RELIGIOUS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14612, 30 August 1913, Page 6

RELIGIOUS.

SUNDAY READING.

13 V ALPHA

Just when I am disheartened, jW>t when with cares oppressed 1, Just when my way is darkest, Just then I was distressed, Then is my Saviour near me, He knows any every care, Jesus will never leave me. He helps my 'burderus 'bear.

Ju.sr, \\iit.u my hopes are banished, Just' when my friends forsake. Just when the fight 'is thickest, Just when with fear I shake. Then comes a: sft.lll small whisper. iFear not- my. child, I'm near, Jeau!.s bringls peace an dcomfort. I lovl' his voice to hoar.

Just wihen my tears are flowing, Just when with anguish bent, iJust when teraptotbii'is hardest, Just when with sadness remt; i Then comes a tliouglhlt of comfort. 1 'I know my father knows' i Jesus has grace .sufficient, To conquar all my foes. —Selected. iA! minister one day went to visit a lady wiho was overwhelmed with «orraw. She doubted God, and would I ]\iot he., comforted. As the minister entered, some fancy work she was doing: fell to the floor. The 'minister pidved it up -and expressed surprise that sihe should spend her time niaXing such a confusioji of colours. The woman replied : 'Why man you're Inoking on the wrong- side, turn it over ,aiud you will sec the pattern.' Tes, and so are you, replied the minister, you (arc looking on the wrong sidle If'or tihe pattern, .and you only see confusion. The message, wos in keaiS'on, and went, home to her heart. .She accepted the aifliction with rev-ei-encie land turned, the whole energy of her life -into the" channels of obedience an dservice..

T3ie great master builder, in whose quarries we are now as stones that >are being m-ade ready for the temple, has a; plan for his buildingi. EVery life lias its own particular place in that plain. God knows wihJat H!e wants you to be: —how large or how small a place He wants you to fi!l. We must submit our lives- to tho Hani mcr and chisel and to the Divine Measurement tihiat we may be prepared for the place God is preparing for us. Tthe costliest gems of £h's earth ■are those which .are got. at tlio most cost. rVhe richest ipfems of Heaven will not be worn "by tlnoise who tread life's pathway in isilver slippers.

It- may he the easiest but it is yurely not the best life and the most bless ■ed that is free from suffering' and trial. The crown is not given to untried lives.

Kfformiation is not regeneration, neither is cultivation. You may cultivate a a thistle and try to •■make it a rose, (but it, Avill always bo a tihistle, bust, cultivaite a (rose and you wal niake it more beautiful. Education is not regeneration tlvat will help you in this life only. If you waat ■to get a start in life :beforc you to.com« a 'Ohiristiaiii remember th.at the •Book says »Sbek ye first tilie- Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all those things ,s!ball be added to y:>u

Jesus defeated ,tho strong man and ■when the devil' comes to you just :n----yttroduico ihim to diis master, '-.ho Lord Jesus claims himself to be the realisation of Moses 'and the Prophets What, must, 'have Heaven felt when they '.saw -tlids holy man of God oonmeanned by sinaiers?

Jesus did not work .a single miracle but for st'he glory of His Father, God bad a man upon the. earth through whom Ho was glorified. —M. Fitman, Jewish Eivansreilist.