400 the kindred of an old lady who during the progress of an earthquake remained calm and peaceful. “ No,” was her an swer, “ I rejoice to know that" I have a God who can shake the world.” A ma chine shop foreman suspended a large piece of iron, weighing much more than a man could liftj he then suspended a cork by a silk thread. He pulled it back-and let it hit the bar of iron. He said to his men, “ That cork will move that great bar of iron.” “ Impossible,” they replied. At length the bar of iron began to quiver and then to move un der the influence of this persistent ap plication. God uses small means often times to move great things. Even 300 pitchers and lamps to defeat a great army. A great building was burning and a man had no fire escape. He looked around and saw a spool of thread. His face was calm. Making fast one end of the thread, he quickly let down the spool. A quick-witted man below saw the point, got a ball of twine from the house across the way and fastened one end of the twine to the thread. The man pulled up the thread carefully till he held one end of the twine in his hand, then with the twine he pulled up a strong cord and with the cord he pulled up a rope on which he made his escape. What was the thread toward saving a man’s life? Yet, it did. Golden Text Illustration. One pastor was led to pray that God would bring to pass the conversion of some unusual character. Presently his attention was directed to the most notorious character in his little city. “ The way opened for me,” he says, “ to speak and to pray with him.” I gave him some carefully selected literature and also directed him to the Word of God. At about that time we were led to hold cottage prayer-meetings in pri vate homes on Sunday afternoons. He was present at two of them, and finally
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S cried out to God for mercy. This trans formed drunkard and gambler and fight er has since helped us to win a number of souls for Christ.” C. G. U. There are too many with thee. Gideon’s great crowd was moved by the zeal of an earnest leader and most of them lacked the qualities of true serv ants themselves. COMMENTS PROM 2^-K. B. There is MANY SOURCES a vast difference Keith li. Brooks between, follow ing in the wake of some devoted man of God and walk ing with God ourselves. It is danger- ■ous to imitate another’s work without their power, to adopt their methods without their personal communion. Flesh can’t be trusted. It will turn the very service of Christ into an occasion for self-exaltation.— C. H. N. Israel’s danger seemed to lie in the smallness of their army but Jehovah said it lay in the largeness of their army. Indi viduals and churches often think that their danger lies in their weakness but it really lies in their strength.' If we desire God’s strength, we must be weak in ourselves. (2 Cor. 12:9, 10; Is. 40: 29.)— Torrey. It is well that multitudes gather to the church and enter them selves as members, but to reckon of such as an army contending with in fidelity and wickedness, would indeed be a mistake. We attempt to assail in fidelity and with an ill disciplined host, many of whom have no clear faith, and to overcome worldliness by the co-oper ation of those who are more than half absorbed' in the pastimes and follies of the world—Watson. God is not al ways on the side of the heaviest battal ions.— Cook. Best Israel vaunt them selves. God would teach us that no flesh shall glory in His presence. Man shall not rise and say, “We have devised a scheme of salvation.” God will do the
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