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A pril 22. "Things hard to be understood.”—2 Pet.3:16.
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PEOPLE complain that there are difficulties in the Bible: of course there are—to us ! There are difficulties to the beginner in Xenophon’s Anabasis, or in an abstruse mathematical treatise, but men do not cry out about it; they expect it so to be. How much more should we expect to find them in the Book of the Eter nal Verities, written by the Spirit of God! We think ourselves very learned sometimes, but in truth “we are of yesterday and know nothing;’’ we are but babes, the oldest and wisest of us, spelling out the A. B. C. of Divine truth, and we shall never attain to anything like ripe scholarship this side the vail. The Book would have stood self-condemned as a Divine revelation had it con tained nothing that surpassed our finite capacity, had it made no call upon our credulity or faith. You cannot get the infinite into the compass of a half-pint tea cup; men whose eyes have but just been opened cannot hope to measure the heavens or to catalogue accurately all the constellations of the skies. It needs more than our puny human vision to appreciate all the glories of God; more than our limited intelligence to compre hend all His wisdom; more than our immature judgment to fathom all His ways. The difficulties of the Bible are many, but its simplicities are innumerable; be it ours to appropriate and be guided by the latter: meanwhile let us seek for stronger faith and for broader illumination, and one by one the former shall fade into knowledge—till, at last, we “know as we are known.” GOD’S weather is not all sunshine, all His days are not brilliant, all His skies are not blue. Cloud and tempest, rain and fog, frost and snow, are interchanged with the balmy breezes and the golden sun. These atmospheric variations are typical of the life of man. We have no right to expect perpetual summer in our existence; we shall be disappointed if we do. The exhor tation to be “always merry and bright” is a mistaken one, and leads either to hypocrisy which feigns a gladness which it does not feel, or to a spirit of careless levity that ignores the solemni ties of life. Days of rain and ¡gloom and storm, though they be unpleasant, have their uses, both in the physical and in the spir itual realm; eternal sunshine is not good either for the earth or for the soul of man. Let us bear the dark days patiently and they shall yield us fruits; of increase in the one case, of right eousness in the other. At the same time, it is not our business to provide these dripping and dreary days for our neighbors and our friends. Neither by word nor deed ought we to add to their hours of gloom and discomfort: rather should we seek to shelter them, when the deluge comes, beneath the covering umbrellas of our sympathy and love. HAPPY is the man who has a definite spiritual testimony to give to those who question him. The man in the story did not know muchr'he was even ignorant as to. the moral character of Christ; but he knew one thing, and .all the reasoning and all the sophistry of the Pharisees could not rob him of that knowledge, or silence his tongue as to its verity. In the spiritual realm there are many things concerning Which we must confess that “we know not,” and it is easy for the enemy to put stools in the way for us to stumble over; but there is one thing we all may know, and when we do let us stick to that. The man’s knowledge A pril 23. “A Very rainy dayJ’—Próv. 27:15. A pril 24. "One thing I know.’— John 9:25.
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The Prayer Life of Jesus
By Rev. M. E. Dodd Much has been said and written about the prayers of our Lord, but it has been left for Dr. Dodd to present the prayer life. A careful study of the Gospels will reveal the fact that Christ taught more about prayer in His actions than in His axioms. As the writer reflects: “The private prayers of Jesus were very long, but His public prayers were very short.” The volume will be found very helpful for instruction, as well as for the deepening of the prayer life. No Christian can read it without being deeply impressed with the large place that prayer occupies in the life of our Lord. Cloth $1.50 The Spirit of Christ
Christ’s Last Message to His Church B y W illiam E van s A n E xp osition o f th e Seven L etters to the Seven C hurches (R ev ela tio n ). T h ese illum in a tin g and in sp irin g ch ap ters form another p roof th a t the Bible alw ays is ab le to m eet the spiritu al n eeds o f the C hurch o f C hrist, and th a t th ese n eeds tod ay are m uch like th o se o f the first century. C loth $1.75
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With Christ After the Lost
By Rev. L. R. Scarborough This masterly evangelistic handbook is all that the noted author’s name would lead one to expect. Few men have equalled Dr. Scarborough’s record as an evangelist and the reasons for his power and success shine forth from every page of this book. The reader can hardly help but catch his zeal and vision. It is an intensely practical guide book for evangelistic workers. The five divisions are; Some Spiritual Prerequisites; Some In spiring Examples; The Way to Win; Personal Work; Scripture Passages for Workers. Cloth $1.50
Comrades of the Carpenter B y A . Z. Conrad
The Trinity
B y K eith L . B rooks M ust w e b elieve in th e T rin ity ? If so, w hy? A nd how are w e to b elieve in it? W e are q uite p o sitiv e th a t you h ave no q u estion s p u t up to y o u th a t are a s hard for you to g iv e sa tisfa cto ry an sw ers to a s q uestions in regard to th e triune N ature o f God. K now ing th is to be true, Mr. B rooks has prepared th is splendid lit tle b ook let g iv in g a m p l e Scriptu ral d ata from w hich y o u can correctly an sw er an y and a ll q uestions th a t ca n ever b e asked you. P ap er 10c
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The Two Genealogies of Jesus B y J . C. Stillion
W e are sure th is is th e book y o u h ave b een look in g for th is lo n g tim e. No one need ever a sk w hy tw o gen ealogies— one in M atthew and one in Luke, and so different— if he has th is book a t hand for reference. For in it y o u w ill find th ese tw o gen ealo gies carefully exam ined— all th e lig h t o f Scriptu re b ein g throw n upon them— th eir p o in ts o f agreem en t n oted and th e reasons given. T heir p o in ts o f d isagreem en t are a lso p oin ted ou t and so th orou ghly explained th a t y o u w ill n ever a gain be puzzled over them . T h is is ju st th e book to help y o u silen ce th e sk ep tica l unbeliever. P rice 25c If m oney d oes n o t accom p an y order, good s w ill be sen t C. O. D . If g ood s are to com e by m ail add 10% for p ostage.
B I O L A B O O K R O O M Bible Institute, Los Angeles, Cal.
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