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October 1928
knew how to encourage one who had lost hope, so that his old-time skill came back, how much more shall our heavenly Father renew the strength of those who wait upon Him accord ing to His W ordl
O ctober 15, 1928 T ext: 2 Tim. 1 :10
In a Scottish valley, beside a brook, a Highlander planted a tree. The soil was stony and the tree died down. Suddenly it took a start and bo,re fruit. The secret was discovered. The tree had sent put a shoot over a narrow bridge to the other side, rooting in the rich loam, from which it had drawn new life. The resurrection of Jesus bridged the gulf of death and brought life to the believer. Let the shoot of faith go out over the bridge o f His resurrection, and you will find root in the eternal verities beyond, drawing spiritual- life from the very ful ness o f God.
O ctober 11, 1928 Text: Eph. S :8
Two ministers were standing before the picture that repre sented Christ as “ The Light of the World.” One suddenly ex claimed : “I should like to see that picture painted inside out 1 ” “And what do you mean by that?” asked the other. “Just this: There are many people who have opened the door and let Him in, but they have shut the door again and are keeping Him there as a prisoner. Our Lord wants them to let Him out.” ■ n .Lv ■*.A'; .-■A '
O ctober 16, 1928 T ext: Isa. 53:5
A very careless old man, during a severe illness, had been made to feel that he was a sinner. He dared not die as he was. The clergyman for whom he sent, got .tired of visiting him, having told him all he himself then knew o f the way of salvation. But one Sunday afternoon, the man’s daughter waited in the vestry after church, saying: “You must come once more, sir; I cannot see my father again without you.’ijfsl “ I can tell him nothing new,” said the preacher, “but I may take the sermon I have been preaching,- and read it to him.” The dying man lay, as before, in anguish, thinking of his sins, and whither they must carry him. “My friend, I have come to read you the sermon I have just preached. First, I will tell you the text: ‘He was wounded, for our transgressions.’ Now I will read— :—” “H old!” said.the dying man, “I have it! I have it! Read no more; He was wounded for M Y transgressions. That is enough!” Soon after, he died, rejoicing in Chrst.
O ctober 12, 1928 Text: Rom. 2:4
A Swiss jeweler, who was requested by the Turkish Govern ment to estimate the value of the treasures left in the palacq of the late Sultan at Constantinople, returned to his home in Geneva, having failed in his mission beoause .“the riches were uncountable,” He reported that in order to reach the jewel,room he was obliged to pass through a number of doors. Each was guarded by a heavily armed soldier. The last door was o f solid bronze and so heavy that it took eight merit to swing it back. Then he saw trays piled with the most costly precious stones, emeralds, diamonds and rubies. There .was a great throne chair of pure gold, inlaid with twenty thousand pearls of enormous, value, and thousands of rubies and emeralds. He expressed his opinion that no human being could possibly give a valuation of these wonderful treasures. They are riches uncountable. “The poor Sultan who possessed these treasures is dead and gone,” says Dr. Gaebelein. “He could not take a single stone along. But what are these riches uncountable in comparison with the riches unsearchable which belong to Him who is the Lord of creation and the Lord in redemption, Christ Jesus.”
O ctober 17, 1928 Text: 1 Cor. 15:35-38
The Rev. Samuel Chadwick told of an old friend, a Lincoln shire farmer, who is a bit of a wag. One day, when Mr. Chad wick was in : the house, Jhe farmer was sharpening a carving- knife, and stopped in the middle, remarking, “A wonderful old knife, that.” “What is: there wonderful about it?” asked the. preacher. “Oh,” said the farmer, “we’ve had it ever since we were married. It’s had two new' hafts and. two new . blades, but it’s the same old knife!” “Well,” was Mr. Chadwick’s com ment, “ that is nothing to you and me. Science tells, me I get a new body every seven years. Therefore, I have had nine of them—nine new tongues, nine new brains, nine new pairs of legs, nine new pairs-of hands—but ‘same old knife’—same old Sam Chadwick!”
O ctober 13, 1928 H U B 9:27
“This year thou shalt die,” and then® Prince Ligne, the great fop, as he felt death approaching, leaped up from his bed and ordered the door closed and locked. But when he saw that would not keep death out, he rolled up his sleeves to fight it ! At last, exhausted, he cried: “ Back, thou accursed phantom,” and fell back, dead. We can’t fight that foe successfully. There is only One strong enough to deliver. He hath the keys of death and the grave. To come off conqueror we will need to link our soul with His. The last words Longfellow wrote were: “ Out of the shadow of night,
O ctober 18, 1928 Text: Heb. 10:25
The world rolls into light; It is daybreak everywhere.”
A man said to Dr. J. Morgan Gibbon, o f England: “ I am as good as the people who go to church.” Dr. Gibbon responded: “ I say you are not, for if there- were no better Christians than you there would be no Christianity at all. Your Christianity is nothing but a parasite living on the branch of a tree that it has done nothing to nourish.”
O ctober 14, 1928 Text: Acts 4:31
Captain King, an . experimenter with magnetism and elec tricity, tried to see how powerful a magnet he .could make of an old 16-foot gun. He wrapped ten miles of wire around it and magnetized it with a huge battery. Balls of iron leaped to it. Scrap iron would cling all over it. As soon as the power was withdrawn, all would fall away. Filled with the Spirit, believers have power to draw men toward Christ and spiritual things. What is impossible in themselves becomes easy and natural under His control. We must be insulated from the world, and in vital connection with the dynamo in order to have this power.
O ctober 19, 1928 T ext: Prov. 19:3
Two gardeners who were neighbors had their crops of early peas killed‘by frost. One o f them came to condole the other on his misfortune, and said: “How very unfortunate we have been with our peas this year! I have done nothing but fret ever since” ; and looking suddenly at his neighbor’s garden, he was greatly surprised to see peas growing, seemingly a fine
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