PRAYER and POWER: So many Chris tians are powerless today because they need the faith of the little girl who went to the prayer meeting of her church—it was a meeting espe cially called to ask the Lord to send some much-needed rain. It was in teresting to note that the little lass was the only one who acted upon her faith and took an umbrella. She went to pray w ith a believing faith. * The lass was quite unlike the man who found himself falling off the roof on which he was working. He shouted out, “Lord save me!” Just as he was sliding down his trousers caught on a nail and held him safe ly. So he relaxed and said, “Never mind, Lord, I’m all right after all.” We read in God’s Word, that “Without faith, it is impossibe to please the Lord, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” IN BOSTON, SOME YEARS AGO, the mayor, near Christmas time, let his beard grow for days, then put on a soiled, wrinkled suit' of clothes and went out to see “how the other half lived.” He scouted through the slums of the city and. eventually landed in a flophouse for the night. The next morning he was told that since he had no money for lodging he would havS to splil wood. It was obvious that he did not know, how to handle an ax, and a young man looking on, asked for the ax, and volunteered to help him. The mayor reached in his pocket and said, “Here son, take this. Be sure to come to see me at 4:00 o’clock this after noon.” The young man smiled to
himself feeling sure that he was just another person who assumed a title, which his early desires had caused him to crystalize the thought. But, curiosity got the better of him and he went to the mayor’s office. To his surprise he was ushered in to meet the mayor and was given a position as promised. He was told to keep quiet about it, but he told a “friend” and so it got around and finally the newspapers carried a headline, “Greatest Social Stoop in the world.” To many it might have been a bending low, but it was palid com pared to the bending down of our blessed Lord who humbled Himself and became obedient even unto death on the cross. This, then, is the true message of Christmas. JUST BEFORE VACATION, tests are usually given. In one of our classes a student was writing a paper which was to include two subjects, with one half hour given to each subject. The topics assigned were The Holy Spirit and the devil. This particular student became so carried away w ith the thoughts he had on the first subject that his time for the second was all but used up. So he hastily wrote in, “I am sorry but I guess I was so full of the Spirit that I didn’t have time for the devil.” That brought a smile to all of us, but how we should put such an attitude into pracjtice.' These are busy days, these pre-Christmas days, but if our hearts are occupied with the things of the Lord, there can'be little time, if any, left for the devil—Shun the devil and he w ill flee from you! 12
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