The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-10-11
WORKSHOP OF GOD.
Place Where the Omnipotent Skill Is
Building Humanity Anew.
Dry Homes Of MANS Moral Failure
made to Live Again I'm Christ Jesus
Sermon By the "Hishway and
Byway" Preacher.

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--sermon by the ''Highway ana
Byway~ Preacher.
copyright, 1902, by A. N. Kellogg News
paper Col
Chicago. Oct. 6. 1902.
Text: For we are His workmanship.
which God hath before ordained that we
should walk In them. "-Ephesians. 2:lo'
The Workshop.-A workshop Is
place where raw material Is taken
and the finished product turned out.
Our text makes the declaration that
the Christian is the workmanship OF
God. He has taken the natural man
and by His marvellous, wonder-working
power He has created him anew In
Christ Jesus. This thought OF Gods
receiving the raw material OF perisn-
able human life and turning out
finished product for eternity is sug-
gestive of workshop wherein TINS
marvellous process takes place. DID
YOU ever go through manufacturing
plant? What busy place 1T was. Inc
hum of the whirling wheels, the Click
and grind and pound OF the machinery
and the bustling, busy workmen, all
told q story of something pelhg
wrought. You were first shown the piles
and piles of crude, raw, unshapen mate
rails bearing no resemblance whatever
to the delicate and beautiful piece OF
machinery being packed for shipment
in the shipping room. Step by step you
saw the process by which the raw mate
rial was cut and nodded and shapen
into the complete, perfectly-working
machine which was to be sent out on
mission of usefulness. At each ma
chine you observed that some part OF
the raw material was clipped, or
shaved, or filed or bored away and lett
in the scrap box below, while the part
upon which the workman was expend-
ing his skill and energy became more
shapely with every turn OF the ma
chine. Every part of the plant, every
machine bore an essential and neces-
sary relationship to the finished ma
chine which was capable of doing the
work for which it was created.
We turn to the conception OF the
spiritual workshop in which God oper-
ates, and find that close parallel ex-
lists between it and the workshop in
which man operates. In the unseen
realm of Gods activity He has estab-
lished His workshop. We cannot know
all the marvellous and beautiful mys-
tery of that wonderful and busy place,
but it is our privilege to behold on
every hand the raw materials OF mis-
spent and misdirected human lives
which are taken into Gods workshop
and then tosee the finished product OF
transformed lives sent forth to per-
form good work. When we see the
! drunkard lifted out of the gutter and
by the Transforming power OF God
made a useful and honored member OF
society; when we see the vicious and
criminal stripped of their evil pro-
pensities and filled with new spirit and
purpose; when we see the willful. self
centered expand under the Divine
touch and reach out with His love to
serve lost, dying humanity; wher
we see earthly ambitions and hopes OF
the human heart exchanged for the
certainty of eternal riches and honor
and glory; when we see dark and cloud
ed brows transformed into counter
ances beaming with heavenly light;
when we see burdened hearts and lives
crushed under the weight Of earthl,
cares and responsibility, mounting NJ
i. into the heavenlies on the wings o
faith: when we see all this, and more
then we know that great work ha
been wrought by the unseen hand o
God-that the omnipotent forces
His workshop have been in blesse
operation. What are these forces?
Gods workshop is co-partnershi
affair, consisting of God the Father
God the Son and God the Holy Ghos
! Perfect harmony and cooperation e'
lists between this triune management
God the Father, IL we may reverend
so declare, is the Founder and Hea
Manager of this spiritual workshop
,, God the Son is the Pattern after whic
all lives coming into the workshop ar
nodded and formed. But He is NOR
than this. He is the vitalizing force
the transforming power which, pei
meating the raw material of the dea
soul, creates IL anew in Him. God tn
Holy Ghost is the Active Agent throug
whose operation the work OF the FL
, Their and the Son is made possible A
the Special Representative of the Sol
Jesus Christ. He goes out into tn
world soliciting material for God
, workshop. He convicts the world
/ sin, of righteousness and judgmen
Having convinced the soul OF the nee
: of being created anew in Gods worl
| shop He returns with the soul to hel
carry on that blessed operation.
, The Raw Material.-Our text SCI
, before us attractively the finishe
product of Gods grace--a soul bea
[ ing the impress of the Divine han
l Think of it! The painting of
: Raphael can be identified by the ma
I ter strokes of the brush and the super
coloring. The graceful lines of Il
: sculptured figure reveal to certaint
Z the sensitive touch and marvellous SIX
|, of a Michael Angelo. The soul-inspi
v ing lines as they tell of in music
r rhythm life's story Of love and dev
ton, OF tragedy and sorrow. of dee
rooted vi,lainy and exalted herois
and self-sacrifice, bear the positi