quotation his companion evaded or turned aside, only to be met by
another passage. The skeptic became enraged. 'Don't you see, I don't
believe your Bible! What's the use of quoting it to me?' he shouted. The
minister's reply was another thrust of the Sword of the Spirit, 'If ye
believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.' Years passed, then
one morning the minister received a letter. Opening it he read, 'You
took the Sword of the Spirit and stabbed me through and through one day,
and every time I tried to parry the blade and get you to use your hands,
and not the Heavenly steel, you simply gave me another stab. You made me
feel I was not fighting you, but God.' It was signed by the former
skeptic in whom the 'seed of the Word' had finally been mixed with
faith.

"Even as the natural seed changes soil into plants, so the living seed
of the Word changes the character of the individual who comes in contact
with it. For example, in the night of the Dark Ages when the Word of God
was planted by the Holy Spirit in the hearts of chosen men, it brought
forth the fruit of the Reformation. There was a rediscovery of the
truth, that salvation is not by ritual or works, but by faith in Jesus
as our Saviour."

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My grandson, I will close these instructions to you, as well as to all
who read them, with a prayer for each one. As a teen-ager I found that
it paid to live for God. As a mother I found that God was there to help
me in all the needs of life and as a grandmother and a possible
great-grandmother, I find great joy in living for God. It pays to put
God first in our lives. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness and all these things will be added unto you," is the safe