St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-12

| the world To-Day, winch mas naQ the
God Man dwell among them and fulfill
all of Gods wonderful plan of salvation
! by which man may get back to God? Is
| rael's God lowered over them in the
cloudy pillar, He dwelt in the Holy
Of Holes in the Temple, but now the
veil of that temple is rent, and God de-
sires to find dwelling place in the hui
man heart. Israel is. a monument of
| Gods mercy and patience, but redeemed
man to-day is the browning glory Of His
great love and mercy and patience.
| vY1HY are you not consumed, oh man!
| !" oh, woman! as you stubbornly
rush headlong in your own doing? Why
| is it that the judgment of God does not
! fall and crush your stubborn neck and
grind you to powder? Is 1t because your
evil doing and stubborn way Have not
merited the punishment? No! for "all
have sinned," and Gods judgment
against sin is death "The soul that sin
meth it shall die" 1.-The wages OF sin
is death. Then why does God
wait? 1t is because God will
have all men to be saved and. to
come unto the knowledge of the truth"
THE Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to usward not will
ing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance The
rich man never got into the torrents
of hell until God exhausted every eff
fort to have him turn from his own way
to Gods way, and yield his own will to
the will of God While we have turned
every one to his own way" the Lord has
laid the sin of our RIGHTEOUSNESS and
stubbornness upon His weli-beloved Son,
and offers through Him forgiveness and
salvation. John Wesley once had occa-
sion to reprimand his travelling compan-
ion and secretary, John Bradford, and
when the latter stubbornly refused to
yield, Wesley said: Then you and l
must part" Every good, sir" replied
Bradford. Thus the matter rested until
the next morning, when Wesley accost-
ed his old friend. and asked him if he
had considered what he had said, that
they must part" eyes, sir" replied
Bradford. "And must We part?" in
quired Wesley Please yourself, sir"
was the reply. "Will you ask my par
don" rejoined Wesley. mo, sir" you
won't?" No. sir" Then will ask
yours!" replied the great-hearted man.
And Bradford melted under the exam
pie, and wept like child. And how in
finitely greater is the and love and
forgiveness of our God towards man!
While we were dead in trespasses ana
sins, Christ died for us. While we are
in rebellion against God, He extends to
us a pardon. signed with the blood Of
His dear Son. Oh, this ought to melt
the hardest heart
DUT, thank God! there are some who
- do cease their own doings and yield
their wills to God There was always
small remnant in Israel which had eyes
to see God. and minds to understand Him.
md ears to hear Him when He spoke,
and hearts willing to do His will.
There were seven thousand in Is
rael who had not bowed the knee
to Baal when the prophet Elijah
thought he only was left of those>who
served Cod He thought all the rest of
Israel ceased not from their own do
ings, nor from their stubborn way" and
there are those in the world to-day who
have yielded to God and who realize that
His way is best But this departure
from the way of the natural man to the
way of God; this yielding of the human
will to that Of the Divine is progress
i've. Step by step man breaks away from
the natural desires and ambitions, and
attains unto that Godlikeness which it
is Gods purpose should be matter of
growth with every one Of His children.
The first step is salvation, the new birth.
The natural man must be made new
creature in Christ Jesus before. he can
walk in Gods ways.
THE child hast be born before It can
j breathe and see and feel, and walk
and talk. These are experiences which 1t
cannot enjoy until it has been ushered
into the sphere of being where these
things are possible and natural So is
it with the spiritual creature. The nat
ural man cannot breathe, or see. or feel,
or walk, or talk, in the spiritual world,
until he has been borne into that realm.
Gods Word declares: "The natural man
receiveth notathe things of the Spirit
of God: for they are foolishness unto
him: neither, can he know them, be-
cause they are spiritually discerned."
/ The first step. then, by which man
leaves his own way and gets into the
way Of God is when he repents of the
sinfulness Of his own way lanc accepts
Christ as his sacrifice for sin and as his
Saviour from sin. Then does he begin to
walk in the spiritual realm. then does
he begin to cease his own doing and do
the will of Cod And the gateway to
the new life, Christ, is also the Way OF
the new life Christ came into the world,
ind where man had failed to walk in
Gods way and to do His will, He perfect J
" walked and delighted to. do His Fa-
theirs will. And in Christ the soul has
its great Exemplar. as we'll as Saviour.
God, Who has said: This is the way,
walk We in It" points to the Christ, the
Saviour of the world, as He speaks. In
Him, man can cease from his own do
ings, but apart from Him man is lost
in the darkness of his own sins. Gods