Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-09
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IMPOSSIBILITIES.

There are some things that no human being
can do !; and yet these are the only things that
many are attempting to perform. No human
being can make an atonement for sin. The
finite cannot fill the infinite. Mans abilities
are finite, but the law of God is infinite.
Hence, no man is able to make an atonement.
Again, no man can change his own heart.
BY nature, it is enmity against God it. is not
subject to Gods law, and must ever remain so,
unless changed by God. One man cannot con-
vert another man. 1t is sometimes said that
such an one converted such another one but
such language is not in accordance with Scrip.
ture phraseology. God reserves to himself
the prerogative to change hard and stony
hearts.
No one can change the purposes Of God. 1t
is the eternal purpose of God that whosoever
believeth on Jesus Christ shall be saved, and
whosoever believeth not shall be damned.
This is the gospel, the whole gospel, and moth
ing but the gospel. Every believer will, most
certainly, be saved, and every unbeliever most
certainly be lost. There is no power in the
universe that can change the purpose Of God.
All the other purposes Of God sustain to this
purpose, the same relation that the small
branches, creeks and rivers do to the ocean.
They all run into it.
CHARACTER.-Many people seem to forget
that character grows that it is not something
to put on ready made with womanhood on man
hood; but day by day, here little and there a
little, grows with the growth and strengthens
with the strength, until, good or bad, it be-
comes almost a coat of mail. Look at a man
of buSiness-prOmpt, reliable, Conscientious,
yet clear-headed and energetic. When do you
suppose he developed all those admirable quail
tiles? When he was boy? Let us see how
boy of ten years gets up in the morning.
works. plays, studies, and we will tell you just
what kind of a man he will make. The boy
that is late at breakfast, late at school, stands
a poor chance to be a prompt man. The boy
who neglects his duties, be they ever so small,
and dthen excuses himself by saying, 81 for
got !" will never be reliable man. And the
boy who finds pleasure in the sufferings Of
weaker things, will never be a noble, generous
kind mana gentleman. Christian Helper.
az True piety is unassuming and unpreten-
tious 1t does not put Oh airs of superiority,
nor manifest a spirit of self-assertiOn. Paul
esteemed himself less than the least of all
saints-usng a double diminutive to more
fully express his feeling of deep humility. The
stronger the light that shines into our hearts,
the more clearly do we discover our defects !;
the greater the manifestations of the divine
goodness to us, the more deeply do we feel our
unworthiness. AS we rise in the divine favor,
we sink in our own esteem, realizing that we
are saved by grace through faith, and not by
any merit we possess. 1t is in the humble and
contrite ones that God delights, and with them
he deigns to dwell.
HBr Fathers on earth cannot always help us :;
they are OH our level themselves enfeebled
and perplexed. But when Jesus says, "Say,
our Father which art in heaven" ," he raises our
view to the greatness and the power of God.
There in heaven, he has leisure to help up.
lie has the infinite perfection that leaves him
free to bear the burdens of others. He has
the resources from which he can supply our
need and the place of vantage from which he
can influence all that happens.
@ Lost patience is never found again. You
may be patient next time but the spoken word
cannot he taken back-not with prayers and
tears,