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needle of the compass reminds me of s true Christian in a world that often changes. Jesus Christ requires every Christian to remain faithful and true, regardless of how the people of the world may change. He told His disciples in Luke 12:35, “Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning,” and again He said, “Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not”' (Lk. 12:40). Just as this needle in the compass always points north, so you and I should always be alert to represent Jesus Christ truly, whether it be by night or day, in the darkness or in the light. Suppose a traveler should be lost, and, looking at his compass, should find that the needle changed with the case. He would know that the compass was un trustworthy and not to be used to get him out of his lost condition, if the lost of this .world see that we move with the changing world, they will not trust us to help them get out of their lost condition. We should remain true to Christ, therefore, regardless of the changes of a sinful world. Then we can be sure of being used of Christ in leading oth ers to a saving knowledge of Him. No one can estimate how many peo ple are watching a Christian’s life, or how much blessing that life can be if it is “right” in God’s sight. Let us always be careful to point to Him!
A. T. Pierson gives this searching word: “One thing is sure. Unction and self-consciousness never go togeth er, He whom God fills forgets him self, and whatever recalls him to this self-consciousness hinders the free flow of God’s power through him; and, seeing that this is so, the godly preacher habitually cultivates . this holy engrossment, for the sake of the divine endowment and en- duement. In fact, the sense of the awful responsibility of preaching is itself enough, when truly awak ened, to lead to self-oblivion.” The next time, brother, your pride is hurt as you look out on a small audi ence, remember what Cardinal Manning once said in a pastoral: “ One soul is diocese enough for a bishop.” A min ister of repute once was rebuked for wasting his talents over a few souls. His reply was that the few were too many to be responsible for at the judg ment seat! If you go to a service ex pecting a crowd, and find only two or three dozen souls, give them your- best. Let the few realize that your eye is on the Master who is ever present, and that you are “content with such things as you have.”
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public, the preacher ever races the ten dency to focus attention upon himself, detracting thereby from the glory of God. Let us examipe one or two influences at work in the mind of one who is guilty of self-exaltation. Here is the weighty word of James Reid as found in The Technique of Preaching: “Anything on the one side or the ’ other which draws attention to the preacher himself is a positive hin drance. The preacher whose style is so polished dr whose technique is so impressive that people stop lis tening to his message to think of him is in that measure an impedi ment to his own power.” The pulpit, as we have suggested, offers temptations to vanity, and the preacher is in danger of borrowing the greatness of his office and of clothing his paltry little self with its majesty. And the more marked a man’s ability, the greater the temptation to display it. His gifts, evoking admiration and flattery, make him increasingly aware of them. An English statesman has told us that “power is poison.” Public praise is also poison for the preacher of Christ’s gospel.
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