Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-12
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part of our delight in a fine picture is in the soul which the artist has put into it.
 gained by successful exploration in unknown lands are forgotten in the heroism with which a Livingstone or Stanley conquers the love of ease and home. In the interests of knowledge we all feel that humanity is greater in Sself-denial than in elf-gratiica- tion. The men who died that the nation might live we remember again with the flowers of spring, garlanding their graves
 with fearful joy. Why is it that the man who risks his life for another becomes hero Why did the whole medical profession few years ago honor my friend
 Wilbur Sanford in his dyingP It was because he knowingly poisoned himself with
 the virus of diphtheriA in efforts to save the life of little child. The marked men of the world the men who live longest in song and tradition, are those who forgetting self find their lives by losing them. They lose, indeed, the lower life and gain the higher life; ths immortality of loving memory.
 dare not though it be 8 most familiar thought omit to say that he who lives by any other will never find the happi- ness he seeks. I appeal to your ax- perience, which expenditure gives you the keener pleasure? That which you have made in your own comfort, or to manifest your improved SOclaI BtaG6, or Guhb Wu4CA you have made for others For the church of God, for a friend in trouble, for widow l and children In poverty. That which we have put away against our old age is not half so precious as that which we, for sweet pity's sake, have put from us forever that other ] lives may be frightened How many men I have I heard say, after being reduced 1 from riches to poverty, I am so glad | now that I gave away what l did | for it is the only permanent and secure in- vestment I ever made! 'God is the Lord who has given us his light" The Christ, who is the light of the world, Is his gift. He emptied himself for us of all but love. For our sskes he became poor that we through his poverty might become rich. l do not plead to-day for fGnatical self-sur- | render, in which we forget twenty obliga | lions while remembering one But do | plead that the court of Gods house, which is not this temple alone but the whole circle of Il our earthly relationship, may be filled \ even to the horns of the altar with deeds
 done for the glory of God. This text, so ex | pressive of old-time devotion, tells of this ! full offering, of a court crowded with saeri- fees. find in the lives of John or Paul | the spiritual synonym of this crowd Of mate
 rial offerings All given to God, will, reason, ! heart, life, all in the allness of fact and not | of desire made them what they were. And ! this gives them their title to sainthood. I have no sympathy with those | who would take saint from the \ name of John or Paul or Peter. | Saint is bat another name for holy, and holy | is but another term for consecrated, and
 consecrated is but another name for sac | rifce, and they were saints because they | knew nothing but Christ and him crucifed. ! This text tells us of offerings not to be with l drawn Bound to the horns of the altar un- | til their blood was shed and life gone out were these old time sacrifices. What we | la., G,,,5s ieO OE l if we now regret the cost. If we would call
 our money back, if we would call from our past our moments of devotion and would add them to the years that yet re- main, ve destroy the value of past sacrifices We bound our past offerings to the horns of the altar. We intended that they should be forever the Lords. Withdraw them not Regret only that you have not had more to give of time and money. Work for him who gave his all for you And finally this text tells us to be sure that what we do and give God is real sacrifice. In the subtleties of temptation we may call our vanities sacrifices, and name our self-wil self denial. When the cross has become easy thank God, but find l another real cross. If the giving of money
 has become easy, find other giving of labor, of time, which chafes you. If prominence I accompanies your service, let some humble and unknown service test the sincerity of your offering.
 I Lu0 oIS11Sub OG Nhlu0 HI Ia0 SaSElACo OA | animals in the old time was in this, that of l their best the people gave to God. Cattle | were the ancient coin, as they were the wealth ! of nomadic peoples. A live bullock or sheep | added to the powers and complacenciss of its l owner. Dead and consumed, it was forever
 put away from the worshipper's account of personal wealth And this helps me to un-
 derstand Christian self denial. All am born
 with, all gain in business, I, if unmoTed by self-denial, will add to my self satisfaction and selfish uses. I shall grow hard while grow rich and conceited while my learning
 increases, until cased about with love of ease
 and self no voice of God can reach or divine
 warmth thsw out my frozen soul So when we give to God of
 our best, give our money, time, ouI gifts. our will, we put away from us that
 which might increase our worldly conse-
 quence. The way to worldly successes is
 not necessarily the way of the cross. He
 who is a spirit rewards his children primar fly with spiritual successes, only incidentally
 with worldly advantage. Brethren be-
 loved, there is joy in sacrifice. There is way which the world knows not
 which the world counts hard, thorn
 bounded, and rock paved, in which our feel
 must walk if we would reach the eternal
 city. We forget the thorns if our master
 is with us. We rejoice in the hardness il
 we know his feet have shown us where tC
 go.
 | 'EUp thea, with speed and work,
 | Fling ease and self away;
 This is time for thee to sleep,
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