The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-06-29
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CHRISTIAN Love,


Faith works by love. Through faith from
God, his saviour. believer own heart Is
filed; then, thereby, through love. he ox-
erts a beneiicient influence on the world
Standing in the Ingist, between God and
his neighbOr, a Christian not himself .
motive power, but only receptive vessel
gets on the upper side, and so gives on the
lower side By faith he receives, and by
lore be labors; his life on earth aternates
ike the heart that is beating in his breast.
until, with tbs heart k.st throb, the lie
leaps over into larger plae "A life free,
full, eternal.
Loves labor consists Of two parts doing
and bearing. These two are different bat
inseperable, like the continent sources ola
river or the two diverging stems OF bifur-
cate tree Still more exactly, perhaps, both
in their distinction and their union, they
may be compared to the right and lett hands
of a living man. In the body, sometimes
the right and sometimes the left bears the
chief strain, while the corresponding mem
tars Is for the moment left comparatively at
ease; at other times the weight is distribut-
cd equally between them. In like manner,
the Christian life il sometimes mainly la
b5rioas activity, sometimes mainly patient
enduring, ald sometimes both, at the same
sine and in equal measure.
| could not venture to determine who is
the greater Christian, the man who bears
injuries patiently in a lorgiying spirit, or the
man who labors in some department OF du-
~, bearing down By sheer force all the OBJ
stac!es that stand in his way. The doers, as
n general rule, are better known III the
church and the world than the bearers. -
Tine results Of active love bulk more largela
10 history than those Of passive love; but
perhaps, in the inherent merits OF the case,
and the Judgment of the Omniscient faith
has borne as much and as precious fruit III
enduring evil as IN doing good Those ancl-
cnt warriors who were lett-handed aud
could sling stones at a hair s-breadth and
not miss, contributed as much to the PROV
ess of the army in the day Of battle as then
iellow-soldiers who grasped broadswordS in
strong right hands.
The meek, Christ-ike bearer Of evil is as
much needed and as much used III the work
of the kingdom, as the active, Christ-like
doer of good. Assuredy those early disci'
pies of the Lord toJ.ld the duty as difficult
as any positive work in which they had ever
been engaged. in trying to fulfil it. they
sources; finding that they possessed not the
sufficient supply for meeting and satisfying
this new demand, they said to the Lord,
Increase our faith If the city were sud
denly doubled in size, and consequently a
double quantity of water drawn from the
evcr-incrcasing multitude Of openings i'll
its waser-chanucls, the inhabitants, feeling
some faintness and fearing more, would raise
aunited cry for larger supply from the toun-
tain head. Itis thus that the disciples Of
Christ are kept from failing. Their conf
dsnce rests not on the suticiency Of their
own attainments, but on the fullnes and free
ness of their Saviour's love. Although it
seems paradoxical in form, it is, neverthe-
less, strictly true in fact, that their security
in great emergencies lies not in their fulmess
but in their emptiness, according to Paul $
sharply defined experimental antithesls,
when l an weak, then | an strong. -
Rer. W. AlWot.