Covenanter Witness Vol. 54 - Rparchives.org

yesterday."
words."
ahead.'
promoted."
wise."
men"
the Society is, "To diffuse a knowledge of the Lord Jesus
Christ as the Redeemer of sinners, and to promote the in
terests of vital godliness and sound morality through re
ligious tracts."
FAMILY WIN FAMILY
A standing order of EVANGELISM is not only
to win the individual but also to win the FAMILY
to Christ and the church. "He that winneth souls is
Chicago Judge Out
Judge Stanley Pulaski, the only Republican on the Muni
cipal bench in Chicago, was forced out of office by a Demo
cratic landslide on last election day. Since Labor Day, Judge
Pulaski said, he has sentenced 1,152 men to the house of
correction, "to dry out from the cheap wine they had been
drinking. The cost of rehabilitating the alcoholic should be
borne in full by the liquor, industry, which has shown no dis
position to come to grips with the disgraceful social prob
lems the public sale of their products has
The
Judge further stated that, "last year 614 men died on Skid
Row and the record so far this year is 746." He hoped he
had saved some lives by sending them to jail "before they
could drink themselves to death. At least two men a day had
convulsions in court. Some could not see they were so
blinded by alcohol and had to feel their way to the bench.
One fellow was a lawyer I went to school with. Another man
earlier this week had six children. He said he wanted to
go back to his family
and I said 'go
THE PSALMS OF THE BIBLE
By Rev. David T. Lauderdale
He was back
Dwight L. Moody in one of his sermons tells of
a Scotchman who lay desperately ill in our country.
A minister of the Gospel called to see him and tried
to explain to him the way of salvation, but all of
no avail. Finally there came to the minister's mind
a verse from God's Precious Word, Psalms 34 :32 in
the metrical version, so dearly loved by the Scotch.
The minister said, "There is a line in your old Scotch
Psalter that contains the whole way of salvation. I
don't remember the rest of the verse, but here are
the five words, and the whole Gospel is in them
'None perish that Him trust.' "
The sick man's face lit up as he looked up from
his pillow and repeated :
"HI shall the wicked slay ; lay waste
Shall be who hate the just.
The Lord redeems His servant's soul ;
None perish that Him trust."
"That is it," said the preacher. "Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ. None perish that Him trust.
Where did you learn those words "
"My sweet mother sang them to me when I was
a child, and they sang them in our old Church in
Scotland. Every Scotchman knows and loves those
"None perish that Him trust." These words
from God's own Book awakened holy memories in
the sick man, memories of mother and home and
and brought him to the Saviour.
Jesus,
The last visit the minister made to him the
sick man's soul was going down through the valley of
the shadow of death. His loved ones gathered around
him saw his lips move. His face lit up with joy
un
speakable and full of glory as they bent over him
and caught his last words, "None perish that Him
trust."
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Associate Reformed Presbyterian
The church is in vital need of all age groups
to carry forward her work. When the FAMILY is
won to Christ and to the church, then we have adults
and children, and the FAMILY working together as
a unit for the Lord.
Each family of the church has an opportunity
in its community to invite and to bring another
family to church. They befriend this family in a
special way and in every way encourage them in the
Christian life and worship.
If every
congregation would set as its goal to
win ten new families for the church each year and
work zealously to attain that goal, what a blessing
it would be both to our church and our community!
One has said the way to "discipline" your life in
"disciplining"
Evangelism is to be ever busy your
life. Jesiis said, "Come ye after Me, and I will make
you to become fishers of (Mark 1 :17).
Will you pray that God by His Holy Spirit will
lead you to do definite family
evangelism Jesus
said, "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields ; for
they are white already to harvest" (John 4:35).
[Assignment of the Evangelistic Committee
for the Covenanter Witness.]
Frank L. Stewart
EDITOR'S NOTES from page 180
Iscariot. What had become of all those prayers of
fered by his parents that he might be a good and
even a great man Had God forsaken them The God
who cannot lie No, He had just done far exceedingly
abundantly above all that they asked or thought. He
had chosen Saul as a special vessel for Himself. When
the final books will be opened it is safe to say there
will be few if any that will stand out as a maker of
history, a builder of the Kingdom of God like the
name of Paul of Tarsus. At first God had seemed to
say "Yes" to all their prayers and then He suddenly
"No,"
seemed to say and all the time he was saying
awhile."
"Wait
Paul had a story, of his own concerning the 'No'
answer. As he went on in the career that he had not
chosen but had been chosen for him, he developed a
malady that seemed to greatly hinder his usefulness.
It was of such nature that it required the attendance
of a physician though many a time he had been able
to heal people by prayer for them but his own malady
remained in spite of prayer. Three different times
he had set apart periods, praying and fasting that he
might be healed, and finally the answer came, "No,
No, No. My grace shall be sufficient for thee and my
wea
strength shall be made perfect in your
He became resigned to this condition; indeed he
would not have surrendered that thorn in the flesh
for any bodily comfort that could come, because it
was the one thing that bound him close to God, and
though it was a messenger from Satan to buffet him
it drove him into the very arms of His Saviour.
As we said at the beginning, God has an infin
ite variety of ways of answering prayer and at no
time is He limited to complying with the words we
express. He is able to do far exceedingly abundantly
above all that we ask or think.
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