Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-07-22

| reply les ana no. IL is in mems
hearts as an inner experience. and il
| IS all about them in outward. practical
| contact with the world and the people
| OF the world. One does not need to
take Jacobs ladder or borrow Gabriel's
wings to scale the heights and gain
the borders of the Land OF Upright
ness. IL is not far away from the
busy rush of life. Ii is not on the
mountain-top of TRANSPORTATION nor in
the seventh heaven of Paurs expert
ence. IL lies within the confines of the
sphere in which you already live and
move and have your being. II may be
an undiscovered land To you. Oh. how
many. many. many people in this
world are rushing pell-mell through
life TO blackness and despair at the
end. without ever coming tn realize
] that Just at hand is the Land of Up
rightness. in which is JOY and peace
and satisfaction. and true success,
| l ESCS dwelt in the Land of Upright
ness. and that is the reason He
was found where the needy multitude
gathered. That is why His hand was
| ever reaching out to help and to save
| That is why every leaf and flower. the
grass of the field. the waving grain, the
| iowly sparrow. spoke their lessons to
| His soul. and were left as enduring mes
| sages to the heart of man. Those crude
uncultured fishermen by the Lake of
Galilee were found in the Land of the
Natural Self They knew what IL was
to see the stars at night standing guard
| them hal he.
tiers with their nets after the darling
fish. They were familiar with the grassy
slopes of the lake and the fiower-decke ed
fields OF Galilee They felt the throb
of life all about them. and had to
mingle Herewith. in order to gain a
| livelihood. And yet until Jesus met
them and led them into the Land of Up
rightness. they did not know the beau
| ties OF Nature: they did not realize the
dignity OF life; they did not understand
| that fishing on the lake of Galilee was
the school in which they were to begin
| their preparation to become fishers of
men. IL was new world in which they
moved after they met Jesus. and that
world was the Land OF Uprightness. The
entrance into that land did not take
them out OF the world in which they
already were, but II put them into new
| relations Herewith The Land of Up
! rishtness. then, is not new place or
| sphere. but the present place. ruled by
the Will of God, and where His Spirit is
the unerring guide. On the one hand its
| borders touch the Land of Darkness.
and on the other its delightful fields un-
fold with never break into the Elysian
| fields of the Heavenly 10
| IT HE inhabitants of the Land of Up
| L rightness are faithfully described
! in the First Psalm. They are they who
walk not in the counsel OF the ungodly
nor stand in the way Of sinners. nor sit
in the seat of the scornful Their de-
! light is in the law of the Lord and in
| His law do they mediate day and night
! They are like tree planted by the rivers
| OF water. that bTingeth forth his fruit
| in his season: his leaf does not wither
and whatsoever he doeth prospereth
Abel dwelt in that land. and when the
! jealous hand of his brother struck him
down. he quickly passed over to the Joys
and peace of the land where tears are un-
! known and sorrow and pain have given
| Enoch walked with God i'm the Land of
! Uprightness. and one day when enjoy
! ing the companionship of the dear Lord
he wandered over the line. ard never
came back. Noah lived in the Land OF
| Uprightness. but at that time he was
! about its only inhabitant The god
! less inhabitants OF the world were as
unconscious Of the existence of the
! Land of Uprightness as the blind fish
! of Mammoth Cave are ignorant Of the
! blessed sunshine and the glad bird bath
! ing in its light But notwithstandirc
that Noah had pretty lonesome time
OF II as related TO human associations. he
| found in the end that IL paid to dwell
! there. Abraham was content to abide
| I'm the Land OF ITprightness. where
! Gods will controlled and His Spirit
| led, but Lot, who knew the Land
! Of Uprightness. and ought TO have
remained a resident thereof. lift
| ed up his eyes, and behoding the
glitter and show and surface pleasures
Of the Land Of the Natural Self, he wan
| deTed off to its distractions. and GOd's
angels had hard work rescuing him
! later from the destruction which over
| took portion OF that goddess land. And
we have not space to tell OF all the
others who dwelt in the Land OF Up
| rightness. as enumerated in the Scrip
| lures. Nor have we time to review the
! grand army which has passed through
/ this land into the better land since
| Christ first drew His disciples about
! Him and commissioned them to 20 into
! all the world and tell OF this Land of
| Uprightness, and draw thereto all who
would listen TO the glad message and
turn from the Land Of the Natural Self.
whose borders are adjacent to the outer
darkness Of eternal death. and to the
edge OF the bottomless pit