SUNDAY READER .
REAL ESTATE E!C HE.VVEK iX BY THEODORE L. B''. The constant question in the w H.; ; ness men is, Where shall I fed vestment.? Our divine Master ' all such questions when •He up for yourselves treasures where moth and rust comifitthieves break through and for yourselves treasures in was probably accounted • a *90K^"«5 : 'M| Corinth, for ho earned his 'daily a tentmaker's needle. But he was a millionaire. •; He cwlpiPlMl know whom I have believed. ; that He is able to keep that l«|'. committed unto Him against :■ Tho great apostle 'had trustee. Ho had put his ifeeßoiMyß . and his everlasting hopes into KwaEaTaßß ; hands; and when ho - reached-.. knew that he would 'find.-.tho >i-^ffe r fWlt safe. Ho had laid up - nothing. Bsl could consume, or rascals steal: ments were in the real estat^i;^®Braf depreciates, and the" Son of Tin-}: of it. So may every ; true whether in a brown-stone attic—congratulate himself ; that most precious to him is in : the ttMftjrf Kfl ! his Saviour. • Th« grand old tentmaker w^lkS sures laid up on high also; all spiritual results of his 111© Brother and sister in Christ, so, ibfs£ ®S and mine, however humble. And white* WP': we give up for our aster's sakcjsotf emm our heavenly treasure. The we might make and which we «*<■»&.-.,. . order to keep a clean conscienceadiifc® 9b wealth, for, they . make us ".ijch tofe ®; , God." Hoarding money, steaHr-f.S^g?^if. prayer and Bible reading for ! Jttsg|j|mjH|! Jarity, all are wretchedly . injp^ri&[_||ffi! Giving up for Christ ' is an Swf, cess. "Whatever we lay <SoTO' ; hwitjs«™ to picas© and honour our MaMfeg^ißK up to our account yonder. faithful trustee: He keeps-JBEi»?lSl^P^H| membrance. He will reward Iff cording as his works shall "be. Sam will pay a grand dividend one talent will sparkle when sitt.fr H itii|i iflfc mission school teacher presents hw'Ssl .; Bjffi the last great day and aays, ".fl&'jffißß Lord, and these children -J'Sbraiijli f» HV Thee 1" When we speak oTa^S^aßß grace and not "of works,l'-ife MlvH torsret that other truth, that;' us. all accord in; to. our vrarks. jfir Miffi. be laid up there. If iwvrfslSS "wages" are ©aid in ht'K, ik : LQAaBjaM wages are paid" in' heaTen.?i%^^#^^^ffl| Compound interest will" r-i •(:?; Christ's servants magnifWntJi^ifrjffi«a All that Paul gave up of world'/jr ; SpS® profit and fame and case |and;i(^Kk^B' will stand to his credit up sfc results of all this, life of . -p Jesus have been going. on M every day for eighteen T». Wt can tell what they will amount to wljklSs' ||; judgment morning breaks;? g times speak in : a pitying ton? flfa ministers with small salaries." Ip The simple fact is that the 'oa!ys!jH& 1 K ments that do pay interest yluoia'iffl 0 eternity are those which are niatie B cause of Christ and in His sjsw£sfw»! fjj gains arc very steady up there. Jf missionaries and frontier prciidifiri-JjR Salvation Army soldiers and gottiv iwjk women have their savings '.bants right hand. : Those banks never 'l rfi3t; -, jK |wu only change from heavenly enlargement. There is no within, and .to consumption 'iKrt'wjpjl The moth never gnaws thcro,fßHd-tf4.%l , |!V lar never breaks in to steal. v.-jlfcjyWHß sible to compute what treasury m ful, self-denying Christian raav b-i aiw B away for his or for her long life ia.jj|w*-K, God keeps His record on bitrh. .wd'w ri| good deed of love, each factJpf.'MlNpi; it each surrender of pride or worldfy 5; for Jesus's sake will find Surfe there. "Follow Me, ind thontWsFpr treasure in heaven," says.thßjiiirtetJjg'/'IF dear reader, how much real estate Christian World Pulpit. - ' - ■ : £&&, p, ■ 'JM THE UNFAILING- : FltlCTpMSj BY ItICnAHD BAXTEI! -jj. If God be with me, I am not alonvjrajpj jjj : is with. me that loves , v4&s^£jp!QSsJj' of air tire friends on earth isiidpisaC to"? love. - Oh, how plainly hath ™w™M that, He loves mc, 'in the : striiotiepnH® 1 • sion. tho sufferings, deatlii' todof His. Son! What love:hath', IMfSI % in the communications ■ of His the operations of His. .jiraceyowd •' relations into which He. brought nic. , love hath He declared in the providences; in many and wofidtriw .. vations and. deliverances.;. in^hei^^^fS His wisdom, and in a life of mSWW»|SiSg love appears in His prcciwffivWWfSi^^ the glorious provisions - He. me with Himself to all etcrni^i ?^|^|||| 0 my Lord, I am ashatnetl is so much lost; that it hathno new®;Sgj turn from an .unkind, that. I am not- mere delighted swallowed up in the contemplat'ipa'wMgrj love. I can contentedly iot. tfo,Oj6^ l j. l 4 and converse of all others, fog of some one bosom friend. mo than they all, as Jonathancan I not- much more bo alone, and let go all, if X may e«tgSS#| Thee? ■ My very dog will the town, and all persons, in follow mo alone 1 Have 1 much love and goodness in Ta<ffi;f^B|Pf W and blessed God, as to be v.ulling'iW alone with Thee? Men delight most in the compaWf^W' that love them best: they choo^TW'^ft^^ ■ verse with the multitude, when.Wi^®^s|H sol a and content, but with '4g§Bs|jß friends: should any bo so 'nMV^^fSySR God? Oh, were not Thy.-jpySa&fisHlM ncglected by an unthankful haa)'t»'^ never >» so unsatisfied in Tl^^ f y@«K|l then say: "Whom have 1 Hi' Thee? -And there is none.On.ejWj^M desire beside Thee." ' '• If God be with me, I am shall 'be with Him whose lo?e " benefit to me than the love of.all ®X -nu.H in the world. Their love m»y.-l|f#;|gS| some little comfort, as it flows but. it is His love by which I live. It. is His love that .2ni!®-® I time, health, food, and P rc^erv <*^ I sjffipjj givos me books, and gives. me..fW ing; that gives me provision, from turning it to pernicious excess; that gives me oven luv.fr l . 6^ iSSj 1 selves, and saves me from that mi"ht make them to mc worse tbaf^TOgy The sun. the earth, the air.u ful or needed to me as His of all my friends cannot I am sick; it cannot fqrgii^iSssslPpFl my sins; nor ye ft assure me PgigrafedHgMß ness; it cannot heal the "' a r{iffnrßl soul, nor give a solid' laKtinr; >g[| ttf.ll conscience which is troubled M friends stand about me »'hcn - , jJiiiHl they Cannot take away the Ww nor secure my passage .to «^ p^!rL ( kwjß death will.be death still, a_nd aSU3_ danger, when all my friend? i ' SI But' my Almighty Friend is He can prevent my sicltMUt 0* jjifl cure it, - or mako it- so gcc«i to t shall thank Him for if. M? my transgressions, and: forglvs and justify me v.-lieu the science 'do condemn me..'-;.-He to believe, to repent, to P" a ?' suffer, and to overcoaa. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)
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