Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-05-30

| greater SUCCESS IL ne ndO Doon Cnr1S-
tian in his dealings. And it must not
be forgotten that even financial sue
cess cannot be fully measured until we
| take into account what becomes of the
money and what effect it has had upon
the children and family of the man
called successful"
| Consciousness of God.
with the incoming of the Christ
life, the fact of God is brought from the
realm of the speculative into that of
| personal consciousness, sis a thought
brought out by Rev. G. Cambell Nor
gan. ''The one overwhelming truth is
God, and all other experiences are
| judged and placed by their relation
thereto. The fact of God may not al
ways be the uppermost in the mind
of the Christian. He will not neces-
sarily always be mentally repeating
his belief, nor will he be constantly re-
minding himself of that belief. These
exercises prove weakness rather than
| strength of conviction. There will be
| a constant consciousness of God
which will flash out into restrictive
and expansive applica ton through all
| the various circumstances of the ever
| changing days.
'How wonderfully this was true in
| the life of Jesus may be discovered by
| reading through the Gospels, especial
| ly those of Matthew and John, and tab
ulating His references to His Father
It will be discovered that He lived
| life conscious of the presence of His
Father, submissive to the authority of
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dom and power of His Father. All the
circumstances of the days, and all the
values of words and deeds, and all the
issues of life were tested and tried in
+ that consciousness. To all those in
whom Christ lives there comes the
same consciousness, and it produces
| like effects.
'The life thus homed in God enters
upon new views and new feelings. The
| first and basal change is intellectual.
| The God consciousness proves much.
Rem EN- boring that the God of whom
| the Christian is conscious is God re-
vealed in Christ, it will at once be seen
| how the enlightened intelligence rests
| in the fact of his perfect justice.
Mists and mysteries may still en-
shroud' the appearance of the hour,
but the Christian knows that eternal
| Justice holds unceasing vigil and
metes out answering truth. Though
| the method may seem strange, the is
sue is assured, The Judge of all the
| earth will do right Yet this is not
all. Christ has spoken to men from
| the bosom of the Father and the
| heart of the Christian knows that
| mercy is as truly the way of God as is
| Justice; knows, moreover, that in the
| great mystery of the cross these have
met, so that now justice operates in
mercy and mercy delivers in justice.
| This issues in the assurance that in
spite of all the appearances of the
things that are near Gods victory is
assured. and so there is ever in the
| heart of the Christian the triumph
song of the day that is coming. and
| through all the conflict of to-day he
| endures as seeing him who is invisi-
ble.' The result of this is new moral
| consciousness All life being set in
| this new relation to God, then man be-
comes keen of scent in his fear. The
| beauty of holiness and the defOrm1ty
of sin are clearly seen. Righteousness
is now seen in its larger issue in the
victory of God. and sin in its deeper
doom as defeated by God. Then all
conduct is measured, not by the salts
| faction of the sensuOus moment, but
bv it's relation to the eternal veritles.
Now the things that appeared only
harmless and of little account to near
sightedness are seen to be of mighty
moment when seen in the perspective
and proportion of the eternities."
Eternal Punishment.
Rev. W. X. Newell, of the Chicago
Moody Bible Institute, spoke on
Eternal Punishment" but his sermon
for the most part took a brighter
turn Among other things, he said:
ssThe book of John was written for
the purpose of leading people the
way of salvation.
Because you belong to religious
family, go to church, and give money
to the poor, does not mean that you
are saved. You must be born again
LET me say to the unsaved that
when you get in the Christian spirit
Christ increases and you decrease.
salvation is so simple that folks
miss it.
You can't find fault with God fol
Furnishing sinners. You would fine
fault with the mayor and police OF
Chicago if they did not punish the
lawbreakers.
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