T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S been found the remains of a synagogue believed to be the very one wherein the Saviour preached. i For more than 1900 years the very site of such an important Bible city as Capernaum has been in dispute. It was thought that it stood at the northern end of the Sea of Galilee at a place called Tell Hum, where there are ex tensive ruins. A systematic examina tion of these, and the discovery of an cient documents, now make it clear that this, indeed, was ancient Capernaum. The ruins of a Jewish synagogue have been brought to light. Explorers say this temple stood there 4n the days of Christ, and is the very building referred to in the Gospels. The position of the stones would indicate that it was de stroyed by an earthquake. a » KNOW IT—TELL IT Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. 2 Cor. 3:12. These are very comprehensive words, and .when we realize their relationship to the intellectual and social conditions of Paul’s time we can easily see how radical the statement is. In the first place, it might be taken to mean that the more definitely a man believes in Christ, the franker he is in facing the implications of that belief. That is, that simplicity is a quality of deep thought. If you do not know a thing very well, you will speak con fusedly about it; the better you know it the clearer will be your speech. True knowledge of God will always teach the stammering tongue to speak plainly. That was the great contribution of John Wesley to the religious life of our age. He believed that if a man had a reli- gious experience he would know it and know it in such a way that he could tell other people about it.:—Harris E.
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ANOTHER MAN During a heaVy storm off the coast of Spain, a dismantled merchantman was observed by a British frigate drift ing before the gale. Every eye and glass were on her, and a canvas shelter on her deck almost level with the sea, suggested the idea that there might be life on board. Boats were lowered; the wreck was , reached, and one man found apparently alive, but in a state of insensibility—wasted by famine to a mere skeleton. They bore him to their own vessel. Every effort that pity could suggest was put forth for his restoration. After a long time their efforts were successful;" he showed signs of life; he moved; then in a voice weak and hollow,1 .'scarcely audible, he muttered, “ There’s another man!” Saved himself, the first use he makes of speech is to save another. O learn that blessed lesson! Be daily practic ing it. And so long as in our homes, among our friends, in this wreck of a world, which is drifting down to ruin, there lives an unconverted one, “ there is another man” to whom we should go and plead for Christ, and let us go to Christ and plead for that man.—Dr. THE GOD THE WORLD WANTS What the devil wants to do is to make the world believe God is a sort of pious old woman, a sort of indulgent father, at least, so kind and so com passionate and so tender that He will not punish anarchists. He merely yearns over them. He lets them break His laws, smash His government, tear the world in pieces, baptize it in blood, and He stands still and weeps. The devil would have us make a God feeble minded, of feeble justice, and feeble righteousness. And that kind of God the devil would have us worship in stead of the God of justice and right eousness and holiness, with love and mercy and tenderness combined.— Dixon.
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