OLD FASHIONED TEXTS.

White Ribbon, Volume 30, Issue 350, 18 September 1924, Page 10

OLD FASHIONED TEXTS.

Have you ever looked up the fighting texts in the Bible? Are they the ones you think of as you go about your work? For it is they, and the fighting hymns, the good rousing ones, that are the easy-come-by means to keep our enthusiam, our fighting strength, well up. There are plenty of them, ready and waiting, good old well-tested and abundantly proved fighting companions.

Have you had anything to do with any lately, been out walking with any to-day, if so did you meet anyone who seemed to lack an introduction to it?

Of course they are getting to be old-fashioned. I don’t know how long ago, for instance, it is since Isaiah sang of God “Thou meetest him that rejoiceth.’ (There are times when to rejoice needs a good fighting spirit. We all know that don’t

we)? But however old if is, however often we experience its truth, it never grows scale or weakens us, nor do any of the fighting texts, for what have we to do with luxury, or with peace? Surely our Leader told us. ‘I come not to briug peace, but a 8 word ’ Do we keep ourselves armed to follow Him? What then is the sword we use? The fighting texts, and hymns, will help to keep it bright, for everyday us* - K A'T H E RIN EMER CE R.