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* ------ ---- - - - ■ . ' -- — 1 - ---- - 10. FA ITH a n d KEEPING—MOSES’ PARENTS (v. 23) “was hid three months o f his parents.” 11. FA ITH and CHOOSING—MOSES (v. 24) “choosing rather to suffer a f fliction.” 12. FA ITH and MARCHING—ISRAEL (vs. 29, 30) “they passed through” and “ compassed," ■ 13. FA ITH a n d PROTECTING—RA - HAB (v. 31) “ received the spies with peace.” 14. FAITH and SUBDUING—JUDGES, PROPHETS, K I N G S (v. 32f.) “subdued kingdoms.” 15. FA ITH a n d ENDURING—JEWS (v. 35f.) “others were tortured, not accepting deliverance.” CONCLUSION: - FA ITH a n d LOOKING—CHRIS TIANS (12:2) ' “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher o f our faith." — C. C. Rickman. .—o-— Fervent 1. B e . . . fervent in spirit—Rom. 12:10, 11. 2 . Have fervent charity among yourselves —1 Peter 4:8. 3. Love one another . . . fervently—1 Pet. 1 : 22 . 4. Always labouring fervently in praverlH Col. 4:12; James 5:16. —o— The Three Thrones 1. The throne o f grace. Heb. 4:16. Peace for a troubled heart 2. The throne of David. 2 Sam. 7 :12-15. Peace for a troubled world. 3. The throne o f God. Rev. 20:11. Peace ; from troublesome sin forever. — R. S. Beal. FIGS AND THISTLES * --------------------------- ■*------------------------4 The man who prays right, always pays right. A spider never finds any honey in a flower. The devil can make almost anything he wants out o f a loafer. The devil never feels lonesome in the company of a stingy man. If your life is not a blessing to others, it is not a blessing to you. If you want to be a thinker, ask your self a good many questions. The man who puts heart into every thing he does is watched by angels when he works. A man who can pay his debts and won’t do it, would steal if he was . sure he wouldn’t be caught at it. It only costs a few dollars to send a man to heaven on a tombstone. Before you can find rest in the service of God, you must be a worker. No person who does not pray in secret is fit to be a Sunday-school teacher. Murder is always committed in the heart before it is committed with a gun. “Kept by the power o f God” (1 P et 1:5). The word kept is a military term used o f those guarded in a fort or gar risoned town. Satan; is constantly rais ing batteries against ;the Christian, but in this is our safety—there is a power above our own and above that of all our ene mies. Salvation itself is an impregnable bulwark. V--------------------------------- ^--------------------f POINTERS FOR PREACHERS — ---------------— — ---------- - — 4 At a prayer meeting, some time ago, one brother prayed that the Lord would bless those who were at home on beds of sickness and on sofas o f wellness. * * * When a fountain-pen begins to flow too freely it is a sign it is getting empty. “ There may be a moral in this for the clergy,” says Rev. H. Covvley-Garoll. ♦ * * Here is good advice for any speaker: “Don’t forget that it is a hideous gift to possess, to be able to say nothing at ex treme length. As a Westerner says: ‘If a speaker can’t strike oil in thirty min utes he should give up boring.’ ” * * * “ I should be glad,” s’aid the clergyman, after he had given out the text for his sermon, “if the young man who is stand ing outside the door would come in and make absolutely certain whether she is here tonight or n ot That would be a great deal better than opening the door half an inch or so and thereby exposing the necks of the people in the back row to a current o f cold air.” * # * One minister counsels his brethren as follows: “Take care of your character, and let God take care of your reputation. If lied about, thank the devil for lifting from you the woe o f those concerning whom all men speak well. God may love you for the enemies you make.” * * * “The study-chair is often a man’s sal vation when depression threatens,” says Dri W. G. Ward. “ There he can apply himself to his work, flooding the mind with light that dispels the shadows, and feeding the soul so that strength is re newed. But the arm-chair may be his ruin! He begins to brood.” * * * Dr. J. H. Newton in “ Conduct o f Pub lic Worship” says: “There is one point at which nearly all speakers break down and become unintelligible, the final word in a sentence. “The speaker in three senses o f the word ‘drops his voice,’ and thus obliter ates the final word: “A. He drops in pitch. “ B. He drops in volume o f sound. “ C. He drops in quality and intensity of tone (i.e. timbre). “ Pitch, volume and timbre should be sustained throughout. “ The difficulty to be overcome is not one o f audibility, but of intelligibility, and this depends upon the maintenance o f a clear, strong, and carrying tone to the last syllable o f every sentence.”
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