The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-10
tains about any given subject with

tains about any given subject with
which it deals.
8. Mediate upon the Word. God not
! only says to Joshua This Book of Law
| shall not depart out of thy mouth" but
He adds, thou shalt mediate therein
| day and night" Paul advises limo
| thy, Mediate upon these things, give
| thyself wholly to them" Did you ever
see COW chewing her cud? She keeps
| turning it over and over That is what
| you are to do with the Word. Take a
| single sentence, phrase, or word, and
! turn 1t over and over in your mind
| turn it one side and the other, turn 1t
to all lights, view it from all points,
mediate, and thus feed yourself. In
so doing new truths will be mined by
you and old truths will shine with new
force and light, and they will shine not
because you have found them in some
commentary, or because some teacher,
be he ever so great and wise, has de-
elared them, but because you have
searched them out yourself alone with
the Holy Spirit, and they have become
part of your life and experience. No
wonder the Psalmist says of the right
eous man,
But his delight is in the law of the
Lord;
And in His law doth he mediate day
and night"
4. Teach the Word. 1t is not only
command but it should be to us Joy
to follow the example of Jesus and be-
come teachers of the Word. The com
mand to teach the Word is found way
back in Deuteronomy. These words
which / command thee this day shall
be in thy heart, and thou shalt teach
them diligently to thy children, and
shall talk of them when thou sittest in
thine house, and when thou walkest by
the way, and when thou lest down and
when thou rlsest up" To whom shall
we teach the Word? The command
answers teach it to the family when
thou lest down and when thou lisest
up" Family prayers date back to the
organization of the family. What more
beautiful and inspiring than for the
head of the family to read from the
Bible at the close of the morning meal,
with the children all about, and TO
give some running comment and in
struction. The passage read should be
so short. and the comment so brief but
suggestive that the boys will not get
tired because the exercise is so long
and dull but rather say because of the
interest awakened, Il wish father
would read a little longer passage
mornings he makes the Word so inter-
esting and helpful" But not only In
the home, we are also to teach the
Word in the church, and in fact we are
to teach everybody everywhere, even,
as the command reads, when thou
walkest by the way" and as the Mas
ters commission commands teach all
nations"
5. Weld the Word. In conflict with
we must WELD the Word as
the warrior Yields his sword, One day !
John Wesley welded the Word with |
such power that when he had con-
cluded a great burly athletic looking |
man came up to him and said, Mr., |
Wesley, I came here to break your |
head. but you have broken my heart"
There is need to-day on the ramparts t
of Christianity for the mightiest brains
that ever swung a battleax in the in
tellectual conflicts of the race. God |
wants the mightiest brains and hearts
to WELD the sword of the Spirit.
The man of God is the agent and the
Word of God the instrument God is us
ng 10 bring in His kingdom Let us in
1ur great exaltation, for we are ex-
alted to teach and WELD the Word,
humble ourselves even as Christ hum
oled Himself, that we may WELD the
Word of Christ, the Word of Truth, the
Word of God. this Holy Bible, for
eaching, for reproof for correction, for
Instruction in righteousness, that we
nay be complete, furnished completely
o every good work.