Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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good thoughts as with the evil thoughts.
Sometimes we receive good in such large measure that
we do not recognize it as the good' we sent out years before,
because itihas been
steadily accruing interest to
our account until now it far exceeds the principal.
Vivekananda has ably exprest the same thought, "Tho
you go into a cave to think a thought, be sure that
that thought will return to you."
"Then let our secret thoughts be fair,
For the Gods see everywhere."
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OFT the silence of the city has been broken by my tread,
As I've walked about in pity 'mongst the living and the dead;
Helping here and there a brother who perchance might need my aid,
Trying to dispel the horror which surrounds the soul afraid.
Lifting up a weary sister, speaking comfort to her soul,
Till at last long ere the morrow, she could sight the heavenly goal.
Oft despised, benumbsd, forsaken, I have seen a ray of light,
Struggle thru the mental darkness till; the eye shone clear and bright.
I have seen the look of sadness disappear and fade away,
As the heart has felt the dawning of a bright and better day.
lany a poor despised drunkard, I have plucked from death and hell;
Look within that little volume, it will you the story tell;
On its pages are the records of the rescued and the saved,
Therejamong its tales of sorrow, you can see what I have braved,
How I, stooped down in the gutter to arrest their deadly pace,
And have seen the heart ence hardened, softened by the power of grace.
Gems Iipicked from out the gutter, covered like some filthy thing,
And Isaw 'them shine and glitter 'neath the shadow of God's wing;
Shine and' cast a ray of gladness thru the darkness of the night
To those groping in their terror for a tiny gleam of light.
Did thsy.sse it? _Yes, they saw it, and their hearts now beat with glee,