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[_i_m_m_l [' "_ OCCASIONS - of all denominat ons and .@ 'record published. an indspensable Il Liwl_ll-for _"aeknowl.dged '| z ,_ : U.ed by thepa.to,. _ "1 "_1 I _l ' _I" - POCr.ZT RECORD I _t " _ -. kI__ _ ,I( " PASTOR'S _ : . _ headship even _s did their brothers before sintb_a came. .When a manneed can man's make . things_and animtite(:_eatures of orders lower n man, but these tWO'blades of. grass grow where only. one grew before he should know the jo_ of being king.in righteoussense. When amany man another can do apiece -._ of 'workbetter than ahegood usedand to do if, even betterthan can do .]s_ it, he is a sovereign in his own right, and a true son of Adam, the first king among men. In the office there is room for imperialism over the typewriter, ,_ ,_... the'fillng case, and the ledger. In busine/s andfinance benign sovereignty. " _" hecothes the.highest dignity and phiianthropy. Every man is by right a king: • .._• -In the professions empii'e is on a more subtle.plane. The Lawyerfights o . . " .. l h8 crinle, ,THE tile physician disease PI_EACI-IER'S and the teach- eignty, nnd this is wha! makes him speak .of.his work as a "ca/lingi" and what makes hinl stick to his task even When there are ntany high bkls for cbangiilg -to something else. This'does not mean th_it"they are benL to otltdo their fellow workers, bnt tbat they find joy in exceeding themselves and in geeing somewbat of their pnrpose real- MAGAZINE THE not tile La_k nf compelling nlen to do good PREACHER'S MAGAZINE • To re]ieve-a paitl_ to save SomPone IF ing to do good, _Vhen we have outwitted - sonleone and compelled him' to bow to righteousness, we have (].one what Jesus refused tn do when 'ft-'wlts suggested that He role o,)e_r the nations'of .... the.earth_lth- _ : Expository nut going, through the .hmg .and painftll process 9f.enlightening and transforming them. We cannot save men by 3tisciplining them froln tl_e.t_;ranny of superstititm or to hall) encourage rJghteoosnessin the relationshq) of men is to kno,w t'he joy of" • being an emperor, _; But" tile enlpire seems to lee. tbe of the preacher is. it broadest of thenl all. hecutls_ it has to do with the fnddameolal problenl-of man's estate--the problem of •' "" " sm. lhere are reforme_ who are not preachtdrs, bet ;ill good preachers are i'eformers. If tile object is to "anlke this a better worht in which to live." then lhe " _reaeher ]ins the very best chance fliere is to do that. And those .who Wntl]d chal- ' ]enlLe the preacher to become ;t social reformer, rather than a preacher of Ihe gospel, are shallow'ill their analysis of what Is wrong and he_'ds to be realedied. '/'lie Ilreacher is a teacher of tile most essefitial trutl)--the truth wb_ch ntakes men free. and a worker in thd highesi. ;lrt-_the art of good living.. More" than all these;, tile preacber,is a "Vicar of Christ" ill a sense ulore fuli of nleaning than that With which 'tile term is applied to tile Ca:tholic pope; for lee slSeaks directly, to the" consciences of menwhen he .preaches the gospel '.'ill . the power Of thd Holy Ghost sent tlnwn front he,_Veu." • . • • Messages : I'ronl 'the oljtsit]e. We louse Olive have Tip: patience to transforltl their, fl_0m , wlthhl by. bringing t|lem into touch with'tlivine urace. We cannot rule'our subjects by,the rise of authority_ we must win tbeir deep. lion. bv wise and gentle. by.leadership. We canilot compel allegiance hidlng behind the "clotb;' df Otlr ?ailing; we must inspire resp'egt and confidence•.fly cnudncl tbat Jf be we..woultl described he kings. of Our. empire cannot in" terms palaces or thron/_s on ChriStian Ine_tns that he is ill heart and cmjduct fill, ensaml)le nf the ulanhood he extolg." If.he preachcs high and lives low. lnen have allother name for him. : . The hnperialisnl el tile preac!ler is a glorious one because it'-compels-himlto, be _ king-=not sinll)ly to pose as one. It is tdorious -also becaose no mutiny can de- are not true because we say them; We authoritative declaration in material _'orm say. them because ofa snch may " essentials, I pray, brethren, that reign its khtgs II _'or. 4:8). (2) spiritoal reality.--F. ] - 0nly what., coronation is in m_ easy way, baptism is inn heavenly way; God's Ours-is " thrl20e hint• so long as.he deserves to.be" kin_. It is glorJons bccause its law is love, i/s dignity is righteoospess, its subjccts are willing and its end' is altruistic and not egoistic And Ol1 the background • ..... true. - of IJt:,_¢'t: h_lve 'N.r As Tin: WtloJ} G_v_;_i" This peace I_equeathed ti)the disciples was not such'as the worht gives, When we search to lind what may. be the peace that-the .world uives, if intleed it can be considered peace, we note in the first place, that it is very dependent circumstances. . For"...It Year. Entered a_ _econd cla_l In_ _t _pee _1 _at_ot po_tage u December30 192_,. " : " Fvact .. _ il nlu.st._)et'ds be Ilia! odler nations IhaL. lieace that is dependent upon external cirnent or abiding, qualities; itIt istansuhJect ever cumstances is precarious. have tothe no permachanzinz anti turhulent sea of human emotion as stirred hy reactigns anti adjustments" of person 'lad person. Azain the peace that the w_3rhl =teeth is that " " which comes with gratified •desire. I-Iere again the vision is illusory. It is sometldne like hunt.in_tfllr the pot td"uohl :/t the foot of the rainbow.. So often desires cannot he gratified. Eliminatinu an wronu desires there are many good desires d_at cannot he gratified: some ambitious young : person :may desire an education but because _ff circumstances not be able to ohtain _ii. so it Lswith many bf the other legitimate desiri_s. Ilul auain when desire isgratified it does not seem to cease its surging; .its gratification would" . : appear' only to enlarge its capacity and havinu for a moment been filled to satiety it reaches out for more. When it has cgJ_quered one sphere, it reaches out for more worlds to conquer Thus ".any peace that may arise [roXn gratified desire is /or the moment only. As we view the peace that the world giveth nation to we find that it cannot satisfy the heart of man: . [I am euhll*hed'manth y thby• the N,zal_'en, Puhilthtng'Houtn. Z92_ rtoo,t Ave. Knott," illFmalntalned by and 'in !ntere_t ct the Chtlrch ol the Nazarene.'$uh_crlptl n prlc " W, ROIIERTSON. . . I'care I leave ".t,iih 3'o,, my peac__. I _ive r,,t, have ceased from hostilities, and for an individual you: not a_ the "world give h, give I unto you. to have peace here must he harmony with the.st. Let not your" heart be troidded, neittter let it hc " with he lives and:with tlmse with whont he is whom associated• a/rail fJohn 14 27). With all of the maktdjusln_ents in this crooked _ HEP.E Ilave been many strange bequests world of oursa with the ever surging'emotions of |given hy man unto men in tl history of j. ousv, envy and. h:/tred in Lhe hearts of un..It.. wills anti testaments: there hax_:heen many ret_enerate men, andthe per_,'erted understanding ttmt have had great _,,alue,but none in:the history oftentime_ in• those who)lave lzraee In their • of the worM have been fraught.with creater value hearts, there, are more occasions' where _ixaee than the one we have presented to us in the f,_ilg to.reign in personal relationships, it qzbuld n,xl We set. a compaq.';' of e;mer, fearful dis- -seem. than wllereit does. Thus It comes t_ pass £ip es I_athered ahout the Master. No donbt some upon e_ternal . IIERIrA(;I: Purity M. Winchester eL the lurking presentiment an l fear .that conic up6n there,as .....they were following on the "A'av " io Jerusalem was present now. There was deepeninl_ mystery hecloudln_ the whole sittiation; tkey felt that" some dreatJ catastrophe, lay out " ahead, hut they could not tell exactly What. it m!ght be. The master i.vas telling them that He v,'as going aw@, and tile)' were trouhled: tie was • speakin_ words of comforl but.theirminds were dazed and groping for understanding, I . this slate of mental confusion, they were asking queslions as the:,' /lashed-across their minds, and .[esus was nswerin_, hut ,all seemed eniuniatical t. them. • As words of co_tso!atlon Ihe message of the text was given, a bequest .of peace. a heYitaue _1[value, far surpassimt the computation in measurement of an.',' human values, "t t or uold add silver: for ours is an empire-in which _,','illill[Lobeisance is hased npon quailties possessed, I_ather tllan open characters assnnled: "He is a princely preacller" heritage, "lVe nevel get aheiid L)y appealing to hrute force or by attempting to dictate beydnd our ability- to "enlighten. Things are L flee. belongs no mysti:rknlsenflflenls anti robes el" camouflage; we most be kingly of ve • they " " is exposed to the light of da)/. Tn our-of- Oar object ill writing all this is to exattachment to tile real empire toof stronger mind anti heart whicb is our hort IJ ' ' el* izetl. " 67 II . matter at larovldcd - the for Po_toftiee In Section .... (3) nt Knn_n_ 10_. Act " City. Mo, of Octohnr Acee _, toner _17. $ , 0 for mall_uth6rlz_d cn_,Mo. 68 THE PREACHER'S It is not based upon a sure foundation. It must needs arise from circumstances that cannot be in this present evil world: therefore we listen with comfort that the heritage of peace promised by the Savior is "not ds the world giveth." l MAGAZINE. . THE PREACHER'S queathed to His disciples of that age arid of ages to come. _ When we seek to understand the nalure of ibis peace from the positive aspect, we would sua_st tirgt that it is the peac_.tbat resuBs from con- further We on rind in this fare_vell discour._e, "These • quest. Jesus 's'ayJng His ndisciples tfiing_ l_have _pokcn-unto you,tothat r_ ve While the peace of the woridJs dependent miaht have peace: In the worhl ye shall_ve up6n externals.the peace of Christ stands'in ditrihulation: but be o[. good ¢beer: I have overrect opposite in th[g respect: In tbe life of come the .world." The world is notessent a y Cl/rist the wo[ld around about Him seemed ever -an _bject, that is. when it pertains to spiritual to be one of turbulence. From the beginning o[ issues: it is a spirit, an attitude, a certain set of His_ninistry thgre was the hostility of the-scribes mind of thought, that centers upon satisfying and phasisees_ find they ever pursued Him With the spirit natpre of mind with thlnns o[ time an I relgntless hatred throughout the entire three sense instead of with that wbich relates unto God, years culminatin_ in their leading Him to death time.Father of all mankind. Christhad. the peace by crucifixion. Then within His own hom_ there which comes with the stil[in_ of all .these d_.was strife. HIS mother, iovi]ig and tender, failed sires. -They had surged around Him with all to dnde'rstand Him, a'nd His brothers weie resift/e the might and power .that Satanic power couhI that He skould make His claims open and robmuster; t ere are tbe three major temptations' .lie; if }|'e were the Messiah they .did notbellev_ recorder! for us in.the Gospels, and no doubt on-Him until after His'resurrectlon. Coming to- oth_:rs of which no account has been given but the band of.disciples, with their loyalty, and sacas a mighty conqueror Jesus stands forth rillee for the Master, there w_. on their [_art. triumphant, He was "tempted in all points like blindness and misunderstanding as to the true as we are, apart from sin." nature of Christ's mis[ion._ In the inner circle The peace then bequeathed unto u_ would of three one only seemed to approach close to be thai peace that comes through the conquest the heart, of the M_ster/ of sin in the heart and life; there can be no true Leaving these various groups and turning to peace that is pe_:manent and'ablding within until the.mullftudes arourtd about _'e find a seething this great"crisis has taken place in the heart, company of. people. The}' crowd about the It is true that being lustilled by faith we have door of.tile house where He has returned from a peace wtih God," .but this refers 'to peace in minion tour throuch Galilee, no doubt for .a relationship rather" the fullness of peace in the little rest. They gather around about as He nature. Before _ve h:_d been enemies, but betravels.through the _ountry until they run tile. coming reconciled we h_ve peace. It is true also number into thousands, and He must feed them that peace m relationsbip brings also a'sense of or send them-away hungry: they would acclaim peace within, but experience has found that this Him king at 6_ie time and then turn from Hin_ peace has not .been complete and full, _nd thus in scorn another time. it is that the apostleprays, "And the very God There was no peace for th_ Master in the of peace sanctify you wholly." .We know tha"t world around abbut,'and ]esu_ did not promise be. prays thus that the work of entire sanctitiesto the disdples that .the_ would' have .peace tion _may be wrought n _.be' heart, but he may externally either, yea on the other hand He said use this special designation for God the Fathei', unto'them, "If they have persecuted me,-.they God of peaee_ bees.use 'only in this wondrous will also persecut_ you." Thus it could'not be work in the soul does peace enter full and that it' was peace, of this nature that He becomplete, Nut'only.must there be the conquest of sin In _ rite heart and life, but there mostbe the subordination of all the natural tendencies which in themselves are right, but when they dominate .become wrong, these, we say, must he.subordi- "My PEACEI'Gwr_ UNTO . " You" - " ...... . " _- .PREACHER'S MAGAZINE_ If you . want your copies of _l'ttE PRI_:ACHER5 BOUNDI _,{AGAZINI_b'ot[nd_ neatly an d durably, send in your copies at once., The cost will be $1.25 which includes return .purge for the bound volume. We shall wait until March 15 to send all this work to our bindery. turn postage. N_E'NE " After that date the price will be _2.00 a copy, PUBI_ISHINO HOUSE, 2923 Troost Ave_, Kansas " " . • ........ - : .... City, plus r_ " Mo. ' " " " " . - - " • MAGAZINE . 69 than this dominated them. Butwhatevef therantire that actuated them. now they were troubled. for their Master spoke.of going away, and this east a blight over all their expectations good or eva: They had not 'firm. faith and trast, to one ambition and that is tcits.center do the heSS of disappointment. This then brought .from " satedconsuming one great goal_oal which has unification for throw and bltterwill ol toGod, A great brings to the lipsacross-this of Christchasm those of'perplexity .comfOrting.words, "Let. _llfe and'satisfaction which results in peacO, the not yore: heart, be trouhted, neitherlet it be moreso is this true when this goal isto do the afraid." -will of God. Jesus said. "Lo I come, in the _The herbage o[ peace I_anisbes fear from the volume.of the book it is written of me, to do beset;: tbe tw'o cannot exist together. Fear dist_y will O God.'-'. As fie gave Himself for us turbs the flow of peace ahd ereate_ restlessness and lear)_ed, obedience by the things that He and distrust. Our spiritual staremay'be tested suffered, so,musl we give odrsetves in obedience by:the presefice or nonpresenee o[ these contrastand in doing so _ t: will find silently, yet -with " ing emotions hi our heart. While there are other comfort anti a_urance, peace stealtn_ into our tests !o be applied also, this ,o_e is vital, espe, -_ouls. and we will find rids heritage an _vereially in the emotional realm. Some would hold ahiding experience, a state o[ ecstasy _ the supreme emotional test, hm not so tile Scriptu,re; ff we follow through BANISIH,NG F_R . its _eacbJng we find that timeexperience of grace - In speaking of_tbe peace that He was leaving ever b_ as its outstanding emutional concomitant unto His disciples; the last thougi_t that the peace; this many passages attest, M_ter presents inour text is that because of Jt A-priceless heritage is oursI Peace thab comes .. they shouhl not he troubled nor should they be from the Master himself, the author of true peace afraid. There are two emotions in life which not dependent upon the,fleering changes of this " exceed all others in their "dominance, one is'love World with its tdeasUres tbat fast hut. for a day and the other is fear. Fear eats as does a'canker, and then pass away.. Peace that is abiding as There are many pltases of feat. There is fear Ionz ','/s we keep our be_rts' in tune with the that exists in fl_e secrel chambersof the soul eternal and ulrimate values of life and being. which has as its concomitant guilt. It acts as ' • a haunting.spester ever coming at unwonted ran'_Peace, perfect peace, in this dark worldof sin? meats to disturb time serenity of life. It often The ldon(L of Jesus whispeis, peace within drives men to :seek propitiation by one means or .anotber to assuage the wrath of an angry "Peace, perfect peace, by thronging duties pressed? • God. It brin_s restlessness and discontent, all To do the will of j'esus_this is rest, because a-man cannot, be pure wifl_ his Maker, -., that is, without grace in the heart. This fear "Peace, ' perfect peace, our future all'unknown? the power" of Cbrist is sufficient t_, conquer, and . Jesus we know. and He is on the throne.!' in its place to bring peace and rest, Wberc once , therewas fear, I e. glad evange will ring, "There Worldly and Exp_nsive Dress is thcreforo now no condemnation "to them 'that are in Christ Jesus." . f..Engenders and increases pride. Then there are fear and trouble of heart thaL 2. Breeds and encourages vanity, . arise from forebodings_in life. That fear "that 3. Begets envy and jealous},. looks out into the future and wonders what 4. Inflames Leads to the extravagance. 5. hearts of.men. may come. that sees stalking'?cross, life's path= 6. Lead_ to debt. way many dark shadows, that has lost the fullness of trust: or never has found it, This.may be " 7" Crowds out better thoughts anti feelings. a general _:haraeterlstic of a.lif¢, and then it 8. Wastes rime'and money. q. Influences Is often detrimental to health_ ..10. others to dress in a'worldly way. ll Excites vain admiration. may be strength..This eHden/:ed on seemed particular occasions in areater to be tile state and condition of the disciples, as Jesus talked to them giving.perple:_ity. them His farewell words, They were in deep They h[id left all to tZ Robs God. 13. Robs the cause of foreign missions. . _.ollow't]le Master because they thought,it would : be ."He wh'o would redeemIsrael." While" there We .want was an Underlying motive,stirred by ambition -which _prang fo_'th at tim_.% yet we believe that othe'r moti'bes more righteous and more .loyal (4) more "sermons in shoes, men and women going, up"and down the roads of life preaching" Christianity by - their imitation of Christ.--Cux,_r_. • (s) J .._ • . . . . . . . . " , " , . 70 THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE ................. THE " ..... .." "--'7'--'--'_'7 • ' " ' ' _. ' " a, • ' • " " - Program • Orval J. N_tge " . . • . March 7--Morning b. 3'he appeal nf Imma_ !_ -. Tilt: Po_yl:r ova DH'Im: IMPr:ra#_ig [Missionary( _i TEXT--/ utile! _eodh .the ",_orks o] Ill,it tinlt _cnf " me, _ohile it is day_ the eight fo cth, when no man can_vork IJohn 0:4i. S('RII'TUR}: i T. _ 1 L]ESSO* _q John garding 2. . q. 3 t . INTROnUcTION (Luke.t0:30-37) I. The hmse way in which we remlrd our . Cbristian obligations, a. True of I_ersmud religious expt'tience b. 'True of our sense of nhlit_atiotl It) the church2 . c True of our feeling at resl.msihility rt'- I the saP:arian of othersl 'it he,me for spirit_tal laxity anti lawlessness, 3.:Chrisl is our example, h. [. Tile "As-he passed by he saw" iv. It, "" 1. The indefinable "ouuht.'" a. One of the strong(>( words in ihe lar_guage. . • b.. Not laW, comnmnd or c6ercinn, c. [fut an inner urge. _ bait a funeral fllus(ration--Pidlip anti the fActs 8:26-40). "Give ye them to eaU" {Matt. 11. Tilt: "Nfvs¢" I. "Opl)_rtumt (John c. d ' ' I,:nnuch 14:16) *- 21:15-17 pro-. it." " q. Somethin_ lllaccd imnlediately" at yotlI" door. , h. Or. The' open dour leads direct to" _ervire.. . c, (tpportunity means responsibility, "Am ] .m_' brother's keeper?" went by a small Imuse -tent 0itched in a back yard. lie hgd oftenpassed. Some(bin( impelled bim to- stop He did. lie found ,'i man dying c,{ .T. "It. When" he 'saw lira(her Mc.Mt_inE he sahl. "I am a sick man. I want to then I must obedience ifllpossible a. General alone.. i cnmm.ssion "Go ye into "It is-the ehurcb to the .who_e . NOI,DS. h. The laily as " c. " not " to full a.. Obedii'nce for not my fault This is nauseo - ._ that Gt_d called tbem." to God_ " - dependent a man with arms but'a stooped Master. . . (7) preach- sent from God" upon ability anti wbite man of ,_ saint is not robes and. ups(retched with callot_sed'.hands. shuuhler_/b_sy _/ March etc. at the task at the " • 7--Evening TuJc Kxsr,'_ RaNsoxt--I "Sohl Under Sin" " "I'ExT---The_ blood o] Jesus Christ, his Son,,cleans-. eth us [ram all sin [l John 1:7). ]NTRODU{-'TION: The . " modern mind and'the fact _f atonement, a Modern mind deniesthe neel_i of a Savior. it) Sense at human self-sufficiency. (2) Sin's maladjustments can be ciared day to the maid wh6 served his lunch, "Let the mlssloilartes sacrifice, That [s what they are called to do, It .is • been saved years before if someone had oniy spnken to me about my soul,"; man . J.. The text. 2. 'lhe caution. "While it is day!" "The nigl)t cdmetb!" "No nnm can work[". Illustration--My c6nception propa- gatidn of the,gospel as the clergy: _Od does not slngle out.a man .or.a group of men and excuse all others Snuz "complacenc_: of s_,me who .say, "We-are _not called." llhlstration--When Dr. Myrl Smith was taking an offering for missions in Pasadena First hi. E. Church one man made the remark at the table that _ everywhere 16:9. fActs g;_¢). lets, N.Y.P.S., S.S,. W,F,M.S.. CONCLUSION ministers (be facts • opportunity, but nhedience is required. h. You do the cburch no favor by obeying• Tile church does the individual a favor " by giving.a place in whicb to invest his abilities. c. l,oca] chqrches are tvo often waterlogged of hy, men who have.refust_d .a post dut_s' fit home or ahrofid. _l) These become a "drag o1: the.local market." (21 In this clrclechurchdifflcultles are generated. d, Condemnation follo_£_ procr_tination anti disobedience, This includes minis- 4:43L /non. all the worhl." . whole, task of'.ihe whoh, preach the whole .gospel to wor]_ "--Dr tI E Rr:s'- • resrumslhle a t0:P)- '_And daily in tile. temple, and in every house, riley ceased" not to teach anti 0reach JesusChrist" fAds 5:421 3. 'it.is Obedlence'or Cdndemnation, obedience. Men are in eternity without God today because some well-intendin_ Christians failed in tbeJi-•tluty• "This is [he only ueneration-we call reachY I sent" (Luke the Lord" upon church ."wenl ""There was (Jo.hn'l:6). God sent forth tile prophets nf oh L Isaial_, "Ilere am I; send me." Jeremiah, "Say not. I aln a child." (2) So God sends forth men upon tits' .. errands today,. ?." Every Christian.ca/led and sent of God,'. • - makes (Acts sent to Macedonia m_ the Word" " - (l! • " he done, " " " therefore'am i_, A *qhus saith McAIpine, pastor of Phtenix. Ariz,. cburches, to fdel-_ ]o . . IlL '['lid "Mu_,1" OF GOD'S COMMANI} " "The works of him that sent me." " " 1. Jesus'was sent of God. a. Christ sensed th,_ Father's urge. . '_I must,be.about my Fatber's bu_siness" (Luke 2:49)... "1 must preach tile kinudoniof Gud for OF I'ERSON'ALOI2I'ORTUNITY _ me ns " ef_re the uaze" Opl_ortun_ty means ."at the gate." _ lllustration-_-A, lady testifying in Detrait First'Church said, "I would have (6) .-. c Christ.wag committed to humall need. "For this cal[se ca(no f into tile world." We may minister to thd need uf men. rather it ouehi b. Delayed IllustFalion-'-Shid a business man. "No one has spoken to me about my stud . . or invited me to cburch since I have .. heen in this city." The appeal of little children, "Suffer them to come." The broken heart of the widow of Nain Cbr|sl to gui[t, "find G0d, I .have been pray'in( for Gad't6 send me it preacher who can pray for me." He was saved. Think of jt[. Praying for a pre_.cher in America l . , . "He must needs go Ihrouizh Samaria?' 2. Chrigffs sense of world need. a.. The appeal 6[ human suffering. The cry of a b]ind man .ll:_rllmeus indt/¢ed cession• h llhtstration--Rcv. one of our Christ's attitude" toward the unsaved slmuhl determine our nttitude " - : Cbrist was impelled b_ a threefohl iraperative "_fUST" OP THI; _.VOULO'SNt:t:D • ".','assent to Cornelius Tile do 'Nbither do .I condemn tilt, e• uo and sin " no mo1_e." . The'ability to see human lleed and the wig tt_ relieve is God*uiven. " a Too man). pass JJy on the'other'gide: "The story'of tile gtmd Samaritan. "Fet;d mY sheep". anti abroad : . This is a day of Christian liberty, "'g_me. to seed." a. t,Ve talk of a "whosoevbr" gospeh This is. too often an alibi for bur hick • ol concern for others and we "wtluhl shift responsibility, b. Reffuious liberty may easily be prf_stituted to mere license and he an excust .... a. .... Peter .,. Longinu.for opportunities t that ,,'ill never . rt.ttlrn, a." Ret_rets will never recall yesterday's oppar(unity. . . - that' line." eL We ouuht Q . , . along 71 21_: Paul.whs ."If A Preaching not gifted MAGAZII_E b. "Some "Su'ch work tile be Dastor," c. other belongs occaslbn to will more etc. ap: ........ " "I am PREACHEW5 (3) il. by education, Environment cures for sin. Blood .atonement mind, and psyc otherapy repulsive to modern • . .72 it) • i ". (2) f_ "1. Want to talk. of redemption out sacrifice. OF I. Two _treams : Abel.' a, _- . h Abel insists blood, .upon since tile • . "_ Cain _acrifice 'Cain offers the fruit of Life soil. less; and.the _york of his hand. 2. Salvation witilofit atonement. a That God as Sovereign can _- with- ATO,N'I_,IENT" of lhcoIogy and with. " will. h . he cannot deal with that same son a_ a determined_eriminal in a great com-. manwealth. The economy of tile farofly answer [or in the the government can will deal notwith ills son home as of the state:" God is the Moral Ruler of the univer_ and gin is rebeC/ion . against tile authority and government of this universe. God is dealing with. sin In His universe.. d. The atonement is the manner in which" God forgives repentant sinners through.. Christ who' voluntarily suffered for. us and thus protects and preserv_ the _ntegrity ot God,as a Moi'al Ruler• Pardon is thus offered_'*¢6 all wire believe on Jesus Christ. e. "To" atone" means to make reparation, compensationt or amendsfor ar offense, or enme. FACT OF _IN, t_R ATUNE_*IENT NEEDE0 1. Sin deniers. . a. unreality of sin. " " Sin is simply error due to the lack of knowledge, ability and opportunity, and cannot be chargeable• b.. All men sin hut it is a part • c. " " of man's • ". (8) of " .the last analysis, is a universal consciousness . judgment • is the consequence . .... with (2_ " ...... " of Olives'" li'. 30]_ tile olive groves'which ." Mark cow: ". L "/'m: CHriST _ _ l j " " " _ "' ' in. .' man,. Incarnation 22:441. -_ "_ LS Deity " • and humanity united. But as the soul of man is of all consciousness, so rou_ lay upon tIie soul it had reached the Deity. . Lord hath iniquit) t'eo.n" IixsK.'c_:_;s Illu_tri_tion--Little fatber how _uch [he ground'! fEuke Menta distress Tbe hathdesirable soul anguish. (,tl ."MYlncarnation.SOUl is iseXCeedimtmt_rt' thanSt_rr°wfnl'"God ill .... I_rivacy'are the center when sol of Christ citadel of laid upon of us all" him the (Isx. 53:6_. of nece_sity accompany soul distress. Note--Christ nn _louht would bare died here If'an nut,elsufferin_ from heaven .Physical aml mental must had not strenltthened llim fluke 22:43l. " . I.- The significance to Christ of Getl_semane. a Possihle for finite ;nind_,to underst:ind but little of.what this meant for Christ,. b. It did mean the climax of inca[nation, In it very true sense. "all i0carnation " wa_ atonement," Cannot sep'arate thd life anti ministry of .atoneme;_t from .the cruc]fix'on .(Ph'l, 2:7;.8), ' That He cried "It is finished", upon the cram signifies it bad been a proMngell task_ . c. It didmean, the acceptahce of the cross, It wks acceptance of the world's sin. Iffustrdztion--Fulfillment of the tyl)e_"the scape.goat." d. It wasa measure ofGod's love for men, "God SO loved the world." _ for I slnned" " Not all men are eqtlaliy cam I atihle,cdpacirated nr appreciative in 'another's suffertng_ . "O1_ sacred sorro_¢. scene suJ)lime, the Christ u_on fiis . knt,es." [ _-: ant was " M£ntal soffer_n_ more keen than . phy_ical. Vet nether p ys_cal nor merilai'sufferin_ can measure the agony of-Christ . A _tony. plot of ground containin_ eight olive.trees of great antiquity, enclosed by alow waiJ_still marks the spot, A place well:known anti oft rL_sorted to. "And be took With him Peter and tile two Sympathy knows the offense to God of sin. realizes tile consequences of sin. "And his sweat was as it 3vere great drops o_ hh_od falling down to tne one [NTROD(/CTION: I. '!The Mount " sons of ge edee;' (v.',l_) . What f_ to be done about sin? , All men seek for deliverance from guilt and ponution, From the heathen in his superstition to the most enlightened, . IlL. Trig Fac_ OF Arox_:M_:.'¢r--Tug ATO_I_MZU_ PRovlnEn 1 tluman efforts for atonement. it. Human philosophies. . Butall the theories of men WiU not remove. g0ilt or heal the soul• b. Nonchristian and heathen, religion_ These leave men with no power to re- lease themselves from guilt and pracrice. "Without the shedding of blood.is no remission of sin" (Heb. 9:22). 2. All human efforts at sacrifise are unworthy, a. For all flare sinned No. sacrifice of is necessary, wotclJ . 73 Physical suffering. " Every nerve center throbbed, blood pounded through every artery. 14--Morning or I a Conct,usz, oz¢ 1. All sin is against God. "Against.thee, and thee on[y,.have .and done this evil."---DAm. b. This ". -. Scrzett, rv, R_:Ams(;--Matt_ 26:36-40. 14:,t2-42, or I,uke 22 39-46. 3. "'This is the -teaching of _c(ipture, the . voice of reason, and the verdict of conscience,': " " " " "The soul that sinneth it shall die" of guilt. (Ezek, 18:20l. h. A sinless sacrifice • " Who Who ered its slopes. 2. "A place called Gethsemane" to. 36I. A small t_rove of 61ive trees beyond Kedron, LiabilitY: to lu/nishment ha';'e sinned could atone mudt less for others• •March So namedfro_ are c. " men who themselves bar. TExTTWhaG cotdd _,e not hour? •(Matt• 26:40). glory nI God.'" There is a universal guilt for sin: "Guilt is rite personal blametvorlbiness' that follows tile commission of sin')'_ Guilt. is necessarily persm_al, tile sinner's own. MAGAZINE CItRIST'$ Dr.ATlt-_*fiTCtt: OR, Trite'ChRIST UPon J|_s Ku_:_:s _ •of,sin. that they come short of PREACHER'S tit "• " willed realize and " is against has . THE. 2. All sin brings confusion of conscience. 3. Conscience is the foreshadowin_ of God's 4. " experience and development and in" fact is not as serious as some would 1rove us to believe_ " " " Sin is moral sickness, due to wrong environment and can•be cured by change and education• " • tile a. Men everywhere si_ners. "All have sinned whOthousandbecaFaestudents.an open.rebelA king.oram°ng two'. TIlE All sin.,in God, 3.. 'l_ere governor If. transgression God the Mo¢al. Ruler.who men to be righteous. at " iL That repentance is a. surf(dent ground for iorgzveness. " c. Must be remembered that God is a , , : Moral Ruler as _ell s a Father. lffustralion--"The head of _t university," says Dr, Hills. '*can'de_[ with an. erring son in the 0rivacy of the home as he could not deal with the same'son ? wil[tll known law of Got[, . b. Sin is guilty sickness, a wilful missing of the mark, harmatia [Gr,). "To him that klaoweth to do,good and doeth it not to him it is sin?' c. Sin is a bent or proneness or taint in,_. . _ causes. a: men to_ des rt]l_ t ze. n lture _btch and t6-commit'sin and thus become sinners. . . d. . " 2. Wilat is sin? a, Sin [s the idood- forgive , MAGAZINE Blasphemously talk of _critices of tabernacle and temple and cross as " the "gory rdigion," - TIIE'MEANINO __L" . "rILE, PREACHER'S ;rir] lries to tell her she loved him: could find no. unit by which to measure it, and feelingly said, with Izer hand upon her heart/ "Daddy, I love you sol_" 2. Tbe agony of Gethsemane. a. Agony of a purc soul; -Who _n_s the defilement • of _in, (9) i The Cries of G_thsemane. a. "Watch with me". tv: 38L - The desire" f<_r cmnp'mionsldp in sol row. " . . . The indieatioh that Ch'rist's di_cil_les have . a measure of Christ's suffering to hear. " "Ye.shall indeed drink of the cup that "I drink of"tMarh 10:391. See 1 Peter 2:21. h "O my Father'! iv. 39L . The soul can pra2¢ only as he realizes that God is Father. Such realization opens a .freedom and assurance c. in praye_. . , Freedom to express fears. Assurancp. tbat help can be 2iven. "If if-be possih[e let this cup,pa_ from me" (vs.. 39, 421. S_mle. hove thmml_t tempted to shrink that from Chris1 was the cup, or that "His hand tremhled as He readied for it." ,Such cannot be the case for to this hour He had looked from the beginrdng, "For this cause, came I Into the world." " " . . ., f/ I " " 74 If. THE PREACHEI_'S l(ather may it he tltofigbt thM He feared Ills _illfcrings wouhl t_ake His life it_ the gar(en and wouhl preclude Ili_ i_olng tfl the cross. ", . d. "Th3: will be _lone" (vs. 39, 42L . The acceptance c3[ thv Father's -will " " "['lit-; ClluIWII I'I'ON ITS I'_NEI:S Tile Churcil sharing with "Christ a. The Cburcli's willlngness to share Transfiguration, A liarticipation in Clirist's _lbry h. The Cliureh tou ofterr shrinks .Irom that wlfich means'tnil, su[[erinlt m sacrifice . c. It is hearing tile burden for othe_. d. "Who .now rejoice in my s i[erings 2.- The Church in Gethsemane. " for f41 "b .. We shall need film in our Geth. semanc. "Sidcliuhts front a soul's Gethsemane. a. _]elhsemane may be lent: foreseen; it • wa_ _u with Christ, b. In a very true sense y6u" must ever eo to Gethsemane alone, of) human can accmnpany. c. fin not expect too mtich ft'om votl'r lrlends in ihese hours. " . d. e. but the " - Ilesh • " " ,' : .... ; " " forth .much fruit" :(John " " tmon its knee_. '.... March i4--Eveni_tg 'I'll}; KING'S RANSO.M--ll The Ran_onl . " " ' = " ' " _ . " • " "' ' " ' ' • . -- "" of--s no..,rh . ( g'. ,15 . . CON('IUSIt_N " I Tin' most sublime an .,aercd contemp.lMiun: The Son of Godupon ltis knees, "'rite Second A'dam Regained in a Garden, what the.lirsl Adam lost in n aartlen." 2.'. Tile creates[ te_ror to hell is the Church . . . .. . _ : - "" of the idea olatoi_cment. Tht' :New 'I'eMament hohts up ' - of . .. rhessaee will of thougltt. 1. 2. The The 1, reality failure el Ihe c rrv Sunday Christ Christ" (I Peter ' 4. A a. ' h. c. as llt, b.'.g:l-i .. Ill. thioti_h tim - of of sin human efforts cln " !_o remedy n tv_ " 2. Cain was, rejected while - .cepted. It was a voluntary sacrifice. demands el His own nature flbtstration--AbsMom has sin_ " : _ /" -'_ " Dtvmr: _'ro_Er.tl_l_a" The scarlet thread of atonement. father's heart David wouLl foundation [ " ,. • . M)el Iv fire,-as to thoroughness See Matt. blood, 3:11, as to 12... authority, d. Stlpreme ll_,' m in worth. meahintz of purgmg. . Because supreme - L "l'hi: cross is God's authority hlr forgiveness and cleansinm • " the law has been andsatislied and"un-a n til Pardon boards iustifiahle meansusurp el pardonpresume has" h6en estahlished: h. Christ is God's authority. "'That he might' himself be just " - and ll!e of him that hath.hdth in Jegus" (II.onl. 3:24-26) l[_)w does the bleed'of-atonement cleanse? _t. Ily a rethoval of the sense of euilt. _1, There"is a difference between the memory of _in,and the guilt of sin. t2) ' Sin no longer belongs lo the sinner. b. liy iproducing.an inn6r annuls recoil 1he fromhahits sin, _. By mnral crisis 1hat bnd ilesires to sin, d. Ily a sense of acceptance with Gpd was" ace. love. broken hi_ ihe l)_ awakenin_ a tit:sire.to' holy liwnm By a _rt)wing love toward God, COSCLt;SlbN . . . , l. The'miraclet6uch of transformln_ grace. 2. By hd h.in Jesus Christ as a personalSavior. t. his atzd deserves death But die [or him as e wegp_ of tile world." " 11_, word,through as a tile slandard ot acceptance. "'Cle_m spoken .unto you _lword (John'which 15:3). _ have justifier - • This cleansing is. not only an act continued act of complete deliverance, .Note--Tile from..the, text .act. aerial tense'in word "cleanses" hut n Greek in which as" fo_dd in.our" rod(cares a continued and complete N6I 0nly cleanses now hut keeps on • cleat_sin_ {I [) {I0) .'b 23: lot him. T i_ ,aaon_v of God over hu: man sn _s 1he ' Lat nb shdn [rum the - ]'Ill: FM.-q" (ll" CLt_.NSINn. THE CI.}_.NSINn I_aont.cLii "'" I: New "I'e_tament pie(urals ofcleansing.'" d. liy'water, as the means of cleansing. "See Tit(Is 3:5 blatt. 3:11. 11 Is A St'I'FI{'ILNI" ATON}:MI:NI I, .It attswers all the [_,'pe o _the Old Testament 't. ordin,qnces. ' :t Slmtli_ss _acrifice " "" ."For he hath made him to he sin for us, " -who knew no sin; that we might be "" made the rmhteousness of God in h_n" . Eternal sacrifice. -. i "Lamb slain from tile foufidation of the world." The atonement is not an afterthought • universal atonement, No magnitude of sin:leo great. No depth of sin ted appalling. No nlultitude of sinners the. large. 'Anti heis tile propitialion for. our sins: and rot [or 'burs only_ but also for tt_e wh(le worht (I Jotm 2:2). " 1'.18 _'God so loved the _'orlfl that he.gave only begotten Son" _John3:16L h. God nave His Son to be true to nieht's a. 75 . nor an emergency measure, "b." llistoric sin is ovennatched by historic redemption. , "Eternal reality becomes femporal fact." Provided prevkms An " full" a '[N1ROI)U('TI[)N: Brief review 3 " have _verlastinu I fe_ ".(John 3:14, 15 . "Knowinl_ that ye were redeemed, not . with' corruptible, things, with silvi'r or " ta)ld tile blood even . . . of buta lamh with without precious spot. hlnmi.as h. A f2 saerificc.of Cot. 5:21"1 blood, .... " _ind sacrifice ' " for" lib- See alsb: Rein: 3:24-26; " 1•.Peter 2:24. .._'. " " . . empires history. tile blood 19). " H. TLxt--The blood o] Jesus Christ, hi._ Son; cleans., eth u_ /ro_ allsin (I John 1:7). )s All the soul can do in Gethseman'e is. pray. Prayers i_ Gethsemane are ;lwavs hrokon, hl/,edin_z prayers ' .'." " - to live. _'l'his is m__hlood of the New hd Testament -wlfich is shed "for many the rt': ss n f s'ns (blair 26:28). "As Mo_s lified up theserpent in the.. wihlerne.ss, even so .must tile Son tff man he inlifted up; (fiat {vhosuever ftcllevetb Ifim shuu I not perisli bul • ' . _*f the . . nature MAGAZINE inimstered unto. but to minister and to -'Ever( tile Soil of man came ant to.he nmsom f,t nfal(y" _ive his life ,, . (Matt. 20:28). " . . Loss of ' tilt' rit_ht to".reign wilh" Chrisl. : '" See Ron_ 8:IT-and "2-Tim. 2:12 t. Tlie'Church's failure in !In' _arllen. Is ;t ( isap )oinlmenl. to Chris[.. , " .... il. *'_.l_lltal? cot(hi ye nol.watth Wl[]l me (lilt' hmlr?" Iv. 40). " "" . h. "Slccl) (m nov;'take wmr rest . .'{he " Son.lit'man. . s elraved into tilt' hands " - ' 12:24). PREACHER'S Lhi' fulfillment of all. last:, the realizatlnn of all prophecy and tile explanation ." _!f all s_crific_s. "" , e2. Scripture: "_et .it pleased Jehovah to bruise Idml , . yet lie bare tile sin el mffny_ an_l made intcrcessi6n for tile transzressot:s" (lsa, 53:10-12), : el Chris1 l,nss in soul-winnimz. "When Zion [ravail_." Ilht_l,attnn--The Imzelincs_ home that is childless.. d, . .t.t) "With [ne." Watch and I rat with-ChHct, .(1) Sufft;ring not for suflerlng :s sake, lint suliering that comes its a res01 _'_ of sensing another's hntt until it becomes our own." (2 That it is with and ]or Christ makes it take on new meaning, is willing, " _ THI_ erty. The wholt_prophecies J'ewish Scriptures. The.law, and ceremonies c. lie is [(mnd in the garden. [,osg in 1he achievejnent of .the Church. 1 Loss in fruit-hearing. ,*E_cept-a corn. of wheal bdl into (2) through Dying h_ Foundin_ Permeates the _round "die itit brint_eth, abldeth ahme. hut if and it _lie. Fol'_othcrs7 As a ph_v_ieian.over 4ick As a _;atchman-on" city walk .",s a "t_ltlther i_vt,r hel. c hi: "The spirit weak." ration. "" " l.oss of 1he con)pimionshlp " b. "Pray." 11 ) With an carm'stne_Y thai lal;t;_ hohl " " of Ihe soul. f2). With a [et'lin_ for mhers "akin !o : what Christ had c a. 11.-Sl,rIr_K nn Tit:': G:,Rn_:._ _ " Christ did,not shrink from Gethsemane.. 2.7 ' the CI urch s loss liy reftlsin_ Gethsemane: a,. A b;ss "in the sprit bl the Church, . f I ) .fDdividtlally as well as tile gronp, (2) l,os.s of . mellowing richness that .only' sullerintz will bring, t3) I.o._s of.st:¢ehgthening to mr'el Letup-. . _l ".Watch." .. (I) For ourselves. That we do not fall prey" to dan_ers.' .-of human weakness. Tllat we fall not into (emptalion -v. ,IlL . (_) Euns MAG'AZINE " i. Those who pray' in Gethsemane know tile hlessc4lnes_ of prayer: ,.-. Gethsemane I ra_ ."ers :(re ever submissive . In the Father's'will. • li. The Gethsemane prayer always' receives strengtlt.: yo4, and fill up ttmt width is hbhind of tile afflictions of Christ )n my" flesh • [t r h s I o 1_ _ sake. which-is the church" (Col. 1:24 . • , i . . "from all sin." " 76 THE PREACHER'S March'21--Mornin_ Tile Kasc's . TExT--BleJsed_bethe b. WELCOME King that cometh name oJ the Lord; peace in heoven in the highesl (Luke '19:38_. • ScmeruaE LEssos--Matt. rl. or Luke 19:28-40. IXrROnL'CTIIIN: 21:1-9. in the and.glory (2) or _,_ank 11:1L -. (31 b. A steep footpath over the summit of OliveL c. The nat{Iral _oall by which n/punted travelers mteretl Jerusalem. over the southern shoulder of. Olivet. " Jerusa)dnl tvbo had been attractt;d hy.th_sl{outing of hc_sAnnas upon the pa_t of those with Jesus and " were cohlingout to inquire r_gard• " in_ the shciutin_, " h. 'File rebuke of the Pharisees. " "Master, rebuke thy "disclples" (Luke 19:39L "Jesus' anS\VEP (I,nke 19:.101. The l+hari_ees recogrlized, that the disciples-were identifying Jesus as "th+ fulfillment o/ the promisvd Messiah " (Mark ll:10J. . .Jesus accepts the plauditsand titus recogl_izt..s Hit fulfillment ol tile i)romise. c. Cast this be the same group that a little . latei" will cry "Crheify bim'? _11 (2) crowds sho_'ed Him: kingly rever- b.Our . . _a, Life and shouting, must harmonize.. " lib..The' place of emotion in worship and religion, br_inches (See 2 Kings 9:121• The shout of thE. people indicated theirhopes, . 4. Chrisl'_ en]r)' will be marked.. a, -He _eeelved the wekome of he the King that cometh name of the Lord" (l.uke . be ".the kingdom of our Davnd. that cometh in the litton, (1 No outward The throngs in the city who heard ' the shouting inquire. The answer comes from the disEiples like lhe perils fromar, echo organ or. the response-from an antiphonal choir, (12)" " 2 " Christ . Christ tidns concerning Christ in the Oil Testament. are conl_ected, not with .. His Brst.coming to dle as an atbning Savior, but with His coming to rule as King." • " from Egypt. Within the heart Christ would celebrute our deliverance. ThE Pauline insistence is. _'Christ "in you the hope of glory•" Christ must be the central figure. _ a. "Who is this?" the world.asks. "(1) Our testimonies _houM declare Hint. . (2) Our lives sltguld demonstrate tlim as the delivering Passover Christ. Kin_ Lndcedt tile 3. - courts of heaven ril_g.Y' 1[ will be a day of joy for tile Christian. a. High ricipate.or low; dch or poor[ all will par- b. The Passoverdeliverance from Egyptian . . bonds of sir'will.becelebrated. c. Significant contrasts. First Enti'y, there were Pharisaical crlticisms. Then, joyous.itccord. First Eniry_ Jesus must weep over Jerusalem. ; . Then, all tears will he wiped from'tile eyes• First Entry, the temple mBstbe cleansed, Then,. written over the gate, "No sin may enter here.!' First Entry, some of th6se_ Who -cried "Hosanna" woutd soon cry "Crudry.',' Then, it is l'Iosanna+ Allelujah un. broken eternally. " _CONCLUSION " Christ cro_;ned.within the heart now will he the ciedential that will admit one to the Coronation at His final crowning. second • - - ingIn.the Testament' the tomggain New of Jesus In glorlous-triumpk "occupies one of in'every 25 " verse., from Matthew to the Revel_Iffon."----D_. R, .A, Tb_l_/:_,.(2) Every ",;:rlter In'Old hnd New Testa-; meat makes'reference to the rsecond " " " coming" of Jesus directly or indirect. . ly. . 2, It will be a day ol glorious triumph for the _ King• " Tr.xr--And when they (yore come 1o the #lace whioh is called Calvary, _here they crucified hin_, find the _ale]acfor_, one on the right hand, and-the other on the le]t "fLuke 23:33), INrRdnuCXtOU; . I. Mus]cian._ and artists a_ weB. as preachers and tear.hers have made valuable conttibu: finns to.the pl¢turthg of truth. GraphlcallS, the serpent's "The seed ofhead," the woman shall bruise At the cross ihe" heel .o( the seed o[' tim woman was bruised. At the second coming the head of the serpent shall be bruised. have artists painted their conception of Bible incidents making mor_ real and' vital the truths they present. 2, Herbert Schmalz has a masted'piEce .which he has callecJ., The Return from the'Cross. In" the foreground Is Mary the mother of _a_ ". be. proclaimed (2) Psalm 24, gives a prophetic r,ong. c. Religious emotion will be at !ts highest. "And I expect to help them make the the foal of an tess" (Zech. 9:9). Christ's second comin_ and entry into the New Jerusatem is foretold repeat- . " edly hy both.New anti Phi Testament writers. . .(1) Notch--In the Old Testament. '+If)'. far the greater.por t of. the predic: acts of service or rain- will Antiphonal choirs of heaven will sing. " . " " "Who is the King of glory?" "'Who is this King of glory?" "The Lord of heats, he is the I_ing of glory" (Psalm 24). Lh8 corn- b _ 77 "The Lord strong and mighty, Lord mighty in battlE." told by'Zechariah 'fMait. 21:4, .5). "_Rejoice gr_'atiy, O daughter of Zion: shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; be-_ hold, (he King eometh unto thee; he is just and ha,)ing'salvation. Jowl)', - - and riding upon an ass, upon a colt . (1) will . him." c. Christ will "cleanse the temple.. IIl. TIlE PROPII_IC ENTRY OF CI[RIS_t INTO _IIE NEW J_:ans.tLe_ . I. It win be the lulfillment of prophecy, "a. Christ's entry into Jerusalem was Core- istries Sermon of gracewill The on.the substitute• Mount places emphasis upon heart religion, h. Jesus directs Himself toward the heart• (11 In the heart would Christ bE declared King• _,(2) Passover commemorated deliverance . of mon peol_le. However lowly, Ire _vill contc, h_ Christ's coming wUl be marked by ohedience Him. upon "The the part'of ceive M_ster those hath who need reof ." - •(2) 13} b. ployed to welcome a king. The colt of :an ass. the spreading _ "of garments, the waylng of palm "BleJsed in tile 19:381. "Blessed father MAGAZINE . 3. Our praise a_d recognition confound the erittcs. ... TIlE EXI'FRIENTIAL I_NI'RY INTII rile th:_,T I. The journey of Jesus. into .the heart. a..The heart is the.citadel Of all true re- . . voice and life people was the spirit of expectancy. The means used were after emo criticize religious emotion. 0_ was it that tbey saw the tendency' to recognize Jesus as Messiah? ' .: " c. The eommon,A_eople, These ever thronged tile minLstl-y of Jesus. - " " . 4." The part Christ phtyed, a. Gave simple.directions . b Modestly and passively accepted the homage of people. - . ." c. Rebuked the critics+ /d Wept over Jerusalem. c. ClEfinsed the [umple. IL PREACHER'S 11) Must proclaim tlim King of "kings. (2) Must exalt Him as Christ of God. (A) PPraise is comely." " hame of the J.ord" (Mark 11:101 A. The cro_ds that thronued, a. It is estimated that thousands attended . "these.holy festive llccasions. b.'_ Pharisees, who represented tile 'religion_ists, were tliere. "They found place to "l'ln_ IIIslOI_ICAL ENTRY INTO JERUS?.LE_t I. 'File journey was toward Jerusalenl a. _Jestts and and tits teaching. disciples had come. Preaching Blessing of little chihlren. . Healing of blind Bartim_us. Conversion of Zacchmus. . " " " b. In Jerusalem was celebrated the•Pass. over• C. All true Jg_('s, who-were able. journeyed toward Jerusalem for this occasion 2. Jesus•was the central figure, a. "Who is this?" (Matt. 21:101. / " " . 2. The Prepassover period of purification, the six days before tile Passover ee[ehration ., Two vast crowds of peoph • (1) Those journeying with-Jesus toward" " Jerusalem. • i 12) Those.[within and coming from. I. The THE. once. It) Long had Israel looked for a king, and strong within the hearts_of tile 1. Thre_ waysfrom BEthany to JerusalEm. : a Long, circuitous way over the northern slinulder of Olivet _ .' :' MAGAZINE " {1_) -March Caossr.._ 2lREv,_ning or* D_Y ' - • - " 78 " TIIE PREACIIER'$ MAGAZINE Jesus helng led'.homeward leaning heavily upon the shoulder of Jobn, Mary Magda[erie assisting. Across the valley lies a dark cloud beneath which the city of Jerusalem t_ faintly outlined. A riftin tlie clouds c. . t.H •God saves through "" e. cross The dull thud was ll'. So far as Pilate a b. c. making. ! of the hammer's bh_w =..%.,.. ,, c. concerned crosse.¢. d _ religious leaders were ever 2. This' is the kind of man unin his God'man's "Save the'self and us." a The cry of the mtdtitude. (I). flissed out in bitter hatred by. the high priests.. " {21 Launhed out in severn, hy tl_e.soL - " """ diets (3) Mocked trot in derisinn by-the cab- . . hie. Wbispered pointmenl Christ. - Would you have Christ descend? (1) Leaving the thieves npon crosses? (2) " . (3/ 3 disM_- their Or bring down the bitter impe_ent one as v_'ell as the. broket_ pel_56t one? • The only salvation po_ihle.for any one was for Christ to endtlre t_ the end_ . , . 'l'L_,a- Mar_; all Several or fie am ,anti ulorious Cross ol the Iteconcile_l: Thg penitent thief. tl) "Rebukes the scoffer "Luke .23:401. (2] Acknowledges Christ _Lulce 23:41 _ {.ll Sues for-pardon (Luke 23:41] (41 Confesses his sin (Luke 23:411 " "Nothing in my hands 1 hrlnm Sirpply tn thy dros_ I. r n_" Evenr_he per_ence'ui Christ slid not reach, him The rebuke oi his fello_ did nut -" " (3) " deterhim. " h. Cross siznifies cross pun_oses with life, fl _-'So_nething within the .nature that " refused,to parallel itself with God. (2_ This cross within the natures of " .men. " " " . Places men at right amdes with each other, CONCLUSION J_Christ-is the -bond between an offet_ded God and an offendipg world• 2. Our message is, "Be ye reconciled to God." t'God was in Christ, reconciling the. world unto himself" f_ Cur. 5:18. [9f " (15) :ometh rrlrt_' year,¢ ,mo'wl_ile.pasto_'jn .occasion to visit an tom us he inul just . _lorious At tightangles with" God. The cross of Christ failed because of His attitude. " Messace) ;llagd_!letw .wa_ vr dark into 1he ._epld?her and _rone taken ,a_ tJohn 20:1 ). S¢-_wr¢,u_: l._:.sscm J,!m 2o:t_t,s: [.xrluml'cXloN: b. The assurance of [nrci£'eness (Luke 23:4.1t. "Thi_ day thml _halt he with Int, .in paradise." c. The middle tins, t_f reconciliation had .worked its miracle. . The Cross of the tmreconciled a, The unrepentant thief. "it) The him. 0resence of death dkl not soltell " c. 79 (Easier : (2) out in pity and by" the disciples, - h. Nobody is concerned ahout the thieves, (l) Whether they come down from the cross or _ot, . (2) A I eyes were_n Jesus. (3) Tltese two crosses of the thieves were *.wo. reasons why Ji_sus .couhl not save Himself_ c. The a. and " MAGAZINE March 2S----Morning Rt:st:nat:crlo._ REefer.scioNs it be rueeed! Let it he hh_odstained! Scorned? Let it be scorned[ Spittle? Let- there he spittle! d: lie has mad_ all tile cross means because of what lte is! t.. l know. fle is the Son of God could "not have heen man as 1 taken my cross aml me to nlake in" llira'selL " " criti- sorrows, heart yearns for. Jesti_, takes one of these crosses h/akes il a thin_ of glor2,_ and love. (4) " (14) Jewish h. The crosses of man's folly, belief, sin. C-od idenlifies Himself.with it was Chldst" _hade the cross." Thousands had met death on the cross before this and thousands after, but a are forgotten but Christ, " " "The o d rugged cross'.' eao be overdone unless tbls be remembered, the will of God. " e. Pilate ga_;e Jesus t¢ the same death a_ ' " hi'gave the two t}lwvesand for the same reason, cruel. It is the Christ of the cross• (1) The cross did not make fie sought Rugged? Lel Bloodstained? cizil_g litre. [or this, "l-le recefveth sin. .hers and eatetk with them" ILuke 15:21. tbms nnil instituti6ns. Thieves were blatant, bold, rehellious, eli. Jesus. Was. tame of: these .liul mort! danzerous to tbe state int: J'esus was holy, true and good, and taught 'men so. • " This disturbed the-state and church and hrouzht moral revointinn !2) TIlE cross wa_ mannetic. To attract the world. To hoht. the worhl. To'save the 'world. ,. And I. f I _k"lifted up, will draw men unlb me," The cross ever file stumhlin_ block _ IJ. No special, merit accrued lrom'the metb. od hf His death. . e,' Death on a gallows wouhl have bee_ meritorious, for God transformed .the cros_, ' . ' Jesus m t le midst of malefactors a. •.L The.efficacy of Calvary. . a. Is not in tbe cross. (I) We bare gilded it- with too*much gold, . (2) We Ilave enshrined it witli too much ecclesiastical millinery, (3) The cross is ruft_ted, and stark and b. h. Thecentral • ior the same reasons, a._ condemned, the. thieves • Ill Cross purl)uses with the stale. . t2) Influence was damaein_ In cu_. . PREACHER'S Till: TIIRLE CROSSLS stVl:nE NOI Till: SAM:': The cross of reconciliation. H "['he central cros_ .was made lumihous with God. I. Jesus :did not seek the cross, but He accepted it. of Yaan's was IlL t suffering, {JtH) is In|;NTIFIEII _VtTH _,lr:N" TII_OUGII C_oss . was man's own durum (2) It was man's sin that brought abom. ' conditions that crucified tbi' eood, the pure. the ioly. What sent Christ to. Ihe cros_? a. THE t it. If the cross was there ILv divine appointment Ill_'n why silouhl men he _uilty of the deatb of Jesus? . tl) Did.ludas just fulfill the decrees'of the Almighty.?'. t2). Did Pilate simply carry out t}_e fate of Jehovah? [I) " Bearing tile burdens of men_ . .. ' tieing in the hfflicti_ns of mena_,.;msell-afflicted. 'D I. TIIF. M'_'STER'¢OV Tilt: Cnoss t. Man ._t up the'cross, The " God can save only by.sulferifig. (1) Incredible to men that Son-of God should so Suffer, (2 God's great trutb for this agel re- veals on the hrow of a distant rugged hill, "three crosses sil)wuetted alzainst the darken, ing sky. "F_ese te. the r wn story, o _. Tbest; Ihree crosses represent a tvorJd'._ ti'at!edv and .a worhl's-redemption " - b. . Whe_ seeth tz flu BOston I had- a_ed Baptist minister, lie returned from the funeral of his onlyqlrbther whose sudden death was the result of an accident ff_ told us ht_wenwrapped his life had been wit_ the life of his hrother "This is Easter ti It," said he. _'hut holy" can l _et go6d out ol Easter when such clouds of sorrow are upon me?" The a_ed mtnistel- droppcd his head for a nmn*ent as thoimh in prayerftll nn,dlthti_n and._,s lie rala, d it f noHced a-chane.ed look in his fore'and said,."Itrethren. I rcmerUher that Marythis dtime o1£ he came o the tomb 'when il was vet (lark' and that comin_, she re" ccivcd revel:itinn_ of the _Jsen Lord that lJroughl ereat conifort to " her -heart 1 too will trust lhroueh sl,_d s. 1. The story thai surroumls the text. I. "]'Ill; ATTr,_CTIVI:NLgS6F C|lnlST'$ Toxin I. The: tomb was a repulsive phlce to, come. a. It is not _ecurded that the'ld_h'prie._t or hi_sui_ordinates.eame. b. The _,ddier's remained ou[ of" mill re. . duty. . The almstle_" wral)ped iv IliS:!llpointment had sottt!hl tht'[r Iishint! nets. etc., thai their.sotrow'miKht be foreotten. d. The.""tomb of Jesu's re . , • and a that "_ resents _s the stumbhng block to modern- . c. . • title believers and. critics. 2. The lombhad "an" attraction . . for some. _..Mary awakenetf early and went In the ttimh with emhalmin_ sprees . • Ill Love's drawine power. {21 "When it was yet dat:k)! Disappointment and unhelief had . cast its shadow. h. Heaven wasinterestefl in that tomb and had first sent Easter an angelmessage. representative the to hrin_ ,(. "l'he empty.tomb near Jerusalem today.. • a. Tomhs uf the greM today are visited hecause of those whose dust the}' conlain. Mbhammed's tomb. Westminster Abbey. Gt:ave'of the Unknown Soldier. b. The tomb of the Cl!rist Ihs mt re. vlsd2 .rs than. others. .- _,....z . " I •" 80 THE PREACHER'S Its attraction lies in the miraculous fact that it is empty. IL TIlE RZVELATIONS_OF TIFF:TO_,_Bor C1_RIST ,_ 1. Revelations of unhellcf. • a. It is the testing hour which reveals faith or the lack of it... b. The (M_k unb.eBef 16:9-141.of the al/ostles revealed . • . MAGAZINE THE PREAC .HER'S MAGAZINE Receive ye the Holy Ghost" (John 20:21, 22), "..... b "Go :,'e in_.o all the world and' preac_ the gospeL'-to every creature" (Mark ' " 16:15). . s '. c. "Go .ye therefore, and teach all nations" "| .' (Matt.28:191, . .ll " 3_ The accqmpanying Christ. a. "Lo" I am with you alway" (]_t t. _ " . - _ . .. • • . -'" Testament coming in rule than 3; Able.ssing pronounced upon those who look for Him. a. "Blessed are those servantsl whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall .find watch-ing" (Luke 12:371. h: "Unto them that• look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto - " New " about HIS first comihg to suffer. (Heh. 9:28). (2} Testardent.H. T1t_ salvation" Czat^SSTV_O'eHxs CoMma In the New Testament the secofid com- " 1_ The Bible is explicit at this point. inn is referred 1o 318 limes in 160 a. The word of the Christ himself on the chapters.' " "'night of His crudfixion wag, "1 came " - b; Source of comfort tO those who face again and will receive you unto myself; death, that where I am,-there ye may be abe" "Comfort one another with these words" (John 14:31. . . (t Thess,4:lJ-Ig). b. Paul'adds his testimony. . . " (1) Paul addresses the church.. "The Lord himseI] shall- descend" fro_'p "These words" have _entlrely to do heaven, with the voice of an arch. with the Second C_ming. angel, and with the trump of God; "BUt we would not have you ignoand the dead in Christ shall rise firsh; ran_, brethren, conceenmg them theft we that are alive that are leftl which _re asleep;.that ye sorrow shaff together with them be caught up " . n0t as'others" (1 Thees. 4:13-18); in the clouds, to meetthe Lord in the (2) Isaiah comforts Isr_,el. . . air; sol shall- we ever be with the "Comfort ye, comf6rt ye my pen. . Lord" (I Thess. 4:16, 17). . people, saith your God" II_-t. " Again, "Our citizenship Is in heaven; _ 40:1, 9, 10). whence also we _,ait tar a Saviour, c_ It is the believer's "hlessed hope." the Lord Jysus Christ" (Phih 3:20_ "Looking for the blessed hope and gin21). . . rious appearing of the great God aml c. Peter states it clearly. our Saviour, Jesus. Christ" (Titus "Repent ye, fllerefore_ and turn "again, 2:13). that your sins may be b_,otted out, tl!at so- there may come refreshing 2. "A St/ann Incentive for Holy l_ivin_.from the presence-of, the Lord; that a."Be ye also toady" (Matt. 24:44). lie may sen_l the Christ who hath been (11 Not re/death us is often arghed, appointed for you, even Jesus'_ (Acts . '(2) But_for HIS coming. "" 3:19221i R.V,). "The Son 'of ma_ cometh" (Matt• _4:441. • . . 2. Some say these passages do not refer to b. Faithfulness m service. ." • a distinct • second coming• "Blessed is that servant whom • his Lord, a. atBUtthethatdeaththeypfr_ferthe believer.t° Chrlst'sThisComing_can. , •when he cometh, sh_ll find so doing" not be•true, for.at the death of the be(Mat1..24:45, 46). liever Christ does not come "with. .• c. Shun the sins of the generation, shout," nor wlth "the voice of the arch"_l'ake heed to yburselves le_t at any time-• angel," nor _'with the trump of God." your hearts.be o_,ercharged with surb_ Some have said the coming of the Holy felting lad drunkeni_ess, and cares of. Spirit is the secbnd coming of Chrlst. this life, and._.that day shall come It) Christ does come In a very real npon you suddenly asa snare" (Luke sense in,the: coming, of thq ,Holy " 21:34-361. . " • Spirit. (1) That we he unashamed. (2) But the coming, of :J.esus refi:rred . I fib) upon It. _ "And they, when they had heard that " 28:20). _ " bewas alive, and had been seen of her, b "They preached .everywhere, the .Laid . . . believed not" Iv. 11). 5vorkinn with them" (Mark 16:20). " "And'they went and told it unto the ,I.TbeDeath Conquering Christ. -" residue; neither believed they them" Iv, 131.. , a, . I huve power to lay"down my life and "Afterward beappeared unto the-eleven _ I have power to. take It again" (John as they sat at meat and upbraided t0:18L . them because of their • unbetief and b. "Because l live. ye shall live also" (John " : 'hardness of heart, because they be14:19L c. '_f have the keys of hell and of deMh" lieved.not them which had.seen him .. after.he was risen" iv. 14). " (Roy, 1:18). "But Thomas said unto them, Except COtCCLUSm,_" " • I shall see the prints of the nails . Christ is the divine Columbus who has explo[g'd., I will hot believe" IJohn 20:1-29). the uncharted seas of death and has returned "Al_d when they saw him they worshiped to-tell us of a nose world ,_ him: hut some doubted" (Matt. It is the Christian's faith alone thai'can pierce . Christ is to. of IbeEaster. shadows of the tomb and lind the Christ _ c The28_17). resurrection of "Jesus . day and has been through the centuries .. : • the focal point of the attack of nnhelief. 2. Itevelations of Endurin_ Faith. - March 28---Evening a. Faith shines brightest when contrasled TOE LASXWean on a background of da_'k unbelief "When it was yet dark]" . . " "l'_:XT--I ",till see yo _gain .(John 16:2z). " .. (1) John, "Which came -first to the This same Jesus R,hieh is taken up ]ron_ _pulcbre, and he saw and helieved" ,y_,u into l_eat,en_. shall so come _n like man, (John 20:8). nor as y,e leave .Seen'him go into heawen (Acts (2) :"Mfir_ believed" (John 20:1"81. 1:111. _ ., 3. Revelations of Personal EnriChment. [_'ra°vt'crt°h"_ • .. a. The believer is ,_lways rewarded• 1. Jesus had often foretold His death to His fl) Angels appeared iv, 121. apostles but the; had failed to understand., (2) Comfort of assurance (Mark 16i5, . a...Their minds were so set on his setting 6; IVlatt, 28 5, h) up a temporal kingdom immediately that • _'3_ The-lay of victory, "He Is Risen." the_,_ad ears foi:'naught else, . " L Evenfs have.moved swiftly during the clos.IlL T_ru MESS_OZor Tn_ TO_,S_ inn days of His earthly ministry. l. Th_ livin'g Christ. "He is risen." . a. His crucifixion had dashed their• hopes • " "a.."If Christ be not risen, then is our" - . , to broken fragments. " "" p_'eathing "vain, and your faith is also b. Itis resurrection had revived these hopes vain" (I Car. 15:14l. "And ye are: yet and .made them to .glow with a new m your sins" Iv. 17). meamn_. b. "I am he that liveth, and was dead: e. He is leaving them again, His earthly and behold I"_/m alive forever more" completed /md their minds are " mission {-Rev. 1:18). bewildered with c6nflicting emotions, c. "Why seek ye the living among the. 3_ His-promise revived to come agaifi, _. ". dead? "He is not here," but is risen" " a. They see His former utterances i_[_'a (Luke 24:5, 6), new light. 2. The CommL_oai_g Chr_t,"_ . ". " _ b: .The last word given to themas they a. "As my 1_ather hatl_ sent me, even so " " view His' ascension is the promise to _pd I you .... and saith unto them. " return, I. Tim L'_I"OkrANCn'OF HIs COM_O 1. The importance the Bible places a. _Oft pi'ohlised, (11 Old Testament. More said in the Old about Christ's second glorious majesty to 81 "Now, in.him; that, Bttle if hechildren, shall beabide manifested, we may have boldness, and not b_ ashamed at' his. coming" (1 • /ehn 2:28). The grea_ reason for being true to Christ. is that we may • be ready • When He returns...... .. flT_ . . " - . to In the.so spokenhad of largely after passages the Holyis Ghost been given. Then. again, _'_us at • the coming of the Holy Splrlt, does not !'receive us unto hlrusdf," nelth- er is there '*the trump of the archangel," no shout, no resurrection, no rapture in the clouds, cte. i 82 THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE have said Lhe coming of Christ tb the destruction of JeruSalem age, until m tav that Noah entered the ark" II:uke 17:26-30. R.V.). (1) The destruction of _lerusalenl was a type. of the judgment of thlsatte and in Matt. 24 and Mark .13 the. two events are described in tile "['he day of"the Lord lvill m)t cpnw _imtil after the revelation of the man of ,in aml Ihe.fcdline away.. (21 " _ same p,'Lgsages,-" "" llul at the destruction o Jerusalem: those who?slept in Jesus "werc not raised, livine helievers were not cauehtup to meet the Lortl in lhe air. anti hodies' of. helices, is wore not transformed.., . .' . Years after'the destruetior 6f ¢'usah'm_ee stillf]mI-John'lookin_ • - and it is definiteb an eyent yet ortaken l{l." "l'llr; "l'L_t_: Ova phlce, l.oan'_; Rt;Tt•Rt¢ l. 7Fhe' exact time of t{is-return • . . . • (.re.the smrni " "'gVhen these things , not secret. , " . . a Jestls says; "l|ut •hi that. tilt)" and hour knn'_veth _ no man. no not tile snivels of heaven neither' t[leSon, hut the •L The , : " 2 ;, Jesus replied to the disciplds" when they _tsked "Lord, dust thou at this time restore the kingdom.of, Israel?". Hints concernin_ the period of His comine. a. When tits disciples think not.."Therefore he ye also ready; (or in such an hot_r a_ _ "ye Ihink not tile Sire of man cometh.". b." occupations. When the world is absorbed in its ugu;d "As it came to pass in the days.of.Noah, even so sha.II it he aiso in the days of the Son of man, They ate. they.drank, they married, they were given in mar- ()a) of our l,qrd IP_a. 66 18).. Lack,_ff spiritual:fervor 6:1•1. . . I1: PEOPLn tit" Gill) WILL I_.EVlVAI_CuMns I. Flesh 2. Union at any The "- (2 " - and Iookin'g be ye men "lte may.return.as a, thiefi9 night" (Matt• 24:42-44). , ' .. _; Be such _a man, livd sudi u life, that if every man were such a man as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's.parsdise,--PIIILLIPS Bt_OoKs. " " I_.EJOICI- WlIEN " "rile Inhei'itance • . (C,fl 3.2). ---S FJ.E{'_'E[I Wreltllng lie prayed: l Privately--,"Jacoh 2. Purposefully--"l tlhoU bless meY was leit alone. '1 will not let thee go except 3 Persistently--"And there wrestled a man with him tlntil the breaking of the day." ,I _ass onwase v--"And the ashollow of Jacot_'s thilzh out of joint .he wrestled with - thou " The _even Things "-..... for' Which I_ Christ 0.7 'l_u 'l'q_ replenish _cek _antllife_aveIjohn the Itt:10) to he 'didlleS Iff:lOI. . lost mankimf " " A SermomSerlv_' ftd[o_int_ _ere used hy " ' (Luke " a p:_tor lects for it seven-week series o[ messages: 1. Letter of Christ to an Average Church 2:1.7). " 2. Letter of Christ 2:8.1 t): . (,Luke --SELI;CT,_:[J." -'- The Said" C_tme 2. The strengthening of the, inner man a. Building 6f. Christia_ character: - . - power " • I "1",_hring heavenly light (John IZ:461 2. To _judge wiliul hlindness (John 9:39) 'l't_ tmkindle'conflagralions ulon earth 12:.P)_• 4 "re cause divisions. (Luke 12:51).5 To enlhrone truth (John 18:37). " ' IlL ALL OF ,Tills TO.IIRING A CERTAIN. b_NOWL--_oat: . -. 1. The-hope of our calling. 2. To. comprehend ti_e breadth anti length. depth and'height of tile love of Christ. 3: .To kr/nw the greatness of Ills power It) us-. ward. _1_ 7. His character (Matt.-S:3-lll n ltis influence_his.stamlards > Ifim." 5. Regally--"Fnr a_ ;t prihce l_ast with. Gt_d and ham prevailed." " " l, By His Spirit, . 2. Rooted and _oumted in love. • 3. Christ dwelline in th,2 he;itS Ire faith, " .t.. ,Ills growth i2 Peter 3;181. 5. Ills dress (Rum 13:14i. 6. His _peech (Matt. 26:73). I. "The eyes _ your imderstandine'heint,, en.. iifd_tened." " " it. By the 'spirit of wisdom and revclatilm in the hnowJedue o( Him h An increase in spirituid perception e, Tite vision t_ he intensilied. h. The squl life to be hui!t up. c. Motives to be clearer, conscience keene_: the outilowing of spiritual more promin_'nt d. Manner of this development tht: CONCLUS!Oh" - 1. "Hear the .parable of the fi_ tree -• (Matt 24.',32, 33L " " " "When ye shall see all thege things, know that it is near, even at the door." "2. "And they that were ready went In witi_ Ifim to 1he marriage" (Matt,'25:lO). Hit March CAmos I "Our"inh0ritance" IV, 141. 2. "His inheritance" Iv. 181; " 11. "TILE TIIINGS _}IAT GOD EXPEC'IS To'SEE COM_'; .Ot,-t oe ths 1._'zl_.•rlr,,,_:c_;iN rJl£ SaiNts for their Lord: when he shall return froth the marriage feast; that when he eometh and knocketh they shay straightway open unto him" tLuke 12:35. 36"1 13/ Gad (Ephesians l:lT-1O; 3:16-19) J. SI_r.AKS,OF.TWO [NII;:RITAN6KS in _ t.¢otnlry( having left his ." house, and niven authority told his _ervahts In watch lest coming he find them sleeplng 't (Mark 13:3436L " "Let your Ioing be girded up, and your la,m_ like hdrning;, yoursei_es unto of for " dadoh limits appreciation [t_r. God ot the sain'ts, Rfehel 83 " Lewis T. Coder 111. lJR?,VER.WILL |IRINn TIlE DESIREI) RF,gtrl:r6 We ;Ire exh'._ded t. by watchinz and ready ever. " " e.. llihle pictures n[ tht_ near approach. Il_ "It iS ;iS when a .main .sojourning. "- " Revival 85:61 " 3 " " " to corn6 to may. occur " MAGAZINE Suggestions I!SALMISX, WAS A LITTt.r*: Usct:aravr_ AS _o t.VIIFA'ItERGun WouLn.l)o IT Lack of knt_wle, lze hlnder_s God (Hoses4.;6). 2 Covered sih and unconfessed sin hinder God llm(.. "" ;,. White . we are. "nut. a_rthorized to set dates_ yet we dare nid say H'e will not come todaY! " " 13L Jesus knt_w Daniel hut declared He did not kflow the'limeof the secomi corn" tne. • • Calculations from the Great Pyramid of• Egypt fall under the _ianle nqre]iability, "It is not fm_'ybu 1o kno'w times or sea. sons. which the Father hath- set within his own authori}y" facts 1 6. 7, R.V.). _1. " b: • " , h. Calculations ft'om Daniel '.;'ere never Intended tn li,x the exa.ct- date of our Lord's return, The prophecies nl Danidl were,read v the.people at the time Jesus .uttered tile words found in Matt• 24 and Mark d. return Prayermeeting A Succeuful tP_lm " pass." we should "look ug and lift up our our,.redemption draweth rli_h'!I)eads (I.uke(or 21:281. Father t y" tMatt 24:56. also Marh 1,_:,121. "Walch therefore; for ye know'not what hour ('ollr I,ord dnth _:ome" tMait, 24-:,12L" c b_in " " _pi}itg and doctrines of devils" tl Tim. t:l'l. See alstl 2 Tim. 3:1-3, "l'hc_e hldieations :ire the mlllterili_s he- d is a divine " "l,el no man heguik: you in anywise; foe it wilil,nqt be _'xcept tile falling ,_ 'aWay came frst,and .the man oi_ sin Im revealed" 12 Thews• 2:2-4. It V,L "Iio1 the Spirit saitlr expressly, that m Pater times some shall.fall away from he faith. _ivin_ heed to • seducing Jr.- for,.-Christ's second coming.tRey 222201. Ji_sus ' "cerebra is c_rtain, " THE'PREACHER'S c. Some refers I . " to a Struzelinz - Chfireh as sub, " (R_v. free. ,I. L'etter of Christtt_ a Tcstifyint_ Cltoreh free. 2:12-17].. 4. Lette_ of Christ to a Progressive Church trey. 2:18-29}. -5. Letter of Chrisl to an Unspiritual Church (p,i:v. Letter 3:1-61. of Cl_rist in an..Evangelistic Church tRey. 3:7-1_). 7.. 12,tier of Christ toa _Aorhlly-mindcd Church (Rev.3:I4-2!L --St:tr, CTtt_. . _. .. The Mahmg of a Chrtsttan I. tits birth (John 3_7). 2, ttis name (#-cts II:2OL 3. ilis_food (Matt; 4 4) o. 09) , 84 THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE " -" _"/" _-- [ t L Spiritual Thrift. Parable _d.the Virtfins (Matt. 25:1;:I,t1. 3". Spiritual investments. Parable of the Talents _'Matt. 25:14-30). 4. Spiritual l)ividemls. Parable o{ the Sheep • TheSoveretgn .Lord "Whoconvicl.eth me of sin?'! (John 8:45). "I am the light bf the world" fJohn 8"121. : ! "'I"lamain thethe door" 4JOhnway, (John 14:6).10:9f' . and Goats .(Matt. 25:JI-461. --S_:Lr:trrt:t_ "'I am the good shepherd".(Jobn, ll:14). " " " -" -"I i_m "the brea_l of life" (Jolm 5:351. "The Thoughta that Moved Je_u_ "I Mn the vine"'(John 15:5}. Are they the thoughts that move us? "f am tile Son of God" (John 1o::3611L- I, He thought, n{ God as llis Fatlier fluke "I am the resurrection and the life" (John 11:25). 1"5:11-22I. "I am alive forevermore" (Roy: 1:18). 2. He thought oi men ,'ts Ills brothers fMatt. t God'_ Presence i -; I. l'aoeHzr's ALl'f: "tlsaiah 58!11, 12) M_ssa(;_: re EucouRat_ . " " c. Thy d.. Divinerighteousness go]dance, shall go before thee 3. Results of God's Presente. • a. b. c. d." _I ! Build up the waste places Repairing of. the breacl_, Restorer of the paths to walk in. Laying the-foundations for.future Kenorations. IV. EVERYCIIRISTIANSIIOULD'.YEARNTO LB'E -Co_'rlSUaLLYt_ Gdo's .Pg_r_c_; _ " " Winning IlL 1. 2. 3. 4 5. 6. Z 8, How? Acts 1:8. First be endued with power. Matt. ye, yoursel[ to the situa1 Car. 22:9. 9:22. Go Adjust lion. 1 Car. 1:21. ByDseaching the gospel. _ 1 Car. 2:4. The kind of preaching needed._ I Tim 2:1. First of all praying.. Ram. 10:l. A Moses' henri desire. Ex. 33:12-23. derdre and prayer." 9.. God's w_.y, God's presence, God's glory, (2o) - . 65.. wasY°Urimportant fnrChildrento praYthe Sonand ,Ioveaf GodJesus?tn pray,Ifitit _is mtl_h more important for you to pray. We . older ones are going to pass off of the staze of action; unless.we train and teach our little on_ to carry on the worK, we have hetrayed the Master. "Is it I?" IL Do You Go "re Sorcery Scttbot. aso'Cnv_cH . -; _ "God Spoken" " An' Outline Study of "the Book of Hebrowl I'AVI. $. ItlLL Hath "_ F'I")_[( this' rather lengthy inti'oduction /_ o the stndv a[ ltis humanity, we can .at. .Ik look at" verses 5. and 6, of" chapter 2. We cite these t_'o verse_ because they are-an abrupt statement introdueeil from the Old Testainonl to the effect _.hat J'lhe woHd to come" is under the suhjection ofangels, but under Rrmvl.._uLv? " Pt_YEaMr.ETtNC.S? .Your indif= ference will cause others to'he indifferent. Your •nm the subjectiou el man. Man Not angels but indifference may cause someone to lose his man. llaving tzotten to this point we can pass ---SELE(_rEI_" Svtatfv. "Souls ' •" i Humanity tends to substitute hwm for godM_tz_ H. Baowr4. " " linens. I. SOULWlNNINn IS OUR WORK "2. People sometimes depend on pkst .blesglngs. 1. Matt: 4:19. Fishers of.men, L 2g:|9, 20. Go ye--I am with you II. Goo's Pa_SENCE " 3. 22:37." First commandment, ] Conditions that bring theDivine Presence. 4. 39. "Second commandment. a. A self-saerificit]g interest in God's work 5. 20:6. Why stand yehere idle? and inhumanity. 'If. IMVORrANCg . h. I_elplulness to others. • I. Mark 8:36,'37. The,wdue af a soul. 2. Characteristics o! the Divine'Presence. 2. Jude 23 Save souls from fire. a. Light sha/I break forth, "as tile m0rnine. 3. Jas. 5120. S_vg, a soul froM death.; "h. Thine health shall spring fdrth _peedily. 4. Pray. 11:30. This is wisdom. • 5. Dan, 12:3. Soul. winners sha'll shine. [ saying the same thing. One of you who dips "sop witil me shall betray me or has betrayed me.. You say, "Is It I?" anti you answer the question. I. 13o You HAVEF^MIIA"Pt_AVER?DO you'teacb (especially 10).a servict. (Mark 10:35-. 3. 28:1-10 lie thoueht of life as 451 4. lie. thmmht of a life beyond (Luke 20:27-401. _EI.t:CTED _,.9-_¢--"'_"_ THE PREACHER'S . MAGA'ZINE . n,ell 03 tiie Bible? Do our children have con"is It |_>" (I, _r-fidence in our religion? If nob "Is it I?" that _fARVINP. I',fcCo_¢ has betrayed 4he Master. Are we ashamed- to Text---Master, Is Jt I? (Matt, 26:251. speak to our cilildren who are un_aved? SupIsT_ODUC_tort--Vhualize Jesus and Lhe twelve pose riley are lost? "Is it I?" disciples sitting down to the Last Supper_ VI Do WE ,Acci;PT CURIST"^,_lo NEVEa SEEK Then look upon Jesus and visualize Ills fife - ENTIRE SANCTI¥1CATIOH? ft_lm Illsentry to HIS departure. Show what "Is il I?" , hdl111d., (Then .say" fie. whom we-have bren VII. Rl:v/v^t.s ARE ON--P^sTOa AND EV^NC, ELISr speaking of is playing the last act in the PLI_^b FOe IfEI,P. drama.of life,) Do you stand llke an iceberg_and never speak Every step He took Ite intended .for you to anyone? Suppose they are lost?, "hit I?" me toHe lake cognizance el. remember. Every word . " and He spoke intended [or us to He VIII• Do You VlSIT. THE SINK? Jesus diff. His was up early to. pray. visited" the sick, disfame_pread. Y6_r failure may be the Cause r,ensed charityj etc. _ era soul being lost? •.'Is it I?" We are here on this occasion to eat supper_ Close h_ 'giving Lot's life In brief, and show with lhe Master (toothing or evening worship) "ho'_e he lost by betraying Gaol. the _me thing is taking place, and Jesus is The Christlan'l Daily-Dozen . Five Great Questions on Life The motto is fallen fromt.Tim. 4:7--"Exercise (From Romans 12) tl_yself unto godliness." The outlin_,x[_llows: 3. How stroll I pay what I owe to God? {Ram. t. A little patience-,--once a d_'_ 12:l I, L A bit of'self:control--somewh_re. 2. tlow shall I deal with the- world? 'fRom 3. A minute of unsblfishness. 12:2"). . _. A flash of generosity. 3, flow shall I me,'Lsuremysell'? team. I2:3LB.,. 5. One kind word--i_ossibly Lwo. 4. flow shall I get along with ether IJeoptell ' 6,.A word of appreciation to somebody (Ram. 12:4-20). 7. An eager excusc-,-for someone else. 5, flow shall.l conquer evil? from, 12:211. 8: One goad deed--_ot left undone --S_E_Trzn • 9. A noble ihought.=_.perhaps a text . " 10. A lidle prayer--for a friend in need." Ot/r'SplrituM Inventory ft. A sudden smile_-wllere it cando some good. (From Four Parables-in Matthew 24:45,-25:46_ 12. A snatch of song--or hum a tune• I. Spiritual Trustworthiness. Parahle of the SELECTED S_wards (Matt. 24:45.51]. ., ' yr., 6z Jr" _ soul. I?"-.lfhe? youThey are not why ,n through the rest. o{ of the the humanity _h,'_pter. of}]ere should "Is a it sinner see interested you fit home ce_taiuly a discussion Jesus.is when yoo s ould he,at God's house. "Is it I?" - What a contrast to the Son at God revealed IlL Do Yov Pay Tmt_ oa Glv_: Or'r_a_u_s in _:hapier one. and yetit Is the same Christ. _/Zo TIIE S"toli_llOl3SgOF GOD? llere it' is "humanity,' "humility," "suffering," I.- Your ]aiIItre means---souls.heinz lost; sdmols "death." There it is "eternity,'! "unchangeahlebeing cased; mi_sionarfi,s recalled from fields; i_ess,""imp,.rlsbahility,""majestic glory." home missiohary work neglected; charity neglooted, pastors prevented frt m t olng pastoral In this .chitpter we are face to face with the work as they should. Imagine wh,.at this mystery of the Incarnation. We re_d here the means by_ reasofi of your failure to pay tithes: processes and accomplishments el the'incarnation " "Is 'it" I?" Charity..shouid he dispersed by of the Son of-God. Here is God, joined to the " Christiana and in the name of God, as it iS, t:ace of. men, withall the characteristics o[ the . God never gets the glory. .Those who are race. Imman nature, feeling, struggle, comp_nionhdped pro se the organization who gives, and ship, temptation, understanding, death. But be God is left nut. : '!Is it I?" careful. Do-not read so much humanity into this 2. Four/allure deprives o/you a great victory. 'That vletdry wotlld have wonderful effeel upcliapter timt y.ou will fail to see the Son of God " 'on others, "'!Is It I?" . " of chapter-one. Look i:atefully and you will see |V.. Do You S^Y, "Exctrsg ME," W _:s.CALLZD the I Migl_ty. in a"human body a human SorFincarnated nature, accomplishing the redempUl'ot¢ _'o Pane, Tzsx_rx, _'rc.? , You tocan't I1 you lion of a racesalvation, sunk in sin, find bringing to that _oin_ die, pray? you could pray. thought Your you failurewere to . .race a great an actual deliverance of pra2¢ or testify, reflects against the cause. Many *.hose who through fear of deatl_ were all their l_le' have een con_,erted throogil prayers lifetime suhjey:t to bondage. at'_' testimonies. "Is It I?' Before we g any farther let .us go back an_l V. Do You Ltw ^ Cnmsr_art L_g ^:r 12Io_z .'rod look at verse 5. "For unto the angels hath he " L_l" YOUR.LIORT Do We lift Christ Sl_]r;x? by our living; if we fail, not put in subjection the world tocome, Whereof we betray the _,Iaster People read oui" lives as "we speak."" Wllat is "the world to come" of (2 l) o 86 :THE PREACHr'R'S M,_GAZINE THE which Ile speaks?" And what_is the"subjection" of that world? And wllat are the characteristics ;dominior., and that such dominion a_ full conti=ol, oFthJnzs earthly ;_rc a mockery to liim, if through • of its substance and the scope of its boundary, tile processes of such dominion he himself is Wilat are the contents of "the world to come".nf hrouuht intd a deep and lasting bondage to such which titb writer to the Hebrews Was speaking? _things as sin, "guilt, fe:ir and tleatli. [_ the first [Icfore we discuss this "wdrfd t_•come." let u_i .. chapter of {:ienesls file dominion given is that to all etemiLb.. he conquerors! clear the field hy eliminatine those 'thin_s that tile epigtle considers as transitbry, attd therefore not suitable _dJjects for ionquest. If a rat_s pry world is cotiquered the . victory is small foe the kintzdom soon shall pass away." Gn. this line of of ,all earthly career, hut the facts of inteli_nce, will power, affections, aU shaped after the I\aage of God" give the _tam ).'td 0 Ier-worldness to . . . ; . humamtv _quch ..no dommmn of a passing eartth " ' " " " glinr_ed tlim fit' the splendor of s t city, and we _'e seen Ilifi_ in t{is humanity. We will not discuss the "unique" personality of Christ reasonimz ran grasped satisfy.Rsr NJan .a rnlnnle is bicker, of quicker" inthe "imaue passine oflifetime.' God," we can eliminate the elahorate system of rellgion,,and huill up with tgpes; inceremonies, washinus sacrifices contained ehe OM Testament "Chat is we can eliminate them a> heint_ the subject'of suhjectiom or charact_eristi." of. th_ world- to. come. The facl of the New Testament when the voice o[ God has s_oken again'by .fJisSnn. sto)s for all time a further development of tire Old Te_tamL, nt sy._tem of • vpes, etc. It also elinligates" tile strictly material kingdom of this world. There is a teaching of Christ on' fold Ul) as "to a izarment. But remain He shall and remainthe Anti them thd world come shall thlntzs that remain lifter the material earth and heaven are fohled'up,these thinus are the thinus that are putin suhjection to man. This "world to come" is more durable thav time. Its scope is broader than the [tarrier of the Jnaterial__vorld. 1I overreaches _he fu est Iistorv rt_stituted "this they worhl." and even in totilea broken tmbitio[Is program [br this oiworht are de[ealed .and discouraged, llumanit_" has ti'aded its Im_ition as conqueror in the world to come [or a disgusting hit of w,_eckaue of. earthly fame, ami the trade has hrout:ht thk'm into hondarze tn sin, guilt, fear. death and eh'rnal Io:_s of fellow,_hip with God. 'of the earth and its denizens. " It is not measured In chapter two x_e see Christ: the Son nf God. lly t:arthly, achievements The, rise imtl fall of the Christ t_f chapter ore'. the Christ with limitall earth's empires are taouzht compared with ii te_,s ahilities and absnlutt, perfectinns; we see |fin| Such thintza as a material world-alford..thim:s joiued [o tllt_ defeated human, race, a race under, which must pas_ with the-world itself• these are honda_eJtn sin, fear_ and death, joined to this tun fleeting, too cheap/for such conquest as ts race hy way ofthe incilrnation, and joined to . - ' depicted in thissccond Son t_f GotP.' joining that fie might pht come•. • The whole suhject back.to the creatioh_ _avc'him dominion. ts clearly stated in chapter, w ere we see the t|imself to'the race of men, in suhjeetiun the worhi Io . of man's ch_mininn harksWhen (;od created man lk: The realm (_f his dominion God's first commission, to him. and includes all ".'egctable animal was life: |t wouhl-not appear that man's anddominion .broader than "the things of the. matirrial world _r lhal Jt was more enduring than the limit of .man's lil_ctimt, unless we discover th_,t humanity has a nature that is not satisfied with such limitec! • (22) workt to come m;ty we OUl _tut y of Lhe first twt_ chapters tit this vpi,qle has led us into tll_ mystery of the incarnation, or rather into whal the theolouians c_ll "the tlnlque pt_rsonality of Christ." We have _., here. _ where thin_s We refer our readers, to any eood we the insist mal er ou is" areal these: y pr[,sented. Christ MAGAZINE" "the race in artier t_mt lie mieiLt .become the "Captain of their salvation, and deliver thenl .who throueh fear a[ death were all'their lifetime _ suhject to hondaee." Th:/t tie may be their S?tvior, and bring them .victoriously into their proper position in the wor]d to-come, where there " is mYIoti_er anvthim_ to.make them afraid, 'this is the teaching ol this chapter, and the conquest is he measured witl_ _l_matee far a greater yards ick.titanIt can includes a conquest ]_l_the realm of sin, guilt, fear death, suffering, and. unto a victorious holiness; and its time duration is more lasting than tile earth and heavens which _hall perish, and be folded up, it eontintles even.. 87 His couraue beside our fear His guiltlessness • . a_ainst, our _uilt. fits infiniteness beside our finiteness, Ills ur v beside our impu(ity, His " s i_eaee hesnle our unres , tl. wisdom beside our foolishness, ills tri_tmph beside our defeat. His merit beside our demerit, fllmself, all that l:le is beside us.all'that we are Here [s the worhl's Redeemer. J_sus C _rist the Sere of God. tnkinu on ltimself humanity's [It'sli anti Idond. "that Ihl'ntmh ileath he might destroy him that hath theolog'¢ was The divin& only the Im_ liver themt,r ofwhodeath, throtmh that fear is, Ihe of death devil; than he. satisfied _o[ . !_; Christ wasunmixed human." with Christ.humanity% was not n()t two humanit'¢ lint one. materialcan thlnns. E_.i_ry with fiber aof passing humanityworldpoints Nat God "to :('",',_oHd tt)come." And in this world lo come unmixed with God. Not man some time and "man ts ,to he more than a slaVe. God did nut God some other time.hut one personalitv_ Goddesiell a lleint_ in 'this owe image" so thai ultiMan. No man," however endowed with _ifts.imd nmtely he would be in hontlage t*[ sin, fear lind _races o'f'the Spirit, can fill the gap of meditadeath hut.rather that it vlctor_ I[avine subjected lion. Nt_t.does it serm that there was ahv other tho_e thin_s which make war. a_ainst his holy "way lo save. the race without tile inearnatlon of _ t_ll:tracler and titus tlestrov his happiness and Ihe Son Welmve Ihi., incarnalinn, tie proces,_., heine, liim into ban(brae. There'is a place here _[ which is the blendine of the human nature _',llere we conhl itijeet a stuffy of the" processes and "divind personality into one personal t.v, and .t throne in the presem Jerusalem; in ;_ reign and.objects of "prohation? r bill time an.d spa_e of universal W_rM i_eace. We do-not wish to dis- "shonld not be yiehled forthis purlmse. " What cuss at _ere. o1115'to say that Illat idea ts not what we are studying is tile second chapter of lfehrew_, is included intbe."_orld to come ofwhich we and here we are face to face with a race of men • speaks" [or in chapter one is the phdn declaration le_ than conquerors, actually in bifndaui_, because that the heavens and the earth arc things of time, ..t r g s hey a:ve forfeitc t _r right to ev. as col are¢ _ltl cerm y. nd t lL hey were cry hint_ '.;'itch n fers t lem as ng mppmess_ T_e hath made by,tl!e Son of God. and that lit'slaM "other-wnrhf" cap_tcities" and characteristics, are i" In that I_REACHER'$ the purpose ¢_t which is deliv[,rance ut the race "frnfft llonllage that t ity m:y fill their prnpcr "nlace as eonqu_:rqrs, anti not _ht'ees'in the world" to come. . The teachine ¢_[ chapter twn is to the effect tbat th6 mcarnalinn is coml)h, tv: It is complete m the sense Ihal the cniiret3 ol God is in it. 11 is complete in'.lhe sense that all n anite wert. afi(I deall their hnndat'e." "Tile lifetime Christ suhject 6f the toNe',( Testament is the one who puts into subjection "the world to come." an_l the extent at ftis kinedom is not only time htll ds e crnitv; and the realm of His conquest, is not only tile material universe, hut also the realm Of faith fear, hope, si_ love, the soul: that nns en, vet real, reahn of values important with the importan&e of eternity, anti man wiU be successful in 'his conquest for his awry'best tntcrests, in this world, anti "the world to come," rely as he is aftached tfi Jesus Christ'bls Savior and Mediator, the incarnate Sort .f God. It is -_n_sihle front the second c m I e " to cam _ile. a lisl of terms anti Idtrases that refer to the humanity of Christ. Beginning with the 9th verse we present such a list ql_ower thari tl_e anneh.." "ft_r the sufferinu t_f death," "taste death ' • " "he for.every man." 'perfect t !routd_ suffering,. is it,. (nd points. dnl notHe merci) • touch it. inhighest entered into humanity its I_rcstat ces fle t k on humanltys every human c taracter st c:. X_ _a an mcarnatton ere s tis, cha lter! .This is nol a daint._' Itandling ol a putrid situatiott. It "i_ the actual clothing of • tile Divine with ,'i hnmanity'lower titan the angelsi" and "sid_ject'.to h6ndage,3' and gripped that wh(_ art, sanctified are itll ofsanctiiieth, one._ "he and_they _s not ashamed to tall then: hr_tbt'e_ "nay brethren, In the midst of the. c rc ',_ s ng ra se nt thee, I ',_ II pill. my trusl m hitn," "'f and the cbib|ren which God hath eiven me." "¢hihlrcn" are partakers ol flesh and,blood. "he also himself tank part of the same_" _'he took on him the seed of Ahraham," ant htipeless in Ill/: hand of death and sin. We wish we couhl net this ipicture..at the completeness of the incarnation, more clearly into view \Vh_ can describe what happened whets.the Christ at chapte_ one hrgught all of God to humanity'? "Inhin_ dwelleth all the fulness of "made like unto his brethren," "he himself hath suffered'." "being tempted." The reader is asked to look up these expresshms in the secdnd dmpter, and note_ that _ev all r_fer to the humanity of Jesus. There are other exliressons w!_ich shtm' the object ol HIS humanity, such as "That he the Godhead bo(hly:'! Who can describe what Ilappencd when the Christ of chapter two hrought :111of humanity to G_d? All of'God mixed with" all of humanity in the incarnation, anti. ihroiagh .the Ifrocess of the death of Christ,for every man. redeemed the whole race from hondaue, arid Iack to God. Not only tram hdnda_e, but back might be a merciful and faithful high pricstt" "to . make recbnciliation _.or tim sins of tlw people." "ahle ,to sltc¢or them that are"tempted." and others. , Before we pass to a further study of-this epistle, let us apply our three tests to the two. chapters Ihal we have passed through. (li Does tile to. God. teaching nf these, cbaI_tcrs agreewilh the teach- - er. T_ incarnation iurnished world's ih_z of the here Phi a_ree Testament? 121 historical Does the Christ ,'_rough that event God the placed all H Redeems power pictured, with the Chrlat beside all.human weakness, arm offered to help. • of the New 'Testament-? (3) Does faith in this He placed. H s holiness aga nst our sin, Hi., . Christ as the Savior bring a satisfactory expert-. etern ty "aga nst our tmte, |'hs abe ence agams enee at_ religiop to the soul? The answer to all oar "disnhediehce. ltis love atminsl m_r rchellion, Lhree is affir na w'. (23) • . • . . . 88 " THE. PREACHER'S MAGAZINE h ' TIqK'PRE.AcHER;_ MAGAZINE • •. " _n Then, too, I"believe that the joy we share er joys.we shall share in eternity. ,i-_ ,, . .. .. "'- ." ' _,_ , ,'_ , i '1 _ . --------_,i--L-_---_-7----7-,--_llp. l_A9 • Why C_ I Sha're the Christian . • . . " .... .'C.B. Strahg ""_ ![ .- T SHARE the Christian hope hecause'.l ] believe it ts consistent with a normal _IK expec(ation of what God ought to do for us. I believe the present Christian life _:animt conceive of this God whom we wor= ship allowing us to perish in death. I share the Cltristian" hope of immortal, ity. oecause of the.t.eak:hing of Jesus. He " ought to be one of service and progress, and. a llfe of joy. One -could not be a Christian wittiout living a life in'_Ervice of plainly., taught that men 's'hould live after death, lqe p_'edldted His own resurrection, and if we believe ifi th,'at, and I de, then it Again, this hope is not the hopeof only ' a few scattered people, but wherever we others,if by Clirlstian we mean that we pattern our.lives after Christ's life. No .• b . norm a ], to one would be satlsffe.d, who is stand still in any line of endeavor, so we gives us hope of being resurrected and of having immortality, The Bible says that "He. became -the firstfruits of them that. slept." If we interpret this correctly it ...................... ,._ Plain WordS to Preachers John W. G°°dwin Tm: PaLadm:a ann lhs SV.ltMou • • .to forty minutes in lengflh and never over •naturally, expect the.Christian to have some means He .heeaole the:first of His kind, but progresslon in his life• Joyfulness shtmld "it eives us.hope of being next in order and characterize the life of any real Christian "of shar[n_r iounorlallty with Minx. who is making .some progress toward .his l)_,iug men by the thousands. ]lave tesobjective. If these are values that may be • tiffed )r g_ xter hope of " to tly - g grace andt realized bere, it seems only natural to eximmortality as the hour of. death appect their they shall not discontinue with pl:nached.: 'l'he.4e lestimon_es cannot be.dis-, death: If there is no life after death. God counted. rr_ HE pulpit is"the preacher's throne. "llere .i, is where he reigns, tlere hL_ should.be at his best. This is the place where'hc shouhl shine. Here is where people judge him as a preacher. He. should never enter the pt_lpit in • careless manner. He should have something tb say, say it, and tlien Quit. A preacher in taking a text should seek never to wrest.the Scriptures. llis text should he the foundation of his sermon, What about a startling or unique text? Sortietimes it might he clone with good results, hut as a rule he shonid stay by the fundamentals, Them is•noexcuse for poor sernmns. Our doctrine is defined'anil of well the Holy Ghost. God has promised the help The sermon is _ Christian error(." It differs frdm common oratbry from the fact that 'it is 'based uponthe Word of God. Its aim is ffalvation, fifty. It wouM be well for young preachers not to preacl_ more than twenty minutes the first year or. two in the begifining of their ministry. Should sermons be repeated? Some of them neverl" I h_ve preached some sermv_ for tb,e first and last time. But .why not repeat a good sermon? It is said that George Whitefield could preach an onpressive sermon better after he had preached it forty times• Good sermons may be r_'poated, but there, are several rules to follow. New._ircumstances"should be 'n'ected. A sermon may be rei_eatedto tbe samecongr_gat on .upon request."For it .is line upon line and precept upon The they thing ,already that impresses ple js precept. sdmething knew. the A panwise preacher may bring out hf the storehoUSeboth ncw and old. If a pastor goes to a new charge and preaches his old sermons tbe_ -should be is onl); mocking the human".race, and espeI do not believe that my service shall . cially is He mocking:those who call them- end with death. I.believe that in. file' fu: selves Christians. as there, is a distinct tllre life I'shall be better'equipped to serve craving in their hearts for immortality. than r have ht_en here. I believe that after When we attempt to tell ourselves .that we-lay aside the hody of flesh:, that suretydeath ends all there is immediately, an intimes encumbers us so greatly, we will be ' ". net protest from the depth of our beifig_, bettei" fitted to serve, Christian preachix_gis the .voiCeof a livinz speaker. The history.ofsermon making will show us that in lhe apostles' time preaching VCasEXplafning the Scriptures and teaching the peoplel In Augustine's time we have 1he first real _rmon making. In Luther's time ive'have',the first modern sermon-making. There are three zreat laws fundamental to_sermon making. First, there must be.a basis a foundation a text..Second, wi_rkedover,new things injected and new outlines wr.itten. . . . Should"many sermons be. repeated from one text? .This-would require research and strong ,gifts. Young preachers should not preach too many sermons on the same text. In pastoral works preacher shouldonbe well prepared .a well rounded sermon Sunday morning. with The evenmtz service may he devoted to exhortation, " I believe that just as we have made progress here we should expect to•make it in'the future -life• I/believe.in the future life because it suggests a larger nnivei'se in wh eli' to make progress. The un{verse l_rom _ believe Him to be a personal God..Our '_ , .personality is of .necessity somewtiat like .] • = HtS becavse He xs our Creator. If, then,: He is t9 llve on, we have the hnpq of eternal llfe also,. We believe that life hereafterdepends entirely upon H s divine will. We which man came was _f'small _ne. He canle furth front tile wontb, from a lifi_of necessarily small .proportions, .into a ]_Jiverse of larget_ possibilit es, and I believ_ tha[_ the step into' the next life will be a. step into a still larger universe. . faith I believe in it. _ Then, agam, the. very nature of the Christian's God warrants his belief in.ira•m0rtalit3;. The God of the Christian has ever been pictured as one who 'qs from everlasting f:o everlastihg.", in additio_i We r_ _ It seems N_ one has ever I ['_eve here in asmatl that God way, guarantees' is a toki_n of a future the great-returned life" find Christians. to tell they us about are characterized it, hut througl3 by tO the Christian by the Very nature of His this hope for blessil_gs on tills earth, and own life; through the life of His Son, and for future blessings in._nity. Hope " .'._ 89 thr6ugh the Scriptures. bnly fitting chatthere should fie a reward J'or faithfulness. It seems only natnral that a transcendent joy should lie ahead of us. " JJ]• Ill - I fz4) • • . " the naturaldivisions_hould clarifythe text. Third. hut the evenmg _rvice "shouhl be filled with In- " . there should beunity as.t0 purpose• tensity•and evangelism. • . What isa good sermou?, it must be well ThEre are four dtfferent kinds of preaching, studiedand well thought through..A good sermon " Textual, "topical, expository, and Contextual, w have some o_ the following properties. First which grows outo[ expository..Textual pre_..chit should he evangelical. A message from God ing might be' described as taking _. t_t and is."evangelical. S_cond, it shouhl develo[Jlnga. sermon Irom it.. This Is one o[ the to human hearts be .instructive.. it Jesus should be inspiring, Topicalpreselling taking a ant._ive a lofty Third, vision of Christ.' Fourth, best topic metlmds. and limiting the thought to oneis subject.A it. s'li[uld be .full of freshness, both of thought- topical index in .the Bible is helpful..Topical and spirit. Eifth, it must be edifying. Sixth, preaching wouki seem the more difficult method, it should be of'modErate length. An ordinal3' hut Is often needful and. helpful. Exl_osltory ' . sermon In the pastorate ougta to be from thirty preaching is also a difficult method of preaeMng , . (2_) • ._ • 90 t 1 " ) TFtF_ PREACHER'S ' i* r . MAGAZINE , • THE PREACHER'S . MAGAZINE o_'_ hand unto tbe Lord"; ]perils, fru|lftdnes_,, "they sball spring up among tire grasses." t_re:Jm, or ollt ml_llt _state ,"In my imagination I saw "this man," or a=aih one conbI ,_ay, "Allow lifo] rhetoric, or even loft)" expressions. I|ut he had. one c_f tbe mo_t remarkable rhetorical arts it _:ould seem to require tile" confidence-el years. But exhortatfo_ should .be inierwoven ibroug}_ all kinds of preachintt. Contextual preaehin_ might be desct'Jbed as taktmz a text anti developmr2. it item tile context. It bas the .elemEnts Conclusion--Wemay receive this, blessing: "The thirsly."'T/first Is tile rcMiz_tion _f need, Thirst. " whe0 protracted; means pain. Thirst hnows no cost to uaJn salisfaclhm, God's prnmir, e is ",l . • t me to picture." anti thell describe, a pogsible evem. In telling stories one _hou|d be careful not to overstate facts, or to relate, as true e_Ents In the lives of people wbieb never did occur, [n telling" experiences n[ healJluz one should of usinz the very words o_' serii_tural expressions to make dear his tliotmbt. One can find all tbrdu_h his sermons statements, expressions. c]au_;es, taken Item the Scripturez to ,enforce ttr Cm_Eiude his thout_ht: It is evident that Wes- nf andof ext_ository. It is method_. thouuht by botb man)' tt_xtual to be _ne the most belpful We might sulzRest a simple outline fronl an okl text. for example, 1 Peter 1:15..16. (J'od's wd[A open '.vfn(lnf_'s•was of heaven." greal theIIre;tcher asl_ed how h e_ uhl ilreach such wonderful, sermtbns; IrE replied. "l mix tbem well with brain anti sweat," It is ne_'cr be r_,ftll to relate Mass.. l'stal)lished Alle_t"mWlSpringfi_.ld, w_/s nne facts. of "tboEthan most remarl_ahh; men ,[ iaith l ha_.'e knoWll and had hundreds of Izennine.blcblents of healine' recorded, h.y was became • great st) I/ible tmt/I he the td God familiarreader to him was Word able Ill express "his lboul_bt in tbtr ]anlzilat_e of [hd) Writ eomnland advisable but to Imliness. Tbe inl.roductiou ougbt not to enter the pulpit t making exCUSES, to. _Et O lengthy and" possibly nd_bt cons;at ofhopin_ to _et syl I lY •from t'he people, Better "a corre_tion of. ideas as to ]bdincss. or what it say nothin_ and do your best, If" unprepared, b nl_t. On the positive side, it mizld bE wall then Eo before tile Lord anil rnilk¢ excuses to l¢_ show that rilE'command is based, first, on the }lira. lie is tile one who called you to preach, lndlness of God. Second,• upon ffis dealilr_s with I{ .is-useles_ to. cxcuse )'bursblf' to the people, _ Ills, I_eople_ in the Phi Testament time_ in tile fi_r tbi_ t_iuht produce criticism and de_troy, all-requirement of tile law Tbird holiness is based precialiorl (in tile part of some _._*' O O erwise on the original [dan of God--fie ha5 eBosen us mJL_bt r!e'rt'r kno'_!, tbe difference. If tile preacher to holiness before the foundation of tile worbl can have God's _rnile, lie needs on!T t¢_ d_ his (Eph. "1:4). Fourtb. it is hosed upon tbe-prt_,'i. bt.;_t •fences of Gbd and'His ciJrrecli,,'e discipline (ild,. '/'}w.pa_lorate affords ;t t.,reat opportunity for 12:11 I. Filtb. it is based upon tile atonement study and biblical researcb. Tbe people have a " of Jesus'Christ (IfEb. 13!121. In •conclusion it right,to expe/:t good sermons. ¢ouhl be grounded on tbe.'eternal ;tbotlc el God's . Tbe natural converzational tone of voice is people, heaven as a holy place. We shoulil never restful to the hearers and much appreciated by your propositions could be said in " •illustrated The method'of by a text contextual found ir_]_r_:aching Isaiab 44:3.nlay"For be I _.ill flour water on hit_ th'al i,s tbirstv and lloods on thE.'dry gronn_l." Introduction--To whom the prom_c _sgiven, "O ]ac chosen.'. I my servant and Twice repealed, /srael whims, [ The ,_rounds for"the, promise. Tile t_ruund" an indication'in: lirst,'an ahsencb I. bate • "dry of,a' devotional spirit;.third, second, an elfort absence-el a'bur- m dell for souls; human to brine substitutes, false /_ods and idols.-n,_od works, 11. The natnre o{ tile promise, tile gilt el the Holy" Ghost, typifit._l by the symbol water, _'_ "l will Uour water." Wa_er is a synlbol of the o v Ghost in that: l_rat, it i_'.t/nivers_dly needed; _t'_-ond,-it is a necessily to life; third_Jt has clea1_sin_ power; fourth, t]_ere is potentiM power ocked upin it: ]iJth, a natural right attaches to all water silpply. . IlL '/'be _zcner_:,ity of tile pr:omise. "I will pout floods."•' is seen m that: first, floods are overflowing; gceotid, they are all.satisD'in_: third. .... irresistihle; fntlrth, enriching, trying skeleton "of life lines, in tile to make a man' with only bones,' a'-mere .without the livingintospirit. The brdatb. must b6 brt;athed our sern_on .out_r lev will bect_mE frightful skeletons puipit. [ trust nut snowmen, fo_ man)' churcbEs are cohl enougb/already. would prefer a fireplace _rnlo_ e_.en if much I of tire heat was /psi up tbe chimney, fiat the breath of life from above will make dry bones live, Let us" then study to put "more lilb into otir efforts• it n y Ire tie)" will r_ecome altraclive, Good illustrations will often make even a poor sermon sp;_rkle, whicb .otberwise might be very commonp/aee Stock illuslrations are sometiines gootl_ but those fresh from'experiencE ,'ire getlerally more ctfEctiYe, Such gopd.illustrations are often hard to g_t.. Some preachers a_e. often tempted to manufacture by tbeir own imagination stories 'th wh'ch, they take a part. ]t would be far betler to follow the Example of the Lord in IV, Tbe results'ofthe promise: tjrst, blessed illustrations by .parables. A [_arable is" a_l_ort, assurance. 'If am the "Lord's"; second, firmness fictitious narrative of a pos_ihle Event n_. life, and fixedness el purpose, "willow_ by the wateror nature from which a moral is drawn. It is courses"; third, perfect "submiss'i6n "to all the - "not'always nece_ar_ to state that the illustration will of God. "another shall.subscrihe witlf his is a parable. It may be itit/'oduced as a day:" . " . . • • , , . mi" he .never " Lights . - P._rT . recorded n case el " [ believe.troth FIVI/_-TItF; and . General . Shadows Superintendent of . can be more forcetully a preacbed Emeritus H.F. " [_R|:ACIIERANn lit'el.', _: llE,'d.lN(; . .- As Jesus -_ Life Preacher'S ' Reynolds • . .,_"f lIE llible, which is God's Word as rEVealed JL. • 'of'the to man,body. eontabts.much aboutas.wlth, tbE healing witbout, as well rclne, dies. . entered'into .... ;_ eertaul village . " " in Sa- marb_ tbere met bim fell men that were lepers . . andhak'e liftednlercy up-lbeir Masler. on us voices.anti . . . and assaid. t ey _esus,went hey were cleansed ILuke I$:il-lq). A_ain _i'e "ind re'corded anotber remarkable case wbere tile Nazarene /n its ._|anual ,f ]'he It)32,Church [r its ofArticles of Faith.has 'Paragraph 15, Pat_e 31 the.lollowihg statement _m Divine Ih, alurn: . "We ht;lievE in tt;e Itilde doctrine of divinC JeHIs healed a. man sick el the. palsy, and as his doorFriendsof couldthE Imusen°twberettEI tbeje_usSiCkwas.mantheyin let:ithimtbe do_vn through' tile roof the sick dwel|in_, ,,°n "_llia" eel, anti Jesussald unto of tilt, man..Art.e. btalintz anti urine our I_etlple to seek tit oiler take up lhy bed anti walk . ..And i_med[atel_' I.be prayer of laitb for the healin_ el Ihe sick, be arose and took ull the bed and went forth.' Providential ale;ins and at_trlcies wben ih;enled (Mark 2:1_12) In these accounts no mention necessary should nut be refnsell?' _d rentedi_s is "made..But if we will read John It i_, recorded in 1 Kings I 7:11-23. _'"l'be , 9:1-38, the aee_mnt of the bealin_ of a man _'_'ho Lord beard thd voice el Elijah, aml the.soul . was blind from his birtb. Ihat Jesus spat on the of- the. cbihl came inlo hitr_ attain, and he re= . _rmmd aft(] made (ointment) clay of the.spittle v,ved"---_vidEntly witbmtt remedies. IIowevel" and amdnted tb_ eyes af the bl[ml man with - when Kim,, Hezekiah was sick aml was tohl that ells, and sabl unto him. "Go wash in the pool nf he wonhl die. he" wept sure and I rav,ed "and tile Silo: n. t . . . lie went his way. therefore', and I,oi'_iitl to him "Behold I wil/ bell.thee." And [saiall"sakl, "Take a lump of li_s. And they t6ok and laid iton tbe boil. and he recovered." TI/Is /nd/c_ates that God healed with a remedy A2 Kin_ts 20:1-7). " " .(26,) tobt bealinlz " until one" year had pas_ed. and • the by lilt' t.ts_, of liible quotalinn_'. The .preacher be:tlin_ coukl be _thtdished b) fact. _ito ¢;m t','el] quote the lli_l) _tl_ r_ _qll enrich In relatln_ illuslratbms it Js better to hrin_, his r_tt'n soul. and at the same- time feed his ill Ihe incident or fact directly, withmtt any: _p¢911le on the ricbest kind of" food I_)r tbe ntelvlalulrat(: ann*_uneemt.nt An incident orsome lect ns _,,•eil as tile soul, Tb6se '.yho claim tbat bist_'_ricjd ['acl ill be Bible t eau fu P." t" ' cat'Ihe Ilible teaches htdlness ,hould become _reat ries ereal force ill illustratint_ trutb. " Itil,k. :preachers_ and able to unfold its trutbs. It J._'a osonrve of great stren!zth tobe able. to Sermons IJlled with Scripture Will lIE effective, for correctly tlUt_le Scripture. and nse the ]lible as G(ld has .said. "So shall my word b'e t'hat "lzoeth Lbe foundatinn tit expressed thnuldlt..I bate fttrlh (lut "el v nroltlb, it sba]l m_t return studk.d tile sermons'el Johu ',,Veslev to discover, unto nee.void bill it shall accomplish that which if _ossihle, his strenglh.- Wesley did not seem It_ I please, and it _hall prosper in tbe thitm where,:_e what _crltlcs wunhl call ek_quence or beaut,_ l st'at it." -_ _ -" " " - articulation dL,stroyed many aborn .good ser-" ggod A strained of.voice antiby poor moz_. listeners. Go_d have' serqrons are pitch i_enerally inspiral;on--the sire to belp someone, heart must and bt_, not moved pumpc in I up tire from deof.duty to fill up the time• a sense Sermon making is a _rEat art. but much like be . 91 and recommended by sonic to r)e reserved for alature years. Taking a pal_sage and expounding one sermon. When you make try preach everytbing tbat back to them tip.by Scripture.,: t • wasbed _md _tme se_in_. . . tbi_ caused much discussion, but in the twenty-fifth verse we read of tile testimony el the man. '!Wbereas I w_ts blind, now 1 see." EvidEntly Jesus h6aled without remedies, and also witb remedies. (27) , • 92 THE PREACHER'S . . MAGAZINE .... THE ' A fe_tlays after Pentecost• Peter and John ments in Paul's writings we have reason to be- u'i[e that went up togetller into the temple at the hour.of prayer . :. "A certain man fame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the _ate of the temple which is called Ileamififl. to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; who seeinz P_terand John go into the temple asked an films. And peter sakl. Silver aml tmhl have I none: hut such as I have rive l thee. inthe name _f.Jes s Christ" of Nazareth rise tip and walk Anti he took him by tht_ rbdtt hand liev/: thai in som_' of his evangelistic efforts he 'hail Luke, whom he calls the heloved physician, travel with him. He also states in 2 ;l'imdtfiy 4:tt,."Onl3"oLukc is with me," aml further gives t;videnee 'of his hlail value of the hody, not only hy havimt Dr. Luke with him, but he asks Timethy that."Tlle cloke, that 1 left at Tro,'wl_wiih,, Carpus when thoti earnest hring'_ with_ilee, ". gwing evidence that he helieved that we mu_t, as far as possihie, take .care" of the body, evet_ and exhbrlinu lifted him up: anti immetliately his feet "l'imtJthy, who at that time had statement that would indicate that the Christkm Church mieht expect mdily hen ng, as well as the salvatioh of the soul; for, by the hands of the _tantiate'the pi)sition that v,'e asa denominatign are in the middle o] the way; on the teaching ol divine'lieal'fmt, " apostles.._ere many signs anti wonders amomz the peoide, anti bt,lievers, were added to the I,ord Multitudes both o[ women, and "they I_rou_ht .fi)rth the the streets and.laid them on beds aml One tlf tile churches,where we were stationed "" was lot:tied in a" villat.,e which was reported to ' have been at one time tile pastorate of a. Oniver_alist preacher hy4he name of Rev. flosea Belo'o, tel wlmm it is stated that he advocated, and " " 93 school_soperln- evangelist, come and cat oLtt the demon_" And were, after a ,_ery few mmnents I said. Lord will Jesus serve Christ, cast And out immekliatethi_ denion and this"O woman Thee." I asked lhe man i[ it would be altreeaide ,if I ly the woman became quiet, perfectly calm, for offered a brief prayer, to which both the man . Jesus had cast out 'the'demon.. I said to the and the wife hawed their heads, beihg too full woman, "You pray," and she proceeded [o pray, (d _rief to speah_" The Holy Spirit surely helped thanking Jesus for delivering her from the power me to pray. sh!)rt and to .the point, during which, of the devil. &Vhert the seekers "and finders at the I,said, "0 Lord. our heavenly Father, we believe altar were ,asked to testify as to what Jesus had that if Thou wilt heal this. precious little girl done for them with the other _'ictarious seekers, her parents will give their hearts to. Thee,' Ple_e the woman testified that Jesus had healed hhr_ ileal the precious girl, f0r Jesus'. sake, At:nee." _'es, Jesus had cast out tile devil, and each sucWe drove I)ack to our parsonage, praising God for ceeding night, as an opportunity was given, she sendine us to the hume of the sick girl, and for wdubl trustily that Jesus had cast out the devil . the" kind reception received, -and for answerin_ irayer. For. we h_lieved God had heard prayer am sanct fed her wholly.- Thus we find that for tile sick girl. Tte next day some. of th6 God does healtile bodies and the souls 6f honest neighbors said they had heard that the little seekers'who. hy faith, trust Him with or with: _iri had a turn for the better. In a short time out remedies. Praise His precious namer Much .more. might be quoted from hbth tile aM and Ne_y Testaments• which wouM sub- wrought the mort. men and sick into .couches MAGAZINE tj we call on the Sunday very sick chiId heavy work of looking after-the ehurches,-not" oaiy to keep himself pure, hut.do what he could to keep well. or" to _et'wetl, "Drink no longer sake.water'andhutthineUSe oftena littleinfirmities.,,wine' for" thYusing.Stomach'S,,wine,, as a remedy or medicine for'his bodily ailments• . temlent. Ol_ •arriving at the home. Mr_ Re)'a responsive voice said, "Why don't you cast out nolds went into the house, and as soon as .I the demon yourself?" I.at once said, "I do not Idtehcd my horse I went over to where the man claim to heal in the sense, some of the_ altar , was standing hy his mill• After a brief but : workers claim to 'heal the sick and afflicted/" dorced conversation With the broken:hearted man, .But the voice said, )_Cast out the devil your"I.asked him if it wm_ld he agreeabk to hhh if self." I at once-began to inquii:e of the woman _e went Into ..... the house. 30 this he readdy, conwhat she really wanted .God to do for her And _'_nted by a bow of his head, indicating someshe frankly said, "1 want the evil spirit cast out thin_ of tile sorrow of his heart. Finding my wife of me?' Then I said to the seeking wq_an, "Let beside the bed where she and the mother'.of the us pray," With my han.ds placed upon her head the- and.ankle hones Teeelved strength. And he leapmg up stood and walked, and enteretl with them into the temple ',_aikm_ ,'in'd le,'iping, anti peats[ng .God." In Acts 4:22 Peter declares that it was through "faith in.Jesus' name!' that the man had received •"perfect sotlndness," and it ls w()rtJly of note that it was without remeuy. Also in Acts five is a PREACHER'S • that at the least the shadow of Peter passng hy might overshadow some _[ them. Thee came strenumtsly taught universal salvation, that'ail men'at deatl_ went.to heaven, i_o matter as to also a .rij2zltJtude out of the ritie_ roum about unto _erusa em,; hr nlz ng sick o ks and ttem which were vexed with unclean spirits, and they were heated every one." llere we have the true objective which causes us as a denuminatmn to the" kind td lives they had" lived or what they hellevcd. The Methodist Church and th/: ;UniversalistChureh were the only denuminations repr_ented in the village, Mmul a, ndle and"a half:from the village on afterward boil1 mother and father Were gloriotisly saved and united with our church; and later' he became a member of the official hnard. The remarkable healin_ of.the child became the talk of the town and for'htiles around about. stress medical missions namely, thai v,,e may he able to save.souls, as well.asAo heal'hodies ThE nearest we come to the' nse of remed.v in- this case is the shadow of Peter. Ihe road Ieadin_ norti_ to the railroad station was a mill used fnr erindimz feed lor the farmors' stock doinz some _awing of. small _rders of lumher, making, cider, etc The young man who Many years later, when I was he d nga District Assembly of the Church of tile Nazarene during the day, and anevangelist of wide repu-" katlon, was holding rev va meei[ngs at.night,' one. toned gosliel under the blessing of the Hofy'Splrtt does produce old-fashioned revival,.., old-fashioned It wouM see/n quite ck'ar that tile _'/ft of healing was extemled to the Christian Church,. as it continned to increase. In Acts 19_ II if'was recorded that "God wrmlght special miracles hy .owned anti op,_rated the" mill had a wife',and a small lzirl. Tile yount_ man at the time of which I am writin_ was superintendent of the Univer_alist Sunday school. This young man, from the hight in the early part of the _eries, a middleaged woman, whose bearings.strongly imliea'ted that she was well educated and.moved among a good cla_s of tile citizens of the city 'Where the learned tile secret,of Holy Spirit." "the hands of Paul: so that- from his holy were brought unto tile sick .bandkerch i: s: or aprons, and the diseases departed from them. and the evil *pirits went out of them?' • In this case the nearest to any remedy x_,as the garment, or a" handkerchief, that P,aul had sent from his hands acconm he zave me (later), had been taught hy his (.uther to hate all persons that were not " of -the Universalist helief.'-And, as-he stated to me, used tff be set o_ the too of a post and to curse the Christian: heli_k'ers as they passed by his father's mill, assembly and reviyal _ere beinl_ held. came to the . '!If Christ to'aid have His wuy'_,vith m_n, thhre altar. A_ the workers at the altar sought to help wouhl bh no industrial oppress on;no hopeless her they learned from her. own lips that she was seeking prayers that she might be delivered [r.om little i:hildren, .no cheerless old age, fie grinding a demon which she said hadbeen possessing'her poverty, no fattening of the-few on the toll of for some time. The helper told her to pray and , the many, no racial hatred, no armaments, no However. we shouhl not. anti cannot, jump to the conclusion that Paul did. not helieve in physiciahs; for it Is quite evident that he es. teemed the -body very highly, [n 1 Corinthians 6:19; 20, he says, "Wha.t? know ye not that We had not been at .our station very many months/when we learned from our neighbors, who were also members of the Unlversallst Church. that the little _irt of the home.of the man who owned the mill was very sick, As we- she responded by saying, !'Ever'/ time I try to pray the demon begins to pdt words into my mouth that I do not urMerstand, which is more of a Jabber.'! The. woman continued to attentL the revival services, and.a/so continued to come your body Ls the temple of the Holy Ghost which is m you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in. your.body, and in your spirit, which are God's." .From various state- inquired from flay to day of our ne!ghbor_, ey reported that .the child was not showing signs of being any better, although having medical attention. After.se_'erai days and learning that the girh was not any better, I su_geste_ t.o my _ the aitar..for prayers. But node of the altar "Workers went near her.l As I noticedthe w0m_in cent nued to be a seeker at the altar, and no worker went near her,I began to say to mysdf., "Why don't .some- of riiese altar worke_:s_ or the •_2_) the child fully recovered, and sure enouah the parents.began to come to our church. Not long " . •. . , (29) Read James 5;14.1fi. The Pastor's_ Scrap .I.L. Bishop Joyee conversions, Book FLYuu once said, "Thd blessed, and old-fasiiioned absolute victories. I have dependence on the . false standards muff." of judgments Begin at homel old-fa.sh- as between . . Let. self diel . m_in and Get all ablaze with 13er[ect level :The flame will leapl Sinners will weepl " {When we go deepl) A unlvct'sal revival must first be a .personal revlvall It will pay to pay the price.--IL 1_. StigI.R.L_lm. " : . . . -. 94 "" THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE The Man Who Explored . E. elner_:rd ]rom l I tony, tlmt _ rsed sin, brought me here where thai rain heats'upon me avid so.rdy wearies rot. 1 an3 nol the only one heing punisl_ed for glutton)_ in " _lf weallh, Then the a_otiies of other.'sofil_ in torment met my sight; on every haml around me no matter in what directi6n I looked, thEre were scenes uf Woe; I lind arrived in .the third•circle• • . this place: All these vice and suffer_ as.do fa_ In his astonishment Plutus called out m a rough voice the name of- Satal_. and my allknowing teacher cheered me with these words_ mense, show, till thesqnlher, nocturnaldarkair.water The gtlst_[ soil wldeh'i'eceived the beat- _' • - trig o'[ this srorm'[_ave f6rth an ndor'horribIe, . . re) A most •cruet creature. Cerberus; a monstrous, three-l_eaded doz. savaze and _rodi_;ous I roars thrnuJzh his three throats at the "crowd in tile flnnd heh_w His fierce eyes zlitter bloodfly; the greasy' a r ahoul his mt_uth is soot)'. |le has In en rm* us belly; h s hand_ are furnished with claws frith whirh-he rips the wicked dead. tears away their skin and pulls off their arms and lees. Scatt,bred about under the pourinz rain they make a shriekin¢ llke the hnwlinn of "" dogs• - They-seek to protect themselver on one side:'contimmlly these depraved, tormented one_ _re turnine themselves almu( (d) "When infurialed Cerberus, t_urrible.as a uieantic serpem saw us, he distended his "jaws, his awful teelh were seen; all his body _hook with rage• My leader stooped down and scooping upsome of the soil flunz it intn his aU-engbdfin¢ throats As a dn_ who howls from hunger anti is quieted it, when he receives his todd,mouths anti'greedily devours so closed [he.detestahh' of that infernal monsler, who roars so rea u iv ,'it. "the spirits that dower I_* hear. they lonz. m yam. others 1.'" were guilty of factions wdl t_me t_ and driven out 0f the " [erna! o • son. (1_ |le replied, _"l'he) inhabit a darl_er re_lon, A variety of trans_resshm pnts them f._r down u) tile hlack gulf If to such'a depth you go, you may discern them there: When you are on the deliehtfnl earth once morb I I,'e¢ of yoll to speak . o[ me to its people. My speech is (lone.'" He.looked at me obliquely for a hmment. " .... " -with is starin_ bowed his head, and tizen fell down q!_one eye_; his unseein_ associates, {nt My director said to me, "There will he. lie unto the last hlast Then their adversary o[ the angelic shall appear trumpeting. in zlorious array. All of. these ,pirits will immediately go to • the graves where their hodies are buried, and be united to them again• "Then.their sentence of eternal -punishment shall with thunder divide. horn hefore I died. .• (g) My answer was, "'Your.suffeiing,it seems, has so changed your appearance that I am unable to recogn!ze you. Bu.t make yourself known t(_ it|e, you wild .dwell _ such a pl,q.ce of _orrow, 0o) life beyond the present. I questioued my guid_ (p) "After t!le mi[Thty judgment _lay sha_ff' the agonies which these suffer he greater than, less than.or of the same se,_erity as they are now ?" • . matter clear, to nle, and. then he addressed-me thu,_, "Now wi: _o down tt_ weizhlier sorrow. . We inust not .tarry here." ik) We journeyed across tile circle and found . ourselves at a huge spring, from which the water . foriously rises md flows away m a. ditch that leads from the horrid well, Black _,_asthe stream; a_d nl_ Ih_ hank. we accompanied its somber fert_ciaus demnn collapsed to the earth, (d} We went down to the fourth.circle and advanced On "the- sad shore which encloses the woe-of all the world. Alas! Divine yen_zeance _vhich pih:s high the added punishments and tar- waters as they rolled ,along in their course• (I) "That melancholy stream, when it had come " to the fo6t of the hateful, cheerless _hore, form_ the Slylzi:n, e In t!=e inky lake I ._aw.as I stood attentively, people covered with ndre; no h_ents wldch tilel_ met _uy sight . • clothes.they. _ ,ore, Rage was in thelc looks. "/'he)' tel Does sin incur such destruction? How. assaulted one am_ther aml not only with their "grievous is this dancing o[ the damned! They hands: the)' liutted each other .theystruck with were more. in number here than any multitude " ,t|le chest, they kicked. Tbey hit each other int_ I lind met hefdre. With yells of pali_ they were I)leces . . pushing enorhmus weights with their chest_. Then (m .' My conductor sahl. "lkre are those who they beat one another, and afterward turned and were" conquered by anger. And under tht, water " " ft_rced the.wei=hts backover the fond'over which .hre the people whose siehs make it buhhle everythey had come, at tlze same time shotiting rewhere on its surface, lmhedded in the mud Ihey _: ff where Having come to tbe.poin! .farthest they had started, they _etraced their . ". confe__.s: (it) "On.tht; earth made cheerful - hy the splen-thor o[ the suh we were despo/ndent, cherishing Iro_ steps, in:ou_ souls the thicl_ and filthy fume And now we are despohdenl in this dirty swamp.' Such a and with mutual contention slashed cofttinually, (g) Smarting with grief'I 'said to my guide "Who are tl_ese? Were those on'our left han( ) . dedicatedto a religious service?" (h) He answered me,. "ln.thelr life that was, their intellects were so askew that they failed o distrihute _helr riches as they should have _ne. liras You can perfectly sa. fron'_ the.sentences understand that which' the_, roar : sucbalumult. All the treasure of BII the world. from lheJ)eginrdi_g df time, will not buy comfort [or one ot these." _ • j) 'l'llen I asked, nLv Master to explain to ] e about t_is InF_rtunt who confers thinns uf life." well-chusec words desirable, he made-the nland frnnl alJove, where Midmel was the rainister o[ pUnishment"on i)roud, lewd Lucifer." . (c) -As sails wind-filled and distended fall liml) together, at the .shattering of" the mast. so. the proaches other. region, So they _m_rounl] the fearfulto each circular stillmovell shriekin_ their acctlsin_ chorus. . " uorecoenizable here, They encounter in fierce..c(mtendin_ forevermore. Because of their wickudness the.':, shall never see a_ain the fair world . and burn .yon up. There .is .a reasou fur .this man explorinz the'black depths. Such is th_ eum, (m) theyarrive at"the mostdhreistant point ofthe Popes and cardinals here. destroyed, alcove, _md gee perpetually in this conflict. Yo_ can. see, _ w f eel are those possessions hestowed by fortune, fur whicll mankind struggles with lleen war: colnllle ed he wo one will be defeated 95 circle. -: (h)" "Do nol yield to in)urines l_'rror. He has powerrocky to prevent with It)safety down no this steep." )'our Theft going turnifig that PUffY mouth he _dd_ "SilenCe. condemned wol_ fish one. Let ",'our wrath rage Withiv yourself, - tires of.death." Iki I/e'ceased and I yp;_kc again, "There art' certain nnes [ kne_:, in the "life -ahove whose . pre_enl fate l eagerly scekto learn, whet er they taste, celestial sweetness, or partake of the in- (e) We walked on them as they lay e'xtended, ace down. upon the earth, tl_rown down hy the violent rain. All remained q)rostrate but one, who.came to a sittin_ position as soon as he - (il Then I spoke these words ti_ him. "Your woe causes me weeping, • but mfor n me what shall . happen in e men of my r'lor6nce, thecity " of • fa¢tio_ and discord, v " . (j) lie, answered me. "lie[ore three year_ have city with milch damage. In Lhat city are only two'ri_hteous men. and they are ,not. esteemed to' tl_e other cilize0_..In their hearts covetousaess, jeah)u%' and" haul_htiness have li_hte(f tile to lose their • " C,_Nlo VII this " saw us near. He said to me: . the skies " . (f) "You who are contluct_.,d tlarou_h hell's (o1" Slt_',vly WE traver_d the filt/w fen, comshadows, can .yon remember me? You were posed o[ souls and rain. conversing t refly on the [ " - by (i)covetousness." "My :teacher, surel)' ampng these [ ought to know some. who were guilty of. thls sin." He sitid. 'Your thinking is to no purpose. Their .'life above which was su base has made them qrehc_ of.the circle, and came wherewe deended to the hlwer circftit, there we encouz_tered the t_reat lister of mankind, Plutus. dei y _a_ My consciousness, _'ldch had ebhed hecause of. cnmpassiox) for the afflicted spirits whose pitiful st6ry I had heard, llowed back again, I , , may be greater cannot be_,m'ore fectness.it tile power rejoice m: suffer:-Though grows Lhese indamned ones tocan-never.know real perfection in woe, yet they shall draw c[ost.r In it than the_, are no_ "" (r) Talking together _ve passed, the clrcum- tls me. " : " _ (1_) He replied, "in a happier time I live in that oil)' which runs over with envy. Glut- regtonLo I the lost. ('axed VI MAGAZINE (hiknow"Conider," "yourreaso. that as hereplied, a thing develops toward ,.ake. per.- and know such an_uisll which than other, totmenl hut-whictl the PREACHER'S. you .I remhrin_ of Dunte',+ "InJerno" to which :+_ raided +ome oJ thf poet'._ experience after he bl Here is daninat_ n's everlastin_ r.ain, with no ceasm¢ o[ ils IP:aviness and chilh"Hail ira- " Hell Wayne $tahl _ i TI:IE sad wailinz comes from their throats '_viih gurgling sound, [or they cannot speak with clearhess." Sb we walked beside tlmt putrid marsh for a considerable distance, between the dry ledge " and the foul waters. We kept oqr gaze fastened on those people who feed on slime, l_inally we this reached out, . (_l) the foot of the tower. 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"" .': ! _ aa _ " _ _ ' " The Editor " " "' shall uot bec0me" a substitute for spirituality. Most .of ' . . _.,. _, us we should against the _linisters ntru_sionof a secular in robed/:h0ifs, whlchirreverenee carl guard easily-tulle mot. who.have theatmosphere assistance of " _ _" . Perhaps it WoUldr be' useless to suggest that there is advantage in clerical garb. Not many of our ministers' But would knowhow toghtallof started.to wearing cleribadgarb on Sunday morhlng. it does seerrithat us could afford to stick to dark colors for:the pulpft on Sunday morning. [ii m0st 0f our _ the 8eat_ churches we could make suggestioas about the arrangement'of lights, ing of the choir and some other simple matters that would assist 6onsiderably ',_ . 114 ........................ . . _. " _ " preach in plain church huildings where the lights at?eh{'ight_the_windows are clear or white, the Instrument which leads in themusic is a-plano_ and tits seats are "benches" or opera chairs. It is therefore the more ,mportant that _ - _" _ • /_ _ naine and nddiess //s demonstration g_ _ . _ •_ '_• _ $85.00 Ordo,C*_p*.. " " _ NAZARENE PUBLisHING.HOUSE, "_l* _" 292_TroostAvenue,. KansasCUy,Ms. It_ books " __ - pipe organs_ chancels to Wartoagainstdeadness andarched formality. Butlind not cathedral many of architecture us have,theirhave pr0bli_rrm meet. " "" taste _, . NuMnER4 ." "IF IBERTY. is at a _remium in our churches and we have to'take care that |ILl one it does license. mectjng, Usually'there is must demonstration o kindnotordeteriorate another inifito .a spiritual but we watch that " __ - and .Hasa a complete of titlesResponsiveScripture and first lines. 5: choice index 'selectionof readings, a table of con_ 8, Printed on'excellent paper from clear type p ate. and having a _peeial _ _._ reinforcedbindlng,that insures an dnusually longllfe.' ' - " " _ "as . • _ . - Reverence in the Church ._ _ " • Apart., 1937 arenelibraryshould an .importantof.:place _ " ' ._ the andhave church event ministerin "_".. Has all the songs and hymns top tally arranged under" he/.dings, "eranumbers for use in all departments andfor all occasions" of the church to the VOLUME12 • • ' the moat famous "and " useful "hymns• combmed "' • the highest I. c ontams wUh grade goipel songs obtainable..There are sever/ hufidredand three numhera. 3. Rings true of "Modernism;" Editor, . _I_'_*_¢_I`_I`_`_¢_`_I_____ . ,t, . Features Herb ofare this Seven New Points Hymnal: "of Emphasis )L1 J. 13._rtapman, . necessity be very limited, _ . The Hymnal of the Church of the Naz-" _ . of the Church of the Nazarene. s ]VD. aD. azine Preacher _ _ • • . Hymnal : In the days of the old Methodist :Circult Riders, the travehng .... prqachere al• ways carried the Bible •and the Hymnal. "The supply of other books must of a 2, bracing . - __ • _ _ ._ in .improving'tl)e tone and the meeting house seem more churchlike; But I am thinking now.make especially of the preacher's own example. " The '*'_ service of the church is pre-eminently a servtceof worship Part of the service as'the prayers the hymns, the offering and.the testimonies 'is gomg out _'. toward God" The other part as the scripture read "og. and the sermon, _s' re-' " ' II " ' versed and comes fr0m God to us: If•the going out part m made the occa- es _ __ sion for exhibiiions of various sorts in whlch erratic _'songleaders" carry on a' _ choir pros.dee 6r eff_t demonstration it is a time when snectal mus clans aexhibit'their art ofatentertainment. least that' part Or of iftl{e'service is .,_ma ' worse than lost. • If the minister moves about in a nervous and dramattc man_ _ ner indulgesin whLspered conversations with_a brother.minister inthe pillpit "( '_ - nr mal_es erratic remarks he Should not fall out wtth the young people for " I • • 98 THE PREACHER'S The minister, as leader of tl]e _rvlce _)f worship should not be satisfied tvlth merely getting through withu nteeting.'He should MAGAZINE ilry, a desired _ asset, add to personality lmntediate contacts soznethili_ ,vhich call _ and aid one in making with penpiei in other I i_ " III l (ve regard to the _er nanent i'esu ts that w irds t is an aftr ict on- Yet how nat c who tke part "n "t Oi tl spo'nt ll'shop _ho may be ntore or lessunattractive but "1hirkield says, lhit because We are Chris- who is able to add to.his or her attractivetll_,l_:"l'._ tians and the One whom we worship is the ness by neat_ nonextrawt_ant and.beconl-_" l God anti Father of our Lord Jesus Chris(..ing attire, i . ! we know something of His character. He Traveling ;is )re have _is snmmer,:singis like cannot Jesus,. Oureohlmunion, ll_erefo.re, have been real and" vital if some tog.and speaking in some fortyrfive (liftereot churches over Colorado arid northern . marks of ihat character were'not stamped " California, a few things have ntude"them: upon us w]len we were coliverslng Him. This makeg possible a human successfnl worship.. Has it hudany with testof effect in in_iking the "wnrsl]ipers inure like Jesus Christ? " His .faithl His good cheer. His compassion for the.snfferblg and oppressei:l.-His confidence "in the power of love His willingness to accept tile cross of sacrifice sel_,es known i'll you Nazarene to nle. Sinneone has said. '])rncess has more or less to bt/gln over [tgaln . with each generation and each Jndividual: BUt if the corporate wnrship, of tile, churches ig bringing Otis trend into. hunlan life, we may thank Gilt] an[] rejnice, for we .know our labor is not ill Va[I_ in the Lord.: • • . • Those Physical - _ Attractions " _ have a bearing upon my choice, show interest q K,.,/K,.,/. _j-k.)& "i"JJ- " . Me:asages OR - x...,z_ &&_. &_A.. .-- And f,trls t_onsideting various text.ol subject Chrisur file holiness, andof we feel sderations istbe orlginal 1. • 111 ..- • II -_' . " . Olive M. Winchester -' X,( ., On Christian "IN am: IMac,_:u} GoiJ". _ll - . . Purity . . ilaie knowh.d_t.. ' • {3: 22, R.V,), Aml f_,_ls;understand, he trf.un_ erstan "mz I cart'. t) xt,ye simlJlt' prutlence; The si_tiificance of the word in this(8: .connectionS' R.V.). is of one wbo ha;,jlever developed'Iris faculty of under_tamlin_, and acctmlingiy is casily led astray. world I)ridged the hroad span of man'_ sin imd fall across the tragedy a[ the blidaed Ii[e'ol the wtl_ u_s his mintl atoll understandinz for evil anti makes i_v a subject of premeditation. These are_ human race .t_ the new heavens anti new t,arth wherein dwelleth ri_zhteousncss,"In betw¢:en these twfi stands man under grace rt:newed alter rheimare of Him w o creatt_t hin:, anti prepared for the final redeml_tion. • IN KNOWl_t3 SpIRlrtrAL x.rAt;U_ks - l",l_tn hlinded bY sin. Witb bis understanding darkened tines nol know the got_ll. He may " _ve" some dim a, nse of good.; he may ft'el st_me mncr nol Old Testanenttheby tlnly, any sinners i'deans described hal they indotherepresent the class t_( .sinni:rs who. err in that they geek not to know spiritual values. . . . undt,rstantlif_lz, _ ill in lhe part operationof, grace we As sin is urmmded is_faulty faculties ol learn t_f tile nfind, h_,inz enliahtened and being re.... neXved in knuwle(hze Frmn (he_ considerations theft, tore conclude n an. in his original _titte and we condition had that a kno_vlrdge of spiritual it: . Let us put rilechurch in the _ " windows' aild with a "person wish-he oil the some extra buildiug is : •j'. 'LOwI:;LL GEORC,E - Clean and attra_:tive inside atld out. Spend When il should be my lot--or-privilege a little money, if" necessary, for paint, (o choose a life compauion_ two features shrubs or whatever is needed. It is certain immediati_ly stand out ill nly'thlnking aft that if the church bttilding is .In,_de atfac'tors which would, "to a greater, or'less trlictive to the outsider and.'he begins- to degree, "V" D " I q-" inside, and .untidy that _ " , _ .99 status of manas he camefromthe hands of God. : were " elsewhere, .causes nle no wonder wllen.'tlle peol_le say thai it'is hard'to-gel anyone to attired the nleeti|lgs. "1 think that it is not a disgrace to have a i3oo!" chilrch building but when the "physical attracti_ms .of l_tat building are abhorrent to an indivi(lual'the resultqs tragic If ""cleanliness ts next to g0dlines.%" let us practice time o_ seeing " - MAGAZINE Tlds line of thuut_bt is carried on in the Old Tes- : lament presentation of sin and in the next step we understanding; find a,man noint_ iheninto x_e sin havethe because manhe who is.void carries of his conduct beyond the bnunds of reason, and finally as(be climax to tbis pha_ a sinful man buihling.'d(]st_, it basement with dirty an odor which makes " " • . Expository I 3v ever was the goal in'the creation of man will :'no thmht- set ff standard and ideal for man in his rt,creathm lion we havert nttght tgrace, ely theFor(houl!hl e.'e feelfor Stalin inancrea.immediately hut "man" ultimately. The plan ol re" dempt_on wraud_t hef_rc the.foundation of the nttee g6odnessshouhl worshipers. Not all at once, af course, for such transforntations t_ike time. _ind the - • _ . E hage con which rtreat tian I_urity that basic to all sucb c_ no or hd,vn, broken' window panes, a church iu ihe .- 1._.Z.Z$..IL " _kV_. W which looks tile nlnst'like a I;arti." A ha_rsh statenlent, but how true fi is in sn uunly case_,! " . Upon seein_ a church buihiing -with paint to speak " of, no'shrnhs. flowers . " _ ]__-_--"7-- I .ttld God ._aid, Let hs mak_ man tn our. imagr, • -our likenesr tGen. 1: 20). aIlei" wish. to find .th_ •Church of the.. in town hunt out the buildiiig for the redemption of the wnrld and His and will show ' 'i " -. . THE'PREACHER'S _ , ue worship effec,s h, lives ofthosea",'m.'t,,gdmi.e tbl,, indiv, ualIll - . "church made at- The first would be "the spirit of the 'in- tractive," it will be a paying proposition. dividual, and the second would be the. It is true that the church without the divine natural physical attractiveness.of that in- . blessing of God upon },toffe'rs nothing to. char,'icter of the person, is the aidS( ira- is the means of drawing the unsaved to dividual" The spirit" h_ing the Inner thesinner" portant, naturally, and notch has been.• Christ, so areJ°strastheSpirit'filledchurch" the physical'attractions .of," written concerning the church aid in: drawing attractiveness might• persouality.-Physical be classed as a lux- people to thebuilding house of an God. . (z) strivint_for snrae bigh idealsin his life, hut when values: That thisknowledge was full and comil to knhw real knowledze of tbe ultimate good plelc need still n_t hnhampered assert, rather bywould-we he comes does not it. wblle we it was the'stain feel of Slat sin, "" . thaw much tt_e.faculty of knowing functions in it had lmlentialities which the understanding of. the sin and in righteousness in our I!ves is not al-. man today dncs not have, yet tho._pntc'ntialitles ways full)" understot_d. The Scriptures give us were still undeveloped. t_rada(ion_ _ff siu and evil according to tbi: measAnother [act remains to indicate that man'liad " "tire the operati6n of-lbe cognitive Let faculty ac- . idue ,r _ nolle a knowledge•of rese_mpof nvin_ the pt_v,'er o[ .cboicel us hear of knowledge whichspiritual exists values, in manthe.unresorer exhortat des from the Book of Provefl_s: deemed, which is part nf (ha heritage of there"llo'_v_lon_ yg stmpieones,will ye love simpicitv? straining.power of redeeminlz grace, or preveniettt" end scoffersdelightthemselvesin scoffing, _rare, indicatesa greaterrange;it isonlya beoken Publlsbad monthly malnl._ined by tha Na_u_reria Publishing 2923 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Ma., o the ChurchofHause. the NazareneSuhscrlptonprice$1.00• edbYa_andsoeondin th•classlnternStmattsr lot t h• rata *l postage t_rovldea lot II _te_nt,_sal _[1 - J0. 192J. ,Decemh•r Pus(office in See(Ion ." at Kansas I I05, Act . O) City. Mo of October Aeee _. tang• rgl?. Ior .mall* luthorlzsd .. [I ..11 " . . I 100 THE PREACHF_'S MAGAZINE . . fragments mareed and distorted and attimes .vifly assume'that whlleinan in his body maybe like tlated to. a great degree_ but it indicates that its the beasts that perish there is _omething In his insource bespeaks better things, nor being that transcends and ahldesunto eter'_ " passages of nity. This fact is. home "9_other . F_EE CaEATXW.WeLL . Scripture. " . We find that our text is prefacecl with thestateThe image Of God then stamped on man is not the narrative in the first 'chapter of Genesis we haVE either a direct fiat, "Let there be" or we have the creatinz and the making of different forms in nature and in'thE world of living creaiufes. God, as a free creative will calls in being matter and fife on the one hand and on the other tie shal:,e_ these original entities into variou_ forms in nature and the animal world and in man. . In man we see this power, not to be sure in ex- in the very natxjre of his person. As endued w;tll_ -the faculty of knowing and With the possibility_of free creative will, we have ccttsin functioning powers_ but wbenwe came tothis inbi'eathing we have to do with.the very bein_ of man, his spirit nature[ m,_'_ is likeunto God in thathe ig a spirit bein_ " tent, but similar• How often have .we stood in wonder at' the creations nf man. We call them crcatiqns because they are such wonders _f skill, The_, are not in reality creations_ for creations_ . which had no : imply the bringing nta be. ng that existence preyiously, but because of their mar_/el, pus fuhctionin_."they appear tp _be creations. "'In Thus far in ourthought we have been discussing [or the most part tbe natural image [n man. - It is true that sometimes there seems to be a crossing from" the natural.image to the spiritual'image. "l'hi_ must needs be _o for man h one; he funcfinns in- wtriou._ ways, hut he is essentially one, therefore one cannot departmentalize him. But" the realm of science what' wonders are wrought I In the- world of literature bow. doesthe mind of man work pouring forth products, of active thought. "Wh/m we come to the choice of the good it is true that the will of man here is not free unaided, I)ut through prevenient grace and the assistance of the Holy Spirit or rather would we say that .the assfst_mce of /he Holy Spirltis the manifest._lion of prev'enlent grace, man can m/ike the. choice of man is not only p_ssessed of a natural likeness in his heing aml its functioning that bears the image of Him. who.created him, he also bears the _pirlt• Ual image. - " " In that man bears the spiritual image.it must " needs be that man came forth from the hand oi his Creator as a holy being." We read that God looked upon all that lie had created•and behold it was good. N6w while t_e'term good does:not : .A'HoLY (4) lenges man down th_'ough the centuries to accept the offers of glace .that he may he. rene_ed unto the imago :of Hini who created him. i . - . THE PREACHER'S , , . •. MAGAZINE , , i0 I ;' " • ing ' gr Oryntl J, Ncmse" " " ' " " ' April 4---Mornlnt b. Recognh:ed that possession was notownerGoo'a Gooo MAN • ship. - " " 3." Does God require that e'dery Christian give lie was a good man and Jldl oJ the Holy Ghost and o! ]aith; and much propl_ was added wain a. all? . the Lord" (Acts 11:24). Yes, he in is God's the sense steward• that he recognized that Scare-tung Rv.7.mNo---Acts 11:19-26 See also b_ Yes, in the sensq that he hol¢is himself Acts 4:36, 37.._ . and his- God entrusted possessions sob"ject.to" the will of God, INTRODUffrrur/ c. Yes, in that he handles those possessions 1. Thetitle.Bible considers "good" a superlative' a_ a trust from God. "Wen done, thou good and faithful ser_nt." "A man can he liberal and not good,'but • a man" cannot be good and not liberal." 2. a.In It' modem timesto tho titlegood tn disrepute. has come mean an insipid,coloriess, If. Baa_lm._ Was a MAN or F_TR anaemic, pa_ve character. 1. He had.faith In God, . h. Tile woi'd, has [aih_ am6ng thieves'and a. A living, active, virlle.f_ith, has been robbed of its vestments. . b. A faith that made eternal values real. (1) The gentleman about town who is a c. A- faith that inspired constant active Inhale fellow well met but none too : terest in kingdom uffairs. " _ " careful about his morals at times 2. He had faith in men. • - hut is smiled upon and called a a. Some take pride In their cyaichm, • "good" fellow• ' . (I) Cons_ntly critical,-skeptical of the (2) The "good" man in p[aysi on the stage, worth of others. and on the screen, in noveh and in (2) Some men feel called .up6n to dig up conversation has been the "holier the past of others. than thou'! sort of person too often "It Is usnally unsafe to.trust a man who using.hls staid form "of goodness to constantly" distr/_sts other_." hide mdanness, b. He could help men because he believed _. (3) The "good" man has been the'brunt them. " " " of jokes until theterm-good has (1) Itwas Barmbes that found th,o new. " not only been iobbed of its true convert Sau_ when the Jerusalem meaning but has too often become church was "still afraid of him, and undeslrahle. . " " believed not that he- was a disdple" •3. The title !'good" is a title of strength, and no doubt saved him to the church " a. It has red blood, brawn and heroism in it. (Acts 9:16-29). See a/so Acts 11:25. h. It means all that Christian means. (2) It was Barnabas that etood.by young '.. " h. Thegood _Bible declares that. Barnabas was a Joh_/Mark' whoretorned left the to firstJerusalem missionman, ary party, and Why does the Bible call Barnabas"good"? " (Acts 13:13; Acts 15:36-39). And I. Bxat¢_ Was.A Ma_ "_qTUA Lano_ Hr_aT ...saw Mark becomo the anthor of one of " 1. Wo'fir_t hear of Barnabas giving his all to 'she Gaspel._ as a.re_ult. the church (Acts 4:36, 37), "_,. It is Christlike to belteve in moo. . a. He evidently was a reasonably well to do man (v.. 37), Ill, BAa_._ngs W._s Tlto_o_mtt.'t Mlaslosas.Y Was in ._erusalem dqring Pentecost. 1. Somd early dL_iples were_ trying b.c Caught the contaginn.o[ pentecosiai spirit, the'gospel and the church Jewish. to keep d. Gave himself and all he had, " 2. Barnabas believed this a_universal, gospel.. 2.. Barnabas recognized. God as owner, a. The Gentllea appealed to Paul and Barnaa. Recognlzed that the cause of God llod a ben to have the gospel preached to them claim off his pomona. (Acta-13:42_ 43). • • " . ._ • a - " , • BEING seer_ to convey unto' us drdlnarily such a high the good unto life eternal, type of virtue as holiness, we must-remember that Here thei_ of we his have. the present man as again indicative original status, status.of ff now the designation good is somewhat of a relativo aspeer. An),thinl_ .is good in its particular.fidd and he is enabled through gra3:eto accept'theoffers of . relations, and man could not be ultimately good, mercy and thereby' enter into communion with ,standing as he did /n_relatipn to God, unless that God his Maker, would we not conclude that prig- attribute included holiness, [naily he was created with this pm_verin greater • bound _ by sin. On the other • We see then in fh¢ dawning ol cieation not" measure. It" was not hand there was need of the sustaining power of some creature emerong from.the .daskncss half the Holy Spirit, foi" man is a dependent creature man and half s0bmerged with the lcappings of an: in his relation to the Godhead and ever has been, imal heritage, hut a man glorious in his being with " but his creative willing could operate more sensithe stamp of the divine upon him. If the p_lmtively and within it a greater impulse for the good. ist could speak, of man as he. sa'_ him fallen and _itiated hy sin saying: "A_tDx_oarS_ Seza_r "'Thou hast 'crowned him with' glory and honour": As the uliimateact in thd creation of man in how much more,could it.be said of man in the our account given us in this early narrative we beginning? and shall not this beginning, of the life" _ee the inbreathing of God in tbe lifeless body of man on the "earth .set a norm and standard for formed from the dust of the ground and man heman as be is to be when redeemed by grace? comes a li'_ing_ .soul. If we follow- the major Thus we behold man as he stands coming from .stages in creation we find first the creation of the hands of God. What God would have man some'entity which ofis the then the we be, makes him. HIS:nature sin _ find the creation new basis stageof ofmatter, life when and He u0tainted by evil,, holy andundefiled righteousby chat-' animals are'brought Into being and finally there is the third major creative act when man is animated by this tnbreathlng. Accordingly We may rend- , _. (s) .• 102 " b. Paul 3. • " and THE Barnabas turn PREACHER'S to the. Gentiles MAGAZINE . I. EXCUSES GlVXN rO_ MORgt, FArLu_ (Acts IJ:d6-49L Barnabas helped make up the first mi_ionary party, • "Separate me.Barnaba_ and Stud for the " work whereunto " 1 have called them" facts 13:1-4I. t Ti,o ,o,d'sfir,,,i,sionries.. monumem to that first mis_ onarv• .-'l "A can man /'annot. • " BARNABASWAS A MAN FULl. OF Tile }IDLY" GIIOST . , _ " ,1. Thlsr explains' his other characteristics, a.- Be ng fille d with the Holy today Ghost ahe.sileht wa_ Every missionary station led by the He y Ghost fActs 13:2l •b. ;A Spirit-filled man is a belieVin_ man. . c. A Spirit-filled'man is a man of a .world vision.. " d. A Spirit-filled.man is a" man of a large heart. 2. He waqgenuinely spiritual. _ 3, Not surprising to have th'e ihspired writer . caficlude the history of this man witb. " IV. people was added unto Excuses.for failure. a. "No need to hurry/, the season is long, seed will _row any time." . t l_ "J am too young, Religion is for the old." " "I must sow-my wikl oats." " (!/ part}', "And mdeh Lord." THE b.. Tile soil must be cultiv/tted- to fruitage, fit Only "wild plant life _rows cultivation, time." :ell I . 1 . .' through re_i_a_ cy and "a bad b _iehI. d. • reward. by the field o/ the slothful, and by the " Itbent vineyard a/ the man wold. o/ under_to_idlng; and, lo it t_as all grown over with thorns afld nettles had covered the lace.thereof, and the ston_ wall thereo] was broken down IProverbs 24: 30-32I, lN'raonuc-l'loN b c, d. He "had a protecting wall. No beasts could overrun, isis garden, robbers, unIess he permitted, HI. types and fitmres that graphically portray New Testament doctrBteand experience. The writer of Proverbs in the passage of our text pens the plet.ure of the morally slothful, a. It is a r_alhtic picture, . b. It s a modern plcture, c. We should consider tile lessons it teaches "The man in the garden with the broken wall." (fi) 3. nor a: Work nlean_ perspiration and. callouv2s. It means, diligence and intelligent action. It means energy expending and back-bending. • • b. IL ia h false idea to expect "something for nothing." c, The true reason .was moral lazinessl . Define: "Moral Inertia." be a man of prayer? at the taskl be You " See also Many were the miracles done by him (Acts 21:8l. . . He is referred to. as Philip the Evan-gellst (Acts 21:8): " _. Thedivine summons to Philip.. a: To was leaveChrist the revival in Samaria. (Acts 8:5). b. To follow the dt_rt road to Gaza. c He meets.and preaches to "a man of Ethiopia." . Let us note three meaningful suggestions: 1. I{RmWAVS lrb GAza I, Ttlree roa_ls led to Gain. a. Gazd. an 01d Philistine city• (1). The largest town in the south Tire REStiL'rS Or MORAL I_)tZINESS Moral disintegration set in. a. The wall el the garden broken. b. The breaking sown el moral fences, This.is the tragedy of moddrn.Americal tine. near Jaffa. The road to Egypt .it: still of Pales- . runs thiuugh b. Three roads led from Jeru_lem to Gaza. (ll One b_ Ramleh. . (2) Another by Beth-Shemesh. (3) The third hy Hebron anO Belt Gebrin. Through rocks anti hills and desert. A Way of loneliness and no population. Tbe choice of road left with the traveler. c 2. The call to Gain. Good sense might have made lt-plaufible a. to remain in tbe Samaritan revival• It is easy for one's logic to support one's desire. • • • h. One had-best hesitate about choosing life's c. No statldard" of cbfiduct. Little moral conscience. A"byword to all whe pa_. a, The broken man' sittin_ in Ihe door of his - " Imthwithout consulting,God. c. The report is.thatfirst"HehroSe and went." Hesitation after, the voice Of' God Is clear is disobedience, hovel_ h. The mockery'of moral failure, e The tragedy of worm failure. 3. Finding God's highway of life. a. Many roads ha{'e tbe _me dt_tirmtion (If One road to. Gaza was tile short. strfilght business. CONCLUSION " " "He can who tldnks he can," by the grace of God, Notevetse 32: • "Look" at the mart of the" garden with a broken wall . "consider it and receive ihstruction." i !'_ 26-40 c. d. el} Note what lazine,',s did for he.ma of.lout text. : I. Kept bim from raislng-a.£rop. " -Nocorn, _edtime, No flowers, nn no fruit.no Ilarvest." ". Filled his _arden with weeds. • a2"Wbat does a man have to do to raise weeds? 'Nothing at al[[ " b. '_You can gravitate toward heltl" time I. The Bible a picture book " "e." His varden was in a favorable community. a. The oriental mind th0nght in pictures and , (l).'He bad.t!_e example nf othei: garden_ thus expressed itself in allegories, mdta-_ "- and gardeners all about him., " phors, similes and illustrations. (2) The "evidences nnd _estimonies of sucb, The Greek and Hebrew anguages in ':v_ ch cess lit'every direction, the Bible was originally, written are pictun. • languages . . , lI. "rile REAL REASON FOR MORALFAILIIR£. e. The.Old Testament ahoufids in incidents. I. lte refnsed t6 work. without It must 103 - Philip was one of the foremost ol the early Christians. a. Chosen deacon (Acts 0:5.h h A lay. preacher whose persistent me,sage _i_ Soul we:ilthcannot be inherited, Soul wealth does not co_e through luck. c. Some men are too lazy to bt_ Christians, "Too many tl orns an 1 n ttles. . (If "I have too man), temptations." t2) "Why does God permit evil if |le . . wants me,to be _ood?" . " at some l. Would you .have divine love? ' You metal be.a great Iover i (4l Wouhi you be magnanimous? _:ou must ben great g'iverl tSf So "with all religious development and fruitage, Dig out the weeds, hreak Uli the soil.. 3. There is no substituthm for energeticexercis_, of the sIfiritual faculties :hut refused gone .to recenlly, - lie had'fertile soil: receptive Every man's heart Ite hacl sun and rain. God semis ti_ese, religioff, have faith? . [NTaonvcrlos produce t3l 2. The fact remains he had everything necessary to succe_,_ available, a. He had a.garden plot. His own heart: the worhl of service. .April 4----Eveniftg THE GARDEN _.VITII TIIE BROKEN I,VAI,L Workin_ at our (if Would you cultivated! (2) Would you must work MAGAZINE . .. Scntr-ruaE REAotNn2-Acts 8:5-8; Acts 6:1-7 and Acts 21:8. So eh,'olhongbt the'. ha end, t radon labor. c. was a chiht, of a Christian borne. had attended [he church since infan- 2.. Let us covet earnesuy the" hest'giits, "Goodness" is the fairert flower _hat grows in tile _oul's _arden. 3. Goodness and faithhdness the basi_ _f future . " motber as the casket.of her. son was "l_eing-lop:ered. He had b0en killed" "in an accidi'nt. But the fact was. he CONCLtlSION . I. Some" things we may never possess., Genius. t_reatne_; etc. " Goodness may be ours. Goodness is illvineiy imparted. " 2. Christian fruitage demands labor• It is e'_ery man's duty to be a worker, a. "Earn bread by sweat of brow.". "He xvho will not work shall not cat.'! be in btrsiness today and b_ a Christian." ., . (2l "A man x_,llo tlas to work among on, godly companions can't,be religious." {3) "No one is _aved in my.home," c. "Capital controls the market so tlfat ihe : h, .'"The soil I have is too bard to work." little man 'does not have a chance." (It "I am. just afraid that Iean'i hold out." 2_ _'I do ,no want to be a hypocrite, wl_en. I. start I wan( the real thing." (3)."Why could I riot bane had a better chance? t' lllustration_--"O God. w Lv d dn'L you , give-my, boy a chance?" cried a the PREACHER'S April ll--Mornintt . TIrE DgSZ_R_ ROAD _O GAZA And an ange_ of the Lord spoke unto Philip, _aying, Arise, and go toward the south, unto I]_e wa'ytlmtgoeth down/tom Jerusalem unto'Gaza, which 'is desert. And he arose and went (Acts 8:26-27). ¢oad [or those bent on ,t_) Another was the Igath for those of leisure and sight-seeing Intent. Tbe third road by the desert was more circuitous where heavy caravans wound their way. , (4) .But all led to Gaza. (3) h. Life'., r0ath .to heaven lead through dlverging Experiences. , (If'Some are called to travel through pleasant experiences.:(2) Some have heavy burdens that load them down, " (8) Some are cal/ed'to the desert toad of sorrow_ loneness, and struggle, (2_ .. 104 THE PREACHER'S (4) Thank God, all lead'to heavenl c. "_['he way Is set before us." MAGAZINE lh'raoDucrloN ". . I. The man on the well curb, Anold well. Jacob's." A young man, tired and alone. Jestts.' 2. A woman with a past. Attired In cheap and sailed finery. Environed. with a crimson IX_t. Impoverished by burnt-out affections, II, Ttotvzr,t_o :rnz DESZRTROaD 1.. The desert rottd is a lone road. a. It Is often the way of suffering, h, It IS often the way of heartache. • c. It is often the way of tears. d. Suffei'ing, heartache and tears always era: pbaslze the aloneness of life• 2. The dezert road is a rough, laborious.road, a. Steep ascents and precipitous descents. b _Heavy burdens to be borne. 3. The desert road Is:a hot, dt_sty rbad. a. The ariel plains of temptation. b. The waste places of disappointment. 4, The desert road is a long road. " "There are'an many hills to cllmb.up;,vard. I Often am longin_ for rest, "]iut He.who appoints me my pathway, i. 'Knows just what is needful and best., .I °. _')l [ t ., " a. It isdelight God's toway. reel O GOdY b. "I do for Thy..will, c. "He knoweth the way that I take" (Job). 2. Provides a plai:e of dhtlnct service. a." Remember, others are traveling this dE_rt i'oad. h They'may not be able to inte_'pret life's " disappointments, in terms of the Fathor's will. " 'Twos so with the Ethlopian eunuch (Ads 8:30, 3t). c. You may be sent this desert road-to m, terpret.?God to men (v. 35.). " " d. You are sent thig way to proclaim Jesus Iv, .15). 3. Consciousness thai Christ al_ traveled,thE desert road. . a. HIS was the'lone way. She longs to ha pure again, h. He knows all men, O7 The longing of thehiaman he_tt;t, Greeks said, "Sii, we would see _esus'_ " (John 12: 21);. : " " (2) Thls dlgsatisfact]onof the soul 'f_.tbe hopeful thing about a sinfier, " (3) Christ would go out of His way to contactsoula thlrsteth thirsty' soul. David said; "My for God,-for the b. The c. The way way of the suffering. Father's will. 4. The desert way. often brings us to an oasis.. Springs. by the hlghway_ of fe . hving - God" (Psn, 42: 2). 5. The appeal of the Christ. a. "If An appeal to intelligence, thou knewest." "" - 1I. T_.._GlrTor_3ov Yesus auswered and said unto ither; I] saith thou is thai hnewest thegi]t o/ God anf who to thee, Give.me.to drink, thou wouldast have usked and h_ •would g4vett theelivtng water. o].'him, (John 4.10). • " -have • R_.d catefu_llyt John 4: 1-45. " ' - • • . THZ CLOUDBELOWTHE Hoalzml 1. A national crisL_had arisen in Israel. a. Ahab wasking over Israel. b. Ahab had caused . Israel to .sift" (l "Kings 16:30). c. Baal worship was prevalent, - b, Comes through Jesus ,Christ. ' "That I sh_ll give him' Iv. 14). c:-The the well curb, "Who it is" (v.. a. The man g/It ofat God Iv. 1.0). 10). . d "He Ma_' would behad'for the have givenasking, thee" Iv. 10), _suffering. e. God was dealing with..Israel. . 2.d.A.most crucial perio_l Elljah's life. much 'A three-year drontb in had brought a. In answer to l,he prayer of lha prophet heavens gave no rainAhab .and Baai tl) theElijah.had denounced IlL TJtz He.oar's Out'coY _ "Sir give me this water, that I thirst not, neithat come hither to -draw ¢,v 15) ." t. The woinan discovers Jesus. a "Thou, belng_/t Jew"'(v. 9): b. "Thou art a prophet" Iv. 19L e. "Thou art the Christ" iv. 29). 2. The woman faces her past. a. Jesus _ tactfulapproach. " "Go call thy husband" Iv. 16)• "Tru_ worshippers" (v..23). worship. , (2) Elijah Was fed h._ _:avcns by the brook Cherith. "'" at -the h'0me, of (3) Elilah. entEetained th_ widow of Zarel_hath _4) Nation was angry With the prophet, b. The tezt by fire on M't. Carmel (t I_ings 1g:17-40). Ill. The failure of the propllets of'Saul. [2) The fire had fallen upon Jehovah's altar, (3) The people turn to God, b. (I) The Awoman's evasion,have no husband" (v. half-truth--"l c. Thelg:41-4.6L test by rain on Mt: Carmel (l Kings (2} _7_1_eologlb.alargument. " "Whereshould (1) Elijah had promised" rain. {2) The king was notified the drouth was " ""There ended.Is the sound of an abundance " •_ ,_,_ "Told me all things that everl 29_: " . of rain" (v_ 41). (31 Alone on Mt..Carrdel Elijah prays for rain {v, 42}. looks for clouds:and (4) Elijah's.servanI _tid" Iv. reports repeatedly.'"Thereis lag" (v. 451. noth- 3. a,The past. - 1, THLtt_.I$ Nr,_o con ^ Fxmt Corm'czar.To BrHerwomaninseshdr testimony Iv. 39).. . b. Samaritans' believed because of her testiS, Just" Farrff mony Iv. 42), 1, This age is characterized by sell-conlldence. c, She had fouhd the welll' a. The world demands demonstration. d. She forsaken b, Days of _,dentifie "The had Woman [hen her leftold herwaterpot.: waterpot" Iv. Prediction of ;i'ain observation. hasod only .on hard: 28). metric readings. " . . he in c. Unfailing "Springingsupply. up into everlasting hf"e" Iv. 14I 3. Source Of this living water, "From whence hast thou this living water?" . _ Apri[ lS--4Vlornlnl men worship?" 20). her question(3) Jesus patiently Iv, answers Int. " c. The woman's, humbling acknowledgment• "Sir, thou, art, a prophet" 19). I perceive " " Iv. _ . "The.gilt Iv.ol10). :God and who it £1 that ' salth to thee" I. The-failure of Jacob's well. a. Jacob's Wells. The wells of Abraham and Isaac (C-on.26: - , 15-25). . (_) -% " "G6 call thy husband and dome hither" Iv. 167. A WO_._._'wlr_;_Pasr • . . b. 'An al_peal to emotions, . Awakening of.remorSe, "He whom thou :.c. Anh_t is not thy (v. lg). apI_',,aIto the husband_' will• April ll--Evening , "I 105 CONCLUSION " " -" 1. In oriental cities where water ls scarce the water peddler cries.'"The gift of. God; who wi .buy?" We ¢ry.."The gift of God; who . will take?'" L It is said that on the rde_rt men in _arch of water will separate just the distance a man's voicd will carry.: When'. water IS found the Cry is pas_d from" man to ma_, "Water." : "Water."- "Water." We pass along the cry. "_ to. Ill. - _ And he said, to hit servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up and Io_ked, and zaid, There is nothing. And he said, Go again _even times (1 Kifig_-18:43); SCRIPTUI_E REAmSO--lKings 17:1-7; 18:41-46. Ir:TROnUCTmS _ again, ma_ be Wilful. c. lenorance "No one so blind.as he whowill not see." " " 2. The knows. HeChrist knew wbb this woman. a. (]) "He must needs go through Samaria," Iv. 4) for this lonewoman, I2) He knew her shattered romances. _'Omnge blossoms dipped in.pitch ' (3) He khew her longing heart. .She brings her empty water pitcher. MAGAZINE him" Iv. 14), Note: See John 7: 37-39. " " Illustration--Dr. Jowett. tells of an old English castle that Was built over a ]iving;spring. However besieged, the supply of water could never he cut off. ". ' beennearer before.thanHe ; "would " " ever be _3) ever Perhaps "_ b, The wells within the heart--"Shall "_ .(Ltlke 1O:42). h. The hltnding effect of' ignorance. (U The woman'knew not the Christ. {2) He was nearer to her thah He had IlL. Col,tr_.'_sArlor;s O,_ _rltE ROAD • 1, Renders .the satisfactions of ohadielfce. . _'_, I. Yl'hebllndne_ of Ignorance, a. The intervening "i]." Ill The mockery of lt--"so near?" .f2l The tragedy of it--"so far." Jesus weeping over Jernsalemcnes, " "If thou' had.st known in this thy day" get to the end of theD.way." --CIt,_RLES TtLLM_tN, COUCLVSt0_ God's way is the best For God's.way leads home. • b. Earth derived wells will not satisfy. ','Whosoever drinketh of this water shal! thirst again" Iv. 13). " Ill Wells of pl_a_urn'and pride, (2) Wells of business and prestige, "Vanity of vanltiez, all is vanity" " (Eccl. f: 2). c. The labor of earfh's wells, " "Come hither to draw '_ Iv. 15). Journeying fo_ the water• 2_."Greater than our father..Jacob" Iv. t2) a. Dvney-imparted--'That I shall gave him" Iv. 14). :[ 3, Two souls athirst. . " Jesus _aid, '!Give meto drink." Woman mid, "Sir. gave me this water•" I. ThE To^or.w., or IONORANCE "If thou kneWest" {v. 10), "I know in His Word He has promised That my strength it shall b_ as my day. And the toils of the road will seem zmthfng, WhenI THE PREACHER'S , (9) • t - " 106 " c, Men boast their ability THE PREACHERS" ' MAGAZINE IN read tile sky. (11 '!There Some in re!iKious circl_ are _:onfident of their abilty to read he l rophe e skvT 2. Faith makes its confident stand upon the promise. Faith believes the prombe because il believes the God of the promise. b. Faith cherishes the piomise and waits'cx_ pectantly. Fai!_.i* the inner evidence oj tilt an•*v_er. c, The world needs faith that is content t_ be just faith• Real faith has no qitestinn marks a Some talk of the faitix that-inqntres. it) Certainly faith need have nc fear in facing facts, (21 There is somethin_ un,_atisfactory "in " " such an attittnk of faith . " c. It doe_ not take a large cloud to s,xtjsfv faith " • ...... Withqut even'lookln_ at the cloud him_]f. the prophet cries. '*Go Jell Ahal;.' .... We :'L/_._'/, i[[KO, Fat_tt "CoNFRON_fLD WITII CONT.qAnI('TOR'¢ Evmzh'ez • Eli ah.was notprayin_ b_" the barometer, " 'a. Prayed iookin_ ate a tout e_s sky . (to) a. cloud below _he horizon b. The The message u[ faith• "The sound qf ahtmda_fe of rain." "Go tell Ahab." ¢2 Tie .word has always stood in respect _f the.character of _enuine [aith;_ b., History holds the record of man's attempts and tragic failures II. ."_l_ honor _reat scholais/ _reat inventors, It is time we ho_ored _trea! believers. "Say you there is nothingS" Go hack a_ain and aea!ta[ For there etc. i- God[ . ='_ " " - " . " _t - (11 . " By.blnding Legislation cure sin, (21 " Bytaming Education tame sin. iv. 3). "" andincarcerat m. I sion of character. _ "My name is Jacob'_ 2. a ill) iGen. , 32:271. It Was _ cofife_lon of faith in.Christ_ "Jesus iv. 7l. 1 thou Son of : the Most Hiuh God" b. Peter's confession of"Christ. "Thou art the Christi'the Son of theliving GOd" (Matt• 16: 161. _ c, Such confe_ian is a revelation and _ the basis not only. of the cl/urch but of all indii,'idtlal _alvation. IX'. TIlE COHDEMNA'IION I, "They that fed the swine" iv, 14)• "They '_'.'ere afraid" iv. 15"). (I) They had "reason lo be afraid belort, but now the man was "sitting. and dolhed . .......... and in his right rhlnd" tv 151 I_} The vision of*this man cleansed made " not. his . . . A confession of hisown condition. a. "'We are man3'" iv. 0i. l|e acknowledged his heart to be I*OMeSsed of uncleanness• |_. Jacob's confessfon'_flnan'_e was a conies- e not do . "l'_tl_ Co.'ivZSSlOU (3) it', 41. and reformation . sin, TII£. COMSraUD I. The man recognizes Jesus afar" iv. 61. a. This ability to recognize Jesus was .lI]. |_ TI_ Co,_'tnzlo,_ I. Pus_s_ed "of an unclean spirit iv.,2). ', a. No expressinn better" describes the human heart without Christ, The human heart is God's temple anti has been usurped.by un_ cleanness. " b. "A _'unc_ean spit " (1 Unc can- m nds and deeds arL_- from• . unclean he,arts (Pray.23: 7) (2) "The heart is tile home of uneh,anneM (Matt. 15: 19; Luke 6: 45). c "Possessed." (1) .Controlled by uncleanness, (2) Y_d to.un_leant_ess.. 2. Dwelling among the tombs iv, 3). " a. The place•of isolation. . b. The plgce of condemnation. c The place of fear. 'd. The place of death, 3. Untamed by men. a. Man'sattempts to control sin. - [ ] to control " 107 el.sin "All llower fautho;ity] _is given to, me in '. heaven an*] in earth" (Matt.'28: 18), lie taught them as one having authority'! . . (Matt.7: _t_1, h. Christ and Christ alone has power. (l.) To forgive sin_ (Luke _: 24). (2) To mak_ the unclean clean• "I will: . . beAhou clean'.' (Luke S: 13). (,t) 'Fu enable r_en to he sons of.God (John 1: 12t_ " t."The.word,of power. a'., To the demoniac, "Come out of the man. " .thou unclean sph,_t" iv. 8), b To the Woman found in adultery."Neitber tit) I coitdemn thee; go anti sin no more a (John g: lit'. c.'T_) tile repentant,, thief, "Today shalt thou he with me in Paradise" (Luke 23: 43). d. To Lazaru_ in the tomb. "Lazart_. come [orth" (John 11:,431. " _lnd he _ked him, )Vhat i_ thy name? And lie an.ttt, ered,_aying. My'name is,_Legion: for "we are " " ma_y (Mark 5: 0). .... "' " "'_ . . 1 " - •. ,','_'_oouc_xos I. The.lesson story (Mark S: 1-20_. . Gadara controlle o th6 mountain "_n .which a. it was built and the countr') and seaport .I i " down t_ the sea. " .b? Gadara w,_s inhabitiM by a half ]_eatben folk who raised swine for Roman soldiers. _" " "- " e, Christ. crn_ing, the Sea of Galilee for i'est, found a demoniac whom tie healed and Imade a missionary. 2. Chri._t's miracles were very _fften twofold, a. Miracles of b'o_lily.healing, b, Miracles'of ,*,oul-bealing. Note Mark 2:1-12. 3 Christ's miracles of bedily healingareaiways " illustrative of soul-healing. 4. The miracle of the ti)mb_dx_eller of Gadara was twofold anti is illustrative of soul-healinto " b. The fact of his ability to recognize Jesus wouhl I_e the basis of his condemnation if be failed to go to Jesus (,._. 7). 2, Christ" ' speaks" wtth'authortty._ ' a• Only Christ hhs auth6rity in the presence 5 Bt:I•O'ft._" XilE _'l()R[- ,_ Delay is not denial . Do _ot confuse del;D ant[ deniah b. Remember° God has spoken. ] am nnt called tlpnn'to explain the atfinns "of God. [ am called upon to believe liim. WhenI believe Him, any need to.explain Hm_ vanishes• c. "Not faith in God because "of the cloud, " h_t [aith in the cloud because of God." "Yo'tt ma_' think God does not hear yo_ - And withhohls the rift you seek. Then just learn to.trust tfi_ _ilence When'the Master does.not speak_ -Let your faith new courage borrow. For" His promises are true, Just remember on the morkow, ,-He'll take you,through. He'll take Fou through."--JAsll_s,V. R_m. Faith atone could hear the rain. lUt*ffratlon--No doubt. 0 white square flag.was floating upon the staff of the " " "Do weather bureau on Mt. Carme. not pray until the flailchanges," some • " say. h.. The ,servant scans the sl[y. Note--TradiHon declares tgat Elijah's _ervant was the ._n of the widow 'of Zarei_hath whom he had raised [ram the dead, , (11 "There is nothimt." " Conclusive and brief, (2) "There is nothing," He was sure before he looked. fa] "There is nothinm" Mere confirmation, 14) "There isnothing." Carefully formed convjctinn. (51 "There is nothing•" . " hl)_ e" April lBJ--Evenlng. THe MAS N/_a_o Lrmzo,_ " be Failure is an unknown tliin_ for faith, a. Say you. "There is nothing"? "Look aeain," There is C_d h Tile confident church latmhs ,at the report. "There is nothinm" The church has somelbin_ We h:Jve " " (;dd's Word! _" " r We arc" expected to 0resnme npon the ._ promises, . . "7_TIn _ world awaits a confident church, 2. Faith must stand without the cloud, with-. _gpittle-. MAGAZINE • CO,4CLU_IION tit prom ,es Go_ mt.v siena. . FA_TII SEES TIlt: CLf)IJ) zoN man PREACHER'S moistened clay upon.hls eyes: stumblin_ toward the pool. Paul at midnight in shipwreck, cries "Sirs. I bi._lleve God." - I. II. I : In the face of exI for a.time._'ifh_ok| Ill.. inquba'. Uncompromising, confidence characterizesfalth at its best. • e Faith often needs the challenge of rantradictory reports, ill Send the servant.out to _an he _kv. " (21 Dnn't hold your hdth so lit_htb ;is to _ndan_er it hy , negative report I 'b. Then listen for the rain which can he:ird in the _:ery promL_e itself. b. Hoped is to encourage - his (6) _'There nothing," " master, Utter weariness. (7) "No larger than a man's h_:od." . C. The faith_ of the prophet cried. "Go again." Ilfnstration_Blind 3.. God's promi_es are better than signs, a. What "_ant we more than God's Word? b. The ,church must take a hohler staml upon" the promises. _ c. Dost .thou believe? llh_tration--Modern editions of Doubtmg Thomas that must thrust hovers into nail prints. Only an indulgent Lord would accept such• (3)" There is ,_ finer conduct of faith [hao " THE will chill the'blood the horizon." • _) 2,2 Real faith not dependent upon signs, _. Si_ns are not, _iven as the c_u,_e of faith. Faith- is rather the cause of signs, "Faith .is the ._uh._tance of. things hoped for, of thines not ,_een'_ (Heh. thell:l),evidence 3. is nothing" " •......... " of anything less than _enuine faith, (21 "Go a_ain, there is a cloud forming out there." (a_ "Go a_ain, some c]onds han_ low ov a. t _"..... them conscious of their own unclean. 0ess: The presence of the Christmade neee_,_ary a choke relative to their'attirude toward him. Was this not-true With Pila{e? " 10fl "" THE PREACHER'S b. "An_' also concerningthe swine" (v. if), Their .commercial interests were. - fect_d. (2 L' That revival cost too much, 2. "They began to.peay him to depart'! (v. a. The prayer for Jesusto leave. b_ Thls Ixrayer. was anSwered. c. History does not _ecord that He ever turned. - MAGAZINE 16). af- b. Old Testament-writerslooked upon this inner glft o.s fire, (ll'G_d appeared to Moscsin bgrning bush, (2) God dwelt_ amidst Hi_ people in the , taberfiacle above it in.a p/ila_ o/ 17). •re- (v. 19)_ b, This is the method of the gospel. 3: The obedience. "He began to publish.in Decapolis lmwgreat things God had done for him" iv,.20), of demons became the home , rightly unde_tnod ,:,'hen the)', speak of God /rod God's _tace -withi_..the heart in terms of holy fire. a. Quakers taked of the inner light. " h. Seth C. Rees and John T. Hatfield in" slsted "we'must have the fire." " c.. Dr. P. F. Brcsee was ever insisting that the churcb indivkluMly and coltectfvely must "get the glo_y down.", of : Christ. Aprli 2_--Mornlng " WhereJore:l put thee In'remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee (2 Tim. 4:14). - . SCmFtURE REAmNo---2 Tim. I:t-lg. II. L f_Taovbc-rm_ _ l.- A call to memory. • . Thedanger.of forgetting former experiences;, former r_ponsibilfiies, and former achievemeats, 2..The heritage of Tha faith ol his The'faith of his 3." "The in th that . _ • (1) An open draft. " I. TtI_ Iu_zn Fnm (2) C inkers, asl and dead mate/'ifiis.re"The gift that Is In thee." moved. " I. The "gift" within. (3) And plenty of ftfel, added. a_ Some have intet_preted this to mean the 3.. Too many modern holiness people have gift o[ prophecy---of preaching. "banked tbeii fires.", b. Others, th_ gift of the Holy Gbost: a. A "banked fire" is a fire held in reserve "It was customary for the apostle'4 tO lay with a minimum of activity preserved their hands on-those wha recei':ed th_ _for the night, Covered 3vith ash a . Holy Ghost." -'closed draft_ to" keep it inactive. A c, Others, declare it refers to the "uhfe|_ned confessinn thai the.day is over. faithY Which his mother and. arand• b. Too many ChrlstLang are living w th mother before him p0ssessed, ."banked fires." d/This verse a cfimaaing verse and brin_s • to' bear on •Timothy the heart of the llI. Tnz RzzmnLzu FLA_a_ "entire exhortation, _, l The holy flame needs to be burning bright y e. It is no less then the sum total of God's . a. No power generated to operate the ma: - grace .shed abroad in the heart and _chinery of life and of tbe church when represents the believer's, conscmusness the fire is fhdLag and 'low, of divine favor, b. No warvaing lnfltlence that: will melt its _. Paul refers to this inner testimony as though way in a cold world. . : it were latent fire, c. No _:onsuming flume't0 burn the dross and a. "Stir up"--renew, kindle, debris that file's ¢xperlcnces ticcumuLate, (127 . IQ9 2. All men know themselvesto be sinners, a. Men know that as sOch'they are.in peril. b. Men recognize that ,they are unable to " deliver themselves from sin and its con-sequences. expenence, . . f3) Thirty years of history since the founding of the Church of the Nazarene and rttany fed there is now an "ease iv Zion" stealing over the c John was ,nsen 9:6°9). Men often do thin_ "becau_ science. from the dead" [Luke unexpected and tragic of an offended con- people.• Illustralion.--Judns, troubled because he "b. A dying world without Christ demands it. ' had betrayed Christ, dies*at the .end of (ll Christ has commanded and yommis- - a hemp rope, a suicide, Saul fell upUn his ,_ sinned us to go save men, own sword. (2) Met1 are dying faster than they are 2. A refuge from the slumbering power of sin .being saved. . in the heart. " •• c. "_'hehope of the so6n coming of the Lord a. Sin dwells within the heart, urges it. " ' ."Sin that dwelletb in me" (Rom_ ?:17). (l) "At sudi time as ye think not:" "Another law bringimt me into captlvi' t_;!' (_) "Will he find faith onthe earth wben (Ram. 7:23). he comes?" b.tSm cannot be trusted (3) What is done must be doric;quickly. The nature of sin is deception and you d. The ogi# generation this _eneratinn of must change the nature of sin to ehan_ge " . MAGAZINE for a lost world. • " d. A flame of zeal that burns its way tq on- " L Evzav M^_ Nzzvs ^ Rzroot: ,. largement . of the heart until nil the l." A refuge f_m the accusing finger of his world is encompassed within a benevo-, own conscience.. lent heart of concern, a. "Conscience has as its aid the undying 3, Brethren. it is•time to rekin_tle the fire, _records of memory. a. History demands it. . . _'Son, remember (Luke t6:25). ill We are 2,000 years this side of Calvary b. A man may cailous his s_ul to theacand Pentecost and still the. world is cusatinn of conscience, but the volesof Largely heathen, con.q:ishce is never stilled. (2l Hollne_os has been recoanized as an . _llinstration--Herod who had beheaded ha• . active movement since tbe days of headed John. the ltaptist_ to satisfy the -the Wesleys, yel_ [oday the church whim of a dancing woman, was troubled" largely repXidiates the doctrine end at hearing of Jcsns for some said."that " . "" • ThE SMOLI)ERINO FM Paul did not accuse Timoihy of:. a'; Putting o_t the fire. "Quenching the _pirit:' . " b.-Or of miShsing the Holy Gift. . c. "Nor did he admonlsh him•to seek new gifts. 2. Paul admonisfied Timothy to rekindle the fire already within. a. A smoldering fire is an inactive fire. b, _Asmoldering fire may extinguish itself. c. A smoldering fire should have: Timothy. nrandmotber. Lois. mother, Eunice. is. n thee." ' - PREACHER'S L Let /be holy flame burn. _.' An impassioned love for God and men, b. A living faith that lays hold of God and His promises in a gap of steel. e. An undying service that expends itself . .[ - ,_re.: (3) To Elijah on hit: Carmel God _nswered by fire. _ t4) Jeremiah' said the .word of God _'ll_' __:q_ burned as fire in his bones (Jet. - • xa. 20:9). e. New Testament refers to God and inner " l grace in similar terms. ill John Baptist preached that belie'.;ers skouM be"bapti,,ed with fire." (2) At Pentecost "ridden tongues like as oJ fire" _t upon the believers. " _ (3) The writer of Hebrews declared that " God "maketh .his ministers flames o/ _re" (Hob. 1:9) and that :'God is,a . consuming fire" (Hob, 12:29). J. Men of the impassioned heart are to "be V. T[_ Coieszc_Arlou - " . " 1. The prayer of the cleansed man. a. "That he might be with him".(v. 18). b. Characteristic of all who are cleansed, 2, The command of Jesus. • a. "Go home to thy friends and tell them" CO._CLUalO_ The home THE " Christians CONCLUSXO_ 1" It is evident monition. can reach is this generation.. " " "£1mothy heeded • Paul's . ad- a. He flung himsclfag;iinst the need of a " "- •world, • b. He became a migsionary who followed Paul to the'last. : •: 2. Shall we heed the call for renewed flame.. a. Remember it must be first renewed within. - b. That it may radiate without, • " "' ' _ April 25---Evenln_ " _ ,_ . ALL Mz_ Slink ^ HIvmq PL.tcz ]udgmenl also _2iil,l lay to the line, and righteoufne_s to the plummet; and the hall shall sweep away the reIuge ol lies, and the waters shall over2 flow the hiding place " (Isa.28:17). " - : " Itvrabouc'rlo_' . 1. Some facts are universally true. a. Amid learned and unlearned of whatever race or dime. b. Certain basle phygical, mental.and moral i_et_ts, are universal. .. " c sin. , Sin cannot be tamed, trained beyond the .pos._ib htles of fllustration-,-.Like the training tiger or hoa constrictor, they . or educated outbreak ova jungle may revert - and spring ppon their.trainer at[y time. . 3. A refuge from the feat:s of death and |udg-," mont. - a. Death and jfidgment hre inescapable (Hob. " 9:27). "h. Death and judgment hold terrors for all tinder sin. "The'wag_ of sin is death" (Ram. 6:23). "And said to the.mound, alas and rocks. . Fall on us, and hide a_ from the face of him that sitteth.on the throne, and from th'e wrath of the Lamb" (Roy. 6:16). c. Any experience that calls man into account brings terror" to the unfaithful. "" Iffustrdtion--Our neighbor, an old n_an. when asked about death, replied. "It Is - an awful leap in the dark." • If.. F.*J-gn Rzrucra ^l_n How.To DnTr.cr Tngat L The nature of sin is to deceive. . a. The devil the arch-deceiver. " Deceived Eve in the garden (Gen. 3). (tD " - 10 THE PREACHER'S rp nt.(aen. 3:t;Rev.12:9;,20:2). God. A "thus saith the Lorth" b. These tests should he met before a proml_d holm of beaven is to berelied upnn. "The heart is deceitful above nil things, a'nd desperately wicked, who ran know. [ 2. False refuges enumerated, n. Arfalse hope of heaven. ,_ .. .(_) !! 1= tin- • we have (lone, but accordin_ mercy" (Titus 5:3). Living qn memory,. from the. consequeuees of.sin without deliverance [rbm sin. Numerous isms'and cults.of the day, (3) Religions that ofignore necessity •the blood Jesu._ the ChriSt in atone-of • t ,! l . merit for sin. True refuge_ refuge detected, must do the -following: & a.FalSe (1) Satisfy the conscience. (2) Deriver from the present thrahloin Si_. of 04) : the _ . . • ) life? _,Vh_it doe_ tbe word : "fh)ok"t " - " - _. What rtfatner_ !'llibl_"'mean? " (James Iffgo) tdnnimzl rL"Who was the Iirsl mariYr? 35) Who II. Jail) Whal Phi "lestament character tzreates! path,n('_? (Job) i_ e:dled ":l'he G_slml " Sev©rt Words . 1:8; L Come -7 37 2. Learn Hsaiah for the Child tMatthew ll: i5: 4) •. 3. Follow (John.2l: fP. 22: . lisa- 12; I0: 4. John Read 8: (Deut. 17:27; IlL 1l;'26), lq; Neh. . 16 i f.Timotby 4! 13; Rev. I: s'. Pray tLuke; 2f: 36: A_ts 6: Phil. 4: 6; (_ol. 4: 2; 1 Thess. 6. Work (Neh.'4_6 Mark 13: 58; 2 Cor. 9:8; Col. l:10; ' _ 7. Look fPhfl 28). ""I|uI Christ 3: 20; 'Titus is all and Romans 5:27. 8: lg: in all" " " . . shall renew tbeir It _amhel sins, (he crlllrse of tb[s "In Lp:'t: "1. I R:.:au II--FOi_M TIlE "HABIT Re/zularly: , 2. This eunuch bad the babit. if f)_ve.t.ov a I}EEP Am'aEcta_o,_ q: (Col. 3: Ill "---S_r, Ec-_o. voa lr 1. As G_)_l's inspired Wor¢l. _" Asalivin_ Book today.. 28 fsal 34: Hebrews trt_pa_es.nnd according to I I1_ ntt:ans of grace: 2. Tile a_ent--the Spirit anti Christians workinz tolzether ..... " "_ The position--raises up to Him.: -, Ill..[)URt'OSE OV QUICKENIN(_ t. I'drtakers of Ills, life and ricbes, 2. Partakers 6f the l)romise. 3.. Made citizens ot the commonwealth. 4. Reconciled 111. ENDEAVOR_'o HaVE So_tri U,'/D_STANOINU OV fr " " 3);" . I. 4; Eph. 6: 18; 2. 5: 17). . J4;" I Cor. i5: "- 3, 2 Tim.,2:lS; IV. 2:13 Lord -The'Chrittian and His I]ible _Aets 8:30-301 Titus 3: 8l. '{]_ • If. fEstherl o: 45 Luke the Fla)_t I. Death.m 2. Walking w_rhl .... 23: I1: 28; John 20; Jobn upoh Spiritual Quichenink (Eth,sans 2) " of God I: 18; Matthew wait "'_I:I,E.C_'ED. • . I)_)s_ses,sedtile I perish"? 4.7 . Prophet"? perish, that in t/ie Wlmt nmn tnnk 3(30 men alid Whil)ped analion? (Gideonl • . , " -13, Wbo said. "Let ns go tip.at once and i)t)_se_ it. for we are welt aide to overcome it"? (Caleb) said. "if.I s Renew Ihe km_Ztll)m (Jesus, shall return It: 14) .... I2. I-t.'Who t. Hnly. Gh _ (T streng h lisa ah 40: 31). • ' Youth is renewed like,the eagle's (Psalm 103:5 "//eueti' a'ri_ht spirit withi_me (P_alm 51: 10), Renewed the altar of the Lord'(2 Chron. 15: 8). _ . t: 27) , label--Matt. to. "" MELZA H Buowr/ Warfare bur charge (! Tim. I:18). Kind of warfare (1 Tim, 6:12). Our enemy of w2_r (Eph. 6:12). Kinds of weapons (2 Cor. 10:4 Our armor (Eph, 6:13-17). Our captain (Heb. 2:10). c. Eat of hidden manna and given a new name. e. in white d, Clothed Have power o_,et raiment.the natlons. " - f. Made a pilla/ in tern fie of GOd, • g. Granted privilege of sitting with Christ. It. Tile soldiers home (Rev.Chapters 21, 22).. They 7. What Scripture passage,impJies that t/_ere was no rain before the flood? (Gen. 2: 5.6) _, What _loes the wnr_l ".G_'nesis" mean? (Be. the- life." L)f the l/.enewcd 10). (Eph , 2,))• Reuewed in knowledge the spirit of(C_il your 3;miml Transform&l I)y renewing of your' mind fRom. 12:2 The reward man is rt:newed day"l)y ¢ty t2 Cor. 4: ca). fans in the Bible? is imre'reli_ion? Rencwine the " " " " ,t., (live "tbe meaning" of tbe word "Israel.:' fPtince of God) 4. Where is the Bil'fle definition ill'faith? (He" hrews It:J) " many Renewed Tile 6. Wbo offt._d the first Im ycr-record, Bible? [Allraham.-Gen. 20:17) 7, Some requirements. _l,uke 24:49; Acts 7Tim. 2:,l;.Rom, I2:l; Lukeq:241. .8. Soldier life. a. {Luke (20:23): I). Seif_defilal Lift. of hardne&s Tim. 2:3). III for April that were used in _ood advantage. .... 2. th)w ", "Wherefore he is abie also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God b}' .Idm" (F/eb. 7:25). " " ' " Illustration--Israel h:id seven cities o[ refuge provided; CI)rJst Lg o tr City.of Refuge. " - --=7 -ChrlstJali Wa_are c, ;'in example "f2 Cot. 11:23-28), 9 The victory amured (1- Cor. 1_;:24-26}. 10... Overcomers rewarded. - a. of the of tree:of b Shall Given eat a crown llfe. life. very _ '1 am the door, by me if any man enter ill, lie shall be saved." "Come unto me allye thfit labour anti are heavy ladt_n." No one is able to Perform like •Jesus• L are um.stlons ng t ] last strong, swimmer and • a llrayerneet .questi!lns ahead ofanswers time aml i)t_)pie werewere'_ix'en I)rnn_pte(I mtt to filid.'the , . - Know Your Bible .Tl_e delulze is God's picjudgment. God will brinz Christ.is the true refuge; t. No one premiSslike Christ. . "l am the way; the truth I. L 3. 4: 5. 6. tThi, h)lh,wimz lies ::_'_'_l', ), 2. The hail of coming judgment, "a. Are you willing to presen your refiJge to God? ." . . b. Will it stand the scrutiny of judgment? lllustration--zTbe text sounds like a picture down COb/CLffSION Memoryof.a past exf;erience--pa:_t grace, Illustratien-=-A man was asked what his holm of heaven was. fte Iook&l for his baptismal, certificate Iddden away in his trunk ,and found it motli-eaten, ¢3) Trusting in any man-made inst_tutihn or ordinance, " Baptism, tile church, etc, h: I)resumi_vg upon the Almighty, (t) Pre_mlng upon ilte goodness i)f God. "Godis too good to senti me to bell," (2), Based upon the rigbleousne_ of others. Many a man has rested, his hope ot heaven upot_ tile prayer of a gm h' wife or mother. "" " • lllustration--A sidewalk cba_actet in Phmnix, ,Ariz., was wont to racy, "Uncle Jim call never go to hell, Uncle Jim had a.praying mother, and God willnever let .Uncle Jinx Life's.flo0d waters: a. Adversities and perplexities, .b. Reveeses and.disappointments. ." c. Crushed holSes anti bereavements. Does. your refu_e stand the'test.of - of the'deluee, lure of'world to his go to hell/' " (3) AU wilt come out righttn the endJ-, c. Bargain counter religion: (l) Religious notions that promise •escafx i ,_, .. .- (I). Self-rizhteousness. "I church.)) am as good as folks inside the "I keep the golden rule. • . "Not.by works of rlghteodsness which z ,[ ate of ting.Suggestions _ _. :: ,a_ "Tile shall sween overflgw away the them." refuee anti hall the'w'atersshafl I Pra ye' rmee " MAGAZINE Lewis T. "Corlett [11. F^LSZ R_.FUI3ES SWI:I'I" AwaY it?" (Jet. lq:9). e. It is char_cleristie of tile sinful h('hrt to - seek' false refuge. . , When they, _hall sa3, Peace and safety; . then sudden destruction comefh upon them" (1 _l'he._. 5:3). "There is a way which, seemeth'_?ight unto " " " " PREACHER'S THE (31 Must fortify in deatll. f4)Must hoderived.from thet/ord-of "Is pictured throughout the Bible as shbtle Appears to men 3is an angel of 'l ght (2 - Cor. 11:14); Is the father of lies (John 8:44) " b. The sinful heart is dec:eitfuL - a man, but the" end. thereof, ways of death". (Prey 14:12). . MAGAZINE In the spirit of wt_r_hii). In meditation,tHe that.willeth the" doctrine shall knowl. Throuzh obedience Con WILL SEND Hl:Lt, to know of - I. Philip was Sent to the eunuch• 2. Sometimes through the minister• J. The Spirit. is the,Great Teacher and Revealer. .V. BIBLE DEVOTIONALRr2aDINO LF.AUSTO BE_IXR ar¢o Ha_P_¢ L_v_o " " 05) • . " 112 . THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE . "THE PREACHER'S Increasing tho Ligl_t ". The Purpose of Missions (Proverbs 4: 18) I. To share '_(he Good Ne_vs" .(Mark 10: 14.20). I. Ily Increasing the Source of Light. This is not 2. To save men from sir (Hob. 2: 1-4). necessary for the Christian .as God .is the ..L To transform, life (2 Cor. 3_ 17, lg). .. . L_ht. " 4 To lift life's level (Titus "2:9-15). IL Drawing Nearer the Light. The Christian can .5 T,{ spread enlightenmen_. (Acts Z6: 16-18). " tin this. 6. To creme "New.Men" (Eph. 4: 20-32). IlL Removing Obstacles that would hinder the ----S_L_'rr.D. _'_[('f_l light rcachinu.the person in its ,entirety. • The Christian must do this, Missionary HerOes " of Faith it Cot. 3: 1-9). _ IV. By Walking In the Liaht. The truc child ot ] Men 4. Take an occasional' inventory_ a. It sheriff Is too notifies late Inof clleck up when fordclo_ure. 5 to Chrlst (I, Cot. 3: 23) • • I. HIs workmanship (Eph. 2:10; Isaiah,43: 21) If._TempJes'of God (f'Cor. 3: 16). 3. 2, " 4. 5. o. Men 2: 10-21). Men of'Vision of Courage(Acts (2 Cor. 22: 21-33). Men of Compassion facts 16: 9, 10). Men of Unselfish Z_al [2 Cur. 12: 14-21I. " : Broti_eriy Men (Acts 20: 17-35). ---Sr.Lr.C'rr_.: " Teach Us to Pray (Luke ll: 1) " I. Asked by praying peop/e. 2. Expresses a desire . a. To.know flow to appi'oach Deity. b. To ha_e _ deeper splrltofprayi:r. e. For help from God. _:_._:_=_:_:_=_:_. _:_7,_:_:_:_._c.._2_._.9_ ;_, _ . • . • M • _ . • . .:_=_:_ . . _'_--'_-'_"_-"_:_'_ t. Be sum of your relationships. "Our Father._' 2, Have a heart Interest_ "Thy kindom come• Thy ',viii be done•" Tr.xl:--Josh_a 1:8. desire failure. 1. No one should " 2.: God never intended we should.fail. 3. Failure means eternal loss. t A ]L - ._I][RIST_S v Sermon Outhnes. I " 3.: Have proper us,.]ead us.'_ dependehce: "Give us, forgive ". 4: Donor give up easily, importune, 5. Believe when you pray• Sti¢¢ess_u] Chr_s[a_Li[e M_XA H. B_owt¢ :. . _ ". "" ,_. _ If. _ "' " d. Crinsecratlon eterhaL " : "L 1.Success essentials, Foundation secure. a. Fisst prikclples correct b. Regeneratedahd sanctified, "" " Someone haslfl_ened " " "" _ " !. 2. 3. 4. S. " (16) of a Christian ERDXtAh'N" farmer rir husinEf:,s man is great_ a.s "Fo'rd, ROckefeller, Morgan, etc. successful " 3. " Now stress has changed. Most 4. In ecelesiasticlsm it -is the preacher who ,can entertain best; or draw the b3ggese crowd. life to z journey.or I. Jesus did not use Hin/_l/, but a "child. 2. He who would be great must be much like a child If. WSZATAgE: "rlt_: CIZZ_nLZKn Czl^,_,c';r_azs'rtcs .or A CnRts_AS? I.: Helpful/_ess. servant. a. Greatest who servesbest, . b. "Whether-old _r ybung, man. or woman, ?ich or poor. let us all be like child and serve. • ' . .e. A"real is one who" As stands by you when trientl you nccd'_him. Jes_s anti woman in adultery; gave her a new lease on llfe. L.',: Bit/h. Age of accanntability. Choosing a career• Marriage, 'Death_ . . L Healthfuin_s. ,_.-Bubbling with health, energy and zeal.. b. This is.the "characteristic of God's people, . they marchAon the hattiemont."_in of hell. sickagainst man cannot. 3. There must be a ring of surenet,s in our preliehing •arid testifying. a. We must know. '!Once blind but now I . _e." . b. Paul's testimony, "I know whom I have believed. _/nd am persufded that he•is able." etc. c. •Voice of certainty convinces. III. Li'/q_--W_tATIr MAY B_ MAnn I." A failure._ L. A success, Enumerate some who have ,made faiinres " " " of themselves and also those who have madea success of their lives, both from the Sei'ipturesand from persona[ oh_rva3. A stepping.stone. " " 4, d.Every sorrowing child wantsandto bleeding, be humanity? Haw I something to like offerparent• a downcast. a. Though hurqhle'and of common people my father Was my hei'o, b. Child loves to tell what.his father can do: ¢. May our hearts be so full that we tan' buI tell. " $. Who is greatest? He th_.t does the :,viii of the Lord as Jesus said at close of Sermon qn Mount, ".May !rot'ride in fine ears or •live in fine houses. Must behealthy, helpful, must know_ must tell, must do. .. (17) " , , . . I. WZZATI$ G_r.,,r._l_ss? " Christ as a Savior . e. f A. Should fixed heart. neversettled need A' ira's another, purpose 4. A tion. gtumbl!ng-bl0¢k .to other.s.. -" . . c. Sin.question forever, l ' 1. Tzt_ Nzxt_-Tttr Pr.tom" oi" Ms_' " " " g, Serving God the bastneas of• life.. All have influence. 1. Blinded by Satan f_.Cor. 4:'41. 2. Work at our.calling. IV." Lzr_ Mus_ Coxtn _o A C_os_ _2. Ensnared by S_itan (2.Tim. 2: 26). a, CaUed •to-be saints, II Tnz Pangw_l_s_ dr Czzarsr b. A calling ddesn't assure success. : . We should so live that when our sommons I. In due time---God's time fRom. 5: 6). comes, we'may be able to look back over a life 2. In the fullness of time (Gal, 4: 4, 5). diligence, app//cation, - _t"Needed , Neglect and carelessness ruin anyconstancy, gusiness. : " well-spent. 3. In fulfillment of prophecy (Matt• 1:23 and - 3 Inereaso our Investments. Some people:live so that they are not raised many others), a. Put more into the buS/heSS than we take _. _l_ .when they• die. We should live a life • so ._.hat " out. when we take our departure, the world _hall be IIL Tlln.Powr.a ov Cnats'r bl Question is not what we can get out but I. Highly exalted by G_d (Phil,, 2_'9), . . Inve_t. a little darker because our light has gone out, 2. Given authority (Matt• 28: 18). and just a little colde_ because our wsrm,.ioving 3. Able to save to.the uttermost (tleb. 7: •2S) e. Invest time, talent, devotlon_ life. money, efforL " - thought, heart has ceased td beat. • Characteristics Scripture--Matthew 18:1-3 " ' INTRODvc'rIoN "Wlto Is Gnr.AT_'r?" I. This seezns to be a besetting sin of human: fly. "Who is [greatest'among us?" " 2. In school we used to study about great war generals until we all wanted to be a Napoleon or an Alexahder. pilgrimage. 2. Life is a voyage• We •must "_ail our vessel, lqot always smooth railing. We need.a Pflot_ . 3, Life is a battle. •.. Constant warfare against eleinents that would • destroy, us---from the cradle to the graye. " " 4 Shakespeare _[d that "Life is a drama." .5 Life is a race, " ANSWER c. Samsonsooner.Should. hay6 .taken inventory What"Is your stock in grace if,ted at today ? a, Is it going up or down? "" . " What Is YoBr Life ._ INxannuc'noN--This a great4:14). question, an For robot is'your Ilia?is (James important question/" and" a qu_tion that con, fronts us afl. "I. Wu^'r" Is Lira? " I 13 H.A. . "I I|I. PrlesLsof God it Peter 2: 9). Bell. of Blessinp IV. Servants of God'IRom. 6: 22; I Car, 3: 9),, " V, Friends of God (John 15: 14}. (Psain_ 33) " V_L Snnsof God (I John 3:'2). .l. The Goodness of thd Lord--Ever New (v. 5). VII. Tbe' Sheei_ of HIS Fold (John 10). 2. The Word of the Lord--Ever True (v• 4).. VIII. The Branches in the Vine (John 15). "3. The Work of the Lord--Eeoc _ood (v. 6). IX. The Light of the Vv'orld fMatt• 5: 14t. 4. The Counsel of the Loed--Ever S.tands (v. lll. X_ Ambassadors (2 Cor. S: 20).. 5. The Eye of the Lord--Ever Seeing (v,- lfl). ----Sr._r.c'rtn. Some the AnT1zus ELL,WORTh B^S_:LZV ." God is doing this. The Saint's Relatinnsl_ip MAGAZINE , : . - . L ]14 THE PREACHER'5 A Wise Mdster'Builder 'Q W W.. G m:.,,,n - ha,ro " lntl, ll,rrlh_.X" P,Iul likens, tilt. ... Christian fifi, In a htliMint_: i_i('_llt't ;#r Eacll imllvidual i_a hllifiicr and the fuumlation i_ ('hri_l. lie ,intimates it i_ imnortant how, we btlild hecaU,r- the buihfinu will be tried as b);'fire, .Ill. _t)_ ex't.ry man willqr, rewarded accor(l:ng .1 hi_ eglorl in .huihlin_.- The we become huilders which'is given'to each through of us. indeed--to l)ortunity buihlin_. fe'_t :aba shows tliat i_l. _race pri¢i/e_e of'Gml Atl)e_lorious IMuch .., , , vilgrml_ d "[blttb's of tleaven." A.nlan bt,camv cattle ,_'zlng • Oplmrtunfiy "_ _ , in {he path. chained. If will, He will our dark'nes:, pr_yer --_-_ _'_ will " been . . " _ chief "my } 2 Tim l: 12). A l)wtst: CaLl facts 26:16-191 I. I}bliverance from the people 2 Salvation of sinners. Chris| Gt._._ " : here, rmw. as we '.viii in [aeaven. hess todaylgel down "elpeople Phil. 3. them to temperance that they might xyin the race. 'l'hjs is'the greatest race man can run Paul says. "1 therefore so run. not as nncertaialy;'so l)ght ]. nt!t as one that beateth the air; hut! keep under my hot!y, anti bring It into suhject[o_." lie does this that he m!ght ".viii with Christ.,_ nwn --love. (Phil. -. • 3: gl. 1 We • (vs. 3-5). a'fity not they - must ihle2. (2Attain Cor. 4:'16-18). unto lhe have Rein. 7: 25: Rein. 8: 81. 2. We must not have , lit)';, p 3,._iqle. law 4. W_' must Iv. 5), not have [Prey. the' right16: 2; Prpv. Iike_ to I,egidfstic confidence exalt sell. rlghleous- , t ,_, _ _,,_,_,_ _"' "_'r_',, -, ........ : _,_s........... _, "_ _ ] tlearLs already Christ .is tiffs "llud will cause td us over therel trey. . . (v. 21)• Perfect in perfect in (Het_. 2: 11-13). tflm It not _o he ashamed . _--- and lllustratlont ]_ _ FTEIt A.L.P._dogo_ more than twenty ti, in good works " in.ceremonies . cat_ have. about-it 1. We must count all thin_s but loss (v.s. 7.8),. ltere Is 1mrfect surrender ' . Our plans, ambitions, " w, o ecc es Paul . a member . . ast ca stand ng ete ot _anneurinl no douo[ studying to oe ar_hbt, lilt. glorious F, would "theft' dull these rule, years m the ac- tire ram/airy I am still convinced that it is the greatest call'int_ any individual There Ihal is a'iascination thrills one beyond poor heart has ever experienced. " . (a) Baptism--n seal of the covenant, same as circumcision of tile Old TeStament (Gal. 6: .161. Sacrame_ts. foot-washing, etc, . POSITIVELY . (v, Ill. and •holy joy" anything my :I love to l)reaeb gospel, of the Son of God. Pc umrue ft_r me to say: that dtlring • years-we Imve ndt exper[encct_ har_l, dry. and seemingly Gud-forsaktm ._i'vices btit have been' the Just: laM Sunday. exee _tion. am]. not the' night m _ur regular eve- . nine service God was present to hell) the.preacher pour out his soul i_ sermon and exhbrtattoa and. at tile close oLthe ser,.;ice seven fine young: al m " d c'- a g'ed p'co p e k ne t at t he, a t ar and ,'.'• ' ' ])rayed through to definite victory. ., ' " . /t All _"'e _ ---a" '" _'_ i _ --._ 1 ..... ""._ tl5 'we ustcneo to tne SllOU s of v ctory around ,_ ...... . • 7. Our t pportunlty L now. _ . • .the allar ant he r_ tie r ng ng test men es of (a) The . O era ave a_ed • • " _ " I To W_t_t C s'r Mr_,Ns " " " thuse who 'hid "p ra•et _ ) ] th rout| 1 _! m"t- nlgllt " _e . (h) Thecelestlalety (Phd. 3,20 21), h, Ours may bc ahnost gone.. _ [_'_'_ l Ta {tnA_.v hm tV tO_ _._1..I-e._.:^.. • " "" " , _' " " ...... : • " _1_. _a_l f unl urse[ves ask ng t e q_te_tmn m our own 1.t t_I£ tlAD A GOD G_rVzu ' Co_stt_t_n.n Passm_ .8, qne .last opportumty tor. ule an_ _wattgn ._' _ To abso u e y kno v; to be aware of; to fee to , .............. • " • " conlt.'5 • " " r " ,_ nll[Kl_ +YI/llv al:P not all tne services IrUltlUl like . /'or am_ Los'r (Rein. 9: 1-3), " Yo "1 "' ' ,. • r " , _" pe ecive; to uade,'ztand. . ' , • L _ • ._ , . _ • a. u lave .leart, ula_ ,,e,orc. " [_ • ta_ Kno.., H m n t c o,,,cr of re-ener,,t on tlu_ une t What was tl ere about t s sere _e t at • _'" Wh .was ' "" " =or 'one mare dutn'• t " mark? .... , . whole wnl• of God' (I, Ii11. 3: 12-14), hewished I.m elf . . .... '. . . . • . . ..... . | • | n,1he : " in the'flesh confidence.,iff, (v. 9). 3. We must not have.eonfitle'_ce Iv, 6), iTitus 3:5-8). " "this -glorifies_ . confidence +21: 2: Pro..,. 20! 6) Man - (Ill s. _Rich young ruler.) nessl " nt.vt,r resurrection . Suggeat/ons nat little "None_of gust of persecution, said these things , , Give_ _lorified. hody (b) Blood or station will nol avail. "Mot"enough (Rt_m. 7:q8; John 1: 11o13:. of'the 'Any Pau . Oh the shallow- move me," etc. (Acts 20: 22-24). Rooted_ Reason people fail, the)' are not'looking at' the invis- I.i I/_ OrnER To ',Vi_ Czlrtsr curse is upon the man who does nol use hisopportunity, a. The 'one.talent man h_ried hi, opportunity. . b. Jerusalem would ntn have its upportunity. ....... IlL "l'Jln PurPOSE tit W]r_slst; CI/RIS_ ,. . . • , I. Atta n unto perf6cti0n (v. 15L. "Gaze hearenward. Livin_ (or God ,'_lone {v. 20), Ltv¢ _' 5. The t.O.,_.! " . 20: 6,., (a_ " "" hv , • _*;l.,t_- than ,to 6. T/rod is opportunity. "a " Every our 'is valuable . ' . ' b. T , me , sett,, ,],_ es etern _-. Ity",,!It• t4/: tl!ing tt_ he wnn. In tim .ninth chapler.of First Corinthlalis he so likens it unto a race and exhorts have. Once wasted can never be _egained, .1. The. greatest.opportunity. a. A chance tn become a chihl of God. " " b. Of. eternal value. .ur use of'that ."race IV. Frt:ssr;l_ TOW^tin.TIlt: M_.R'K Phil. 3: 14). • of , hl_ . hie.. . , - I Stlpreme tin1 This. nne Ihlng-I do" p] _' _ , . W.W. eousness : , " . ,,G,l. with gl dn, Pet•.,: t2s "A _o,_le The Christian Paul• In life the islikened t_t i_e _tsuntoit fo/th a race.as by some:. the.. . . 3. Sanctifidation of heliever_. . _" .I Obeyed the call (Act_ 26: tr_L • • I[l. I,a_*orl:n blu_tt. A]tu_oar_tLv _ I Car. IS: 10) I We mn_t labur ICcr, 3:9:2 Cot. It:23} _._.e are " _,t what we are b)' the _race of God pills " LESSON " s last and I am unsave_ y s gone forever. " 'i slothfulness, Wa_ted opportunities a Means tragic Iogq h. IVnrse to h,_'-'e "and l_arve_t opportun This is the i'lghteous- " (b)-In entire sanctification "and the fdllowship of his sufferings" (v. tO), Dr.,_rrt re SzLrl" NrX;^TlVr:LV ' a# opportunily. is often not appreciated, ., Mtiln3 make'nil use n[ n)porlu!_ities. i_ S me king for the othdr fellows while .I Tie Mv I I5 Eph. 2: 1:2 Cot. 5: 17). ne_sby hiith (v. 9). " 1"hat I may win Christ . ]s_'Jlo_trc'r'l s " - • c. Manyth_ net never u_t_ se_their _r recognize Iltem. until past own d.'.S.me ruin Ihefr opportunities by delay ar __ K l]''_ r hint ill I_et'lfing ptlx_er. !'I an_ pt,r_ e. MAGAZINE _ • in: Texas . PREACHER'S the last to . ,,. ffo*b .d _'_am. _, , _ Ihefi_ after tile)' . • ',_'ns Imilt I_v the n ly I I 4}, in ki_z . T e saddest •regrets _' heal . d. Will you sit ia'ly hy and permit pass? T hink of,..shat " at stake. Is •Winning " I'. TIh v:due of _q_purtunity. a. My opp_rtunitieg llave a_t, ts,have." hmm'd. " I) Ms.):" f.r passed. _. , / Ih,ddhl_" f/real b>llnln, . bt,/zing cf an nppartl mimic! • m M_:t.za H. llrowr¢ will! 'l'hi_ A tan) in f;oll'_ hands. _rvire' •201. is essential, l)ead In Fitg. _ell! for No selft2 Tim. 2:21 ) 11 is Ihe re.tire [rower. tht, d;'- " : ,_ ;, .;,_ . Oppoi'tun/ty Iw'praveth." Persecutor ehanued, t_ a saint ! 2) Knt.w him in _anetifying po_'rf _Gal. 2: II _ r.tJan Provers _[ darkness. ,'_ rrnJsm anti llnbrliet. . _ ..... " ill Mt't It.Jesu_ frondhis Icwhole 1)amasoig_. Thi_ e_,enlisl_ chantwd life. "llehnld larled" In tight! IllllS.--I.,I d:l_ (P_'L 30: S). _r_ .Dr) of hell! " . c. " seeing, the wihl Ileasts. z_t'to Ih'em found theni iil Ih_, center o[ God's wt,elfimz inlo laughter: Sonic a tbinzs entered into " him fvise nla_ter-huihler.." .... ' Ih_ I//_!', F.rmali_v. Ihinlz._ I. A R_,#;(a:n _'AITll' 15; (;i)n (2 Tim. I_ 121. l. Km.w whmn lu. had belit.ved. . Cnnvictioh nt.c.ssarv peUlfle do .lesn_, ntfl slantk Ihev no_.Tr were " Reason reall) convicted. -aid. "It is hard ior thee to kick a_aingt thl.. imcks, ' ". _ man't.xperiencml_ real conviction does not rare tu _'o _wt,r the route ;-,sin. [;t'e' ,pangs devi , + : | rllere_s, hut when wv kvt,p InrtL tll!l' he fu!nished with the material, the q_td hal d• and then he _e_'tr(k,d t_r-/hv Althoue, h a _reat ,privilege, it. entails _reat responsibility. • " Patll'_ •life that made _ THE : Put him_'li ta _re;u sacrifice: for souls (1: Ct_r. 9: 19-22; I Cot t0:33_ Went out. of his " • wavl_wngo " sl . • ." . "' ,_ ,, I, lh Jqltl_;Hr ,: .... ,(2 ltm. 4: 7). • I. Cor. 3:10 . MAGAZINE ofhisr su.o,o, h:*; .., .9) , o dmary! :" - I 116 _. " THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE was stirred'and greatly moved upon by the Holy Ghost• It seemed ihat my-very bones were _on fire and I poured, literally poured, out my soul before the people and God honors that something we call passion and soul burden. Brethren, my if peolde put their money _into a Cause they feel . .the_' bave an interest In that cause and willwant to know ahout t from time to time. The offering. should .L_t_an enthusiastic, whole-hearted affair ,n ti:e part'of our.people. Tha't will impress the ...._i harc_est job is to keelr I'rom preaching witi_ a cold heart. "Nothing hut prayer and waiting he2 fore God will bring about titt_ passion for souls, but without it preaching ceases.to he preaddng and, is merely lectutinz: I'.fy obsirrvatlon is that " God _suaUy moves_ upon my audience in abou'_ the same measure that lie. has moved upon my own souh As we approach the place Paul "ou'tsbler" until he will naturally lall into line _1_,_,' _' '_l_tit..qh_nnwaS_wrefusedthat hisbYdogthecouldlnterne'go withWhenhimthenoY°Ung.far= notlhey oniyh°th goWentd°Wnng downt_yoursedeath'ves,S°mehut°f'yo_iY°U areare of nlarcb and :he on6 of as In the great Easter " ' ther, though In the midst of great pare, he pat= dragging others down with you. The poor lady offering. For one, I am ,going In to make this ted his faithful dog on the head, and told him could not help it, but we can l for Jesus stands and otber special days a time for rallying our " friends and getting ifi a arger crowd and thereby to lie down. and. wait for him for he wouid be ready to throw Himself into the turbulent water: brin_ more penple witidn reach of my church• ,_ back in a little while. The faithful dog seemof: death • and save everyone who will let him 1 shall plan my service leaving room always for ..._ ingly.grasped titi_ situation and lay down'by'the ([sa..25:11}. the llolv Ghost to have full 'right•of way, but ] -side of the elevator shaft while ]fi.s master was "bfany times men andwomen are in. the very " " " Special . • Dayl " Will not and know the difference betweenanda a well planned properly balanced'service hit and miss sort ol program ,s'here ioudne_ isde- In the matter of su_ee_tions,.I shall follow the same method I sometimes in mY" preacbing, preach that to myself and let billow the audience listen in on the me.age, pendcdOupon to _'put it over•" Sure'l want to be free in tke Lord, but me I have experienee't_lal God blesses morelearned when by1 know what I am about than when I depend upon the I feel "1 can make more o[ special days if I insldralion of the moment to enable me to get the will advertise tlfem befter and try to use them as a meansinofour reaching somewhat, interested work• tbu_e They who have.areread in /he- general church advertising ai_out the various denominations and are interested and perhaps will come to our church on a special occasion when it would be hard to reach them m anordinary "way. Now we doti_is in our. revivais,.but usually then an evangelist is there and the visitor . gets an entirely different opinion from what he would In useof our regular seryice_.. There ', are thousands of hungry people who want what we preach and if we can but get them under . the influence of the gospel itwill l/rove to be tbday as in Paul's day, "The power of God unto salvation."/'.lost of these special days such as Mother's•Day, Boy's Day, Thanksgiving and numerous others will lend themselves to an evangelistic message .like ours .and it.will be so different {0r _should be at least) that"the visitors, .many n[ them, will want to come b..ick again. Soon "nut great 'Easter service will be here. True we are going to have a General I/udget . offering, but that need not embarrass nur friends that might be visiting 'our churche_ nn that "o_:caslon. In fact It might be a means of tying I 17 MAGAZINE them" to our work as notching else apart [tom genuine salvatibn Couhl.- It is u known fact that for the. sheep." r THE PREACHER'S contributing factors "came to my mind but 1 am going to mentio[z-one t _ ng, My own heart reached w'hen said "I could ac- " on " going I shallto know I am go ng.to do,. cursed for my hebrethren," God "wish beginsmygelf to work' howtheI antis am do it what and wben I am going "in our midst. •. I" want to more and more feel to.qui.t., [ tlcJ not want to make the mistake of , " or tke friends of my some, of the. eompassmn that Jesus felt: That is tidnkin_ tirolmy .friends what the good shepherd does. "fie gives his life members who have been invited out tn hear me, • . . _ . message. [ know it is a L_ad impression if my visiting, friends am making my sermon as lget go the o_ idea gettingtbatit Ifrom the inspiration of the folks in the pew. . Then, tun, I am gom_ td continue my |ireIomz practice of quitting when I get through and al(out t}_e same time ever)' Lord's day,_ Many of my people come 'on street cars or buses and • if they miss "their ear" they have to walt perhaps half "fin hour to get another and I have It/und if thqy do not know when or about when., they" can get out of the service they do not come. Then,.too, some of them work in homes or have a member of the family who has to have " [_is meals 9rt time, and if I preach toe long and tbat person has. togo to work without the meal --well. bretbren, tb_ ought •not to be. . . . Illustrations l)evotion is a great thing- devotinnto a cause or to an individual• To be wbole-heartedly de- :. voted tc God is what all of as want. A little more than thirteen years ago a young _] man near Erie, Illinois, fell down a stairway and broke his back. • In a little while th_ amliu.: lance canoe from the Saint Anthony Hospital in (20) .." " _i f'! -'i : Rock Island tn rush this young man o_ for an immediate operation in tire hope of saving his A few weeks ago as I was. passing thrnfigh St. /9ouis,. they were dragging the Mississippi life. Somehow this young man's collie dog got Into the ambulance and rode..along witll hls master to the hospital, and would have gone rigfit River for two bodies, ot people who had recently, drowned• A •lady had fallen into the. river and was drowning. Her husband, eager to save _, ._nto.the •l _: elevator pnd ub to the operating room, her, threw hlmsell intothe muddy waters and /lie hu,rried young off man to room diedfor andthehisoperation. _ody was,That taken night by -arms in ulmn, of deatil'and A few )'ears do ace not aknow welI-knowh it until' theater closed the•undert/tker down anotker eliwator. And al"'though • tidrteen lomt years have - come and gone, that faithful dog is still lying beside tire elevator shaft at Saint Ant one/ tlbsplial n Rn¢_ Island, llllnols, waiting, waiting, waiting the re- buihling in Nek' York City collapsed-under the weight of four feet tff, snow. In that audience that night was-an old miner whos_ ear had been [rained for )'ears in listening for sot/ntis denoting dange;-. When ]its:_" ear caught the notes n[ death turn o[ his master• ItWas ted me by afriend "who had seen the dog tiigt for a longtime after the young man died every car that came down that ele'g'ator shaft this dug'would jump upand - (ethers paid no.attention to them) instinctively he sprang to Ids feet and ran for the closest exit, "As ke went out the dot_r he looked back nver his shoulderand saw the orchestra d rector swlng• Junk for the return of his master and friend, The dog is old and'decrepit now, hut th/: buspital authorities mean to allow him to stay right ing his baton, not conscious of the fact that above " lds head were dust and fog from the falling build". ing. He witli hundreds of others_vas buried by the' shaft in obedience to tbe command din nnder, the lebns and wreckage of the Kmckerhis master and Ids faithful vigil until be dies: b_cker Building. Likewise many are singing and Sometimes the colored folks get their words .daficing.to the tune of death hut are unaware mixed, but usually their meaning is not "so bad. " _ f h s near approach. , A few years ago there lived in Springfidd,.Illi"Seek• ye tlie Lord while he may be found, nois, an old c61ored w.man who knew the Lord. call upon him while he is near. 'i The recent Rev. William A$.hbrook, one of our cJmrter, memheavy rains in find around Waeol Texas, remind• bets who has since gone to I_¢aven used to get us of astnry'that is told- nf a disastrous similar ' Aunt-Ma_y to wash for him. Brother Ashbrnok, flood a few years ago. Heavy rains'had.swollen when takltig and bringing the glothes_ ,often the little, river that separated east Waco from talked to her about Jesus and religion. One day west Waso. Inthese same.streets a few days Aunt Mary became ill and was. dying. She sent ago the :,eater was'fifteen feet deep. In these lowfor Brbther Ashbrook to come In her bedside, lands in tim former flood a young Je_ was asked After Aunt Mary told him her- experience and to get _nto the rescue heat and he taken 'in had[ a. time oI rejoicing, site requested a song. safety. "No I stay witiz my business:' he "said, " - "What do you want me to sing?".inquired and refused to go. In a little while his pitiful Ilrother Ashbrook. The' old lady quickly re- " cries were heard as he begged In;" atlother rescue . sponded, "Brudder Ashbropk, I- wants you to boat to come after him.."No_" rep ed the head " sing dot ole song 'Blessed Insurance Jesus Is of therescue party, "he had his chance, and nokv - Mine•'" Brother Ashbrook sang. as she had sog-" v.;e dare n6t risk our lives- to ,save him. He gested, "lilessed Insurance =lesus Is Mine," and should have let us save him when we werethei:e. _Aunt Mary shofited the victor_: and soon went .and wanted in take him to safety, Nobody is to nn to heaven. -Yes, Jesus Is'insurance, not against blame now but. l_imsel[i¢' The little Jew died lires that consume the material, but the fires di screaming for somebody to come. He _tayed ",vith hall that burn httt never cngsume the soul. his'business loo long. - (Zl) . THEPREACHER'S MACAZlN_ • T . p , "- time is the;rIt mission talk to.seekers, _asiel it task. _c_:nls tohardnr sometimes " I_ear . " Dealing wlth Seekers " " E.T. at the Altar . . 112 the in Wliat /T_ .JL Rekpeet |s the Minlster.a Priest? ftlS subject is of. great iniportance .. n ires to. do with tJie desthlles of men. A snccESS I_r fallurt; involves eternity, I neVer', French Ibe ha_.'e ta_nsidEred m\'seli cohllictenl unucll less ablt_ ht instruct nthers, fill ll'ti_ wi_rk, !o1 aa_" flint itttlywillst_|lt_l of litcz'at_rc ozl .thisfor ._=_bthink not • }1_ uut t_l illacl lilt' Je_t Is very limited. I have read "some go¢_tl orticles hut faile_l I. preserve them 1 have hul "little a_.,ailable material otltside'tli+llle ilJhh!." Th_ question :IrisES. !'Lh)t's it-_ive us'iu_tructions a_ t_ how.to t'onduct" _ur alhtr _crvices"?'" The fa_•t n[ the.case about altar is. there is nothinn services as such. _:ft!l i_ !he' llJhle We. mi_hl at this point ask "What is tilt, purl)use of the altar answer" w_)ukl soul._ throu_:h makes nil some he.. "It i_ inlr' ntethu_l to Gild:" Now "_hil0 rnEiltilm instances tile questtun. • .i_Jy service'?" ill .of [i]tzlr services different ones iJi IIt*ltJitl_ the llib]e we 110 -dealing tl;l_.'e with whu rtls|l in where first tldn_ for. thus "two :tn_el_ I!,ar: t. tread." arid .this to Ins" mind :is t'ne plaee where this happens. I still believe if;it I(io nluch talking i_ ct_nthsblz to the seeker t.nd earl, _lilluhl'hc lagcn to avoicl it. 'I presume tt w.idd be wi_e for atz evaneeIis( or II,_-stor to a_ p_ssihle, is to f/nd We stand objectives,, 6ut _'bat with seekers: tbey. are at for t_voworks the" one i"t'w ft)r salvation. 'tile t_lhet fo_ entire snncttfnea ion. To he consistent we shoidd find out what tile seeker is alter. Tbis wguld" save some confusion in .tize tirol?trig bf- blmor he_? to eet in We want. a seeker tbe"ltihle i!lustrations td dealing with s_,ekers, there _eems to be an abst_nce of :iny pro"'Ion_ed Iltilling or. coa._illg to _et folks to pray or believe. Take the case of-the youm_ man coming In Jesus. fie was ;_ wry 'hollo'Eel seeker• He .If+ I b;ni _all altar Ildl .ill :'-_ekl.'l's. and coukJ I have tbin_.s eo according.re m) judgment, there ._ouhl be no talkin_ w} seekers at first. 1 would It wbuhl be x_•ell at thL_ time fnr _t_mcnne. pus_ihl_" Ihe past_r, t_' pray drfin!lely tor the seeksnu soul :follbwing an.v infi)rmation that may webzhed tile matter and decided the price was h_o _reat anti refused to follow the instructions ;ind _•ent hi_ w_y. So far as we know, there h'l (;od have gll;ll th:_' v have'keen ohta[ned_L.lhb asked to pray fnr himsEll, was ml itCh/he or coaxing, tt_ pra;,' through or submit f_ H_e will of God S_me folks would th_ first opp!_rtunity. It"might bE d get thrnu_l_ witlnout any per- ._nal hulnan.for %','trick _mlhl hell_ lie trl_nn n_ucb thebetter tht'ht. t,_'ithout 1 think do_Jbt tile _llt;ll" services art' overworked anyveay I_ be easlt, r fi_r m_;st llellple .to and c_lun,,el than to _a't down pr_t_' .aeainst I{ seems _fft'r _u_t'stitlns to hu_,iI_ESS and the • terrible • opposition of Satan.'•ll elf/ore the seeker is ft is well tn remember t_mvitlion fi_r.sin fi_r the Thert_ salvation. made an -prol)abl_ Ibat a nnder lhe . idtnr w_rkers;iv was failure such and circumstances evidently did not "kllllW his business• Jesus, according to that reck,,nine. 'lo_fthP c;tse_ "F_lke nny of the Bible ilium-. trali6ns and that same absence of _:¢_nversion is the _.eeker:is nt_ticeabh_• a str nner to an)' such exerelse.. , Ihere. is t'ver ,a placo'we need _piritual it is'ri=hl here at the altar <_f prayer. . If It' may brinz stone surprise warriors. Yet it is .when a seeker _g,ncv God Tht,. Rible _t man ret_ognlzes anrt insists upon th_ free moral bis yielding to One•_ihject that shouk/be kept inv'lew zs lead- ine the seeker to accept tke.demands of God. tie absolutely .must yield If lot salvation he ln'ust, surrender and repent. forsaking his sins. If he is seeklnt_ sanctification he must consecrate his entire heinz to God and dic out to the world. if [here is no yielding there is no salvation. No matter what the,claim is'unless there 'is yielding, Ihe sinner repenting, and the believer consecratint_, there is no victor_ _. The demand upon the seeker should be- immediate yle]dlng unto God. would be to urge not so much" for bcgin_ (o pray from s he rt "Perhaps w ten you asked him if be w:ls sav!,d, he said: "Yes." 13ut Ills ways should, shlluhl insigt that fusint_, The tendency i_ to get tbe htlman touch instead of tbe divine. Thi_ can.he nothmz else tht _eekers at first, a. tu pray for tbe ltt_b Gbtlst t_._break up the. lesisting J'oree nr Satan. f may .when he begin_ to .llray,he asks. the Ltlrd td urgive him and save bim from iris sifts. This of Ther': is but little hope ft_ra seeker if he re, fuses to" pray as a seeker and pray aloud at that. than'canfusinz. n_l Give the seeker plenty, of ronm. 'Fht• first'thin_ I v.'ouhl do the "('bristl;zn L_,_t_le tl_ pray. of lie that. :ire therechallent_ed i_ a terrific tin. not Theexpect forces vicof hell and L_at(le. we need I_)ry *.i.'ilhout a-battle. Tilt lie lever or wo_lwr _honld_accellt Ihe.fact that ninth of the fiehtble must be done I1:,"himself, lit' might tb•do it. as tried to get .me to pta_v, but for some reason, I know not what. it seemed almost impossible for me to open n|y mouth in prayt/r. It may require some time to get a soul to break away in.prayer, lieht c_n. for ." lie was-ohllged hhn thatJesusbe ltteked one iI_ll_ression up_m Iothe tellSavit_r, _oved him. tbint_ and lie _llso t<dd him _fhat it was: "_ell all thou hast and uive to the poor?' -The-young man !t would zn_*:m a slron_ faith on the part.of the thlttch _t'ith tl._ preaching of the r_g_ed lruth, %'t.'e need more o[ _vbat _truek Saul o_ Tarsu_ on his way to Damascus: l_oo(I, old-fashioned us _nle eive demand meazer, but-I l know think, that the laird w_uld be ._anctifi_ our w,isdom is pleased rather to have• us u_e what •we have..cst_cially ,_ro_)d.. .tile altar, e_.li.ls if= workers. not agrt'_'. Inll all ClmlrovErsy o d ;'r,_in his Sometimes pastors and s evan* lit. d'¢oi(h, tl. eH_t;ci;dly while ann altar sere ce ts I_r_tt'ellimL tiofiinm li fs just this "Give tbe socket. !_lecihliy the. seeker Ior holin_s., plenly ot rodin.", • What ¢oul(l. be more dislraclln_t than to have one person on each sble of a s_ekEr wilh arms may be a _real butIrrm.e ff gr a er pt'odtltt'd, much of the trouble came earnestly nqui_" ng the way evidently intending It) get saved, ] Ihe _ubjcct and answer qUestion_ a_ tm_y arise. M3 lirst suggestion is perhal)s not worth nlen- cases the l'thiol)ian and Christ. flerezs I_egplE" if they woulcl lislen and beed l haVE heard fnlks pray for sinners that they might bt; . hhrd to _'et believers t_ <k_ nll_ch t,ven in 'th_ face of ._o,_reat a need. After a'prayer or two for Ihe seeker urge hlm to pray [of himself. Tiffs may t_ot he easy, espe-- ebdly a seeker for holiness. 1 wt.II r_:member my own" e'xperience at this point, l_low the brethren worker, Nieodem_s balancE, This is a place. carefully. A soul _i.'_Juldv:mi_h. .From l_ohahl_' _re sonle, excelltiohs'whlch win hE rl.c._,nized ira littlE" sanctified jtldgment i_ used., I ;tzw con'.'inced •01at if '.'._e could ha_'e more _n the Ilnlv Gh st.t wet n _ fes _ I we would _aw, less Irtmhle at'_ur allots Seekers wuuhl be mort. Jnlt, re_tet] and anki_us to find ri:lief.- It the i_" in the " rouyiction ,,at'ie "and ;'ecuuhl of tzrac_. Cost With Peter a_ eUllUch :tml:Phibp,'and around .hE tm_ler_to0d,, hut "oIttimE'_ at my own_l One "outst.anding problem at ,this poibt .is :t_ . altar and canq)mectin_, I bavc serve I an almost kdt'l_'thu protn'r-i_'raon :_! Ild._ work o{" In kcu|_ ml/_,gtlahle _-ock of_._pirJtu:d.re_istance. Pr_z)'ing lmilrnl_er I_C_sons fron_. _ivJta_ cnun_t.I :it thLs is not t';isy Nil one seems.to think he has tbe I • ' art _rnt,. as nnlch for lh_ cbt/r£h and ChristianJly. Imwew.r where we must tread _,l_ht n_l zo "iake a let of in_truction_ ;,verat.,t _reken ill Ilul dmn'ch services• : , lunch 'with Gi_(l, and if lw<_ or thrt;E l_er_ons re crowding i_. it t.fra_.vs lhe attenth)n and is cola- t t_rne. ,'_wtv tinderstandin_ if hE will nol cannot be ,saved:..Th_s thatmight result in a y/eld _rcaterhe respect seekim_ souls VVe ha%'e the CaSE _f ti_e riclt rot ng man with Jesus Clur/st the aliar, worker.- Pente- The_e.l_ihle - . _ritical atmosl_brre eem,oca..f,,rthetask Cttmin_ In tile irlatter td dealim: Ihe altar . aInmuch get belicver_ t<_pr:+_: than it k+ to _el _eekers to pray, yet it is to .nv naind t_l great imp0rtancc, to , , . • ' " "- (22) zives . more information as need and how to] work.| r him. " It is ditch diffic'u]t to _,et _i seeker " sometimes think- that this is because to his real My . 1o pr;iy. 1 o[ lack of observation be pointed out and then we the seeker walk in these ways. is.that scarcely ever a person uets through wbo refuses to pray for himself. I do ntlt consider it wise to give him encouragement to believe that he has recei_,'ed a thin_. The (2_) . , "., . 120 THE PREACHER'S • z MAGAZINE THE PREACHER'S , real difficulty, is refusing to yield .to the will of God.. One of the Bible conditions for salvation is the confession of sins. If we confess our sins was sufficient cotfvietion on that meeting so they did all we asked then/ to do, The next meeting in another p!uee with the •same brothez we at-tempted some of these things but they would not •he is faRhful and just to forgive us ou_" sins. work: Thisbutthe should quc!stion be recognlzed'in "fleeting with "Some seekera is,.to what extent? have said every sin must. be acknowledged |n publ/c'; it must•he dragged out and owned up.. I am satisfied that this can be overdone, I believc that unless God lays .the sin upon the heart of the s_ekcr that.'it is not necessary to. .in I at_y am seuseth,'it satisfied that minister not. a priest " " _he : There is a"of serious danger and.leaving at this point,thenamely, the the seeker needs isto.confe_ htslm[2t. leading the intellect heart. s'ns to h'm, on y as he m'ght want his help o_ • 3'=qtl'here is the bossihillty of a seeker's accepting guidance-to make somethi:eg right, the iloctrine and teaching but failing to grasp I do think iris wellto ask a seeker If'he will the real experience. This might bring some measnow give up his sins, if he will turn from' them; ure of joy and satisfaction as it is impossible in fact, if he 'kill repent, for•unless he does there to make.any move toward God or in obedience to God without resulting in some emotional re-. is no salvation for him. do more in pOIJlic than a general acknowledg- even though the worker looks around with that confident, satisfied expression which seems.to say, "I got him through," I do,not know which is the gceatest object of pity, the seeker or the " • With the seeker.for holiness is the question ment of beingit ashould sinner•beIfacknowledged'to" there is a sin against , there a fellownf'An him; 'of consecration• How far can we press- the seek-. [ against t e church, confess it as publicly as er along , • tills ..........lner J; am not SUFCj DU_ • LI| nK the sin is. I believe, there is a limiL to puhlic . . . • . . , .... confessionl Take the ca_e of the Samaritan wom- pernaps tne.c_tse oezore you mignt nave sometomg an at the iseff. All she did was to own up that to .in settling this-hrot]ght question. wasdomore pressure to Years bear ago uponthere the 4 MAGAZ.INE 12 I \ " worker. . " and said guil/y "Comeof and a man which told her me •_.eker than now. . - ks, "Will you she was whatsee the Savior ad:usad Such questions i, . : put your bus n_s on the altar_ your home, your a the th ngs that ever I d d T e Eto optan' . ' "...... . ,. . • . .. _" lamny_ your nusnanu_ 3_oor Wile anca moneyt ,, eunuch old note ng m toe nne ot pun c conor "Will you go to Africa ?" were asked the seekfession or. to the orange ist Philip. Take the ing soul. We d_ not hear that now_ at least to " case of Pentecost, no :public _onfeesio/t was'redie extent "of ether years• Personally, I believe eor_ed. thai a worker shbuld pray for wisdom Mong Tbe confession .should he done but unto God these lines, rlf this isthe work of the Haly_Spirit, and not unto man unless itis- in order to obwe will apt help matters :much by trespassing tMn" help to straighten out some wrong deal or on HIS f/eki of activity. It-does seem that the sinful act 0f the past.. The publican prayed, harder a seeker deals with himself the better he • "Have mercy upon m¢_ a sifiner." He .was atwilt get along with God. " cepted and went down to his hou_ [ustiffed..The }fog' much'can we do by Way of urging a jailer said nothing about his sins in public, I_fit soul to believe.the'Word? I do "not think that believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, and was there is zs much difficulty._ith a seeking sinner " saved. The .prodigal son h_.d his confession all . at this point. We would all agree that It is proper learned bY heart, but his father gave hint scarcely m show him from the Scriptures that he is int!me. and Opportunity to get it out, Thus it ap_]udi:d.in the plan of salvation, and show him pears clear from Scripture that sins were to he some promises in the Word of God h>r hldi,.and confessed unto God.. hold qn for him to see his. l_rivjieges and lead In regard to enhre ' sanct]hcahon, " "' ' _ere should him to accept them. be the confession of carhalit2) or a s;dcked heart : There appears to be moret_difficulty with'the But the works of 'tile flesh manifested in his life. seeker for holiness. Why it should he.is a quesshould be.left 'for the Spir/t to lead. There 'is a tion. Positively It may be because of a failure place for confession and it should not be negto appreciate the importance of titework of sanclected." I see no grounds from'the Bible that. it tification, a'failure, to see that It Is holiness or should be carsied farther• .hell. How much can we urge u seeker to be- . I was m one meeting which was disturbed litre? How about tho_ usual questions that are more or less by young people .throwing,things sooftec thrown at a seeker? Do you believe'that about the ¢ompony church,especially the entire came to during the altarprayer. before But the meetings closed. We refined to pray f0r them • untU they confessed'openly that they had disturhed' the meeting and were sorry for it. Tbere (24). Jesus can sanctify? Do you He'wiII?_ Well, thcn_ When will He believe szaictify?that ;the poor soul cannot say anything else but '.'Now." Yet the I]eart has not grasped the truth 'and the : experience has not become 'a fact In the life, . When the altar service is over, ask all to testify to pi'esent attainments If you have reason to believe that they really.got something, urge them zo testify, using Bible terminology. . A MetJage to Doubterl - J. L. R0nv" " . ft d_esn't pay to take.the devil's arsenic. "Nor Ice it sit around; The best thing to do with such poison is--To pear it on the grouhd. Too many innocent ones, can't guess just why we peace. : " . .doubt, action bringing a. measure of contedtment and Not. do they think it peolg'r when .we :pout inThis would resulein a forthal lifeless experience stead of shout. ---one of the_.grave dangers to holiness and the .,. God is nit dead, nor does He lie, like human Church of the Nazarene. Therels a heart experiL beings do once, aso_d experienci%an experience that affects the entire being and firings contentmentwith holy fire _nd spill.victory. There is.a way through . .to victory and happy is'the seeker who presses through until he reallzes it, Iiappy is [he worl_er who can lead a .soul along until.'he strikes through. This is a delicate place. There is• a work right in heft that the Holy Spirit must do or it will-never be_done. . We _nay talk the seeker into skying that he helitres.: we may sing until he says he beileves_ hut .-that is not sufficient; his faith must lay bold of the promises of God until the Holy Ghost touches 'him. and he knows it is done. "Emotion'and, feeling will be a.secondary matter. He knows it "is done hccanse it is done. That settled conscious- Ills promises yield a million fald;,His Word i_ ever true. " " So let tbe devil have his say--just outside your head Just take a mental attitude tizat to bim you are dead " " Reckon that ull the cares of life are hanging on cross; LettheGod be true : and all else false--cotmt it refuse "• andway Iossl . sin, in thought or word The [o win is not to or deed; If you really believe that Godis true diis 'little message heed. &'Note from a Preacher nbs6 of a completed work is worth more than In Mitchell, S. "D., four large churches united all the and we should not he _tisfied,_,ith anyfor Sunday night services during the-summer-thing short of that. Methodist Episcopal, Baptist;. Congregational, Suppose we have a seeker that'does not seem Presbyterian2 Altogether they have'2,300 mereable to graspthe pr6roise ffor victory: .what can bcrs. A recent Sufiday they had eighty-'six in be•done? This is an important place it seems to. attendance• Rev. Wise preached to eighty-eight me. Too rough urging may lead.into the "take and has a mem|_ershlp of sixty. I believe Jrpays it by faith" error. I'believe:it is better to. give to preach holiness hot and •take offerings. God . • them tlme to settle up with the Lord. I haw help us.to keep it up:--B. V, S_Az_.. heard anumber of good sanctified folks soy that " • they were-several day_ geff.mg .through to God. • • . I am of-the:mind that if a soul is in earnest he " Robert Bruce had made several unsuccessful will come back and If he is not, nothing is attempts to possess his'kingdom_ and was con• gained by prolonging "the' altar service. Stay coaling himself in a cave from the presence of his with him' as long as hc ,want_ to stay• and _rlll " foes. He watched a spider try six times to cast ',J_do anything. I am satisfied that .the danger of its silken thread from one beninto another be-" losing him is less lh letting l_lm go than in firgtng - fore it finally s0eceeded at file seventh attempt. him to ¢,laim beyond his consecration and sub"I'fiis sight fired his soul and revived his hope missiott, and•he sat u_on. the throne of Scotland, (ZS) . ". - • 122 THE, The 1/ thou trill Minister be a aervant PREACHER'S As ¢mto a MAGAZINE N. Harrington lhb this preasher, flay, and "wilt _erve them, and. answer them, attd speakgood words to thenJ, then the)' will be thy servants for eber (I Kings 12:7). "I_[RST, tel .us consider tim JL man; _colidly, as a man in lyi :ls.a man of efficiency Jn Word; fourthly, as a man removine winnintr _'l, I tho/Jght that " terp(isesuited • _[ utter_ ._ [t . sliriveled creature, that tile preacher a kick and whose I . complete forsaken, lack.of .woe-bet;.one, shrunken whe_ abject attitude sliould be caricatured mmirnful countenance, inlelllgence, , from the fl:{mlng herald suggests anti neither _ 123 -i by Generally, in that'his certain subject however , he is regarded as range 6f thought is limited matter denominated religious wr_m= in as contradistinguished from all the r_al and vital _atters of human pursuit anti endeavor, anti consequee.y tl)e wt_rJd at" argo conceives of him as neees,_arily narrowin his' tastes_'a_d the pullflts.' s#_npathies 'Render therefore unto '{ ; averaee man. Tile religion of Jesus Christ has to do leith ali men anti all tldm:s, and with praying for tile salvation cation of bEIieCers the average _ :ill of 'a he came to belong to another a mode/ after his liking, not onLY pleased, but he aeeis himsdf • . 1 / _ 1 ! { anti I]. walks like Tile a man. deliversin the his apostolic nte_sagE in the ignoraflce. preacher chursh language of men and moves a.cro_ the stage as a sugar, with tile o[tbumb. a rule carlxnler to "shop'_ with tile.rest. strong, vigorous, cotitmanding personality. Peter, Patti, James. John--cash is a "What h.the be made that talk put"TilehL_ preacher universe can together Ai2d this leads me to ask, lie Ihdy in a very different sen_ the There that phrast_ religion,is used must bt; "a is foreign to his.endeavors, what or given to nn: places, if they;be Master, furnish entered him wiih .in the spiri( "nf his Writ leveals we deem also care _','esar th6 tlfln_s_which of sinners or the sanctifi- .(]{it[ shureh ftHI.v ;is tnucJt .tit" the history, lle is immanent for the political affa:irs of his country. He cannot he" otherwise lhim intensely interested the church, as a true sen'ant of ibe people, must for the ,:h;iracter ot its rulers and its laws. lf providence be to him a reality, he will be a servant " " derstand that his I,usine_s bclongsr to Sunday anti the church. Every day is his day of opport{mity; ever)' realm is his field of serViCE ant] duty;all "] , i servant of the -the duties of - in reslity.. All bistoiT is church_ history for it lind in Ihe midst of worldly antarzonism*. is Ihc record of the progress ctf the kingdom of "]['he external conditions of the dmrch are largely shaped by .the course hi. political events, ,and he who cares intelligently for thEdortunes of and with the alhdrs of t:overn- the week the lielm of secular.history as'Ht_ is at the helm 61 in bath. aml inchurch fact the distlnclion _t,cular history is more made.between in name than " meat even as in I:_r6achlng honesty, purity, love, righteousness he must necessarily have to do he is declarinz principles, that tnush every busi-ness and' voeatiolt of life. The preacher i:atmot tiurini_ of unl, o Ihe people tbis day, and will serve them" anti _inswer them. and speak good words to them. Then they wil]'become 'his servants forever. In other :words he will be a man of earnest words.and it pulpit. brave [irinm tile national'life deeds in every " into harmonious EffOrt tO " relatlon- rightly the political duties of There of theof cloth notitm When views the minister ,'Is a scream of atheChrislian_ penlite , ship witt_aretilebrethren government the" with Divine theRuler. citizen they immediateb' become a_ truly re- " thai they are to preach against sin just so long ligious as.at W'whish-he is called upon to perform, In fact in their influenceand hearing upon the as it is kept separate and apa'rt from politics, 5ut are to cease the r reproois_ denunciat des, and . marked individual and stands erect with "bare, to employ tlie very expresslve figure, of Ralph bold brow" and feet firmly-planted on the solid . Connor, he is the "sky. p_Iot." But when you wellare of his fellowziten tiiey ,-are reckoned With his most weigbty respt, usibilities and, if I may be 3earnings whenever it crn._._s, the invisible line and'bec_m_.'s a poll.tirol questiofi.. This notion is earth..When _ermitted a_ fal_ these men [_reache.d, their audience begin to think world?" messenger And minister Answer might of religion, or clearb; preacher's tie is the and +spirit. the C;esar's" (Mfftthe_; 22:21 Nnr i_ he in any just _nsa,. le>s relJkdous when fit tile dischar_eol these duties than wheli_he is The more he knows of litg_ t!_e more effectively he can bring his mes_.age to meet the- reqture• . " " ments of human need_: 11. Til_-; _I|NISTER As _. /',l^r_ ls'Po,.Hn'.s Shuuhl the preach_'r enter politics? Certainly "not as a profes.sion but in the proelat_lati_m of be sbletracked of the situation lie knows his work. He thinks in terms of his work• If lie be a true workman his work in a very true sense is file.revelation of soul man of the world" from that inproclaim which who would must be nu realm that with the polit!cian to be master " the man. Allowing for the exaggeration,'a shoemaker is likely to theasure.the world by shoestrings, a grocer to think in terms of tell aml man_-I_ody, .lf gospel he a eitizefi 'and. a irue people_ he owe_ to his country citizenship. lie, fit this way, the preacher was farther and farther removed frnm tile worhl of man until in t]lought considered deception• No grade of •honesty, no controlling motives are right in a political campaign which would be are right Well has tho model been used. ridicule and caricature. Anti so the cartoonist ?If one is asked to.talk.about his work, hE is reI_ose of' the. soul-le_ _phinx ilor the pathos ,_t" blank idiocy, but" rather the sickly, constraiixed and embarrassed features ofthe gawk attd I_ro- MAGAZ_INE, andcrevice. Tile explanation'of thi._ view of the preacher is founded in the entirely-false and contracted conceptionofreligion entert,'iinedby tile finds in the preashEr the PREACFtER'S .. t_ not.at homeon Ihe earth: It does not take Ionz to have this strange figure---at first revered,' • it. may he, as heing pbs_ed ol peculiar and marital virtue.s=--it does not take long, When' tile thought of the preacher as. a ndnlsler has supi!]afited the tliought of him as a priest, to have this strange and uneasy figure converted into invites as an m its vlncial? It is so t at t e comic.papers represent hinl. I am'inclined tobelieve that this notion.of .the preacher has its rise in superstition and i wit, ehan_ed witll Ihe affairs Of this terrestrial exLstence. And. "s, .she aml preacher presently becomes heavenly world to have only the remotestas a'connection visitant,- who • does not dwell in the skies and who the pursuit of goodfless is; ati onto pate lind colorles_ indlvMuals or -'! '_ n inan;s work a mim's heart sermonic habit t_should'all be that the proclamation 'of righteousuess reqmre_ ,'t thin and tenuous voice, an apologetic air and an assumt;d anti 'strahied mien that is neither natural nor beconting? .How does it happen ' retrained. provincial endowed with peculiar and magical powers and minister as a : polities; thirdhaving a sort of monopoly"of heavenly and preaching tilt! spiritual thiil_s .wllJch couh_ he bbst0wed on prejudice anti t_thcrs unlx_ through his priestly nffiees. Gradu- 'rltl_ _IINISTI-;R AS A _VlAN _ THE must he' cosmopolitan. It i.- ztrange that a ". of the world Is to be winked at and different conception of the preacher should }_e onpermfssible_ is a wretched hell born and pa_.qonale evam:elist into the religious ofI"w[al. btqon_in_ to'an establishment, ha_dni_ _ c_oteric individuality, suppogEil by .in,any to he of" p6ople, --the preacher is a man_ He has to Indo the in first-place--to, tile world, and follow he needs the of. courage to g_t it done. - Why -i S {. the loyalty " " . Of the People Servant William people i , of what.religion means-.-.tlmt it J _id, "They are turning the world upside down." Their presence was "electric with power, and the has to do with life and the use of all tl_ings,that .it claims all provinces of thought and acti_,ity. '_l energy of theandelemental their words work. its I e_,_itory--you see be tbata the preacller ir_ _ _ aformessengk.r of religionwill must many-sided no atmosphere " of forces in They of "badnature about was ther_ .weakness, . They were as commanding generals 6n the field of conflict.' It. was not until ecclesiasticism was born that the. dividual and must tough other at almost every the very requirements (26) lile In one way or an- point. The preacher by of his office and work • . . to _tX so.it is unly-by.a na_'row, pro- vincial, false idea of religion thai h(: cau lower his plane of life in politics and still thiuk him-: {_The belief st'If innocenl. separate that there .. dep:irtments which God is.to while in Ih'e, other . to are two Christian be recognized all th_ vileness - distinct and life, one m and confessed, and wickedness and a'lf_hhs its author, tile devil. BrethrEn. wheff vice. orcanize_ polltlesl imrties to its support, the deal with should sin aS sin. minister be raised "We are not our tile own;we with .a' prlce?' We represent God's side of the" controversy (27) and voice louder. rallieg . of the IVe must I_ave been bought not our.own, with wrofig. but We 124 t are holy men. We stand firmly and uncom-prot_isingly for the laws, warnings and prodama•finns of heaven. We speak good _voeds, for the glory of our God and_the deepest Interests of the _,eople. l- THE. PREACHER'S Our ministry; is not confined alone to ,as is prophetical. M follmvers the it_nctuary, ft is Rightly not quiteviewed so muq_ priestly of Christ Jesus. our "ministries constitute the MAGAZINE THE PREACHER'S cerning the rdatfons of God and His guveenment to social and national life. " " . , Christ Is not only the Savior of the world, He is the "King of kings, and Lord of. lords." burning" hell and an awful eternity." (To be continued) ,, - " . , . The Pastor's prophetic order and off!re under forms adequate The prophets oI the Old- Tesiament in action and suited to the present day and age. illustrate the part that the modern 'ministry should, play in public affairs. They taught .that God had to do with politics:" They warned the Scrap " " Book LEt Ix P_.sa lie nut swift to take offense; " Let it pLssl Anger • . . .Letis ita foe passtol sense; Brood not darkly o'er a,wrong Which will disappear.ere long; P,ather sing this cheery song: "Let it passl Let it passl" i. "Righienusn_-_s nation, btit sin h a reprofich to any exalteth people" a(Proverbs 14:34). .They altmonished ufiini[hful magistrates, and dLssolute kings, Drunkenn_:a, bribery, oppresstun of the widow and the fatherless, turning • aside the needy in.judgment, favoring therich from fear of power or from-hope of reward were- ' . Strife corrodeg the pu/est mind; Let it pass! • . As the uhiegarded wind; . Let It pass l And heartless souls that live May condemn without repneve rebuked with no uncertainty. They flayed dishonesty in busine_, selling _vor,thle_ or injurious articles In trade, and they warned the professing church of God to keep clear of tile sin of helping the ungodly. . " " "gis the noble who forgive. Let it pabst Lee'it passf " If for good you're•taken ill; Let it passl the discomfort or incon_,enience involved. They denounced as false prophets teachei_ who spoke alone for that which brought.personal placeand favor.. They carried a "burden of the Word of the .Lord" to the nation, and such In principle are ever the true messengers of. God to man.. The hackneyed saying that "ministers should peeach the gospel and keep out 'of politics" in far as It is not mere "cisp.tral_" and make shift, reveals lamentably narrow conception of what It Ls to apreach f_hegospel. , 'I " That b an -emasculated gospel which restricts itself to. doctrinal dissertations and the logical homilies and gives no place for Instruction con(20) " . '-.. • run SouLs . _ 'Tis.tl_e brook's motion Clear without strife Fleeing to ocean . " _ After .its'life. q'is.loving and serving . Tbe highest and best; 'Tis onward unswerwn_ -- _ : And this is true rest.--GozrHr.. • i .!i ' i • . _ . i "" [ . • TO make the hole bigger=He's sore if . His cutter Won't cut: - [ " [- _! _ _ It is said of a great soul-winner that, "He saw so_lhi standing on the verge oflmin; he heard in antldpatinn the wild shrieks of d_palr that will. . ' the church. Tile janitor.was in a l/urry; he. _'_'hL_:_7._:_:_."_=$.'hq:;*7._._.':b='_:_.'hq:47_.:,:_.._._t_._ dusted al! but a few bat.k, [_ews. A well dressed " .," " Uie. Your Held that night made .- stinnger bis way entered straightthetocburcb the _.dusty pews.and Before A _ootlpeckdr pecks sitting down he tqok _r white handkercliicf from " - Out a great many specks his pocket and wiped the-dug( from the seat. Of sawdust Tim stranger never c_ime back• " " Wl[en building a lint . Rain'-had been coming down in torrents all Sunday afternoon The l_astor had made a drive " He works like a nlgger to a nehthy city_.antl because of a muddy detnilr ""i - " lelt the rod. AI feeling stared ofhelplessly intb qver the now _uiet water. remorse crept me The fish tot which I bad wailed for four long • " hours had come when I was off my.guard and had gone taking my rod_ with it. The fish was gone and would never come back. The blowing day was all dry day and hot. Kansas wind.had been and Aeveryth'ing lo',the chumh was covered With" n'film of dust. There were seats for two hundred and fifty people; hut it was to be a week-night service and the . attendance would scarcel_ reach fifty. No one would sit onthe back seats on. the right wing of -- • for catching more remote. fishAtthat last,morning l'e,_tvingbecame my linemore cast and far out across, the river. [ lald my rod upon the . bank and walked downstream to chat _:vl[h a companion. :.We had exchanged hut a few words . when I chanced to look back.in the direction of my. line jnat in time to see my'rod and reel leap into tbe Mr and th_n plunge into[he water. Breathlessly I ran to th¢ "spot where I had Rr_r ltest is not quitting Tbe In sy career, A prominent writer on the Subject'of modern. A" Buao_ SAIn Rcst.is Of selfthe to fitting one's spbere. . ..... ism said, "It has put out the _irsa. of revival, silenced the voice of prayer and made the shouting. of Zion td-ce,ase, It h_ turned many.n watered. garden into a desert place and filled up the W¢lls _l salvation. It has slain souls by- the thoitsands and turned whole sections of Zioh Irito valleys of dry bones." .They Neve:r Came Bnck " " C. H^aOLD RXI'rZR T T WAS"a beautiful morning in midsummer. before floursthewe Neosho had watched ]1. We sunrise. had.cast-For our four lines'.hl River araving no one tothem placeInhisthechild hearts where of the youth. Scripturesdo I advise not reign paramount. Every institution in which " occupied with " the Word men are not unceasingly of God must hecome corr_,pt." • ' ." 0 be kind aild gentlestill; Let it passl" Time at last makes _1 things sti;alght_ Let us not resent; but wnih . And our.triumph'shalkhegreati Let it pasM Let It pnasl-.-Sgt.. 125 teristic of wRh the spot't angling. diligence We had charonhalted our lines that olexpectant ,,t am afraid that, the universities will prove to. with worm,., liver, doughbalis, and rabbit efthe the _reat gates to hell. unles.s they labor dill- _ trails; but the fish would hot bite. Ti_e sun rose .gently in explainin_ the- lIoly Scriptures and etJhigher and higher In the._easf, and the chances I, L. Fr_YNN masees, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, governing and governed .that sin made national by government sanction would wreck and ruin the nation. . Whefi carnal politicians, regardle_g of the genesal good of the people sought to control pofiti- " cal affairs for personal.benefits they raised, their voices against their diabolic schemes, oft at the • cost of disgrace and bodily injury. They never embraced the notion that _tbey might exempt themselves from this implcasant task because of. .I,Vlt^r MP.RTINl,tIril_ _,_,, . tt ]_' go up f/'om Ibe In,st when it Is too late when the door shall l,e strut, when the harvest shall Indeed have passed, when the sumnier shall have ended,. and .n_auglri .remains hut a [_owninz lodge, a MAGAZINE bad been delayed: He arrived at home jUSt a little. _ddle heinre time lor theevening service.. Only.the faithful few could he e_tpccted to attend ? dmrch _. night like that. With ilttie preparation .of either mind or heart he slip_ed an old'outline Into his Bible and went to the church, Ten strangers were at the Service that night. The preacher was unprel_ared,. The He cheap won't artisans bother with Of But [here'a one thing Can rightly be said , "" plans The wholeexplanation-exca'_atlon Has this .He builds It by - ' . Usinghis ]lead:---Sl_L. ._..-_v.:.-_'_ _. strangers camehadhack. . to Personalnever worker* been trying for Weeks l_,et John. a young man of elghtcen _,enes, to nt. tdtd the Sunday school. He came one morning. "The regular _eacher_was absent. - A substitute teacher 'took the cla_ who was iRterly:.unpre- : ._a. - --_-"g2_:_ (2'0 . 126 '_. THE pared• " There was" nothing PREACHER'S vital .brought Lhe class. John never came hack• It is easy to resort to sonm_defense MAGAZINE THE Out in " Pulpit and Pew CoMr; r_J "F_tt,_: lr OV_:R [I was said of Presidl, nt Theodore Roosevelt that s.meone h:[I)p_:ned into his M[ice and therd that the fish would not have been eatuzht anyway, that the dusty p_w" did not cause the. strongernot tn return, that the I oar sermon did' was-all _¢[ hi._ mail llih!d up, and other intportarft matters which demanded I_is attention. ]lu_' : Roosevelt.sak[. "f like my .ioh?' Oh. that we [ask of witinintr'souls tttlr work cos3". tu Christ, ----_ The Builder take _q t_ood text An phi man. going a lone hildtway, C_lme hi the evening, cold anti gray, To a chasm •vast anti'deep and wide. The phi turin crc_sed in the hvilighl dim.. The sullen stream h,ail no fear for him': lint he turned When ._afe on the other _ide Anti huilt a hrid_e to.span [he tide. , . "Phi man," ._aid a fellow pihtrim near, "'_t'ou are wastin_ your strength with yot!r bttild-., ing here; The huihler lilted his nhl gray hi'all _= "Gelid friend, t(_ the '_alh'| havr corer." "There followeth after me today. ".No enmnt'er wnuM" !JnCtr upnu tile he _ahl. gndgeons Yet he will pour wme "For one - so that if I preach devil there nrt_ a hundred tempts the circumvenlinlt • busy for ChriSt and llis' Church stunts or looking at • the faitlfful husband that did she xiie of." asked thLtrue our our dlurch We buildintks, ot_r !nu_ic. our singing. And the preucher swaps his sermon For a twenty dollar bill. :l'hat's the time old _,ir. Devil. Gets' the ciiurches in a stew. I.tJhell the Dollar rules tile Pulpit Thi:re the l)evil throu,zlmut, hut God die of "ira )rnvemen s." " I heard a SnndaY scln_ol leacher say 9ne nitdu pravermeeting, "I_aw men in ho_.•s and ] S_L_ hays in men." ."Wheu 1 hecame a m,'iu, I put away childish thin_s.'--'l'he Apostle Patll. -'|'lie DOLI,AI_ant) Tat; ])LVIL :. ."in lids world oi frill and dolla'r sil_n. " . '.'There's a rule that never faileth Anti you'll alw_.,s f n it true, When tile DoIlar rules the l'ulpil, There . - tile Devil Then the [aitifful ohlbblievers 'i'hey are_get ng m g . y Jew When the I)ollar'rules the Pulpit. There tile Devil rules tile pew."--ANo_" fa_hbm . t,Vhen tile churches are so fine. Anti the trademark of felieiml Is the classic • rules tile Pew; .. "When religii_n goe_ to tleggitlg, Anti the liibb_ is forgot; _tnd tile pt_eaeher preaches nothing, Ifhi a scientific rt)t,• .:ill as .the for, rildmns "When tile Money gets to talking, Al_d the 1V£a_ter's voice is slilI . ,avillinz and worktne horse is for Ids master? This will describe oar case; ,"No',v a plug is not.a race .hor_e. a gl -stelJl ing carriage h_tse, a hunter or ,1 p n' pony, hut a" st_:a(ly_ e_,eryday work horse, IIIpg_zitig alung from dawn to dark. Ills job i._ rizht ll{ere-with,[our fe_t on the earth, not doing circus . faithfld husband, "improvement_?" 'It is tha! we preachers need to improve upon p;eacldng.. We must improve our English. mnst improve in t_u forhbl that we sboubl And Rbe Shylock was a Jew When the Dollar rules the Pulpit There the Devil rules the Pew. . They used tt] slt) •, "'I'l_e need of the church is • _ Grace. Grit _mtl Greellbae.ks." The!k oihePs have said. "Men and montw".a're the needs. But God " says. '"ll. [ can find a man ihat _vill execute my jtd_ments . ." If God gets tile man. He _etg his r_ockt'lhook.dlls will. his nlind, his all. " " -- rules tile Pew "There may be it lot of staging, And an awful lut ofpr yer,, • . . "Take,my . Consecrated Lord to Thee. Here's my silver' and n_ty gold. .. 'Not a mite _'}duld I withhold." .. • "-" • • life and let it be, " . - . a . " " - • " "" . ." " " " .... " ' " .. ." . . • , " " ----- mat_ one," anti nurses informed she was dead. "What all• tile world " . T_l_:'Lr:anE_t Theodore l_.nosevdt, fiaid, "The leader for the lin{es, heltm whatever he may I;e. is but an instrument to be used until broken, /lien cast asidemL anti if he is "worth his salt fie will care no rnort_r whell he "is broken than a.soldler cares when he th,,jtlle - a preacher and EnwAen JARVl5. that a I_lor . h(_rsi' show." 1 wnnder if we qua fy? Let,us die.'if we must. in our harness and ;it our post 61 duty, " rant v. nt tohacco julcd into hi_ stomach and tohaeco .m_ke into his lumzs which, are intiniteb mt_re delicah,'organs than ; n', hint _ of wood or ihm,"--D_. "" - . will make - _ermoE ply audience will not *to(get. what my texl Ifad It) say. " Xfter ;dh the text is Just a peg upon which we halm our me_sa_e. It may he hard to confess it. lint many of ns lithe it text and I)reaclt" from " tl and never t_et"hack to it. It might be said-of s. """ ev went everywhere preaehinl.L" This is an taw" for sl_'clacular preac)dn_ or c v themes. The people are waitintt for shnpIe ,any and pist_ms (_f his ent:ine acids instead _f nil. jusl for a chan_e, hecallse lids tvotdd be in oppdsitioh to his knowlefl_e nl the laws of mechanics anti hi_ machine " i_ fldl of commoti folks. Jmd in- the,(fays of /]is [[esh. hey e rd J •sus ghl( ly. ;the days have nul ('h;l_lzed Inuch, al least hBm;tnil%:_ is tile same' Ind;ty.. "" • ..... "rn_: PLtlt;(;INt; l_Rr;At2Ht:t'Preadter. are y,u willimz to be "the" kind of A youih wlaose feet must pas_' this way. This chasm, that }l_L_.heen as nauzht to me, To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall he; lie. thu, must cross in the twillzht dim_ Good friend, l am buihline dds hrklue [or him."' • . . " _ UNKNOtV/,/, • si_t;il This te_,ts and 'ldail) messalzes• for. after Y _ r journey will end with (he endin_ day. You. never auain ',viii ba_ this Way, You've crnsged Ihe chrism deep and wide. 4_ , t,Vhy hndd 3on (lli_ hridee•at eveninz tkh':*' _ll_ketting along. The usu'M reply was, "Silo's imw"mph_vi"g." |le kept this up for some time, and finally, upon making further inqu ry, the doctors our w.rkAhat to the great may be answered, By an "Amen" here and there. But as sure as Joe's a Dutchman, nf tl e story I r_:a a numher of.years ago about . a German whose wife was in the hospital lie visited the hosl$ital to inquire how hi.s wife was . ." 127 And the sermon [.n my tiny ] [lave seen a:]ot of preael{ers aim dmrches die with improvements. It reminds me mechan-, ism. 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