Young Christian: Volume 22, 1932
Table of Contents
Whosoever Believeth
Upon returning home late, one evening, I received a message asking me to go and see a person who was dying of consumption.
“She is very unhappy,” said the bearer of the message, “and is continually calling upon God for help. We have vainly sought for one who could give her comfort. Tonight Mrs. G— thought of you; will you come?”
“Most gladly,” said I, “and I do trust that she may receive the truth as it is in Jesus, and find rest and comfort.”
I entered her room, silently taking a chair offered by her husband and I looked to the Lord to give me the right words to speak to her. Only a minute was given to me, for the sick one beckoned me near her, saying,
“I’m so glad that you’ve come, surely God has sent you.”
“What is your trouble?” I said, “are you afraid to die?”
“Yes,” she quickly replied, “for I am not fit for His presence. O! this fearful agony.”
“What agony?” I asked, “your poor body?”
“No, no,” she answered, “the pain of this poor frame is nothing, it’s my poor soul. Help me if you can, O, do help me.”
“Dear woman,” I replied, “you must look above me, I am only a poor creature like yourself, but I can tell you of One who is able to save you. ‘Come unto Me,’ says the Lord Jesus, ‘all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.’ Does not this meet your need?”
“I do want rest,” she replied, “but it doesn’t help me. Please tell me more.”
“Have you heard the story of the brazen serpent?” I asked. She nodded assent, and I went on. “Those Israelites bitten by the serpents were dying fast, but God told Moses that whosoever looked upon the uplifted serpent of brass, should live. And so it came to pass. You, Mrs. G—, are like to a bitten Israelite—sin has destroyed you, but God has provided a way whereby you may be saved. His Son has been lifted up—Jesus died upon the cross for sinners—the work of salvation is completed—look and live.”
“Look and live,” she repeated, while a ray of brightness passed over her poor sad face.
“Yes,” I said, “this is God’s saving way; are you willing to be saved His way?”
“What else can I do?” she replied, “I am helpless, vile, and ready to perish.”
“Then what says God’s Word, Mrs. G—? ‘And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.’” John 3:13, 14.
I waited a few moments ere I spoke again, and then I asked her if she trusted the Lord Jesus, whose blood had paid sin’s heavy debt. Then came another pause.
“Bless God!” at length came from her lips, “I can trust Him! O! the power of those little words!”
“What words?” I asked.
“‘Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,’” she replied.
“And so you can fully trust Him? and believe that you will not perish? and that you have eternal life?” I inquired.
“Yes, bless His name,” she responded, with fervor, “I can believe all that; those precious words have freed me.”
“Then you are not afraid to die?”
“Afraid!” she replied, her face lighting up as she spoke, “O! no, I’m very, very happy! I’m quite ready to go. His is a complete salvation. I know I shall go to be with Christ. I long to see Him!”
Together we praised God for His wondrous love in revealing Jesus, and then I rose to go.
“How can I thank you enough,” she said, as she grasped my hand, “for coming to tell me such blessed news? The Lord bless you.”
“Don’t thank me,” said I; “thank Him! The work was His alone—
“‘Alone He bore the cross,
Alone its grief sustained
His was the shame and loss,
And He the victory gained;
The mighty work Was all His own,
Though we shall share His glorious
throne.’”
She would say, “I rest upon God’s Word which cannot alter. God says, ‘whosoever believeth’ on His Son hath eternal life; I believe what He says, and therefore I know I am saved.”
The World and the Christian
The World asked Christian, “Where’s thy heart?”
And Christian said, “One holds it fast,
Whose heart was pierced with soldier’s spear,
But liveth now where death is past.”
Then said the World, “Where are thine eyes?”
“Mine eyes He, too, hath stol’n away,
To gaze upon His feet and hands.”
Did Christian answering, quickly say.
“‘Tis passing strange, heart, eyes, thus gone!
Christian! What then am I to thee?”
“Ah! World! who Jesus Crucified,
The grave of Christ art thou to me!”
Christ Got Hold of Me
A converted thief was being tempted by the enemy of souls who had lost a good bondsman. Through one of his servants, he was worrying the convert in his mind by suggesting that he might be lost after all.
“If you don’t hold on you will be lost,” said he to him.
“You are wrong,” he answered, “I mean to hold on, but I have found out that when I was saved, two got hold of each other. I got hold of Christ and Christ got hold of me; and I am sure of one thing; if I let Him go, He will never let me go: He loves me too much.”
The sinner who believes on Christ, becomes one of the sheep of Christ, the Good Shepherd. And He says seven things about them—
1. “My sheep hear My voice.”
2. “I know them.”
3. “They follow Me.”
4. “I give unto them eternal life.”
5. “They shall never perish.”
6. “Neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.”
“My Father which gave them Me, is greater than all and no one is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand.” John 10:27, 29.
“He’ll not let my soul be lost.
He will hold me fast;
Bought by Him at such a cost,
He will hold me fast.”
Papers for Young Christians No. 14 - Part 1 - The New Jerusalem
We will close this series of papers with a subject that is but very little studied in comparison with the intense interest it surely should have for every one of us. Even on earth we sing “There is no place like home,” and to it our thoughts ever turn in all our wanderings. How much more, then, should our hearts enjoy the consideration of our eternal home.
Somehow I think that this subject was more thought of in other days than now; for it is but seldom one hears the heavenly Jerusalem spoken of, and certainly very rarely with that heart-longing that a contemplation of its glories must raise. Let us consider a little the well-known passage that describes them.
The City
In Rev. 21:9, we find that the heavenly Jerusalem is itself the Bride, the Lamb’s wife. This city, therefore, really is not so much the abode of the saints (though it is that) as the saints themselves. Where inhabitants are spoken of, they are probably the saints looked at as individuals. This city is divine in its origin, it comes from God; it is also heavenly in its character, not being situated on earth like the Jewish city, but being placed in the heavens over it, so that it has the appearance of coming down out of heaven. It will probably be over the earthly Jerusalem to which it will give light and glory (compare Isa. 4:5). It is clothed with the glory of God, according to Eph. 1:18; 2:7.
Although it is the Bride of the Lamb that John sees, it is as a city he describes it, this being its appearance to the earth below. We are destined to know the deepest affections of Christ as His Bride, but to the world we shall be the center of heavenly rule, transmitting the glory and power of our Lord to the furthest parts of the redeemed world, and thus giving a deeper and fuller meaning to 1 Cor. 11:7, “for the woman is the glory of the man.”
A Transparent Cube
This city is further described by the apostle as a perfectly transparent cube, 1,500 miles in every direction, having the glory and brilliancy of gold, and the crystal clearness of glass or jasper; a most beautiful figure as we shall see when we consider the city as a light bearer to the earth. This city is secure, she has a great and high wall (a symbol only), and twelve gates, or seats of judgment, of which angels are the door-keepers (See also. Heb. 2:5; and 1 Cor. 6:3), and at each of which a Jewish tribe is judged according to the Lord’s words in Matt. 19:28,
“Ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” (See also Luke 22:30). The foundations of this glorious city are the twelve apostles of the Lamb according to Eph. 2:20. Such is the new and heavenly capital of the government of God. It is vast, as we have seen, and perfect, as shown by the figure of a cube. The foundations are precious stones, (that part most seen from the earth) showing all the varied glories of Christ.
Creation, Grace and Glory
We get these glories figured by precious stones three times in Scripture. We find His glories shown in creation in (Ezek. 28:13). We get the varied glories in grace in the high priest’s breastplate, and we get them all in glory here. The pure white light of Christ’s glory is thus split up by the media through which it passes into its varied characteristics, as displayed amongst, and apprehended by men.
This city differs from the earthly one in having no temple, for the all-pervading presence of the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb is there. Before passing on to consider it as a light-bearer we may here quote some beautiful words on this passage by another,
“The wall which secured this city was the divine glory. As it is written of the earthly Jerusalem, salvation hath God appointed for walls and bulwarks. The city was formed—in divine righteousness and holiness—gold transparent as glass. That which was by the Word wrought in and applied to men below, was now, the very nature of the whole place (See Eph. 4:24). The gates have the moral beauty which attracted Christ in the Church, (See Matt. 13:44,46), and that in a glorious way. That on which men walked, instead of bringing danger of defilements, was itself righteous and holy; the street was gold, transparent as glass.” Such, then, is the general glorious aspect of our future home.
The City a Light-Bearer
Now let us see what is the object and purport of this vast city. A consideration of its construction will at once prepare us for the answer. It is a crystal cube, having in it the seat and center of glory of God and of the Lamb (Rev. 22:3). Every ray, therefore, of the divine glory to reach this earth, must pass through this transparent cube. It is, therefore, plain that every ray this city gives of light and glory to the earth, comes from Christ alone, though it is all transmitted through the saints who will then form (not alas, now)! a perfectly transparent medium: they enjoy direct light, the earth transmitted light. What a joy to think that we are then no longer to hinder and turn aside the light, as too often now, but perfectly to fulfill our high destiny of being light-bearers of the glory of the Lamb.
(To be continued)
All Depends on the Nail
Quaint John Bunyan used an illustration which is as helpful as it is simple, in showing how secure is the believer in Christ.
He takes the simile of Isa. 22:23, where Christ is seen as “a nail in a sure place” and of which it is said, “They shall hang upon Him all the glory of His Father’s house the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups even to all the vessels of flagons.”
Everything for God’s glory depends upon Christ and His glorious work; and everything for the sinner’s salvation and for the believer’s security depends upon Him and His glorious work as well.
Bunyan says, There is a nail driven securely into a strong wall, and on that nail hangs a great iron cauldron in perfect safety. That vessel weighs perhaps half a hundred weight. Beside it, on the same nail hangs a little tin cup. Both are in perfect safety. They both depend on the same support. But the little tin cup shivers and shakes and wonders if the nail can hold it up. Then he supposes the cauldron saying,
“You stupid little tin cup, the nail holds me safely. It can hold a thousand like you.”
The work of redemption of our Lord Jesus Christ upholds all the glory of God—His majesty, His honor, His faithfulness. All is maintained by Christ. It holds up safely every believer, too. Trust Him fully.
“He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him.” Heb. 7:25.
Here and There
“Here we have no continuing city.” Heb. 13:14.
“There shall be no night there.” Rev. 22:5.
O this is a dark scene of sorrow;
For though I may smile today,
My tears may flow fast ere tomorrow,
And my smiles may have all passed away:
But there is the region of gladness,
Where joys do perennially flow:
There never a feeling of sadness,
The blessed in Jesus shall know.
O this is a dark scene of sorrow:
I may have heart-treasures today,
But they may be gone ere tomorrow—
Loved objects pass quickly away:
But there is the region of pleasure,
No changes or losses it knows;
There, there all is undying treasure;
And holy, eternal repose.
O this is a dark scene of sorrow,
Sweet friendship may greet me today,
But hearts oft estrange ere the morrow,
And sympathy withers away;
But there is the realm of communion,
Unearthly—unbroken—divine;
There Christ is the center of union,
Each breast, Lord, the image of Thine!
O this is a dark scene of sorrow;
Though happy in Jesus today,
Temptations may come ere tomorrow,
And I may have wandered astray:
But there is the home of my Savior,
To sin and temptation ‘tis barred;
I there shall rejoice in His favor,
And “forever” shall be with the Lord.
I shall soon leave this dark scene of sorrow,
Ah, yes, I might leave it today;
For my Lord may be here ere tomorrow,
And take His poor pilgrim away.
On Thee and Thy promise relying,
O keep me, blest Savior, while here,
Till “glory!” with transport, I’m crying,
Uprising to Thee in the air.
Address to Young Christians: Psalm 73, Part 3
The writer goes on to say, “Surely Thou didst set them in slippery places; Thou castest them down into destruction.” Isn’t that true? How many are suddenly cut off? Remember, the very next step that they take, they may be in eternity. So many are suddenly stricken in these days—meet with violent deaths—how quick it is!
It is a precarious pathway—the prosperity of this world; that of the rich men, the men who are millionaires. There is many a man today that once was rich, with his detail of servants, who is now around sharpening knives, selling shoestrings, etc., to get the bare necessities of life. If you would have told him this a dozen years ago, he would have thought you were mad, but, “their feet are in slippery places.” It is not an easy place to keep standing if you have only the prosperity that is given to the rich in this life.
I wonder what the Czar, head of Russia, thought when he was backed against the wall and looked into the muzzles of these executioners. What about all the glory that he enjoyed in that grand dominion? There would be only one thing that would give him absolution in that hour, and I trust he had it; that would be the knowledge of Christ; and if he passed out of this life, “Absent from the body, present with the Lord.”
“Now are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.” All suddenly coming to an end! What must fill his mind? How different from one who knows Christ—a child of God who faces this life and the next with a calm confidence, knowing the Lord has said, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” We don’t need to envy those that prosper and wish we had their possessions. Just slip into God’s presence. Let us get His viewpoint in the situation, and then there will not be any envy, but a deep sense of thankfulness in our souls that we are not numbered among them. We have something so infinitely better.
“As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when Thou awakest, Thou shalt despise their image.” “Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.” “So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee.”
This is repentance on the part of the child of God for these reasonings in which he had been indulging. When we make an acknowledgment to God of our failures, it is a good thing to make a 100% clean breasted acknowledgment. When I was indulging in those thoughts, I was foolish, etc. He was tried, and reasoned it out from just what one sees—not taking God into account, in His way, perfection, love, goodness, etc.
“Nevertheless I am continually with Thee; Thou hast holden me by my right hand.”
Yes, dear child of God, that is the one you have, the Lord. Do not worry about the prosperity of the ungodly, you have THE LORD. What intimacy, love, consideration, confidence that comes to you; and the preciousness of the Lord right by your side! That is the only way to be happy in this world. Companionship with Christ, and you can have that. But let me tell you, if you want to enter upon a certain pathway of sorrow, just attempt to get your enjoyment the way the ungodly are getting it, and I promise you, you will have a full cup of bitterness before the end comes. You have heard too much truth, have had too much blessed ministry; you know too much of the way, to ever find your portion of happiness in the pathway of the ungodly in this world. True joy and happiness is found in companionship with Christ.
“Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.”
Dear, young person, don’t you feel that you need the dependable, guiding counsel of the Lord for your soul? What a day in which to live, with pitfalls on every side. If you are going to escape, the only place to get the needed wisdom is in the Word of God. It gives dependable counsel for your soul. If you want to be happy, and to be guided through this scene, saved from many a heartache, heed the Word of God. If you despise it, you will have to reap sorrow.
Everything you need to guide you through this world in a moral and spiritual way, blessed dependable counsel to your soul, is found in the Word of God. The way to be happy is to walk with God; the way to be miserable is to attempt to find your happiness in the world. A miserable, unhappy life, and a worse end.
“Whom have I in heaven but Thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.”
Dear young soul, if that is the language of your heart, I will tell you, you are on the road to happiness. Yes, you are happy, for that is happiness. “WHOM HAVE I?” Do you want something beside Christ? Do you want something more than Christ?—something that Christ has not given you? If you are satisfied with what He gives you, you are not only satisfied, but you will learn the secret of happiness. If we could only realize that God wants us to be happy and intends us to be, but the only way to be happy is in the pathway of obedience. Every time we step aside from that path way, lured by something else, we are courting unhappiness through sorrow, and sooner or later we will reap what we sow.
“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.”
“For, lo, they that are far from Thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from Thee.”
“But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all Thy works.”
Take the pathway of obedience then. Before you can do that consistently, there must be the appreciation in your own soul of the mighty fact that God is for you, and intends only happiness for your soul. Learn to justify God in every circumstance, and calm peace will be yours.
(Continued from page 47)
(Concluded)
The Judgment Seat of Christ
As we go on day by day, busy—too busy—with the duties of life, interested—alas, too interested—in the affairs and even the pleasures of this world, how often do we stop to think that every act, every word, every thought is being recorded above, and that one day, we know not how soon, we shall be brought face to face with that record? Nothing in it can we deny or question. The Keeper of the books makes no mistakes. It is an accurate account of our stewardship.
“For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.” Rom. 14:10.
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.” 2 Cor. 5:10.
And why this record? Is it to raise a question as to our salvation—a question as to our title to be in the glory? No, dear reader, our title is sure—sure as the fact that God raised His beloved Son from the dead; an act showing God’s approval of the redemption work on the cross. Our standing in Christ, as secure as the foundation Rock on which it rests, can never be questioned.
But what of our state, and the record we are making? This we cannot ignore. We must give an account of every hour—the hours spent to the glory of God—and those other hours when God was absent from our thoughts, or when, in weakness, we yielded to selfish and perhaps wicked desires and temptations.
And at the end of each day, that day’s record is closed. We cannot change it. We cannot blot out those entries that we recall with shame and regret. But with all the regret, we are, or should be, conscious of God’s patience and grace.
Knowing that even now all is manifest to God, if we are continually exercised before Him, that exercise of conscience will have a sanctifying effect, and we will look forward to the manifestation before the judgment seat of Christ, not with dread, but with confidence.
When concealing sin from one against whom we have committed that sin, we are unhappy. A confession unburdens and relieves us. Just so will we rejoice to have all laid bare and finally cleared up, as it were, when we stand before Christ to give account of the walk down here.
Already in our glorified bodies, the righteousness of God in Christ, we shall stand justified and without fear as we behold His majesty, and marvel at His infinite wisdom and grace in dealing with both our failure and our measure of faithfulness here.
May we go on, so in communion with Christ, that the Holy Spirit will have His way with us, causing us to bear fruit of which we shall not be ashamed in that coming day.
“Behold I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” Rev. 22:12.
Choose You
“Many, at the sight of suffering and self-denial, refuse the way of the cross, and choose rather what on the surface appears—a life of ease—the world. Although we are told, if we suffer, we shall also reign with Him,’ the suffering will not compare with the glory that shall be revealed.”
In the 24th chapter of Joshua the Lord recounts to the Israelites His mercy and goodness to them and to their fathers from time to time, in delivering them from their enemies and bringing them into the blessings of the land of Canaan. Then, alluding to their idolatry, closes with the appeal in verse 15,
“Choose you this day whom ye will serve.”
In the 18th of 1 Kings, when the Israelites were following that wicked king,
Ahab, in his idolatry, Elijah addresses them, saying,
“How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him.” (Verse 21). In Matt. 6:24 the Lord Jesus Himself says,
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
“Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” James 4:4.
“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate.” 2 Cor. 6:17.
To us, too, comes the call to choose between Christ and the world.
The way of the world may look easier and more attractive, but it will prove unsatisfying and disappointing, and will end in sorrow.
The “way of the cross” is not a smooth one, but it ends in glory.
The needed lessons are hard to learn for “the carnal mind... is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” Rom. 8:7. Crucifying the flesh is not easy, but necessary, (Gal. 5:24). In a walk of faithfulness, there is persecution. Nor is this pleasing to the flesh.
“All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” 2 Tim. 3:12.
But the one who is walking for the Lord, is walking with the Lord, and in such companionship, no matter what the suffering—what the trial—there is courage, strength, peace, and joy surpassing ought that is known to those not in Christ. And then, when the wilderness journey is over, unhampered by all that now hinders, we shall know that blessed One in all His fullness, and praise Him forevermore.
The Midnight Cry
We believe the midnight cry has gone forth. We cannot but recognize the result of that cry in the large measure of attention which has been given during the last 100 years to the glorious truth of the Lord’s coming. For centuries, not a sound was heard about the Bridegroom’s return.
“My Lord delayeth His coming,” was the plain language of the professing church.
Christendom was asleep. But, through the mercy of God, the cry has gone forth—that soul-stirring cry,
“Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him.”
Are we ready? Do we have oil in our vessels—the true grace of God’s Spirit in our hearts? Solemn inquiry! They that are “ready” shall go in with the Bridegroom. The rest shall be shut out into outer darkness—the awful region of weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth—that place where hope can never come—where not one single ray of light can ever shine in upon the gloom of eternity.
O! May God’s Spirit stir up all our hearts, and make us thoroughly in earnest! May we be seen with girded loins and burning lights, as men who are really waiting for their Lord! May we seek to sound a warning note in the ears of our fellow men, as we pass along, from day to day. Lord, make us serious!
God's Comforts
God does not say to His needy, sorrowing children, “Go thy way; be warmed and fed.” No; if He calls upon Rachel to refrain from weeping for her little ones, it is because “they shall come again from the land of their bondage.” If He would comfort mourners at Bethany, it is by telling them, “Thy brother shall rise again.”
To mourning saints now, He says.
“Them also which sleep in Jesus shall God bring with Him.” 1 Thess. 4:14.
God has gathered every ray of joy and triumph round this hour, and encircled it with a halo of grace and glory.
“O! morn too bright for mortal eyes,
When all the ransomed saints shall rise,
Caught up with Christ to reign.”
Correspondence: Spear in Side; Suffer Grief; Everlasting Gospel
Question: Please explain why it was necessary that the spear should be thrust into the side of Christ, seeing He was already dead; was His death not full payment to God for sin? Why is it said “It is the blood (not the death) that maketh atonement for the soul”? M. S.
Answer: The spear thrust into the side (the heart) of Christ showed to all that His death was real, and moreover drew out those tokens of atonement and purification (blood and water) on which we rest, and by which we are cleansed. The death of Christ was a full atonement for sin, but blood out of the body, apart from it, is a proof of death: (in the body it is the life of it), and hence the blood is everywhere used for the atoning value of the death of Christ; not that blood is different from death, but because it is the proof of it. The blood “making atonement” is a more beautiful thought than the death, because it means the perfect life given up in death. The blood which was the life, now poured forth in death, is that which is so precious in God’s sight. You will observe that when, the death is spoken of, it is more in connection with resurrection, presenting the truth of deliverance from sin (Rom. 6) rather than atonement for sins. (Rom. 3).
Question: Can our Lord in His character as glorified man, still suffer grief? S. B.
Answer: We do not believe that our Lord now suffers as “a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief,” but we do believe that He feels for the sorrows, and is grieved at the failures of His people as much as ever; being the same Jehovah that had so often to bear with the hardness and unbelief of His people of old. Beyond this, however, we have a High Priest who is touched, even now, with the feeling of our infirmities. In one sense, therefore, grief is confined to earth; in another, as we see from Gen. 6:6, etc., it is not.
Question: What is the “Everlasting gospel”? B. J. M.
Answer: The “everlasting gospel” is quite distinct from the gospel of the grace of God now preached. The former will go forth prior to the opening of the millenial kingdom. No doubt the precious gospel now published is everlasting as to its source and subject; but it is not intelligent to apply Rev. 14:6, to the present gospel.
Question: Please explain 1 John 5:16, 17. A. L
Answer: 1 John 5:16, 17 refers to the case of a brother suffering under the chastening hand of God in government. (Compare James 5:15). It might be for sin which was not unto death—the death of the body. In such a case one may be led to pray for the sufferer, and receive an answer from God in his restoration to health. But the sin may be of such a nature as that one could not possibly take it up in intercession at all, in which case the discipline must take its course and run on to the death of the body. (Compare also 1 Cor. 11:30).
Question: In what way did those women in Phil. 4:3, help Paul in the gospel? E. A.
Answer: We are not told in what specific way “those women labored with Paul in the gospel,” but we know there are a thousand ways in which a woman may serve in the gospel without ever stepping out of that sphere which properly belongs to her. As to the married woman, we feel increasingly persuaded that home is pre-eminently her place; there she has a hallowed and elevated sphere in which she can serve in the full consciousness of being exactly where the hand of God has set her, and where His Word directs her. She also has a great privilege of lodging and feeding the servants of the Lord as they go about in their ministry of the Word, and thus helping them in their service.
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