The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04

Word is, we fear,
almost a lost art. Men and women
too, are using up seven days strength
usually finds them completely ex-
hausted.
Let me suggest as a remedy an hour
a 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 u proper attitude toward him.
And when we know his will we need
the constant and constraining influence
of the Holy Spirit to incite us to do it.
A slumbering church needs it, for if
lit is even awakened and set on fire for
Mood it must be through the instrument
tally of those who are already on fire,
and whose earnest intercession gives
God no rest until he establishes and
makes Jerusalem a 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 testimony will
never disturb the .sleepsnf the dead,
but t'the people that do knNv their
God shall be strong, and shall do ex-
ploits,9' When people hear ABOUT the
victorious life and see it their
midst they will realize their o n need.
And Jesus Graves it. We Rre not
simply the servants of Jesus Ewho go
to him for orders, but he nays, II
have called you friends" hid "all
things that I have heard of my Father,
I have made known unto ydh." A
business man may employ hum reds of
women, and daily assign thtn their
work and pay them their VICES, but
there is one woman whose rebtion to
him is entirely different. I'D is not
her employer but her husba !. He
did not select her for the WWk that
she could do, but to be his yfe and
companion.
Even so the church is the ride of
Christ, and far more than thG3 service
that we can render, he prEAs our
fellowship and love.
An hour a day with JespE gives
deep, Astounding joy. did hot our
hearts burn within us as he tailed with
us by the way, and while h4opened
to us the Scriptures?"
1t makes our testimony mde effec-
tive. Some years ago l camgfn close
touch with a group of your people.
1 soon saw that one of hiInumber
was far superior to all hqrest in
the weight of her testimonI and in
her knowledge of the Bible,J Then /
found the secret. She was living an
hour a day to the study of be Bible
and prayer. Her life was Beautiful
and her Influence unique, tllugh her
natural gsfts were only ordinary.
That hour a day with Jesus Eemed to
cast a halo owe all that shefaid and
did.
1t g~ivesegreater power in Ehyer. In
Acts 4 81 We read that whenIhe apos-
ties had prayed. the place VI shaken
where they were assembledjtogether
and they were al filled with the Holy
Ghost. "And with great pGFer gave
they witness Of the resurfkction of
the Lord Jesus; and great ftace was
upon them all"
And so we come Back to Enr start
ing point, and leave with Epu the
question, Gould we not mihage our
households, and carry on on Business
and accomplish more study. Ind make
more money il we would bend an
hour a day With Jesus and III Bible?"
A little talk With Jesus. how smooths
the rugged 1bad,
How it seems to 1eip ne onward when I
faint beneath.ny lssad;
When my heart erushsd viii sorrow.
and my eyes lsith tears @As<dim,
There is naught q give me comfort like
a little talk nth him.
I cannot live withEat him. nor would I if
/ could;
He is my daily potion, my medicine and
food.
He's altogether losA, none with him can
compare, N
The chief among III thousand, the fair
est of the fairN\