THE DROP OF WATER AND THE INFANT

 A MINISTER'S ADV ICE TO OTHERS -

 Rowland Hill Says -

A.W. PINK - Another Gospel

 THE FAMILY ALTAR

September 26.

"Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."

Col. 3:2.

Where our treasure is, there our heart will be. If Jesus and

His precious salvation is our heart's greatest treasure, as we so

often sing, then our heart will dwell with Him in heaven though

in body we still tabernacle on this poor earth. Yet we all need

to take this earnest admonition of the apostle to heart and daily

set our affection on things above, where Christ is, our love. For

we are evidently living in the days of which our Savior speaks,

Luke 17: "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did

eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and

brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall

it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed." Most of our

present-day Christians, like the people of Sodom, have set their

affection on things of this earth. All these worldly-minded Chris-

tians care for little else but the passing pleasures and treasures

of this world. They love the world, and live for the world, and

will perish with the world, if they do not repent. The wide-spread

falling away from the faith and the materialistic spirit of our

times are an unmistakable sign that the Day of the Lord is at

hand. The more need, then, for us to set our affection on things

above, and though living in this sinful world, not to be one of its

carnal-minded children, but strangers and pilgrims hastening

toward our heavenly home. With that mind in us, while we use

the things of this world as we need them for the support of this

body and life, we will not abuse them in sinful pride or lust or

greed, but will "mortify our members which are upon the earth/'

as the apostle further on admonishes, and will strive for the im-

perishable crown of everlasting life with Christ, our One and All.

One sweetly solemn thought

Comes to me o'er and o'er;

Nearer my home, to-day, am I

Than e'er I've been before.

Nearer my Father's house.

Where many mansions be ;

Nearer to-day the great white throne.

Nearer the crystal sea.

Nearer the bound of life

Where burdens are laid down;

Nearer to leave the heavy cross,

Nearer to gain the crown.