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Plows Straight Furrow
By Fixing Eye On Mark
In the Grand Rapids Herald, Frank M.
Sparks says:
The other day in this column I wrote of
the field I saw up north through which the
farmer had turned his first furrow, that that
furrow across the field was as straight as a
gun barrel. I said I wondered how he did it.
A day after the publication of that story I
received a letter from Charles L. Frost of
Grand Rapids who gives me the answer and
some food for mighty good thought. He
wrote:
"I was a farmer in my boyhood days, many
years ago. I know the only way to keep a
plow in a straight line clear across a large
field. When a farmer starts such a furrow, he
looks clear across the field and fixes his eye
on a tree or some other mark that can be
plainly seen. Then he starts his team straight
toward that mark, never once taking his eye
off the mark until he reaches it.
Back Looker Unfit
"Your article was a marked illustration of
the words of Jesus in Luke 9:62: 'No man
having put his hand to the plow and looking
back is fit for the Kingdom of God.' How
many people all around us make a failure of
life because they have no fixed purpose
straight ahead."
There's a splendid lesson in that. The
farmer is able to turn a furrow straight as a
gun barrel because he fixes his eye and his
mind upon a certain goal and then drives
straight for it without once permitting him-
self to be turned aside.
That's what every last one of us must do
if we are to attain a desired goal. We must
fix our eyes, our minds and our hearts upon
that goal, then drive straight for it, never
once allowing ourselves to be distracted or
turned aside.
It's mighty interesting to note such things
as that straight furrow and then be able tolearn something froh it, to find it lesson
which may be applied to us all. Mn
thing which seems so inconsequenti
it a great lesson if we but seek alen and
if we will but learn it and apply it to our
every-day lives.
Bible Names Object
Editor Sparks did not name the Object on
which a Christian should fix his eyes, mind
and heart; but the Bible does.
It says: "Looking unto Jesus the Author
and Finisher of faith; who for the joy that
was set before Him endured the cross, desps-
ig the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God" (Hebrews 12:2)-
"Look unto Me and be ye saved" is His
first word to us; then the continual looking
to Him enables us to cut a straight furrow
across the field of this world.
--
Station G-O-D
In Elsie Robinson's copyright olumn
Listen World, she says in part:
Ever listen in on Station G-O-D?
No, you won't find it on any radio dial.
Not even on the short wave. Sometimes you
won't find it at all. But stick around, wait
And suddenly it will come crashing through
-lifting your heart-clearing your brain-
restoring your hope and faith and fighting
strength.
Station G-0-D-one of those mystery sta-
tions no one has ever been able to locate.
Hidden away somewhere beyond your reach.
More subtle than any Nazi listening post,
mare powerful than any international hook
up, but never listed in the radio column.
Yet out of it come broadcasts now and theA
such as never before have been recorded i
our human lives.Rise Above Tenor
Station G-O-D broadcasting every day
while this infernal war continues broadcast-
ing the secret splendor of the human sodlh
Showing how a man may rise above his indi-
vidual terror and weakness and agony until
for a minute or -an hour a day, he walks
with God.
Station G-0-D broadcasting, telling us the
there is something more than this passinga lesson .1
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joy thatfi011aomething that wih bring us at lat
to he shining heights where no bomb nor
torpedo can wreck our peace and joy.
Stationl G.0-D-Station God calling.
He Hears, Answers
That is Elsie Robinson's way of inform-
ng her readers that she believes God is
and that He hears and answers prayer.
There are too many persons who are satis-
fled with what Miss Robinson terms "a min-
ute or an hour a day" walk with God.
And that minute or hour is that period in
which they are confronted with danger above
their natural ability to ward off.
But there are others who know Station
G-0-D, to be a twenty-four-hour station, so
to speak, and keep constantly tuned in.
We do not mean by that that they are
always on their knees. (He who does all his
praying on his knees does not pray enough.)
But we mean there are many who can be
spoken of as praying "without ceasing" (1
Thessalonians 5:17).
Prayer is the Christian's vital breath
The Christian's native air'.
Take Al To God
Such Christians know what it is to take
everything to God in prayer, and to have the
peace of God garrisoning their hearts and
minds (Philippians 4:6-7).
Possibly Miss Robinson is referring to
Heaven when she writes of "the shining
heights where no bomb nor torpedo can
wreck our peace and joy."
If that is a reference to Heaven, we will
point out that to take anyone there it cost
God the giving up of His beloved Son and
it cost that Son the giving up of His life a a
sacrifice for our sinsg
He says: "I am the Way, the Truth, and
the Life; no man comet unto the Father but
by Me" (John 14:6).
He must die, be buried and ri again
before the portals of Heaven could swing
judgment f of guilty sinners deserving only the
jIgt od
It is personal faith in that Savior which
makes us children of God. Then, as His chil-
dren we may "pray without Ceasing."
"If Radio's slim fingers can pluck
Melody from the night
Aid toss it over continent or sea;
If the petal white notes of a violinCan be blown across a mountain,
or city's din;
If songs, like crimson roses, are culled
From the thin blue air,
Why should mortals wonder that
God hears prayer?"
Conscience Money
"I don't know whether I owe this or not,
but I have no erratic consciec and am
paying to settle all doubts," said a note
attached to $2 sent to City Treasurer Leo
Kirshenstein, of Buffalo.
The incident reminds us that conscience
is a very remarkable thing. The Scriptures
have a great deal to say about the conscience.
It speaks of a:Weak conscience
Defiled conscience
Evil conscience
Seared conscience(0 Cor. 8:7)
(Titus 1:15)
(Heb. 10:22)
(1 Tim. 4:2)But it also speaks of a:
Good conscience (1 Peter 3:16)
Pure conscience (2 Tim. 1:3)
Purged conscience (Heb. 9:14)
Have you an "erratic," "evil," "defiled," or
'seared" conscience?
If so, it may be "purged" by the blood of
Christ, who through the eteral Spirit ofered
Himself without spot to God (Hob. 9:14).
Mr. Gladstone once said: "The disease of
an evil conscience is beyond the practice of
all the physicians of all the countries in the
world."
But the power of the precious blood of
Christ is such that it can remove all defile-
ment from the conscience.
A "good" "pure," and "purged" conscience
knows no doubts and entertains no fears.
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