The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-23
MRS MARY e


When We behold the sun, moon and
stars glowing in their brightness, NOV
ing always in their established courses,
a. d fulfilling the purposes for which
they were created, aff1rding us light
and heat, and being to as for ''signs
and reasons, and for days and for
years" then We should contemplate the
glorIes OF Jesus Christ who is the sun
Of r g lteousness, and open our hearts
to receive the beams Of his eternal
love, and we should try to let our light
so shine before men that they seeing
our good works might glorify our
Father who is in heaven.
When we look upon the things of
this lower world, the trees that grow,
some for fruit, some for fuel and some
for shelter, and see the beasts that
untamed roam through the forests and
others that obey the voice of their
owners, and think of them as they, in
kind, passed before the father of our
race, and received each a name accord
ing to his nature; we should think of
the tree of life, and Of the heavenly
paradise, where flows the river of the
water of life and of those gates of pearl,
within which nothing can ever enter
that can cause pain or fear. When we
ChInk Of all these things, we should
bow in admiration Of Him, without
whom not a sparrow falls to the ground,
and by whom even the very hairs of
our heads are all numbered, who has
aTrsyed the hills with their beauty,
the house with his strength, given TO
the OK a knowledge of his masters
crib, and to man the Word of Life,
and said, MAN shall not live by
bread alone but by every word that
proceedeth out of the month of God"
Seeing that these things are 80, and
that we have the Scriptures. it is our
duty to learn the meaning of those
words, which are as milk TO the babes
in Christ, tender grass for che lambs of
his hJck meat for the laborers in his
vineyard, water for the thirsty, balm
Of Gllead for the sick, light for the
sick, light for the bill d, echoes from
the music of heaven for the deaf, says
Of joy for tt g lips of the dumb, and a
rainbow of glory with its seven colors
glowing along the pathway, which led
from the manger to the cross half Of
it's great circle visible to us who re
main on this side of the food of death,
and the other half visible 20 the glori.
fed spirits that dwell in the presence
of HIM whose Incarnate Word dWelt
on earth as the Way, the Truth and
the Life" despised and rejected of men,
a man of sorrow and acquainted with
grief, brought as a lamb TO the slaugh-
ter, be was c%ruclfed, and died, the
Precipitation not for ours only, but also
for the Sins OF the whole world, for
being a high priest of good things
to come, he, through the eternal spirit,
offered himself without spot to God,
and sits now on the right hand of the
M4jesty on high, the Mediator of the
new testament, having an unchange.
able priesthood, he is able also to save
them to the uttermost that come unto
God by him, seeing he aver liveth to
make -intercession for them, that they
may become the sons of God, and
heirs with him in his glory, which he
has with the Father in heaven.
Words are designed to convey
thoughts. Man puts his thoughts into
words, and his fellowman can read,
study and understand them, can even
go beyond his meaning. But not so
with God. Thoughts as expressed in
his word, Gods word, contain a depth
of meaning which only his Spirit can
reveal to US. Mans word is no greater
than the power behind it; Gods word
is as great as the power behind it,
which is omnipoterce The words of
Gid have life "a an essential element: