DAY 237 Read Jeremiah 40 and 41.
Today's reading: Jeremiah, released from prison by the conquering Babylonians, chooses to remain faithfully at his post with the poor people in Judah. He soon sees anarchy at work and more trouble ahead.
Memory gem: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all" (Psalm 34:19).
Thought for today:
It was T. DeWitt Talmage, the great preacher, who told the story of the ship Arctic which was struck by another ship in the North Atlantic and was going down. Some of its men got off in lifeboats, some on rafts, but three hundred went to the bottom with the ship.
During all those hours of calamity, Stuart Holland, a young man who belonged to the crew, stood at the signal gun as it sounded out across the sea, boom, boom, boom. There was no radio in those days, no way to seek help at a distance; only the hope that some passing ship might hear the boom of the signal gun. The engineer had forsaken his place; he was gone. The man at the helm had left the ship. Finally all the powder was used up; the signal gun could be fired no more. But young Holland broke into a magazine and brought out more powder, and again the gun boomed its plea over the ocean. He fired until the ship went down. He did his best.
Today's reading: Jeremiah, released from prison by the conquering Babylonians, chooses to remain faithfully at his post with the poor people in Judah. He soon sees anarchy at work and more trouble ahead.
Memory gem: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all" (Psalm 34:19).
Thought for today:
It was T. DeWitt Talmage, the great preacher, who told the story of the ship Arctic which was struck by another ship in the North Atlantic and was going down. Some of its men got off in lifeboats, some on rafts, but three hundred went to the bottom with the ship.
During all those hours of calamity, Stuart Holland, a young man who belonged to the crew, stood at the signal gun as it sounded out across the sea, boom, boom, boom. There was no radio in those days, no way to seek help at a distance; only the hope that some passing ship might hear the boom of the signal gun. The engineer had forsaken his place; he was gone. The man at the helm had left the ship. Finally all the powder was used up; the signal gun could be fired no more. But young Holland broke into a magazine and brought out more powder, and again the gun boomed its plea over the ocean. He fired until the ship went down. He did his best.
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