T h é
October 1928
K i n g ' s
B u s i n e s s
631
N ovember 2, 1928 T ext: Psa. 119:105
N ovember 6, 1928 Text : Zech. 10:5
“ I remember,” says one, “being shown a beautiful collection o f moths some time ago, and I said, to the boy who owned the collection, ‘However did you catch them?’ He said, ‘Why, with a light, of course:’ He went out at night with a butterfly net, put a light just behind it, and they flew straight into the net. That is the .way to catch people—with the light of God’s truth.”
Rev. F. B. Meyer relates a beautiful story o f a little girl staying at a summer hotel in Norway. “ She was o f that trying age when - small fingers are beginning to find their way about the piano, striking as many wrong notes as right ones; and young nerves do not seem particularly sensitive to the anguish which such attempts are capable o f inflicting on others. She knew one or two tunes sufficiently well to be able to make them out with one finger; and with these she made the guests familiar, to their despair. “ But one dayija brilliant musician came to the hotel, took in the situation, and sat down beside the small musician, accom panying her with the most exquisite improvisation. Each note of herS; only gave him a new motif for chords o f surpassing beauty, whilst the drawing-room, now crowded with people, breathlessly listened. . -, “When the performance was, over, the illustrious accompan ist took the little maiden by the hand, and led her blushing round the company, saying, ‘Let me introduce to you,, ladies and gen tlemen, the young lady to whom you are indebted for the music to which you have been listening.’ “ It was :true. They were indebted to her for the music, because her efforts had led to his magnificent accompaniment; but hjsrpart in the joint performance had led to a deep impression, and it was he whom they were destined to remember.” The Lord’s Presence makes all the difference. He fills every need, and is the Worker to achieve. The words “with them,” as associated with the Lord’s Presence, suggest much. M M Two Keys to the Bible Only God can unlock to us the treasures of the Bible. Within the Book itself He tells us o f certain keys to its treasures. A writer in the valuable little quarterly mag azine The Scattered Nation, published by the Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel, in London, tells how the words “ The Jew. is the key of prophecy,” arrested his attention. Then he goes on to say that he has found those words to be true, but not the whole truth; and he adds: “ The lock that opens up the understandingof God’s pur poses requires two keys, Christ and Israel. Christ has been ignored by the Jews, Israel has been ignored by the Church; and both have suffered loss in consequence.” The Jew who reads the entire Word o f God about the Jews, but who does not believe in Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah, finds the real riches of the Bible hopelessly locked against him. The Christian who may rejoice in Christ as his Saviour, but who ignores the central place given by the Word o f God to the Jew in God’s purposes, past, present, and future, will fail of much that the Word has for him. Jesus Himself was a Jew: so the two keys are in Him, for in Him “all things hold together” (Col. 1:17). ' — W . H . Pike. i s The Unchanging God. It is, said to be the property of a crystal to assume precisely the same form into~however many fragments it may be broken up. The infinitesimal particle, for the study o f which a magnifying glass must be used, is a precise facsimile of the parent crystal from which it came. If we could take God’s eternity and break it up into aeons, if we could take the aeons and break them up into ages, and the ages into centuries, and the centuries into moments, we should find each separate moment o f God’s life to be just as resplendent with benignity, compassion, redeeming grace, and happiness as His sublime eternity itself.— T. G. Selby.
N ovember 3, 1928 T ext: Jas. 2 :10
The Reverend Mr. Leupolt, o f India, found some difficulty in getting the idea contained in the above verse impressed upon the minds of the natives. Argument wà|; resorted To, but without ■avail. “Never,” Says hé, “could I make the common people under stand me withdut .a parable.®,. In this1 parable he described a scéne on the Ganges. “The day'was dismal; the w indfttoaréd, the thunder pealed, the lightning was vivid, the waves o f the Ganges were rapid ; the infuriated elements threatened destruc tion to every vessel on its waters ; ■no boat could .outlive the storm for any length of time. But seel—what is that? It is a boat in distress, filled with people, rapidly hurried along by the waves. Betweenifthe peals o f thunder the shrieks o f the people are heard. They fear the rocks on the shore, to which the current is driving them. What can be done for them? Could they but be drawn into the. creek, they would be safe. “ Those on the shore look anximjsly around, and discover a chain near them. A man instantly fastens a stone to a rope, binds the other end. to the chain, and flings the stone into the boat. The rope is caught. The people eagerly lay hold on the chain, while those on shore begin to draw them, amid the raging elements, towards the creek. They already rejoice at the prospect o f deliverance ; but when they are within a few yards of the land one link o f the chain breaks. I do not say ten links, but one link, in the middle o f the-chain. What shall these distressed people do now? Shall they still cling to the unbroken links? ‘No;;'tip!’ says one o f my hearers. ‘Overboard with the chain, or it will sink them sooner.’ ‘What, then, f shall- they do ?’ ||‘Cast them selves upon the mercy o f God,’: exclaimed another. ‘True,’ I replied; ‘if one commandment be broken, it-is as though all of them were broken. We cannot be saved by them ; we must trust in the mercy of God, and lay hold on the Almighty hand of Christ, which is stretched out to save us.’ I have' frequently used this parable and always found it to answer.”
N ovember 4, 1928 Text : Isa. 43:10
A little girl who had decided for Christ, and was happy in His love in consequence, was singing in herjg|jome, when her father severely rebuked ■her, and said she was not “to make that row again.” The child promised obedience, but, quite unconsciously, was singing again a short time after the father’s injunction, whereupon her father said to her, “I thought I told you not to make that row again!” The child replied, “Father, it sings itself. I cannot help it.” This is always true in relation to the child of God. The life and'joy of Christ, when they are in the life; cannot be hid.
N ovember 5, 192$ Text : Jas. 2 :15-16
We read o f King Oswald that, as he sat at table, when a fair silver dish, full of regal delicacies, was set before him, and he ready to fall to, hearing from his almoner that there were a great store o f poor people at his gates, piteously crying out for some relief, did not fill them with words, as “ God help them!” “ God relieve them!” “ God comfort them!” '■but com manded his steward presently to take the dish 'off the table and distribute the meat. He was then to beat the dish all in pieces and cast it among them.-— Holdsworth.
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