T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S They in tu rn loved him and decided to buy him q, new suit. -When it arrived they placed it by his bed as he slept. He was very much pleased when he awoke, and the men were happy over his appreciation. Not many days later an enemy soldier came into the camp almost naked. He had escaped from a prison camp. The next morning after he arrived in the camp the soldiers were astonished to see the chaplain w ith his old su it on again. When asked what he had done w ith the new su it he xsaid th a t he had given it to th e soldier who had ju st come in. When they asked him why he had not given th e man th e old suit, th e chaplain said: “When I give in the nam e of th e Lord Jesus Christ, only th e best is good enough.”— Sel. The M arks of Service Bishop Woodcock, of Kentucky, tells a touching story about a little heroine whom he knew. She was left mother-, less a t th e age of eight. H er fath e r was poor and th e re were four children younger th a n she. She tried to care for them all and for th e home. To do it all she had to be up very early in the morning and to work very late at night. No wonder th a t a t the age of th irteen her stren g th was all exhausted. As she lay dying a neighbor talked w ith her. The little face was troubled. “It isn ’t th a t I’m afraid to die,” she said, “ fo r I am not. But I ’m so ashamed.” “Ashamed of w h at?” the neighbor asked in surprise. “Why, it ’s th is way,” she exclaimed; “you know how it’s been w ith us since mamma died. I’ve been so busy, I ’ve never done anything for Jesus, and when I meet Him, I shall be so ashamed! Oh, w hat can I tell H im ?” W ith difficulty, the neighbor kept back her sobs. Taking /th e little cal loused, work-scarred hands in her own, she answered, “ I wouldn’t tell Him anything, dear. Ju s t show him your hands.”— Sel.
156 Seeing the steward bearing a huge p lat te r w ith a tu rkey and fixings, he way laid him a t the entrance of th e dining saloon and said: ‘See here! I haven’t much money, bu t I ’ve stood this thing as long as I can. How much will a din ner like th a t cost?’ ‘Cost!’ exclaimed th e steward. ‘Why, man, it doesn’t cost you anything; it ’s all paid for i n ’ your passage.’ ” Necessity of a New N ature “ I have heard th e story of a Chris tian man who said he was going to make a dem onstration,” ' says a Southern preacher. ' “He said th a t a man was born innocent and pure and th a t he by education and th e rig h t sort of home train ing could be raised up into the Kingdom of God.. He said, ‘I will make a demonstration of it.’ And he got two rattlesnak es— a male and a female. He raised them away from other snakes and fed them on chicken m eat and a l lowed nobody to tease them . From those snakes he raised the eleventh generation of snakes. He. said, ‘The eleventh generation of snakes will have no poison in it, because I have educated th e poison out of it.’ They grew to be good sized snakes. One morning he left the cage open. His little boy went out into th e yard to play. Playing about th e cage he pu t his hand into it and those snakes, tru e to th eir natu re, coiled, rattled , ra n out their tongues and struck, and th e ir fangs- went into th e arteries of th a t boy and he died. You can tak e th a t snake and put it yonder under the throne of God, by th e side of th e Tree of Life, and it will coil and ra ttle and stick out its tongue and strik e a t a passing angel.” Giving L ike Jesu s Gives During the Civil W ar th ere was a big-hearted man who served as chap lain. He wore a black suit which had become worn w ith hard usage. It was to rn in places and had food stains all over it. He loved his men and did everything he could to com fort them.
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