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end."ment"me."REMO I. ROBB, D.D.For CovenaTO ILLUSTRATE THE TOPICSDecember 5An Inexhaustible Supply.God's Promises to Us.On a visit to the island of Trinidad wedrove to what is known as Pitch Lake.Here is one of the wonders of the world.On reaching the lake we found what resembles an extinct volcano with a radius of one half mile.This crater area is filled with asphaltwhich is hard enough that our party ofseven walked to the center, where twocrews of men were digging and loadingcars. Occasionally we found places wheregas was escaping,the surface.causing bubbles onThe men with sharp picks were diggingthe asphalt. It would break into goodsized chunks weighing from fifty to onehundred pounds. They loaded the carseight and ten in a train. These cars attached to a cable, were pulled to the refinery, built on the edge of the crater.In removing the asphalt, they didnot go more than five or six feet deep.They told us that within seventy-twohours the hole would fill up to the lakelevel, with no sign that any had beenremoved. They further told us that theyhad been digging and shipping this asphalt to all parts of the world for thepast sixty-three years. There is just asmuch asphalt in Pitch Lake as there wassixty-three years ago. Though manythousands of shiploads have gone into thehighways of the earth, the supply is notdiminished.A few years ago in the center of thelake they drilled a hole two hundred andeighty feet deep. All the way down theyfound nothing but black asphalt. At thatdepth there was so much pressure on thedrill bit that the project had to be abandoned; an inexhaustible supply 'of asphalt.When we looked upon this bit of God'screation, we said that this is the sameas with God's grace. The God of all gracehas an inexhaustible supply. All theChristians in all the world can havegrace in abundanceuseished.312all that they canand yet the supply is never diminC. Warren Jones, in OTHER SHEEPDecember 12Modern AhabsThe Tenth CommandmentSoon after Kaiser Wilhelm's accessionto the Prussian throne, he coveted sixacres that adjoined his Potsdam property.The owner refused to part with it for thesum the Kaiser offered to pay. Throughhis agent the Kaiser raised his offer tofour hundred pounds, but the owner saidthat seven hundred pounds was the lowest figure at which he would sell. Amonth later the owner received noticethat his land was required for militarypurposes, and he would be paid one hundred and fifty pounds. He was obligedto give up the land. Six months later theKaiser purchased it from the government for the exact sum which he hadfirst offered.There are many other Ahabs who "outbid, undersell, sometimes deliberatelyset themselves to extinguish every business which competes with their own, anddo everything which the law permits anda great many things which the morallaw does not permit to accomplish theirDecember 19Because He Died.The "Eleventh CommandIt was mid-ocean, and a great ship hadstruck an iceberg, and was going down.There were not enough lifeboats for allthe passengers. The captain made thepassengers draw lots; those drawing anumbered card were to have a place inthe lifeboats, those who drew a blankthose were to go down with the ship. Afather drew a card with a number, hiswife drew a blank card. The husbandexchanged with her, kissed his little babygood-bye as he placed her in his wife'sarms, saying as he did so: "When she istwelve years old tell about this day, andtell her that father died to save her."Eleven years passed by, and on hertwelfth birthday the little girl was toldthe storyof her. father's death. Sheclimbed on a chair that stood below hisportrait, and stood looking into his facefor some minutes, then she said: "I loveyou, I love you, because you died tosaveBilly SundayDecember 26Consecration to ChristTruths that Jesus TaughtAt the outbreak of the Civil War theyoung men of a country school in Mississippi were enlisting for the front. A stalserious-minded wart, young fellow,though pressed by his friends day afterday to enlist, persistently refused. But atlength he stepped up to the desk of theConfederate recruiting officer and enlisted. Then, stepping back, he said in avoice charged with emotion, "Boys, I'vesigned my life awaytoday."Have you enlisted in the Armyof theCross? If you have then you cannot sayof anything you possess "It is my own";for you have signed your life away to"the Son of God's love."LOST AND FOUNDI stopped at Grinnell College on Monday, October 18, and was given a cartonfull of articles left there by delegates toour 1954 Covenanter Convention. AlreadyI had accumulated a fair collection ofarticles, but with this added carton myaccumulation is indeed a collection.If you know that you left any of thesearticles at Grinnell, please let me knowright away and I will mail the article toyou. Unfortunately,a few have reportedlost articles that are not in this collection. I am sorry not to be able to helpthem.The list follows:Books1 Life of Christ in the Psalms with Music2 Life of Christ in the Psalms withoutMusic.1 Bible World Publishing Company.Presentation Page, Family Recordand picture of Jacob's Dream on opening pages.Men's Wear1 men's undershirt, size 401 men's drawers, size 341 men's drawers, size 361 Mallory hat, gray, size iy21 pair heavy work shoes, almost new,size10% C1 brown moccasin type shoe, size 9 C,for right foot.1 red, blue, purple, orange, yellow check"Panama Cloth,"ed cap"A Flip-it Exclusive."1 handkerchief, white1 handkerchief, faded yellow1 handkerchief, white with red stripedborder1 little boy's shorts,22"waist, size 41 boy's white sockCOVENANTER WITNESS