The age-herald., 1901-05-06

THE AGE-H any principle or truth that enters Into the formation of q good and godlike character. The unwise holds no secret the disclosure Of which would affect good mans faith, or in the least invali- date syllable of Gods holy word Against all attacks. from every quarter the Bible has stood as an inpregnable bulwarl1 Drink deep O. this well or knowledge and it will make you wise un- to salvation.
 ITO knowledge we are to add temper ance. This word temperance was origt-
 nally of wider meaning and covered larger breadth of character, It meant
 good degre of self control, which every
 one needs, that the higher power of his
 being may keep in subjection his lower, restraining from excess of all kinds Pas
 sion and prejudice often blinds us, so
 that we do not do as well as we know.
 We need out of knowledge to supply self
 control. Our greatest danger Is from
 ourselves. We hurt and cheat ourselves
 more than we do others, and we need to fear ourselves more than all others. No man, nor combination of men. can hurt us as we can ourselves. The whole
 world cannot hurt us without our con sent. If We keep the palace of the soul as a strong man armed, the worst that men can do is to destroy the outer works and kill our bodies. and when they have done all the soul will be intact. One i'm pure thought, one unchecked impulse will do us greater damage than whole armies. No man Is strong who has not good degree of self-contro1. Here is the battle ground of life and we need self
 control to win. For the lack of 1t thou
 sands have gone down in ignominious de- IVo f1,s oil Nya mn al
 struggle remembering that God will help the man who tries to be right and to do the right
 The Virtue of Patience.
 "Then in the exercise of seif-control supply patience. This Is a quiet virtue and Is apt to be underestimated and over
 looked, It is one of the most precious we can possess Without noise or osten- tation 1t quietly works, for 1t has in it
 the element of eternity. As regards our
 selves patience Is learning to wait, It Is much easier to work than to wait; to be active than to lie still. Sowing and reaping are not in the same day. The boughs of the tree of endeavor do not like
 Aaron's rod, bud and blossom and bring
 forth fruit in a day. Oftimes. after hard
 and laborious work we have to wait, and
 that is hard to do. But the sublimest les
 sons are learned in the waiting. It Is when we are still that God speaks to
 us. When we wait on Him we renew our strength. But patience relates to others
 also, A man may gain control of himself and be impatient with others. You may
 perhaps control yourself as to drink, but
 you are impatient with the poor drunk
 ard. You may have overcome avarice, but have no patience with the selfish and stingy man. You may have attained to great nobility of character, but cannot
 endure the narrow and contracted man.
 In these, as we'll as in other things we
 must exercise patience. To be patient with men. to bear with them with all their faults and frailties, to work for their reformation, their regeneration, and wait patiently for their emancipation; to lift them up when they fall, and when they fall again to put arms around them and lift them up again and again, re- q,lires much patience. But the exercise of 1t is God-like. When you would be
 impatient with others remember Gods
 patience and long suffering towards you.
 In the exercise of patience we are get
 ting closer to God. for out of 1t Godliness Is supplied.
 Godliness In Godlkeness.
 "Godlness Is Godlikeness, and what an honor it is to be like God! We see God in Christ and to be like God is to have
 
 | Christ mind we will view things from a l divine standpoint, and what a picture | the world will present! When we look | with the eyes of Christ we will see | something more than fields to be culti- | vated and harvests to be gathered, some | thing more than rivers and seas white | with the sails of worlds commerce; | something more than the smoke of fac l tories and furnaces and mammoth stores filled with their products; something more than railways spanning whole continents and multitudes rushing hither and thith- | CT for gain. We will see a world cursed ] by sin; human beings giving themselves to appetites and passions that enslave and destroy Above the noise of industry and the chatter of machinery, the means
 and methods of clothing and feeding
 bodies soon to be dust, we shall hear the cries of distress and walls of anguish that go up from every quarter, How | long, oh God how 1ong?" And in these l forms of misery and cries of distress we will recognize our brothers, children of
 a common father and interiors of common possession. We will see that our brothers, whatever tribe or nationality, brothers of Almond eyes and dark skins,
 in their cries and imploring looks to something, to some one, they know not what, nor whom. were indeed calling to our God, in fact, calling to us, His fol- lowers God has none but believers here to represent Him on earth.
 "Godliness supplies brotherly kindness, We would have thought that brotherly kindness was to be found at the lower end of the line nearer to humanity, but 1t is found at the upper end, nearer to God 1 It is the first step after Godliness. The more we are like God, the nearer we are l to men. and the more valuable men are 1 in our eyes. "Your conception of God will determine | your conception of humanity, and your | conception of both will determine your l destiny 1t isn't worth while to deceive | ourselves, for if Christ be right, destiny | will turn upon our treatment of our fel- | lowmen Inascuch as ye did 1t unto the l least of these, ye did 1t unto me- Mark | Ills words the least.' They mean the
 lowest, the weakest,' the farthest away | from God.
 christianity is the opposite of the evo- | lution of today! It is not the survival of | the Attest, but the survival of the up- | Attest To whom did our Lord minister while on earth To the strong. the rich. l the great? These, he seemingly passed l by. bestowing His bounties on those whom a heartless humanity deemed unfit | to live. The call of a blind man on the wayside caused Him to stop a whole pro- | cession that he might restore sight. At the pool of Bethesda, the man with an in | frmity of thirty-eight years, and the least
 able of all who lay on It's porches to help himself. was singled out and healed.
 Lepers heard of him and left the haunts
 to which they had been banished, to get l a touch from His hand or a word from | the voice that spoke the world into l being -ss.t