The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-07-09
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The Kingdom Of God.

Tne HlngdOm OF GOG,
What is the kingdom of God? Every
kingdom hasits exports, its products. Go
down to the river, and you will find ships
coming in with cotton; you know they
come from Americs. You will find some
with tea; you know they are from China.
Ships with wool; you know they come
from Australia. Ships with sugar; you
know they come from Java. What comes
from the kingdom of God? Again we
must refer to our guide-book. Turn up
Romans, and ne shall find what the
kingdom of God is. shall read it.:
"The kingdom of God = ~ is
righteousness, and peace, aud jGy g,
three things. righteousness, offShtse,
is justdoing what's right. Any b9y&ho
does what is right has the kingdom Of
God within him. Any boy who, .instsad
of being qaarrelsome, lives at peace With
the other boys has the kingdom of God
within him. Any boy whose heart is
filed with joy because he does what is
right has the kingdom Of God within him.
The kingdom Of God is not going to
religious meetings and hearing strange
religious experiences; the kingdom Of
God is right-living at peace with all
men, being filled with JOY in the holy
Ghost.
Boy, you are going to be Christians,
be Christians as boys, and not as your
grandmothers. A grandmother has to
be Christian as a grandmother, and
that is the right and the beautiful thing
for her; but if you cannot read your
Bible by the hour as your grandmother
can, or delight in meetings as she can,
don't think you are necessarily bad boy.
When you are your grandmother age.
you will have your grandmother's kind
of religion. Meantime be- a Christian
as boy Live q boys life. D, the
straight thing; seek the kingdom OF
righteousness and honor land truth.
Keep the peace with boys about you, and
be filled with the joy Of being q loyal
and simple and natural and boy Like SER
want of Christ.
You can easily tell a house or a work.
shop or Office where the kingdom of God
is not. The 6rst thing we see in that
place is that the ''straight thing" is not
always done. Customers do not get
fair play. You are in danger of learning
to cheat aud lie. Better. thousand
times to starve, than to stay in place
where you cannot do what is right.
Or, where you 60 into your work shop,
you find everybody sulky, touchy and
ill-tempered, every body at tdaggers drawn
With everybody else, some Of the men
not on speaking terms with some Of the
others, and the whole feeling Of the. place
miserable aud unhappy. The kingdom Of
God is not there; for it is peace. It is
the kingdom of the devil, that is anger
and wrath and malice.
Ifyou want to get the kingdom Of God
into your workshop or into your home,
let the quarreling be stopped. Live in
peace and harmony and brotberliness
with every one for the kingdom of God
is a kingdom of brothers. It is q great
society, founded by; Jesus Christ, Of all
the people who try to live like Him, and
to make the world better and sweeter
and happier. When a boy is trying to do
that, in the house or in the street, in
workshop or on the football field, there
is the kingdom Of God and every boy,
however small or obscure or poor, who is
seeking that is q member Of it. You
see now, I hope, what the kingdom of