Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-04-25

contact must be sanctlfying power
1t gives peace and joy. Though the
doctrine has been often perverted YET
l will hold to the doctrine Of perfect
love, begun, continued and ended in
God.
Sanctify means to make holy We
are sanctiged by God because God
has made us holy, and not we our
selves. The entire being is conse-
Grated to God. Our wills are sub
ected to his will. He accepts, sancti-
fes, keeps, and fills with n world OF
glory and blessadness. All envy,
malace, hatred and bitterness is
taken out Of the soul, and we are fill
ed with love for God and for every
man. God takes all the social pow
err, all the intellectual powers, and
all the bodily powers we possess,
sanctifes them and sends US thus re-
newed to work for him, for the con-
quest Of this world. The kingdoms
of this world are to be conquered for
him. He teaches us to pray, Thy
kingdom come"
The word is clarifying force We
have abused this word as we have
many others by improper use Of it,
God uses these words to convey his
lofty thoughts, but we pervert them
by dragging them down to the mire Of
our lives. Glorify, from gloria, as
applied to the morning sun as it dis
perses the darkness by sending forth
his light. SO Gods word shines by
his eminence, sending his rays of
light divine through all the world,
enlightening and clarifying The
locomotive moving with power, life,
maieshcally drawing the train forty
miles an hour, is glorio US, but the
disabled locomotive in the ditch is a
useless mass of lron--a thing of con-
tempt.
Humanity was meant to be the SER
want of God, and not sin; to develope
the God life, not the devil life; when
the former, 1t is glorious; when the
latter, contemptible But in this sad
condition divine love reaches down,
takes us from the ditch, and places
us on the track, and we beome
careering force for God and hui
glorious on earth, but this IS
not the fullness.
He spoke of a scene IN Switzerland
A bold, black mountain $4,000 feet
high, forbiding and gloomy in APP
pearance, but a must came between
him aud tho mountain and all the
rays of light we're absorbed but the
red, and as the sun shone through 1t
the mountain was all aglow with the
most beautiful crimson lIght-a glori-
Gus sight, SO let the blood of cleans.
ing come between US and God, and !
Wa will be glorihed by the power of
God. He would speak of heaven in
every sermon, for there are souls that |
need this encouragement in every
congregation,
But Christ speaks Of higher glory |
than of earth. The disciples saw the
glory, but there is
greater glory still. with the glory
had with thee before the world
vas" says Jesus. And again, "The
glory that thou hast given me have
given them" And, the apostle tells
Is, "We are beholdlng as in a glass
he glory of the Lord, shall be chang.
ID into the same image even as by
he power Of God"
When sin is shut out, and CHRIST
,nthroned within, the soul, released
rom its prison here, shall shoot
like the arrow from the
DOW, or the bird released from its
,age.
Brethrenl heirs of Godll This is
or you. Rejoice that it is. Seek it,
Brethren, get the obstacles out of the
way, that love as flood may pour
,ver aud through the heart, and wash
md cleanse from all sin. Let pre-
udioe and sin go and love reign
upreme.
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