The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-10-21


unseen reserves from which he may draw
sustenance and power to his own surprise
and that of the world. "ro him :aat ever.
cometh 1 will give to eat of the hidden
mamma" In the winning struggle you find
the soul sustenance hidden from YOU be.
}! fore and still hidden from the wor'dN New
condolences, new assurances, new faiths
arise in the soul; new visions hreal; upon
it.. new voices speak to it and in il; new
communions with unseen covers enrich
its inner solitudes. and the man gets ly
and by to understand what Paul rfant
when he smoke of being strengthened
with might in the inner man" The truly
earnest man who persevercs IN the life OF
the good is constantly surprised at the re.
serve of power upon which he draws. Red
seas which looked as il they mean. ,ert1in
death have been safely crossed, and the
song OF triumph rang up to God on the
other side.
Difficulties which seemed insurmognta5,e
have been successfully overcome. This IL
why the man says: Hitherto !ath the
Lord helped me-" lie cannot understand
himself by himself, and so hc builds an
alter, to higher power. In life's victories
| we discover life's forces: IN the onward
march we discover the enrichment Of the
way, come 70 one after another of the
wells OF salvation. hidden from all who do
not march that way. And. remerb"r pl-
ways. that the ,arger our conurest IN lite
the more abundant VIII be lifc's srstan.
ance; 1t IS the concueror who finds tie
| mama. In q sense. everything is hidden
from us. and all growth is a discovery. It
is SO in the intellectual sphere. You ds-
cover treasures rs yor conuuer difficulties.
Yor rnust CONQUER the alnhabet ard the
spelling hook to discover the sentence.
CONQUER the sentence to discover the nara
| graph; conquer every rardgraph TO know
| tire trCasrre Of the book And 81 all tire
| Many pa raoI hOOlr tbat -,
at ali difficult: the food thore is l." it tney
cannot appreciate. Why? because their
conquests ore too small; thev have not
overcome ignorance and supcrfca,ty suffi-
GENTLY, SO the mama there remains h:l
den.
The same is truc in the nora, and sp;r.
itual sphere. There are people who ,re
quite incapable OF understanding the high
est kind OF affection and the hottest
kind of love because they have not them
selves overcome the vulcartv and coarse
ness OF human natures lo%er levels. All
nob!e, souls have meat to eat which the
world knows not Of" they have affec-
tions which the world would always dilute
with base ingredients, and aspirations
which it would always .arnlsh with the
stains Of earth. Be sure OF 1t, your discov-
cry of life's best things will depend upon
| your CONQUEST OF its worst. and with every
victory you shall eat hidden mamma and
|
, achieved. The successful struggle con-
stantlv discovers supports hidden from
him before, and still hidden from lives
which do not know tn, lofter reaches and
the more earnest endearors. What does
life WELD TO the victor? Here is one of the
morning star. !" What is this gift OF the
morning starr 1t is the feeling that life is
sweet and pure, fair and fresh with the
touch of morning. 1t IS the feeling that
| life is full of promise. that day is coming
on; that the best is yet to be. It is the
ing influence in the world, a living pro-
| phecy of its betterment. Now. friends.
there is nothing like moral purity to keep
the touch of morning on life; compromise
your morality and it is marvellous how soon
everything is stale. There is an indescrib-
when the world is as God makes it; when
it is indeed in the process OF His remaiiing
before we light our fires and emit ou.
smoke and beat up the dust OF our noisy,
turbulent life. Something like that sweet
freshness OF morning belongs to the soul
that is pure and comes to it always in its
hour OF victory over sin. As long rs your
affections are clean they are fresh: you
never tire of pure feelings or holy loves
| Again, what does the moral victor find?
IT is promised that Christ will write upon
him Gods name and the name OF Gods
city, and his own new. name. In our Ian
guage this means that life yields the victor
the consciousness that he really belongs
to God that he belongs to the new so.
ciety; that he belongs to Christ. In other
words, the spiritual universe owns him,
and he knows himself as a vital mart of it,
even as pillar in the temple of God, an
upholder of the sacred things OF lie: one
i, of those who have a real permanent life in
the, sanctuary, among the sanctities of
God-yea, who share the spiritual sover-
eighty of life with Cod with Christ and
witt. all the good: "He shall sit with Me
on My throne" etc.
Oh, you who are fighting sin, take cour.
age; with every triumph you are mounting
the steps of the throne of God. and ever
nearing the time when your life shall be
fixed in the truth which knows no turning,
and the Righteousness which is forever.
Lay hold on the thought of God as yorr
Helper, and believe that ii You work wiz.
Him all will be well, I invite you to no
ed the depths of lfe's woe. nor seen into
the hearts Of its tragedy. There is no pow.
CT and no healing in that. 1 heard it once
given out. from a Christian platform. /.
denounced gloominess of every kind: il
siashed the pessmists in every direction.
| il declared that all things were going on
exceedingly well; even the slums were not
so bad as some made out. and the war in
South Africa-well, it would come to an
end some time
So much of this was dealt out that 7 feIt
that such optimism was the shallowest OF
lies. and that to ventilate it in the name
OF christianity was to forget the tragedy
of Gethsemane and to blot out the men.
Dry OF the cross. No, no; il you are to be
q serious man, in earnest for the highest
ends OF life. for yourself and for So
eiety, you have a battle to fight: a hard
stern battle; a hundred things are wrong
with the world. which YOU must help to
! put right. Look the evil in the face and
| do not call it light. But when You have
done that, | ask you to realize larger fact.
viz, that the Alpha and Omega of All thi,
life is the love of the Good God. Because
that is the beginning. that is a,so the end.
and let it, therefore, be our
| Hope sun will pierce
| The thickest cloud earth ever stretched.
That after last shall come the first,
Tho wide compass roun be fetched
With that thought OF God LEI VIA spend
our few brief years fighting sin and serving
man, till we pass ito where beyond these
voices there Is peace"
| Now unto the God OF all grace. who hnth
( salled us unto His eternal g,ory by Christ
Jesus, be glory and dominion forever and
ever.