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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
July, 1935
A Quintuplicate Wedding in China
Five girls to be married! What ex citement the announcement created in the girls’ department of the Home of Onesi- phorus, Taian, Shantung, China! It was: arranged that the wedding should take place on the day following the graduation exercises o f the school. When General Feng heard that the hour had been fixed at six o’clock, he wrote asking whether the time could be changed to four o’clock, so that he could be present. Since General Feng is very much interested in the work o f the Home, the change was gladly made. Promptly at four o’clock, the general and his bodyguard, and all of his family including even his small children, came marching into the Home. At once, all the members of the Home gathered in the chapel. When General and Mrs. Feng had spoken to the congregation, word was passed to the brides and grooms to march into the chapel and take their places on the platform before the superintendent who was to perform the marriage ceremony; The boys’ band began to, play, and in a few moments the brides and grooms be gan to march in. Cheers greeted them from their fellow students and other friends. When the ceremony was finished, and before the brides and grooms had left the platform where they had stood during the ceremony, Mrs. Feng handed each bride and each groom five silver dollars wrapped in red paper, also about ten yards o f cloth decorated in red. A newspaper reporter asked that he might take a picture o f the newly wedded couples, with General Feng and his wife and “ Mother” and “ Father” Anglin (Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Anglin, in charge o f the Home) standing in the background. ' It was indeed a happy occasion when Chinese young people, all of whom had known the Spirit’s working in their lives during the time o f their residence in the Home, were united in marriage and sent forth for new service for Christ. A Vacation Suggestion In these days of changing conditions, many beautiful old homes are opening their doors to Welcome paying guests. Braeside, the home o f Miss Sara C. Pal mer, who is well known through her evan gelistic and literary work, cordially invites recommended guests to visit Tunkhannock, Pa. Tunkhannock is located in the moun tains near the place where the Blue Ridge and the Alleghenies meet. It is twenty-five miles from Scranton, thirty miles from Wilkes-Barre, and twenty-two miles from Montrose. Guests will be afforded oppor tunities of hearing fine speakers from the surrounding country and from summer conferences in near-by towns. The house will be open from June 8 to September 28 (D . V .). Accommodations are limited. Therefore, those wishing to spend a va cation, or the summer, in this delightful place, should apply early to Miss Sara C. Palmer, Braeside, Tunkhannock, Pa. During the winter, Miss Palmer is avail able for gospel meetings. She is the au thor of several books; The Winning Game, Donald Campbell’s Loyalty, The Compet ing Artists, and Vera Dickson’s Triumph. Love’s secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind that they are such little ones.;—F rederick W . F aber .
DAI LY ‘D evotional le a d in g s A M E S S A G E F O R E M E R Y D A Y O F . T H E M O N T H
AUGUST 1 Christ’s Invitation “ Come and see” (John 1:39).
AUGUST 4 Faith “ This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith’’ (1 John 5:4). Faith rends the veil ’twixt earth and heaven, And brings the Saviour near; Faith soothes the guilty sinner’s mind, And drives away his fear. Faith is the glass through which we look On things unknown to sight; But soon by faith, all heaven appears In robes of glorious lights Lord, make our faith more firm and strong, So that it ne’er may yield; Dwell Thou within our hearts by faith, Our only light and shield. —Scottish Christian Herald. O f the heroine o f a modern novel it is said that she seemed to be always in an attitude o f waiting. In the story, she was waiting for the coming o f her dearly loved husband engaged in perilous business by reason o f the French Revolution. But the description is an apt one, or ought to be, of the attitude of Christ’s people as they expect the return of their absent Lord. One o f the characteristics of the church in apostolic days was that it had “turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven” (1 Thess. 1:9, 10). . . . The Christian’s waiting is neither negligent nor nonchalant It is something which colors all his thinking and influences all his life. —J. R ussell H owden . “ Thy statutes have been my' songs in the house o f my pilgrimage” (Psa. 119:54). The Hebrew psalmist confessed in one o f his utterances that God’s statutes be came his songs, the medium o f his praise. Statutes and songs—the two things seem contradictory . . . It seems strange that any one should break into irrepressible music over the enactments of law and ;the re straints of authority. Do not the statutes o f God, we ask, curtail our delights and cripple our ambitions? . . . God’s statutes change confusion into order. Until they begin to rule us, how many there are coming and going in our heartsrllhow many unregenerate thoughts, how many vain desires, how many turbulent passions 1 . . . God’s first statute for us is this: “ Believe on _the Lord Jesus Christ.” There is no song in our soul till we obey. But, when we do, we learn the new song which is never obsolete—E. H. S. AUGUST 5 The Attitude of Waiting “And the Lord direct your hearts into the love o f God, and into the patient wait ing for Chrisf’ (2 Thess. 3 :5). AUGUST 6 When Statutes Become Songs
If we have come to the Master in answer to His call, then to us is committed the joyous responsibility o f passing on the invitation. We have the unchanging glad tidings to proclaim. He who in the days of His flesh uttered those words which never fail to melt our hearts in wistful tenderness, “ Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,” now from His throne invites in like admonition by His Spirit, “ Come” (Rev. 22:17). . . . Have you come? Do not delay 1 T o those who have come is this privilege given, that by His Spirit He would sound forth through us the won drous plea, “ Come and see.” —H erbert F. S tevenson . AUGUST 2 Gold or Brass? "Shishak . . . carried away also the shields o f gold which Solomon had made. Instead o f which king Rehoboam made shields o f brass’’ (2 Chron. 12:9,TO). When the Egyptians invaded the land of Judah, they were out for plunder . . . Grief was especially felt at the loss o f the three hundred shields of gold which Solo mon had made; and, in compensation for their absence, Rehoboam had replicas of them made in brass. . . . Our point of emphasis at the moment is the single fact that the king replaced the gold things he had inherited from his father — replaced them in brass, a metal which to all out ward seeming may have looked like gold, but which held a much lower place in the scale o f material values. Something like that, unfortunately, is likely to occur in the spiritual realm. . . . The deficiency lies below the surface, in the inner and secret life rather than in externals. I ^ ^ A rthur L ester . In his Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul tells his friends of sufferings that had overtaken him as he preached and labored in Asia, the Roman province, of which Ephesus was the capital. The dark shadow of death, he says, had fallen across his path; and it was only because of the special power and love of God that he still lived. No details are given of the unfor gettable event; but the peril, whatever it was, and the divine rescue, had left on him the deepest impression. He took cour age for the present and the future from the experience of the past. “ God . . . de livered us from so great a death,” he wrote, “and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.” Behind him, and around him, and before him, Paul saw the goodness and the mercy of his Lord.—E. H. S. AUGUST 3 Threefold Deliverance “ Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us” (2 Cor. 1:10).
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