New-York tribune., 1902-08-04


of God and His holy will ana eesIadI rahIS complete
pose o: grace are found arId IN set our hearts
the task of seeking this divine "ls0'Ai anu
Second-If we would really seek the law OF me
Lord should seek i at Its s9gIT ,a5 and helpful
oonentsres ~0Ia which wise and devout men nays haTe
VIII wrIl{eh ndeed i%E Would here declare great in
debtedness to many such Doors pn+ras d. through
remenfars and does not directly to the yery
fountain head can only at best see aCesarv that
the real student the law Of the Lorq jeI sIa9u ~
4nost ancient copies of the original documents IN
which the Law y, q ,I ths sek orf The m English Bible for all
practical and spiritual purposes a that has
Of The baen given us It is to this golden source
that I would urge YOU 10 9recI S4a BibIe student
Ezra M soashf as the law Of the Lord its source
DILIGENCE IN BIBLE STUDY
Third-To seek the law Of the Lord is to 2+sp sIuqy 6sYe
people say to me- I wish kneT my t Bf0e Tea 9sI3TT nT
than do. 7 confess that that 1 90 n0S oFst Ffdo or
5ostines B8s as often T wish 4 kns my ibe as
9eTed together in the cars. Christian gentleman
tively ignorant of the Bible We take our kao%i55 ka5
edge Of We Gods srs cdnten w Tom o H et them read and study
the sacred Scriptures and give US 70 5hg me he said
DO YOU read your Bible every day? Do You r reaa
It apart from your S[ndE ben SnG tod him that it
was my habit daily to read the bole i{ aGJ0s{g5 n5
saiT' wish knew moro of it for myself. have
often dreamed of the pleasure might mo N Slo, ,
ring down daily and studying the Bloe. out ! am am
too too 6p5y o5 to 'fs beFa now Sl but but feel
ienorant OF divine things and very unfurnlsheq
for this life because of my ignorance of the "oFiu
TO ge;,t this is true statement Of the case Of
r,any of our Christian men and women They
dream of the Bible rather than STUDY IL es er@s
of Bibe readings which he had attended, say =
am amazed 10 bere is in the Bible This minister
actually confessed that he psea me BID +a SS ma,
feriai for MS sermons in books and out Of MS ''I
fF ord is more than even to read it daily. Much
vastly much may be nad + Sr ~ NE wonId get at
its hidden treasures We must dig INTO ule Ia" ol
Was it Ole Bull who said IF quit my M mo hours T. OF
practice one day note me tne rtce for TWO DAYS
the musical critic notes the falling on IN me-
my decline?
DOING AND TEACHING THE WORD.
Ezra was no mere curious student Of the lay " Of }f
the the tosd 1ogd II M bat 5@gsf he te night Work it into his own
life and persuade others TO know God by proclaim
tn e know now Sc amount Of mere Bible knowledge viii
lead man into The Hox of % no nous forS that law
must be done Let me offer you TWO or three prao-
to the doers Of the law q the s Lord ord
It is only he doen OF m me r aT |r,Ifb ~ 6f nat word
Professor Tholuck SAYS that ne oWea ms SolEen ,I
Of God an knowing the doctrine. He was sceP-
tic but the moment that ne Tead tnaI ssytnS &
he resolved begin 10 do the VIII OF Coo % as f lar
and as fast as he he c9G % Test RESENTMENT l ' He testes
that he had not half finished reading and doing the
first five chapters of Matthew's Gospel before he
N't AS close coroiiary Of the FOREGOING proposition ion
l.is free from sce6ticisn. No man keep himself
free from scepticisrn except ne ma We ~ ~ M lie Of
christ and that only como ee to aPd f 46ag commSnd %5}
ments Of God and OF Christ It is only the doer Of
the law Of the Lord VINO can s,I,gn . ~ ~ rro
lessor res 9ord % Of G;od to which he testes
ehs g Goncerninr the teaching the law Of
the Lord First seeker then doer @ and aLteI @
the great teacher OF his age So must every Chris
in his Place & and d fGoF4g So 64 10 Tb ms Word Of God
IS not for private only It is for the whole
%of long ago three little girls were obssrTed e;rsf
standing before shop WndoW nieq WIN The tJco
girls on either side of the third one were ma IN
ln39oarion concerning things they saw With
words and with touch OF hand me- ~; SI ] that
thc third child blind. and her companions we're
saw It might have seemed to some a hopeless
neyer5heess they perseXered ed bH Me ue en9 must
teach and by every endeavor seek to make men
the ood tnrs snSs Wc od has re revealed to Us
Ills Spirt-and in due time they VII see as I'VE we
! Found. n5ng and and which in turn teach.
! THE HEART AND THE SCRIPTURES.
| heard distinguished minister Of the Gospel
J he
the Scripture %lth am any Win an open mind b-
divine origin that il contained any revelation OF
The true method. This seems. plausibly right; hrt
a IittIe reflection must show that while II Is tnco
Fstcsy n If ye Of II the S n9S or the Tegoas
mind. Must l read the news from the seat OF Wa
take up the papers and read the dispatches without
desire one way or the otheT as 70 me ctic 10
! hiring a patriotic mind 10 the study OF war news.
/ sir
news ia to ascertain the facts in the case? Is
! there TO place in the mental. moral or spiritual
| affections? Does IAN open mind mean a mind abb
solutey without bias or destitute Of an hyPGthef ef
nature without any hypothesis? He indeed says me
study of nature ought 50 be studied and insists
enlist living now among those who nave aCcep,et ,
the study of all questions with that preconceived
hypothesis in his mind? And yet eyoHton is not
admits. only a working hypothesis Is that an an
scriptmre with the hypothesis that it literature
and only literature, in the common and accepted
Science and religion not contrary one to the
other and yet they are not the sane on lee
! lines toward God. but let neither insist that one
lot the sane-and yet both have their spheres OF
influence. At the same time the heart hath a
e man T who Sne has nof he fh 0 a1d spiritual
perense Of & the s 5 naY he mot nay naS Not can ca him
names and denounce him being unscientinc ana
to know and experience something far and away
ing which she confesses her inability to examine.
MOTHER LOVE PREVAILS
A mother on a visit hundred miles from home
got word that her only child was dying There
but one train IVY which @ could possiby get her 3 to
that train an express and did stop at the
Wsin she Sought and impored the Station master
to flag the train that she might board 1t. He dare
not do IT. because 1t was positively against orders