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"STRENGTHENED ·WITH ALL MIGH.T"
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"Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power,
and longsufiering with joyfulness."--Colossians 1:11.
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Prayer Before the Sermon
- 0 Lord. we thank Thee this morning for Him of Whom
it is written, "In the 'volume of the book it iIJ written of me,
. I delight to do thy,. will, 0 my God: yea, thy law is within.
my heart." We thank Thee that the will of' God was lI)ani·
fested at Bethlehem, and at the cross, and through the empty
grave into the glory. We believe it is not Thy will that any
should perish, but ·that all should come. to repentance; and
we know that the will of God is our sanctification by which
will we are magnified. And we desire, 0 Lord, to be bronght
into such relationship' to Thyself that we may finel oar
highest pleasure, our profoundest rest in doing the will of
G1r!ro:!:e l!e"T~ee .this morning as a .company 'who are
often buffeted by .the enemy; who are often distressed by
adverse circumstances; who find frequently that the winds
are against us: The. way of the pilgrim lies uphilL And
we come this morning desiring to refresh ourselves at the
eternal' springs. We come to Thee as the sovee of all
. strength, of all wisdom, of all power. And we pray that
Thou wilt look upon this congregation this morning, and,
according to Thy grace, out of Thine abundant storehouses,
minister to every one. Send us. from this place this .mom·
ing with a song of I[ladness in our h e a r t s . '
Bless, we pray Thee, this compaJl.Y of young people, ~e
boys and girls, and the young men and women. Give Thine
angels charge concerning everyone of them. May those who
are Thine grow up into Christ in all things. May those who
r:d~ =~ yet ~elded to Christ b'ec~me constrained speedily
Look upon the great company of missionaries' and ministers who preach Thy word to-day. We thank Thee.for every
faithful. servant of the Lord, for everyone who proclaims
the unsearehable riches of Christ. We pray that by the
. power of' Thy Spirit their·test'mony may be made effective
to-day in the salvation of souls, and the edification of 'l'hy
pec»ple.
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We ]tray for Thy suffering 'saints, for those ;"h~ are In
ill heal~, for those who are on beds of pain. Be graclous
to all of them this day.
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Bless us as we 'turn to Thy holy word. We aeknowledge
we have no wisdom, no "discernment ·of ourselves.' We are
able to understand the liidden thought .of God only as the
Holy Splrit is pleased to reveal it,to us. .'
May our meditations be this morning sweet, so that we
may all be glad in the Lord. We ask it in the name of
Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
unto all patience
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UTE HAVE already speIlit some tiIile in meditation upon
"·the ninth and tenth verses of the first chapter of
Col~sians. Thursday evening last we were occupied with
two C'lauses in the tenth verse, "Being fruitful in every ~.
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~ork" and °'oinlCreasing ~n the !knowledge df God". This
morning weshaill look for a lilttle while a~ the eleventh
verse 'CC'~re gth ed 'th 11
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~lorious power, unto ~H patience and longsuffering with
Joyf.ulness."
. 'Before we can grow in. grace, we must be in grace. We
d<? oot grow into grace, but being broU'ght by grace' to a
saving 'knowledge of Jesus C~rist, and grafted into HUn
as a branch df the HYing Vine, we may derive our 'sustenance !from ,}~im, W~ are, first of aU, cOncerned for every
one here thls'mornmg, that he or she should become a
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Christ Jesus; that you shou.d be born again from above.
And in order tjhat this may be, you must 'believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ: you must receive Him as your Saviour.
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saved, we should contin~e to ''grow in grace, ano(! iIi the
knowledge of our. Lord 'and Saviour Jesus Christ". How
many wrecks there are about us!· What ·a mulititude of
people in this city,. who once professed faith in :the Lord
Jeros Christ,'
now devoid of any religious interest.
They have cast' away their confidence,and profess disdplJ.eship no more,' Those who !t.re charged .with tthe heal.th
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~1 any commun~tj;yare concerned, of course, about the
ibiIithrate. But tjhey must be concerned equally about the
deathrate. 'If 'as many chlildren :die 'as 'are Ibom - if the
death rate exceeds the biI'thrate -··there will be but litile
increase.
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Now '!luch as are genuipely 'saved by God's grace ate
made partakers of the very Nfe Of God; and, therefore, have
eternal .Jife. And .yet many df them are in-nourished, un.
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msltru'Cted : ey ,ive weak, enfeebled, !IDaemic, lives; they
do not ·...adorn the doctrine df GOd our Saviour' in all
things"; ~ey do not witness to. the power
His grace.
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I ',thinik, the~ore, it is a very important part of any.
minister's duty caidfuUy to !feed 'the floCk .. And I would,
exhort you who are Christians to give heed t6 your own
9piriituai .health; .to see that'you are well' nourished on the
heavenlly' manna.; that you live and breathe the p~r
· atniQsphere; that you· Hve with windows opened toward
J~rusalen'r; that ,you' may enjoy tf,e h':3;venly bie~zes, ~I?-d
th:at. you may l~ve holy, healthy,Chnst-honounng hves
seven days df every week.. It is of little ~ue .for us . to
come here on the.. Lord's day and profess fat!!t 10 ChrISt,.
to say that we are ChriStians; Ito sing' these' glorious hymns
of p~aise, i( 0!l Monday we .'Hv:e ~1ich liyes as negatiye ~ur
Sunday's testImony. And It, IS IIJ, the'hope·of brmgmg
you some . further message' that will. help. you. in .tI"!e
Christian course that I direct your thought to this
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FOUNDER AND FIR5T "EDITOR-Dr. T. T. Shields
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CHAIR'M~N, BOARD OF DI·RECTORS: .
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'~trengthen(:d with a:ll inigh.t, according to his glorious
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ness." 'There is not one df us' who does nOt feel in a:lllife's
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rela1!ionships, and under all drcumstances, 'THE NEED
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ligh/t it is. to se.e one' who is strong enough to bear his
burdens lightly;. who is sufficiently equipped t<? ~e able,
with s'k'ill a,nd' with delightful ease, .to prosecute· the day's
Addren ·Co~spoildence:
taS'k! !How sad ·to see <;me, on the other' hand, dragging .
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rate; staggering a~ong H!fe's pa'thwlty! How many' people
Ra.gistared Cable Addrass: Jarwitsam. Cclna~a
YQU se~ -lik~ that, whom you would like to help! And what
a joy ~t is to see a vigorous Chri~an, a man or woman,
living in exuberant 9ph,itual health, equal to every emergency; wi.th broad shoU'lders, and well developed muscles, .strength ofG~d,.'arid quit ourselves Like men, and be st:ong..
able to playa man's part; to carry 'a man's bu~ens.·
We all have our burdens to 'bear, so do not complam df
I rem~ber -9Ome years ago 'wa:~king'wiIth ~ f~iend, and them. Sometimes in moments of weakness we' long for a,
as we were passing along the sidewalk, we came to a lane.. :lodge ~n the garden of .eucu~bers, a 'Cottage ~n the wilderAnd there was a team of horses puIling a heavy load just ness .. Somethnes, perhaps, we. are disposed to cry, "Oh.
across the sidewalk - ma:gnificent Clydesda:les- and as that r had wings like a dove! Jor then would I flyaway,
they arched their necks, and bent themselves to' their and be at rest." I 'COn!fess 'I dften Wish I had an aeroplane
taSk, and. their 9JjleIJ(;lii'd muscles sh~ themselves as the,y of my own it!h.a't 'Wou:ld get right up into 'the clouds, with:lifted 'that great load up over the sidewa!lk" my friend said out.h!lving~o taXi along the .earth for a while. "'''The~e are
to me - he was a" very godly man - "'Brother, how thank- the occasiona!1 moments, I s1;lppose, to which. we are all
ful we ought ,to !be·to God for giving us such magnificent e~d, df depression and a,isqu~erude. But the hel"Qi~
servants ,as these!" It' was an inspiration to see th:ose· th~ng is 1\Jh~ we shou1d be strong.. .
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splendid creatures do their· work so easily. Such.a contrast
i: was waiting at· a railway station once for a 'train. '. It
Ito. the poor, bony thing, wl).0·an9wers, when :it can,.t~ th~
was at the end Of the· Hne, 'anld th~y ,were putting on thedI'iver's whip, as it just shuflfles alongwlith a load df "rags; baggage. I wa~· .11here a little' while before !the train. was
bOnes, and 'bottles" behi~d it, and a Chestnut St. address due to leave. And ,there. was ;a man walking up and dOwn
on ·th~ waggon! You hav~ seen it, have y~u not? What a the platfoim who had been iperfoMling in th~ ~wn the
pathetic picture· the whale thing 'is! I remember seeing
night before. !He was a' noted ·'·'strong man", a Frenchman.
man driving 'a waggon H'ke 'that, 'anti'on th~ waggon there, His' name, 'I 'remember; Was . Louis Cyr. And there were
was ·a bale of hay. 'I' felt like stopping him andsay'ing, some of the things he had bdm, using; ~me ,(if the imple'~My fI'iend, why do you not 'leave the waggon at home; 'IJlents' of his ltrade, which th~ s'ta.tiOI~ men were trying to
and let the horse 'carry ,that bale' ~nside?" I-t looked ~ if put on the car... There were, his dumbe11s. Three strong
· it were half. starved. I have seen some professing ,Christians' men ~ru.d 'hold" of oQe; and they ma,nage<;l to llift it up .to
like that poor skeleton of a :thing,- ~arrying with Ithem· a the :height of their knee, .ilnd ,then rest; and "now then!"
'load df doctrines, wonderfully OI'thodox, but groaning.!Illd and wlith great effoI't '!!hey man~ged .to 'get that one dumcompl~ning and shuffiing along through life, faiiling utter- beli 'into the car. A~ the end' of the 'Platform ,there was
ly 'to exempli!fy the truth they profess.·
a freight car, and· some. men were l~ading barrels of apples.
It is the will of God !that we should be CCstrength~ned Itw3.s in.the FaIt .And ·this m,an walked to the end of the
with aU might". We are ~ot 'Ca'lled ou~ of darkness into platfoMl,
went '3. little beYond, and stood for a minute
light that we might Hve as, 'weaklings. It is not honouring 'where 'I w~ standing, Watching those men put the barrels
to God 'that we should find ltIhe tasks Of life difficulit. Our df 3iPPles on the car. They were piling them up three or
Lord Jesus said, ·,,<?ome ~nt~ me,. all ye that labour· and' fo~r tiers high., And they'lifte~ them with 4ifficul~ up
are he~vyladen; and ·r will give you rest." There must be" to one; then rolled lit up Ito Ii!llother. ·As ·he.came along
a' way of CaiTying'life's burdens without exhaustion. It . he put his wa:Iking stick und,er his a.mt, and wi,th tWo
must' be possible for us to meet the day's duti:ies in the fingers 'he picked up one Of ~o~ barrels, lifted i~ up just
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like your Wife ·has done when she had something from that is peou:liarly 'and specially (iivine, and just as the .
the store, and wondered if it was full weight -'she made strongest workman mu.si sometimes !link' himself onto a
· a scale of ·her arm, He 'lifted it up and just played with superhuman power in order .that by a might that is not
it like ,that. And he said; '~How much does that,. weigh?". .his own, - that· is apart from himself - he may lift or
They -told him the weight. And ne sai~, '~I thought ~o," and 'accomplijsh that which by himself would be .impossible.
just threw i:t: up' as though .it were an empty barrel. I ·So ,there is a divine power that !is to ~well in us, to
envie~, him his strength: I said, to myself, '·1 should like to strengt;h~n us, to do for .us wl).at ~e -cannot d.o for QU~· be .physically strong liike 'that, so that I could not o~y do ,selv~s: \Strenr.ht:n~~ Wlith. alL !Dllght, .accordin~ to ~
one ·man's work .but the work. of Itwo' or three men.
' glonous power , or, a:ccordlIlg to the grasp of HIS glory' •
'. 'Oh, we have 'seen' so~ people who are Christians.who It is t~e:.sam~ idea as you h~ve in tl;1.f~ chapter. we read,
somehow had access to other sources df. power .than ener- ' where it !lS sald .0£ Jesus ChrlSt that He ,was ra1Sed from
· giZe4 .the natural'man; and we 'have seen them do 'exploits, the de~d ·by the gra!p of !Hi~ .might, :'ls though God s~,?ped
peIform wonders live nobly because ·they were "str:ength- and lrud ho:ld of .HUn, and lifted Him up, and set HIm at
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"His own,right 'hand: far albove all principalities and 'powI . I :say. to you young Christians It'h.at tlhis text points. out
ers, and m!ight, and d~mon, an~ every .:.name that is
great possilbiiit:i.es for you. You tell me you are greatly, m~.med. So we :a~e to recelVe the J;>myer from God by the
troUibled, and you tell m~ you 'are sulbject to mapy tempta- power of ·the Spmt Who dwelleth WIthin us.
How far have you given thought to· that precious doctions. You teltl me that it is hard Ito live a Christian life, to
behave as a Christian ought to behave. and-some who,are trine of the indwelling of the Spirit df. God? I know that,
older would tell me the same thing. They say, "Yau do many people have ibeen frightened away from it becaUse
· not know what it is, sir, 1\:0 be in business, ·and to have to it has been assocliated with a!ll sorts of extravagances: the
'Come inlto contact daJiiy with the workaday world. You do speaking w~tli tongues; diivine healing campaigns, certain
not know how diffioult it is to live richly, to Carry your· professionS o£ perfectionism. And it is' ever the DeVil's Way
end of. the loa:d as a Christian"when one is subject to all . to tum people away from that which is vital to their
sorts of irritatioI)S, and in some'instances persecutions. How spiritual hea:lth. 'But remember it is written,. "Ye shall
am I to do it?" And we complain of our difficulties.
receive power, after that the (Ho'ly Ghost is come upon
. Now Paul prayed for ·these Colossian Clirist:i.ans that you; 'and ye.shal1.he witnesses unto me .." And I emphasize
they might be '''strengthened with ali·might", by which he this, !for we are occasionaJliy in church, we are occasionally
meant ·that they: might have ~e necessary strength to do engaged in distinct:i.vely religious exercises, but our 'witness
the day's work, whatever it might be. Oh that in whatso- for Christ lis to be given while' we are a:bOut our regular
ever situation we find ourselves, we may behave as Chris- work, in the shop; and in the oHice, !in school, wherever
tians! .If!i!t be 'control of the tongue, if it be control df. we are, and we shaH be. strengthened with at}} might, and
the eye.s, or df. the ~, ability to. refuse to see things, enabled to glorify God on!ly as w~ receive. the Holy Ghost,
strength to relf.use to hear: things, whatever it may be, it and as we' depend upon the divine' energy to strengthen
is possible for u~ to be "s:trengthened with all might". We. us.
!live ·lives of coriflict, I knoW; we Often find that oircumI'll.
stances are unfriendly to us. And we shall discover But HOW DOES mrs POWER PRIMARILY MANIsure~y we have 'discovered it a:lready - that we "wrestle FEST I11SELF? What most of us want,. I suppose, is
· not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, power to do some big thing. When people t}:link of the
agai~st powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this ministry of the Holy Ghost they assocliaJte i.t with Pentecost,
world." But notWithstanding all that, we are to be enabled because ·there the Spirit was firSt poured out. Arid they
to stand in the day of tria:l. '''Thanks .be to God, which' think df. Peter, and of others, who ~ere girded with
giveth us ·the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ,".we strength for the balttle, and who wrought heroically in a
are Ito Hve vict?riously, t~umphantly,. 'as supermen and public way, ,bringing glory to God.. ·And there is some
supe~omen, domg ,the thlDgs that nobody ~lse C<?uld .do; young man who says, -'''I should 'like to be a conspicuous
standing where nObody else ~ould ,~tand, being vlc~nous servant of the Lord, or someypung woman who says, "I
w~eneveryone e'lse was. defeated; Strengthened WIth all, wish I 'could bea Mary Siessor; I Wish I could be a gteat,
missionary, to go to Africa. or to China, c;>r to India, or
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Now that is our privilege. But HOW. IS IT TO BE? give me the Holy Spirit so that I may be fitted for some
"A:OCOR[)ING TO. IDS GWRIOUS POWER." Now . great public service of that sort." WeIll; there are a few
'it is possrble, -of course, for one gradua:lly to acquire poop'le who are called to such diSt!inguished forms df minstrength by the 'exercise of his powers, and by the proper istry. ':aut tlJ.evast majority have to serv~ God in less con.,.., use of food. The 1iitle child,. who can !first o£ all.;only spicuous places, and most of life is made up of the ordinary
creep about th~ place, ·after awhile gets strength in its ihum-drum ·affairs. I wonder whether you ·women have
litHe [egs, so that it .cart stand; and, as lit is well nourished. r~oned up 'how many hours you spend in the kitchen?
becomes stronger and stronger .un1iil it becomes a strong -Perhaps you say, '''That would. be to,? big a task. .J spend
man. And lin the Ohristian li!£e we are to appropriate the so much ,time there, I can S'carcely count !it." Oh, I know
nutritive qualities of this world; we ate to ·b.e 'fed by tihat sometimes the women dres.s up - they appear in their
heaveniy manna; we are to take into our spiritua:l natures best. But the greater paI1t of Hfe is spent by the housewife
the food ·t'h:aJt God gives us that we ~all become strong in . in doing 'hard things, thingS she does nodike· to ao, things
'!!he Lord and in the power of His might. There comes to she would like to have done !for' her. As for the man in .
the Christian, I had almost said, ~ natural spiritual power. ,business, most of his time 'is spent in routine· work, juSt
I mean, that as we are properly fed ~d properly exercised, doing the same old 'tliing over and' over' and over again.
we shall naturally, according to the iaw Of thaJt spiritual The mother with the children. Hstening to their cries, and
realm ·in which· we live, grow stronger. And yet that is not their comp~ain~, mending theiir 'stockings! ....:.... and why in
prodisely 'What is lintended ·in this text. There is a power the 'World will they not. stay mended! You know what she
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has to do, arrd do it over and over again. "Oh, -t>ut these heaven with the span, 'and comprehended the. dwt-of the
are comm~Ii'Pla:ces; surely we do not go to church to hear earth in a measure", Who "taketh up the isles as a very
about things IHke that?'" Well, you do if you come here.. linle thing", and "weighed the mountaJins in sca!ies, and'
And 1 wilt t~l:l you why: ·Because that is how Monday il! the hi'Hs in a balance". The Jta,nd Of Jesus, what was it?
spent, and Tuesday, and. Wedncrsday, and Thurs'day, and I t was the hand 'df the Creator of a.1<1 !things, "'or by him
Friday, 'and Saturday. And you 'Cannot altogether escape :were all things created, that are' in ~aven, and that are
in earth, visible and inv~ible, ,whether they be thrones, or
so~e Of these ithings even on Sunday. No; it is not for the
mountain top e~eriences, !it is not for the great public donmmons, or principaiities, or pgwers: all things were
ev:ents we need divine ·equipment: it is for the everyday ·created by bim, 'and for him:. and he is before aJ[ things,
. affairs of life. And for what did Paul pray when he. said, .and by him aH things con&ist" .., AIniighmness dwelt in Him.
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praying that you may be strengthened with an The power tha:t made alL the ·worlds awaited but a word
mighlt, according to his glorious power','.? After that you from His lips. And wi'th a word, or Without a word, by
woU!ld expect p.im to say, "In order ·that you might be a a glance, He cou1d ha~e blasted Hlis enemies into eterpal
poiished shaft in the han'd Of the Almighty; .that you may destruo'ti9n. Ibut He' yielded lHimseif to ,the nails..And wiU·
be as a two-edged sword
the hands Of the Captain.· of you mark. this principle? It requireil Almightiness, 'to keep
our salvation." But he does ndt say ·anything of the kj.nd. Almightiness .in 'Check. Behol'd in Jesus Christ 1!he sover.. ' .
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He sa,.ys, "I pray ·that for ~.in order that you may ·be eignty of Sei{ Controil
~~Strengthene'd with all migbt, accOrding to
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. patient." ·'··Strengthened with all might, according to his
glorious power, unto all patience." You try to be paJ!5.ent, power, unto '~l ,patienc.e an~ longsuffering.". TpM is how
and see how much strength it takes. Did you ever drive the power of God manifests .l~elf. 1" have seen l:t. Let me
an old~fashioned, an old-time, Ford car? And did you tell you agaJin what I think I· have befpre related. There
discover that it was always best when going at. a· high was' a . woman in 'London who was 'a 'bedridden saint;·
speed? An~ did you ever drive a car that had' to go aIt When I first made -her acquaintance she had been in bed
high speed, or ~t wouGd not go at alI? And when you tried for fourte~n years, and when.' 1 :last saw her before she
to Slo.w down, it went" jerk. - jerk - jerk. - all the time? wenit home .to 'glory she had Hv~d a life. of unremittipg
lAnd 'some big Car came' up beside you, and while you agony for more ·tlhan .twenJty years; she was never free from
were vainly. trying to make }'QUr machine ~nsmootl.tly pain, she suffered !from a kind of muscular contraction.
and slowly at Ithe same time, this -thing with the great And they' used to m~e Iitde1irdlls of cotton padding to
engine just moved without 'a' .sound up beside. you, and put between her fingers.to prevent /the naJils being dI"alWIl
then moved very quietly and smoothly away, graduaHy into the flesh. S'he had 'suffered .that. agOny for years. H~r
'accelerating its speed: And you said, "1 wish I cOuld drive fa:ce was dmwn with palin, and yet the tight Of heaven
this· thing 'like that!" What was the difference? Why was shone Ifrom her eyes; and the. rad~ance of tlhe eternal citY,
it thalt the other thing could go smoothly and slowly at was reflected fro:pl her coun1tenance. As I think of her, I
the sam~ -time? lIt was because it was 9trengiliened with hoM !fast this Book and, say, ~''I'hat woman supplied me
aliI migJrt. The mighty things are not the noisy things; the with the mightiest proof df the reality of the gospel of
strong .man is' never· abluSterer. It·tis the buUy you know, Christ that 'I think I ever knew." I w.sited .her. regulJarly,
who is ready to clench .llis fists. and threaten everyone, and 'after I had discovered her I told some young people:
aJbout her.
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"Strengthene'd with all might, aCcO'rding Ito his glorious
power, linto al:l patience." Now when you are tempted · prayer meeting in her room. 'I'he peOple gathered about
.to be impatient, to speak quickly, to say someth'ing you her as· ,thougb she were a magnet. They went, not to con~
·fer blessing, Ibut to .receive it. And then one day ·they took
ought not to say, do something 'YOll ought not to do, just her away to 'a nejghbouringtown ·to her daug4ter's home.
send a prayer heavenward, and say, "Lord, giv~ me strength
They 'Put her in an inva1id ·chair,. 'and they put the ·(!hair
to go 'sloWly; give me power to ~ove quietly." It requires in the baggage car. One Saturday mght they said to me,
the mighty 'pOwer df'God to be patient.
"We want you to go with. us:'to a meeting on Saturday
~'Un'to all patience and ·longsuffering". Longsuffering! night," and they named the 'Pla:ce. I said, ''But you know
It ~5 hard sometimes ,to restra!n ones se'lf, .is i~ n~t? qnlJ.y ~ go nowhere on S·aturdays.': They said. "You:will go when
strong men can !be trusted WIth power. rhe 'Lord Jesus you tknow where we are gomg." "Where are you guillg?"
commanded the waves to be still. In ,the midst of ttlhe stann "We are going up to Mrs: Goldings. She has' gone to'vlSit
He rose and said" '''Pea:ce, be still"; and 'immediately ihe · her daughter, an:d we are going ·to hold our usual prayer
.winds and the waves were quieted. But tha:t was nqt the · meemng Ithere." So I got on the . train and went with them
mightiest th!ing He· ever d[d. He touched the ieperand and when I got to ·the place r found the house crowded made him~whole. But ,that was' not .the mightiest thing He . it was a Iarge -house, and tlhey were sit!t'ing everywhe.-e,
ever did. He stood by the grave Of iLazarus, ~d said. upstairs and down. 'Every mijIi'Ster 'in: town had 'heard
"Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, . about her, and she ha'd been there only a week. Christians
bound hand and foot with gravedothes." Bu't thalt was not allover had heat'd of -her, and they hakl come ·to get a
the mightiest thing He· ever di'd. Wha:t was the' mightiest b'lessing from her. When I went in to that home she was
thing He ever did? I Will telll you what it was. They took there in her chair, propped up with pillows. Her hands
Hi~ to the place called qalvary, and they laid a cross
were stili wrapped up, as $ey al~ays' were. AncJ she smiled
.of wood upon the ground, and iaJid Him :upon the cross, her ustial greetling, and said. "I do not know why everyone
and .they took !His hands, and stretched Him out upon that is so good to me. It seems as though the whole town comes
cross, and they drove a spi~e ithr'ough lHis hands, and He to visit me." We 'had a' wonderfm time ..that night. She
never reSisted, He yielded Himself ·to them; Who Was He? told from her chair df suffering what God had do~ 'for
What power dwelt within Him? Whose was that Hand~ her dlrougb
the years.
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It was the hand Of Him :Who ''i}aid the foundations df the
When' they were bringing het: back home, lifting her
eafth", 'Who "stret'Chelth· out 1lhe 'heavens as a curtain, and do~n from the baggage car the .~en tipped her
spreadeth them out as a 'tent to dwell in," Who "meted out cha~r, and she. fell. ·fo~,. all:d Ibroke her hip and her'
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cobr bone. When. they told me of that I fell on my face carried a!bout in a whee'l-chair, but most of" the ,time she
, before the Lord, and I said, "Oh, Lord, 'I do not know stayed at home. She was a professing Christian tOo, but
how to visit tihalt woman. She has had enough to, kill she was the greatest croaker ,I ever knew. She was just,
a hundred people. How shall 1 go ~ And wh3lt shall I say li'ke that woman that Dickens tells of whose shawl couid
to her a'iiter all this suf.fering?" But I" went, and- I found not keep out the east wind, you 'know. And when she was'
her just propped up with pHIQWs as usual. Her daughter , reminded that the east Wind was blowing ~r o~er people
was w~iting upon her. And when I, went in sh~ smiled too, ~e ·wou1d say, "Oh, but the east wind could not hUrt:
through her 'Pain as usual, and she said to her daughter, any other lone critter like it hurt me," believing it had
'·My dear, 'WOUld you mind gOing out? 1 have' a lilttle a special'spite against her. I went to see her one day,
secret I want to tel'l the Pastor" - she called me her Pas- and tr.ied to comfort her, but, she would not !be tomforted.
tor, although she, was not a member of my dhurch. She She said of her hUSIband - his name was not Smith, but
was a mem'ber of another church. ,And .When her daughter I will call him Smith. She never canled hlm - by his first
had gone out and dlosed.. the door, she said, "'1 just wanted name ~ ''Smith does not understand me." He was the
to ten 'you that 'l thought the ~reat day 'had come' at last. most patient man I ever 'knew. And of her daughters, who
Last night '1 thought I was gmng to find myseIJf 'suddenly were devoted to her,. !he said, ·qMary never did, and never
in the glory. And the presence' of ithe Lord was so real, couid underStand me; and Sarah is Worse." Everything was
-and so' sweet to me that I feareld almost to breathe lest I ba:d. And I said to 'her, "Now Mrs. So-and-So, I am going
shouid mi'Ss some of Ithe blesSing 'of it." Anid I f~nd, 'as to give you a prescription. I 'am a d~tor." And I toOk
I found 'SO often, that instead of comfortling her, she had out my pendl 'and wrote something, anp ifolded it up so
comforted me. The doctors. said, ''She cannot live. On that it loo'ked l~ke a powder. Anid I said, "Now 1: want you
top of aU- this, in her condition the bip bone ·wiill never to ·take ·that; 'it will do you good." "What is it?" she said.
join; and the collar bOne wIll '/be a source of added trouble I said, "It is an address." "What sort dE' address?" "It is
to her." AnId yet, contrary to ali expedtations, she survived the address of a woman who suffers as mum as you do,
~nd qjved on for years. ,
and I want you '1;0 ask your daughters when they take you
One day after that accident I called. I waS sitting at out ~n your chair for an airing, to wheel you over to
the side of her roudi talking !to ,her about t'he things of where that woman lives. Go to see her,and talk with',her
God when a doctrin'3li.re genltieman caine in, and he said, for a 'li'ttle while, and if that does not cure you, 'then you
"Wetl, sister, what shall we' pray for?" Just Hke a groc~ry are -incorrigible; there 'is no hope fo.r you." "Oh," she said;
,man, you know, behind the couIllter: "What can I do for "she 'Cou!ld not suffer: as I do." She 'WOuld not be comyou, 'Please?" "What sh~ll we pray for?" "Oh," she said, forted.
"Unto all patience and longsutffering with joyfulness."
"I do not know. The Lord. has been so gool4 to me, I do
riot know that I have anything to as'k Him for specially. Joyfulness in the midst of the furnace? Yes, praise the
H you wiil just tell .!Him how thartlkfui I am for a}l His Lord! In the midst of the stOrm when the captalin and
lovingkindnesses, I shouid" be glad." He frowned somewhalt a:ll the res't df them were fuli df fear you remember there
and said, "Wh~t! 'What about your bddy? ShaH we not was a preacher in chains. An'd he came to them, when
pray for healing? Do you know that it ~s your privi1.ege to they had done aU ·they cou[d, and they were sure they
have a perfect Ibody?" "No," she said, "I prayed that God were' going to perish, and he sa'id, ''Be of goQd' cheer . .
would make me whole for "many. years; and I know He for there stood by me . this night the angel of God, whose
I 'am, and whom I serve:" Can you go to someone in the
~uM have done so ha:d it been His -holy will, for my God
can do, anything. But long ago now iHe taught me 'not to storm,?Qan you go to the affiicted? Can yo~ carry a
pray fur hea:Iinrg any more, anid by His gra'Ce He has smile wi,th you? ·Bid everyone be happy in the Lord? We
broughlt me to the place where ,I- can say, 'The cup which shaU sing:
my Father has given me, shalI I not drink it'?"
"Oh, happy day! that fixed my choke
"Strengthened with all, might, according to h~s glorimIS
On .thee, my Saviour and my God';
power, unto ali patience and 10Ilgsuffering." After I beWell may this gl~wing heart rejoice,
-tame Pastor of this church, I went baC'k to London to
An~ tell its raptures a:ll aJbroad."
see Mrs. Golding. ,And" as I went in she said, "Well, Pas- October 19 1930.
tor, you are gone, 'and I ~m stili here. And I used to be
a:fraid sometimes to have you go away for your va~t:ion
lest I shouId not see you again until we got to the glory.
And here you have left town, and Mr. So-and-So has
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gone, and Mr. So-and-So has gone", -:- and she called
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the J'OIH ef aU the 'Prea'Chers --:- "and this poor old body
D•• n of Toronto B.~1f SemInary
is' still .left. I wonder why?" "Well," I said, "i can teil
you why, Mrs. '~1ding. Because the Lord can dQ without
A first class. 24-page booklet on this basic
such 'poor prea'Chers as we are, but He ha:d to keep the
Scriptural truth. The "est we have read
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best preacher of aH in town. That is why."
on the subject of election. Order one for ,
That woman's room became a veritable mecca to large
yourself and some for Christians and
multitudes of people who came just to see ,the grace of
students.
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God. Oh; that is the !thing ·that ma:kes the religion of
Christ real!
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Ten cents each: twelvEdor a,dollar.
And, best of all, in the midst of it, ''unto aU patience and
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lo~gsuffering with joyfulness." That woman was the happiest Christian I thipk I ever knew. There was another
THE GOSPEL WITNESS,
woman in th3lt same city. I think I will \ell you df her,
130 Gerrard Street East. Toronto
and then I wHI have done. She suffered from rheumatism.
She had a husband and, two daughters. Sometimes she was
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WHAT IS "THE, CARNAL MIND"?
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every Christtan, often cohfu,ses the minds of undiscernfug people. The scnipllure .'says, "The carnal mind"
P~OTESTANT
July S. 1958
DR. C. J. lO.NEY'S S.Oth ANNIVERSARY-
.. 'The pa:ssing ~ the 50th milestone as an" ordained Baptist mmister marked a high da:y in the life of Rev. Olifford
J. Loney, D.D., Pastor df Sta~ley Avenue Baptist Church"
Hamlii'ton, on Sunday.,.June 22nd.
, Dr. Loney has bee~ pastor o~ the Stanley Avenue Church
for the past 43 yeats. He is ,well known throughout" this
countn'_ as an outstanding fundamental leader. He has
held m~y important positions in this. connection, and
served as' President df the Union of Regu!lar .Baptists for
,two years.
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One of ~s fellow miniSterS. says: "Dr.' Loney is we'll
kn9wn among us as an outst~nding evangelist, a .p~stor·s'
friend and 'COunsellor, a wise pastor ~nd ~ul winner and
an uncompromising defender df the !f~th. He is a graduate of 'MOM'aster University ~d a post:.graduat~ of the
Toronto Bible College." .
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-that .;is, the natural mind, the mind df a man untou$ed,
.and unilluminated, and undisciplined, by the !Holy Spirit
-·'is enmity against God: for it lis not subject to the
law df God neither indeed can be".
.-Writing to the, Corinthian's, 'Paul' described them· as
"carnal", and said thrut hitherto. he qad. been unable to
. feed· them with strong meat, -lOut of necessity had given
t!tem milk, and treated :them as babes in Christ:
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In that case, the evidence df carnalitY was ·their foolish
and' dangerous comparison of one' apostle with another.
Some preferred Paul, some Cephas, some ApoHos, who, as
Paul sard, were nothing b~l:t ministeI'll .through whom they
haq believed, and as long as tliey enteI1tained these foolish
preferences they were carnal and walked as men.
Dr. Loney was ordained in tli,e' Stoulf1fv.rll~ Baptist Church,
'In. the epistle to Jude certa:in people are ,desc~bed' as
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of
which, he was pastor; on Jupe26, '1908, Dr.. Charles ~.
'''mOCkers'' ''who should walk after their own ungodly
lusts"'. Tohey are identified' thus: '"These be they who Schutt, his former minister, acting'as ~oderator. .
sepa,rate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit'~ received a unatii~us call to the' EtDma.nuel-'Baptist
they were sou'lish, carna:l: They. lived on the natura! Churcll, Brantford,' assuming the pastorat~ there in Oc.levels. df life;. which does not mean. that they were im- tober .1911.
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moral; or wcious, in character; but they were still subject
· to the desires 'of the flesh, and of the mind, ''having not
On June .24, 1912, Dr. LoneY-waS married to Catherine·
the Spirit''; .
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E. Ratcliffe, R. N. of StouffviUe.
There are 'countle~s mU'ltitudes df people who profess
/He received a unaniimous ca!ll to the Stanley Avenu~ :Sapand caB themse~ves Christians, and who, it may be, have tist Church in June 19:15. 'J1h~' work has prospered under'
actually been born' again; but 'they have continued Ittunted, his 43· years df l~adership. Two mortgages have been burned
and dwatf~, creatures who have never grown up into and now a saU Ifullther bii'i1ding extension is under ConChrist; They know nothing whatever about the ministry sideration.
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m. t IS I' e commemoration df his 43rd anniversa as pastor of the
one who IS m such wreoched health as to have no re- . -.
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church. On. that occasion flowers were presen~ed to Mrs.
sistante to any gemi that might finl<;l lodgment in their'. Loney arid a cheque from the church as atdkendf
systems. So they may becom~ a prey to tuberculosis, or alffeot:ion and appreciation to both the Pastor and Mrs.
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Services ofextraorcJ,inary significan'Ce marked the 50th
anniversary df ordina!tion on Stlrrday. His Worship Mayor
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"Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge
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among you? Let him shew out of' a good conversation Lloyd D. lac'. son ' I'QUg t cOl1,gratu at'lOns to pastor an
~is works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have people. D~. P. B. Loney, the p~stor's brother, and minister
bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and' of the Victoria Ave .. Baptist Church, Hamilton; delivered'
lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not a most a!b1'e anniversary message at .the morning service.
from above. but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where Rev. David Hackett, as&istant pastor df ForWard B<>on+;st
envYing and strife is, there ·is confusion and every e v i l ,
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work. But the wisdom that is from ,above is first pure; 'Ohl!-i'ch~ Toronto" preached ~ forceful sermon' in the
then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated,full of evening.' Telegrams were read' from the Prime- Minister,
. mercy.and good fruits, :withou~ partiality, &!ld.witliout the Right HoqouraJble John G. ,Diefenbaker, and from -the.
hYPOCrISY. And the fruIt of I7;ghteousness IS s~wn f.n .. Minister
Citizenship and .!Jmrn'igrrution, Mrs. Ellen'
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envying" and '''stri!fe''':in their hearts, might not to glory . Letters and te'legrams. of .congratulation have· been retherein, for they are .in, danger of .lying against' the truth. oived from many ministers an4, !former' friends, such. as:
Of them it 'is.'said ':'-.we quote again: '"This wisdom de- . Dr. George'P. Gilmour,President of'MC!Mro;ter.University;
scendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual,. (or Rev. J. Watt df Sarnia, President df the Fellowship.. of
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Regular '8ap~iSits 0:£ Ontario 'and Quebec; Dr. H. C. Slade,
natural, or ca:rnal) devi'lish".
Therefore it is but·a short step from a state of car- Pastor of the JarvisStree't Ba'Ptist Church, 'T<?ronto; Dr.'
na!liity tP. a state of positive devilishness.
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Ja:ck S'Cott, Pastor df Forward I Baptist Church, Toronto;
· We remember. how Dr:-' John Wilmot so unerringly Rev. C. H. Sdhutt; i[)r. Wm. si.puder df Adan:ta, Georgia;
diagnosed -the. actions df certain . students, and certain Rev..Wm. 'l\4oreland.of the All'ian'Ce Church, Waterdown;
:professors., when he said it was "utterly carnal": Time and from 'the Rev. Ross Moyer of the Elliott HejgJ:1ts Bap·has 'Completely esta!blishedthe truth, of that observation, ti's~ C4Jl.rch. Harriiltpn.. .
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tohat that same' spirit has proceeded !from carnalitY tQ . During the day. speciiI. music was provided by t!he Standevi1ishp.~$,' .
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SEDUCING SPIRITS
An -Address ~y Ur. P. W. Philpott at the .CarJ?egie Hall, Pittsburg, Pa., 1921
biggest t.hing in the world; but iif, on the other hand, it is
possble to show that the reaHty of Spiritualism is not the
would have us know something about Spiritism from the' reality of good 9J>irits, but of
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viewpoint 0'£ His Word. I presume that most of you have
Not Good Spirits
Observed that there has been a very. re;u reviva!l in Spirit- .
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ism "during 1!hese last few yeats. The Great War through evii spirits, and if we can show that ~he fruit of Spi!itual.which the world has recendy passed made this possibie, ism is evil and nof gOod, and the results are fatal; and if
especially lin 'England where ~here is' h~ly oJ:l,e home we can show 'that it is unde.r the ban of, the Scriptures
wIthout its·empty.chairand where hearts long for fel'low- ~nd has ,the temble ~nathema 0'£ the Almighty God upon.'
smp with loved ones who have 'Passed with[n the veil. In ~t, then 'beloved people, we had better take care lest we
.his bOok, which he named after his son, slain in ibattie,. Sir find ourselves in 'that 'Compimy, 0'£ which IP'aul spealks wh~n
Oliver. Lodge records the words ,of his wilfe, which he he ~ays, "In the iast days some m'ali depart from the :faith;
found written on 'a sheet of 'Pa'Per : "Raymond, darling, giving heed 'to seducing spirits and doctrines of de~ons."
you have gone from our world, and, oh, to ease the pain, That [s 'a solemn word, be;loved ·friends, and '1 say we want
I want to 'know iif you are happy, and that you, yourself, to be on our guard le'st We find ourselves in that particwlar
.are reaHy talk~ng to me· and no sham."
company. ·Mr. Doyle s1:a:tes that we must admit "that
Spiritualism, is, a revelation from' a divine source, or aCI. ,
knowledge ,tha't there has ibeen. an outbreak of luna~y
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~tending :over: it'Wo generations and affecting two con, IT IS THE CONDIT-ION OF HEART AND MIND tlDents and wh'lch aUa:(;ks men and women 'OthelWise eminINDICATED 'BY '!HE WORDS W~IITEN ON 'THAT
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PI'ECE' OF PAlPEJR THAT MAKES 'I1HE SEANCE en'tty sane.'" That is '3, big statement-to make, but Mr.
Doyle has omitted. another very essential al,temative, and
.POSSI'BLE. I say "'that condition of mind" because no that is, it may be, that these tremin'ently wise and sane
one instruoted in the .Wore of God or led ·~by the Holy people" are deceived as to the source of the revelation
'Spirit would ever.e~ress himse1f in ,this manner. God has which c~es to them. It may be that the. revelation Is
. not qeft ills people in darkness concerning their beloved . supema~ura1, but not divine. 'It may 'be .devilish.
dead. '°1 wouid not have you ~gnoran.C'conceming t h e m :
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whioh are asleep," says the Apostle lPaul, aI)d then, by
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direct revelation from the Lord Himself, He ,gives us 'the
Now, if there is no such thing as a seducing spirit, if
plainest po'ssi!b'le tru:th regarding them, 'and our reunion there is nosucJ:l thing as a' doctrine Of demons, then why
with them beyond the veil. I would sUggest that you read shou1'd the Apostle Paull warn us ,to beware df these? On,
carefully; Is'!: Thess. 4: 13-J8; 1st Cor. 15 :22-26, 51-57; .the othediand, if there ;is such a thing as a seducing spirit;
2nd Cor. 5: 1-8.
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if there is such a ,thing as a doctrine of demons, then might
T'here was a fiIpe when the claims of the Spiri'tullilist it not be that that superna!tural maniifestation which Mr.
were rejected on the. grounds of !fraud and tr-ickery; and Doyle' thinks is divine, comes ifrom ano1her source altoundou'bte'dly there is in 'Connection with this cu~t a great gether? Do you see what I mean? If he rea:ds his Bib1e,
amount of trickery and 'decfption. The Spiritualists them- and if ne believes what the lB'i!ble says, then he must know
selves readily admit this; ibtlt 'the time has passed for' that there is one who is cal'led the "ruler of this world's
answering their argumentS with' ridicule and jdkes. And darkness", "the prince of the power of the ~ir", "the ieader
an-yone who thu's tries to meet their arguments shows ig- of- ·the spirits' that now work in .the 'Children of disobednoran'Ce of the gravity df this great subject, and of prevail- ience," and that he lias, in all ages past, succeeded in deing 'Conditiions. :Among the nota!ble adherents Q'f Spiritual- ceiving' men. who have been "eminently sane". In fact,
ism are' sucn men as the l'ate William T. Ste~i:d, Sir William some of 'the ~se~t men that ever lived in the flesh have
Crooks, Sir Oliver !Lodge and Conan Doyle. These mt';n been deceived by him.
have stood in the very front rat:Jk df their profeS'Sions, and
they are heMin ,the very highest esteem by thinking men
Campaign of Deception
all over the world. They are not 'the klifid who would be
He would a!lso kn~, -if he reads his Bible and believes'
very easily deceived. I am 'making these conc~sSions be-, it, that one of the characteristics. df the closing pours' of
cause 'I want to be a!bsolutely fair iIII discussing the subject. - this age, is to be that '~the prince of the power of the air"
I wouid also say 'that I lbe1ieve there are many mediums is going to con'Centrate aH his. 'infernal energy, and power,
who 'are beyond :all, suspicion of ~~tentional tIickery and in one great campaign of deception, ana so great is his
fraud, ,mediums that' are 'in' ,this business not for gain, nor. success to be .that, if it were <pOssIlble, he would "deceive
\\.'ith a 'desire to deceive, and un:doubtedly m~y of them the very elect." Matt. 24:23-24.
have marvelled alt the cOI:nmundocations whidi they have
We are not denying spirit m~ifesta!tions. The time has
received' from -the Spinto World. 11hen you will ask me' come when we have got to face the ,fa'Ct that ,these things
what are we 'to say about Spiritualism? What is !there in 'are realities; the Bible teaches that they are rea'lities" but
it? Are we to concede the claims that they make, and'is realities, not of good sp~rits, but 'Of evil impersonating spirits.
it 'poss~ble' for us to communicate with our beloved dead; \ One of the very first princi'Ples of receiving a. communiwho have passed beyond the veil? Are we to 'cOncede that? cation from the spirit world in the seance of the mediulJl
If so, we must say with Mr. Doyle that ''S'Piritualism is is that we mUl'lt give up ourselves, mind 'and will, to the
the biggest thing in the world." 'I say, i:f it is possible to spirit control. A ~riter on this subject in the Nineteenth
communicate with our beloved dead who' have gone into Century Magazine says, "It seem'S to demand a surrender
the other wor~d, then we must admit Spiritua1ism is the of the whole pe~n~lity. 1.'here can be. no half measure 'in
.UNDEJRrJ1AKING a very important task, and I
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e'it!her case - no lta!king ·half share. A man can review
Christiani,ty from witllout as a critic; but there comes a
point at Which, if he is honest and logicaol, he must give
.himself to God and accept the ~rd Jesus as his Master
and Friend, tin whioh case his life wili ·henceforth be dominaited by his religion; or he must reject the tlaims Of
Ohrist onrc~ for a!lt" The same t!hing applies to Spiritual.ism. Once again, so to speak, and you. cannot tell where
you .will end. 'And herein, chiefly, lies !its s·Jirest and rnost
real peril. It is admitted by Spiritualists them,selves that
if you rend the thin veN which separates this WOrld from.
the next, you have no guarantee whatever as to the
charaoter Of. the personalities which may avai~ themselves
· of ,that rent. You are running an awfu1 risk. That is
the word, (CAn awful ri!rk" and for fear I may omit it
I would say to anylbody who may be tempted to investigate this 'Phenomenon. - condude first of all whether
you can follow that trail without departing from the. faith
of your fathers, and from the Holy Scriptures and from
God Almighty Himselif. . .
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Let me read you some 'Passage of Scripture from different parts of the ,mble, both the Old and the New Testaments. "Now the S'Pirit spea'keth eXipressly that in the
latter times some shaltl aetpart from ·t!he faith, giving heed
to_seducing spirits, and doctrines Of devils;-Spea:king lies
in h}'lpocrisy; having their ronscience seared with a hot
iron; Forbiddirig to marry, . and 'Commanding to abstain
from meats, which God hath created to be received 'with
thanksgiving of them which ibelieve· and know the truth."
-1 TimA: 1 - 3 . ·
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. '''And wheri they· shaH say unto you, Seek unto them
that have .familiar spirits and unto wizards that peep and·
that mutter; should nota :people see'k unto their God for
the l~v=ing' to ·the dead?" How suggestive that passage is!
",To 'the law .and to the !testimony; if tlbey speak not
a'Ccordiing ,to this Word, it ,is .because '!!here is no light in
them.-Isa. 8: 19-20.
"When thou art come into the ~and' which the Lord
thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after
the albominations of those nations. There shalt} not be
found .among you 'anyone ·that ma:keth his son or his
.da,ughter to p~s through the 'fiire, or that useth djvination,
or an observer .Of ·times, or an en'chanter, or a witch or
a rcharmer,_or a consulted with famiIiarspirits, ora wizard,
or, a .. n~man'Cer; for all .that do these things are. a~
.aIDom1natIon unto the Lard."-Deut. 18:9.-12. I
IIf .you have any quarrel: with' it, quarrel with the
AIimighty for this is His word to Moses and to the chi'ldren
of Israel: "Regard not them_ that have famiiiar spirits,
neither seek after wizards, Ito !be domed by them; I am
the Lord your God."-Lev. 1~:3'1.
Now, I have two propositions. The fi~ !is, can a man
·be a C~ristian an,d a Spiritualist at the same time? The
second. IS, can the dead preach the 'Gospel? First, PAN A
MAN BE A CHRISTIAN AND A StpIlUTUALIST AT
'JlHE SAME TIME? The late Dr. Talmage on'Ce said,
~eaking Of this, "You cannot hoM 'tIhe Bible in one hand '
, and Spiritualism in the other." I' am prepared to say if
·you are honest and will take the Bible as your guide and
believe it, you will have to conclude that the Bible is against
Spiritualism, and if }'lOu accept ,the statements made by
the medium you wilt have to 'Conclude another thing, i.e.,
Spiritualism is against the Bible. There is no compromise
"And the soul that. turned aifter suCh as have familiar
'here; one is d~ametrically opposed to the other. For in- spirits, and after W;izards, to go a 'whoring after them;' I
stance, they say thai! Lorenzo Dow, the great. Methodist will even set my face against that soul and will out him
evangelisilic preac!her, -that mighty man of God who did oN from ·his peop1e. SanaMy yourselves therefore, and be
such wonderful work 'for, the Master, says "AH ChriStians . ye h01y: for I ariJ. the Lord your God. Lev. 20:6-7.
are ~do'latrous, and Cpristianity. is a farce.~' They tel1 us
"And when 'Sau~ saw the host of. the PhioliS'tines he was
that John tBunyan, the writer of p,jlgrim's 'Progress, is now afraid, and his hea,rt greatly trembled.· And when Saul
living in exaotly the same place as "Tom Paine", the .enquired of 1!he fLord, the Lord answered him not, neither.
notorious ~nlfidel. John Wesley, 'the founder Of the great by dreains nor-by Ur-im, nor· by prophets. Then said Saul
Methodist OhurCih, testtifies from the spil"it world that he unto his servants, seek me a' woman tha't hath a familiar
has renounrced everything ·t!hat he ever lived for here. They spirit tha't I may go to her. and enquire of her. And hlis
deny the Deity df Jesus Christ and s·ay that J:le was only servants said to him, Behold··there is a woman that hath
"a medium of a high order" and that he is now in the a familiar spirit at En-dor." . . . "So Saul died for his
sixth. sphere. They ta!ke the word, "med,iator" between transgression which he committed against t'he Lord, even
God and man and make' it read "medlium" between God . ag!)inst the 'Word Of the Lord, wh~Ch he kept not, an'd
and m'an; they,teU you .that the iHoiy'Ohostis not a per- ' also for asking counsel of 'one that had a familiar spirit,
son. They deny these' things that' are fundamental and to eQquire of it; and enquire'd not df the Lord: therefore
essential '~o the Christi;:t'n Faitth, and ,without which no man he 'slew him"-1 Sam~ 28:5~23, and 1 Chron. 10: 13-14.
· or woman could possibly be a Ohristjan at all. That is
"M;anasseh was twelve years old when he began to
. why I 'S/lY Ithat Spiritism 'is agai~st the Biib'le and the .Bible" reign, and he reigned fitfty and !five years in Jerusalem; .
against Spiritualism.
but did ·that whitch was evil in the sight Of the 'Lord, like'
Try theSpirit$
unto ·the abominations Of ti1,e heathen, Whom the Lord
The Apostle John t~l'ls us thai! we should not believe had 'Cast. out .before the 'ohildren df 'Is~l -.' . And he
'every spirit. l1his suggests that different kinds df spidts _ caused hIS. chIld~n to pass !hro~gh the fl~e In the. vaUey
will seek admiss'ion, 'You shoul'd not believe every spirit, of ,the son of iHmnpm; also ~e dbserved tunes, and us.ed
but try them, whether they be of God. But how should enchantments, and used wItch'craft, and dealt WIth
we try the spirits? By going into a dark room, and ~ub-' ~amjIia~ spirits and 'with wizards: ~e wrought much evil
mitting ourselves to the control of some other person's m the SIght of the 'Lord to provoke hIm to ·anger."-'2 Chro.
inind? I suppose I am to submit myself to tlle control of 33: 1, 6.
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any unseen power. -Is,that the way to try the spirit? No,
"And it rcame .to pass, ,as we went to prayer, a: certain
beloved friends, "To the law and the te~timony, if they - damsel poss~sed wi~ a spirit: of divination met us, which
speak not according·to this Word it is because there is broughtt her masters much gadn by sooth-say'ing; the same
no light in theru." That is th~ way to try the spirits and followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These ~en are
their teachings:. ttlt they speak' not according to this the servants of the Most High God, which show unto .us
Word, it is because there is no light in' them."·
the way of saiJvation. And this did she ~any days. But
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Paul, being grieved, turned and said, to the spirit, I and offered me a COIIJ.Plimentary ticket to some great
command the~ in the name df Jesus Christ to come out demonstration that 1!hey were going to have. I said I
df her, 'and he came ou't the same hour. And when her cou'ldn't go there. She said, "why not?" I said, '~I am
masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, mey afraid." She said, "You are afraid?" I said, ''Yes" sister,
~ught IPau1 and SlNas, and. drew them into 1!he market
I am a very we~k ~'an an'd. I need the gra:ce of God' to
p'lace unto 'the, rulers."-Acts 16:'16-19.
keep me." '''Don't you thlink," she said, "he wiU keep you
'''And now the works of the flesh are maniifest, which there?" I sald, '°1 have no promise' in the Bible that tho
are these: 'adui'tery, fornication, uncleanness, lasoivious- grace of ~d will keep me in the devil's 'territory;" And
so I grit frightened when this woman fOld me they were
ness~ idolatry, witcbcra!£t" hatred, varian~e, emulations,
going to have a seance. !Her brother was an Ang~can
wrath~ strife, .seditions, heresies."-Gal. 5:- 19-20.
"He thalt overcometh sha~l inherit aU ,things; and I, will clergyman at 1!hat very hour. He had been' '~en: several
be his God and he shaH be my Sqn. :But the !fead"ul and times be'fore and she showed me a commurucahon they
unbelieving and the abominable. and whoremongers ~d , had received at the iast seance. 'lit was on a piece of paPer.
sorcerers ,and idolaters 'anda~l liars shall have their part I Now, 'I do no't want to sfl.y it to amuse you,. friends,. ~ut
.in the lake which burneth with fire and brinJ,stone; which I confess to you it was "aibout the poorest bit of wntlD.g
that I ever saw in my life. It :looke~ to m~ almost as if
is the second death."~Rev. 21 :7-8.
a hen with frozen, feet had stepped on a ptece of paper.
'I have quoted both the Old and the New TestameJ1lt on It 'seemed to me so terribly sad in the face of what God
.1hiis subject and I want to make the gmtement again that has said in this Word. Well, her brother came iQ shortly
the scriptures are diametrically opposed to' "spiritualism'~. and we got talking albout the inspiration of die Bible and
In the ,twenty~fourth Chapter of Matthew Jesus tells us the iDeity of Christ, which he denied, then he brought up
that, in the' 'last days there shall arise a !false Ohrist- and something a!bout Ro'bert 'IngersoH and said he believed he
fa,ilse prophets and shall show grealt signs and wonders was perfectiy correct in his tea'Ch!ing: '~Wetl," I 'said, "I
inspmu'Ch that if it were pdSs~ble, they would deceive the must say 'I have a profound respect for Rd1?ert 'Ingersoll
very elect. Behdld, II have told you beifore. Wherefore if because he was an infidel out of the church and he never
they shall say unto you, Behold, ''he is in ,the secret cham- took his' bread and butter from the church, but I have Ii
bers, believe it not. Behold, ~or false prophets sh~n 'come profound contempt 'for a man tha't will get into a pulpit
to you il! sheep's clothing but, inwardly they are ravening of a Christian chuI'c'h and talke his bread and butter from
a Ohristian people when he'is an infidel at 'heart." And
~lves. Ye shall know them !by '!heir ifruits."-Matt. 24:
24-26.
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our visit ended l"ight there; we had to .leave before the
seance came on. We went out, and.'I was very sad, for
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they had been very dear 'friends to me and mine. 'But I
Now, that is a fair ,test, and iJ want to ask you WHAl' want to tell you, those seances continued in that house and
ARE 1HE FRUIT OF S'PIiRITUAlLJlSM, MENTALLY inside of about six weeks that woman, 1lhe sister df that
AND MORAfIJLY? We will leave 'the spiritua!l question mini9ter, 'became a' raving maniac and was taken to the
alone for the present. Wha't are the fruits of spiritism insane asylum, where she died a most horrilble dealth, conmenta:Hy and morally? Wha~ is the effed: upon home life? tinuously blaspheming' the name of Jesus Christ. !Her husDr. Winslow, the Oxford ~ecturer on men'tal diseases, lIays, band's mind a:lso gave way and he was taken to another
·"The prevalence of madness owing to Spiiritual'ism is on asylum and remained there until one day he acknowledged
,the increase." Sir WilHam Crooks' himsel.!f s'ays, "Alter wit- his sin to God and wrote to a number Of his old friends,
,nessing th~ painifuII state of nervous and bodily prostration asking if they woulid not pniy ,thalt God .wouM deliyer him
in which many df the exper.iments have 16ft the medium, out of the dutches of the enemy, which God, did. We
.fainting, pale, breathless, 'I 'canndt doulbt ,but that the might repeat many other instan'ces that we know of right
violence of psychi'c forces means a corresponding drain 'along this line. "By their, fruits you shall know them."
on the vital force'S." ,Professor Harris says: ''The most re- Thalt is how ,this thing must be judged as not being of
mark3!blecase df mediumS'hip I 'have met with was that God. Dr. Potter ~n Fancies and, Fallacies of Spiritualism.
,of a lady who 'COmmenced with a Htde seemingly innocent says, "-I have known si,xty cases df mediums that have left
talble-4:urnirig at a chrIdren's party, and finished up by their husbands to live with ~her men who they Claimed
death lin a madhouse."
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were 'their 'affiinities." A remarkable thi~g is the spiritualAs-I said awhile ago, it has tak~n !from this world some i9ts teach that everybody has an affinity, but you seldom
of ,the wisest intdlects. ,":It has swept into mental midnight ever read df the ,affinity being the man or woman they
some of ,the grealtest mep. of the day, senators, judges, are married to at that time; it is always some other. man
doctors, lawyers 'and even miIlli.s'ters of the Gospel." , "
or woman. '
" A father writing df his, daughter,now insane, says "She·
Dr. P. Randall, a spil'itualist ,lecturer, finaHy' Withdrew
'became int~rested in spll"it communi'cation through a Ouija from the ranks' of spirit1.fa!i:ism and denounced the whole
'board that was brought into the house just for a Hittle bit system; 'and among other things 'he says,' "For seven years
of amusemen't." Anoth~r testifies that "during seven years I held daily intercourse 'w'ith what was puI"ported to be
df investigation I have learned of one hundred and fifty my blessed mo~her, but I am now clea~ly persuaded that
cases where minds have been ruined by this thing."
it was nothing "in ithe world but an evi1 spirit, a demon
I want ,to give you a persona!! ,experience that I ~have who in that guise, gained my soui's confidence and led
had with this th,ing myself. A !few years ago my wife and me to the very brink of ruin. Five of my own personal
myself went to visit at a home in We9tern On~rio, where friends have destroyed themselves as a resuh of spirit con,.
we had been entertained many" times before. We were trol. Every crime in the calendar has been committed -by
talking during the afternoon with our hostess and she credulous people that have been moved by these 'evil
told us that het: brother was coming that nighf to have, spirits." iBy their 'fruits ye shall ,know them. We might
a little seance ;in the honie, and 'I got terribly frigh'tened. say many other things along this line! but I just want to
That is true. A woman caine to me once in Hamilton make, this remark:
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It Attacks ·the Home
Any system, i don',t care whether it !is spirituaJI.ism or
Ohristian~ty - if you call it by that name' --" any system
that undermineS- that sacred institution we call home is
not of God. Any system' that attacks the sanctity of the
·1!larri.ag.e vow is: an enemy of 'the State and ought to be
thus Judged. ThIS system d~s those two thlngs. .
JUly 8, 1958
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is a near answer to Dives' prayer. Here Y011 have the one
example Of a man' coming 'from 'the dea:d to lIpeak to
another. 'I read th!is in concluding what I have to say
to-night. Samuel was dead. Saul was in distress, and
here is what he said:· "seek me out a woman that has a
familiar spirit," and they went to Ithe Witch Of ·En-dor.
They foun'9 this wotpan, and you remember how !frightT,t:7.
. ened she was when she ~ound out ~,t·was King 'Saul, but
~v
he allayed her fears by promising that nothing would hapJust a '~rd or tWo, on, the' other pOint, CAN TH'E pen to her. Then she cal1ed .1IP Samuel. iJJisten: ''Samuel
DEAD PR!EAIOH ToHE GOSIPFJL? That is what they said unto Sam, why hast thou disquieted me 'to bring me
daim. We will rea:a a few pomons of Scriptures and let up?' And Saul 'answered, I 'am sore distressed, for the
yOu judge ~or yourselv~. In the 16th Chapter.of St. Luke Phi:listin~ ma!ke war ~gainst I"!1e and God is departed from
we have )Y'hat is commonly termed the parable·Of,the rich me, and an-swereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor
man and Lazarus.... You ·know the story. The rich man by dreams; ·therefore 'I have called thee." That. is what
f~d .sumptuously every day, was clothed in purple and mak~ the seance ,possible - 'Xrl>d answereth me no 'more,'
fme l~nen; 'the 'POOr man haCl to' beg .for bread, and it he has departed. from me." ~ The seance ~s born (jf an
came_ to pass that .the beggar died and--:waS 'carried by the awiful silence, '''the sHence not Of ·the midmght, the silence'
angels into Abraham's bosom. .The rich -man also died ~ot of ·the sea, the silence tha.~ comes !from unrepented
and was' burled and-'in Hell (or Hades), if you'like lif.ted SIn, ifrom refusing to dqey Mmighty God;" 'not that God
ul? his eyes 'and .cried ·that he was in ltorment. Let ~e say, cannot hear, bOlt God will not hear. ''God answereth me
.fmends,. I a~ ma!king· 40 apology !for this pidture for' it .not; neither by the prophets: nor by dreams; therefore I
was 'painted by Jesus Christ himself. The rich man lifted have called thee that thou mayest make known -unto me
up his eyes .·and 'Cried to Father' Abraham, into whose what I slhaM do." Necromancy is the counsel' of despair.
bosom lLazart,ls ha:d been taken (.which is a Jewish con- "Then said Samuel, wherefote then do'St thou ask of me,
ceptJion Of. ·paradise), and, .he said, "Abraham, I· am in seeing !the ILord is 'departed\' from thee, and is become
torment in this flame, send iLazarusthait he may dip thine enemy~ And 'the Lord hath done·to you as he spake
die ·tip of his !fin'~er in ;water and cool my parched ton'gUe." by me; for the Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine
Abmham told him ·rllat that was impossible. He said, "In hand." In other words, Samuel could not teH him any.!yout life -time you had your good things and 'Lazarus his thing only what he had told him before; he went into the
~vil things, ·an,d now. you are tormented and Lazarus' is other ·wortld. Then you know what happened. "Then Sam
comfoIitc'd, and besides th.at there is a great gulf fixed SO fell straightwayaH along the: earth, and was sore afraid,
that they cannot ~ither. pass to you hor can you pass..Qver .~e'Ca!lse of the words of 'Samuel: and there was no strength
to tpem." That is the word of our ;Lord J~us Christ. Th~n In hJ7Jl, for he had eaten no brea:d all ifhe day, nor aU the
notIce what he s.ays, '''1 'Dray-you .therefore that thou night:"
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woul.4st send him 'to. my' 'father's house, for I have five
If any m~n under heaven :wQuld have. helped Saul, it
9rethren, that he may testify to them lest -they alIso come would have been Samuel: . 'Saul . never had a· friend like
into 'this -place Of torment." Abraham said unto"him, "They' Samuel; but Samuel c~u'ld not say one-thing beyond what
have Moses 'and the Prophets, let It!hem . hear them.'" He God 'had s-aid when he was alive in the flesh. And fmends
said, "No, Father Abraham, but if qne went to them from . we have· nothing beyond the written o~ades of~. And
the dead they wiH repent" - notice. this, friends - and $aut}, iiristead of being comifoAeeJ, 'was sore distressed and
'. He said unto -him, '''I!f they will Not 'hear Mos~ and _the the -next day he died the death Of a suicide.
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Prophets neither will they be persuaded though on~. rose
-Let me read you one more passage from 1st Chronicles
from the dead!' Now, friends what are_,the simple ded-u'c- cha,ptt;r 10: '~o Saul died for his transgression which h~
tions here? II! the firSt p'lace they were not permitted to CO~Itt¢· agaJinst the Lord, :even against the Lord, even
go from that place to. preach the gospel. Lazarus was not agamst the .Word Of the ~rd, which he kept not,. and
permitted 'to go and cool his iips, n'Or was Lazarus per- also for askzng counsel of on~. that had a familiar spirit;
mi,tted to '-go ba'dk and preach the Gospel to these" five to enquire df it; and enquired not of -the Lord ;': therefore
brethren. It" is a· remark.rble thing. If the· -claims' of ihe' he slew him and turned the Kingdom unto David the son
spiritualists are true,why didn't Dives !fO hi'f1'l:.self? Because of Jesse." Why did the Lord slay him? Because he enhe couldn't !fO; the gaites into 'Ha:des open inwards but qU'ired of one 'that had a famijIiar spirit. Oh, friends I
never outwards. But 'listen! Ohrist. saJid tha:t· iif they .did am giving 'You. to"night as if~irlV and hon~tIv as I ~an
go, if onew.ent from the dead, it would do no good: Why the Wprd.of Ithe 'living God. May God help "us. If any
. not? If they would not believe Go~ Himself, wiU' they . of you have ~en ~aken in by th-is .t;hing, I pray you in the'
beIil1ve anyone. else, even- one. rising from the dead? Let· na~e of Chnst ,that you seek. 'to-mght !?~fore the. Throne
. us',remember, beloved. friends. God ha:s'given us suffiCient of Grace for the help of the Holy Spmt to' delIver you
eviden·c.e of the other world. and has told us 'wha:t we from -that thraldom that no power on earth can' breil<:..
.' must do if we are ,to :'live 'in that place called Paradise. God alone 'Can '~ave you and. de1,iver you from the power'
,Neither an[!el or. deTTi~n from. the other world can brin!! df the ene~y. 'May ,the Lord help you!
.1~S· any furth.er revelation of God's' love. We have had
the fuHesl· possihle revelation df God's plan of salvation.
and if anyone . came from the dead we would not believe
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them.
"Has spiritua:lism brou'!!'ht about the' conversion' of any
E~ery Sunday Afternoon 3.00 p.m.
people? Has it 'resultedin bringling- sinners' in from the
slum~ 'and highways ar-d by-ways into the Church of the
'. - .TorontO Baptist-Sem~n'ary B1d.l.,·337 Jarvia St.
Living God? No, beloved friends. it has n'Ot. l.wi1l read
you another .pas.sage in connection with this. For here
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ON' THE ROAD TO EN-DOR
By Rudyard Kipling
The toad ,to En-dor is easy to tread
. For mother or yeaming wife,
There, it is sure, we. shall meet our dead
As they were even in ilfe.
Earth has not dreamed Of iIlhe blessing in store
For desolate hearts on the road·to En-dor.
And not for nothlng these' gifts are ~own.
By such as deHght our dead,
-They must -twitch and stiffen and slaver 'and groan
Ere the eyes are set in ·the head.
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And the voice from the belly begins. Therefore, .
We-pay them a wage where they ply at En-rrlor.
Whispers shalll -com!fort us oult Of the dark Hands--:ah, 'God! ' - thaT we knew! .
Visions and voices -lOO'k and hark!
Shall :prove .that our ta'le is true,
'And tthose who have passed to the further shore
May be haUed - "at a -price" .
on the road to En-dor.
Even so, we nave need Of faith
And paJtience to follow the clue.
Often at first, what ifhe dear one saith
'Is ba:lJble, or. jest, or·untrue..
. Lying spirits perplex us 'so~, Till our loves - and our lives - are weD known
at En-dor..'
are
~ut they.
sO deep in their new ecli'Pse
No.thing they say can ·rea:ch,
U noless it b~ uttered by ~1ien lips
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And framed in a stranger's speech,
The son must send word to the mOther that bore,
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Through an hireling's mouth.
'Tis the rule of En-:dor.
.The Rqad
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Oh, the road to En-dor is the oldest road
And the craziest road Of al:l! I
Straight it runs to the witch's albode,
As it did in.the days of ~aul, .
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And nothing has ~anged Of ,the SOlTQW in store
For such as go down on the road to ~n-d~I'.
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Modernism'
By Rev. John Poorter, B.A., Durban, South Africa
years ago: i listened -with. in.terest
an address
SOME
delivered bya brother mini!\ter 'on the' subject o'f
The road to full-blown modernism"is not piairdy marked
with ~l the sign!! of a l;tighwaY. For that very reason it
Modernism.. He deaif-t most ably with. the denials and is necessary to warn wa}faring men ·of the nature of the
repudiations now so familiar to us, name1y, modernistic road, and O'f .the k·ind of men they are l~kely to meet, and .
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unlbenef of the fuU inspiration Of the Scriptures, the df whom and what to ibeWare~,
Many evangelicals unwittingly ·wander from thE: highcardlina'l dO'ctrines of Christ's deity, ffis virgin birth, sub_stitutionary death, the resurrection, and so on. One could way Of truth 'by an utter cont7.f.sion regarding the' natu.re·
not but reflect that while all that he s'aid was entirely of tolerance, They faH viotims to the constant propare1evant to the facts which ·we possess oonceming world- gandacry of liberal !thought; wh'ich i'sthat "love· and
wide apostasy, yet he had not touched upon the subtleties mutual tolerance" will s01ye every prOblem. This is. redf the subject· at aU. The address was confined to. the !Jated, of 'course, ·to th~ modern conception df God, "God
is love." From whkh it iscon'dudedthat ''Love is God"
extremes df modernistic thought.
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The varieties or stage's of mddernism are endless'. I Whidl is untrue. 'Sucldove as the modemist has !in mind
think ~t _is dbvious . that a very large number of. men in has no part in the Divine nature. God: 'is love, indeed. But
the modernlist camp !oday arrived there after a process truth, justice. and righteousness arc al1 infinitely comof decline.. They were led step by step, until a· marginal pounded ·in the nalture of the eterna:l God. _If the term
I poin't was reached within the heart where fa;i'tlh was over- "love" therefore is mean:t to convey the' xpeamng of a
thl'()Wn by unbelief: We have reasons also for saying that wea!k and unresisting tolerance of anything .and anybody,
in some cases "at least. their intentions we're not in the then we do not wonder that right and_ wrong, an'd truth
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, direction df modernism, but, that having once commi'tted and fa!l.sehood, become hopelessly 'confused.~·
. :It foHows from their false conception o'f tolerance that
th~mselves as feJolow-travelle~ on .the road, they sub'Sequently lacked either <;ourage or dear thinlcing, and went . modernists consi'S1:ent'ly oppose exactne~ in· doctrine,' or
the whole way.
<!efiri.ition in statements of belief. In its eagepll!ss for ·the
On :the other.harid, of course, many are in the position mu'Ch-vaunted . tO'lerance principle mod.ernism· is ready to '
where true saving faith: has never been thejr possession. admit all and sundry Ito its ran'ks without doctrinal tests.
Tohey were blind from. the' beginning. As natural men I,t then rejoices in the resultant "feHowship". But streh
they had not been alble to receive the things of the'Spirit. ferlowsh'ip is hardly distinguishabie from mere friendliness.
On"e can hardly sPeak Of. these as having. arrived in. Between fl'iendliness •and spiritual fellowship there is a
modernism' by a process' df decline .. They were plunged clear distinction. The first is based on human similarities,"
into colleges or se~inaries !Where the onslaught was ·so while lQe laotlter is ,a sp~it;ual KOINONI'A e!f.fected by
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immediate and overwhelming that' withan a shol1t time the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth.
Then ,there is a· speculative vagueness· about. much o~
all semblance ~f Brble be'lielf was gOlle. The ruin thus
accomplished is more complete and devastatiit'g than' the modernism .that 'attracts the" aspiring intellectual:. Sudi.ellfocts of fleshly sin. The.-sinner who sits by the swine~ men wiI'1 tell you :thal!: they lire "stJldents df tiuth", .and
.. troug~s or pleasure. or vice at least knows his conditlion that they .are wiHJin'g to r~cei~' tl,'U'~ wherever it JIlli:Y .
. as one of need. Not so the aJIlostate or the lilberal; who be Ifound, whether in science, ·or history, or literature.
imagines' that he h~s ne~d of nothing.
For them t~ere appears to be a seductive glamour in
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sum·a qu~st, as if >tJtey were ruqJlorers of' untmvelled tants who, because they 'have betm' kincly treated'in some
regions. This" age-old. phenomenon is plainly a conceit of Roman Catholic hospiota;l., "Will never say another word
hu~an depravity. The Pauline warning .against being . against the Catholics." In,:'cases like this people confuse
spo~led through philosophy 'and vain' deceit, after the
convictions wi1lh personal animosity. ChristJians could nat
rudlments of the world, and not alf.ter Christ, is doubly' come to terms with atheistic Communism or be neu,tral
needful at this point. The natural man loves to bei:ie~ about it, simp'ly hecause one or a hundred Communists
t~at he is m?~i~g in subl'ime mental realms, or grapp1ing - were kindly peo.ple. The neutrals or non-combatants are
W'!th prof':1ndItles.
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a very aarge class. In som~ respects they do irreparable
'For 'the evangelical Bible heJiiever truth is no elusive harm to the 'cause df truth, for their neutrality obscures
phan~oI,D ~hich has ,t? be pursued or elt'plored. Truth. ~e, i:i.ssu~s inwlve:d, and creates fhe impression that the
tha~ 15, savmg . tr~th, IS a .completed revelation, and. the confhct 1S a storm lD a. tea01.ip. .
.
Scl'lptures are final. If we give ground' in a fraction on
,Not long ago a fnend df mme lIstened to one of the
.this point we find ourselves with.a faIliibie Ghrist; and most advanced modernists .of the United States. It was
not'one in Whom "dwdleth aU ;the fulness of the Godhead the 'first time he had heard ·him. He came away saying,
bodily."
'''J1ho~gh it was poison. to,Jisten to, yet the amaiing thing
Running parallel with our present thought is also the ~as that ~o "mud:t of w~at he ~aid was ~ellent" and
dang~r tha~ the Christian worker may come to disparage ably spoke~_ ThiS eXpef1~IlCe Will be typICall of many.
doctnne, or else !be persuaded ,that there !is an an,tagon~sm The .1?rdbalble. effec~s of thr,s a~dress on. others who we.re
between' doctrine and conduct. The secular cry' for prac- less firmly roote:d .m ~e S'Crlp~res mIght weli be dlS: Ilical religion has at its root a 'deSire'to get rid of historic_ astrous .• The maJol'1,ty m 'the, audijen'Ce thought that every
.tntths wh'i~h are the .foundation of conduot and i,i'fe. Dr. word of the speaker was pu~ gold.
Machen in 'his '''Christianlity - ~d -LilberaJlism." dealt with
Modernism~ preaches the validity of ·subjective standthis subtlety <if .modernism. '11he modernist would try to ards of judgment. "The measur~ o'f mankind is man,"
convince the man in the pew that dO'Citrine !is a term for said AIexander Pope. Thus too; modernism grows .im- .
complicated human th~10'gies, about which he ought' not patient with ~n dbjective standard, the 'Bible. Even where
'to bOther his h~ad. 'In fact df course,. doctrine .is·noth'ing it a~ce.pts the 'B}ble ;j,t ar~<!'tes. t«itself the .l'ight t?
~ore than Scl'1ptural fa:ot. In attackmg doctrme, there- determme such mat~ers as }nsplr~tlon and au~hol'1ty. The
'fore, the modern and liberal is assailing the Bible arid' late H_ 00;' Wens,.m one ''d£' hu short stones, tells the
Christ_ ''Christ 'died for our sins, a'Ccording to the Scrip. ta!le-df a man who visited,the country of the blind. He
tures." 'I'hat ·ijs do·ctrine. The Hfe produced within the a:lone was able to see. He described colour and spiendour
-believer by the Holy Spil'it is: inseparable' from the doc- to the inhalbitants, who were first interested, then suspicious,
,trine or historic fact which underlieS that· life. When once and 'at last incensed. agaiqst hijm. He had to flee to save
this is fuHy grasped it is absurd to refe~ to a Hindu- J.ike his Hfe.
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Ghandi as being- a better Chrisllian, than most of us. You.
There }lies t.he danger and the error of a subjeCtive
simply cannot have Ohristian conduct wItho.ut Christian: standard. It ultimate1y means an,archy. Every man does
faith. And you cannot have Christian faith without Chris- that which is right in his own eyes ..
tiaJol doctrine.
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A fina! point, and it is 't!h!is. The modernistic apostas"
'I'he roa:d to modernism' is also marked by a feigned, is not sterile or static. Like a giant fungus "it grows apace.
horror. of what is called Pharisaism. M'any a man Who The man who attempts to grow a Httle df this plant in
be'comesa fellow-traveHer gets the' 'idea that to believe his garden, and resolves .to trim it to his wliil, discovers one
something dearly and without compromiise savours of the. day ,that ~t has got out ~ hand· and is over-ru~ning his
Pharisees who tithed mind but neglected the weightier whole garden. That, and no iess than that, is the' experi.matters . of 'the 1aw. By the weiJ1;htier matters he mean& ence of many. Our concern in this ar.ticle is not with the
. the praotical 'Part <if relig.ion.He iapse's into a broad open and avowed modernist, but' with the compromiser;
humanitarianism which is absotibed in works. He stigma-' the weak evangeHcal whose unguarded tolerance overrides
tizes 'a~ unyie1ding cQnviction& as Pharisaic rigidity.'
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his con¥ic~ons.. '
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'But let us pause a moment to ask ourselves exaotly -what
The ,!eI?-den'Cl~s we hav~:mentloned .here are present·.lD
was the 'Pharisaism which the Lord Jesus so vehemently moder111~tlc belIef lin vaI1'mg p~portlon. Toge1lherwlth'
denounced? Did
condemn t~em for insisting on Scrip- th~ ~VIOUS and world-wide swmg tow~~s a. gospel for
turaJI truths? On th~ contrary, H1S own, appeai to them was ~IS b~e ,-onl">:" they mark ~pe ro~, .to modernism. ~t the
'constantly on tlhe grounds of what :the Scripture said. first shgh~ d~verg~n'Ce ~rom evangehcal ~th the dIstance,
"Ye do err. not .knowing 'the 'g'cripture, neither the power bern:-e~n ~t and 11berahsm ;appears decep!iively ~a11 and
df ~d:'.' Thi~. ~as spdken C?n an occasion when, through neg!lglbl~. But 'at ,~very fn;sh s~ that distance ~ncreases,
RabbInical wrItmgs, the '(>lam truth ha:d become obscured un:td a~ i~t the direction I~ the reverse. of what It was to
by t~e traditions of men. We say therefore ,th.at the . ~t:a.l't ~lt~: ~~rely the mo~t Impo1't~t. th1D~ a;bout ~ny road
Pharisees were not denounced because of their funda- IS ItS destmaq0I?-' We belIeve .t~at ·thiS .road :15 the one that
mental'ism, . but. because ,of their traditJion'alism and l!!ads, _oot to hie, but to :spu:itual blIndness, arid decay,
formaloism.
and death_
. 11his in'difiference ,towards exactness in statement is but
COURAGE FROM AFFLICTioNSa step removed from d~sing' doctrine. Once a man has
got tlhus far he stands ~n peril of ~xchanging h'is Bible
Christ's enemies 'are but breaking their own heads in
for the false freedom 'df to'lerating anything.
pieces upon the Rock laid' in Zion'; and ·the'stone is not
. Another -st?ppin~ ,place on the road to lib~raJl .theology removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage 'from our very afflictions; .the deVil is 'but a whetstone
IS the un'dema'ble. faot _that so' many modemlsts are able
a,nd pleasant people. This ha'l succeeded in disarming ~oshaIpen the fa'ith and patience of the saints. I know
-many an unguarded soul. .It has neutralized many other- that he but heweth andpolisheth stones, alI th~ time,
-SAMUEL RUTHERFORD
wise s~rong: convictions_ We have aU met nominal Protes;' for the new Je11lsalem.
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sin is death"; "'The soul that sinneth it shaH die." It entls
THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD IN
in hell as a departure from God eternally. But ,there is a
JARVIS STB,EET
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again' we rejoice !!hat the trumpet was sounded way of forgiveness and recovery.
What do you do with your Si~? 'In our text we are given
.'. . with no u~'Cer.t~!l. sound. WIille. many' churches
elther reduce thelr aCtllVlty, or dose thelr doors {or the two steps ·toward salvation: the recogn1hlon of the fact of
summer m~mtihs, ~8:rvis St:eet ~es on it's regul~ PI'?- sin, and the confession of that sin. "IJf we say that we
gramme 'WIth additlonal evangelist:lt!: effort!!, espoo1aUy m have no sin, we deceive ourselves.'! Men are deceived
the op~ ~. This past Sunday was an exreptionally busy. ~htough ignorance and ingratitude. What have we that
one, with Blble Scl1oo1 at 9.4:5, morning service at 11 the we have not received? Yet look how ,the human· heart
:wee'kly Hungarian service. at 3 in -t~e Seminary..buildip,g, haJtes God. ;Ignoran'Ce ·of God's Word leads to deception.
the, month'ly Fr~nch s~rw~e at 3 In Greenway Chapel, Man is deceived concerning the exceeding sinfulness df
6 0 ~lock opeI.1 air servlce In Allan Gardens, and a prayer Sin. We need to see sin as God sees it, outraging holiness.
servI'Ce at the same hour, the evening servlire at 7 which Read the ~ngs, the Chronicles, the bodks of Samuel, and
in tM sight
is broadcast .from 7.30 - 8.30 over OHWO Oakville and you will see that 'kings di:d eiother good or
a second open air service from 'the eastern entrance 'over- of the ,Lord. Sin would de't!hrone the Almighty. We must
looking Allan Gardens. It is our earnel!,t prayer ithat God recognize sin. 'Some seek to .evade it, even as Cain; some
may abundantly bless· this faithfui sowing of the Word. seek to cover it up, as Achan. God warns "lie that covereth his sins sha!l:l. not prosp~: but whoso 'COnfesseth and
lAs a preparaJtion for Dr. S1ade's morning message "The' forsa:keth them shall have mercy." We mt$t face sin.and
Baptist Candlestidk" Revelation 2: 1-7 was read. His text confess it, and take sides with God against· our sin. It is
was Acts 2: 47: "And the Lord added to the church daily' .difficu'lt to· confess' sin, but we must, even· as David in
such. ali should"be. saved." iBaptists look upon. the "First Psalm 32, and the publican who cried, "God be merciful
Baptlst .Church '31t JerusaJem as the model church. 'The to me, a sinner." U we confess not we cannot obtain mercy.
Lord gIVes the emblem df a chmcil as a candlestick that . 'God, Who cannot lie is faithfUlI and will forgive sins for
it might be set to shed light.
Christ's sa,ke. wm you tru5t· Him? God wiH JMrt fail.
yve 'are giyen so~e Of. the outstanding ch~acteristics of
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th1s. murch. 'It 'Yas a 'st~adfasi: churdl, for they never
CONGO PROTESTANT COUNCIL'
deviated from their God-gIven course: They Hved in strict
. At its. kual meeting held in 'LeopoldviHe on Fdlruary
adherence to ·the doctcines of' the faith. This made ·them
23,
1958, the Congo Protestant ·Council took action to
, a doctrina!l <:h,!rch. Doctri~e is essen'tia.!l to streng·th and
sever
its relationShip with ,the International Missionary
p~~s,.for ~ IS th~~ .f~un'danon of. everything. They prayed
and rejOIced In Ohrutlan fellqwshlp. There is an absolute Council, an' affiliate of the National Council of Churches
n~ty for a Pun:' doctrine o~ Christ, [n Hi's virgin birth, die ecumenical church movement. The vote was 39 'to 6'
aton~ng dea;th, boddy resurrectIC;)Dl glorious ascension, and thre.e. meD:?-bers a~st~ning. We truly rejoice in I~
co~g again. The~e early ·ChristIans never doubted these df th15 acnon as It wIll augur well for all of the missions
--Missiongyarru
gre~t doctrines, 'for .they believed in the inspiraJtion of the·. ialbouring in the Belgian Congo.
~cr~ptures. Paul, ~er,~ life df'service, was sUe to say,
I .~.'Ve kept ~he faIth. Of the 'cl;1urCh at Pergamos, the
Spiz:it wrote, . Thou hol"!est fast my name, and hast not
de~ed my faith." Here 15. a person:a~ responSibility to remam true to the. f~th, that the generations to tome' and
th,?se around us mIght come to enjoy the liberty of the
chil~ren df. God. T~e Church at Jerusalem observed the
ordlI~ances ilD the scrlptural order. They that believed were .
baptIZed and. aclded. to the church, and !by the' breaJcing (jf
bread procl:umed th~ Lo~'s ·death tIill He come. They
persevered m prayer. This church was a.!lso a growing'
church. How did it increase, and how were additions
effected? The Lord added to ·the ohurch. No dead branches
were 'added, but living ones, whO' had been made alive
u~to Christ, born again. Thus we see dlat the membershIp was a regenerate membership. 'Let us by the help df
we too m.'ly
God, . do God's work in 'GOd's way,
~rnence the 'Lord adding to His 'Church.
. While many df our oWn people were on holiday,' we were /
happy . to welcome many out-df-town visitors.' Severa!
groups were shown through the building 'alfter the service.
''Conf~ssion'' was Dr. Slade's evening subJect' from Ithe
rem,. "If we c~nife'SS our sins, he is mit:hfu[ ~d' just to
. fo~:re us o~~. sms, and to cleanse us from ail unrighteous~ss (1 John 1:9). Dr. Slade remarked that whi1e perusmg ~e of the works Of' th~ Puritans, he noticed that
they made strong pronouncemenb; upon the matter of sin
and 'because of 'that, God blessed ithe message. Today th~
p.m.
ou~t to:oo mo~ sai~ a~nst sin. The ~ible is the history
of sm WIlth, :all. Its crtPl?ling and damnmg ef.fec~.· Sin is
bo~dage, brmw.-ng phySlcal, moral, and mental disorder.
di~l·
It'15 a :rata!l disease even as the' leprosy df the Old and
New 'Festaments. The end is death: "For the wages of
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GR,ADUAll BACKSLIDING
Remember, brethren, th~t decllYS !in grace and baclc.~
.slidi~g m:e' usually very' m,uch like the fall of the autumn
li!aves: You are wa'tChing the. trees, for even now' they
'~.re ,beginning to· indicate the coming fiili. They evidt;n'llly
. know' that ,their verdant robes' are to be stripped froni
them, ,for they are casting' qff. their fir,st loose vestments:
How s.owly the time of the brown leaf comes onlYou
notice here and there .. a ,imge of the copper hue, and anon
(he gold leaf, or ,the bronze is apparent. We~k. after weelk:'
y.0U dbserve that the general fall of the leaves is' drawing
nearer, but, it. is a matter ~hat, creeps slowly' on. And
so with ba.cksH,'clers. They are ~ot open offenders all at
once. 'rhe heart by slow degrees turns aside from the
living· God, and then at last comes the outward' sin and
1he outWard shame. God save'us from !fadling by little 'and
iittIel The devil's little strokes' have !felled many great·
oaks. Constant droppings of temptation have worn away
.many stones. God save us therefrom.. Some cities' have
.been carried by stonn. Brave' soldiers have made the ~ns
of ,the': scaling' ladder,lbite on the top oIf iIlhe waJil, and. up'
they have' swarmed' in defiance of death, and carried the
-city by 9Udd~n force within a few hours. But many other
cities have been ·:take~ by the slow process of I\!he siege;
'tlj.e supplies have been cut off; warriors have been slain' at
the sally-ports, slow'ly; entrenchments have been thrown
up nearer and nearer tO'the walI, mines .have "been dug
under the bastions; forts have been weakened, gates' have
. been sliaken, and ~t last the city has been .subdued. Where
Satan captures one man by force of strong temptation, h~
captures ten by the gradual procells of sapping and undermiining the principles which should rule within.
-C.' H. SPURGEON
HIS STRANGE H~IT
.Bu."t the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to
everlasti'{'g upon them' that fear him, and his right. eourness unto children's children ('Psa. 103: 17).
A friend, oIf mine waS in the habit oIf visiting an indoor
swimming pool each Thursday n~ght. There was a certain
Jilan he 'met at the pool who aJlways amused and intrigued
him. This man would come out ,with his bathing suit on, 'go
straight tc;> 1:'he edge of the water, and dip his big toe into
th«r pool, and then climb right.up ,to the highest diving
, board, make a wonderful 'clive, and swim up and down
the pool with wlendid fonn.
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'k. was difficult for my friend to under$tand why su'C!h
exper.t swimmer and diver shouM' resort to such a
novice habit df'sticlcing hlis toe into the water before enter, 'ing. He plucked up courage one I),ight and asked him why
he did it. He smNed and· answered, ~'I suppose it is just
force, of ,habit; however, there is a reason and I shal. tell
.you."
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- .He: used to" be' 'ari ins~ctor in a large college for men.
. His Jdb was' to teach ·them. to swim and dive, One night
, he could nOt sleep aild decided to slip !in to' the swimming .
pool and ~ve a swim, thinking that the exercise wouM
~n,duce s'leep.
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, "'1 did ndt put on the lights in the poc>i," he continued,
'for I knew every inch of the place, and the roof was
, made of gla5s. The' moonshoJl,e tJl:!,rough, throwing the
shadow df my body on the wall at the other ~nd. My body
and a.nqs m!L'de a 'Perfect sign of the cross. I caIinot explain to you why 'I did not dive at ,t!haJt mome,nt. 1 had.
an
~o prem~ni'tion of' <ikger oIf any kind.
As 1 stood looking
at the ,shadOW of'the cross} I ibegan to think of the cross
of Chrisf and its meaning. 1 w~ not a Ohristian. 1 found,'
myself repeating ·the word~ oIf: ~,hymn 'I had l~ed. as
a boy, 'He -died that we, ~ig'ht be 'forgiven, He died to
make us good, that we might go at last to Heaven, saved
by 'iHis precio~s 1:Jlodd.' 1 cannot teU you how long 1 stood
poise'cl on the diving poard iior why 'I' did not dive. 1 came
.down from ,t!he board and wa}ked along, the pool to the
steps t!hat: 1 knew led to the bottom oIf the poql !1Ild began
to descend. I reached the bot~m and ,my feet touched
the cold, smooth bottom of the pool. The night· before,
. the. caretaker had drained tl),e pool dry and 'I knew nothing
aJbOut it. 1 'realized then that had I dived, 1 woUld have
dlived to my death..
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"The cross 'on the waU," he a:dded, "saved me'that niglht.
1 wa..s so thankful to Qod 'for His ~ercy jn spa,ring'
my lIfe that I. knelt on the cold bricks and asked the
Christ of the cross to saye my soul. 1 'expet:i'enced' a
twolfo'ld deliv~i'ance th~t night. That, sir, is why 1 always
put my toe,intO ,the water before diving."
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(Reprinted from Th,e Sunday School Times)'
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THE FABLE OF TH~'OAK kND THE VIOLET
, In a large gatden there greW' a !fine oak tree with its
wide-sprea:ding branmes; and at its foot there grew a'
~eet and mod~st Violet. l'he oak one' day looked down
m scom upon. t!he violet and said, '"You, poor little thing,
,will}oon ~ dead and wlith«;:~,; !for you have no strength;
no SlZe, and are of no'~ ,to -any 'one. !But 1 ~ J~
'and stl'Qng; I sha:ll stili live ,for ages, and. then I shall. be
made into a large ship to sail on the ocean, or into a
.pala'Ce whe~e ~ and, qu~ens dwell. 'I shaJlJ. have a place
of honour !In this world for years and, years and years."
. "Yes," ~ered the violet in its !humility, "God h@s
gIven y~u strength ~nd me sweetness. 1 offer Him back
: my fragrance, 'and 'am ithankifUJ.:' 1 hope' to die fragrantly
as 'I have DVed fragrantly; but we are ~th only wh811:
GO'dmade us, and, both 0( us ~ where 90d 'placed 'us•
He knows be'St, and' He Will not expect me to be strong;'
like 'you are, but He wishes meta be' 's:mail, but sweet."
.Not .I<?~g a1fteIW~ the' oak was struck by ligbtnirig
and.~hIvered Ito sphnterS: ~ts end was to be burned. But
the Vildlet was genltly gathered by ,the hand, of ·a Christian,
lady, who care'fuUy pressecOt, and' kept it for years in tihe·
leaves of her Bible to refresh ·herseH with its fragrance.
Here. we .see . ~e differenc~ between pride aixl' Jtumility.
.J~o~ foolIsh, It IS for anyone 1:? ,boast I Let us all humbly'
and JoyfuHy do what tihe 'Lord Wishes us to do.-Selected.
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se.paratio~ of the s.pirit. from ~ bodf (GaD. ·3:19), and BIso·
spIritual. death, which IS the separation of the spirit fl'OlD:
God (Rev. 20:6' 21:8). We ~ot.un4ers~d the JD7.8tery·
of· divine 'prOvidence, not Can we fathOm. all the depths of
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knowledge and divine wisdom which. are involved. in the
problems of the origin of evil, but we do know that if man
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was to be· held morally responsible 'for his actioJis (Rom.
.. 14:12), he must be free~ Choose either good o~ .~L God
'knew that Adam would sm. and He had aheady m love_and
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in justice made provision for his redemption (], Pet. 1:18Lesson Text: Genesis 2:7-25.
.20),' but. the Lord's .foreknowledge did n~t affect Adam's
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Golden Text: "So God created man in his own image, in the independent power of choice.
i~ge of God created he him."---Genesis 1:27.
II. Man and lJis Companion: verses 18-25.
. God had already gi~n ~dam dominion ~ve!-, ~ ,,!h.o~
I. Man and His Environment: verses 7-17. .
The creation of man was God's cro:mni1'lCP
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•• ~... ·act. Man' was anima
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created to bring glory and honour to his· Maker (lsa._43:7, . who imaiPne that Adam was an. illiterate, wild cave-man,
21) and he was in every seI?-se superior to the whole ve~- have not considered the record which states that God gave
table and animal world, which bad been preparep for his to him the task of naming .all the living creatures. This would
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habitation. The Word of God states that man was c~a~d require intellectual ability of a liigh order.
by·the direct act of God (Gen. 1:26,27), and thus 1he divme
Adam was so far superior to. the .rest of creation that he
record flatly contradicts the evoluti()nary theC?ry t4at ~n experienced a great loneliness. His powers of mind and heart
was gradually evolved from l~wer forms of l~e by a pro- . were such that he craved human companionship. In con-.
sideration of hi~ need for fellC?wshipz ·the Lord .provided .•
cess of natural selection and spontaneous generation.
Three s~parate words are used in connection with the helper, an assocIate, 'a com'p'amon, WJ].O had deSIreS correacreation of man: "create" - bring into existence (Gen. 1:27; ponding to his, who was fit and-adequate. Notice that in
5:1; 6:7; Deut. 4:32); "make" - do, perform or accomplish. verse 20, the two English words ''help'' and "meet" ~
an act (Gen. 1:26; 2:18,22; 5:1; 6:6, 7); "form" - mould, separate words, as they are in the Hebrew. In modern Engas a potter moulds or shapes the clay into the desired 'shape .lish the two words are often combined into one; ''helpmeet''
(Gen. 2:7J 8; Deut. 32:18). The three wOJ:ds are used to- or "helpmate"..
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gether in lSaiah 43:7. _
God formed the' woman from Adam (1 Tim. 2.:11-13) and
God created man in His own image, which would noj; refer presented her to him. Adam recognized the physical union
to physical likeness; since God is Spirit (John 4:24). This which ex,isted between himself and his companion. It is sigexpression "in his own image'" suggests that we were made nificant that he. did not call ner by the name '~Eve" (LiVing).
in the intellectual,' moral and spiritual likeness of God (Eph. .until after the pronouncement that he would ;'die because of
4:24i Col. 3:10). Adam possessed all:the elements of per- sin (Gen. 3:20). In faith he spoke of her at that time as
sOnluity - intellect, emotions and will. He was created the one who would be the' mother of all the living ones.' The
holy, perfect and morally responsible fQr his actions. As .union between AQam and Eve is typical of. the union of
being a .I~oly pers~ity, ~e enj!>~ed full fellowship. W!th spirit which exists between Christ and His Church, called His
God, splnt 'communlng WIth Splnt. What sacred dignlty Bride (Eph. 5:22-33; 2 Cor. 11:2; Rev. 21: 2, 3), created for .
God gave to human beings when He created them in His His glory, purchased by His blood (Acts 20:28) and destined
own image and after His own ~eness (Gen. 9:6) I·
to be. presented to Him when she has been perfected, made.
According to the sacred record-man's body was fashi~ned holy and glorious (Rev. '19:7-9). This umon is also the .
from the dust (Gen. 3:19, 23;. Eccl. 12:7; 1 Cor. 15:47); Scriptural basis for the institution of marriage (Matt. 19:6;
that is, ·.from the same material; probably, as the universe Mark 10:7; 1 Cor. 6:16; Eph.5:31).
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of nature, but on the other hand, .from the very finest parAdam and Eve were at first jnnocent, free from all shaJne,.
ticles of that material. What is more delicate, for example, which came later as the result of sin (Gen.· 3:7). Perchance
than the material composing the human brainl The Hebrew . they were at first covered with a garment of light (Psa.·.
word translated "ground" (verse 7) is adamah, which means 104:2), but the radiance was lost when they sinned against
"red earth" and it is 'prob~b.ly th~t from this ~ord that thE! God.
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proper name "Adam'! (man) 'l~ 4enved.
Daily Bible Reaclings
Then, when the. bOcb' had been 'moulded or fashioned, God July 7-The Dignity of Man ........... ,............:.............. P~ 8
breathed into it "the breath of lives" and man became a July 8-The New C"reation .................. ,............... ,......... 2.Cor.1
living soul. (Gen. 7:22; 1 C~r. 15:~, 45). :t'he vision of . July 9-The .New Garden ...................................... Rev. 22:1-6
Ezekiel may be used as an Illustration to give some idea July 100The Holy Bride ................................... ,.... Rev. ~1:1-8
of this wonderful process (Ezek. 33:1-10). Likewise, in the' July l1~The Marriage Supp.er ....................;, .......... Rev. 19:1-9
new birth the' Holy. Spirit comes to dwell within the re- July 12-The Creator and His People ......................... ,;.. Isa. 48
generated sow (John 14:17); and there is a new or spiritual J Iv IS-Christ and His Church
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creation (2 Cor. 6:17) .. The very "life of God become!! reaiu"
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dent within the human personality. Gr,!aatas was the first
. creation of man, it cannot begin 1;0 comp~ with the ~
vellous miracle of the second creation; How sacred these
'bodies ·of ours 'are when they become the dwelling-place of
God.through His Holy' Spirit1
The Lord designed.that His creatures should be surrounded
with order and beauty, hence He prepared the world for
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them in the first place and then especi8.lly ~ted for ~ein
a garden (Gen. 13:10; isa. 61:11; Joel 2:3) •. What a glonous
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garden that must have been! .Nothing to mar the perfection
of its beauty - no thorns, no blight, no decay, n9curse and
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no death! The ~en was watered by rivers, the names
of 'which' suggest that it may have been' situated in tile
tableland of central Asia. Adam was placed in the garden
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of life (Gen. 3:24; Rev. 2:7; 22:2, 14), and the tree of the
knowlea"e of good and evil (Gen. 8:2, 8). Adam was given
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(1 Tim. 6:17). In order to test him, God commanded that
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he should not eat of the tree of the KnoWledge -of good and
evil (Gen. 3:2, 8). It was not· the will of God .that Adam .
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should have experimental knowledge of evil. Should he parT-.ro, Canada, for fu~ ,paltlculan.
take of that tree he 'would experience sin and incur the
penalty. of .death (Ezek. 18:20); physical death, which Is th~
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