er you will sell out to the world. The next bidder after you is the flesh. How much time and money we spend on these bodies seeking all sorts of gratifications. It seems that the changing fashions must always be made and that we must keep up a good front to meet our neighbors’ equals. There was one man who tried to keep up with the Jones’ until he remembered that his name was Jones. Do you remember the famed French man, Charlemagne? Napoleon said that he was a silk stocking full of mud. He looked beautiful on the out side but with nothing but emptiness or that which was worthless within. All he left behind was a memory of pride and selfishness. The flesh is against the Spirit of God. Because of that He is grieved and hindered. The Spirit cannot do what He would like to do in our lives seeking to make us what He wants us to be. Lastly, there is the devil who bids for your soul. He seeks to win men with the enticement of power. Think of the figures in history, sports, poli tics, entertainment and other fields who are now all dead and gone. Many of them are even forgotten. Sell out to the world, the flesh or the devil and find only misery and grief. How satisfying to the soul for time and eternity to turn to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Saviour loves you even when you confess your sins. He is patient with you in your problems and trials. He gives you a robe of righteousness which you can wear when you go over into eternity where He takes you to God. “Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.” When the storm breaks you will have a Refuge from destruction. Trust Him, believe Him, and you will be saved! * * * Nothing will cook your goose quicker than a boiling temper. * Never suffer your goods to become your god. 4 * *
When I saw her later she told me, “You know, Walter, you’re crazy on religion. I’m going to get somewhere with my voice. I’m going to earn $5,000 a night for singing.” I told her, “I hope you do, but I hope you don’t die getting there.” One day she came through Kansas City and they put a notice in the paper. But it was less than three months later that she came back in a box car and her body TAKE HEART AND WAIT If, but one message I would leave behind One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this: "Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring, whatever God may send No matter whether clouds lift soon or late, Take heart and wait! Despair may tangle darkly at your feet, Your faith be dimmed, and hope, once cool and sweet, Be lost, but, suddenly above a hill A lamp, set on a Heavenly sill, Will shine for you and point the way to go— How well I know. For I have waited through the dark, and I Have seen a star rise in the blackest sky Repeatedly— it has not failed yet, And I have learned God never will forget To light His lamp, if we but wait for it. It will be lit. — Grace Noll Crowell found a place in the cemetery. She sold out to music and she got what she went in for. As far as I know, she went into eternity with no Christ. Isn’t that terrible? Remember that the world wants you. It may give you temporary blessings in the way of wealth and popularity, but what a final let-down. You have to choose now whether you will give your soul and your life to the Saviour or wheth
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