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never bring the world into saving
union with the Lord Jesus Christ.
2. Consecration.-David says to Solo
mon: Build the house Of the Lord thy
God" Consecrate yourself to your
work, and lay out all your strength and
energies in it. Let nothing prove to be
an insuperable obstacle in the way. .
So it should be with us. If we would
do our part in this great work, we must
consecrate ourselves to Gods service.
Oh, for an all-consuming and all
comprehensive conservation! In order
to accomplish the greatest possible
good, there must be an entire consecra-
ton of body, mind and soul, of time,
friends, reputation, property-all.
8. Prayer.-David said to Solomon:
"Only the Lord give thee wisdom and
understanding" IF any of you lack
wisdom, let him ask of God, that giyetll
to all men literally, and upbraideth
not; and it shall be given to him.
A life Of prayer and communion with
God is absolutely necessary. Take
Christ as an example. When the trou-
bles of life threatened to overwhelm
him, he went to God In prayer. After
he had restored to life the mans with
cred hand, the people were filled with
madness and were planning how they
might get rid of him. What did Christ
do? He withdrew himself from the
people and went out into the mountain
to pray and continued all night In
prayer to God. And when the burden
of a worlds sin was resting upon him
as he stood upon the threshold Of the
crucifixion, what did he do? He went
to the garden, and there he withdrew
himself even from his most intimate
disciples, and poured out his soul In
ernest prayer to God. In fact, l.ls
whole life was truly and emfnently a
life of prayer and communion with
God.
So it must be with US. Without this
living communion with God there can
be no real success.
4. Faith.-David said to Solomon:
THAT thou mayest keep the law
Obedience is a natural, legitimate
and inevitable result Of true faith
True faith is the only foundation for
genuine obedience. Take Noah and
Abraham as illustrating this truth.
Take Christ as an example. See how
his faith in God manifested itself in his
life and made his lifework a success
Like the everlasting mountains, this
faith was so firmly grounded and es-
tablished that no agency could snake
or disturb it. Adversely came; disap-
pointments crowded upon him; his enc
mics resorted to every conceivable
measure to thwart his plans and defeat
his purposes; his friends forsook MIN
in the hour Of need; he was forsaken
even by his Father in heaven; but all
of these things combined could not
shake his faith in God. This faith was
living, controlling, supreme factor In
making his life success. This faith
gave him convictions-conv of
principle, convictions Of duty, conV1c-
tions of courage and convictions of
hope.
without this faith in God, we cannot
be equipped for our lifework. But
with this faith, we will be prepared for
life's duties and conflicts.
Fear him, We saints, and We will then
Have nothing else to fear"
Let us have faith in God, faith In
Gods truth, faith in Gods plans and
purposes, faith in Gods cause and faith
in it's final and complete triumph over
all enemies.
In conclusion, let us undertake great
er things in the name Of our God. "And
thou mayest add thereto"
Let us undertake greater things IN
Foreign Missions. How much there Is
to inspire us in this great work: The
King and Head Of the Church, who is
clothed with all authority says: Co.
The teeming millions in heather lands
with their urgent necessities say:
Come. And here are the providences OF
God all around us,-the open doors and
the facilities with which to do this
great work.
We have in all of these things the
voice of the Almighty calling us as
never before to a deeper consecra-
ton, a subiimer courage and to more
thorough determination to overtake
this great work which lies so near the
heart of our divine Lord. Then there
is the work already done. We have
so much in the history Of our church to
encourage and inspire us. A prominent
minister Of another church, after MAX
inc a visit around the earth for the
purpose of examining the missionary
enterprises of Gods people, said: 1.-The
Presbyterian church is the missionary
church of the world"
Let us undertake greater things IN
Home Missions. AS we love our own
country, as we love our own netghbors,
as we love our own families, let us love
this work which is so inseperably con-
nected with the very destiny Of our be-
loved nation. Wide and promising
fields are constantly opening before us.
BY the grace of God, let us enter these
fields. We cannot shift the RESPONSE
bility by saying that others will do the
work, If we do not. There is respon-
sibility resting upon us-a Responsible
ty which we cannot escape. We may
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duty.
Let us undertake greater things In
Education. Constituting church that
thoroughly believes in the education OF
the whole man, a church that has a
higher standard for the gospel minis
try from an educational point Of view
than any other, a church that has
done more perhaps, than any other to
educate the human race, church
whose whole history has been thor
oughly identified with the cause of ed
ucation, it becomes us to inaugurate
an enlarged work and to signalize the
opening of the twentieth century with
an onward and comprehensive move
ment in this great cause.
Therefore, let us ask God to give us
more enthusiasm, more earnestness,
more conservation, more faith, more
courage, more nope, more ldpol, III
connection with every department OF
church work. Let us ask God to give
us a disturbing and revolutionary dis
satisfaction with present attainments.
Let us ask God to help us to enlarge
the work of our fathers, so that we
may leave the church in better condi-
tion than we found it.
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