The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-11-07


special mission to the unsave6
around, as responsible II some large
measure for their salvation, and
will worship and work with this
end in view.
Some of the ways to win along
the lines above suggested are as
follows:
First. Be assured of your faith
in Christ. You have heard the
story that runs something after this
fashion: The man who knows and
knows that he knows is wise, fol-
low him. The man who knows and
knows not that he knows is asleep,
wake him up. The man who knows
not and knows that he knows not,
is ignorant, teach him. The man
who knows not and knows not that
he knows not is a fool, shun him.
The apostle Paul said II know that
my Reedemer liveth," etc. This is
the kind OF certain faith that we
need in order to win. Have your
life crystal1zed around personal
Savior, be personally devoted to
him and willing to obey Him in
everything.
Second. Have faith in Christian
Endeavor. Some say it is dying
out. Others say they are losing
faith in its adaptabllity and contin-
ued usefulness. Such persons need
first, A fresh study of the pledge
and then new study of the field.
This will make it clear that Chris
tian Endeavor, just as truly as the
Y. M. C. A. and the S. S., are here
to stay as permanent machinery.
Third. Be in earnest about it.
Another word for earnestess is en-
thusiam, although it is not as
strong nor as good word. The
Scriptural equivalent is zeal. 1t
means putting our whole heart into
whatever we are doing. 1t is a
sweeping, resistless energy, which
carries everything before it, like
river in full flood. Earnestness is
not to be COMPOUNDED Fwith noise,
vehemence, or outward demonstra-
ton. 1t is often exceedingly quiet
and undemonstrative. Notice when
the machinery of an engine is
standing still, how the steam makes
a great noise as it issues from the
safety-valve, but when TIE vapor is
turned into the cylinder, and is
used in driving the engine, all that
laundering sound disappears. 1t
does not follow that there is no
steam. 1t is going in another d.
rection, and doing it's appropriate
work. 1t is a great mistake to i'm
agine that earnestness and fuss are
identical. The most earnest men
are sometimes the quietest. No
one can doubt the earnestness of
man like Livingstone. He had en-
thusiasm tor science, for philan-
thropy, and for religion. 1t was
unflagging, yet not boast or a
escaped his lips. He did
the thing he intended to do and
made no noise in doing it. We
should carry this same earnestness
into our Christian lite. 1t is a viz
tue, like all others, that can be cul-
tivated.
First. By resolutely setting our
face against doing anything in a
languid and half-hearted way.
Second. BY studying the lives
of great men. When we do we
catch something of the earnestness
that inspired them. This is per-
haps the hest result of reading
biography. We feel how noble was
the enthusiasm of the heroes of the
past, and how by means of it they
were able to do great things, and
to march on to victory.
Third. BY associating with those
who are in earnest. There is moth
ing so contagious as enthusiasm,
and when we come in contact with
those who live under the impulse of
grand ideas, something of their
force and power is conveyed to our
selves. The great soul strengthens
the weak soul. While the solitary
coal on the hearth will go black out,
when it is heaped up with others it
springs into a blaze.
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