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owner closed his hand and for a while showed the brilliant, sparkling diamonds and a drawer full:'of rubies, sapphires and emeralds. Then he opened his hand holding the opals, which were now transformed, glowing with the brilliance of diamonds, burning -with lustrous light and beauty. “ How did it happen?” “This change comes only by the human -touch.” Jesus’ personal touch transforms diseased bodies into life and health. When there were too many for him to reach, they touched Him, even to the hem of His garment: Personal contact with the lives o f suffering humanity, is a vital element in our ser vice. I ¿41*. I , Faraday, the great chemist, learned a lesson in boyhood by a very childish experience. As a little lad, humbly earning his bread by selling newspapers in the streets, he was waiting outside the office of an Edinburgh paper for the morning issue, ..and thrust his head and arms through the railings of the iron gate! He was a born metaphysician, and, began to speculate on which side of the railings he was. “My head and hands are on one side,” he said to himself, “ and my heart and body are bn the other.” The gate was opened hastily before he could disengage himself, and the wrench he received taught him, as he said in- after life, that all true work required head and heart and hands to be on the same side. A popular writer tells of some Swiss peasants who were feed ing their flocks in one.of the lofty upland valleys of that country. On one side o f the valley stood their rude wooden huts in which they camped while on thé mountains. As soon as winter set in, they were deserted for their, permanent homes in the distant vil lage. One day the shepherds heard a strange rumbling high up in the Alps, followed by a deafening :roar and crash. Far up in the mountains, right over their summer huts, a great mass of rock and ice had broken loose, and with irrésistible momentum had swept them from-the mountain side. In 'a few moments it was all over, and not a vestige o f their dwellings remained. And yet thé shepherds did not complain. On the contrary, they went down to the little village church and sang the Te Deum, that their lives had been spared. All that had been destroyed were their almost worthless summer cabins—their real homes were safe and secure. A young preacher visiting an old Scotch woman poor and bedridden, but rich in faith, to test her propounded the question, “ Supposing that after all your praying, and all your trusting, God should cast you off at lasjfe-what then?” The old woman raised herself on her elbow, and looking him steadily in the face, said: “ Eh! mon, is that all the length ye got to yet? Why, mon, God would be a gteat .lo^er.' Poor 'Nanny wad lose her soul, to be sure, and that would be a sair loss indeed, but God Wad lose His character. He knows I’ve just hung up my soul and all my hopes upon His ain precious promises; and, if they should be broken, the whole universe wad gang to ruin.” And then, sink ing her voice, she added: “ For God wad be a liar.” F e br u ar y 18, 1928 T ex t: Eccl. 9 :10 F ebr u ar y 19, 1928 Text : 2 Cor. 5:1 F ebr u ar y 20, 1928 Text : Phil. 1 : 6
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