Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-27

TO see their children raised from the dead.
, The man who Is engaged in the business
Of damning other peoples children has
, nobody to blame but himself II his own
are lost for a curse that is wlfully turned
} loose on others Is sure to return on him
who sent IL.
mot II NOT II"
AS Jesus and the great crowd led by
Jalrus is passing along the street sud
denly the Master stops and says: Who
touched me?' and like children at school
when some wrong is discovered. every
body says, Not 1! Not L. and Peter, i'm his
usual brusque and impulsive way, says
why Master. with all this crowd so
close around You, how can You ask,
who touched Me?' And the next mo-
ment tmid woman comes forward and
falls trembling at His feet and declares
with sobs of JOY before them all how
she had reached out and touched the
hem of his garment and was healed of
trouble that had been eating away her
life for years
Perhaps lairus may have chafed
somewhat at the delay caused by the
woman who thought to get a blessiDp
without anybody knowing IL, and perhaps
he may have said to himself: We shall
be too late and my daughter will die.
Why couldn't she have waited n little
longer2 II she had waited u years an
Otner nOur WUulunt nave MADE fnuCn
| difference. But nobody ever loses any
! thing by waiting on Jesus. If lie UNDER
takes your case He will always see It
through, Don't be anxious about His
| part Of the work for you He may seem
| TO linEer sometimes as He did in the
case of Lazarus, but lie never gets there
| too late,
And now that the scene Is before us
In its proper setting, let us see what
| lesson there Is for us In the story of
| mi 7 hnlfn " hp
taken for granted that her case is typi-
! cal one. just such things are always
| going on, and l believe that Jesus halted
the throng about Him that morning for
| the purpose of giving encouragement TO
| His disciples and to show them that they
! could always count on results when they
! did their best In His names, even when
| none could be seen. 1t is necessary
! that the disciples of Christ should learn
| to live by faith. for It will not do to
! judge from appearances as to what God
! is doing. A lifelong impression was made
| upon the disciples that morning by the
| halting Of the crowd there in the street,
! to show them that great work had been
| done when they had not been expecting
| anything at ALL Peter James and John
and the others were probably thinking of
! what was going to happen when they
reached the house of Jairus, but they had
no thought of anything being done before
they got there. We look for great things
when We have the revival meeting mex
winter, but we are not looking for any
thing before then, Something may han
pen on Sunday, the preacher thinks
when the church Is filed with people, but
nothing Is expected in the little prayer
meeting, where only q few old standbys
are gathered.
RESULT OFTEN UNKNOWN.
by Jesus stopping that crowd in the
street we have the right to expect some
thing now, whether we ever learn what it /
| is this side of heaven or not. Something !
is going to happen now. You can de-
pend on it, as sure as God is God. |
Whatever good seed is sown He will see
to it that it grows, for the parable of the !!
sower is always true.
The preacher never knows what the |
full result of his message has been, and |
1t is a good thing that he cannot, for if !
he did he would sometimes be so putfed |
up with pride that his wife wouldn't live |
with him, and at other times he would be |
so discouraged that he would stop preach |
ing and go into the life insurance busi- |
ness. There is a story of one of the old |
saints, who in answer to much prayer
that he might do a great deal of good |
without knowing It, was told that when |
his shadow was behind him it should |
have power to heal all upon whom 1t
fell, but when in front of him it had no
virtue at all, and so he went on his way,
healing many, but not knowing anything |
about 1t.
ut is much that way with every one
who Is honestly trying to do the work
of Christ. 1t is only now and then that
he Is permitted to know what has been
done and yet wherever he has lifted his
hand In the Masters name something has
happened. Somebody has received a
blessing through which they will never
be the same again. A man once touched |
button in New York that fired guns
and rang bells all around the world, and
yet he never heard a sound, and how
much that is like the work of the Chris
tion He makes an honest effort to ac-
complsh something for the Lord, but he
doesn't know that anything at all has
been done. We reason that to do great
things we must be great and have great
opportunities, but it isn't so. In one of
the recent magazines there Is picture
of the smallest woman In the world-a
little midget only about 20 inches tall.
She is standing on a chair touching a
button in the wall to turn on the electric
light. If she were to touch the right
button at the right time, don't you see
that she might start machinery clear
across the country, just as well as the
president could do it? All power comes
from God, we are told, and no man,
no matter how great he may be, judged
by our standards, can do anything of
himself Ills power to do must come
from God and we must get in the
"NNsbtN ASS-A'AAo
LONG STEP IN FAITH.
"And so l believe the Lord halted the
throng that morning to help His disciples
to take long step in faith, that they !
in turn might pass the lesson on down
to US. That wherever lie is. and wher-
ever His faithful servant is, something /
that God is satisfied with is being done.
and that away down in the eternties I
heaven will ring again and again with
the music of our rejoicing over infinite
surprises. Away beyond the time when
some Of the brightest stars have grown
dim we shall meet souls in the eternal T
world who felt the touch of Christ un-
as the tiInid woman. through
effort of ours when we didn't dream
when we had done thing.
/ shot an arrow into the air
1t tell L earth. l knew not where;
For so swift II dew The sight
Gould not follow It in its iight
/ hrcathcd a song into the air.
IL fell TO earth, / knew not where;
For who has sight so keen ana strong
That be can follow the flight Of song?
Long, long afterward, in an, oak