The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-05-09

newness of life and gives us the priv.
iege of sitting with Christ in the Heav.
enlies. This last Is moi an experience
which the Christian can only realize
after the earth life In ended. 1t is o
present reality. The place of, a quick.
cned soul in thought, in hope. in de-
sire. In fellowship II in the higher
realm with Christ. But in this same
epistie In which Paul so kublimely sets
forth the privileges Of the Christian
he plainly declares the practical walk
In the world of the Christian. In the
world. but not of the world. because
the life from God has raised the soul
up to a seat beside its risen and as
cended Lord. There is good deal Of
| nonsense talked about the Heavenly
calling of Christians, as though IL alb
solved them from practical living in
the world. Paul did not SO think. He
did not so write. want at some fu-
ture day to speak Of the Heavenly CALI
ing and the earthly walk, but wish to
emphasize that the quickened life.
while it finds It's fellowship and inspi-
ration in the Heavenlies with Christ,
finds its living practical expression in
the daily life on earth. The seed as IL
bursts into life reaches up through the
blue of the heavens after the warmth
and light of the sun which shines so
many millions of miles away; it drinks
in the rain which falls from the clouds
floating overhead, and the rain, and the
sunshine from above find expression
upon the earth in the rare colorings Of
the flower and in the rich green of the
foliage. And IL is SO with the Chris
tian. He receives from above that he
may unfold and blossom in beauty Of
character in the midst of men on earth.
= UT how may i, too, experience
II this life of which you are speak
ing? BY yielding to God. You sub
NIT to Him and His power quickens
you who were dead in sins into new
ness of life in Christ Jesus. Suppose
the seed in my hand, resisting my ef-
forts to place it in the soil where
Nature could quicken IL into life,
should roll off upon the hard rock by
the roadside. 1t would never know life.
So it is with the soul of man. If IL
resist the effort of God to surround 1t
with a sense of His love and mercy
and grace, it will never know what
life is, but yielding himself to Him
the quickening of His power will be
felt. Learn the lesson of the spring
time. 1t is one of submission. The
brown dead grass, the bare gaunt trees,
have nothing within themselves
whereby they can force life into the
dead, shriveled blade and leafless
branches. They must only submit to
the forces of Nature, and soon the
ground is carpeted in beautiful green
and the leafy trees are waving in the
gentle breezes and becoming temples
of music for the happy, tuneful birds.
OF the submissive soul, the soul that
has yielded to God, it can be said:
"And you hath He quickened who
were dead in trespasses and SINS"
There is naught the soul can do to
waken itself into life. But "by
grace are We saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves; it
is the gift of God" G DDS quickening
power which calls into life! Gods
drawing power which carries the soul
up into the presence of its Saviour!
Gods gracious hospitality which
gives the soul n seat beside the Son
upon His throne! Marvellous! is it
not?
= UT let us hastily look at the rest
DOT our text. Oh. there is enough
here for perpetual contemplation.
We can but touch the borderland of
its scope and meaning. The quicken
ed soul the miracle of Gods grace
and power. shat in the ages to come
He might show the exceeding riches
of His grace, in His kindness towards
us through Christ Jesus" The
angels know of the purity and holt
ness and power of God. but did you
ever stop to think that grace and
mercy, sin and death are terms Of
which they have no understanding
or knowledge, except as it has been
revealed to them through the dead
soul of man quickened by the touch
of God and raised from the depths
of sin to the exalted place with the
Son above the position of the angels?
1t is simply marvellous. Oh, the love,
the mercy, the grace of God which
has done all this for dead and lost
man! And throughout the ages to
come the exceeding riches of His
grace" and kindness and love are to
be revealed through those who have
been quickened into life by His Won
der-working power. We are to be
Gods exhibit to all the now unseen
world throughout the endless years
of eternity. His matchless love that
could give His well-beloved Son to
redeem the world from sin! His in
finite wisdom and forethought that
could lay the foundations for mans
redemption before He laid the foun-
dation of the world! His tender COM
passion! His far-reaching mercy that
could descend to the lowest depths
and lift man out of his sin! His mex
haustible grace which could strip man
of his hideous rags and clothe him in
garments of white like unto those
worn by the risen, and assembled, and
glorified, and crowned Lord! Oh, IL