St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
1T MUST COME FROM ABOVE.
TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTsS
ABILITY TO GIVE FOR
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
WHAT MEN MUST PRAY FOR.
Power to Be StroNG in Moral
Fiber Can BE Developed Only
Through the Savior.

terday morning Rev. DR.. Egbert
preached from the text strength
ened with might in the inner man,
Eph. Ill, 1919. He said:
Amy one who has studied the say
ings and the prayers OF the greatest
of the sons Of men will find that they
have always gone highest, not in what
they said about God, but in what they
said to God; not in what they said
descriptive of man, but in what they
asked for man. No man knows the
depth of his own nature until he
touches the height Of Gods ability to
give, and 10 man knows the utter will
ingness OF God to give until he has
sounded the depth of his own abso-
lutte need of that which God alone can
give.
What a multitude of worshipers
there would be filling Gods house if
they were certain that in answer to
some prayer of theirs God would pour
the wealth of this world upon them,
adapt the market to Their wishes.
Aye, still more, how many men there
are who, observing in others a power
of intellectual life beyond their own,
see it as held up out of their reach.
themselves up into that world or drag
that world down to their level, what
a multitude Of worshipers there would
be. How much easier to pray to God
if they could get this gift than to
go plodding on, year after year,
through a whole lifetime for the treas
ures of the intellectual life. The Apos-
tie Paul knew, as his master taught
him, that the thing for which a man
needs to pray and must sooner or
later want to pray if he will ever get
it, is not the gifts of this world
which a mans hands can get, not
even knowledge of this world which a
mans mind may get, but that in
coming of energy to his life that is
down deeper than all the hands can
get or ali that mind can understand,
that which uses the hands, that
which uses the mind, that which is
back of all the faculties and senses,
THE PERSON HIMSELF.
ONE "PATRIA."
There is one word used in the begin
ming of this prayer that is well worth
q little attention, 'Of whom the whole
family in heaven and earth is named"
Family! l think if we catch the mean
ing of that word we can see how it is
that one Savior could save a race. We
can understand that unity that eX-
presses itself in the infinite variety of
human kind, because they are all be-
gotten of God. The word family is
"patria"-the man who begins the tribe
and from whom every member of the
tribe has descended, and therefore car
ries the likeness of his original be-
getting. So, that one origin of all, if
he can give to one, can give to all. for
all are alike in their character, in their
inmost nature. For this whole family,
all this race of ours here, all that great
race of beings in the other world, be-
gotten of the one Father, in heaven
and in earth, he prays that He would
grant you according 10 the riches of
His glory"-not according to your
need" not according to your wants"
not according to any possible infinite
growth of yours. He prays for might,
for strength. When you speak of a
strong man, what do you mean? Do
you mean that he is strong in any
physical power? Do you mean that he
is strong in any particular faculty?
You have known men who have had
marvellous memories who We're weak
men. You have known men who have
had prcdigious power of thinking who
have been weak men. You have known
men who have had several great facul-
ties, doing work wonderfully, and yet
they have impressed you as weak men.
And you have seen other men with no
faculties stronger than those round
about them, but with. such an even
proportion of nature, infused with such
energy of life that you have said,
They are strong men, men against
whom temptation fails, men against
whom social customs strike in vain to
lead them aside from duty, men whom
you can always count as standing in
that particular position of righteous
ness. They are
STRONG MEN
Now, when the apostle prays that
we may have might, strength, energy
from God, does he mean any physical
energy? Does he mean intellectual
power? Does he mean keen discern
ment of the truth which will hold it
with a perfectly clear statement so
that no man can gainsay it? All this
is we'll. 1t would be better for us if
we were stronger in that But that is
thing far greater than that He means
what you mean when you say to a
tree that is not producing half the
fruit it ought to produce, or half the
quality of that fruit. 81 will prune
away all the weak places and then I
will graft into the heart Of its being
a new life 1t is is that new life that
comes up. Where is it? 1t is down in
the roots, it is up in the fruit, it is out
in the leaf, it is through all the twigs-
it is everywhere. 1t has q new influx
of life.
Now you can see if that is of God
it must be for the inward man. How
very small it must seem to the infinite
mind when we put all the energy of
an immortal mind upon the getting of
a certain number of dollars or the out
whiting of some opponent or the ac-
complishment of some petty pleasure
All these things may be in their place
right enough, but when we put our
lives into them, absorb all the strength
Of an immortal nature in them, how
petty they must seem to God with His
great purposes, with all the energy of
His life set upon so much larger, so
much more wonderful things. But
when He looks upon this inward man,
always alone. whom no other man cam
touch. His love is drawn forth and all
life stands in different relation to
Him. He can look down through these
toys and these childish plays of ours
and see the man who away off in the
future will be partaker of the divine
nature and that He can touch that life
with power from himself, so rich and
so wonderful that it can receive the
fullness of God. We are in danger of
LOSING OURSELVES
in the crowd, in the multitude of those
round about us, and yet, when you
stop and think of the matter how
utterly alone you are. There is only
one way that anybody can touch your
soul, and that is spiritually, through
love. Nobody entirely ever gets into
our life. The one who loves lis and
whom we love gets nearer than any
body else; and yet there are parts of
our nature where the best loved one
can never come, can never touch, where
man is entirely alone with God, and