The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-07-05

tribute is due. In determining our OBJ
legations to the world and to God 1t is
not always as easy to distinguish the
image and superscription as 1T was on
the penny which was held out to our
Lord but the distinguishing mark is
there somewhere, and. should your eyes
not be sharp to see it, If you will but
show il to the Lord He will help you,
for "if any of you lack wisdom let him
ask of God, that giveth to all men lib
orally and upbraideth not; and itshali
be given him." Failure to distinguish
the image and superscription may rob
Caesar or may rob God, which in either
case results in confusion, and discord,
and distress, and ruin. Individual lives
have been rendered uselessif not posi-
lively harmful and nations have gone
TO decay and ruin through failure TO
render unto Caesar the things which
are Caesars and unto God the things
which are Gods. The true patriot is
the one who, avoiding craftsmanship OF
every kind and blind national pride,
seeks to give Caesar his due while at
the same time he renders to God that
which it is His right to expect and de-
mand tits so easy to rob God through
n misdirected and intense patriotism.
1t is possible to rob Caesar through in
tense religious fervor and misdirected
service to God. The perfect adjust
ment of the affairs of nations and in
dividuals demands that neither Caesar
nor God shall be robbed, and the true
patriot recognizing this underlying
principle of all government and the
true religion seeks with Divine guid-
ance and wisdom to realize 1t IN
his relations to his country and his
God.
Rubbing Caesar.-There are many
WAYS in which Caesar may be robbed
of his just tribute. Almost innumera-
ble are the causes and forces which
lower and vitiate the privileges and
responsibilities of citizenship. The ma
ton, the community, the home are be-
ing robbed of their just tribute by self
ish love of ease, by greed for gold, by
mad rush after pleasure. Space will not
permit us to enumerate the long list
which will readily suggest itself to
one upon a moments thought. we
wish to speak of just one way in which
| Caesar NAV be robbed, and which per
haps would not readily occur to your
mind. Caesar is being robbed in some
cases to-day, if not in many, by mis-
taken devotion to God and zeal in His
service. When we get too much reli
gion for the world, God will translate
us MS He did Enoch. Jesus prayed no
that the Father would take His fol
lowers out of the world, but that Ht
would keep them from the evil. Al
n follower of the Lord Jesus Christ
who came into the world to save it
YOU have a responsibility towards the
nation under whose flag you rest il
peace and safety, towards the commu
nifty in which you rear your family
A in the home which should be to you
the dearest, the best and brightest spo
on earth, which will not cease unit
your spirit has departed to be will
it's Lord or the trumpet has sounded
and YOU have been caught up into thu
air to meet your Lord as He comes
in the clouds of glory with His saints
Read the thirteenth chapter of Ro
mans, the third chapter of Titus, tin
second chapter of ]. Peter and othei
portions of Gods Word to which thes'
chapters will lead in thought, if yo'
do not realize and believe that tn
Christian has responsibilities and sol
emn obligations towards the home, tn
community, the nation.
/ know Gods Word tells me t.
come out and be separate from tn
world / know John writes wit
the finger of God: "Love not tn
world, neither the things that ar
in the world" ! know that tn
world is under condemnation for sir
and that Satan, like a roaring lioI
goeth about seeking whom he ma
devour. I know that spiritually W
are to dwell in heavenly places in Chris
Jesus, here and now, but / don't fin
line which tells me to go about ]
the world with my head in the cloud
Sinking the paying of my just tribut
to Caesar, and forgetting the worl
lost in sin, and which Jesus is alb
to save through you and me. Thei
is spiritual ecstasy which is selfis
in it's enjoyment and destructive
practical, Christlike contact with tl
world. Paul got away up into u
heavenlies with Christ, but ! notice
didn't stay there. He tells the Corr
thians that he determined not to kno
anything among them but Jesus Chri
: and Him crucified; and as the crucifit
Lord he sees Him hanging on the tr'
with the sins of the world rolled up'
Him, and he goes forth and becomes
servant unto all that he might ga
the more for Christ. Unto the Je,
he becomes as Jew, that he mig
gain the Jews. To them that were wit
. out law, as without law, that he mig
gain them that were without law.
became all things to all men, that
: might by all means save some. Pau
!, soul may have lived in the heaven
places in Christ Jesus, but his gre
heart, bursting with the world-wi
love of Christ, worked in the earth
" places of sin and need, and he ne'
ceased until Roman brutality set
= soul free in the arena at Rome. L
fact that belong to the Lord, bong
! nv His precious blood; the fact tina