Devotional Colum

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7287, 14 October 1933, Page 10

Devotional Colum

Precept O man greatly beloved, fear not; peace be unto tliee, bo strong, yea, be strong. Dan. 10. 19. Promise The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Dcut. 33. 27. Praise. "When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord. Jonah 2. 7. AT WHAT A COST! Chosen, redeemed, in the children’s! place, Holy and blameless before His face, Once guilty, ruined, and lost; Hot e’en doth the light of His presence show A single stain—washed whiter than snow: But, ah! at what a cost! Not glittering gems, nor silver and gold, Not worlds though teeming with wealth untold, Could for our ransom suffice. No, the Church of God was bought with the blood Of the holy, spotless Lamb of God:, This, was tho costly price. Oh wondrous truth! deep in each breast By tho Spirit of God bo it impressed, And there by His Power abide. Grant, oh our God, that our lifo below May brightly reflect tho truths wc know, That Thou mayest be glorified, M.A.S. HOMANS 11:33-36. God’s help is always sure; His methods seldom guessed: Delay will make our pleasure pure, Surprise will give it zest. His wisdom is sublime, His heart profoundly kind; God never is before His time, And never is behind. WHA’S MA NEIBOUR? Doon frae Jerus’lcm a traveller tuik The laigh road to Jericho; It had an ill name an’ mony a cruik; It was lang and unco how. Oot cam’ tho robbers an’ fell on the man, An’ knockit him on the heid; Took a’ whauron they could lay their han’, An’ left him nakit for deid. By cam’ a minister o’ the kirk: “A sair mishanter!” he cried; “Wha kens whaur the yillians may lurk? I’s haud to tho ither side.” By cam’ an cider o’ the kirk; Like a young horse he shied; "Fie! there’s a bonny mornin’s wark! ” An’ he sprang to the ither side. By cam’ ane gaed to the wrang kirk; Douce he trotted alang; *'Purr body!” be cried; an’ wi a yerk Aft' bis cuddy he sprang. He ran to the body an’ turned it ower; “There’s life i’ tho man!” he cried; He wasna’ ane to stan’ and glower An’ haud to the ither side; He doctored his wounds, and heised him on To the back o’ tho beastio douce; An’ held him there till, a weary man, Ho langt at the Halfway House. He tcu’d him a’ nicht, an’ at dawn o’ day "Lan’lord” (says he) “latna him lack; There’s auchteenpence; ony mair ootlay I’ll sattlo as I come back.” Say nae mair, neibours—say nae sic - word, , Wi” hert ave arguin’ an’ chill; ] No’, “(What’s the neihour to me, O; Lord?” 1 But “wha am I neibour till?” —Georgo Macdonald. CONCERNING THE JEWS Three times as many Jews went to Palestino from Poland in 1932 as in 1931. Moscow contains 250,000 Jews. In connection with the new passport decree, no loss than 150,000 of these arc threatened with expulsion. The last annual report of the B. and F. Bible Society states that the Hebrew New Testament was never so much road in Palestino as it is to-day. A distinguished Jew, Dr. B. H. Shcin, states that 3,000,000 Jews in Germany, Russia, Poland and. other Central European countries are eager to settle in Palestine under tho British Mandate. Sir Leon Levison, a, converted Jew, stated at a meeting in England, that siuco tho Great War “40,000 Jews in Budapest alone have como out for Jesus Christ; 17,000 in Vienna and Turkey; 5,000 in Poland; and there are 00,000 Hebrew Christians in Russia; 25,000 in the American Army, and 5000 in tho British Army. In Palestine, Roumania and Germany, they came out, and even from the neutral countries like Holland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden, until 200,000 of them have come out as redeemed children through tho Precious Blood of Jesus Christ Doctors of Philosophy, of Science, of Literature, of Music, of Medicine, cxEabbis and men of that type.”

SPIRITUAL BREVITji, To be little with God is tie little for God. I Satan outwits himself when! drives us to God. I Have thy tools ready—Godjll £ n d thee work. I Fellowship is a union of h<L no t a truth for tho head. I Lot us be careful to act witftod if we would act for God. \ Prayer is not “a little quail 0 f a minute’s grace said over an lion dinner.” 1 No Christian will over be filllwitlL tho Spirit who has a ncglecteijiblo and an empty closet. 1 THOUGHTS ON UNITY! “For the manifestation of Unijour Lord prayed. This manifestation hot in doctrine, which is of the infect and which has more often thanlot been 'the stone of stumbling’jnd struck a note of discord, for man Apprehension is so various, and wordlro ever imperfect instruments of trutllequiring the interpretation of the kqqas well as the correct marriagoif thought with speech—a combinab. hard to obtain. Opinion, as Lord It. stock so often reminded his hearl divides; the love that merges seicl others alone unites. The pattern I that unity is tho union between i Father and the Son 'that they all ml be one as ayc arc.’ What oceans of ill Avhat rivers of blood would have bcl spared had the church understood till union in its pattern and consul! mation. 'There is ono Body and oil Spirit’ not a unity wo ha\*o to form but a unity ayc havo to recognise, whicl already exists, wbicli it is tho part ol tlio church to endcaA-our to help, tha phrase being significant of tho effort needed in our present imperfect state! How can tiiat which is spiritual bo seen by tlio world? Our Lord Himself gives] us tho answer, 'By this shall all men know that yo are My disciples, if ye havo loa’o ono to another.’ ” —From Lord Badstock. An Inteiprotation and a Record.