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

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1917-18 JOSES, THE BROTHER OF JESUS 527
I find our church people are too busy with their
church affairs to become interested; some antagonize our
ideas, but most desire "the old story of Christ crucified"
as they put it, of course not knowing what that really
means; and to mention the "Regeneration" is to raise a
storm of protest. They talk glibly of the regeneration
of the soul, but just what they mean by this, they are
unable to define, but they claim belief in it. Occasionally
one will meet with one who gives his attention, and who
shows appreciation, and every effort expended is worth
while to find this one. Of' course "Practical Methods"
is the first book we try to place before them, and very
many are well pleased with it. To plant the seed is our
work, our Heavenly Father giveth the increase.
and fraternally yours, J. G. G.
FFF
JOSE5, BROTHER OF JESUS
"JOSES, the brother of Jesus, plodded from day to day,
With never a vision within him to glorify his clay;
Joses, the bnther cf' Jesus, was one with the heavy clod,
But Christ was the soul of rapture, and soared, like a lark, with God;
Joses. the brother of Jesus, was
only a worker in wood,
And he never could see the glory that Jesus, his brother, could.
"Why stays he not in the workshop?" he often used to complain;
"Sawing the Lebanon cedar, imparting to woods their stain?
Why must he go thus roaming, forsaking my father's trade,
While hammers were busily sounding and there is a gain to be made?"
Thus ran the mind of Joses, apt with plummet and rule,
And deeming whoever surpast him either a knave or a fool,
For he never walked with the prophets in God's great garden of bliss,
And of all the mistakes of the ages, the saddest, methinks, was this:
To have such a brother as Jesus, to speak with him day by day,
But never to catch the vision which glorified his clay."