“Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war” (Jer. 51:20). India is a colorful land and God has sent some colorful Christians to labor there. One of those at the fore was Silas Fowler Fox . “No one sleeps when Silas speaks” was his billing. Silas was born December 22, 1893, just outside Medicine […]
Gospel Missions of India is one possibility. If you are exercised to help with the great need of spreading the gospel in India, especially the needy north, how do you go about it? Wisdom and discernment are needed because quantities of misplaced money can ruin a work quickly. But a shrug of the shoulders because […]
Am I my brother’s keeper? There he lay in the gathering gloom of the hot Indian evening, hardly discernible from the rags that partly covered him. At a glance, he almost appeared to be just another of the piles of refuse swept into a corner. Then I saw a movement. A dark, scrawny arm appeared […]
What can one person do? What difference does it make? It is a fact that rock—hard, lifeless rock—can become soil that is rich and fertile and workable. So rich that the world’s hungry can be fed from its tableland. So pliable that a child can let the soil run through his fingers. How does it […]
“Come apart” or come apart. As in the days when He tabernacled among men, so today the Lord, though the center of the heavenly host and the theme of their song, longs for the companionship of His saints. He wants their hearts. It is a wonderful thought! His voice calls today—to the saint no less […]
The measure of true forgiveness The prayer which Christ taught His disciples falls into two parts. The first is Godward; the second is manward. The former has in view the glory of God; the latter deals with the needs of men. There are three Godward requests: “Hallowed be Thy name…Thy kingdom come…Thy will be done […]
Keeping out the defiling influences What is the significance of a statement like this today? “Every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean” (Num. 19:15). Surely the circumstances to which it refers no longer exist. Is not the quotation taken from an order of ritual that has long ago been superseded […]
It is God’s will, and I delight in it even when it disappoints my hopes. “As for God, His way is perfect”; He has a purpose which He is steadily carrying out, and He is making all things work together to accomplish it. That purpose is that we may be conformed to the image of […]
A true life story. Fictitious names assigned for obvious reasons. Ernie was an officer in the U. S. Army, stationed at a large base in the U. S. Elise was content to forego an outside career; she felt that her calling was to stay at home and raise their two children. Apart from the usual […]