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Topic for Sunday, April
Acts 27:20-36.
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Monday: Consoling love.
Tuesday: God watches yc
Wednesday: Comfort ye.
Thursday: To troubled h<
Friday: The tempest-toss<
Saturday: Victors today.
Good news surely ought tc
the very essence of the Gos]
"Let not your hearts be ti
introduce one of His most p
*Be of good cheer!" The
It is not a recommendatioi
mand.
Confidence and good chee
every possible warrant for
every possible ground for ctae
He has the new life. "]
life is like an unquenchable
life. NothiBg can put it out
He has the unending love
which were in the world, h
is the same "yesterday, to t
He has the Spirit. "Not
My Spirit, saith the Lord."
ible. All the hosts of sin car
He has in His own poss(
there is the incarnate Wort
and with both power and ir
things to lead him towards
Then there is the inspire<
be a lamp to his feet and
radiance over every spot on
set his foot, even down into
death.
He has full possession of a
God's appointed instrument
a.nu growm. i ne word, tn<
ion of saints, the privileges
gifts.
He has, above all, as thi
good cheer, the consciousnes
science has come, through
atoning for It in full. "H<
sins." "He was made sin f<
If a time comes when beci
believer has anxious fears
one infallible way to corre
the sunshine can fall upor
clouds. Sunshine and glo<
If you are walking in the
there is a simple and easj
down and try to brush the
stand still and bemoan its pi
there and what brought it.
towards the sun. The shade
Rriehtness within ns will
that we allow to fall upon
eousness. There is healing
of the world; he that folio
ness, but shall have the li
together. Tht Christ life
around us. I
All the strength and all t
and founded unon, their rei
guardiansnip 01 p purity 01
THE PRESBYTERS
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) CHEER.
17: Good Cheer in Dark Days.
READINGS.
Isaiah 61:1-7.
iu. Exodus 3:7-9.
Isaiah 40:1-11.
?arts. John 14:1-13.
}d. Isaiah 54:7-17.
Revelation 7:9-17.
) give good cheer. Gladness is of
pel.
roubled!" Thus did the Saviour
recious disonnrsps
;re is an imperative in the words.
i, or advice, but a ringing comr
go together. The believer has
confidence. He has, therefore,
;er. ,
L'he divine life is in him. That
light or fire. It is everlasting
, for it is God's!
of Christ. "Having loved his own
le loved them to the end." He
lay and forever!"
by might, nor by power, but by
The Spirit of God is invincinot
conquer or control Him.
ission an infallible guide. First
1, Jesus Christ, to hold his hand
isight and loving sympathy in all
God and heaven.
I word, the Spirit given Bible, to
a light to his Dath. sheddine its
which the believer is directed to
the very valley of the shadow of
ill the means of grace. These are
alities of Christian development
i sacrament, prayer, the communof
the sanctuary are God's own
e immediate cause of peace and
is of forgiven sin. Peace of conChrist's
assuming his guilt and
3 hath borne double for all our
)r us."
luse of conditions around him the
and gloomy thoughts, there is
ict the'm. Let him- stand where
i him and it will disperse the
am do not go together,
s shadow cast by your own body
r way to stop it. Do not stoop
shadow out of the path. Do not
resence. Do not discuss why it is
Simply turn around and walk
iw will fall behind you.
be proportioned to the brightness
us. Christ is the Sun of Rightin
His wings. "I am the light
weth me shall not walk in darkght
of life." Life and lieht ero
in us will be the Christ light
he arts of men are measured by,
rerence for the'passion and their
love.?Carlyle.
lN of the south.
I Prayer
the glorious t
Phil. 3
wee* oeginn
Salvation is designed to imp
will fit us for a perfect state i
salvation, its gracious Author
a state of existence and activit
est wellbeing of our redeemed
state of existence which, is a
' and in this passage believers
for in the Revised Version th
citizenship.
It is said that during the su
when its citizens were scatte
every part of the known worh
the fact that they were Roma
they were, whether on land 01
or following the standards of w
of the Roman eagles was ever
With the thought of home tht
ciated the splendors and rent
was, therefore, especially signif
colonists at Fhi'ippi, the Apos
heaven. He understood how t
appealed to as they thought of
ship in heaven.
As the thought of these Ro
mountains and seas to the Imp
the consciousness of being in
deep longings for the time w
thought of having no continuing
satisfying and the prospect of
citizenship was alluring.
The believer belongs, by virt
ual Kingdom. In its resources
its ideals, it differs from the h
distinctly commanded to "lov
things of the world," to set h
not on things on the earth." J
love me world the love of the
that is in the world, the lust o
eyes and the pride of life, is t
world." He then adds: "The w
thereof, but he that doeth the
The two realms are distinct in
he whose citizenship is in the s
faction in the carnal and transi
Believers therefore can not
that this life offers. Their th<
city beyond the seas; the city
builder and maker is God." It
we are told, "These all died in
promises, but having seen then
of them and embraced them,
strangers and pilgrims on the <
t'jines declare nloinli, *'?
U- V i/m.mjr kuai Lilt;,
desire a better country even a 1
ashamed to be called their God,
a city."
Our Lord told His disciples:
you, and if I go and prepare a ]
and receive you into myself t
be also." How clearly and ami
with the words of the text, "Ou
whence also we look for the i
At the final consummation ou
throned to welcome us in our e
He will come to receive us untc
session, "so shall we be ever
come i* lowliness as He once Ci
but to minister and to give his
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ing April 10.
art to us siK'h a character as
of happiness, and in providing
has eternally provided for us
y perfectly suited to the highand
sanctified natures. That
lso a place, is called heaven,
are called citizens of heaven;
e word is properly translated
premacy of the Roman empire
ring and forming colonies in
i, they ever kept before them
n citizens, and that wherever
sea, pursuing ways of peace
ar to new conquests, the sight
a source of fresh inspiration.
* distant colonist always assojwn
of the imperial city. It
icant when, in writing to these
tie said, Our citizenship is in *
ueii spirit 01 loyalty could be
what it meant to have citizenmian
citizens went out across
ierial City they must have had
a strange land and have had
hen they should return. The
; city where they were, was not
sometime enjoying their real
ue of regeneration, to a spiritits
incentives, its employments,
dngdoms of this world. He is
e not the world neither the
is "affections on things above,
lohn tells us that, "if any man
Father is not in him: for all
f the flesh, and the lu6t of the
tot of the Father but is of the
orld passeth away and the lust
will of God abideth forever."
their essential character, and
ipiritual, can not find soul-satisent.
be content with even the best
:>ught must go out toward the
that hath foundations, whose
i the roll call of faith's heroes
faith, not having received the
a afar off, and were persuaded
and confessed that they were
sarth. And they that say such
y seek a country." "Now they
tieavenly: wherefore God Is not
for he hath prepared for them
"I go to prepare a place for
place for you, I will come again
hat where I am there ye may
rably does this statement blend
r citizenship is in heaven, from
laviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
r Lord will not simply be en
;lorlfied persons to Himself, but
) Himself as His purchased poswith
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ame, "not to be ministered unto
i life a ransom for many;" but