lossians 3:5, “Covetousness, which is idolatry.” God places covetousness in the same class and the same category as idolatry. It was Dr. Dewitt Tal- madge who once said, “Ransack the whole earth and show me one man that has been happy by temporal suc cess. You cannot find one out of the millions and hundreds of millions, not one. First, a man wants to make a liv ing. Having made a living, he wants to make a competency. Having made a living and a competency, he wants to make a superfluity. Having made a livin.g, a competency, and a super- THY STRENGTH AND MY DAY Give me Thy strength for my day, Lord, That whereso'er I go, There shall no danger daunt me And I shall fear no foe. So shall no tasks o'ercome me, So shall no trial fret, So shall I walk unwearied The path where my feet are set. So shall I find no burden Greater than I can bear, So shall I have courage Equal to all my care. So shall no grief o'erwhelm me, So shall no wave o'erflow; Give me Thy strength' for my day, Lord, Cover my weakness so. — Annie Johnson Flint fluity, he wants more, more, more.” The husks of this wilderness can never satisfy the hunger of the soul. Proverbs 27:24 rightly declares, “For riches are not forever.” A magazine stated some years ago that of Christ’s 29 parables, 13 of them referred to the right use of possessions. Jesus said more about money than He did about heaven. He talked more about money than He did about hell. He said more about money than He did about prayer, S c r ip tu r e reading, church attendance, moral living, bap tism, or the other doctrines that have
A different Bioia student is heard each day over the broadcasts. Here is Marcia Munger whose parents are missionaries in Nicaragua. divided Christendom. How important, then, is this subject of Christian giv ing, when our Lord Jesus Himself has placed so much emphasis and so much stress upon it. Better than 40 years ago, Dr.. C. I. Scofield of the Scofield Reference Bible fame, set forth in a wonderful series of Bible studies some signifi cant principles of Christian giving that we shall refer to here. A timeless example of Christian g iv in g is found in the case of the Macedonian churches, churches in Greece, of which the Apostle Paul wrote in II Corinthians 8:1-11. Those words are so important that you must take time to read them. They are more precious than gold and diamonds. “Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of Gor which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia; how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and deep pov erty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For according to their pow er, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord, beseeching us with much en- 16
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