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Nigeria Cancels Invitation to Kissinger - By John Darnton Special to The New York Times

LAGOS, Nigeria, April 7—An invitation to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to visit Nigeria during his trip to Africa later this month has been canceled by the Government.

No specific reason was given to Washington other than that the timing of Mr. Kissinger's trip was inconvenient for Nigeria, sources here said.

It was thought that the cancellation might be related to Nigeria's internal political situation, which is still uneasy after an attempted coup seven weeks ago that led to the assassination of the head of state, Gen. Murtala Ramat Muhammed.

But the cancellation also comes at a time when relations between Nigeria and the united States have become strained, initially because the two countries supported opposing factions in the Angolan civil war.

Recently, the Secretary of State's warnings to Cuba not to intervene militarily in a confrontation between guerrilla and the Government of Ian D. Smith in Rhodesia have been widely condemned in the Nigerian press.

Mr. Kissinger has become controversial figure here — he is often depicted as advocating an American policy favoring white minority regimes is southern Africa over black nationalist movements—and it is likely that his presence would have prompted demonstrations. Security precautions alone would have created an additional problem for the government.

Since last July, when the Government of Gen. Yakubu Gowon was ousted in a coup, Nigeria has increasingly adopted an activist foreign policy. Its main initiative is outspoken support for majority rule in South‐West Africa, Rhodesia and South Africa.

Just this week, Lieut. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, the new head of state, announced that “material, financial and other assistance” to nationalist movements would be stepped up.

“We will help those African countries whose independence and sovereignty are still threatened by racist and minority regimes,” he said.

Anti‐Western feeling erupted in the aftermath of the coup attempt on February 13, stemming from unsubstantiated charges of Western involvement. Student demonstrators stormed the American Embassy and the British High Commission on February 17. The feeling has not altogether died down.

A meeting of the African Regional American Studies Conference, involving 80 scholars who were to meet in Lagos last week in connection with the American Bicentennial celebration, was canceled without explanation by the Nigerian Government.

The invitation to Mr. Kissinger was originally extended last September, when he met Brig. Joseph Garba, the Nigerian Commissioner for External affairs, at the United Nations General Assembly. Since then, Mr. Kissinger has met several times with Brigadier Garba, usually to patch up differences.

Mr. Kissinger was scheduled to arrive here on May 2 and stay for about 24 hours, on a swing that was to take him to at least eight African countries, including Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Zaire and Zambia.

In Lusaka, Zambia, he is expected to deliver a major statement on United States policy toward southern Africa. At another, unspecified stop, he is expected to outline policy towards the continent as whole.

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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning
"He shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory." Zechariah 6:13

Christ himself is the builder of his spiritual temple, and he has built it on the mountains of his unchangeable affection, his omnipotent grace, and his infallible truthfulness. But as it was in Solomon's temple, so in this; the materials need making ready. There are the "Cedars of Lebanon," but they are not framed for the building; they are not cut down, and shaped, and made into those planks of cedar, whose odoriferous beauty shall make glad the courts of the Lord's house in Paradise. There are also the rough stones still in the quarry, they must be hewn thence, and squared. All this is Christ's own work. Each individual believer is being prepared, and polished, and made ready for his place in the temple; but Christ's own hand performs the preparation-work. Afflictions cannot sanctify, excepting as they are used by him to this end. Our prayers and efforts cannot make us ready for heaven, apart from the hand of Jesus, who fashioneth our hearts aright.

As in the building of Solomon's temple, "there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in the house," because all was brought perfectly ready for the exact spot it was to occupy--so is it with the temple which Jesus builds; the making ready is all done on earth. When we reach heaven, there will be no sanctifying us there, no squaring us with affliction, no planing us with suffering. No, we must be made meet here--all that Christ will do beforehand; and when he has done it, we shall be ferried by a loving hand across the stream of death, and brought to the heavenly Jerusalem, to abide as eternal pillars in the temple of our Lord.

"Beneath his eye and care,

The edifice shall rise,

Majestic, strong, and fair,

And shine above the skies."

Evening
"That those things which cannot be shaken may remain." Hebrews 12:27

We have many things in our possession at the present moment which can be shaken, and it ill becomes a Christian man to set much store by them, for there is nothing stable beneath these rolling skies; change is written upon all things. Yet, we have certain "things which cannot be shaken," and I invite you this evening to think of them, that if the things which can be shaken should all be taken away, you may derive real comfort from the things that cannot be shaken, which will remain. Whatever your losses have been, or may be, you enjoy present salvation. You are standing at the foot of his cross, trusting alone in the merit of Jesus' precious blood, and no rise or fall of the markets can interfere with your salvation in him; no breaking of banks, no failures and bankruptcies can touch that. Then you are a child of God this evening. God is your Father. No change of circumstances can ever rob you of that. Although by losses brought to poverty, and stripped bare, you can say, "He is my Father still. In my Father's house are many mansions; therefore will I not be troubled." You have another permanent blessing, namely, the love of Jesus Christ. He who is God and Man loves you with all the strength of his affectionate nature--nothing can affect that. The fig tree may not blossom, and the flocks may cease from the field, it matters not to the man who can sing, "My Beloved is mine, and I am his." Our best portion and richest heritage we cannot lose. Whatever troubles come, let us play the man; let us show that we are not such little children as to be cast down by what may happen in this poor fleeting state of time. Our country is Immanuel's land, our hope is above the sky, and therefore, calm as the summer's ocean; we will see the wreck of everything earthborn, and yet rejoice in the God of our salvation.

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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning
"Thou art fairer than the children of men." Psalm 45:2

The entire person of Jesus is but as one gem, and his life is all along but one impression of the seal. He is altogether complete; not only in his several parts, but as a gracious all-glorious whole. His character is not a mass of fair colours mixed confusedly, nor a heap of precious stones laid carelessly one upon another; he is a picture of beauty and a breastplate of glory. In him, all the "things of good repute" are in their proper places, and assist in adorning each other. Not one feature in his glorious person attracts attention at the expense of others; but he is perfectly and altogether lovely.

Oh, Jesus! thy power, thy grace, thy justice, thy tenderness, thy truth, thy majesty, and thine immutability make up such a man, or rather such a God-man, as neither heaven nor earth hath seen elsewhere. Thy infancy, thy eternity, thy sufferings, thy triumphs, thy death, and thine immortality, are all woven in one gorgeous tapestry, without seam or rent. Thou art music without discord; thou art many, and yet not divided; thou art all things, and yet not diverse. As all the colours blend into one resplendent rainbow, so all the glories of heaven and earth meet in thee, and unite so wondrously, that there is none like thee in all things; nay, if all the virtues of the most excellent were bound in one bundle, they could not rival thee, thou mirror of all perfection. Thou hast been anointed with the holy oil of myrrh and cassia, which thy God hath reserved for thee alone; and as for thy fragrance, it is as the holy perfume, the like of which none other can ever mingle, even with the art of the apothecary; each spice is fragrant, but the compound is divine.

"Oh, sacred symmetry! oh, rare connection

Of many perfects, to make one perfection!

Oh, heavenly music, where all parts do meet

In one sweet strain, to make one perfect sweet!"

Evening
"The foundation of God standeth sure." 2 Timothy 2:19

The foundation upon which our faith rests is this, that "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them." The great fact on which genuine faith relies is, that "the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," and that "Christ also hath suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God"; "Who himself bare our sins in his own body on the tree"; "For the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed." In one word, the great pillar of the Christian's hope is substitution. The vicarious sacrifice of Christ for the guilty, Christ being made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, Christ offering up a true and proper expiatory and substitutionary sacrifice in the room, place, and stead of as many as the Father gave him, who are known to God by name, and are recognized in their own hearts by their trusting in Jesus--this is the cardinal fact of the gospel. If this foundation were removed, what could we do? But it standeth firm as the throne of God. We know it; we rest on it; we rejoice in it; and our delight is to hold it, to meditate upon it, and to proclaim it, while we desire to be actuated and moved by gratitude for it in every part of our life and conversation. In these days a direct attack is made upon the doctrine of the atonement. Men cannot bear substitution. They gnash their teeth at the thought of the Lamb of God bearing the sin of man. But we, who know by experience the preciousness of this truth, will proclaim it in defiance of them confidently and unceasingly. We will neither dilute it nor change it, nor fritter it away in any shape or fashion. It shall still be Christ, a positive substitute, bearing human guilt and suffering in the stead of men. We cannot, dare not, give it up, for it is our life, and despite every controversy we feel that "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure."