DEVOTIONAL COLUMN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 June 1936, Page 6

DEVOTIONAL COLUMN.

TRUE WORSHIP. Worship of God is not left to man’s option. God's Word enjoins it. Over and over again in the Psalms we arc called upon to worship God (Psa. 45; 11; GO: 4; 95: 6; 99: 5,9). The Lord Jesus summed up the matter of worship for us 'when he said, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” (Matt.-4: 10). And God not only desires but seeks man’s worship. To the Samaritan woman at the well, the Lord said: “The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father eeeketh such to worship Him.” (John 4: 23). God has created man that he might glorify Him (Rom. 14: 8; 1 Cor. 10: 31), and one of the ways in which we may glorify God is through worship.

“REVIVAL.” We want a revival, a revival we need, That saints shall awaken, and sinners take heed. 0 Lord our Creator, our Father and God, Pour out the revival as proclaimed in Thy Word. A mighty revival, revival we sing, Praise to His greatness, Jesus our King, A mighty revival, shout revival once mere, Till the echo “revival” resounds shore to shore. 'Tis in that sweet portion, Three-Mala-chi-ten, That Heaven’s rich blessing shall pour out on men, Bo now we are praying that ready we’ll be, For the mighty revival, coming right down from Thee. —E. W. Gillman, EZRA’S PRAYER. “I fell upon ray knees,” Christ fell cn His face and prayed. Soul agony has its degrees. We bow the head, bend the knees, or lie prostrate before God as best suits our inward distress. Infinite is the distance between His agony and ours. The more we realize that God, and God alone, can help, the more we shall be found in the room of the throne of grace. More real blessing comes to this Avorld from the mercy scat than from earthly judgment seats. God’s approval annuls all the damage done by the world’s frown. When we call upon Him our enemies retire. Pray for all church prayer meetings. OUTSIDE. (By M. Mannington Dexter.) ACTS 3 : 2. Hark ! Do you hear them weeping in the dark outside gate? Lame are they, and sin-sick, and 10, the hour is late. Hark? Do you hear the music ring in the House of Prayer?— And these beyond the threshold lost in their dark despair. Hark! Do you hear God calling to the worshippers within, “Go to My lost ones lying crippled and bound by sin; To them belongs the music, and grace of lifted prayer; They lie at the gate of My temple, will you leave them lying there?” Still take the name of Jesus, and the lame shall hear and leap; Still take the name of Jesus to the souls that sin and weep, Till in through the gate to the temple shall pascs a resistless tide Of the lame, who once in their sorrow lay in the dark outside. A GENERAL’S FAVOURITE.

General Robert E. Lee was a man of a fervent religious spirit, and those who were associated with him in war nml in peace recognised the deeply devotional nature of the military man and educator. Two books he constantly used were the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. His favourite hymn revealed his noble Christian spirit : ( Mow firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, fs laid for your faith in His excellent word ! At the time of his funeral the assembled company sang this hymn. Men of such different tastes as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson delighted in this hymn, and at the funeral services of each of these great American leaders the same hymn was sung. A man’s life means : tender teens, teachable twenties, tireless thirties, fiery forties, forcible fifties, serious eighties, shortening breath, the sod, God. A little boy was asked to explain forgiveness. Ho gave this beautiful answer : “It is the odour that flowers breathe when they are trampled \upon.”