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January, 1933
FEBRUARY 16 "And they gathered it every morning” (Ex. 16:21). My Lord would prove me, by keeping me a perpetual pensioner on His charity, arid a continual guest at His table. The daily bread is a parable of higher and more sa cred things. The children saw in 1the manna something unearthly and inexplic able. Theyfiwist not what it was. I sit at my food and drink, and a window should be opened for me into a world more won derful and more divine. I should see Him who is the Bread of my undying spirit, Him who gives to me the Water of an everlast ing life. Him, too, I must seek and find with the return of every fresh morning. I cannot thrive on the grace o f yesterday, nourishing and ample as that was for yes terday’s need. . . . With each sunrising, mine ought to be a mightier and fuller Christ. Thus from tables here below, Straight to upper rooms we go. — A lexander S mellie . IN THE JEWISH WORLD [Continued from page 23] first confession of faith in Christ on the part of a pénitent soul, and after we had prayed, we asked him to pray his first prayer in the name of*Jesus Christ. With a quick, instinctive glance about the room (’as though looking for the Jewish mizrach, which marks the eastern wall o f the ortho dox Jewish home and toward which Jews face when praying) he arose and asked, ■“May I pray in Hebrew?” “ Certainly,’® was the answer, “ for God understands Hebrew as well as all other languages.” Walking over to the wall, he stood and raised one hand high over his head and leaning his head on the other arm resting on the wall, he prayed, first in Hebrew and then in English, a prayer of confession and acceptance of Christ as his Messiah and Saviour. He has since been baptized in the Church o f the Open Door and, by a special ruling of the faculty o f the Bible Institute, has been permitted to enroll in the Jewish Missions Course. It is his highest ambition to secure the necessary training and then go back to his own country and carry the gospel to his people. The many years spent in rabbinical studies will stand him in good stead now as he seeks to influence Jewish men and women for Christ. Already he has met an acid test o f his sincerity, which is to speak at our open air meetings in a Jewish neighborhood, with scores of Jewish listeners; and to his credit it may be said that in such ministry he finds his chief delight. The rabbis of the rabbinical college could scarcely have conceived, that, in training this young man for the rabbinate, they were preparing him to more effectually present the gospel o f the Son of God to his own people. Radio Hour Friends of the Bible Institute are invited to tune in on station KFAC, Los Angeles, between 10:45 and 11:45 (Pacific time) on Wednesday mornings. The first quarter of the hour is given to a choice musical program, of which Gordon E. Hooker has charge. Among the musicians who con tribute to’ this part of the program are Alma Beckley, Violet W olf, Dorothy Sayer, and James Forshaw. Following this, Rev. Louis T. Talbot, pastor of the Church of the Open Door, teaches the book of Daniel. This extremely important proph ecy will not fail to hold your interest. Tune in next Wednesday.
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W AN TED : Three librarians, four jani tors, four gardeners, four stenogra phers, and three tutors. Open Feb. 1, 1932 to High School graduates who must work for part expense at Accred ited College, Fundamental. Apply, Reg istrar, Los Angeles Pacific College, 5832 Ebey Ave., Los, Angeles, California. , ' I generally cross the Thames twice a day, but I never cross it without thinking, of Francis Thompson, clinging heaven by the hems and finding Christ walking on the water in the center o f the busy city.' But he went further; for later on he sang about the Master: “And bolder now and bolder, I lean upon that shoulder, So dear He is and near.” ■ —W . Y. F ullerton . FEBRUARY 12 “ The peaceable fruit o f righteousness" (Heb. 12:11). Do you lack the fruits o f holiness? Some whom we know are so evidently filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are to the praise of God, that we are instinctively drawn to them. Their faces are bright with the presence of the Lord, though they drink of the cup of His sorrows. Their spirit is tender; their disposition sweet and unselfish; and their childlike humility flings the halo o f inde scribable beauty over their whole behavior. We lack these graces. There is little in us to attract men to Christ; much to re pel. Our boughs are naked and bare, as if locusts had stripped them. And the rea son is evident. We have not let the Holy Spirit have His way with our inner life. Had the sap of His presence been mightily within us, we should have been laden with lucious fruitage; it would have been impos sible to be otherwise.—F. B. M eyer . FEBRUARY 13 “In keeping of them there is great re ward” (Psa. 19:11). Not “ Because I keep them I shall have a great reward” ; but “In keeping them there is great reward.” God Himself wants us to keep them because He loves us. He says, “Oh, that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all
my commandments always, that it might be well with them.” That we may have to keep His. Commandments in the very teeth of trial, lo'ss, opposition, or distress does not touch the matter; for, nevertheless, not afterward, but in the keeping of His words, He takes care to keep His wojd that there shall be great reward. If there is not great reward, it only shows that there is not real keeping of God’s commandments. God is “not unrighteous to forget” the least act of Spirit-wrought obedience. — F rances R idley H avergal . Oh, blissful* lack of wisdom, ’Tis blessed not to know; He holds me with His own right hand, And will not let me go. He lulls my troubled soul to rest In Him who; loves me so. . ■—M ary G. B rain A rd . FEBRUARY 14 "O thou o f little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?” (Matt. 14:31). Many Christians lament over their doubts as a man might lament over his rheumatism, and look upon their doleful experience as though it were an “interest ing case” of especial and peculiar trial, which calls for the tenderest sympathy and the uttermost consideration I Doubting is always and everywhere, in the Bible, treat ed by God as a sin. Faith, absolute and un conditional, is the universal requirement; and, in view o f the character of the One whom we are called upon to trust, it is the only sensible and reasonable thing. — M rs . P earsall S m it h . FEBRUARY 15 " I f God be fo r us, who can be against us?" (Rom. 8:31). When the Israelites came out of Egypt, the entire force of Egypt was against them. The sea was against them. The desert was against them. The Amalekites were against them. All nations were against them. Their own inexperience, their waywardness, their evil habits—these were against them. But God was with them. And they came off more than conquerors. Thus it was with the apostles. The Jews were against them, and so were the Gentiles. Stripes, bonds, and imprisonment awaited them in every place, The power of the priesthood was against them. God was with them, and none but God, and they triumphed. — G eorge B owen .
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