Covenanter Witness Vol. 54 - Rparchives.org

oil."
me"
spirit."
spirit."
Now about that odometer that measures all the
miles that the car has run. Is there anything like
that in your face Yes, I think so. You can tell by
looking at people's faces, somewhat about their age.
A person that is 80 or 90 years old usually looks that
old ; when you look at the face it has registered his
life mileage. If a car has been abused all its life, or
a man has been abused all his life it doesn't only
register in the face, it registers everywhere. A car
that has been run through wrecks and the person
who has wrecked his life by reckless living shows
it all over his foody as well as his face. Business has
sometimes taken me to the lower end of Main Street
in Kansas City, and there you see the bums. These
people have almost ceased to look like human beings.
They do not have a sign of manhood or of intelli
gence ; they get that way from self abuse. But on the
car that is well taken care of, sometimes this odo
meter shows as much as 100,000 miles or more, and
he who takes proper care of his life is apt to live to
a good old age and look well all the time.
Now, there is one more guage on the instrument
board that is very important, on the instrument
board of a car, I mean. That is the oil measure. It
tells how the circulation of oil is going, whether oil
is getting to every part of the car. There is some
thing like that in the human life. A life that is happy
is the one that has the proper oil circulation and
when I say happy, I mean really happy. There is a
difference between the circulation of good oil and the
circulation of bad oil. There is a difference between
the circulation of good happiness and happiness that
is not so good. A garage man once said to me, "If you
put one quart of bad oil in four quarts of good oil you
have five quarts of bad What do I mean by the
good oil in a person's life Well, we have a formula
that tells us about good oil. "Now abideth faith, hope,
love. If you do not have faith in God and do not have
faith in other people, then you lack one part neces
sary to good oil.
If you do not have hope, that is if you are not
cheerful, if you are not optimistic, if you do not have
a sense of humor, then you are likely to overheat and
things will go wrong; but the Apostle Paul says the
greatest element necessary to good oil is love.
"Though I have all faith so that I could remove
mountains, if I have all knowledge but have not love,
though I give my body to be burned, if 1 give all
my goods to feed the poor," that is we may do a lot
of good things but do them without loving, then we
have not the good oil in our lives.
Now Boys, I have written this not only
son for you, but I hope it will help you to look at
other people's faces (and it's a good thing to look at
as a les
limits Are they wearing
on in
everybody's face) and see just what's going
side. That's their indicator, that is their instrument
panel. Is the temperature right Are they taking
good care Are they keeping within the proper speed
over-
themselves out by
worry Are they taking on things that will make
them intelligent and giving them the right kind of
storage in their minds Have they good oil in their
lives All this will register in everyone's face and if
you can train yourself to be a good reader of the in
strument board you will never get fooled on a used
car nor, will you get fooled on the people that you
meet and associate with. Read the instrument panel
and don't forget to look after your own.
March 16, 1955
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THE PSALMS OF THE BIBLE
By Rev. David T. Lauderdale
"Jesus himself . . . said . . . the
me."
Luke 24:36,44.
Psalms concern
Of our Saviour's seven sayings on the cross
three were not quotations from other parts of Scrip
ture: "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise";
"Behold thy son mother"
behold thy
; and "Fa
. . .
ther forgive them ; for they know not what they do."
The other four things our Lord spoke while dying
for our sins were from other parts of Scripture. He
chose all four from one book of the Bible, all from
the book of the Psalms.
"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a
loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani that
is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
Matthew 27:46.
"After this, Jesus knowing that all things were
now accomplished, that the Scripture would be ful
filled, saith, I thirst." John 19:28. "My throat is
dried."
Psalms 69:3. "My strength is dried like
jaws."
a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my
Psalms 22:15.
"And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he
said, Father into thy hands I commend my
Luke 23:46. "Into thine hands I commit my
Psalms 31:5.
"When Jesus therefore had received the vine
gar, he said, It is finished." John 19:30. "He hath
done this." Psalms 22:31. "He hath done this, or
'It is finished.' These were the expiring words of
our Lord Jesus, as they are the last words of this
Psalm."
Spurgeon.
Precious to the believer is all the Word of God,
from the opening verse of Genesis through the clos
verse of Revelation. Precious are the Psalms.
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They were on our Saviour's mind, in His heart and
on His lips through His last expiring breath. How
we treasure the dying words of our father, our
mother, our child, or other loved one.
Look! On that middle cross One is hanging
there. His hands and feet are all torn and gashed,
His face all twisted with
torture, His tongue swollen,
cracked open, burning with fever. The spittle of
vile men hangs from His face, the sharp thorns
are buried deep in His scalp and forehead, His face,
head, hands, shoulders, back, feet all gory with
blood. The sweat of death stands on His brow and
there is not one human hand to wipe it off; no one
to wash the blood and spittle from His face ; no one
to pour soothing oil on His torn hands and feet ; no
one to give even one drop of cooling water to His
burning tongue as He hangs there dying for you
and me. Look, His lips are moving, our blessed Lord
is speaking His last words, how inexpressibly pre
cious those words the old sweet Psalms of the
Bible.
O thou my soul, bless God the Lord;
And all that in me is,
Be lifted up His holy Name
To magnify and bless.
Bless, O my soul, the Lord thy God,
And not forgetful be
Of all His gracious benefits
He hath bestowed on thee.
Psalms 103.
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