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 […]
Are they really His appointments? We never travel very far on our pilgrimage until we are aware that God is intervening in our lives to effect His purposes of love. But often these interventions cause us much disappointment and are contrary to our natural desires. The parable of the Rich Farmer in Luke 12 is […]
“Through the paths of the seas” (Ps. 8:8) When someone informs us that Brother Downanout is passing through deep waters, we know at once what is meant. There are few who have had any experience at all on the journey heavenward who have not, at one time or another, been through the deep waters of […]
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 Is not the quotation taken from an order of ritual that has long ago been superseded […]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 […]
Only heaven will reveal how much we owe them. All thinking men realize they depend on the ministry of women from cradle to grave. Therefore it is not surprising that He who was truly Man, although He came “not to be ministered unto but to minister,” was the object of the devoted ministry of women. […]