Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-02-24
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REASONABLE SERVICE.

Notwithstanding the fact that so many of
the human family devote all the energies of
their souls and bodies, to the service of Satan ;
still, it may be said the service is unreasona-
BILE. They toll and labor for nothing. Satan
and his host of agents promise great things,
but never bestow any favor upon those who
are beguiled by. these fair promises. 1t is
surely unreasonable that an individual should
toll and labor, night and day, for nothing.
This is the case with those who serve Satan.
He is hard master. His yoke is heavy and
his burdens are oppressive. His servants are
lean and hungry. Their bodies are enaciated
with disease and their souls are stricken with
leanness. ....... .... u...
The service of God is reasonable We
should serve God because he made us. The
human family, although intelligent beings, are
still the creatures of God. If they are but a
little lower than angels, it is because God
made them SO. If their location in the scale
of creation is midway between nothing and
divinity, it is because God Of creation has
assigned them that place. 1t is then reasona.
BILE to serve God because he is the maker of
our bodies and the Trainer of our spirits.
If it is reasonable that we serve God be-
cause he is our maker, it is no less reasonable
that we should serve him because he is our
preserver. IT is God, the maker, who opens
his hand and supplies the wants of everything
that lives. 1t is God who provides for us all
things We enjoy. 1t is his air we breath, his
earth we inhabit, and his water we drink.
His sun gives US warmth and light, and out
of his earth grows our food. He sends the
rain and the sunshine. He is the author of
summer and winter, spring and autumn. If
the beggar should be thankful to the man who
opens the doors of his house for his admission,
and admits him to the bounties of his table,
surely the human family should be thankful
to God, the giver of all good. God not only
provides for our bodily or temporal wants, but
he offers his Son to us that we may be saved
from our sins. He has made ample provis-
ions for the wants of our immortal souls.
God so loved the world, that is, man-Adam's
children; that he gave-that is, offers-his
only begotten Son that whosoever believeth
upon him should not perish, but have ever
lastinglif God does offer salvation through
Jesus Christ to all sinners. He has no pleas
ure in the death of the wicked.
God has the highest possible claims upon
the service of all men. He made all, he
provides for all, and through Jesus Christ he
offers salvation to all. Ifany of Adams race
are eternally lost, it will be because they re-
iected Jesus as Saviour.
| When, then, God demands that we serve him
with our bodies and spirits, it is very rea-
sonable demand. Our bodies and spirits are
his. He made us, he provides for us, and he
offers to redeem us. All that we have, sin ex-
cepted, we received from God. In him we
live, move and have our being. To serve the
world or the flesh, or Satan, is unreasonable.
1t is, in either case, to serve treacherous ty.
rant but to serve God is reasonable.
p9 Depend upon it, the world cannot be
held together without morals; nor can morals
maintain their station in the human heart
without religion, which is the cornerstone of
the fabric of human virtue. .,... q,
pg A minister who thinks himself called
to preach only to the learned, refined or rich,
is not called to preach to anybody, and needs
an acquaintance with Christ.
n6- If you would pass innocently through
a difficult world, keep within rules. Let
your life be open, your eye single, your walk
in the broad light of daY.