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ceed. Let us pray that the God of our lathers will not forsake us now. To Him I commend you all.” Ulysses S. Grant warned our nation in these words, “Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties. Write its pre cepts in your hearts and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the pro gress made in true civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future." Roosevelt, “Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes what a very large number of people tried to for get, that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.” Wil liam McKinley said in his inaugural address, ‘ ‘Invoking the guidance Of Al mighty God, our faith teaches us that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers, who has so singu larly favored the American people in every national trial, and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps.”—Deut. 8; Psa. 144:16; JProv. 14:34; 1 Cor. 3:11. JULY 11, 1026 What Does Jesus Teach About Humility? Matt. 17:1-14 Someone has said that humility is a virtue that all preach and none prac- tice. A very excellent life motto is John 3:30, “He must increase but I must decrease." Jesus not only taught humility but was Himself the greatest example of humility (Matt. 11:28, 29; 20:28; John 13:4, 5; Phil. 2:5-8). The entire life of Christ is a beautiful illus tration of humility, but Calvary gives us the most vivid picture. In the second chapter of Philippians the account of the amazing humility of our Lord in be coming a servant and dying for us is used by the Holy Spirit as the most powerful argument for humility and most beautiful illustration of it ever given to man. Humility accompanies salvation, as in the case of the publican, who prayed to be "mercy-seated” (Luke 18:13, 14), and in the case of the Canaanite woman who was willing to take the sinner’s place at the feet of the Lord (Matt. 16:21, 22 ). Humility assists faith, as seen in the case of the centurion (Luke 7:6, 7 ). “How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another and seek not the honor that cometh from God •only?” (John 5:44). Pride and faith are hope lessly at variance. We will never have much of true faith until we have true humility. The pride of intellect and of self-righteousness keeps many from believing in Christ. There is no
JULY 4, 102« My Country: Its Past, Present, and Future Psalm 33 - (Consecration Meeting) The nations of the earth have pros pered in proportion to their acceptance of the Bible as the very Word of God, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice. Prosperity depends upon spirituality. No other book has done for nations as well as individuals what the Bible has done. All the blessings and liberties that we prize so dearly we owe to it. >Over two hundred years ggo, Great Britain and other European countries recognized this fact. They .translated the Bible into their own languages that everyone might read it. They had worn the heavy yoke of ecclesiastical bondage so long that they had almost forgotten_ civil and religious liberty'. The price they paid for the privilege of an open Bible was one so great and so terrible that no historian has ever been fully able to describe it. The fires of inquisi tion, the torture of thousands and the slaughter of tens of thousands of un offending Christians is the price they paid for an open Bible. Shortly after, the founders of America signed the his toric Mayflower compact which begins, “ In the name of God, Amen. And having undertaken for the glory of man and the advancement of the Christian faith The opening words of the first state paper on American soil. In the Declaration of Independence, we find such sentences as, “Appealing to the Suprepie Judge of the World, for the rectitude of our intention and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on Divine Providence.” During the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the wisest man in the convention, mature in years and ripe in wisdom, arose and addressing George Washington, the chairman, said in part, “I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live the more convinc ing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel............ I therefore beg leave to move: That hereafter prayers implor ing the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business.......... Chief Justice Tilghman said, "The framers of the Constitution of the United States borrowed very much of
The Christian Endeavor Lesson Comments by Mr. Morgan, ap pearing on this Page regularly every month, are o f so excellent a character as to have already commended themselves to a host o f enthusiastic E n d e a v o r - ers. Will you not call them to the attention o f your own So ciety—if perchance they are not vow using them—that they may be made a greater blessing to a still larger constituency.
the form of our republic from the Con stitution of the Presbyterian Church.” George Washington wrote, “I can almost trace the finger of Divine Providence through those dark and mysterious days which first led the Colonists to assemble m convention, thereby laying the foun dation for peace and prosperity. . . . Of all habits and customs leading to political prosperity, religion and moral ity are indispensable supports.” Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president, said, “I have always said, and always will say that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers and better hus bands.” John Quincy Adams, “ I speak as a man of the world to men of the world, and I say to you, ‘search the Scriptures.’ The Bible is the Book of all others to read at all ages and in all conditions of home life, not to be read once or twice or thrice through and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters a day and never to be omitted unless by some overwhelming necessity.” The dying words of Andrew Jackson, ‘‘That Book, sir, is the Rock on which this republic rests.” Abraham Lincoln, “My concern Is not so much whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be on God’s side, for Goà is always right.” In his farewell to old neighbors at Springfield, “Today I leave you. I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon George Wash ington. Unless the Great God who in spired him shall be with and inspire me, I must fail; but if thé same Omniscient Mind and Almighty Arm that directed and protected him shall guide and sup port me, I shall not fail; I shall suc“ The King’s Business is
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