A Jot from John
Some botanists were one day hunting for specimens of mountain plants in the Highlands of Scotland, and observed several scarce and beautiful plants growing at some distance down the face of a steep precipice, fully two hundred feet down.
They saw a boy near, and offered him a handsome present of money if he would allow himself to be lowered by a rope and fill a small basket with the flowers.
The boy shrank back at first, but he remembered that his parents were poor, and that the money would be of great use to them. So, he bravely said, “I will go if my father holds the rope.”
And then, with unshrinking nerves, and his heart strong and bold, he suffered his father, when he came, to lower him down the precipice.
It was only the boy’s trust in the strength of his father’s arm, and in the love of his father’s heart, that enabled him to take the risk. [William Moodie]
What say Christians to this? “What a pity all fathers have not the confidence of their sons to this extent.” [JBD] But what Christians probably say is, or should say, “I have this trust in my Heavenly Father.” He holds the rope that secures me, therefore I will go and say, or do whatever he bids me.
I AM A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST BECAUSE
1. Her foundation is firm – a rock.
2. Her creed is infallible – the Bible.
3. Her name is appropriate – the name of the Bridegroom.
4. Her music is divinely appointed – singing.
5. The baptism she administers symbolizes the burial and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
6. She spreads the Lord’s supper on the Lord’s Day.
7. Her hope is immortal.
Onward Rejoicing, John B. Daniels, Associate Minister
