The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-28

NAsh--heepinS In the Love OF God.
New York CITY.-The following ser.
mon, emitted Live in the Sunshine" has
been furnished for publication by the dis
tlngulshed and eloquent evangelist, the
kew DR.. j. Wilbur Chapman. Tt was
preached from the text Keep yourselves
IN the love of God" Jude 81.
Jude,s IS enc of the briefest of all the
letters IN the New Testament containing
only Twenty-Five verses. 1t is, perhaps. the
last Of the epistles. Though the date is not
deilnitely settled, it was probably written
after the destruction Of Jeruse EN-. when
most Of the apostles had fna ned their
work. There Is a most delightful shirt of
humility in the letter. The writer called
himself a servant. and the bondsman az
Jesus Christ and the brother of James, and
9hat 5 beautiful modesty, for in fact
It az generally believed that he was the
Lord. own brother and the son of Joseph
and Mary - -
70 no particular church or people was
The letter written, but the accounts make
y especially applicable to us. it is very
practical. The heart of Jude was stirred
because certain men were denying God
and the lord Jesus Christ He said. be-
cause OF this, Il exhort YOU that yo,,
Should contend earnestly for the faith once
deiiyered to the saints" That expression
n the GfoeS,. however, reads for the faith
delivered once aud for all' to the saints
So the doctrine is the same TODAY AS IN
the DAYS of Jude and before then. Read
ing on to the twentieth and twentv,hffh
verses they indicate that NC are expected
70 contend as did the early disciples.
1t has always seemed to me that faith
produced men, and their living in the
world was a ecntending for the faith. we
have the pattern Of the life Of the apos-
tolIc Christian given to rs If Won study
ne Acts Of the Apostle, the letters of Paul.
Peter, John, and. better still, the wonder.
fal prayer Of Christ in the seventeenth
chapter Of John. you viii see that there
were three great elements in their char
acter. They were in the world but not Of
IT. they were constantly looking for the
coming Of Christ, and they were filed
with missionary fire and zeal. These three
characteristics must predominant now If
the church is to have power. When one
IS IN the world and not of it he realizes
he s pilgrim and stranger here and he
epdures trials and temptations because he
knows that they are but for a little while
1he second characteristic has Just as great
an influence. The disciples were constant
y exp scting the return Of our Lord; they
ren1elnbered the testimony Of the men who
had heard the angels on the slopes Of OH
vet, and again and again they opened their
eyes, expecting to behold Him face to face
L was this hope in their hearts which in
eplred their lives. TRANSPORTED the cross
ana It's shame and kept them pure in the
tA5kFt 81 ali telll HLaCiOl ana SIN.
The third characteristic is equally i'm
Rprtant. How much we need to long for
the salvation of othersi Nothing so
touches the hidden springs of the Christian
heart as to feel IN some measure that he il
responsible for those about him. Some one
has SAID when God would draw out all the
tathoraless love Of a woman's heart. He
lays q helpless babe upon her bosom. and
i IS true that the church will awake to
power when she agsakes to responsibility.
There ls something which have in mind
winch VIII give us all the things / have
spoken about. 1t is described in the text.
u there could be any subject growing ont
q the text to describe it. J should say that
II would be Live in the sunshine"
know what the sunshine does for the
clouds; it gives them q silver lining
know what it does for the grass and the
trees and the flowers; it warns and nour-
ishes until they blossom into beauty and
lruittullness. Take the plant away from
the light and it will droon and die: place
it where the sun viii kiss it and every leaf
reIoIcPs This Is the very poorest illistra-
ton as to what the love Of God will do for
e, 80 let US keep ourselves in the love Of
n; That word keep is the KEY word Of
Juae.s epistle. n it we are told that God
Hih keep us. bat we are also told to keep
ourselves. we are told to persevere, hut
II i also said we will be preserved. This
IS God and man working together, and il Is
singular, to say the least that the word
preserve and the word opersevere" are
composed Of exactly the same letters. The
Z ses,al rendering Of the expression that
tod will keen rs is 'as in a garrison" How
secure. then, we must be-
HOW MAY WE KEEP OURSELVES IN
THE LOVE or COD?
NO way 50 efficient as by PRAYER
4here are different kinds Of prayer, Jacob
prayed when he met The angel Of Jabhok
end had his name CHANGED from Jacob to
Israel. Moses prayed when he plead with
Tod to look with favor again upon His
chosen people Christ prayed in the gar
den, for it is said: Being in an agony. He
prayed more earnestly" But this is not
the kind Of prayer | have in mind; it is
r9ther the kind that Christ offered when
Tle was acne on The mountain with God.
imagine the Father talked with Him
more Than He With the Father. It is the
knd that David describes when he says:
Aly meditation OF Him shall be sweet"
Faith is the eye with which we can see
Tod. and meditation the wing with which
We ny to Him. 1t is the kind of prayer
ofIered when the supphant feels that he is
the only one in all the universe; it is the |
klnd OF prayer which if our mother could |
hear, or the dearest friend we had on
earth, we should feel that it had been di-
verified and had not reached God. 1t is the |
kind OF prayer we offer when we let God |
talk to US as well as talk to Him. This viii /
keep US in the love OF God
p Few things viii SO help as this old |
book, the Bible. Two gentlemen were rid |
ing together, and when they we're about |
to separate one asked the other, "Do you |
ever read your Bible" Yes" said his |
friend: Il do, but receive no benefit be. |
cause ] feel that | do not love God"
Neither did ~ replied the other, but
God loved me- and that answer fairly
lifted the man into the skies, for it gave
him new thought. The question IS nos
at all AS to how much l love God, but
rather, as, to how much God loves me. !,
Read .tha,Bible in that way and it viii help
YoG Rshe text. III
- every word, love selecte9l
Ne presented every PROF
Christ to die upon NE
bot read it in th9AYrAy
gself in ID OF
~ blood &U1ly lifts