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In every man there lie dormant pow
ers which he does not know he possesses
Every man has more ability than he
thinks he has. However self-conceited
he is. he has more ability than he thinks
he has, although he may not have the
kind of ability which he thinks he has.
There is in every man. potentially, pow
err that he never suspects-power that
viii never come TO anything unless it
be quiclSened by power without HIM
self. as the seed in the ground will come
tonothing unless the sun shines on IL. To
this power in every man Christ APP
peals. To everyone waiting for some
external gift, dreaming what he would
do II he only had some one else's powers,
lying idle in the expectation that some
angel will come down and trouble the
water, and then his time will come,
Christ says, as 10 the cripple of olden
time: "Rise, take up thy bed and walk"
In every miracle He gave the healed
something TO do. The only way TO re-
ceive help is to help ourselves. The
only way to help others is 10 help them
to help themselves.
The best word OF Christian phiian-
thropy, generally TO the unfortunate.
Is: "Silver and gold have none, but
such as / have give unto thee. In
the name Of Jesus OF Nazareth, rise up
and walk" There can be no love with
out thought, without labor, without
some measure OF self-sacrifce. To fling
n quarter to beggar in the street ia
not love, IL is laziness; IL is at best but
an idle, inefficient and indifferent good
nature.
The spirit has more power over the
body than we have been wont to think.
There is IN effect of body on soul, but
there Is also an effect of soul on body.
There is power in the human will to
control the nerves and to minister to
the physical organization. There are
not few persons who really need no
medicine but this-a vigorous, emphatic
commands: Rise, take up your bed,
walk" There are invalids who need
nothing more than this: "In the name
of Jesus Christ command thee, Risel"
and then helping hand 10 put them on
their feet.
But these are only illustrations of the
higher truth: Every one of us can do
the work he ought to do. Opportunities
are commands, and when the command
comes the power comes also. No man
can tell what he can do by consulting his
own self-consciousness The only way
Is to try. There are some men who sit
SO long wondering whether they can do
n thing or not that the next-door neigh
gln te. 90 "A, hoo II
and accomplished the task. The mere
attempt accomplishes something. The
mere endeavor creates the power. Could
Moses have imagined, when he was the
herdsman at Mount Sinai, that he was
to be great statesman? Could David
have imagined, when he was feeding his
fathers flock on the hillside OF Judea,
that he was to be the organizer of the
kingdom OF Israel? Could Paul have
imagined, when In Jerusalem, that he
was to be the founder of European
Christianity? Could Abraham Lincoln
have imagined, when he was splitting
rails, that in him was the power TO lead
nation through the travail of civil
war? The conduct of Israel through
the wilderness made Moses; the king
dom made David; the apostles preach
ing made Paul; the reformation made
Luther; the civil war made Abraham
Lincoln. We are made by what we do;
our activity creates us. The man who
sits with folded hands until the angel
has come down and troubled the water
never accomplishes anything. Endeavor
does not always achieve success; but
IL can always achieve the greatest of
all uccesses-character The door OF
opportunity Is always an invitation
from God, and with that invitation
comes the command, and with the COM
mand the power There Is in every
church In America n great deal of la
tent force not set to work. IL only a
Christcould come through our churches.
and, looking in the face of every waiting
disciple idly receiving instruction and
serving In nothing, could say TO him:l
Rise, take up thy bed, and walk" and
everyone into whose eyes he looked
should attempt TO serve, we should see
n very different church from the church.
we see now. Nothing that ought to bd
is impossible. To Christ's question:
Can you drink of the cup that shall
drink OF, and be baptized with the bapi
tism that / am baptized with? tho
Christians answer should always be4
We can. For Gods child can always
bear the burden the Father puts upon
him, can always accomplish the task
the Father sets Hmm. Y. Outlook.
CURRENT RELIGIOUS THOUGHT