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SINGING UNTO THE LORD A rapid look at the concordance shows that, of the something more than one hundred tinjes that the word “sing” occurs in the Bible, about half of these times it is coupled up with the phrase “unto the Lord,” or a like phrase. It is evident that in these places singing is spoken of as being directed to the Lord, regardless of whether there are human hearers or not. It may be the singing of a single individual on his bed in the lonely night, the group of de vout worshippers met together, or the congregation pouring out its volume of praise. But singing of this kind is not especially directed to human ears, but to the ear of God as the great, and in some cases, the only, listener. How much of the singing heard in the modern church sounds as though it were directed to God? The soloist, with up-to-date clothes and fantastic trills, warbling from the choir loft, is she (or he) singing unto the Lord—or to the folks? The quartette in evening dress singing some anthem prepared by a theatrical composer, do they do that in order to express to the Lord their adoration of Him—or are they doing it for money, or to please the people or as an attraction to their church Wm. M. Smith. CHART PRINTED IN JNDIA A ¿Missionary in India writes: “Con cerning the ‘Spirit of Truth’ chart, it is this that the Telegu country wants. False teaching is prevalent and we want to translate this chart into Telegu so that it may be helpful'to many of our Telegu speaking Christians. Will you kindly give permission for its transla tion?” The chart has brought hundreds out of the snares of modern heresies and back tt> the church of Christ. It can be procured of the Christian Funda mentals League, Los Angeles. See their advertisement.
The wise heart.................... .Verse 15 The guided heart.........»............ “ 19 The SURRENDERED heart.... “ 26 Or The evil heart ..........................Verse 7 The envious heart .....>.......... “ 17 The perverse heart .............. “ 22 —H. H-D. Give the Word "Ministers make a mistake when they try to feed the people on literature and on discussions about the cosmic uni verse instead of on the word of God. It doesn’t make so much difference how a man curls his hair; it is what is under his hair. The reason why Ly man Beecher, who preached against slavery and intemperance in a day when ministers drank and slaves were held, didn’t get into trouble was because he based all his preaching on reforms on the Bible.”—John Timothy Stone. Preach Doctrine “Let the preacher preach a Christian ity of doctrine. The Church is starving to death for the want of it and the preachers are becoming emasculated apologists for the lack of it. The world looking on is laughing at a limp thing calling itself “Modern Christianity,” and for want of vertebrate strength, unable to stand alone. “It was doctrine believed in and preached which sustained the martyrs and gave courage to missionaries. He who believed in the sovereignty of a redeeming God, the certainty that God would jget His elect, the coming of Christ, the millennial triumph, and a rebel world surrendered at the feet of God, could endure the agony of the stake, the privation of the wilderness and all the discomforts and discourage ments of fields of endeavor well sowed but scantily reaped.” I. M. HALDEMAN.
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