December 1925
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T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
T H E O L D H Y M N S There’s lots of music in ’em— the hymns of long ago, Arid when some gray-haired brother sings the ones I used to know I sorter want to take a hand—I think of days gone by— “On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand and cast a wistful eye!,” There’s lot’s of music in ’em—those dear, sweet hymns of old, With visions bright of lands of light and shining streets of gold. And I hear ’em ringing—-singing where Memory dreaming ■stands, “From Greenland’s icy .mountains to India’s coral strands.” They se'em to sing forever of holier, sweeter days, When the lilies of the love of God bloomed white in all the ways: ,; And I want to hear their music from the old-time meetin’s rise Till “I can read my title clear to mansions in the skies.” L We never needed singin’ books in them old days—-we knew The words, the tunes of every one—the dear old hymn book through! We didn’t have no trumpets then, no organs built for show, We oniy sang to praise the Lord “from whom all blessings flow.” ! An’ so I love the good old hymns; and when my time shall come- —. Before the light has left, me, and my singing lips are dumb— If I can hear ’em sing them, I ’ll pass without a sigh To “Canaan’s fair and happy land, where my possessions lie.” IMS-Frank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Constitution. If you love your enemies, you won’t want to He about them. m NO BOOM IX THE INN This true and intensely inspiring incident is taken from a sermon on “The Virgin Birth— the Issue,” preached by Rev. J. Frank Norris, of Fort Worth, Texas. Many years ago, down in the city of Atlanta, a penniless, ragged, vagabond boy walked to the front door of a fash ionable, magnificent church, and he stood there a moment and nobody said, “.Come in.”. At last he stole in and stood against the ,wall, under the stairway. After the service was over he waited until the crowd left, and theri all by him self, he went down to the pastor and said, “Sir, I come not asking for money, but can I have an interview with you?” And the pastor said, “Yes, come to see me tomorrow,” and the next day the boy came and the pastor opened the door and saw him and says, “I am busy today. Would you mind coming tomorrow?” He came back; the pastor wasn’t there. He went to another church and stood and knocked at the door, and the pastor says to him, “You go to the relief association, we can’t do anything for you.” And the boy says, “Sir, you misunderstand me. I ask not for bread or clothes; I want to talk to you about something else,” and the pastor says, “I am too busy,” and the boy turned and walked on down the street, and after awhile, going down a dingy street, out from a little dark door of a hole in the wall he heard a girl singing, as somebody was playing the violin: “Where is my wand’ring boy tonight— The boy of my tenderest care, The boy that was once my joy and light The child of my love and prayer?” And he turned into that little Salvation Army mission, and when they gave the call and said, “Is there not one here tonight that is lost and undone, without hope and without friends, come down to the altar,” and the boy said, “I am the boy they are asking for,” and he went down to the altar and fell on his face and gave God his heart. Oh, my friends, I say, come on, all you Modernists; come on all you Ration alists; come on all you Evolutionists, and when you can take a man out of his sin and rags like that, make him a man like the man that sat before me that morning and told me that story, then I will believe your damnable rot. That is what I have got to say about it.
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