The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-28
AN aching void
This world can never I'LL"

But we are not left in despair. The mis-
sion of Jesus with this wrecNed world Of
ours was TO make known the possibility
OF now life--the most momcntous subject
on which He ever spoke to man or rather
to give new ~" to The srul Il am come
that they might have lie and that they
might have il more abuudanUy" The In
carnation of Christ Is God mll.lnI Himself
accessible to the human roul with all It's
powers Of thought, feeling aud action. 1t
ia God opening to nan the possibility Of
communion or correspondence through
Jesus Christ This is life eternal that
they might know Thee. the only true God,
and Jesus Christ. whom Thou hdat sent.
He that hath tho Son hath HE, and ho
that hath not the Son Of COD hath not
life" III any man be In Christ he is
new creature"
Or, Drummond that lamcntcd prince ot
modern thinkers says, Life Is corr sponl-
ence with environments Al ME- consists
essentially in spOuccuCc with its var
ious environments To find a new environ
mont again and cultivate relations It'll
81 Is to find Il new life 10 correspond
with God rs to he in harmony with per
feet environment. Since God was IN
Christ reconcilng the world unto Him
SELF a peculiar and personal relation TO
Christ having It's beginning IN reg uerA-
tlun, which includes repentance and faith
lifting il out Of the world lie and domiuat-
Ing It by His own glorious spirit. So Jesus
snys we lose our lie Of former curre-
Bpondence with the world but We gain
eternal life by our correspondence with
Him IN any man will save his iifc lie
shall lose IT, but whatsoever shull lose his
life for My sake and the G17pel's shalt
save H." SO raul, with phlosophc Gov
rectncss. declares; "Nc are dead AMI your
life Is hid with Chris. In God" If science
teaches that to live la to correspond and
To correspond is To live It only declares the
great and important truth Of christianity
that the Christian life is n correspondence
with Christ that is in harmony with
Christ's life and sustained and animated
by II, So Paul. illustrating this mighty
truth by his own experience. says; Il am
cruciflod with Christ. nevertheless ! live
yet not / but Christ livcth IN me-" Jesus
and Jesus alone Is the source OF the new
lifo to men. I'm Him was life and the lifc
was the light Of men,
am impressed with ,ic second thought
the natural and spontaneous expression of
this new life" Even so, we also should
walk IN newness of life" II fnds its first
expression in soparation--"If ye he risen
with Christ seek those thugs which nre
above, where Chfiet stitch on the right
respondencc with the Christ lie cn.iron-
men,s. and whichever else may be our pro-
fession We are dead to God, and have never
been awakened by the lender touch OF
eternal life In Christ Jesus. Listen: Love
not tho wolfe neither the things of tho
world. II any man love the world. the love
Of tho Father is not in him" l lohn ~.
IL. Listen again 10 the burning words OF
James. the Lords brother, as in all the In
tense earnestnoes Of his heroic soul he
points out the separating element in the
now life: Know yn not that the friend
ship OF tho world is At onmty with God
whatsoever, therefore. viii be a friend OF
the world Is the enemy OF God" James
iv A.
Those passages are an inspired state
moDt OF the fundamental truth that the
new life Ia being In correspondence with
tho Divine life In Christ, and out OF CORE
spondence with the world life Separation
~ It's first expression.
It's second expression Is conservation.
The new life Ia the manifestation of new
rature. II comes not from generation, but
II ON regeneration There is. then a nj "
movement OF the soul toward Christ. and
The deepest question of every age to the
Chritian Is. How can | give To Christ ali
the energies ~ my life. TN Ike Paul |
can rise to that aublme height TO say,