Newport weekly independent., 1902-12-05

the soul of dead self and clOthe it with the immortality of His right eousness, Let us gaze down the path way of His Way; let us open up the windows of our soul to the blessed light of His Truth; let us clarify the atmosphere of the soul and permit it to breathe the Eternal Life of His presence. Lift up the gates of the natural mind, break down the insur- mountable wall of the will, and let the King of Glory come in with the true blessing of the certain Way. the unfailing Truth and the Eternal Life.
 Questioning of the Soul.-Jesus al- ways meets the honest doubt with patient, loving answer. Thomas couldn't understand and began to question because he could not see every inch of the way. He knew the Fathers House was eternal in the Heavens, and that there was a place there for him. Jesus said He was going there, and that the disciples knew the way thither. Immediately Thomas began to look around in his own heart for the light that would lead him to the Fathers House. Dues tionings always come from with in, but if they are honest questions. with eager yearning after the truth, then Jesus always answers them.
 Have you doubts and questionings in yorr heart, o soul? Go to Jesus with them. Don't seek for the light that can chase away all the dark clouds of unbelief anywhere but in the presence of the Son of God. for ii you do the clouds will gather thicker and blacker about your soul and you will never find the blessed Way to the Fathers House But if the eye of faith looking up sees the eternal reality of the Fathers House and longs to plant it's feet within it's pearly gates, then Jesus will turn to such an one, as He turned to Thomas. and say: "Why, dear heart. 1 am the Way to the Fathers House. Do not look within for thy way. Fix your eyes on Me, for l am the Way, and the Truth and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me"
 An Unerring Guide.-During the years following the great gold dis coveries in California caravan after caravan of eager seekers after the yellow metal threaded theirway across the great trackless plains of the west. Frontiersmen who could pilot safely through the wide stretch of wilderness and lead past the dangers of the hostile Indian country were in demand. The question always asked by the cautious traveller was: Have you been over the route before?" To have learned the landmarks that made the way certain to the desired haven, and to have found out the perils of the journey and be able to guard against the lurking foe, were qualifications in the guide which made his services always in demand. But let the incautious emigrant trust himself to the leadership of an in competent guide, or let him attempt to make the journey alone. and ten chances to one his bleaching bones would be found later on the prairie. silent and ghastly witnesses against his mad folly.
 In the journey from earth to the Fathers House competent Guide is needed to safely pilot the soul over the desert wastes of the earthly pil- grimage, and around the hostile coun- try. One who can always perceive the presence of the lurking foe and guard against his attack. Would you dare to trust yourself in the hands of one who has not been over the way, who does not know every inch of the way. or would you in mad folly dare to attempt the journey alone? Oh, soul, mark the sad wrecks by the roadside of life of those who have chosen a false guide or who have at tempted the journey alone! Let Ahe rattling bones and the grinning skulls bear their message of solemn warn- ing to your soul, that you can never to Heaven without you trust yourself in the hands of the unerring Guide. Who is known as Christ Jesus, the Way.
 "The Way" Not "a Way. y.''-The Way came from the Father, and The Way led back to the Father. Every road every pathway has it's distinctive landmarks by which it is identified and the point to which it leads made plain and certain. The pathway of the human will leads away from God Its landmarks are found in the wrecked lives, unsatisfed longings and desires. it's restless seeking after every conceivable and inconceivable thing in the world, while the soul sickens and dies. But the pathway of eternal hope leads through Jesus the Way, and the landmarks that make it a bright and shining Way are the expressions of the Fathers will in the cradle, the cross and the tomb. The cradle that received Gods gift to the world of a Saviour. The cross of sacrifice, on which the Lamb of God. i the Sinless One. suffered for the sins