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

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562 BIBLE REVIEW Feb--Mar.
HOW often we have observed faces darken at times
with worry, with oppression, with grief, or pain. And
how the face lights up at sudden good news, or at the
coming of a loved and loving one. Those who are living
the life of regeneration most faithfully frequently find
their faces darkly clouded because of some disturbing influence;
frequently it is the condemnation of those who
misunderstand them. Persons who waste their life sometimes
absorb life from those who have more.
The Psalmist
said: "They eat up my people as they eat bread."
The hope of one striving for a holy life is to continue
faithfully to strive to overcome those evils in themselves
from which they suffer most from others. But the time
will come when there will be gathered out from the
kingdom all things that offend. Then will the darkened
faces lighten, and grow brighter and brighter until in
time it will be as it was said: "Then shall the righteous
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father."
They shall shine, not with a figurative light, but with a
real light, so that in time "They need not the light of
the sun, nor of the moon, for the Lord God giveth them
light, and the lamb [the regenerated body] is the lamp
thereof."
BECAUSE Cain killed his brother and he is recognized
as having been a very wicked man, there is a class of
minds that feel that any thing that Cain said must of necessity
be incorrect. For this reason, apparently, when
the Lord asked of Cain, "Where is thy brother Able?" and
Cain answered, "I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?"
that while the statement "I know not," was untrue
that the question, "Am I my brother's keeper?" must
alsobea wrong stand to take. But it does not follow
that it is, or that he was his brother's keeper.
The common mind is very indolent.
Few are willing