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17:5)—and assumed the rags of humanity, becoming a real Man among men in order to reach men. He bridged the chasm, dispensed with the angelic hosts who were His attendants and became Himself a servant. This is the Perfect Pattern! It is hard to acknowl edge that it is the Pattern for us. We believe that the garments of humility are appropriate for others, but it is difficult to don them ourselves. But who are we,
THE PERFECT PATTERN There are patterns for everything manufactured. Go into a factory like—for instance—Ford’s, and ask to see the Pattern Room, and you will find there a vast variety o f patterns, produced at immense cost, and of great value. There are patterns for everything from women’s
poor, wretched, selfish, self-seek ing, hell-bound sinners, with not a thing to commend us to Christ that we should bo saved by the shedding of His blood! Saved by His grace (unmerited favo r ); picked up as a castoff garment from the ash-heap and destined to sit with Him on His throne,—to us comes this plea: “ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” This is the desire of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, who will—if we will but surrender ourselves—mould and fashion us after His likeness (2 Cor. 3:18): “ But we all, with open face, be holding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed Into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” Let us bow our heads, surren der our hearts, bend our wills and seek to be conformed to the Perfect Pattern of the Perfect Man. ! THE POWER OF PRAYER IN A MODERN MIRACLE This incident did not occur in a church, nor in a tent, nor at a called meeting of the elders. It was a strictly impromptu gather ing of five men in a spar and zinc I mine near Salem, Kentucky.
dresses to flyingrmachines, and yet humanity seems not to know where to find the perfect pattern for a human life, judging from the poor results which we see-all about us. We look at men and women, see their faults and failings, and are disappointed. Instead of per fection We find peccability, and are perplexed. But God’s Word has warned us not to look for perfection in humanity, but in the Perfect Pattern—the Man Christ Jesus. Open the door of the Pattern Room and look at Him. (Phil. 2:6-8): “ Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; “ But made himself of no reputa tion, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men; “ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and be came obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
OUR SURE REFUGE A Paraphrase of Psalm Twenty in “Peer less Poems of David the King" by Miss Jane Copley, a valued member of The King’s Business Family. May the Lord Jehovah hear thee In the hour of deep distress; May His name defend and cheer thee, When sharp trials round thee press; Send thee help, thy faith to strengthen, From Mount Zion’s holy hill, Till thy list of off’rings lengthen. Till thy choicest thou dost kill. Now I know the Lord redeemeth His anointed by His grace; And doth hear him, when He seemeth 'Mid the clouds to hide His face. ‘ He will hear him, and from Heaven With the strength of His right hand, Save the one who long hath striven With dark sin’s unyielding band. Some in chariots trust when seeking Safety from the coming foe ; We will trust—His praises speaking— In the Lord where’er we g o ; They who trust in human power Are brought down and quickly fall; Save us, Lord, in the dark hour, Hear us when on Thee we call.
The Model is there! The in structions are there 1 But it is not an easy task to mould and fashion ourselves after this Per fect Pattern, for we have had our eyes so long upon human pat terns, and to conform ourselves to the Perfect Pattern means so much cutting and trimming, such self-sacrifice, such denlean- ing of ourselves, that we are tempted to turn away and try to be satisfied with human substitutes. How can we conform ourselves to this Perfect Pat tern! Well, we must remember that the garment with which we are to be clothed, as Christians (1 Pet. 5:5) is not just a “ Sunday suit,” or for special occasions, but is an “ every-day” and “ every-hour” suit—in fact, a life. “ The form of God” does not refer to any outward fashion or shape, but to the inward qualities and char acter of God. Christ was on a perfect equality with God—a part of God—God manifest in the flesh,-—but He surrendered that glory in order to manifest Himself in human form. He did not lay aside His Deity, but He emptied Himself—divested Himself o f the honor and glory which were His before the world was (John
The meeting lasted for 153 hours, and those who took part in it could not adjourn for they could not move. They were entombed, caught by falling rocks, with nothing to eat; a little water dripping down which they caught in a cup; carbide lanterns which furnished a little light by using one at a time, and, finally—utter darknesb! One of the men could have saved himself had he not run back to warn the others. These men were from twenty-five to thirty-Beven years of age, all married but one. When they found that they could not escape, they spent the time in prayer and song, and—after they were rescued—one of them testified as follows: “We lay there till Friday morning, I guess, and all got the victory except James. He failed. We prayed on then till Sunday morning. Then I said, *1 am going to do some
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