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the back door and going slowly up the steps reached for the door knob; she hesi tated a moment then, with determination she opened the door. In an instant she was in her mother’s arms. Prayer and God had 'C done what pastor and Sunday school teacher could not do. • Fearful Parents. —Jesus said, “ Fear not, only believe.” A lady testified in meeting that she had committed her son to God and had done all she could toward his sal vation. It was only a few months after that in speaking in prayer meeting she said she had smelled liquor on her boy’s breath, .and she had never known o f his drinking before. .This was hard for her to bear, but ' she was in God’s hands. Some months afterward he was brought home severely injured and unconscious. When through medical aid he was brought to conscious ness, he looked up and saw his mother, his first words were, “mother pray for me.” She did—the boy recovered and became a preacher o f the Gospel. The scornful cast out. —There are always plenty o f scorners who are full o f unbelief fq hinder any new or good project. Every inventor has been ridiculed. Every evan . T AIRUS, a ruler (v. 22). “ Oh the help- J lessness o f the greatest men. It shows the need, o f Christ in every life.”.—Parker A t his feet. “ That Jesus allowed him to stay at His feet, is one o f the many proofs o f His deity” (Acts 10:25, 26).—Torrey. v. 23. Besought him greatly. “ Sorrow brings more men to Jesus than anything else.”—“What men in blindness count their greatest misfortunes are oftentimes their •greatest Blessings.”—“Jesus never complains o f scant respect when wrung hearts cry to him, if they are drawn to him by trust.”— Maclaren. “Jesus never has office hours or imposes a secretary between himself and a trusting child.”—“ In heaven’s calendar,
gelist, pastor or Christian worker has had to meet these people. Jesus cast them out, showing that no great work o f faith can be done where they create their atmosphere. There are enough o f such people in some churches and Sunday schools to keep them from ever having a revival. But think what these people must have missed. If they had believed in Jesus they might have stayed in the room and witnessed the resur rection power o f Jesus. “Arise Child.” The words o f Jesus brought resurrection life into their daughter. Many parents have seen the effect of Jesus’ words upon their children. A father bade his son good-bye as he left for a distant city. The boy had only a few days previously received Jesus as his Saviour. • About a year, afterward the father visited the young man, who was working in a commercial house. He found him intensely interested in the Bible, and one o f the first places he escorted his father was to a Bible-study class. When the father returned he said, “ I never saw such a change in anyone as there is in Henry.” Truly resurrection life had come to him through the study o f and obedience to the words o f Jesus. tjhq most notable days are those when human prayer moves the arm of'om n ipo tence.” v. 36. Be not afraid. Only believe. “Jesus proposes but one cure for fear— faith.”—; Torrey. “ Faith and fear cannot coexist in the same heart.”—“ Faith is the only vic torious antagonist of fear.’’—Maclaren. “ Faith cast into the scale will outweigh a hundred good reasons for dread and de spair.”—“ Nothing can make a trusting Christian blue.”.—“ He is rich in fact who is rich in faith.” v. 38. They wailed greatly. “The woe that wails aloud is soon consoled. Deepest grief is silent.”
COMMENTS FROM SUNDRY SOURCES
By K. L. Brooks.
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