FEAR NO FAILURE!

One major baseball player was a leader among strike-out numbers. But that is not the achievement by which that player is remembered - it was the 714 home-runs that won Babe Ruth the endearing renown of all baseball fans. Many small failures do not erase lesser numbers of major successes.

 Titanic Incident

	It was reported that eleven millionaires went down on the Titanic. Major A. H. Peuchen left $300,000 in money, jewelry, and  securities in a box in his cabin. "The money seemed a mockery at that time" he later said.  "I picked up three oranges instead from the desk and hurried out of my quarters to face the tragedy."

 THE FAMILY ALTAR

October 16.

"Then said Jesus unto the Twelve, Will ye also go away? Then

Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou

hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that

Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God." John 6:67-69.

It is a heart-searching question our Lord puts to us to-day.

And the question increases in penetrating power the more we con-

sider the sad times in which we live. Whither we look, we see the

world full of unbelief grown bold and unabashed. Men no longer

whisper it in secret, but preach it from the housetops: "There is

no God ! The Bible is an obsolete book full of fairy tales ! There

is no hereafter ! Christ never rose from the dead ! Science alone

is true ! Let us live and die in the light of Science !" And, alas !

countless numbers of former Christians listen to this blatant voice

of our unbelieving age and forsake Christ and His saving Word.

But what do they gain by making the change ? Science cannot give

them what Christ, their Savior, gave them in His divine Gospel:

forgiveness of sins, peace of heart, comfort in all afflictions, im-

mortal hope in the hour of death. Poor, woefully deceived back-

sliders. What a terrible awakening will come to them when they

must face their God and Judge in heaven, who says : "If any man

draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him." Oh, may the

merciful God help us not to be of them who draw back unto per-

dition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul ! (Heb.

10, 38. 39.) Let us watch and pray, and when tempted to join the

great majority in its apostasy, let us firmly and persistently declare :

"Lord, to whom shall we go ? Thou hast the words of eternal life.

And we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son

of the living God."