THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S our Sunday Schools never join the church. Why not pray more for the boys? Soulwinning Responsibility It Is said of Mr. Moody, that at the close of a service one night, when the people would not come to God at his invitation, he sat down in a corner of the pulpit and wept like a child. We need to know and feel that men are lost. When Dr. Paton was printing his first New Testament in the Aniwan langu age, Chief Bamakei, an old man, eagerly watched the Missionary, and one day he said “Does it speak?” “Yes” said Paton, “it can talk now in your own language.” “Oh, let it speak to me!” Grasping the book he turned it round and round, then pressing it to his heart he shouted, “Oh, make it speak to me again!” Is not this the greatest work of the missionary, making the Bible speak to men? It is said that more than five hundred thousand sermons are preached every Sunday from texts taken from the Holy Scriptures. Any but a Divine book would have been worn out ages ago, but the more the Bible is used the bet ter it is liked. The cry everywhere today is “Come over and help us!” A11 gates are open to the Christian soldier, sent of God, carrying with him the Word of Power, and preaching Christ, to every creature. The story is told of a tow-headed boy coming into a Sunday School. He stayed away for a Sunday or two and the teacher asked the pastor and the Superintendent if they thought she ought to look him up. They said, “no.” She listened to their advice, instead of obeying the impression of the Spirit. He drifted away front that Sunday School and became the Joseph Smith, head of Mormonism. Ye are the salt. 5:13. Salt is to pre serve the world from corruption, sea son its insipidity and freshen and
789 sweeten it.—J. F. & B. The Gospel is as salt. It is pene- COMMENT trating and power- FROM MANY ful. (Heb. 4 : 1 2 ) It SOURCES , is cleansing, relish- i n g and preserves from putrefaction.—Henry. Whatever tendency there may be to upward development, in the world, there is always a contrary tendency in the world of men. The only possible counteraction is the introduction of an element in society which will hold in check the forces that make for unright eousness and be itself an elevating and purifying influence. Such an ele ment the Christian is to be in the world.—r-Gibson. If Christianity as a conservative 'force in society were to be suddenly eliminated, the social fab ric would fall in ruins, but if only the! salt were all genuine, the restraining influence would be so manifest and mighty that none could question it.— Expos. Bible. Salt will not flavor or preserve unless it is distributed.—Sel. Dost its savor. Salt loses its savor by becoming mixed with earth. The Christian loses his savor by compro mising with the world.—Torrey. Salt in Palestine, being gathered in an impure state often undergoes chemical changes by which its flavor is destroyed while its appearance remains.—Dum- melow. Good for nothing. Equally useless is the so-called Christian who has noth ing in character or life to distinguish him from the world.—Gibson. It is not the mere want of a certain char acter that brings out this contempt, but the want of it in those whose profes sion and appearance were fitted to beget expectation of finding it.—J. F. & B. Eight of the world, v. 14. Christians are the world’ Bible. People who never read a word of either Old or New Testament will read the lives of those who profess to draw their inspiration from Christ and will judge accordingly.
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