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 Bible JUterUl: Acts 12. ,

 Devotional Beading: Joshua 1:6-9. .


 God Our Help -'

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 Lesson for December 27, 1959 "


 AT SUNSET, not a ray of hope. 1 of the :

 behind high walls, .
 guarded by four squads of soldiers
 under special orders, his friends
 not knowing whether he was aliveor *

 dead. But by midnight! the ... fl:: :. .; **
 man was free talking with his
 friends. (Naturally, hunted by the
 police but
 they never found
 hint) What was f k Quest.
 the explanation -
 of It? Nobodyhas
 ever quite i'
 succeeded in explaining y.. ) I
 It. The .
 man himself,said 11- .
 an angel did it; .... : '. .
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 but an angel Is ,1 : .
 hard to explain Dr. Foremantoo.
 The real explanation, everyone *
 felt, was in one single word: : .,
 GOD. The nun's friends had been v t;
 praying to God and God sent the i
 angel. God had much more for
 Simon Peter to do. i M .(. ..

 Jfl Great Crisis 'I'I'I e. K ; __S. \ SY'

 Did God help people in "Bible
 times" only and not since then? By
 ,
 no means. God himself cannot be
 seen, remember; so it is always
 possible for some one to doubt-
 to say "Well, I didn't see God
 there." Nevertheless all through
 pstory there have been special occasions LyAv Av P
 crises as they may be called II
 when believers have been quite
 sure that God must have been specially I w v?
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 interested-and-active.
 For Instance, in World War.n,
 on D-Day, innumerable slips occurred -
 during that great invasionof M a.c7"w.
 the Normandy coast. One writer

 who was there said that every- THE CHURCH FOR ALL .
 thing that could go wrong went
 ALL FOR THE CHURCHThe
 and that
 wrong some things
 couldn't. But in spite of it all, the Church is the greatest factor on earth for
 Allies got their foothold in the the building of character and good citizenship.
 land. What accounts for
 enemys
 that? Or take the German.guidedmissiles. It is a storehouse of spiritual values. Without a'

 If they had been just a Wise Men travelled a desert to lay their gifts before a King. strong Church neither democracy nor civilization
 few weeks farther ahead with production can survive. There are four sound reasons why

 completely, England smashed might and have the been war But the King was a mere babe. His court was a cattle shed; I every person should attend services regularly and

 would have had a different ending. His princely garb swaddling bands. support the Church. They are: (1)I For his

 What held the Germans up?Hitler, I I own sake. (2) For his children's sake. (3) For

 of course; but what made Hitler Could they be certain when they knelt by the manger that this the sake of his community and nation. (4) For
 (ordinarily a shrewd manso, I I sake of the Church itself which needs his
 the
 stupid? I II was the end of the quest?
 moral and material support. Plan to go to
 .
 "Oat of Wukntu" I Their certainty came not of proof but of, faith. They had marveled church_regularly and read your Bible daily.
 For some people it may be easierto
 believe that God takes care ofnations at the heavens followed a gleaming star listened to Day Book Chapter Verses f

 that God and takes of great care of events me. Let, than us prophecy. For Wise Men this was enough! Sunday Matthew 2 7-10

 not deny his presence in the great Monday Matthew 2 11
 crises. Last June a streamliner And through the, centuries others have sought the King. Eagerly. Tuesday John 1 15-17,
 180 board ran John 1 27-28
 with passengers on Wednesday
 earnestly they have into the reverent of the Church.
 over a suitcase filled with enough come beauty: Thursday I Peter i 1 2-25

 dynamite to blow the train in two :And there, as ageless Words cast their light in man's darkness, they Friday Psalms 106 4-5
 -and the fuse was lighted! But Saturday Isaiah .32 1-4 ,
 the fuse went out and the train .have known the end of their quest .
 ;
 was not hurt. When the passengers I, 1 -
 learned about it, isn't it likely that r,..:...... ,,? y
 most of they said,' "Thank God!" I --4."J!!'.Xanhr--'Serrict ScruBur .Y., ,,
 I
 Some of them said it (perhaps) .S
 who hadn't thanked God for any- ,
 thing in years. Yet God can be.in- ,
 simple ordinary lives, giving helpto
 the weak and the unimportant
 just as truly as he helps a Saint
 Peter the British Empire. An
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 her GI husband, with three hungry
 her hands, said once:
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