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phia to buy a shovel. Setting his foot upon it to try its temper, he asked: “Is this a first-class shovel?” The merchant replied: “My friend, I think you can know but very little about shovels. You will notice that that shovel was made by George Griffith. He is a Christian, and makes a Christian shovel. Anything that you see marked with his name is just what it claims to be.” An architect complains that many of his clients come and ask him to design a house for them, only to let him very speedily dis cover that they have already designed it for themselves. What they really want is his sanction of their own plan, and the sat isfaction of seeing him draw on paper what they have fully in mind. It is in very much the same fashion that we often go to the Great Architect with our lives. In India I saw that monument, the Taj Mahal. In the center of the structure is a piece of marble sixteen feet across and eight or ten feet high. A Mohammedan guard stands there, and while I was looking up he shouted something about one God and Mohammed his prophet. It echoed and echoed, and we listened. I could not leave with that echoing across the world, and I begged permission to stand where the soldier stood. Reluctantly he consented. Then, lifting up my voice, I shouted, “Jesus highest over all,” and it echoed and re echoed to the highest peaks of the Hima layas. That cry is to sound around the world.— W. J. Hart, D. D. Dr. Torrey recently said: I had a canny Scot for one of my deacons. This deacon was walking down alongside the railroad track one morning, when an engine-driver, who he knew had been con verted, hailed him, and asked him to come for a ride. He climbed up into the cab of the engine, and got into a theological discussion with him. After they had been talking for some time my deacon said, “I can see you have a (jifferent religion from
Speaking on the point that Daniel, though a very busy man, found time to pray, D. L. Moody said: “I am reminded of the words of an old Methodist minister, ‘If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.’ ” How we worry unnecessarily! I re member a bit of newspaper verse. Where I read it, I do not know, but the words themselves “stick like burrs” : "Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived; But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived.” Some time ago I owned a good over coat, but some one came into my study and took it away. I still own it, but I do not possess it. It is possible for God to own us, while the devil possesses us. The ideal Christian is the man who recognizes the ownership of Christ, and realizes full possession through the Holy Spirit.— A. C. Dixon. One bright summer’s morning Mr. Spur geon went early into the garden to find a guest walking about disconsolate. “How now?” he cried, “why are you so gloomy?” “I have been looking into my heart,” was the answer. “And I’ll warrant you found nothing there but blackness,” said Mr. Spurgeon. “Look up, man! Look at the sun!” “I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except- in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity. May grace be given me to adhere to this .”—David Livingstone, in his Journal, May 22, 1853.
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