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B u s i n e s s
December 1928
*-------------------------------------------- * PO IN T E R S F O R PR EA CH ER S i-—:----------------- --------- 4 One reason why there are not more revivals is because so little of the preach ing is aimed at the sins of the people who are listening to the preacher. —o— To have an honest critic is to have a faithful friend. —o—• You can’t tell how much a preacher is doing for the Lord by the size of his salary. —o— Tearing a leaf out of the Bible is about the same as throwing away the whole book. —o— No matter where you open your Bible and discover the purpose of God, you will find the devil working with all his might to defeat it. Whenever you go to a sinner, go with the thought that God wants him, and has sent you to bring him to Him. — o — A pastor has to live very close to the Lord who can, preach the Gospel as faith fully to the rich as he does to the poor of his flock. —o:— The protracted meeting in which the members of the pastor’s family take no interest, is not apt to develop into much of a revival. — o — ■ Shoot where God tells you to aim, and you will always hit something. — o — Wherever the Word of God is preach ed in purity, people will be found who would like to stone the preacher. The time to pray for a revival is all the time. There is a good deal of Gospel in the right kind of a handshake. A good sermon will always outlive the preacher. The man who preaches for bread and butter never gets the Bible clear open. God doesn’t care how weak a man may be in the legs, if he is only strong in the heart. — o — The man who speaks the truth in love will always speak words that weigh something. — o — _The best preacher is the one who keeps right on living his sermon after he comes out of the pulpit. — o — When you want to reach the masses with your preaching, don’t get up in the church-steeple to write your sermons.
Ready-made sermons are being widely advertised in preachers’ magazines these days. The Christian Century devotes this bit of sarcasm to the preacher whose lazi ness or incompetence leads him to share in this fraud: “The purveyors of pre digested pabulum for pale parsons—that is to say, ready-to-preach sermons—grow more and more efficient in the art of sav ing the preacher from doing any of his own thinking. Twci recent circulars-— identical except for the address of the firm and the color of the paper—offer sermon outlines ready typed, perforated, ready to go into the preacher’s loose-leaf sermon hook and be carried into the pul pit and preached as his own without a brain cell being called into action. You get forty of them for ten dollars,' and only one preacher in a county gets the same outlines.” *--------- :------------ --------- :------------ * SCRIPTURE ALPHABET l -------- :— :---------------------------- 4 An Alphabet of Praise A 11 thy works shall praise thee, O Lord. Psalm 145:10. B less the Lord, O my soul.—Psa 103:2. C ome, let us sing unto the Lord.—Psalm 95 :1. D eclare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.—Psalm 96:3. E nter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise;—Psalm 100 A. F orget not all his benefits.—Psalm 103: 2 . G reat is the Lord, and greatly to be praiseiJi|—Psalm 145 :3. H e giveth to the beast his- food.—Psalm 147:9. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people:—Psalm 108:3. J ust and true are thy waysS-Revelation 15 :3. K now ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we our selves.—Psalm 100:3. L et every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.—Psalm 150 :6. M y mouth shall speak the praise of the .. Lord.—Psalm 145:21. N ot unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory.—Psalm , 115:1. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is' good.—Psalm 118:1. P raise him for his mighty actstl-Psalm 150:2. R emember his marvelous works that he hath done.—Psalm 105 :5. S erve the Lord with gladness.—Psalm 100 : 2 . T he Lord hath done great things for u s; whereof we are glad.—P s a 1m 126:3. U nto thee, O God, do we give thanks.— Psalm 75 :1. The Voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly. —Psalm 118:15. W hile I live will I praise the Lord.— Psalm 146:2. How eXcellentBs thy name in all the earth!—Psalm 8:1. Y oung men and maidens; old men and children: Let them praise the name of the Lord.—Psalm 148:12, 13. —Author Unknown.
T )R . JOSEPH PARKER, of T . City Temple, London, gave these ten commandments for business men: “ (1 ) Thou shalt not in any wise boast, brag, bounce, or bluster, or the wise man will hold thee in lo w e s te e m. (2 ) Thou .shalt not permit thy. wife to be living at the rate of two hundred pounds a year when thy business is not yield ing more than one hundred and ninety-nine pounds; nor shall thou withhold from her the business information which, as an helpmeet, she is entitled to receive. (3 ) Thou shalt not mock the unsuccessful man, for he may be richer in his poverty than thou art in thy boasted abundance. (4 ) Thou shalt not carry this& counting-house into the domestic circle, nor in any wise spoil the children’s hour by recapitulating the bankruptcies of the day. (S') Thou shalt not hobnob with idlef persons, nor smoke with them, nor encourage them, nor approve their evil life. (6 ) Thou shalt not keep com pany with an unpunctual man, for he will certainly lead thee to carelessness and ruin. (7 ) Thou shalt not forget that a servant who can tell lies for thee may one day tell lies to thee. (8 ) As to the hours of slumber and sleep, remember the good old rule: Nature requires five, cus tom .seven, laziness takes nine, and wickedness eleven. (9 ) Nei ther a borrower nor a lender be, but give, where well-bestowed, right cheerfully. (10) Be honest in copper, and in gold thy hon esty will be secure."
T h e m in iste r w ho h a d e x ch an g ed w ith th e R ev eren d M r. B an lom w as m u ch scan d alized to see D eaco n E ra s tu s C oom er in th e v estry , a fte r service, d e lib erately ta k in g a fifty -cen t piece o u t o f th e c o n trib u tio n b o x a n d su b stitu tin g a dim e. “B r’e r C o o m e r!” h e ex claim ed in h o r r o r a n d am azem en t. “T h a t’s p lain d is h o n est d o in g s !” “W h a t’s th e m atter, p a rs o n ? ” th e d ea con ask ed genially, conscious o f h is ow n rectitu d e. “Ise led off w ith th a t fo -b it piece fo ’ de las’ fo ’ yeahs. T h a t ain ’t no c o n trib u tio n— d a t’s a tem ’ra ry loan, as a noble ex am p le.”
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