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Over Anxious. A mother had been telling her child the story of Daniel in the evening, when she suddenly realized that it might dis turb her little daughter’s dreams. “I am afraid you will dream of Daniel in the den of lions,” she said, but her child replied naively, “If I dream about him, mother, I shall leave out the lions.” Leave out the lions of care, anxiety, worry and all the petty things that annoy. A New York pastor on a voyage across the Atlantic tells of his experience for sixty-five hours on one of the winter ocean cyclones of great violence. On Sunday morning in the gale’s fiercest moment, he looked out across the waves and saw a little bird quietly settle down upon the wave which threatened to overwhelm the ship. What a picture of God’s care and calm in the midst of turmoil. A Father’s Love. An evangelist tells of meeting an old man at the station in a Northwestern city, who told him that his boy, had gone away from home, promising to come back some day. “I have met every train, but he has not returned.” Thir teen years passed by and the evangelist again visited the town and the old man with feeble step was at the station. He said with trembling voice, “My boy has not returned yet.” Just then he looked up and saw his son approaching and hastening forward the old man threw his arms about him and said, “Thank God you have come.” What a glimpse There is a story told of a boy who left his home and went to the city, alone, for the first time. He set out with forebodings and fears. The con ductor was kind. A stranger sat beside him and described the places as they passed. A driver at the city station knew exactly where he wanted to go. When it was all over he learned that of a father’s love. A Father’s Care.
to your faith if you cannot add a cubit to your stature. (5) There is one thing we know—we know that He knows, and this is knowing enough. (6) If He chose us before, the founda tion of the world, He couldn’t choose to forget us while we are in the world. (7) If He feeds the birds who cannot say, Father, will He not feed the babes who call Him, Father? (8) The lily grows and glows, all glor ious and without a groan. (9) There is no Bible foundation for the phrases, Fatherhood of God and brotherhood of men, but there is definite teaching that God is the Father of the brotherhood of be lievers. God Cares. God is a real Father to all those who “are children of God. by faith in Christ Jesus.” If God does not care for His children who are in this world, who then will care for LESSON them? It is said ILLUSTRATIONS that the Rhine Riv- W. H. Pike er brings down, an nually, lime enough to supply three hundred and forty-three million oysters with shells. There are the'Alps rising in might, majestic; yet from them must come the lime to make the shells. So our Heavenly Father sets the sun shining with its exhaust less energies of light and heat. These melt the snow and glaciers and they grind up the lime. Now see the thou sands of leaping, laughing waterfalls, flinging themselves from the heights, eager, ceaseless, resistless as if they know the glad errand on which they come, bringing down the supplies for the tiny oyster in the North Sea. What a thing it is to be an oyster and have the universe celestial and terrestial car ing for you. “Are ye not much better than they?”
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