By Thy Word impartedTo the simple-hearted?Word of mercy, givingSuccour to the living;Word of life, supplyingComfort to the dying!Oh, that we discerningIts most holy learning,LORD, may love and fear Thee,Evermore be near Thee! Amen.REV. SIR H. W. BAKER 4. A learned Chinese was employed by some missionaries to translate the New Testament into Chinese. Atfirst the work of translating had no effect upon the scholarly Chinese. But after some time he became quiteagitated & said, "What a wonderful book this is!" "Why so?" said the missionary. "Because," said the man,"it tells so exactly about myself. It knows all that is in me. The One Who made this book must have mademe!"5. The Bible sure throws a lot of light on the Bible commentaries.6. J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the great China Inland Mission, was Converted through reading a little tractin his father's library when he was fifteen years old. Carelessly, he picked it up to while away the time, but,eighty miles away, his mother was praying for his salvation. Before he laid it down, he was rejoicing in theknowledge of sins forgiven! When we think of the stupendous work of the mission he founded, we marvelthat God should have used such a little thing to bring it all about!7. The fact that the Standard Oil Company discovered oil and is operating wells in Egypt is generallyknown but the reason for its going to that ancient land to look for oil is probably not so well-known.It is asserted that one of the directors of the company happened to read the second chapter of Exodus. The third verse caught his attention. It states that the ark of bulrushes which the mother of Mosesmade for her child was "daubed with slime and with pitch."This gentleman reasoned that where there was pitch, there must be oil, and if there was oil inMoses' time it is probably still there. So the company sent out Charles Whitshott, its geologist and oilexpert, to make investigations, with the result that oil was discovered.8. A minister recently sent a number of books, among them a copy of the New Testament, to be rebound.He was surprised on the return of the books to find on the backbone of the New Testament a label in giltletters, "T.N.T." There was no room to spell out "The New Testament", so the bookbinder inscribed merely"T.N.T.", the first letters of the three words. Not a bad name for the New Testament! It is T.N.T.--it isspiritual dynamite!9. The reason people are down on the Bible is that they're not up on the Bible!10. Twenty years after Adoniram Judson reached Burma the New Testament was translated into theBurmese tongue. In 1824, when war was waged between England and Burma, Mr. Judson was thrown into prison, and Mrs. Judson buried the precious manuscript, just ready for the printer, in the earth beneath their house. But as mold was gathering upon it, on account of the dampness caused by heavy rains, with awoman's ready wit, she sewed the treasure inside a roll of cotton, put on a cover and took it to the jail to beused by Mr. Judson as a pillow.In nine months he was transferred to the inner prison, where five pairs of fetters were upon hisankles, and it was announced that he, with a hundred others, fastened to a bamboo pole, were to be killed before morning. During this terrible night, much prayer ascended for the precious pillow. It had fallen tothe share of the keeper of the prison, but Mrs. Judson, producing a better one, induced him to exchange.Mr. Judson was not killed, but was hurried away to another place, and again the pillow was his
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