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right,” replied the Quaker, “in thy assertion. Solomon was a wise man. Here are the -five shillings, and something besides, to, buy thee a pair of gloves.”
built, one room was set aside for daily prayer. Before Johnson died he had contributed more than a thousand men to the min istry and built an institution worth more than a half-million dollars. He always attributed his success to the elficacy o f prayer.
O ctober 29, 1928 Text : Psa. 30:5
O ctober 25, 1928 T ex t: Phil. 1 :21
A little girl had been accustomed always to bid her father goodnight in the same words. She was an only child and loved as only children are. She used to say: “ Goodnight, I shall see you again in the morning.” The time came when death’s bright, angel—-bright to those who go, dark to those who stay— sum moned her to heaven. In her last moments she called her father to her side, and putting up her little arms, she clasped them around his neck, whispering, “ Goodnight, dear papa, I shall see-you again in the morning.” She was right, as the child always is right about the highest things. “ Sorrow endureth for a night, joy cometh in the morning.”. A beautiful incident is told by a traveler o f his visit to the cathedral o f Pisa. He stood.beneath its wonderful dome and gazed with awe upon its graceful proportions. Suddenly the air became instinct with music. The great dome.seemed full of harmony. “The waves of the music vibrated to and fro,” he said describing the incident, “loudly beating against the walls, swell ing into full accord like the roll o f a great organ, and then dying away into soft, long-drawn, far-reaching echoes, melting into stillness in the distance. It was only the guide, who, linger ing behind a moment, had softly murmured a triple chord, but beneath that magic dome, every sound resolves into harmony. No discord can reach the summit of the dome and live; every voice raised in the building,, thé tramping of feet, the murmur and bustle o f the crowd, are caught up, softened, harmonized, blended and echoed back in music.” If a dome, the work of man’s hands, can thus harmonize all discords, can we doubt that under the great dome o f heaven, God can make “all things work together for good to them that love Him” ? Every :affliction; every shed tear, every grief, or sorrow will be blended into harmony within the overarching dome of his grace and be as the music of heaven. O ctober 30, 1928 T ext: Rom. 8 :28 A steeplejack was once asked how it was that he never fell when he was climbing a high chimney or steeple. “ Surely the ground must seem an awful distance away, as you look down?” it was suggested. “That is where you make the mistake,” came the reply. “If once, I looked down I should quickly lose my nerve ; but I always look up ; then I am safe.” Should we not be better Christians if we looked upward more often? , I ¡Sir A story is told o f a gentleman .who had a splendid singing canary. A friend wanted to §ee if he could teach his sparrows to sing by keeping the cànary with them. He borrowed it, and placed it in the cage with the sparrows. Instead, however, of teaching them to sing, the poor bird got so timid among the strange birds that it stopped singing altogether, and did nothing but chirp like the sparrows. The owner then took it back, but still it would not sing. It then occurred to him to put it beside another canary which sang well. This had the desired effect, and, regaining the old note, it sang as well as ever. Many Christians go, like the canary, into the strange company of worldlings, and consequently they not only do not teach the world to sing their happy glorious note o f praise, but they can not sing the old songs of praise in a strange land themselves, and soon they learn the sorrowful note of the world. N ovember 1, 1928 Text : 2 Cor. 6 :17 O ctober 31, 1928 T ext: Psa. 5:3
Absorption in the work of Christ and devotion to His per son have a transforming effect upon both inward and outward appearance. The working of this principle was noticeable at a concert given by a famous singer. The pianist was not very attractive as she came out upon the stage to begin her prelude; But when the artist appeared, the girl’s face was transfigured. Her eyes were ever upon the prima donna, fairly shining in their eager enthusiasm. She never looked at her music, but followed every movement, every gesture of the singer whom she was accompanying. It was not easy to take the eyes from her radiant countenance, so full of joy was it, and so rarely beautiful. Is not the .secret of Paul’s charm, his perennial influence, to be found in that revealing statement of hisMFor to me to live is Christ” ?
O ctober 26, 1928 T e x t: Gal. 5 :16-17
“Mr. Moody,” asked one questioner, in one of his meetings, “can a man be a Christian who chews tobacco?” The audience held its breath, for tobacco-chewing was as common as cigarette smoking today and a great many o f the converted were tobacco users. It looked like a poser. “Yes,” replied Moody promptly, “a dirty Christian.”
O ctober 27, 1928 T ex t: Mt. 24:37-42
Dr. A. J. Gordon told the story of two young girlsj sisters, who were much attached to each other, but far apart in religious interest and sympathy. The Christian girl was deeply concerned fois; the salvation n flh er sister. One night as they came home from a religious service, where the preacher had dwelt on the text, “ One shall be taken and the other left,” she was so deeply moved that she could not hold back her tearsjf’ and earnestly pleaded with her Sister to give her heart to God. She could not bear the thought of their eternal separation, but she was only spurned. As they lay down together, the thoughtless one was soon asleep; the other drenched her pillow with bitter tears, and after a while, unable to bear the agony-, she rose from the bed and retired to an adjoining room, where she lay before the Lord in agony and prayer for a long time. Suddenly the sister arose, and found herself alone. The thought flashed upon her : “Has the Lord really come, aud has she been taken, and I left?” The thought filled her with dismay. She sought for her sister in the room, but found no trace 9^ her. 'A t last, she burst into bitter weeping and fell on her knees, and for the first time she really prayed. After a while, she heard a low wailing and sobbing, and hastening to the other room, was surprised to find her sister. Together they wept and knelt and prayed; and before they closed their eyes again, they knew that if He should come, they would part no more.
O ctober 28, 1928 T ext: Prov. 12:4
A Quaker married a woman of the Church of England. The ceremony was performed by the vicar, who ultimately asked for his fee; which he- said was a crown. The Quaker was astonished at the demand, and said that if the vicar would show him any text o f Scripture which proved his fee was a crown, he would willingly give it to him. The clergyman turned to the 4th verse of the 12th chapter of Proverbs, where it is said, “A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.” “Thou art
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