The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-01

nation IS not based simply on degeneration
but On lack OF growth Not because a liV-
ing thing becomes worse but because it fails
10 become better il is condemned. The
faculty OF Yale college drops many Il stu
dent not because he violates positive re-
quiFementS but because he fails to learn
and fulfil the minimum standard Of ed1ca-
ton: The final Judgment Of men as set
forth by Jesus IS similar in that some are
rejected because Of what they are not and
for what they did not do. and others are
accepted because Of what they are and
what they did.
According TO Jesus, saint is one born
Of the Spirit, that is one in union with
God According TO ST. Paul, u saint is one
who is led by the Spirit of God, that is an
inspired man diVinely guided. According TO
st. John, saint is one who is a son of
God, that is, one who is filial in his faith
and ODedient In his conduct. man who
is born of the flesh is limited in faith, at
lection, motive and enjoyment to tine things
seen, felt and enjoyed within the sphere
Of the flesh or that which belongs by nature
TO every man and may he enjoyed by him
through communion with nature and man
kind. The man born of the Spirit is a man
who is enlarged in faith, affection, motive
and enjoyment SO as to embrace God as
well as the world and mankind.
The real difference between the sinner
and the saint lies just here that to the for
mer the wOFld-taken in its widest SENSE
stands first in his affection and thought as
the source Oh MS support anu I1e source O1
his enjoyment and to the latter God stands
first as the source of his support and the
source of his enjoyment.
Jesus who refused food and kingdoms
that He might have the favor of His Father
and remain in His kingdom and who found
His joy in doing the will of the Father is
forever the true type of man who is
saint. The man whose daily prayer Is that
he may be taught and guided of God, whose
daily desire is to know Gods will that he
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that he may fulfil the law of love is a
saint. The man who lacks this life is a sin
ner. Abraham trusting God for guidance,
Moses choosing to suffer with the people
Of God, Paul suffering the loss of all things
for sake of Christ are examples of the
sanity spirit.
Two men may stand ON the same moral
plane as far as appearance goes but If one
Is at the height of his attainment because
he is only Obeying law, and the other is at
the beginning Of his attainment because he
Is commencing the sanity life their final
character and ultimate destiny will be far
apart. 1t may happen even that by hered-
ity and education the insanity man may
be more agreeable in temperament and
courteous in manners than the sanity man,
but If the life of the Spirit be In the latter
he will undoubtedly grow away from the
former. We must remember that the
sanity life Is just in its beginning now. st.
John says 1t doth not yet appear what we
shall be- st. John when he would call down
fire on d Samaritan village and st. Peter
when he denied Christ did not present an
, enviabIe appearance and were far below st.
John when he taught men to love one an
other and st. Peter when he requested to
be cruciied face downward because while
willing to die for Christ he deemed himself
unworthy to be crucified in the same posi-
ton.
Sin consists in refusing the light and
love and life which God offers to men and
thereby failing to become what God intends
to make of men. Saintliness consists in ac-
cepting the light and love and life which
God offers to men and thereby becoming
like Christ In spirit and character. The
great sin of men Is refusing to be saved
and so to be made saints. The condition of