Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-26
SUNDAY READING.

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REAL sCHRIsTIANITY A LEAvEN
.[Isev. Glen "A. Taylor. Spencer. Iowa.l
1.-THE kingdom of heaven Is like unto
Heaven which a woman took and hid IN
three measures of meal till 1t was all
r. Matthew 1888.
| The parables of the mustard seed and
1.-THE leaven give us different but mpor
tant truths about the kingdom of God.
/ The mustard seed gives us the truth of
Its marvellous external growth and the
Heaven of it's internal spiritual transfor
i,lation. These two ideas supplement one
enother. We do not want u large mum
Der of persons bearing the name Chris
titan but imperfect1y imbued with its
spirit The Roman empire in the time
lof Constantine was nomtnally Christian,
but, says Professor w. N.Clarke, the
Iso-called Christian people of the middle
Iof the fourth century We're most of them
mot Christians at all, in any worthy
sense; they Were nominal converts,
scarcely changed from the paganism of
antiquity." Nor do we feel satisfied with
Il IL small number thoroughly sanctifed.
/ In the true Kingdom we Will combine
1.-THE ideas Of host. numerous and in
4 vincible, with one completely Christian
lin spirit and life.
The Kingdom OF heaven is like leaven
which woman took and hid in three
Treasures of meal or wheaton flour, the
usual amount of a baking. What facts
IN re gard to the working of leayen will.
by analogy, give US a better understand
4 ing OF some principle of the kingdom of.
God? Leaven works from within out.
I-eavens begins at the center and works
4 toward the circumference. The germ of
1.-The new life is first hidden in the heart
y and there it begins It's transforming
Il power, but it does not stop there: its
lsGtstlny and genius is to work out into
conduct and affect all human relations.
The life of a tree enlanates from within,
hut the strength OF that inv ard life Is
teit to the faTthest twig and remotest
lsaf. The power is at first hidden, but
ii is destined to be seen and known OF
Hi men. Christianity that does not
"A snow itself in an ennobled social life
acks a great deal of the true type
Ieaven works by contagion One par
. ticle touches and transforms the parti-
: Gle that is next to It, 1t is the nature OF
: leaven to diffuse itself; one particle
thoroughly leavened imparts its inward
energy to another thru contact. The
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