New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-30

:, ,s,, cou,d n.rsuade m. that God was going to
excuses sin: that God was In the talk OF the 'ose
sines about sin being In the color OF man na'.
and temperament. you would MAKE me oon'in.eu
st once that the very throne OF God Is insecure
II ia because God has never signed truce with sn
but s the sworn foe Of II. and because ms uea rs.
destruction Of the works Of the devil that nave
hope In the future and believe IN iirs 'hI t nr n
tSst is angry with sin Love Furnishes sin Love
says God Of eyes than to esn0 ,Y ini9ualy
your SIN my Srot nsl,n,, N the eI
cusng of Il there would De .ne Ptts own hpone
ana work chaos in the very heights Of heaven
THE ETERNAL FOE OF SIN.
gu, II. never has and never will He is the e'er.
nal foe Of sin. the everlasting burning that DESTROYS
wherever II touches. and never makes iriehus WIN
wrong Enoch walked with God. Back IN those
early days back amid the men OF his time there
ia one man who has the vision OF the Divine move
ment and has come to understand that the one
great movement of the Divine is against SIN ana
man has use the Nth wST Sd YRS man is
against among hs own people o and IN n. the the
sn be sn sns OF s EnOs6 God in
Inc largest sense OF the word He came into sym,
b1nSreI Years. because ne was moving against
sin Enoch was also moving In the same direcuoh
The second point really enfcrces the nrst a:
touching his individual life he was at agreem nv
and and himself in his nature is that repetition?
i s but i Is imPortan, We should have Thsrd it. uav
vine vision and longing for the incoming neon nsy. Of
theless have something OF the Babyonian spirit in
WSo w Sesri' pray in all sincerity that God would
bring righteousness into this great country OF
and e every place Of il-fame closed and q their
hearts there is controversy with God on the very
| lines on which the controversy Is going on In Ma
''T There is some little thing some habit some
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man. this and that woman. know OF Themselves
and there is q perpetual controversy going on be-
| tween God and them on this point
CONTROVERSY WITH GOD.
They mean Thy Kingdom come" but there in
their own heart there Is something to which they
| are ciinging-there Is controversy. Dear SOUL you
cannot walk with God long that Is No
man can strike a single blow for righteousness in
civic National life so long there is upright
Church of God believed IT,, and then the Nation
% Sossi6 Ue Of divorce between pu5c and private
life! What man is he Is; and what ne thinks IN
prs 50 but What he s may have the
lovely thoughts about the future and God but just
IL Him 0"s So az long am not Waking With Him am
outside the divine movement. and taking, no part
mean by controversy I start to walk with God,
and there comes a moment in my life when the
point In my life and distinctly and clearly the voice
comes: Il want you to give this up, or 81 want YOU
in the convention He, told you to do something
lest year did you do IT, No. we have not, Then
US and God. Why did you not obey Because we
not think od did h no3
as well as you what was right and what was wrong
life For While fS. and It
robbed you Of your peace and blessing But graz az
months .nS Rt and yoS have here again
with full hope and gladness Tor blessing ana the
his h andS on i1 the S Old Subject and say You
give this up" have not forgotten it, II you have
is th God newer gives the up
| he begins II.
OBEDIENCE NECESSARY TO PROGRESS.
What a blessed thing it is that He does not let us
argue Him out of the cnging to the thing upon
which His great hand has been put. He will come
again and 60 so far as to say here that you Will
never make any progress IN the Divine life until
you have gone back to that point OF your disobedi-
There are many in the Church of Jesus Christ
that want to move in the Divine direction. but are
them and their Master. Enoch walked with God.
He was clay IN the hand Of the Potter His w6 5e
said, "Enoch, 60" he went. and when God said
Stay he remained in perfect agreement There
G Gsi' be the same with Us II we are 10 walk win
II we are to walk with God. Enoch trusted God
How much might be said about that! II you do not
s pqs' %e do 0H trust Him. Every chstan does
trust Him. You do not trust person when that
pee making your own arrangements at the same
time You say. 81 have put this little matter In
saws yes but he finds that when he is halfway
Though It. you doing 1t in your own way; you
do not trust your friend. Do you trust God with
your life?
THE NEED OF PERFECT TRUST.
without going into details let me tell you that
some years ago I made up my mind what was
going to be in the world and where 7 was going to
serve God. and began my preparations and made
my plans and worked sincerely and conscientiousy
believing that l Was doing what was right. and
just at the moment when thought my life was to
begin God shut the door right In my face and put
I. ihe light out that had been my beacon light for
!, many a weary day Of toll. And ! bear this
s pleading FOR certain point that that was the best
,the gladdest. the sweetest. days work that God
ever did for me: because He brought TO this
point. i said, Now Lord am not going TO make
ANY other arrangements about my life from this
; moment" To His glory he it spoken from that day
in 1888, remember the day, May H. 1855. up to
|, this day ] have not arranged q days work
|. Lastly, Enoch kept step with God. He was never
. a step in advance and a step behind. II
seems to me that In the history OF Peter in those
last days Of our blessed Lords life on the earth
, we get Of the most beautiful illustrations OF
what 1t is TO be In front OF and 10 be behind and
not 10 keep step.
was perfect harmony between that three hundred
years Of life and the end. know that that word
He vas not for God took him" means he was
. want you to see that It tells the story OF ali thu
tnree hunored years as well as the end He was
not for three hundred years for God had taker
! him all the time: All the time he possessed
by God, motived by God. impulsed BY God guided
by COD Kept In pace by God held by God for three
hundred years That is the story Of the three hun
dred years. and then at the end translation care
He was not. for God took him little nearer 1us
to be with Himself