T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S JESUS’ JOY Have you ever observed that the nearer Jesus came to the cross, the more He spoke of His joy? You do not find Him testifying of His joyfulness much in the earlier part of His ministry, and I believe not once in that which is called the “ year of public favor,” when the multitudes thronged Him and it seemed as if the nation was really turning to the long-expected Messiah. But as He went on, drawing ever nearer to Cal vary, and as the burden of the sham< and. sorrow and sin of the world began to gather in awful darkness over Him, He speaks more and more of His joy fulness; and in the closing admonitions and instructions with which the latter chapters of John’s gospel are filled there is a constant reference to the deer joy which filled His being. Just when the sorrow is becoming deepest, the joyfulness seems to rise above it and triumph over it. If we ponder that, and connect iJ with the prophet’s explanation of the sorrows of the Lord Jesus Christ. “ Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows,” I think we shall be upon the very verge of solving the paradox. In other words (and is it not very simple?) Jesus found His su preme joy in bearing the sorrows of others. He was not joyful in spite of having the privilege of getting under neath the sorrow and burden and guilt of the world, but He was joyful because of this privilege. It was the great fountain-head of His joy; the very source of it. He found His joy in the cross.— C. I. Scofield. The Scriptures testify of Christ: At whatever Scripture you begin, if the Spirit who not only breathed the Word when it was -first written, but who is still its light and life-giving interpreter, enables you to see, you will see in that Scripture— Christ.
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Miss Dorothea Badgley of Fi An bn, China, writes: “ Please pray that God will change the hearts of these people. This is a very conservative place and the center of the pilgrimages of Fai Shau, one of the five sacred mountains of China and the people despise the Gospel. Please pray that my school girls may be real Christians and that many new ones may come in.” Jack Dunlop of Cebu, Philippine Isl ands, writes: “ Because of the fur lough of other missionaries, our station will become responsible for the evange listic work among 2,000,000 people. We have asked for large reinforcements from America. Please pray that those who come may be sent of God.” Floyd Pierson writes that he has been changed to a new station in Africa. He is now at A. I. M., Yakuluku, Sta., Dun- ger, Congo Beige. He says, “We are five days due east of Bajuka, over eighty miles. I had made Flora a car rying chair and she rode all the way. Much of the way was through swamps and tall grass. Two days after our ar rival a cyclone struck the place, taking the top off our berg and letting the rain stream in. We are occupying an old de serted government post at present un til the dry season.” Dr. Torrey is recovering from a touch of pneumonia which has confined him for two weeks. Mrs. Torrey also has been ill with the same complaint, but is nicely recovering,. Dr. and Mrs. Turnbull of the Nyack Training Institute were recent guests at the Institute. Dr. Turnbull gave an in spiring talk to the Institute students. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Pierce have left the school at Lost Creek, Ky., where they have been teaching and are return ing to Los Angeles.
He who begins the day without God’s Word makes a false start and stum bles at the very beginning.
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