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ground the King s Table LOUIS t . TALBOT, Editor-in-Chief
her heart, the coming of thé Lord and the believer’s, eternal home. . . “Most people seem to think we will suddenly just be there,” she wrote in a note that accompanied the poem. “But remembering how the disciples, watched Him as He went) u n 't 11 a clbud received Him, I expect to enjoy* all the journey up!” Long hours drag by. From this my bed of pain I scan the sky whence He will come again. - A shout, a light! Then, borne upon the breeze, I take my flight above the dimming trees. My pulses sing, my heart a homing bird; The heavens ring with .music riever heard, ... Far down the sky the age-old planets plod Their course, but I am winging on toward God! ; :. :.: The sky, in aH its blue etérnal steeps, Echoes His call wherever starlight sleeps. Throngs of redeemed make glad the listening air; Rapture long dreamed—my . living Lord is there!' * * O weary heart, let not your faith grow dim: This still your part, to work $nd wait for Him. A Church Studies'a Book From children to adults, members of a large city church in Georgia concentrated for. six months on a single.book of the Bible, the.Book of Luke. Realizing, th a t, this particular Gospel was to be the basis of the International Sunday School Lesson outlines for a period o f,six months, K. Owen White (Biola ’22), pastor of the Kirkwood Baptist Church of At lanta, Ga., challenged his congrega tion to make a careful investigation bf the book arid then led them in their study. . ' Dr, White reported* that in a church membership of 2,420 with about 1,800 of this number resident in the com munity, 533 persons enrolled during the special Study-Course week which climaxed consideration of the Gospel of Luke. Four hundred took the re- *See article in King’s Business* Sept1,, ISki.
Christian .people now. do their part through personal and group Interces sion that is offered not merely on Thanksgiving Day, but that will con tinue and increase so long as the conflict shall last. God’s pledge and His faithfulness are; unchanging. He has s a id :'“Cali -upto me and I will answer thee and show thee great arid mighty things which thou knew- est not” (Jer. 33:3). Shall not patriotic, praying people respond to His call? For a Prayer Front In line with "th_e foregoing comment „on “Thanksgiving—and Prayer” comes the follovrihg pertinent message from , William T. Ellis: “Strangely enough, the Prayer Front in this war has not yet. been organized. Of course, people are praying—perhaps more than ever before. But- ä planned, ?; chUrch- - wide, nation-wide Prayer Front ' has still to go into action. §v “True, there have been named occasional n a t i o n a l days of . prayer. And some countries; like < Australia and South Africa, have ■ appointed daily prayer periods. But Christiah people as a whole have not yet acted. “A Prayer Front Calls for open churches on week days; it would be a tragedy w e r e prayer to be disassociated from worship in the house of God. Daily prayer serv ices should be appointed. These should be held in churches, shops, hospitals, schools, o f f i c e s , and military and naval units. No®n is :;r- the most generally-accepted hour, when all business and traffic should stop, and all people pause to pray. “God waits to be entreated. He has promised, to answer united • prayer, in turning to Him, we turn ' . to victory for those principles ’which are implicit .in His jjature. . .„Let us pray!” , The Rapture The poems and other writings of Martha Snell Nicholson—for years a great sufferer and a radiant Christian —have helped countless, numbers of the Lord’s people. Recently, although her doctor had forbidden her writing be cause of her increasing weakness, she said she “had to” s e n d to KING’S BUSINESS readers the following Stan- zas based on-the #heme that is nearest
Thanksgiving-—and Prayer 7 • On the coming Thanksgiving Day, when thousands of people will be re viewing God’s benefits to them as in dividuals, and when they will be;, recalling also those mercies which God has shown to this nation, a great wave of earnest, humble prayer and praise should sweep America. No argument is needed to establish the''conviction that bur present na tional situation is unprecedented: Our country, at war against forces of ag gression and antichrìstiànity, must be ; ori God’s side—and God , with her— if the hoped-for triumph is to become a reality. Our merely taking for- granted that God will be with us, as did the Israelites in the days of spiri tual decline under Eli, will be dis-; astrous The Lord’s ancient people “cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust i» him" (1 Chron. 5:20), Likewise must'the modern generation trust in Jehovah if victory for the cause- of righteousness .is to be as sured. To Christian people it, is gratifying . to find that the need for repentance and prayer is becoming more widely fdlt. Commentirig on this fact, Er nest M. Wadsworth, Director, of the G r e a t Commission Prayer League, gives the following encouraging word: “A recent letter from a member of our President’s Cabinet de- • dares: ‘The President and his Cabinet need and want the pray- ; ers of the entire nation.’ A United ■ States Senator writes: ‘Concerted support of a program of prayer o u g h t to be of. real value.’ A •• United States Representative as- : serts: ‘The nation n e.y.er needed divine guidance more than it does. . at this time’.’’ I The Lord’s people ' should rejoice in this awakening to the nation’s need of God, even though this sense Of. need may seem to be as yet entirely' too small and unrepresentative of the country as a whole. Let ministers and
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