taken from a Moscow radio broad cast, Christmas, 1960. Listen to the blasphemy: “Our rocket has by-passed the moon. It is nearing the sun, and we have not discovered God. We have turned lights out in heaven that no man w ill be able to put on again. We are breaking the yoke of the Gospel, the opium of the masses. Let us go forth, and Christ shall be relegated to mythology.” In Psalm 14 we read: “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.” But we can well ask: “Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh! The Lord shall have them in derision! Be wise now therefore, Oh ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord w ith fear, and re joice with trembling.” » * * A father trying to read was constantly interrupted by his small son. Final ly he tore out of the magazine he was reading, a page on which was a map of the world. He then took a pair of scissors and cut the map up into a jigsaw puzzle. “Now,” said he, “when you get this all put to gether, I w ill give you a dime.” Thinking that would keep him busy a long while, the father settled back to his magazine. He was amazed, however, when a short time later the son brought back the completed map. “It was easy” he said to his father. “On the other side of the page there was a picture of a man and a woman, and when you get the men and women right, the world is right.” 14
Christians have the one supreme and. consuming purpose here on earth to point lost men and women, hoys and girls, to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Anything that stands in the way to mar that testi mony should be done away with, for the world must see no man, save Jesus only. Many years ago when Leonardo da Vinci, the great artist, was paint ing his picture of the Last Supper, he called a friend in before it was finished to give his appraisal of the work. A t first glance, the visitor burst out: “Why, what a beautiful goblet in the hands of Christ!” Un happy with this first observation, the impetuous artist took his pallet and brush a n d drew a heavy line through the goblet saying: “I would have you see nothing, absolutely nothing, except the face of Christ.” What is the thing which hinders your testimony? What is it in the picture that mars your stand for the Saviour? Regardless of the desirabil ity of that goal, if it is out of the w ill of God, it is out of the way for you and, unless forsaken, w ill be the means of turning many from the light of God’s truth. Let us remem ber that whenever the opportunities are great, the responsibilities w ill be even greater, and only by looking to Christ, can we find that true light which He w ill place in our light bearing candlesticks. “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, w ill draw all men unto me” (John 12:32). h * * "Some people grow under respon sibility — others merely swell! * * * One of our leading national magazines recently reported a brash comment
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