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T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S change said, “ I th ink as Christians th a t we should show a sp irit of charity to th e Jew ish people. This prayer is an in su lt to them . By removing it we are extending th e hand of Christian fellow ship to them .” The Arab Difficulty The g reat difficulty to the Jew going back to Palestine is found among th e jealous Arabs. Israel Zangwill de clares: “ P alestine is not so much oc cupied by th e Arabs as overrun by them. They are nomads who have cre ated in P alestine neither m aterial nor sp iritual values.” If the Arabs would be content to let th e Jews occupy P al estine, as Lord Shaftesbury once said: “Give th e country w ithout a people to the people w ithout a country,” it would be well. It m ight seem to be a paradox to give P alestine to a race which is not yet th ere (although th ere are over 100,000 Jews, as against over 600,000 A rabs), and whose “ vested in terests” are “ only sp iritual and historic,” yet th is very paradox has appealed to men in the p ast; for instance to Napoleon, when in Palestine, in 1798, “who was only prevented by his defeat by B ritain from re-settling th e Jews in th e ir old home.” The Arabs would not suffer any h ard ship, for as Zangwill says: “A fter all, they have all Arabia, w ith its million
square miles, not to mention th e vast new area freed from th e T u rk between Syria and Mesopotamia.” All believers in th e Divine Word of Prom ise do well to pray th a t the Lord will bring another exodus to pass, in gathering from the nations of the earth His people. He will do it “ the second tim e,” as He has pledged (Isaiah 11:10, 11). MOCKING GOD Lord, when we pray, Thy kingdom come, Then fold our hands w ithout a care, F o r souls whom Thou h ast died to save, We do but mock Thee w ith our prayer. Thou couldst have sent an angel band To call Thine erring children home And thu s through heavenly m inistries On earth Thy kingdom m ight have come. But since to human hands like ours Thou h ast comm itted work Divine, Shall not our eager h earts make haste To join th e ir feeble powers w ith Thine? To word and work shall not our hands
Obedient move, nor lips be dumb, Lest through our sinful love of ease Thy kingdom shall delay to come? —Selected. ¿.IllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllUIIIIII | W hÿ Are There So Few Laborers? h y are th ere no laborers in the g reat white harvest? Because the V I j Church of God has not cared enough about a great lost world to get V I / down on her knees and pray the Lord of the harvest to send them forth. How many times in the last twenty-five years have YOU prayed th e Lord of the harvest to send fo rth earnest, godly, Spirit-taugh't preachers? Do you wonder then th a t th ere are forty thousand vacant pul pits in America? Do you wonder then th a t the churches are filled w ith weak, compromising men who know not how to feed the flock of God? Somebody has failed to pray. A prayerless Church has failed to cry up to God for laborers, and now the shepherdless sheep by the thousands, are scattered and fainting. Oh, may the Lord of the harvest, w ith His infinite and bound less love, move our h ard and careless h earts to such tender compassion for a g reat lost world, th a t we will get down on our knees, and pray w ith bu rn ing h earts th a t the merciful Lord of the harvest shall send fo rth laborers into His harvest. lllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII■ll■ll■l■■lllll■ll■>l■»■ll■llllllllllllllllllll,lllllllllllllllllllllllllllll,llllll,lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllliil^lil
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