The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-04-27
NOBLE LIVING.
ing Leads to Right Doing
Faith and Works.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do
men gather grapes Of thorns, or hgs of
thistles Mat. sic.
This is not the only utterance IN
which Christ emphasized the value of a
good life. 1t is as easy to see that lie
regarded honor, integrity, charity and
courage to be the chief characteristics
Of the ideal man as TO see which way
the current flows when you stand on
the rivers bank. His revelations were
made for the purpose of teaching us
how to produce the best practical re-
suits, just as the farmer would tell his
son that he must clear the ground Of
stones, must plow, harrow, sow seed
and watch the growth Of weeds if he ex-
poets to reap a harvest for his granary
and barns.
/ suspect | am something Of fanatic
on this subject, for think the man who
puts himself 10 some trouble 10 give a
cup of cold water to thirsty child, and
does it because he and that child are
the offspring of the same Father. is
better off morally and spiritually than
the man who accepts the whole Nicene
Greed but drinks the water himself.
In other words, the liberty of belief is
very large and wide, but the necessity
OF right action is TO the last degree i'm
perative. If your belief helps YOU 10 be
gracious and kindly and gentle, then
your belief is to be cherished as a moth
er cherishes her little one; but II you
think to use this world for your own
benefit only and expect your creed to
carry you through the gate of Heaven
and into the approval of the Almighty.
you will find out your mistake 10y and
by. When / reach the other world and
am examined as to my past ! would
'ather take the hand of some poor
creature whom, with great pains.
saved from stavatiOn or drink or some
crime and say: 81 could not do much.
dear Lord, for the time was short and
the work was hard. but this brother Of
mine was going the wrong way and
persuaded him to turn his face to
Thee" than TO offer any other conceiv-
able reason why | should be accepted
with favor in that upper home.
When we think of Christ in a large
way. what fact impresses MS. subdues
us. forces us to fall at His feet and touch
the hem of His garment? Is it not that
lie lived as lie taught us to live? In
the single sentence: "My Father work
eth hitherto, and | work. His whole
career is summed up. lie did what God
wanted Him to do. The Fathers pur-
pose was His purpose. and He knew no
other purpose. In order TO accomplish
it lie was carried over the hills of Judea
in the garb and the poverty Of peas
ant, under the hospitabe roof Of Beth
any. into the shadow of Gethsemane
and along the rugged slope of Calvary,
but in every experience He kept the one
end in view. At what cost the world
will never know. but there was a
straight path from Bethlehem to IIeav-
en-. and He walked in ii with unfalter-
ing step. His doctrine was comprised
in love toward and confidence in God at
all times and under all circumstances,
and His one demand of us is that we
shall "go and do likewise"
If a man does the works of Christ he
will be with Him in the hereafter.
There will be no other place than
Heaven in which to assign him resi-
dence II He told us to judge our fell
lows by theiI fruits, then it is logical
to suppose that He will judge us by
the same standard.-N. Y. Herald.