T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S and let the wind blow through. Fan it gently back into a flame. He doqs not condemn even the first confused and hesitating beginnings of the Christian life. He breathes the oxygen of His love upon the spark. May His method in dealing with souls be ours. The following quotation from a let ter recently received by Dr. Torrey from the wife of a prominent Canadian evan gelist, is illustrative of this very point: “ You may remember the incident in the Fisherwick Presbyterian Churp.h at one of your afternoon services, a child of two years stood up in the pew, and when you said, ‘God bless you,’ she kept solemnly repeating the words, ‘God bless you.’ You remarked, when someone tried to quiet the child, ‘Leave the child alone. Perhaps some day she will be a worker for God.’ That child will be twenty-one next month and she has been out with her father for over two years and has led many to Christ by her Gospel singing, speaking to chil dren’s meetings and women’s meetings, and working in the inquiry room.” "Suffer the little children to come, and forbid them not,” was our Master’s exhortation. The salvation of thou sands of souls may depend upon the conversion of a little child or a timid seeker.-^—K. L. B. START AT HOME “ Go home and tell.” It would be easier to take a ship and go to the heathen to tell what the Lord was to you and had done for you than to go and tell the folks at home, in the heathen land the hard thing is to tell the home-folks and break the ties of love for Christ’s sake. Jews and Cath olics, Mohammedans and Buddhists suf fer when they tell it at home.
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to save you. He will be a father to none but his children; and he will save none but those that forsake the world, the devil, and the flesh, and come into his family to be members of his Son, Wnd have communion with his saints. But if they will not come in, it is the fault of themselves; his doors are open; he keeps none back; he never sent such a message as this to any of you, “ It is now too late; I will not receive thee, though thou be converted.” He might have done so and done you no wrong; but he did not; he does not to this day. He is still ready to receive you, if you were but ready unfeignedly, and with all your hearts, to turn. BRUISED REEDS AND SMOKING FLAX Matt. 12:20: “A braised reed shall he not break, and the smoking; flax shall he not quench.” EEDS are not of much account. We find them standing beside stagnant ponds. In spite of their worthlessness, the an cient shepherds were accustomed to cutting them, and making music on them so long as they would last. When the reed became bruised or broken, it was thrown away. If no tune would come out of it, what was it good for? In Jesus Christ we see a Man who stoops to restore the bruised reed and when He has repaired it, it becomes more musical than ever. What a type of humbled sinners the bruised reed is — the weakest thing that grows, and bruised beside! Still our Lord would not kick him out of the way but lifts him up and puts a new song in his mouth. “ The smoking flax shall he not quench.” The margin reads, “ A dimly burning wick will he not quench.” Is the candle just being lighted? He would guard it till the wick is well ignited. Is some poor man’s candle about to go out? Do not open the door
Commence your testimony at home t —Jerusalem first, and then the world. Paul Rader.
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