The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-17

imperceptibly honeycomb the foun-
datlon of the new society. This leads
the apostles to utter his strong exhor-
tation. Believers are cited to the ex-
ample of suffering Christ, and to
the will of God. In kindly irony they
are reminded that if the Gentiles
ever had any claim upon them, they
have more than absolved themselves
from that claim in the portion of their
lives already given to sin. Finally,
the approaching end of the world is
used as motive to sobriety, watch
fulness, and prayerfulness.
The Teachers Lantern.
Paul holds mirror before the
heather world, in the first chapter or
his Epistle to the Romans. The re-
Election is revolving, but undeniably
true.
Pau's picture can be matched by
one made up by quotations from the
heather classics
The unchaste spirit and life of the
old heather world is further proven
by the ruins exhumed at Pompeii
and elsewhere. Sensuability frescoed
itself in marble and bronze.
Lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine,
revelings, banquetings, and abomina-
BILE idolatries are the counts in the in
dictments of a much Wanted old
world civilization. The visitor is
shown the vomitorium adjoining the
banquet-hall in Nero's palace. Here
slaye would trickle the throat of
the guest until, haying disgorged him
self, he could return to the pleasures
of the table.
Against such denominations Chris
tians were to enter that most effect
i've of protests, a chaste and lelf-deny-
ing life.
The expression, They think it
| strange that We run not with them,n
suggests the current and natural
misconceptions of the Christian life,
analogies to which present themsel-
YES in some mission-felds today.
The paragraph closes with an ex-
hortation to conserve the Christian
character, and especially the chief
attribute of it, in spite of and for the
sake of, the desperately unfavorably
| social environment
Some comments upon the para
graph are here gathered from several
sources: Arm yourselves: With
resolution such as animated him to
suffer all the evils to which you may
be exposed in the body, and particu-
ularly to suffer death, if called by
God to do so for your religion. For
this will be armor-proof against all
your enemies.
Suffered Ceased: Patience in suffer
ing and avoidance of sin are in direct
| relation to each other. Times pass
/ suffice: Gentle way of saying they
had spent too long time in sin Think
| it strange: 1t is strange to carnal
man to see the child of God disdain
the pleasures of sin-he knows not
the higher and purer pleasures that
| the Christian is called to- Give ac-
count: The great court-day shall
call them to account for all these riots
and reproaches of the cody. Them
that are dead: Past generations
Live according to God Live life
with God, such as God lives, divine,
as contrasted with according to men
in the flesh; that is, a life such as men
live in the flesh. End at hand: In a
few years after Peter wrote this epis-
tie, Jerusalem was destroyed by the
| Romans. To this destruction which
was literally then at hand, the apos-
tie may allude: The end of the tenn
pie, the end of the .Levitical priest
| hood, the end of the whole Jewish
economy was at hand. Watch: Not
intoxicated with worldly pleasures.
Temperance promotes wakefulness.
Drink makes drowsy, and drowsiness
prevents prayer. Unto prayer: Be
ye discreet and sober, that we may be
apt to prayers. Fervent charity: A
loving disposition leads US to pass by
the faults Of others. Cover sins: God
with his love covers my sins, so must
cover the sins of my neighbor.