The evening Republican., 1902-06-20

C6uuVI W OStVtou buo4uoVoiy uuICoo
it be an unselfisa service. Salvation
in one sense starts 10 selfishness, but
il stops there, 1t has ended at the
begin ming. We want salvation, at
first, for ourselves alone. Afterward
we want it for other people. That
Samaritan woman at Jacobs well,
wanted the water Of which Jesus
spake, for just two reasons purely
selfish ones at that. They were, that
sha might not thirst any more and
that she might not have to draw auy
more. But presently we find her in
the city telling others that abe has
found a man who could tell her all
things that ever she did, and that
He must therefore be the Christ She
found herself. by finding Christ that
day at the well curb, and then she
found Others
Andrew found Christ and then be
found his brother. The disciples re.
eeived freely and freely they were to
give. The thief Is saved and he
wants to save his comrade. There Is
no reward for faith mentioned In the
Bible, but there is q reward for un-
selfish works. The worker receiveth
wages and gathers fruit unit. life
eternal. Oh, for a whole-nearted,
dlsinteres ted. unsel6sh service. For
this, the whole creation gr0aueth
and awaiteth. We do 80 much for our
fellow man, that is colored with the
desire to have 1t react toj our own
advantage. Our service is like parcels
tied up with long strings, that we
may pull 1t back when we think it
has gone far enough without appre.
ciation. We care so much, so very
much for system, and order and GUS
tom and organization that we saueez-
the life blood from our service ere it
reaches those 1t ought 10 bless.
In all Of the great service for God
and humanity; in every far reaching
philanthropic effort; in every honest
advance in the righteousness Of peo-
pie or a church the individual must
be nightly taken into account.
Christ stood in the plain and with
his own hands broke the bread to
feed the hungry multitudes And
while God might have sent the angels
thoroughly organized from his right
hand to lead the nations to that
Righteousness which to any nation is
exalting, it pleased him to save the
whole world by the voluntary sacri.
flee and unseltish service Of one indiv-
idual, his own and only son. May
our service be like his.
And, last this service must be a
Loyal Service. Not loyalty to man,
but loyalty to God, for the text does
not strictly speak of service to man..
1t refers to God, when 1t reads"Whose
l am and whom l serve" And yet
it is true that the only way we. have
of ministerlng unto God. is to minis
ter unto the man whom God has
made, and it is conversely true that
God accepts such service as if done
unto himself.
There is therefore a higher motive
for human service than love to man
it Is love to God. | am not sure that
| love all the heather. Many of
them are certainly unlovable. filthy.
dishone st, licentous, murderous, but
loving Christ l could 60 to far off
lands aud labor with them and for
them till death. The highest motive
for missionary effort is not the cry
ing need of the heathen, nor the
value Of awakening the heroic spirit
in the missionary, nor the glamour
of daring and prominent service, but
the glory of God ard supreme love to
Christ.
Did you ever look up this word
loyalty in the Bible? You would
look u long while. 1t is not there.
1t is in the dictionary, but not in the
Bibleand in the Bible it is synonym
for allegiance, fealty, fidelity, faith
fulness. In monarchcal countries
loyalty is "warm hearted feeling
of fidelity and obedience to a sovereign"
In the realm of divine government
loyalty is but another word fer faith.
fullness. And to be faithful to Christ
in all things ought to be the dominst-
irg aim of every Christian. The word
Faithful" is first used in the Bible
in reference to Moses, when in Num-
bers y: 7, God says my servant
Moses Is faithful in all my house"
And tine last name with which it
is coupled in the Word of God, is
with the name OF Him Of whom the
exiled seer OF Patmos speaks when
he exclaims in Rev. l9: II: "And I
saw Heaven opened, and behold
white horse; and he that sat upon
him was called faithful aud true.
TO be loyai is to be like Abraham
whom Pa ul calls IN Gal. 3: 9: "taith-
full Abraham. it is to be like Dav-
ids testimony concerning whom be-
lore Saul cost Ahimelech the priest
his life when lie dared to say "And
who IS so faithful among all thy
servants as Davld?" Samuel p: IA
1t is 10 be like Daniel who still
prays three times day with the
window op,ned toward the holy
city, while scheming satraps plot
and lions roar. It is to be like An
drew who Immediately after he
came to Christ brought his own
brother to Jesus. 1t is to be like
Paul who could say at the end Of
the course II have fought a good
fight, | have kept the falth.' 1t 10 to
be like Tichicuc, and Silas, aud
Epaphras and Onesimus and Anti.
pas, who as servants, brother,
ministers. and martyrs In the Lord
are called in Scripture ''faithful.
The test Of 10y atty is the willing.
ness to espouse an unpopular