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Fewer Bibles In Hard Times 9 N o ! For in hard times the Scriptures have a message o f encouragement. Read this great Bible Passage: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth,, nor any other creature, shall be able to separ ate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:35-39) Y For in hard times (as well as good) the enterprise • o f Christianity needs an abundance o f Scriptures. Read the list o f American institutions to which the American Bible Society last year furnished Scriptures: Prisons Missionaries in Foreign Countries turn with expectancy to the American Bible Society for their supply of Scriptures. “ Indispensable” was the term used by a secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of a leading denomina tion in describing the service rendered to the missionary enterprise by the American Bible Society. Last year the American Bible Society carried on its work of Scripture dis tribution in thirty-six countries abroad and aided such work in many other lands. The Society issued Scriptures in 285 languages. But “No” will have to be changed to “ Yes” What W ill unless funds are immediately forthcoming to help the American Bible Society meet the urgent demands facing it. S3 | American Bible Society, Dept. K, Astor Place, New York Your r H M |-A. W ^ W • is my answer. And I enclose Si........... S5.............sin I'm finn Answer Churches Hospitals Orphanages Sanitariums Naval Vessels Reformatories Penitentiaries Salvation Army Sunday Schools Rescue Missions Soldiers’ Homes U. S. Army Posts Seamen’s Institutes U. S. Leper Hospitals Home Mission Churches Young People’s Societies U. S. Veterans’ Hospitals Foreign Language Groups Schools for American Indian Children Home Mission Boards and Institutions Homes for Delinquents, Aged, Incurables Army, Navy and Marine Barracks, Hos pitals, Training Stations
Compressed Truth Christians can never be broader that! the cross o f Christ.—J ohn E. B rown . Look well to your integrity, and the Lord will look to your prosperity. —L ife of F aith . The Lord’s answers to prayer are infi nitely perfect, and eternity will show that often when we were asking for a stone that looked like bread, He was giving us bread that to our short-sightedness looked like a stone.—J. S outhey . Around the dial o f a clock in a church in Strasburg, Germany, are these words: “ One o f these hours the Lord is coming.” .— S elected . Snakes and the Light Snakes cannot live long when exposed to the direct rays o f the sun. The only snakes found in the desert country on a sunny day are in the shade. Naturalists have found that a rattlesnake, if left in the sun without shade, will die in twenty minutes. This is authenticated by Dr. Raymond L. Dit- mars, New York Zoological Park, New York City. Nor can anything else that is o f the old serpent live long in the light. Remember Romans 16:20. The serpent exists only in dark shadows, and the Sun o f Righteous ness will be his undoing. —A dvent H erald . Meddling with Sacred Things I was once pastor in one of the States o f America. Within ten miles of the house in which I lived, thirteen young men met on a certain night in a hall. They said: “Here we are—thirteen. Let us celebrate the Lord’s Supper.” After an hour’s revelry over wine and viands, they made a travesty o f the Lord’s Supper. Before six o ’clock the next morn ing, the leader was dead; and every other man in that company was down with a disease that shortened his life. It is a dan gerous thing to meddle with either the se crets o f the unseen world, or with glories and verities o f the Gospel o f Jesus Christ. —A. T. P ierson . Without Fear Lord, we thank Thee for Thy substance Poured on us in former years; Which we had in full abundance— Now come poverty and fears. Who can understand this problem Rampant now on every hand? Statesmen even fail to solve it By their power throughout the land. In God’s Word we read the meaning And fulfillment o f those things; Pealing forth the near approaching O f “ that day on swiftest wings.” Should we dread this mighty conflict Moving on from shore to shore, Though we know that such affliction Ne’er has faced this world before? Let us, rather, wait His coming Not with dread, or doubt, or fear; But with joyous hope abiding While the “rapture draweth near." —J anet J ohnson .
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