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  Speaker 1: Section one of Mourning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little
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  Speaker 1: Ones by Francis Ridley Haverikell. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: by J. L. Baldwin to the twin Brothers Willie and Ethelbert,
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  Speaker 1: with Aunt Fanny's Love Mourning Bells. Most of the readers
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  Speaker 1: of this little book will have already read Little Pillows.
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  Speaker 1: Those were given to you to go to sleep upon
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  Speaker 1: night after night, sweet soothing texts that little hearts might
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  Speaker 1: rest upon. But in the morning we want something to
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  Speaker 1: arouse us and to help us to go brightly and
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  Speaker 1: bravely through the day. So here are mourning Bells to
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  Speaker 1: waken up the little hearts and to remind them that
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  Speaker 1: we must not only rest in Jesus, but walk in Him.
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  Speaker 1: If the motto of little Pillows might be come to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the motto of morning bells might be follow Jesus. May
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  Speaker 1: he who loves the little ones bless this tiny effort
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  Speaker 1: to help them to follow Him day by day. First day,
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  Speaker 1: Christ's Childhood, Thy Holy Child, Jesus Acts four thirty. If
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  Speaker 1: I asked how old are you, you would give an
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  Speaker 1: exact answer eight and a half. Just turn ten eleven
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  Speaker 1: next month. Now you have thought of God's Holy Child
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as a little baby, and as twelve years old
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  Speaker 1: in the temple, But did you ever think of him
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  Speaker 1: as being exactly your own age? That he was once
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  Speaker 1: really just as old as you are this very day.
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  Speaker 1: He knows what it is to be eight and nine
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  Speaker 1: and ten years old, or whatever you may be. God's
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  Speaker 1: word has only told us this one thing about those
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  Speaker 1: years that he was a holy child. What is holy?
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  Speaker 1: It is everything that is perfectly beautiful and good and
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  Speaker 1: lovable without anything to spoil it. This is just what
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  Speaker 1: he was when he was your age. He was gentle
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  Speaker 1: and brave, and considerate and unselfish, noble, truthful, obedient and loving,
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  Speaker 1: kind and forgiving. Everything you can think of that you
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  Speaker 1: ever admired or loved in any one else was all
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  Speaker 1: found together in him, And all this not only outside
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  Speaker 1: but inside. For he was holy. Why did he live
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  Speaker 1: all these holy child years on earth instead of staying
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  Speaker 1: in heaven till it was time to come and die
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  Speaker 1: for you? One reason was that he might leave you
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful example, so that you might wish to be
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  Speaker 1: like him and ask for the Holy Spirit to make
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  Speaker 1: you like him. But the other was even more gracious
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  Speaker 1: and wonderful. It was that we might be made the
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  Speaker 1: righteousness of God in him. That is, that all this
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  Speaker 1: goodness and holiness might be reckoned to you because you
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  Speaker 1: had not any of your own, and that God might
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  Speaker 1: smile on you for his sake, just as if you
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  Speaker 1: had been perfectly obedient and truthful and unselfish and good,
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  Speaker 1: and give you Jesus Christ's reward, which you never deserved
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  Speaker 1: at all, but which He deserved for you. He took
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  Speaker 1: your sins and gives you his righteousness. He took yours
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  Speaker 1: and gives you his reward. It is just changed over,
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  Speaker 1: if you will only accept the exchange. I'm glad my
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  Speaker 1: blessed Savior was once a child like me, to show
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  Speaker 1: how pure and holy his little ones might be. And
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  Speaker 1: if I try to follow his footsteps here below, he
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  Speaker 1: never will forget me, because he loves me so. End
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  Speaker 1: of Section one, Section two of Morning Bells or Waking
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  Speaker 1: Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis Ridley Havergel. The Slibrivox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Second Day, our great example,
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  Speaker 1: even Christ Please not himself Romans fifteen three. Do you
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  Speaker 1: really wish to follow the footsteps of the Holy Child Jesus?
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  Speaker 1: Have you asked God to make you more like him?
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to begin to day? Then here is
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  Speaker 1: a motto for to day, even Christ, please not himself.
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  Speaker 1: Will you take it and try to imitate him? You
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  Speaker 1: are sure to have plenty of opportunities of acting upon it,
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  Speaker 1: and thus proving not only to others, but to your
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  Speaker 1: dear Savior himself that you mean what you say and
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  Speaker 1: mean what you pray. Perhaps it seems a rather melancholy
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  Speaker 1: morning bell to you, tolling instead of chiming, But if
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  Speaker 1: you really wish to be like Christ, you will soon
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  Speaker 1: find that its music is as sweet as any, and
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  Speaker 1: that its quiet chime will come to you again and
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  Speaker 1: again with a wonderful sweetness and power, helping you over
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of difficulties, and saving you from all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of sins and troubles. You cannot tell till you have
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  Speaker 1: fairly tried, how happy a little girl can feel who
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  Speaker 1: has cheerfully given up to another For Jesus sake, something
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  Speaker 1: which she would have liked for herself. Nor how happy
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  Speaker 1: a boy can be when, of his own free will
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  Speaker 1: and by God's grace, he has chosen to do what
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  Speaker 1: his conscience tells him would please the Lord Jesus, instead
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  Speaker 1: of what would have pleased himself. If you have never
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  Speaker 1: tried it yet, begin to day and you will find
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  Speaker 1: it is quite a new happiness. What would have become
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  Speaker 1: of us if Christ had only pleased himself and had
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  Speaker 1: stayed in his own glorious home instead of coming down
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  Speaker 1: to save us? Think of that when you are tempted
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  Speaker 1: to please yourself instead of pleasing him. And the remembrance
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  Speaker 1: that even he pleased not himself, because he so loved you,
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  Speaker 1: will help you try and please him and to please
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  Speaker 1: others for his sake. If washed in Jesus blood, then
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  Speaker 1: bear his likeness too. And as you onward press ask
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  Speaker 1: what would Jesus do? Give with a full free hand
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  Speaker 1: God freely gives to you, and check each selfish thought
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  Speaker 1: with what would Jesus do? End of section two, Section
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  Speaker 1: three of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little Ones
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  Speaker 1: by Francis Ridley Havergal the Slippervox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain third day upholding, Hold down me up, and
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  Speaker 1: I shall be safe Psalm one nineteen one seventeen. The
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  Speaker 1: path is not. There are rough stones over which we
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  Speaker 1: may stumble if we are not walking very carefully. There
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  Speaker 1: are places which look quite smooth, but they are more
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  Speaker 1: dangerous than the rough ones, for they are slippery. There
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  Speaker 1: are little holes hidden under flowers, which may catch our
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  Speaker 1: feet and give us a bad fall. There are muddy
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  Speaker 1: ditches into which we may slip and get sadly wet
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  Speaker 1: and dirty. How are we to walk safely along such
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  Speaker 1: a path. We want a strong, kind hand to hold
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  Speaker 1: us up, and to hold us always, a hand that
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  Speaker 1: will hold ours so tightly and lovingly that it will
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  Speaker 1: be as the old scotchwoman said, not my grip of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: but Christ's grip of me. Yes, Christ's loving hand is
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  Speaker 1: able to keep you from falling. Only let your hand
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  Speaker 1: be restfully in the hand of Jesus, and then shalt
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  Speaker 1: thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall
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  Speaker 1: not stumble. But do not spoil the chime of this
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  Speaker 1: morning's bells by ringing only half a peal. Do not say,
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  Speaker 1: hold thou me up and stop there or add, but
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  Speaker 1: all the same, I shall stumble and fall, finish the
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  Speaker 1: peal with God's own music, the bright words of faith
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  Speaker 1: that he puts into your mouth. Hold thou me up,
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  Speaker 1: and I shall be safe. So you will if you
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  Speaker 1: do not distrust him. If you will but trust him
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  Speaker 1: to do just what you ask, and let him hold
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  Speaker 1: you up. It would be hard to find a prayer
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  Speaker 1: in the Bible without a promise to match it. So
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  Speaker 1: David says, uphold me according to thy word. What has
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  Speaker 1: he said about it? More than there is room for
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  Speaker 1: on this page. I the Lord, thy God, will hold
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  Speaker 1: thy right hand. Yea, I will uphold thee. He will
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  Speaker 1: not suffer thy foot to be moved. When thou runnest,
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt not stumble. Yea. He shall be holden up.
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  Speaker 1: He shall keep thy foot from being taken. He will
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  Speaker 1: keep the feet of his saints. Seven promises in answer
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  Speaker 1: to your one little prayer. I the Lord am with thee.
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  Speaker 1: Be thou not afraid. I will help and strengthen. Be
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  Speaker 1: thou not dismayed. Yea, I will uphold thee with my
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  Speaker 1: own right hand. Thou art called and chosen in my
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  Speaker 1: sight to stand. End of Section three. Section four of
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  Speaker 1: Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis
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  Speaker 1: Ridley Haverkell. The slipprivox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth Day, What can I do bear ye one another's
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  Speaker 1: burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ? Galatians six two.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you never thought that any one around you had any.
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  Speaker 1: Then if you want to fulfill this law of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: the first thing will be to find out who has
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  Speaker 1: any burdens, and which of them you could bear instead.
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  Speaker 1: You will not have to watch long. There are very
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  Speaker 1: few without any little backs cannot bear great burdens. But
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  Speaker 1: sometimes those who have great burdens have little ones too,
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  Speaker 1: And it makes such a difference if some loving little
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  Speaker 1: hand will take one or two of these. If your
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  Speaker 1: mother was carrying a great heavy parcel, would it not
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  Speaker 1: help her if you took two or three little ones
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  Speaker 1: out of her hand and carried them for her. So
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  Speaker 1: perhaps she has troubles that you do not even know about.
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  Speaker 1: And you see she looks tired and anxious, and it
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  Speaker 1: tires her a little more because a little brother or
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  Speaker 1: sister wants to be nursed or amused. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: put your own affairs by and call the little ones
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  Speaker 1: away and amuse them quietly, so that Mamma may not
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  Speaker 1: be disturbed. This is bearing one of her burdens. Never mind,
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  Speaker 1: if it is really a little burden to you too,
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  Speaker 1: is it not worth it when it is fulfilling the
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  Speaker 1: law of Christ. If for a moment a burden that
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  Speaker 1: you have taken up does seem rather hard, and you
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  Speaker 1: are tempted to drop it again, think of what the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus bore for you. Think how he took up
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  Speaker 1: the heaviest burden of all for you, when he his
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  Speaker 1: own self bear our sins in his own body on
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  Speaker 1: the tree. He did not drop that burden, but bore
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  Speaker 1: it till he died under it. Think of that, and
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  Speaker 1: it will be easy then to bear something for his sake. Now,
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  Speaker 1: be on the watch all to day for little burdens
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  Speaker 1: to bear for others. See how many you can find
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  Speaker 1: out and pick up and carry away. Depend upon it.
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  Speaker 1: You will not only make it a brighter day for others,
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  Speaker 1: but for yourself too. Little deeds of kindness, little words
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  Speaker 1: of love, make our earth and eden like the heaven above.
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  Speaker 1: End of section four, Section five of mourning bells or
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  Speaker 1: waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis Ridley Havergel. The
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  Speaker 1: Slibrivox recording is in the public domain. Fifth Day Instruments.
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  Speaker 1: Yield your members as instruments of righteousness unto God Romans
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  Speaker 1: six thirteen. This does not sound so easy and tuneful
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  Speaker 1: as most of your other morning bells, you think, But
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  Speaker 1: listen for a few minutes, and you will hear the music.
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  Speaker 1: What are your members, hands, feet, lips, eyes, ears, and
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  Speaker 1: so on? What are you to do with them? Yield them,
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  Speaker 1: that is, give them up altogether, hand them over to God.
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  Speaker 1: What for that he may use them as instruments of righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: That is, just as we should take an instrument of
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  Speaker 1: music to make music with it, so He may take
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  Speaker 1: your hands and feet and all your members and use
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  Speaker 1: them to do right and good things with. If a
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  Speaker 1: little one gives himself or herself to God, every part
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  Speaker 1: of that little body is to be God's little servant,
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  Speaker 1: a little instrument for him to use. The little hands
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  Speaker 1: will no longer serve Satan by striking or pinching. The
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  Speaker 1: little feet will not kick or stamp, nor drag and
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  Speaker 1: dottle when they ought to run briskly on some errand
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  Speaker 1: the little lips will not pout, the little tongue will
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  Speaker 1: not move to say a naughty thing. All the little
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  Speaker 1: members will leave off serving Satan and find something to
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  Speaker 1: do for God. For if you yield them to God,
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  Speaker 1: he will really take them and use them. He will
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  Speaker 1: tell the hands to pick up what a tired mamma
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  Speaker 1: has dropped, and to fetch her a footstool, and the
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  Speaker 1: fingers to so patiently at a warm petticoat for a
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  Speaker 1: poor child, or to make warm cuffs for a poor
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  Speaker 1: old man. He will tell the feet to run on
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  Speaker 1: errands of kindness and help. He will set the lips
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  Speaker 1: to sing happy hymns, which will cheer and comfort somebody,
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  Speaker 1: even if you never know of it. He will use
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  Speaker 1: the eyes for reading to some poor sick or blind woman,
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  Speaker 1: or to some fretful little one in your own home.
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  Speaker 1: You will be quite surprised to find in how many
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  Speaker 1: ways he will really use even your little members. If
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  Speaker 1: you give them and your whole self to him, it
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  Speaker 1: will be so nice. You will never be miserable again
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  Speaker 1: with nothing to do. Take my hands and let them
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  Speaker 1: move at the impulse of thy love. Take my feet
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  Speaker 1: and let them be swift and beautiful. For thee end
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  Speaker 1: of section five Section six of Morning Bells or Waking
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  Speaker 1: Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis Ridley Havergal. The slipprivox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Sixth day, willing and
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  Speaker 1: glad Then the people rejoiced for that they offered willingly
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  Speaker 1: first Chronicles twenty nine nine. We thought yesterday morning about
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  Speaker 1: giving our members up to God for him to use.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think you would like to give them up
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  Speaker 1: to him? Did you yield them to him? If you did,
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  Speaker 1: you will understand this morning's text. David the King asked
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  Speaker 1: his people to help in bringing offerings for God's house
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  Speaker 1: and service. He said, who then is willing to consecrate
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  Speaker 1: his service this day and to the Lord? And God
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  Speaker 1: made them all willing to bring what they could and
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  Speaker 1: what then? Then the people rejoiced for that they offered willingly,
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  Speaker 1: Because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and did eat and drink on that day before the
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  Speaker 1: Lord with great gladness. See what came of offering willingly
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord. They rejoiced, and everything they did, even
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  Speaker 1: eating and drinking, was with great gladness. Never is any
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  Speaker 1: one so happy as those who offer their own selves
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  Speaker 1: willingly to the Lord. He gives them a thousandfold return
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  Speaker 1: for the worthless little self and weak little members which
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  Speaker 1: they have offered to him. He gives than peace and
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  Speaker 1: gladness and blessing beyond what they ever expected to have.
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  Speaker 1: But this was not all. It was not only the
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  Speaker 1: people who had such a glad day, but David the
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  Speaker 1: King also rejoiced with great joy. Those who loved their
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  Speaker 1: king and recollected how much sorrow he had gone through
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  Speaker 1: and how many battles he had fought for them, must
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  Speaker 1: have been glad indeed to see him rejoicing because they
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  Speaker 1: had offered willingly. And I think our King, your King, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: rejoices over us when he has made usable verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: to offer ourselves willingly to him. Is not this best
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  Speaker 1: of all Jesus, who suffered for us and who fought
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  Speaker 1: the great battle of our salvation for us, He, our
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  Speaker 1: own beloved King, will rejoice over THEE with joy. He
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  Speaker 1: will rest in his love. He will joy over THEE
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  Speaker 1: with singing in full and glad surrender. I give myself
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  Speaker 1: to THEE thine, utterly and only and evermore, to be
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  Speaker 1: O son of God who lovest me. I will be
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  Speaker 1: Thine alone, and all I have and all I am
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  Speaker 1: shall henceforth be thine own. End of section six. Section
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  Speaker 1: seven of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little Ones
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  Speaker 1: by Francis Ridley Haverikel. The slibrivox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Seventh Day Faithfulness Faithful over a few things
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  Speaker 1: Matthew twenty five, twenty one and twenty three. The servant
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  Speaker 1: who had only two talents to trade with, but traded
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  Speaker 1: faithfully with them, had just the same glorious words spoken
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  Speaker 1: to him as the servant who had five talents. Well done,
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  Speaker 1: good and faithful servant, Thou hast been faithful over a
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  Speaker 1: few things? Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Think what it would be to hear the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: saying that to you? Really, to you, Oh how sweet,
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  Speaker 1: how blessed? How you would listen to that gracious voice
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  Speaker 1: saying those wonderfully gracious words to you. But could he
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  Speaker 1: say them to you? Are you faithful over a few things?
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  Speaker 1: He has given every one, even the youngest, a few
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  Speaker 1: things to be faithful over, and so he has to you.
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  Speaker 1: Your few things may be very few and very small things,
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  Speaker 1: but he expects you to be faithful over them. What
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  Speaker 1: is being faithful over them? It means doing the very
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  Speaker 1: best you can with them, Doing as much for Jesus
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  Speaker 1: as you can with your money, even if you have
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  Speaker 1: very little, doing as much for Him as you can
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  Speaker 1: with your time, doing whatever duties he gives you, as
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  Speaker 1: well as ever you can, your lessons, your work, the
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  Speaker 1: little things that you are bidden or asked to do
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  Speaker 1: every day, the little things that you have promised or
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  Speaker 1: undertaken to do for others. It means doing all these
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  Speaker 1: just the same, whether others see you or know about
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  Speaker 1: it or not. You sigh. Over all this, you recollect
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  Speaker 1: many things in which you have not been quite faithful.
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  Speaker 1: You know you do not deserve for him to call
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  Speaker 1: you good and faithful servant. But come at once to
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  Speaker 1: your gracious Lord and ask him to forgive all the
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  Speaker 1: unfaithfulness and to make you faithful to day. And then,
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  Speaker 1: even if it is only a matter of a French
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  Speaker 1: verb or a Latin noun, you will find it a
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  Speaker 1: help to recollect faithful over a few things. Only, O
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  Speaker 1: Lord and my dear love fit us for perfect rest above,
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  Speaker 1: and help us this and every day to live more
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  Speaker 1: nearly as we pray. End of section seven. Section eight
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  Speaker 1: of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by
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  Speaker 1: Francis Ridley Haverkel. The slipprivox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Eighth day on mine account. Put that on mine account.
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  Speaker 1: Philema eighteen. When Saint Paul asked Philemon in a most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful letter to take back Onessemus, who had run away
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  Speaker 1: from him, he said, if he hath wronged thee, or
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  Speaker 1: oweth thee aught, put that on my account. Onessemus had
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  Speaker 1: been a bad servant of Philemon, and being willing to
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  Speaker 1: come back and do better, would not pay for what
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  Speaker 1: he had wronged him in before, and would not pay
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  Speaker 1: his old debts, and he evidently had nothing himself to
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  Speaker 1: pay them with. But Saint Paul offered to pay all
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  Speaker 1: so that Anesemus might be received, not now as a servant,
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  Speaker 1: but as a brother beloved. This is an exquisite picture
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  Speaker 1: of what the Lord Jesus Christ does. He not only
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  Speaker 1: intercedes for us with Him from whom we have departed
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  Speaker 1: and against whom we have sinned, but knowing to the
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  Speaker 1: full how much we have wronged God and how much
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  Speaker 1: we owe him, he says, put that on mine account.
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  Speaker 1: And God has put it all on his account, and
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  Speaker 1: the account has been paid paid in blood. When the
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  Speaker 1: Lord laid on him the iniquity of us, all Jesus
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  Speaker 1: saw and knew all your sins, and he said, put
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  Speaker 1: that on mine account. Oh, what wonderful kindness and love
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  Speaker 1: of God, our savior. Let the remembrance of it be
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  Speaker 1: like a silver bell ringing softly and clearly. Whenever you
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  Speaker 1: are going to do, or letting yourself feel or think
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  Speaker 1: something that is not right, put on mine account. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that sin that you are on the very edge of committee,
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  Speaker 1: that angry word and the angry feeling that makes you
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  Speaker 1: want to say it, that untrue word, and the cowardliness
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  Speaker 1: which makes you afraid to speak the exact truth, that
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  Speaker 1: proud look, and the naughty pride of heart that made
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  Speaker 1: it come into your eyes. Jesus stands by and says,
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  Speaker 1: patiently and lovingly, put that on mine account. Can you
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  Speaker 1: bear that? Does it not make you wish ten times
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  Speaker 1: more than ever to be kept from sinning against such
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  Speaker 1: a savior? Jesus, tender Savior, hast thou died for me?
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  Speaker 1: Make me very thankful in my heart to thee when
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  Speaker 1: the sad, sad story of thy grief I read, make
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  Speaker 1: me very sorry for my sins. Indeed, end of section
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  Speaker 1: eight Section nine of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for
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  Speaker 1: Little Ones by Francis Ridley Harico. The slibrivox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Ninth Day White garments. Let thy
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  Speaker 1: garments be always white, Ecclesiastes nine eight. Always, Oh, how
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  Speaker 1: can that be? They are soiled again directly after they
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  Speaker 1: have been washed clean? Yet God says, let them be
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  Speaker 1: always white, and he would not tell you to do
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  Speaker 1: what was impossible. Then how are you to help soiling them?
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  Speaker 1: Only in one way? Last night's little pillow told you
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  Speaker 1: how Jesus washes us whiter than snow in his own
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  Speaker 1: precious blood that cleanseth from all sin. But will he
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  Speaker 1: only cleanse his little one just for the moment? Is
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  Speaker 1: that all he is able and willing to do for you? No,
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  Speaker 1: if you will only keep on trusting to that precious
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  Speaker 1: blood and not turn away from it, He says that
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  Speaker 1: it cleanseth, that is goes on cleansing. You could not
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  Speaker 1: keep your garments white for five minutes, careless thoughts would
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  Speaker 1: come like dust upon them. And wrong words would make
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  Speaker 1: great dark stains, and before long some naughty deed would
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  Speaker 1: be like a sad fall in the mud, and you
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  Speaker 1: would feel sad and ashamed before the kind Savior, who
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  Speaker 1: still stands ready to cleanse you again. But why should
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  Speaker 1: all this happen over and over again till anybody but
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  Speaker 1: our own, loving, long suffering Savior would be tired of
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  Speaker 1: us and give up doing any more for us. Why
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  Speaker 1: should it be when his precious blood is meant to
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  Speaker 1: go on cleansing so that our garments may be always white.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you never thought of this. Ask him now this morning,
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  Speaker 1: not only to wash you in the fountain of his
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  Speaker 1: precious blood, but to keep you in it, to go
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  Speaker 1: on cleansing you all day long. Trust him to do this,
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  Speaker 1: and see if it is not the happiest day you
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  Speaker 1: ever spent. And he can do all this for me,
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  Speaker 1: because in sorrow on the tree he wants for sinners hung,
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  Speaker 1: and having washed their sin away, he now rejoices day
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  Speaker 1: by day to cleanse his little one. End of section nine,
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  Speaker 1: Section ten of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little
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  Speaker 1: Ones by Francis Ridley Habergel. The Librigox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain tenth day made beautiful. Let the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord our God be upon us Psalm ninety seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: How great is his beauty, said Zechariah. How can his
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  Speaker 1: beauty be upon us? In two ways? Try to understand them,
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  Speaker 1: and then ask that in both ways the beauty of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord our God may be upon you. One way
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  Speaker 1: is by his covering you with the robe of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ's righteousness, looking upon you not as you are in yourself,
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  Speaker 1: all sinful and unholy, but as if all the Savior's
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  Speaker 1: beautiful and holy life were yours, reckoning it to you
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  Speaker 1: for his sake. In this way he can call us
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  Speaker 1: perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon me.
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  Speaker 1: The other way is by giving you the beauty of holiness,
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  Speaker 1: For that is his own beauty. And though we never
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  Speaker 1: can be quite like him, till we see him as
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  Speaker 1: he is, he can begin to make AUSI like him.
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  Speaker 1: Even now. Look at a poor, little colorless drop of
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  Speaker 1: water hanging weakly on a blade of grass. It is
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  Speaker 1: not beautiful at all. Why should you stop to look
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  Speaker 1: at it? Stay till the sun has risen, and now
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  Speaker 1: look it is sparkling like a diamond, and if you
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  Speaker 1: look at it from another side, it will be glowing
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  Speaker 1: like a ruby, and presently gleaming like an emerald. The
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  Speaker 1: poor little drop has become one of the brightest and
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  Speaker 1: loveliest things you ever saw. But is it its own
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  Speaker 1: brightness and beauty. No, if it's slipped down to the
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  Speaker 1: ground out of the sunshine, it would be only a poor, little,
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  Speaker 1: dirty drop of water. So if the sun of Righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: the glorious and lovely Savior shines upon you, a little
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  Speaker 1: ray of his own brightness and beauty will be seen
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  Speaker 1: upon you. Sometimes we can see by the happy light
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  Speaker 1: on a face that the sun is shining there. But
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  Speaker 1: if the sun is really shining, there are sure to
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  Speaker 1: be some of the beautiful rays of holiness, love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
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  Speaker 1: making the life even of a little child very lovely.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Lord, I come to THEE, thou hast said, I
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  Speaker 1: may tell me what my life should be. Take my
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  Speaker 1: sins away, Jesus Lord, I learn of THEE in my
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  Speaker 1: word divine every promise there I see, May I call
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  Speaker 1: it mine. End of Section ten. Section eleven of Morning
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  Speaker 1: Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little ones by Francis Ridley Haverikeel.
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  Speaker 1: The slibrivox recording is in the public to me eleventh day,
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  Speaker 1: pleasant gifts who giveth us richly all things to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: One Timothy six seventeen, Think a little this morning of
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  Speaker 1: God's great kindness to you, How very good he is
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  Speaker 1: to you. I know one of his dear children who
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  Speaker 1: looks up many, many times a day and says, good
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus or kind Lord Jesus. She does not set
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  Speaker 1: herself to say it, but it seems as if she
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  Speaker 1: could not help saying it, just because he is so
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  Speaker 1: good and kind. And then it seems only natural to
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  Speaker 1: look up again and say, dear Lord Jesus. How can
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  Speaker 1: anybody go on all day long and never see how
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  Speaker 1: good he is, and never look up and bless him
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  Speaker 1: most especially on bright, pleasant days, when he giveth us
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  Speaker 1: more even than usual to enjoy. He giveth not one
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  Speaker 1: single pleasant thing, not one single bit of enjoyment comes
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  Speaker 1: to us. But what he giveth we cannot get it,
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  Speaker 1: We do not earn it, we do not deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: But he giveth lovingly and kindly and freely. Suppose he
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  Speaker 1: stopped giving, what would become of us richly, so richly
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  Speaker 1: that if you tried to write down half His gifts
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  Speaker 1: to you, your hand would be tired long before you
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  Speaker 1: had done. You might easily make a list of the
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  Speaker 1: presents given you on your birthday, but you could not
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  Speaker 1: make a list of what God gives you every day
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  Speaker 1: of your life, all things, all the things you really need,
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  Speaker 1: and a great many more besides, all the things that
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  Speaker 1: will do you good, a great many more than you
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  Speaker 1: would ever have thought of. All the things that He
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  Speaker 1: can fill your little hands with and trust you to
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  Speaker 1: carry without stumbling and falling, all things, everything that you
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  Speaker 1: have at all to enjoy. Now, how kind This is
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  Speaker 1: not only to do us good, but to enjoy. So
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  Speaker 1: you see, He means you to be happy with what
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  Speaker 1: he gives you, to smile and laugh and be glad,
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  Speaker 1: not to be dismal and melancholy. If you do not
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  Speaker 1: enjoy what He giveth, that is your own fault, for
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  Speaker 1: He meant you to enjoy it. Look up to Him
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  Speaker 1: with a bright smile, and thank Him for having given
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  Speaker 1: you richly all things to enjoy. My joys to thee
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  Speaker 1: I bring the joys Thy love hath given, that each
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  Speaker 1: may be a wing to lift me nearer Heaven. I
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  Speaker 1: bring them Savior all to THEE, for thou hast purchased
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  Speaker 1: all for me. End of Section eleven. Section twelve of
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  Speaker 1: Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis
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  Speaker 1: Ridley Haverkell. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain
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  Speaker 1: twelfth day. Much more than this. The Lord is able
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  Speaker 1: to give thee much more than this. Second Chronicles twenty
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  Speaker 1: five nine. Amaziah, king of Judah, was going to war
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  Speaker 1: against the Edomites. He thought he would make sure of
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  Speaker 1: victory by hiring a hundred thousand soldiers from the King
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, and he paid them beforehand a hundred talents,
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  Speaker 1: which was about thirty four thousand, two hundred eighteen pounds
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  Speaker 1: fifteen shillings of our money. But a man of God
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  Speaker 1: warned him not to let the army of Israel go
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  Speaker 1: with him, for Israel had forsaken the Lord, and so
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  Speaker 1: he was not with them. It seemed a great pity
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  Speaker 1: to waste all that money, and so Amaziah said, but
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  Speaker 1: what shall we do for the hundred talents which I
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  Speaker 1: have given to the army of Israel? And the man
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  Speaker 1: of God answered, the Lord is able to give thee
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  Speaker 1: much more than this. So Amaziah simply obeyed and sent
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  Speaker 1: the soldiers away and trusted God to help him to
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  Speaker 1: do without them. Was it any wonder that he gained
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  Speaker 1: a great victory over the Edamites. Does not this teach
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  Speaker 1: us that we should simply do the right thing and
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  Speaker 1: trust God at any cost. When you do this, you
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  Speaker 1: will find that in hundreds of ways which you never
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  Speaker 1: thought of, the Lord is able to give thee much more.
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  Speaker 1: The trial comes in many different ways. One may be
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  Speaker 1: tempted to hurry over prayer and Bible because there is
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  Speaker 1: something else that she very much wants to get done
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  Speaker 1: before breakfast, and she is afraid of not having time enough.
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  Speaker 1: Another shuts up her little purse when a call comes
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  Speaker 1: to give something for God's work, because she is afraid
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  Speaker 1: she will not have enough left for another purpose. Another
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  Speaker 1: is tempted to look at a key or to glance
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  Speaker 1: over another's shoulder at a lesson, because without it he
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  Speaker 1: would not get the marks he is trying for. Another
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  Speaker 1: is tempted not to tell the exact truth or to
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  Speaker 1: conceal something which he ought to tell, because he would
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  Speaker 1: lose something by it. Oh, resist the devil and do
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  Speaker 1: what you know is right, and trust God for all
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  Speaker 1: the rest. For the Lord is able to give thee
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  Speaker 1: much more than this, whatever your this may be, and
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  Speaker 1: his smile and his blessing will always be more than this,
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  Speaker 1: more than anything else. Be brave to do the right,
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  Speaker 1: and scorn to be untrue. When fear would whisper, ask
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  Speaker 1: what would Jesus do? End of section twelve, Section thirteen
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  Speaker 1: Thirteenth Day, The doings of the King, whatsoever the King
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  Speaker 1: did pleased all the people Second Samuel three thirty six.
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  Speaker 1: David had been giving a proof of his love for
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  Speaker 1: one who had long been his enemy, but whom he
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  Speaker 1: had received into friendship. And he had been giving a
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  Speaker 1: proof of his tender heartedness and sympathy with the people
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  Speaker 1: by weeping with them at the grave of Abner. And
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  Speaker 1: all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them.
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  Speaker 1: As whatsoever the King did pleased all the people. This
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  Speaker 1: was because they loved their king. They watched him, not
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  Speaker 1: as the wicked pharisees watched the Lord Jesus that they
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  Speaker 1: might find something against him, but with the watching of
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  Speaker 1: admiration and love, taking notice of the kind and gracious
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  Speaker 1: things he did and said. Do you thus take notice
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  Speaker 1: of what your king does? Does it please you to
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  Speaker 1: hear and read of what he has done and what
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  Speaker 1: he is doing? It must be so if he really
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  Speaker 1: is your king. But the whatsoever is a little harder.
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  Speaker 1: And yet if it is once really learned, it makes
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  Speaker 1: everything easy. For if we learn to be pleased with
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever our King Jesus does, nothing can come wrong to us.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose something comes to day which is not quite what
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  Speaker 1: you would have liked, heavy rain, for instance, when you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go out recollect, that your King Jesus has
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  Speaker 1: done it, and that will hush the little murmur and
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  Speaker 1: make you quite content. Ask him this morning to make
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  Speaker 1: you so loving and loyal to him that whatsoever he
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  Speaker 1: does all day long may please you because it has
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  Speaker 1: pleased him to do it. I think he loves us
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  Speaker 1: so much that he always gives us as much happiness
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  Speaker 1: as he can possibly trust us with, and does what
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  Speaker 1: is pleasantest for his dear children whenever he sees it
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  Speaker 1: will not hurt them. So when he does something which
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  Speaker 1: at first does not seem so pleasant. We may still
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  Speaker 1: trust our beloved King and learn by his grace to
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  Speaker 1: be pleased with whatsoever he does. I hear a sweet
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  Speaker 1: voice ringing clear. All is well. It is my Father's voice.
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  Speaker 1: I hear all is well. Where e'er I walk, that
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  Speaker 1: voice is heard. It is my God, my father's word.
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  Speaker 1: Fear not, but trust I am the Lord. All is well.
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  Speaker 1: End of section thirteen Section fourteen of Morning Bells or
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  Speaker 1: Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis Ridley Haverkel. The
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  Speaker 1: slibrivox recording is in the public domain. Fourteenth Day The
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  Speaker 1: new Heart a new heart? Also will I give you,
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel thirty six twenty six. Why does God promise this?
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  Speaker 1: Because our old hearts are so evil that they cannot
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  Speaker 1: be made any better, and so nothing will do any
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  Speaker 1: good but giving us a quite new heart. Because we
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  Speaker 1: cannot make a new heart for ourselves. The more we try,
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  Speaker 1: the more we shall find we cannot do it. So God,
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  Speaker 1: in his great pity and kindness, says he will give
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  Speaker 1: it us, because unless we have a new heart, we
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  Speaker 1: cannot enter the Kingdom of God. We cannot even see it.
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  Speaker 1: Without this gift. We must be left outside in the
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  Speaker 1: terrible darkness when the door is shut. What is the difference?
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  Speaker 1: The old heart likes to be naughty in some way
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  Speaker 1: or other. Either it likes to be idle, or it
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  Speaker 1: likes to let out sharp words, or to go on
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  Speaker 1: being sulky or fretful instead of clearing up and saying
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  Speaker 1: I am sorry. The new heart wants to be good
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  Speaker 1: and is grieved when a temptation comes, and does not
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  Speaker 1: wish to yield to it, and would like to be
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  Speaker 1: always pleasing the Savior. The old heart is afraid of
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  Speaker 1: God and does not love him, and would much rather
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  Speaker 1: he were not always seeing us, and it does not
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  Speaker 1: care to hear about Jesus, but would rather be just
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  Speaker 1: let alone. The new heart loves God and trusts what
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  Speaker 1: he says, and likes to know that he is always
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  Speaker 1: watching it, and it is glad to hear about Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and wants to come closer to him. The old heart
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  Speaker 1: is a little slave of Satan, taking his orders and
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  Speaker 1: doing what he wishes. The new heart is a happy
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  Speaker 1: little servant of Christ, listening to his orders and doing
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  Speaker 1: what he wishes. Oh, how happy and blessed to have
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  Speaker 1: this new heart. All God's own children receive it, for
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  Speaker 1: he has said, I will give them one heart that
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  Speaker 1: is all the same, new heart. Do you not want
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  Speaker 1: to have it too, Then ask and you shall receive,
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  Speaker 1: For he hath said a new heart. Also will I
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  Speaker 1: give you, oh, for a heart to praise my God.
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  Speaker 1: A heart from sin set free, a heart that always
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  Speaker 1: feels Thy blood so freely shed for me. A heart resigned, submissive, meek,
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  Speaker 1: my dear Redeemer's throne, where only Christ is heard to speak,
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  Speaker 1: where Jesus reigns alone. End of section fourteen. Section fifteen
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  Speaker 1: of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little One by
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  Speaker 1: Francis Ridley Havergel. This slipprivox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteenth Day, the Gift of the Holy Spirit. I will
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  Speaker 1: put my spirit within you, Ezekiel, thirty six twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Many years ago, a good clergyman wrote a tiny prayer
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  Speaker 1: so short that no one could help remembering it if
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  Speaker 1: they once heard it. God seemed to set that little
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  Speaker 1: prayer upon wheels so that it might run everywhere. It
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  Speaker 1: was printed on large cards and hung up, and it
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  Speaker 1: was printed on small ones and captain bibles and pocket
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  Speaker 1: books It was taught to classes and schools and whole congregations,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and now thousands upon thousands pray it constantly. It is
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  Speaker 1: a prayer which must be heard because it asks for
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: what God has promised to give, and it asks for
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  Speaker 1: this through Him whom the Father heareth. Always. It is this,
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  Speaker 1: O God, give me thy holy Spirit for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Will you not pray it too? Begin this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: go on, not just saying it, but praying it till
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  Speaker 1: you get a full answer. For you are quite sure
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  Speaker 1: to get it. Here is God's own promise. I will
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  Speaker 1: put my spirit within you, And He has promised it
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  Speaker 1: over and over again in other places. Perhaps you will
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  Speaker 1: not know at first when the answer comes. Can you
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  Speaker 1: see the dew fall? No one ever saw a single
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  Speaker 1: drop come down, And yet as soon as the sun
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  Speaker 1: rises you see that it has come and is sparkling
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  Speaker 1: all over the fields. It came long before you saw it,
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  Speaker 1: falling sweetly and silently in the twilight and in the dark.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So do not fancy God is not hearing you because
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  Speaker 1: you have not felt anything very sudden and wonderful. He
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  Speaker 1: is hearing and answering all the time. You would not
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: go on asking unless the jew of His Spirit were
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: already falling upon your heart and teaching you to pray.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: The more he gives you of his blessed spirit, the
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  Speaker 1: more you will ask for. And the more you ask,
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  Speaker 1: the more he will give thou gift of Jesus. Now
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  Speaker 1: descend and be my comforter and friend. O, Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: fill my heart that I from Christ. May nere do.
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  Speaker 1: Show me my soul, all black within, and cleanse and
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  Speaker 1: keep me pure within. Oh, show me Jesus. Let me
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  Speaker 1: rest my heart upon His loving breast. End of section fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Section sixteen of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little
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  Speaker 1: Ones by Francis Ridley Havergel. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Sixteenth Day, How to conquer the Lord
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  Speaker 1: shall fight for you, Exodus fourteen fourteen. How glad the
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel must have been when Moses said these
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  Speaker 1: words to them on the shores of the Red Sea.
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  Speaker 1: For when they lifted up their eyes, behold, the Egyptians
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  Speaker 1: marched after them, and they were sore afraid. The Egyptians
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  Speaker 1: had been cruel masters to them, and they had horses
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  Speaker 1: and chariots to pursue them. With and there was the
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  Speaker 1: sea close before them, and no boats. Perhaps some of
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites thought it was no use trying to escape,
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  Speaker 1: They would only be overtaken and conquered and be worse
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  Speaker 1: off than before, And so left to themselves they would
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  Speaker 1: have been. But God fought for them in a way
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  Speaker 1: they never thought of. For the Lord saved Israel that
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  Speaker 1: day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel
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  Speaker 1: saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. What about
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  Speaker 1: your Egyptians? The angry tempers or sulky looks, the impatient words,
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  Speaker 1: the vain and foolish thoughts, the besetting sins that master
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  Speaker 1: you so often. Have you tried so often to fight
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  Speaker 1: against them and failed that it seems almost no use.
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  Speaker 1: And you do not see how to conquer them or
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  Speaker 1: how to escape them. Are you very tired of fighting
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  Speaker 1: and sore afraid of being always overcome? Just the same
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  Speaker 1: as ever, Now, hear God's true, strong promise to you.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord shall fight for you, will he really, yes, really,
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  Speaker 1: And he will conquer for you too, if you will
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  Speaker 1: only believe his word and trust the battle to him
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  Speaker 1: and let him fight for you. How first watch and
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  Speaker 1: then the very instant you see the enemy coming, look
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  Speaker 1: up and say, come Lord, and fight for me. And
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  Speaker 1: keep on looking up and expecting him to fight for you,
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  Speaker 1: and you will find that he does fight for you
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  Speaker 1: and gives you the victory. And you too will be
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  Speaker 1: saved that day and will see the Egyptians dead upon
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  Speaker 1: the sea shore. Try him and trust him, and you
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  Speaker 1: even you will be more than conqueror through him that
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  Speaker 1: loved you. So when you meet with trials and know
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  Speaker 1: not what to do, just cast the care on Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and he will fight for you. Gird on the heavenly
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  Speaker 1: armor of faith and hope and love, and when the
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  Speaker 1: conflicts ended, you'll reign with him above. End of section sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: Ones by Francis Ridley Havergel. The Slebrivox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: watch to see what he will say unto me Haabacchic
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  Speaker 1: two one. When the Lord Jesus said to Simon, the
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  Speaker 1: Pharisee sighed, and I have somewhat to say unto thee.
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  Speaker 1: He answered, Master, say On, when God was going to
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  Speaker 1: speak to Samuel, he said, speak Lord, for thy servant.
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  Speaker 1: Hereth has the Lord Jesus said anything like this for us?
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  Speaker 1: He says, I have yet many things to say unto you.
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  Speaker 1: What things They will be strong, helpful, life giving words.
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  Speaker 1: For he says, the words that I speak unto you
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  Speaker 1: they are spirit and they are life. They will be
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  Speaker 1: very loving words. For he says, I will speak comfortably
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  Speaker 1: to her Martin, I will speak to her heart, and
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  Speaker 1: they will be very kind and tender words, and spoken
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  Speaker 1: just at the right moment. For he says that he
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  Speaker 1: knows how to speak a word and season to him
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  Speaker 1: that is weary. Will he really speak to me? Says
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  Speaker 1: the little heart. Yes, really, if you will only watch
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  Speaker 1: to see what he will say to you, For it
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  Speaker 1: will be a still small voice, and you will not
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  Speaker 1: hear it at all if you do not listen for it.
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  Speaker 1: How will he speak to me? If I had something
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  Speaker 1: very nice to tell you, and instead of saying it
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  Speaker 1: out loud, I wrote it down on a piece of
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  Speaker 1: page paper and gave it you to look at, would
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  Speaker 1: not that be exactly the same as if I had
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  Speaker 1: told it you with my lips, and you would take
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  Speaker 1: the paper eagerly to see what it was that I
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  Speaker 1: had to say to you. So to day, when you
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  Speaker 1: read your Bible, either alone or at your bible, lesson,
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  Speaker 1: watch to see what Jesus will say to you in it.
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  Speaker 1: You will never really watch in vain. You will see
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  Speaker 1: some word that seems to come home to you and
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  Speaker 1: that you never noticed so much before. Oh, listen lovingly
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  Speaker 1: to it, for that is what he says to you.
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  Speaker 1: Or if you are really watching and wishing for a
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  Speaker 1: word from him, some sweet text will come into your mind,
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  Speaker 1: and you wonder what made you think of it. That
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  Speaker 1: is the voice of Jesus speaking to your heart. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to it and treasure it up and follow it, and
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  Speaker 1: then watch to see what else He will say to you.
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  Speaker 1: Say to him, Master, say on, Master speak, and make
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  Speaker 1: me ready when my voice is truly heard, with obedience,
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  Speaker 1: glad and steady still to follow every word. I am
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  Speaker 1: listening Lord for thee Master speak, Oh speak to me
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  Speaker 1: take care of me? He careth for you first Peter
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  Speaker 1: five seven. It is so pleasant to be cared for,
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  Speaker 1: to have kind relations and friends who show that they
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  Speaker 1: love you by their care of you and their care
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  Speaker 1: for you. What would you do if no one cared
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  Speaker 1: for you, like the poor little children in London who
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  Speaker 1: are turned out to do for themselves before they are
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  Speaker 1: as old as you are? What would you do if
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  Speaker 1: there was no one to get anything for you to eat,
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  Speaker 1: or to see to your clothes, or to keep a
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  Speaker 1: home for you to live in, no one to take
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  Speaker 1: any notice if you hurt yourself ever so badly, or
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  Speaker 1: if you were ever so ill. You would feel then
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  Speaker 1: what a difference being cared for makes to your life.
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  Speaker 1: But all the earthly care for you comes because He
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  Speaker 1: careth for you. He planned and arranged everything without your
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  Speaker 1: having anything to do with it, so that you shall
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  Speaker 1: be cared for. And he did not arrange it once
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  Speaker 1: for all and then leave things to go on as
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  Speaker 1: might happen. No, every day, every moment he careth goes
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  Speaker 1: on caring for you, not only thinking of you and
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  Speaker 1: watching you, but working for you, making things come right,
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  Speaker 1: so that everything should be just the best that could
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  Speaker 1: happen to you, not managing the great things and leaving
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  Speaker 1: the little things to arrange themselves, but giving loving care
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  Speaker 1: to the least, the very least, things that concern you.
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  Speaker 1: Even in some tiny little trouble which no one else
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  Speaker 1: seems to care about, he careth. Or when everyone else
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  Speaker 1: is too much taken up with other things to attend
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  Speaker 1: to you, he careth for you. You can never get
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  Speaker 1: beyond God's care, for it always reaches you. You can
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  Speaker 1: never be outside of it, for it is always unfolding you.
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  Speaker 1: Who will take care of me? Darling, you say lovingly, tenderly,
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  Speaker 1: watched as you are listen, I give you the answer
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  Speaker 1: to day one, who is never forgetful or far. He
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  Speaker 1: will take care of you all through the year, crowning
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  Speaker 1: each day with his kindness and love, sending you blessings
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  Speaker 1: and shielding from fear, leading you on to his bright
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  Speaker 1: home above. End of section eighteen, Section nineteen of Mourning
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  Speaker 1: under his Wings, Under His Wings, shalt thou trust, Psalm
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  Speaker 1: ninety one four That means today, not some other time,
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  Speaker 1: under his wings, the shadowing wings of the most high, You,
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  Speaker 1: poor little helpless one, are to trust to day when
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  Speaker 1: the little eaglets that have not yet a feather to
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  Speaker 1: fly with are under the great wings of the parent eagle,
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  Speaker 1: how safe they are? Who would dare touch them? If
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  Speaker 1: a bold climber put his hand into the nest, then
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  Speaker 1: those powerful wings would beat him in a minute from
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  Speaker 1: his hold, and he would fall down the rocks and
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  Speaker 1: be dashed to pieces. So safe shall you be under
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  Speaker 1: his wings? Nothing shall, by any means hurt you there.
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  Speaker 1: When the wild snow storms rage round the airy and
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  Speaker 1: the mountain cold is felt, that is death to an
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  Speaker 1: unprotected sleeper. How warm the little eaglets are kept. Not
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  Speaker 1: an arrow of the keen blast reaches them, poor little
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  Speaker 1: featherless things. Not a snowflake touches them. So warm shall
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  Speaker 1: you be kept under his wings? When any cold and
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  Speaker 1: dark day of trouble comes, or even any sudden little
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  Speaker 1: blast of unkindness or loneliness, under his wings, shalt thou trust,
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  Speaker 1: not shalt thou see. If one of the eglits wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see for itself what was going on, and thought
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  Speaker 1: it could take care of itself for a little while
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  Speaker 1: and hopped from under the shadow of the wings, it
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  Speaker 1: would be neither safe nor warm. The sharp wind would
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  Speaker 1: chill it, and the cruel hand might seize it. Then,
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  Speaker 1: so you are to trust, rest quietly and peacefully under
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  Speaker 1: his wings. Stay there, not be peeping out and wondering
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  Speaker 1: whether God is taking care of you. You may be
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  Speaker 1: always safe and happy there safe, For in the shadow
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  Speaker 1: of thy wings will I make my refuge happy. For
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  Speaker 1: in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice? Remember
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  Speaker 1: too that it is a command as well as a promise.
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  Speaker 1: It is what you are to do to day, all
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  Speaker 1: day long under His wings. Shalt thou trust. I am
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  Speaker 1: trusting THEE Lord Jesus, trusting only THEE. Trusting THEE for
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  Speaker 1: full salvation, great and free. I am trusting THEE to
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  Speaker 1: guide me. Thou alone shalt lead every day and hour,
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  Speaker 1: supplying all my need. End of Section nineteen. Section twenty
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  Speaker 1: of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by
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  Speaker 1: Twentieth day Always Near, I am with you always Matthew
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight twenty. How nice it would be if we
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  Speaker 1: could always have the one we love best in all
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  Speaker 1: the world with us, never away from us, night or day,
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  Speaker 1: and no fear that they ever possibly would or could
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  Speaker 1: leave us, never a goodbye, even for ever such a
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  Speaker 1: little while, and never never the long farewell of death.
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  Speaker 1: Can this ever be for you? Yes, for you. For
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  Speaker 1: to every one who is a disciple of the Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: that is, who learns of him and owns him as master,
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  Speaker 1: he says I am with you alway. He does not
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  Speaker 1: even say I will be with you, so that you
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  Speaker 1: might be wondering when he meant to come, when he
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  Speaker 1: would begin to be with you. But he says I
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  Speaker 1: am with you, yes, even now. Though perhaps your eyes
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  Speaker 1: are holden like those of the two who walked to
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  Speaker 1: Ammaeis when Jesus was beside them and they did not
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  Speaker 1: know it. Your feeling or not feeling that he is
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  Speaker 1: there has nothing at all to do with it. Because
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  Speaker 1: his word must be true and is true, and he
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  Speaker 1: has said I am with you alway. All you have
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  Speaker 1: to do is to be happy in believing it to
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  Speaker 1: be true. And if you go on believing it, you
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  Speaker 1: will soon begin to realize it, that is, to find
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  Speaker 1: that it is a real thing, and that Jesus really
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  Speaker 1: is with you. How long will he be with you? Always?
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  Speaker 1: All the days he has said I will never leave.
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  Speaker 1: Thee never means really never, not for one moment you
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  Speaker 1: cannot get beyond never. It goes on all through your
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  Speaker 1: life and all through God's great forever, and always means
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  Speaker 1: really always, every single moment of your life, so that
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  Speaker 1: you need never ask again. Is Jesus with me now?
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  Speaker 1: Of course he is. The answer will always be yes,
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  Speaker 1: because he has said I am with you always? How safe,
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  Speaker 1: how sweet, how blessed, Oh Jesus, make thyself to me
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  Speaker 1: a living, bright reality, more present to Faith's vision, keen
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  Speaker 1: than any outward object seen, more dear, more intimately nigh
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  Speaker 1: than even the sweetest earthly tie. End of section twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Section twenty one of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for
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  Speaker 1: Little Ones by friends ridly havirical. The slippervox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Twenty first day doing God's will
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  Speaker 1: teach me to do thy will, Psalm ninety eight Ten.
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  Speaker 1: When you see someone doing with very great delight some
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  Speaker 1: beautiful and pleasant piece of work, have you not thought
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  Speaker 1: I should like to be able to do that, and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps you have said, please teach me how to do it?
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  Speaker 1: Can you think of anything pleasanter to do than what
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  Speaker 1: the very angels are full of delight in doing? Can
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  Speaker 1: you think of anything more beautiful to do than what
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  Speaker 1: is done in the pleasant land, the beautiful home above?
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  Speaker 1: Can you fancy anything more interesting to do than what
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  Speaker 1: the dwellers there will never get tired of doing for
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  Speaker 1: thousands of millions of years. Would you not like to
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  Speaker 1: be taught to do it too? To begin the pleasant
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  Speaker 1: and beautiful and most interesting work now, instead of waiting
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  Speaker 1: till you are grown up, and then perhaps never learning
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  Speaker 1: it at all because it was put off. Now, then
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  Speaker 1: pray this little prayer this morning with all your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Teach me to do Thy will, For it is His
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  Speaker 1: will that is the happiest work above, and the very
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  Speaker 1: happiest thing to do here below? What is his will?
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  Speaker 1: The Prayer Book version of this psalm tells you very
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  Speaker 1: simply and sweetly. It says, teach me to do the
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  Speaker 1: thing that pleaseth thee. So doing God's will is just
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  Speaker 1: doing the things one by one that please him. Why
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  Speaker 1: did David ask this? He goes on to say, why
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  Speaker 1: for thou art my God. If God is really our God,
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  Speaker 1: we too shall wish to do the thing that pleaseth him.
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  Speaker 1: David did not think he could do it of himself,
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  Speaker 1: for he says, next, let thy loving spirit lead me.
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  Speaker 1: That loving spirit will lead you, too, dear child, and
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  Speaker 1: show you how beautiful and grand God's will is, and
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  Speaker 1: make you long to do it always, and teach you
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  Speaker 1: to do it, so that even on earth you may
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  Speaker 1: begin to do what the angels are doing in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: It is but very little for him that I can do.
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  Speaker 1: Then let me seek to serve him my earthly life,
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  Speaker 1: journey through and without sigh or murmur, to do his
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  Speaker 1: holy will, and in my daily duties his wise commands
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  Speaker 1: fulfill end of section twenty one, Section twenty two of
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  Speaker 1: Twenty second day Working for Jesus, Ye have done it
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  Speaker 1: unto me? Ye did it not to me? Matthew twenty
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  Speaker 1: five forty and forty five. Our Lord Jesus Christ has
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  Speaker 1: given us opportunities of showing whether we love him or not.
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  Speaker 1: He tells us that what we try to do for
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  Speaker 1: anyone who is poor, or hungry, or sick, or a
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  Speaker 1: lonely stranger, is just the same as doing it to him.
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  Speaker 1: And when the King says, come, ye bless it, he
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  Speaker 1: will remember these little things and will say, ye have
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  Speaker 1: done it unto me. But he tells us that if
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  Speaker 1: we do nothing for them, it is just the same
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  Speaker 1: as if he were standing there and we would do
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  Speaker 1: nothing for him, and he will say, ye, did it
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  Speaker 1: not to me. One of these two words will be
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  Speaker 1: spoken to you in the great day when you see
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  Speaker 1: the King on the throne of his glory. Which shall
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  Speaker 1: it be? What are you doing for Jesus? Are you
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  Speaker 1: doing anything at all for him? Perhaps you say I
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  Speaker 1: have no opportunity? Did you ever try to find one?
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever ask him to give you opportunities of
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  Speaker 1: doing something for him? Or is it only that you
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  Speaker 1: have never yet cared or tried to do anything for him?
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  Speaker 1: Be honest about it. He knows and he will forgive.
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  Speaker 1: But now what is to be done? Begin by asking
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  Speaker 1: him to show you, and then keep a bright, sharp
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  Speaker 1: look out and see if you cannot find an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: very soon, and perhaps many of doing something kind for
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  Speaker 1: his sake to some poor or sick or lonely one
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  Speaker 1: set to work. To think what you could do? It
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  Speaker 1: seems to me so very kind of the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: to have told us this, for he knew that those
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  Speaker 1: who really love him would want to do something for him.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: And what could we do for the King of Glory
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  Speaker 1: in his glorious heaven. So it was wonderfully thoughtful of
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  Speaker 1: him to give us his poor people to care for,
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  Speaker 1: and to say, if we have only been kind to
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  Speaker 1: a sick old woman or a hungry little child, ye
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  Speaker 1: have done it. Unto me. I love my precious Savior
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  Speaker 1: because he died for me. And if I did not
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  Speaker 1: serve him, how sinful I should be. God help me
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  Speaker 1: to be useful in all I do or say. I
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  Speaker 1: mean to work for Jesus. The Bible says, I may
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  Speaker 1: end of section twenty two, Section twenty three of Morning
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  Speaker 1: The slipprivox recording is in the public domain. Twenty third
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  Speaker 1: day Standard Bearers thou hast given a banner to them
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  Speaker 1: that fear thee Psalm sixty four. Then what is your banner,
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  Speaker 1: and what are you doing with it? For if you
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  Speaker 1: are among them that fear God, he has given you
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  Speaker 1: a banner that it may be displayed. Is your spurled
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  Speaker 1: up and put away in a corner so that nobody
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  Speaker 1: sees it or knows of it? Or are you trying
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  Speaker 1: to be a brave little standard bearer of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: carrying his flag so that the sweet breezes of his
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  Speaker 1: spirit may lift its bright folds and show its golden motto.
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  Speaker 1: That motto I think is love? For we are told
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  Speaker 1: that His banner over us is love? Are you displaying it?
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  Speaker 1: Showing your love to him by your love to others,
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  Speaker 1: showing the power of his love over you by your sweet,
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  Speaker 1: happy temper, and by trying to please him. Always carrying
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  Speaker 1: a banner means something. First. It means that you belong to,
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  Speaker 1: or have to do with, those whose banner you carry,
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  Speaker 1: and that you are not ashamed of them. At great
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  Speaker 1: Sunday school festivals, we know to which school a boy
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  Speaker 1: belongs by the flag that he carries. You would like
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  Speaker 1: to carry the flag of England or the Queen's Royal
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  Speaker 1: flag because you are English and loyal, So let us
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  Speaker 1: carry the banner of Jesus Christ, because we are loyal
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  Speaker 1: to him and are not ashamed to own him as
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  Speaker 1: our case. Secondly, it means that we are ready to
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  Speaker 1: fight and ready to encourage others to fight under the
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  Speaker 1: same banner. When you are tempted to do something wrong,
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  Speaker 1: remember whose banner you carry, and do not disgrace it.
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  Speaker 1: If one does right, it makes it easier for the
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  Speaker 1: other to do right too. Thirdly, it means rejoicing. You
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  Speaker 1: know how flags are hung out on grand days and
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  Speaker 1: carried in triumphal processions. The little hand that carries Christ's
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  Speaker 1: banner through his war will carry it also in his triumph.
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  Speaker 1: The little hand that tries to unfurl it bravely now
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  Speaker 1: will wave it when his glorious reign begins and his
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  Speaker 1: blessed kingdom is come. Then, in the name of our God,
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  Speaker 1: we will set up our banners. Now. The Master hath
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  Speaker 1: called us the children who fear him, who march neath
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  Speaker 1: Christ's banner his own little band. We love him and
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  Speaker 1: seek him. We long to be near him and rest
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  Speaker 1: in the light of his beautiful land. End of Section
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. Section twenty four of Mourning Bells or Waking
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  Speaker 1: Chosen to be a Soldier Second Timothy two four Are
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  Speaker 1: you a soldier you ought to be? For you have
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  Speaker 1: chosen to be a soldier in the glorious army of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. You ought to be, for you have been
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  Speaker 1: received into the congregation of Christ's flock at your baptism,
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  Speaker 1: and engaged manfully to fight under His banner against sin,
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  Speaker 1: the world and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful
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  Speaker 1: soldier and servant unto your life's end. You can never
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  Speaker 1: undo that, even if you are a deserter and found
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  Speaker 1: in the enemy's ranks. The Captain of our salvation will
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  Speaker 1: not undo it, for he is ready to receive you
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  Speaker 1: if you will. But come and enlist now now, this
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  Speaker 1: very morning. Come and enlist this very morning. Ask him
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  Speaker 1: to receive you into his noble army, and to give
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  Speaker 1: you first the shield of His Salvation, and then the
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  Speaker 1: whole armor of God, and to teach your hands to
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  Speaker 1: war and your fingers to fight, and to give you
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  Speaker 1: victories every day even now, and to let you share
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  Speaker 1: His grand triumphs hereafter. Perhaps you know that you have
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  Speaker 1: enlisted already. You know and love your captain, and he
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  Speaker 1: is enabling you, even if very feebly, yet really, to
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  Speaker 1: fight the good fight of faith. How came you to enlist?
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  Speaker 1: Was it any credit to you? Oh? No, it was
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  Speaker 1: all his doing. It was he who chose you to
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  Speaker 1: be a soldier, not you who chose him to be
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  Speaker 1: a captain. And then he sent not some dreadful cannon roar,
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  Speaker 1: but the sweet bugle call of his love to win
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  Speaker 1: you to join his ranks. And now he fights not
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  Speaker 1: only with you, but for you. In his war. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: shall by any means hurt you. For he was wounded
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  Speaker 1: for you. Your life is safe with him, for he
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  Speaker 1: laid down his own for you. By his side, you
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  Speaker 1: can never be vanquished, because he goes forth, always conquering,
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  Speaker 1: and to conquer. Stand up, Stand up for Jesus. The
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  Speaker 1: soldiers of the Cross lift high his royal banner. It
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  Speaker 1: must not suffer loss from victory unto victory. His army
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  Speaker 1: shall be led till every foe is vanquished, and Christ
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  Speaker 1: is Lord. Indeed, stand up, stand up for Jesus the
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  Speaker 1: trumpet call, obey forth to the mighty conflict in this
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  Speaker 1: His Glorious Day, end of section twenty four. Section twenty
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  Speaker 1: five of Mourning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little Ones
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Twenty fifth day. A loyal aim that
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  Speaker 1: he may please him who hath chosen him to be
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  Speaker 1: a soldier Tewod Timothy two four. Here is something worth
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  Speaker 1: aiming at, worth trying for the Lord Jesus, the captain
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  Speaker 1: of our salvation. Is he who hath chosen us to
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  Speaker 1: be his soldiers? And now does he only tell us
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  Speaker 1: that we may do our duty, serve, obey, and fight. No,
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  Speaker 1: he tells us something more. Gives us a hope and
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  Speaker 1: an aim so bright and pleasant that it is like
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  Speaker 1: sunshine upon everything. He says we may please him. Only
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  Speaker 1: one who knows what it is to mourn for having
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  Speaker 1: grieved the dear Savior can quite understand what a happy
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  Speaker 1: word this is. That we, who have been cold and
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  Speaker 1: careless and sinful, grieving his love over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: should be told after all that we may please him. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if we love him, our hearts will just leap at
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  Speaker 1: the hope of it. Perhaps we thought this could not
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  Speaker 1: be till we reached heaven. But you see his own
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  Speaker 1: word says we may please him now while we are
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  Speaker 1: soldiers in the very midst of the fighting. Saint Paul
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  Speaker 1: tells us one thing in which you may please him. Children,
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  Speaker 1: obey your parents in all things, for this is well
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  Speaker 1: pleasing unto the Lord. But he prays too that the
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  Speaker 1: Colossians might walk worthy of the Lord, unto all pleasing.
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  Speaker 1: Shall this be your aim and your hope to day?
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  Speaker 1: Will you look up to the Lord Jesus now and
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  Speaker 1: ask him first to give you the faith without which
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  Speaker 1: it is impossible to please him, and then to show
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  Speaker 1: you how you ought to walk and to please God,
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  Speaker 1: and so to help you to do those things that
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  Speaker 1: are pleasing in his sight, that all your ways, even
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  Speaker 1: every little step of your ways, may really and truly
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  Speaker 1: please the Lord. Proverbs sixteen seven. True hearted, wholehearted, faithful,
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  Speaker 1: and loyal King of our lives. By thy grace we
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  Speaker 1: will be under thy standard, exalted and royal. Strong in
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  Speaker 1: thy truth. We will battle for thee true hearted, wholehearted,
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  Speaker 1: fullest allegiance, yielding henceforth to our glorious King, valiant, endeavor
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  Speaker 1: and loving obedience, freely and joyously. Now we would bring
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  Speaker 1: end of section twenty five. Section twenty six of Mourning
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  Speaker 1: Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis Ridley Havergel.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Twenty sixth
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  Speaker 1: Day Obedience to Christ? Whatsoever he said, saieth unto you
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  Speaker 1: do it? John two five? How are you to know
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  Speaker 1: what he says to you? Ah? It is so easy
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  Speaker 1: to know if we are really willing to know and
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  Speaker 1: willing to obey. When we do know, he has spoken
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  Speaker 1: so plainly to us in his word, in that he
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  Speaker 1: tells us, tells even little children exactly what to do.
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  Speaker 1: It is most wonderful how he has said everything there
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  Speaker 1: for us, told us everything we ought to do. When
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  Speaker 1: you read a chapter or hear one, read, listen and
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  Speaker 1: watch to see what he saith unto you in it.
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  Speaker 1: There is another way in which he tells us what
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  Speaker 1: to do. Do you not hear a little boice inside
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  Speaker 1: that always tells you to do the right thing and
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  Speaker 1: not to do the wrong thing. That is conscience, and
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  Speaker 1: he speaks to you by it. Another way is by
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  Speaker 1: those whom he has set over you. He has told
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  Speaker 1: you once for all, to obey your parents, and to
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  Speaker 1: obey them that have the rule over you. So when
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  Speaker 1: they tell you to do something, it is the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus himself that you have to obey. In obeying them, Now,
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever he saith unto you, do it, Yes, whatsoever, dear
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  Speaker 1: little one, whether easy or hard, do it because he
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  Speaker 1: tells you. Do it for love of him. And it
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  Speaker 1: will be a thousand times better and happier to obey
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  Speaker 1: your King than to please yourself. And he himself will
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  Speaker 1: help you to do it. Only look up to him
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  Speaker 1: for grace to obey, and he will give it. Whatsoever
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  Speaker 1: he saith unto you, do it. Do not just think
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  Speaker 1: about doing it or talk about doing it, but do it.
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  Speaker 1: Do it. Do the exact thing he would have you
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  Speaker 1: to do, not something a little bit different, or something
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  Speaker 1: which you think will be very nearly the same. But
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  Speaker 1: do it, and do it at once. It is so
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  Speaker 1: true that the very first moment is the easiest for obedience.
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  Speaker 1: Every minute that you put off doing the right thing
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  Speaker 1: makes it harder. Do not let your King have to
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  Speaker 1: speak twice to you. Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it, cheerfully, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: and instantly. Jesus help me. I am weak. Let me
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  Speaker 1: put my trust in THEE. Teach me how and what
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  Speaker 1: to speak loving, Save your care for me. Dear Savior,
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  Speaker 1: hear me hear a little child to day hear Oh,
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  Speaker 1: hear me, hear me when I pray. End a Section
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, Section twenty seven of Morning Bells or Waking
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  Speaker 1: Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis Ridley Harikel. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Twenty seventh day, do
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  Speaker 1: it heartily? Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, Colossians three twenty three. In Second Chronicles thirty
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  Speaker 1: one twenty one, we read of Hezekiah that in every
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  Speaker 1: work that he began, he did it with all his
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  Speaker 1: heart and prospered. And this morning's bell rings a new Testament. Echo.
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  Speaker 1: Do it heartily, sing it now like a little peal
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  Speaker 1: of bells. See if that does not ring in your
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  Speaker 1: ears all day, and remind you that it is not
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  Speaker 1: merely much pleasanter to be bright and brisk about everything,
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  Speaker 1: but that it is actually one of God's commands written
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  Speaker 1: in his own word. I know this is easier to
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  Speaker 1: sum than to others. Perhaps it comes natural to you
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  Speaker 1: to do everything heartily. That is very nice, But it
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  Speaker 1: is not enough. What else, whatsoever ye do do it heartily?
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  Speaker 1: As unto the Lord and not unto men. He knows
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  Speaker 1: whether the industrious, energetic boy or girl is wishing to
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  Speaker 1: please him and looking up to him for his smile,
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  Speaker 1: or whether he is forgotten all the while, and only
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  Speaker 1: the smile of others and the pleasure of being quick
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  Speaker 1: and busiest thought of. But perhaps it is hard to
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  Speaker 1: you to do things heartily. You like better to take
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  Speaker 1: your time, and so you dawdle and do things in
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  Speaker 1: an idle way, especially what you do not much like doing.
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  Speaker 1: Is this right? Is it a little sin? When God's
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  Speaker 1: word says, whatsoever ye do do it heartily? Is it
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  Speaker 1: not just as much disobeying God as breaking any other command?
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  Speaker 1: Are you not guilty before him? Very likely you never
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  Speaker 1: thought of it in this way. But they're the word stand,
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  Speaker 1: and neither you nor I can alter them. First ask
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  Speaker 1: him to forgive you all the past idleness and idle
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  Speaker 1: ways for Christ's sake, and then ask him to give
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  Speaker 1: you strength henceforth to obey this word of his. And
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  Speaker 1: then listen for the little chime. Do it heartily. Do
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  Speaker 1: it heartily, and then the last word of the verse
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  Speaker 1: about Hezekiah will be true of you, too, prospered up
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  Speaker 1: and doing, little Christian up and doing. While tis day,
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  Speaker 1: do the work the Master gives you. Do not loiter
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  Speaker 1: by the way, for we all have work before us. You,
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  Speaker 1: dear child, as well as I. Let us learn to
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  Speaker 1: seek our duty and to do it heartily. End of
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  Speaker 1: section twenty seven. Section twenty eight of Morning Bells or
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  Speaker 1: Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis Ridley Havergolden. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Twenty eighth day.
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  Speaker 1: The sight of faith as seeing Him who is invisible
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews eleven, twenty seventh. If we were always doing everything
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  Speaker 1: just as if we saw Him whom, having not seen,
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  Speaker 1: we love, how different our lives would be. How much happier, too,
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  Speaker 1: how brave and bright and patient we should be, if
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  Speaker 1: all the time we could really see Jesus as Stephen
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  Speaker 1: saw him. And by faith the precious faith which God
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  Speaker 1: is ready to give to all who ask, we may
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  Speaker 1: go on our way with this light upon it, as
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  Speaker 1: seeing Him who is invisible. These words were said of Moses,
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  Speaker 1: and this seeing him by faith had three effects. First,
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  Speaker 1: he forsook Egypt. It made him ready to give up
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  Speaker 1: anything for his God and God's people. It made him
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  Speaker 1: true and loyal to God's cause. What did he care
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  Speaker 1: for anything else so long as he saw Him who
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  Speaker 1: is invisible. Secondly, it took away all his fear. What
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  Speaker 1: was the wrath of the king to him? When Jehovah
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  Speaker 1: was by his side of what should he be afraid? Thirdly,
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  Speaker 1: it enabled him to endure, to wait patiently for forty
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  Speaker 1: years in the desert, and then to work patiently for
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  Speaker 1: forty years in the wilderness. And only think how strength
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  Speaker 1: giving that sight of faith must be, which enabled him
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  Speaker 1: to endure everything for eighty years. Try for yourself to day,
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  Speaker 1: what was such great and long help to Moses? Ask
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  Speaker 1: God before you go downstairs for faith the eye of
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  Speaker 1: the soul, so that you may walk all day long
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  Speaker 1: as seeing Him who is invisible. When you are tempted
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  Speaker 1: to indulge in something wrong, idleness or carelessness, or selfishness,
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  Speaker 1: this will help you to give it up at once
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  Speaker 1: and forsake it, for how can you give way to
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  Speaker 1: it when your eye meets his? When something makes you afraid,
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  Speaker 1: this will make you brave and peaceful. For how can
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  Speaker 1: you fear anything when your God is so near? When
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  Speaker 1: lessons or work, or even having to be quiet with
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do seem very tiresome, and you are tempted
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  Speaker 1: to be impatient, and perhaps cross this will help you
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  Speaker 1: to endure, and not only so, but to feel patient.
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  Speaker 1: For how can you be impatient when you are looking
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  Speaker 1: up to him and he is looking down on you
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  Speaker 1: all the time. God will not leave me all alone.
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  Speaker 1: He never will forsake his own when not another friend
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  Speaker 1: I see the Lord is looking down on me. End
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  Speaker 1: a Section twenty eight, Section twenty nine of Morning Bells
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  Speaker 1: or Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis Ridley Haverkel.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Twenty ninth day,
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  Speaker 1: No weights, let us lay aside every weight Keebrews twelve one.
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  Speaker 1: If you were going to run a race, you would
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  Speaker 1: first put down all the parcels you might have been carrying.
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  Speaker 1: And if you had a heavy little parcel in your pocket,
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  Speaker 1: you would take that out and lay it down too,
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  Speaker 1: because it would hinder you in running. You would know
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  Speaker 1: better than to say, I will put down the parcels
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  Speaker 1: which I have in my hands, but nobody can see
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  Speaker 1: the one in my pocket, So that one won't matter.
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  Speaker 1: You would lay aside every weight. You have a race
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  Speaker 1: to run to day, a little piece of the great
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  Speaker 1: race that is set before you. God has set a
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  Speaker 1: splendid prize before you, the prize of the high calling
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  Speaker 1: of God in Christ Jesus, a crown that is incorruptible.
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  Speaker 1: Now what are you going to do about the weights,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: the things that hinder you from running this race? You
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: know some things do seem to hinder you. Will you
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  Speaker 1: keep them or lay them aside? Will you only lay
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  Speaker 1: aside something that every one can see is hindering you,
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  Speaker 1: so that you will get a little credit for putting
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  Speaker 1: it down, And keep something that your own little conscience
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  Speaker 1: knows is a real hindrance, though no one else knows
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  Speaker 1: anything at all about it. Oh take Saint Paul's wise
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  Speaker 1: and holy advice, and make up your mind to lay
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  Speaker 1: aside every weight. Different persons have different weights. We must
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  Speaker 1: find out what ours are and give them up. One
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  Speaker 1: finds that if she does not get up directly, she
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  Speaker 1: is called. The time slips by, and there is not
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: enough left for quiet prayer and Bible reading. Then here
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  Speaker 1: is a little weight that must be laid aside. Another
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  Speaker 1: is at school and finds that he gets no good
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  Speaker 1: but a little harm when he goes much with a
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  Speaker 1: certain boy. Then he must lay that weight aside. Another
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  Speaker 1: takes a story book up to bed and reads it
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  Speaker 1: while nurse is brushing her hair, and up to the
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  Speaker 1: last minute, and then her head is so full of
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  Speaker 1: the story that she only says words when she kneels down,
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  Speaker 1: and cannot really pray at all? Can she doubt that
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  Speaker 1: this is a weight which must be laid aside. It
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  Speaker 1: may seem hard to lay our pet weight down, But oh,
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  Speaker 1: if you only knew how light we feel when it
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  Speaker 1: is laid down, and how much easier it is to
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  Speaker 1: run the race which God has set before us. End
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  Speaker 1: of section twenty nine. Section thirty of Morning Bells or
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  Speaker 1: Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Francis Ridley Havergell. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Thirtieth day the
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  Speaker 1: Shield of Salvation, thou hast also given me the shield
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  Speaker 1: of thy salvation, Second Samuel twenty two thirty six. This
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  Speaker 1: beautiful little text teaches us a very precious truth. It
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  Speaker 1: shows us that the salvation which the Lord Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: to bring is not only salvation at last just escape hell,
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  Speaker 1: but that it is salvation now and salvation in everything.
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  Speaker 1: Salvation does not only mean victory at last, but it
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  Speaker 1: is like a broad, shining shield given to us in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of the battle coming between us and the
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  Speaker 1: poisoned arrows and sharp sword thrusts of the enemy. It
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  Speaker 1: is a shield not only to keep us from death,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: but to keep us from being hurt and wounded. It
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  Speaker 1: is the shield which the captain has given us to
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  Speaker 1: use now, as well as the crown which you will
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  Speaker 1: give when the warfare is ended. How are you to
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: use this shield? What does it really mean for you?
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  Speaker 1: It means that if you have come to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to be saved, he does not merely say that
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  Speaker 1: he will save you, but that you are saved, that
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  Speaker 1: he saves you now. And this is how you are
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  Speaker 1: to use it. Believe it and be sure of it
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  Speaker 1: because you have his word for it. And then when
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  Speaker 1: a temptation comes, tell the enemy that he has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with you, for you are saved, that you
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  Speaker 1: belong to Jesus and not to him. Look up and
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  Speaker 1: say Jesus saves me. Will he fail? Did He ever
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  Speaker 1: let any find themselves deceived and mistaken who looked up
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  Speaker 1: in faith and confidence to him, trusting in his great salvation. Never,
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  Speaker 1: and never will you find this shield of His salvation
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  Speaker 1: fail to cover you completely. Satan himself cannot touch you
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  Speaker 1: when you are behind this shield. Lift it up when
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  Speaker 1: you see him coming, even ever so far off, and
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  Speaker 1: you will be safe. Jesus saves me every day. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: saves me every night. Jesus saves me all the way
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  Speaker 1: through the darkness through the light. End of section thirty
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  Speaker 1: Section thirty one of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for
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  Speaker 1: Little Ones by Francis Ridley Habergel. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Thirty first day. I will love THEE.
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  Speaker 1: I will love THEE, O Lord, Psalm eighteen one. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: even if I have never loved THEE before, I will
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  Speaker 1: love THEE, O Lord now, I will love THEE. Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Gie Jesus, because thou hast loved me, and because thou
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  Speaker 1: art loving me now and wilt love me till the end.
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  Speaker 1: Oh forgive me for not having loved THEE. How could
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  Speaker 1: I have helped loving THEE, when Thou wast waiting all
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  Speaker 1: the time for me, waiting so patiently while I did
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  Speaker 1: not care about THEE. Oh, forgive me. And now I
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  Speaker 1: will love THEE always, for thou wilt take my love
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  Speaker 1: and fix it on myself and keep it for thyself.
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  Speaker 1: I will love THEE, O Lord Jesus. I will not
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  Speaker 1: listen to Satan who tries to keep me from loving THEE.
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  Speaker 1: I will not ask myself anything about it, lest I
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  Speaker 1: should begin to get puzzled about whether I do love
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  Speaker 1: THEE or not. Thou knowest that I do want to
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  Speaker 1: love THEE. And now, Dear Lord Jesus, hear me say
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  Speaker 1: that I will love THEE, and that I will trust
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  Speaker 1: THEE to make me love THEE more and more, always,
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  Speaker 1: more and more. I have said it, Dear Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and thou hast heard me say it, and I am
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  Speaker 1: so glad I have said it. I do not want
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  Speaker 1: ever to take it back, and thou wilt not let
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  Speaker 1: me take it back. I am to love THEE always now,
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  Speaker 1: and thou wilt give me thy holy spirit, shed abroad
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  Speaker 1: thy love in my heart so that it may be
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  Speaker 1: filled with love. Fill me so full of thy love.
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  Speaker 1: That it may run over into everything I do, and
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  Speaker 1: that I may love everybody. Because I love THEE. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I will love THEE. Dear Lord Jesus my Savior. I
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  Speaker 1: love THEE. I know thou art mine for THEE, all
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  Speaker 1: the follies of sin. I resign, my gracious Redeemer, my Savior.
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  Speaker 1: Art thou. If ever I loved THEE, my Savior, tis now,
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  Speaker 1: I love THEE because thou hast first loved me and
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  Speaker 1: purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree. I love THEE for
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  Speaker 1: wearing the thorns on thy brow. If ever I loved THEE,
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  Speaker 1: my Savior, tis now, I will love THEE in life.
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  Speaker 1: I will love THEE in death, and praise THEE as
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  Speaker 1: long as Thou lendest me breath, and say when the
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  Speaker 1: death jew lies cold on my brow. If ever I
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  Speaker 1: loved THEE my Savior, tis now. End of Section thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: End of Morning Bells or Waking Thoughts for Little Ones
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  Speaker 1: by Francis Ridley haverber It