Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-10-04

almost a lost art. Men and women
TOO are using up seven days strength
in six days time, so that Sunday
usually finds them completely ex-
hausted.
Let me suggest as remedy an hour
day with Jesus, emphasizing not so
much the amount Of time as the fact
OF a generous period set apart each
day for fellowship with the living and
written Word
Our souls need it. How much they
need it we shall never know until we
adopt the habit. We need it both for
our information and inspiration. We
need to know God better that we may
love him more. We need to know our
selves better that we may take and
keep our proper attitude toward him.
And when we know his will sc need
the constant and constrasning influence
OF the Holy Spirit to incite us to do it.
slumbering church needs it, for if
it is ever awakened and set on fire for
God it must be through the instrument
tally OF those who are already on fire.
God no rest until he establishes and
makes Jerusalem praise in the earth.
A perishing world needs it-for
never will it realize that it is dead I'M
til 1t comes in contact with those who
are alive in Christ Jesus. Formal
preaching and feeble te stimony will
never disturb the sleep of the dead.
but the people that do know their
God shall be strong, and shall do ex-
ploits." When people hear about the
victorious life and see it in their
midst they will realize their own need.
And Jesus Graves it. We are not
simply the servants of Jesus who go
to him for orders, but he says. 81
nave called you friends" and "all
things that have heard of my Father.
l have made known unto you," A
business man may employ hundreds of
women, and daily assign them their
work and pay them their wages, but
there is one woman whose relation to
him is entirely different. He is not
her employer but her husband. He
did not select her for the work that
she could do. but to be his wife and
companion.
Even so the church is the bride If
Christ, and far more than the service
tnat we can render. he prizes orr
fellowship and love.
An hour day with Jesus gives
deep, Astounding JOY. did not our
hearts burn within us as he talked with
us by the way, and while he opened
to us the Scriptures?"
1t makes our testimony more effec-
tive. Some years ago I came in close
touch with group Of young people.
| soon saw that one of the number
was far superior to all the rest in
the weight of her testimony and in
her knowledge of the Bible. Then
found the secret. She was giving an
hour day to the study of the Bible
and prayer. Her life was beautiful
and her influence unique, though her
natural gifts were only ordinary.
That hour day with Jesus seemed to
cast halo over all that she said and
did.
1t gives greater power in PRAYER. In
Acts III we read that when the AMOS
ties had prayed, the place was shaken
where they were assembled together.
and they were all filled with the Holv
Ghost. And with great power gave
they witness of the resurrection of
the Lord Jesus; and great grace was
upon them ALL
And SO we come back to our start
ing point, and leave with you the
question, "Could we not manage our
households, and carry on our business
and accomplish more study, and make
more money if we would spend an
hour day with Jesus and the Bible"
A little talk with Jesus, how it smooths
the rugged road,
How it seems to help me onward whar
faint beneath my load:
When my heart is crushed with SORROW
and my eyes with tears are dim.
1Hefe Is naught can give me comfort like
a little talk with him.
| cannot live without him. nor would il
I could;
He is my daily portion. my medicine and
food.
He's altogether lovely, none with him can
compare,
The chief among ten thousand. the fair
est of the fair.