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September 22 The Missionary’s Master “Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.” John 13:13 To have a master and to be mastered is not the same thing. To have a master means that there is one who knows me better than I know myself, one who is […] Evening, September 22 Scripture: “When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I.”(Psalm 61:2) Most of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart; emptied as when a man wipeth a dish and turneth it upside down; submerged and thrown on our beam ends like a vessel […] Morning “Let Israel rejoice in him.” Psalm 149:2 Be glad of heart, O believer, but take care that thy gladness has its spring in the Lord. Thou hast much cause for gladness in thy God, for thou canst sing with David, “God, my exceeding joy.” Be glad that the Lord reigneth, that Jehovah is King! […] Broad Rivers Without Galleys But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. (Isaiah 33:21) The Lord will be to us the greatest good without any of the drawbacks which seem necessarily to […] September 22 Only Through Death “Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains a single grain, but if it dies away in the ground, the grain is freed to spring up in a plant bearing many grains” (John 12:24). Go to the old burying ground of Northampton, Mass., and look […] |
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