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308 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN November 10 yielded to this are in danger of perish NOVEMBER 30 ing. 0, repent and seek forgiveness. I JOHN 5:1-8 (2) The day of grace is yet with us. Not only is love for God shown by , NOVEMBER 25 love for the brethren, but love for the brethren is shown by steadfastness to JAMES 4 (8) There are, in each of us, inward the commandments of God. Love for Redemption Thoughts wars due to the lusts of the heart. God promotes zeal for the truth. Zeal Likewise we find outward contention for the truth will fructify in such a NOVEMBER 20 due to the lust of envy. How may we love for the brethren as will seek to ' JER. 4:1-14 (3b) come to the peace of God? Humble preserve them in the truth. May God EATED at my typewriter, I hear yourselves, submit and draw nigh to grant us this single motive in all our S the noise of tractors in my ears. God; cleanse your hands and heart; actions. Farmers around are breaking up the put a curb upon your speech. God will DECEMBER 1 fallow ground preparatory to planting abide by His promise to draw nigh seed. So God's prophet calls upon the I JOHN 5:9-21 (10) and lift up those who come to Him. It is given to the children of God, hard-hearted to be converted. Three NOVEMBER 26 not only to render an outward evi different figures in this brief lesson call MATT. 7:15-29 (20) dence of their redeemed state but to for us to prepare our hearts for the Redemption brings about a radical enjoy an inward conviction or assur message of God. change in the heart of man. As there ance. The Holy Spirit, indwelling, is NOVEMBER 21 is a noticeable distinction between the God's seal to our salvation. If the Holy EZEK. 33:1-16 (11) taste of a cultivated and wild grape Spirit abides within and has control of The command of God comes with so there is a difference in the works of our lives, there is no fear from within, the same force today as it did in the a regenerate and unregenerate man. nor conflict without, that shall cause time of Ezekiel the prophet. Wicked Are you bringing forth works of right us to despair of His redemption. men are to heed the gospel call and eousness? DECEMBER 2 turn from the doom that awaits them. NOVEMBER 27 JOHN 14:1-14 (2) Who can resist the persuasive tones JOHN 8:39-49 (47) of God as He urges men to repent? What calm possesses our hearts One of the fruits of repentance is when we contemplate the heavenly very evidently hearing and heeding NOVEMBER 22 home Jesus is preparing for us. Heaven God's word. It is apparent that he JOEL 2:1-14 (13) is here termed "my Father's house." A flaming picture of desolation, de who does not receive the word of God What more appealing designation struction and condemnation is fol is not of God. Does this bold state could be given? Think of your own lowed by a glowing portrayal of the ment cut with a convicting pain into father's house, then add to it all the gracious mercy of God. Men every your own heart? No longer resist the love and glory of God and your heart where are urged to turn to God and pleadings of the Spirit in regard to will be filled to the bursting point. be converted lest they should taste of those sins which you bind so fondly the terror prepared for those who op to your heart! DECEMBER 3 pose the Almighty. Surely the kind NOVEMBER 28 II PET. 3 (13) ness of God manifested in His con PSALM 67 (5) Heaven, unto which Christ has re stant, watchful care is an incentive to This is a day of praise and thanks deemed us, is a place of righteousness. trust in Him. giving. Let us not be careless about It is free from all unrighteousness. All who dwell therein will be perfect in NOVEMBER 23 this day. Take time to consider the righteousness. The galling contacts ACTS 3:11-26 (19) many blessings God has bestowed. Consider the future with its clouds with sin will be forever done away. l In the courage of the Holy Spirit Peter told the story of the crucifixion, and brighter gleams. Set your mind Men's hearts will revel in righteous 1 in spite of the guilty and angry reac upon the eternal bliss awaiting the ness rather than in sin. Heaven is truly tion of the multitude. In the grace of saints of God. Then render unto God our home! the Holy Spirit he urged upon them the calves of your lips, the sacrifice of thanksgiving. DECEMBER 4 repentance, reminding them that God REV. 14:13-20 (13) proffers showers of refreshing to those NOVEMBER 29 That future place into which we who tum to Him through faith in JOHN 13:31-38 (35) shall be ushered shall be a place of Christ. There are undeniable signs by which rest. Rest appeals to the laboring man. NOVEMBER 24 Christians may be identified. Those It speaks of reviving and refreshment ACTS 8:18-25 (22) who have tasted of God's love and are of spirit. So the rest prepared for the Did you ever realize that it is dis born again are a distinct people. Their saints will be a comfort and relief from tinctly wicked to think that money or trade mark is not some emblasoned the spiritual labor and conflict that any personal merit can suffice to buy coat-of-arms. Love one for another every born again one endures now. the gift of God? Simon and King Saul makes them stand out from all un are not the only culprits. All who have regenerate. -HENRY D. PHILLIPS Tlto Prosbtorlan Guardian Is published .emi-monthly from SlIItember to July. Inelusl... and monthly In Au",st b.Y Tho Presbrierlan Guardian PUblishing Corpora- ·1 tton. 728 Schaff Bulldln•• 1505 Raee Street. Philadelphia. PL. at the foll~ rates. payable in _ce. for either old or new subserfbers in allY part of tho world. IIOst.... i _pa.id: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for live months: live or more copies etther to separate addresses or in a packlwte to one address; $1.25 each per year; introductory rate fer now . _rlb..s onI7. three months for 250; lOe per sincle copy. Entered .. second class matter March 4. 1937. at u..Poot 0IIIc0 at PhIlade1J>hia. P .... under the Act of Maroh 3. 117•• ::1 1946 THE PRESBYTERIAN GtJ ARDIAN 301 Notes From a Navy ~haplain~s.Log Part Twelve: Concerning Freedom from Fear By E. LYNNE WADE, Lientenant-Cemmendee, USN Senior Chaplain, U.S.S. Consolation (Continued from the July 10 issue) the foxhole. It had uprooted a large haven't got a leg of Biblical ground to cocoanut tree, weighing thousands of stand on. It is why many of us, genu HERE was another prayer they pounds, torn part of it to shreds, and ine believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, T often prayed-they thanked God thrown it more than fifty yards from having been born again of His Holy in the words of Scripture that He was whereit had been growing. It knocked Spirit,' have donned uniforms, taken their Helper: therefore could they. down another tree some forty yards up the arms of war, and gone out boldly say they feared not what man away from where it struck. Those actually to kill men. We have. been can do unto them. I well remember things had power! . OBEYING the Sixth Commandment the last close and dangerous bombing -not breaking it. We should have we experienced. The moon had risen Were We Tempting God? been breaking it by refusing to per early, and we were again in the final There are those who would say we form such military duties as were laid moments of our meeting. Just before were tempting God in remaining upon us. I began my closing prayer, the alarms calmly at our prayers instead of seek On the other hand, it is definitely began to sound from camps all over ing shelter immediately when the unchristian and disobedient to God to . the island-enough to frighten any alarm was sounded. Or, at least, some fear anyone or anything, any time, any one, ordinarily. Only one man moved might say our attitude was one of pre where-except God Himself, of course. -Jack, as usual, got up and left for sumption rather than of trust. Since I This is easily proven by abundant the nearest foxhole. Then suddenly we have raised the question, l must dis teaching from the Word of God. As heard the whirring enemy motors fairly cuss it as briefly, but as clearly as a starter in support of my position, close and apparently heading our way possible. how about Provo 29:25? "The fear of from the direction of Henderson Field. I grant that circumstances may alter man bringeth a snare: but whoso We heard, almost unconsciously, the cases, and, as a matter of fact, I have putteth his trust in the Lord shan be first bomb swish down and explode. admitted freely that on several occa safe." Or Isa. 51n z, "I, even I, am Then the second-much closer and sions, when by common consent our He that comforteth you: who art thou, louder.