The Zest-Of Being Free

Thursday. 1 Thess. 5: 14-24.

When your lungs are full of fresh air, how stale a shut-up room smells! When a man’s free of actual slavery, how irksome its bonds seem to him! The sheer delight of freedom can’t be told. So when once a man is free of other kinds of slavery — bad habits, lack of self-control, worrying, and that whole brood, what a sweet sense of freedom! Do you know about this? You may, today, if Jesus may have his way.

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

Restored from a scan of the 1918 edition, with page headers and numbers removed and words rejoined across line breaks. Scan-derived text, still being proofread; compare the original scan before quoting.