The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-06-06

w WI fried or fricassed
- for dinner. The
mamma was round and white like waf-
les and had the taste of honey (hx'
6:13, 31).
This story illumines like n search
light the duty of daily Bible reading
for while the mamma answered their
objections, and assured them Of coos
protection and care, 1t was also 10 DC
n test of their obedience.
I. 1t must be gathered freshly each
day. 1t would not keep until morning,
much less could one gather weeks
supply on single day. Neither VIII
half q dozen chapters read on Sunday
suffice for our spiritual needs all the
week.
u. Each person must gather the
mama for himself. No foraginS
squad could gather for the whole trlDe
any more than the pastors of city
can gather the spiritual food needed
by their congregations. There Is n
/ DItSSlHS III Nilt SuihNi ms '
dividual cannot afford to miss.
~. The mama was suited to the
needs of all. The strong and the
weak, the aged and the young, found
1t alike suited to their tastes ana
needs. And this mama diet was fur
nished by God during all the forty
years of their wandering In the Will
derness. No wonder they called IL
"bread from heaven" and "angeFs
fOod"-for so 1t was.
~. One popularity of their superna'
tural food was this, that when they
came to measure what they had gath
cred. the most eager and industrious
had nothing over, and the feeble had
no lack.
This was certainly miraculous. But
no more so than the way in which God
illumines the Word and applies 1t 10
our daily needs.
A minister once told me that he
returned from vacation with a heavy
heart. He was nearly sixty, and not
strong physically. He seemed to have
no message for his people, and he fell
that he ought to resign.
One morning at devotions he read
"The Lord shall increase you more
and more" He caught a glimpse OF
the boundless resources OF grace anc
glory which God had in store for him
He cried out: "Oh wife, ! haven
got to 20, after ALL" When she asked
what the verse meant, he said
"Don't you see? It means that an ole
minister with n new experience Is bet
ter for church than new minister
with an old experience" 1t was eas!
then to- take up the work, and the las
knew he was serving God success
fully In the same church.
For devotional uses the Psalms ar
perhaps the best, because they cove
so wide range of experience. In tn
morning read Ps. 10, and at evening
Ps. 8. II you are going on a jour
ney, Ps. 121 is appropriate.
The Gospels also are excellent 10
devotional reading, because there W
come In contact with the words an
works of Jesus. We see how he live
IN the home and by the wayside, In tn
carpenters shop, and by the ope
grave. We see him In public life an
and in private ministry, always tn
same, never hurried, never worried, a
ways thinking of others and never @
himself. We see him playing with tn
children, watching the hens In tn
, dooryard, and the birds on the trees
the growing grain and fading flowers
, In everything he saw Gods love an
. care, and from all things natural h
drew some spiritual lesson for HI
own or others comfort.
IF It be asked how much one shoul
read at a time for devotional purpose
, I answer: Read until your heal
= burns. You may read chapter or
book or a single verse, but read,
YOU can, until you are consciously
touch with God, and then with the Fl
u the"s morning kiss upon your lip
: you are ready to meet the outsit
= world.
y Some people feel that they cann'
=. spare time for the morning watch, bl
!. question whether any child Of Go
can afford to do without It, Our sou
= need to be fed daily as well as OF
bodies, and the Bible is the souls pro
er food.
It is q good plan when one has req
. a chapter to ask oneself:
i 1. What is the subject Of this cha
= ter?
I Q. Is there any example in 1t for n
'' to follow?
3. Any error for me to avoid?
a. ANY duty for me to perform?
" 5. Any promise for me to claim'
@. Any prayer for me to offer?
And remember that one verse
Scripture committed to memory, al
really believed or obeyed, Is wor
"a more than whole book read hasti
NJ and without thought.