T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S days, like him, pray against sin, but de sire not to be heard, because of the in ward secret love which they have to some particular habituated sins! THE BURNING HEART There comes a time, when in the heart . of man A fire begins to burn unquenchable: When thoughts arise so full, that never can By mortal tongue be made expressible: A fire that’s started from above—not here, A fire that burns with heavenly love —not fear, A fire that burns to see all mortals near Their God. T’was such a time, when Paul took up his pen To write the message of his heart, and say, “With many tears shed oft for love of men I write to you, so be not turned away.’’ The heart of Paul beneath a load—not sin, Was bursting with the truth that en tered in, And caused his tears to flow, and love to win Much men. 0 can it be, that I in mortal life - Can have such strivings in this heart of mine? Can have a fire that burns, and causes strife To cease, and in its place God’s peace to shine? Then I will look with constant eye to God, And though I feel, though strange it be,— the rod, 1 know that He will fill my soul, a flood For men. Herbert G. Tovey.
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brain; then next He rests the troubled conscience of a sinner believing on Christ. Elohim, the Hebrew plural-for God, not Eloah, the singular, is employed in Gen, 1:1 and throughout the chapter. God* in its plural form occurs about 2,700 times in the Sacred Scriptures. It is a plurality of persons and of excell; encies. Creation had its time-beginning. God had no beginning, but He was in every beginning. The universal doctrine of the Pagan world is to ascribe eter nity to matter in its ten thousand forms, and a time-origin to their numer ous deities. This and other speculative and absurd notions are effectually ■ brushed aside by the study of the Mosaic account of Creation, contained in the first thirty-four verses of the Bible. God fills the Universe with His Pres ence; He is Omnipresent (Ps. 139: 7-12). God is Omniscient. The rapid flight of angel and the slow motion of the tiniest. insect come equally within the range of the Divine Vision. He is Om nipotent. The vast Universe, in its im mensity, its massiveness, its millions of worlds, all in rapid motion through in finite space, form magnificent witness to the Creator. Not that the splendours of -the Universe can add one whit to His essential glory. That ever remains un dimmed through all time and change. God dwells in light unapproachable. No created being has ever stood within the Divine Circle of uncreated light. But Christ came forth from that blaze of in effable glory to agony inconceivable— came from the heights of glory to the depths of Calvary. Hallelujah! What a Saviour. BLUFFING GOD St. Augustine, in his youth, was in the habit of praying against lust and un cleanness, and secretly desired that God would not hear him. How many, now-a-
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