, a man's righteousness can never exceed his holiness ; but in appear- ance it may very much exceed it. So it is that there
may come to pass a difference between profession
and possession. Here then, is the call to a deeper
life, wherein w
r e shall pass into such a true experi- ence of God's holiness that we shall be within, all
that we profess to be without. A quest like this may
give the soul deep heart-searching. But, before it
is over, it will have an infinite rewarding.
A man once bought a farm, and by hard work he
eked out a poor existence from it. At last he died, at
which time his son inherited the farm. This son, by
hard toiling, supported himself and family, though
he had this advantage over his father that he found
on his place some black stuff which would burn, and
with which he fed his fires. Finally, this second farmer died, when his son inherited the place. After
this, he too toiled and labored, and fed his fires. But
one day an engineer passed that way and pointed out
to the farmer that the out-cropping of that black stuff
meant that there was a coal mine beneath the farm.
So a company was formed, and they dug deep. That
last farmer is now a millionaire. His grandfather
and father had lived over that illimitable wealth for
all their lives. But they had never known it and had
died poor. And the last man would have repeated
the sad experience had not his engineer-friend told
him to leave his petty, surface farming, and to dig
deep. And there is One who speaks to us, who bids us to go deeper down. May we have done, therefore,
with surface living. In dwelling deep we shall find,
not only safety, but also riches untold.
Bible Translation
BY RBV. DR. FOX
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of the literary
firmament around
which all our
religious, devotional, and theological literature
revolves : while
the whole of English literature is shot through and
through with the
rays of William
Tyndale and
King James.
"Wherever in any
European country and in America, the Information has taken
deep root, the
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