pro hibition National Committee, Mr. Upshaw eloquently calls for action: As Gideon’s band o f drys shall rush to battle, bend ing their knees to lap the sacred waters o f a new faith and purpose, let us shout the word “ Prohibition” aloud until it shall thrill the hosts o f righteousness through the citadel of all the eternities, and emblazon itself afresh in letters of gold on the “burnished ceiling of the American sky.” Yet men and women do “ stand idly by,” little realizing the subtlety o f the temptation that confronts the youth of today. A short time ago, Sunday-school teachers com plained that Temperance lessons were without point, for their scholars had no knowledge, experimentally, o f the evils o f strong drink. That day, alas has passed. ones who can be trusted with a real ministry o f intercession. Moreover, service is not always God’s highest purpose for a life. In the Song o f Solomon we read o f how the Christian life is a garden inclosed for the Lord Himself (Cant. 4 :12 to 5 :1 ). This garden is to produce the fruit and fragrance o f a Christlike life for His pleasure. The highest form o f Christian living has as its purpose, not our own enjoyment in clbse fellowship with Him, precious as that is, or even the blessing o f others, but rather that our lives may please our Lord with the fragrant spices of devotion and praise and Christlike living. It is then that we can really live and pray “ for Jesus’ sake.” Too, it is then that others will be blessed and helped through us, for they will see that which will make them hungry to know our Lord. Instead of your friend’s being set aside from service, it may be that she is being set aside to a life o f fragrance that will make the Lord Jesus’ heart glad. It may be that the trials and testings attending ill health will prove only the north wind blowing upon her garden to make the spices flow out in greater abundance. W e need the north wind as well as the balmy, gracious south wind to develop the attributes that will delight His heart. Do not ever doubt His interest in the individual. He is so much interested that He gives special care to each life, allowing each o f His chosen ones to experience just what she needs to-make her life fulfill His best plan for her. He is faithful. Questions for answer in this corner should b e se n t to M iss Scott, 8961 D ic k s Street,W. Hollywood, California. No name will be p u b lis h e d .
said: “ Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not o f this world” (John 8 :2 3 ). They crucified Him for saying it! ' Hear Him once again: “ Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. . . . For as the lightning cometh out o f the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming o f the Son o f man be” (Matt. 24:23, 27; cf. Rev. 19:11). For as the lightning cometh— Terrible, swift, and bright, Cleaving the heavens asunder And searing earth with its light, Out of the storm-cloud leaping Like a fiery sword-blade’s flash, To the sound o f the mighty waters And the sevenfold thunder’s crash,% A vision o f flaming glory That every eye shall see— Lo, as the lightning cometh So shall His coming bel Verily, scoff as men may at simple faith in the per sonal, visible, bodily return o f the Lord Jesus Christ, “ coming in the clouds o f heaven with power and great glory” (Matt. 24 :30 ),; T hey W ho so B elieve S hall not be D eceived ! THE MENACE OF THE MODERN SALOON [Continued from page 299] opinion, the presence of women will add respectability to the premises handling liquor.” Experience of only a few weeks with the new saloon in Chicago evidently partially Dear Miss Scott: I am troubled about the question o f suffering. O f course, I know it is common to man and we must expect it. I know also that it is helpful in bringing us closer to God, but I am thinking o f a friend of mine, a Christian worker, who has been so useful and is so badly needed among the mountaineers where she worked. For many months now, she has been laid aside, ill in bed, and suffering most of the time. She is unable to write or see people or serve in any other way unless it be by prayer. I cannot help asking why God allows a valuable life like that to be set aside. I do not want to lose faith in God, but this question keeps coming to me and puts a doubt in my mind about God’s in terest in and dealing with the individual life. — Q u e stion er . , >'My dear Questioner: ■ There would be no opportunity to exercise faith if we could always see, would there? It is the sweet privilege o f Christians to rest in and delight in the Lord’s perfect will and plan, even when we cannot understand. Sometime the things that are not clear to us now will all be made plain. The ministry o f intercession is, one. o f the highest forms o f service— perhaps the highest one. It is a ministry fo r which our Father must have lives that are constantly very close to Him, and that have a real love for souls and are willing to work unseen. His choice ones are the
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