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Vol. XII.
Los Angeles, May 7, 1908.
No. 45
... . search Me, 0
And Kno,.r_ My J!eart
. Gpo is too wise to will us things. that we do not need;
and all He wills us we can have.
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The. Soul's
_itation and honest heart-searching .. W.a,.get
.r..ea.l h.u.ng.,ey fQr a divine. meal....:and then with..faith let..ns
come to .the gospel :(e.ast arid partake more fully of the
divine provisions, and we shall
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Agrow "Come
and dine." R. P.
"'?IE . have no record that Jesus ever spake with
"Tongues," yet surely He was baptized with the Holy
-Ghost.
Goo's workshop is in the human soul. It is there.
where He carries on His gracious work, silently but thor- . The Severings of Sin.
oughly, 1,1nless we hinder. He does not need to be .asked THERE can be no dallying. with sin. There can be no
to do it; it is' his as soon . as He gets possession; safety f9r :the-soul ti.ntilit .once and 'forever takes an atti- ::
to begin the souPs developmi:mt, and carry .it on "unto tude of cut off from
perfection." The more submissive we a.re, the sin, or sin w_ill cut us off from God. There is an
and grander He does the work . . He has one _pattern .cilable hatred the two-sin is the "abominable
always before Him, and He will not be satisfied until He . . thing which God Sin is. just as deadly to the
finds the Christ-life p.erfectly :unfolded in us. His great . soul, and cuts it off from God as quickly .as God .. can for.,. .
(!OI1c.ern is that hidden life witlrin-iR its adoring give sin and. liberate the sinner. There is oriJy one :_ real
fellowship and communing with its Lord-shall not know battle on in this world, and. that is between God and the
tne touch or darkness of sin, but shall ever thrill with the Devil, between sin and righteousness. There can only
joy of purity and life. He knows best what He can make be (IDe outcome to the battle. Sin seems in days to
or'us and do wrth us; arid if He has full controlof us, He have control.:_even many of GOd's children ha"iiing given
will ''work in us to will and to do of His own good pleas- up the fight in despair-but the man who wants to come
lire," and surely make of us a "vessel of honor" unto . oq.t on the winning side will get on God's side.. Thank
Himself . . Oh.the glory of having nothing to do but the God we can completely and forever severed from sin
will o.f God, and nothing to be except just what He .wants and _ _tg_ God __ _ilj_ preciQus bloo_d. __ The
us to be. Oh for a deeper year ni'ng for thfs blessed life, only safety from sm. is the a1tituacGo<rta'Kes toward it-
"hid with Christ in God." R. p, an intense hatred of it. Come brother, dedde today.
X You must either say goodby to sin or goodby to God.
BROTHERS, don't be concerned when others laugh at Which is it to be? R. P.
y911, if you know that Jesus laughs with you. X
CHRIST's life for us is the Divine merit, and His life i.n
us is power.
"As Much as They Would.''
REPENTANCE will make you quit sinning, orsinnjngwill
make you quit repenting.
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Inspiration and Aspiration.
GoD has in His mind, work and will done everything
THIS is the measure. of .all men in divine things. possible to draw out the best in men riot only, but He does
While it revea1s the inexhaustible provisions of for ' it by spowing them the best in Himself and by holding
man, it also free agency to accept those out to them the best that they can desire. Godis Himself
provisions to a greater or less extent. These words are- the great center of inspiration. Let a' soul get a real
recorded in reference to the feeding uf the five vision of the divine, and it sees in Him. all that it needs.
with the -five loaves and two fishes. There might --have -This produces an aspiration-in the heart; and it sprEads
been fifty thousand, yet "the supply y;mild have been . out its. longings and desires toward the s.ource that
ample for all to have "as much as they would." There inspired them. It is then that the soul .can no more do
. is that some very hungry ones enjoyed a gocd .. witnout God than the "hart" can do without the "water
' :square meal" of. divine providing, while fastid- "brotiks. " Inspiration is the magnet of God, and aspiration .
ious and critical, would examine the bill of fare. and eat - is the answer of the yielding soul. The two must meet ro
spar ingly. .But there "enough for one and enough be-satisfied. T'here .. is the divine loving heart of a holy
for all,"' and they all had "as much as they would." How .. a,nd God longing forman, and doing its best to
marvelously God provides and how meagrely we partake. draw him, and there is
How' we ought to be "fat and flourishing" instead of . "Away down in the J:luman heart' ' . . . ... . . .
being lean 'in spii.-ituaJ things. The troup)e is not so much something that responds to Him, and is not satisfi.ed until
with the table lqaded with good things, but with our it gets to Him. Praise God that He has what we need,
appetites. Let us take a good d6se of prayer tonic, med- and we can have it. R. P.
tr;b-u .. t' e'd _A 'rt'zcl' e:s' ient saints: (Heb. 10:16, 17:)., artd lt is . among the Israelites to give a tenth_
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'"' "' utterly selftsh and in no sense yield- Qf theil' pl'ost>erity. 'St. Paul super-
ing to Go.d. sedes by saying,- ''Eve:ry man
AN IDLE TALE. , .
When an idle tale isto.ld you
Of some one that's gone astray,
-Gf-:-same--ane-who...was.-x:espected.
That now treads. the downward way,
Do not judge, or tell the story,
Let your e ars hear not a sound,
But as Jesus did when with us,
--write' in alienee ori the grouna;--.
Every repeate_d, _
.Like a rolling snow-ball gl;'ows;
Every one adds just a letter;
Friends may pass it on to foes.
It was bad enough when started,
No.w it -scarcely has a bound;
Better all were deaf to scandal;
Write in silence on the ground . .
If you find a man has fallen,
Gep,tly take him by the hand,
.Christians. recognize a law. This according as he purposeth in his
is often called the moral law. Moral- heart, so let him give; not grudgingly
ists esteem this in so far as it relates or of for God loveth a
toctvrllaw, embracmg moral require- . -1-GQ::r;.
ments. But they do not obey the lawof bberty because we adm1re to
moral requirements which we owe to use it for righteousness ,sake.
God and to Jesus Christ. Christian - Beebe. Ark.
not bitili -u.DQD COnViC- .-- -.--
-tions of_ self-interE:!st. They -6Uifd- CAUSE, PREVEN110N
-their integrity upon.-,.t;he inspirations AND CURE.
of divine love; fulfilling their obed- E. o. HINCHMAN.
ience. to God in all His moral require- There is a serious disease abroad in
.. Said St. Paul, ''Love is the.
fulfliling of the law. ',J
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o. the religious world that. is difficu-lt to
. cure, not because the:re is not an all-
Brush the eaitli stains from his garmepts, .
Love will be a self-sacrifice rather sufficient remedy, but it is difficult to
than to offend. Love constitutes a make the patient realize his conditio'n
child of grace (Rom.- 5:5), and . God or to take the remedy when he does
has ordered therefore that "faith is it. _. lt _is Isms. ' It
:reckoned. .. : for .. in springs largely from an anremiac.cqn-
human .failings (Rom. '4: 5, s; -When religious experience .ca\:Med
the affections of t_he soul are per- by the clogging of the channels of
Po ,not stop-to reprimand;
Close yoiJ.f. eyes uponnis-eYror;
men may drag down,
. Seal your lips when others question; .
. Write in silence on the ground. -$el.
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fected in lo.ve for righteousness and grace by passive resistance to the will
holiness, the heart qoes not trouble of God. -
. THE LAW. with fear for it readily responds to . The-first symptom of the disease is
G; w: BUGH. all the . knowh wishes . of-. God. It discontent, . followed .. :.by a perverted
"Whoso looketh into the becomes as to obey the moral appetite accompanied by "strong -
law _of .. liberty, and continueth lavv of God as it is the trend of a delusions: " Soon an abnormal growth
.therein, he . being not a _forgetful sinner to follow sin and the world. or :t:eligious tumor begins to appear.
hearer, but a doer of the work, this St. Paul wrote, "Thelaw is not made - These"-take various forms; sometiriies
shall be blessed his deed." fo:r a rightepus man, but for the law- it takes the of a tha.
- Jas. 1:25. less disobedient." 1 Tim. everybody ought to be healed by
St. James was. a Jew and generally The.;Ighteo?s _does every thmg divine fiat, that a miracle should be
-=held to-::=:the . ....:Mosaic-Jaw .=EY-eiL.this