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THE KING’S BUSINESS who profess to believe the Bible to be the Word of God, do not in reality believe it to be such. Probably they would say that they do believe the Bible to be the Word of God, but their belief is merely a matter of opinion and not a real faith that takes possession of the heart and governs the life. Furthermore, there has been a tendency of late years, even among ministers of the gospel, to give a very loose meaning to, the statement that the Bible is the Word of God. They do not believe in its absolute authority, and we have gotten so in the habit of explaining away the things that we do not like to believe, that the Bible has little real power in our lives when we come to actual obedience to its commandments, A godless philosophy and an irreverent Criticism lies back of the whole war.
AN HUNDRED FOLD By m r s . j. i. M c C lelland “Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year fold.” — Gen. 26 : 12 . “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye hear much fruit."—Jno.
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A STALK of wheat was bending low, JL j L Beneath her weight of grain-, While one with head uptilted so, Looked down with real disdain. “Are you content to stay down there, / When I can see-'so far? Why not come up to sun and air Where stately, wheat-folk are? “We wave as billows of the sea When winds across us play; And all the wheat stalks will agree T hat you are hid away!” “I have not thought of climbing high,” Her sister softly said, “And shall I tell the reason why I’m aiming high instead? “When we were planted in the ground So many months ago, I thought I heard a sighing sound Ju st like the breezes blow. And then I heard the farm er say: ‘We m ust-be growing old. I wonder if this seed will pay, And yield an hundred-fold?* “So when he put me in the earth, To sleep, and wake, and grow, The thing th at seemed of greatest worth, The thing th at gripped me so, Was th at the life God gave to me Should bring forth grains of gold.
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W hat m atter if I do not see, If He see hundred-fold?”
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