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True Religion and Inner Renewal
SUMMARY
A boy of nine was being questioned by an
older lad about his religion in a somewhat
cynical vein, and the youngster acquitted
himself with credit. Finally, the older one
challenged:
"I'll give you two dimes if you tell
me where God is!" "I'll give you two dimes if
you tell me where God Isn't!"
Oh, to have that
wonderful faith of a child. A little girl, repeating
the 23rd Psalm, said it this way:
"The Lord is
my Shepherd, that's all I want."
From the
Christian Leader
comes this
account:
"An old mariners' chart of the East
coast of North America and adjacent
waters, drawn by an unknown
cartographer in 1525, and now in the
British Museum, has some interesting
and fearful directions on it.
The
mapmaker wrote across great areas of
then unexplored land and sea the
following inscriptions: "Here be giants."
"Here be firey scorpions." "Here be
dragons."
At some time in its career the chart
fell into the hands of the scientist Sir
John Franklin. He scratched out the
fearful old markings and wrote across
the map: "Here is God."