The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-20

ms nohoi, turning all the intensity ana en-.
terprise OF his strenuous existence toward
that as his goal. and his life will speedily
lcse its feverish heat and grow calm and
steadtast and serene. He iced not slacien
his pace a bit. II that be its goal. he may
continue to run and on to its close he will
remain Jatient despite his enviroEing con.
dltions. He may make haste to get rich.
to acquire leadership, to attain success, to
exalt Jesus Christ instead of self, if the uu.
seen be his chief aim and aspiration, and
the material bat a means thereunto, ne
viii go through life patient-proof, and the
tnmut and fever Of the age will never get
into his soul!
For this is peace to lose tn. lonely note
OF self in loves celestial-ordered strain;
And this is ioy-to find ones self again
In Him whose harmonies forever float
Through all the spheres OF song, below,
above.
FOR God is music, even as God is love-"
Oh! this is what our hard headed bust.
ness men need, this is what our nervous,
selt-centered society women need, this is
the great need of our ambitious and eager
youth. to make Jesus Christ, His glory and
service the soldering, absorbing, controlling
ambition OF their lives. is this not the
first great look our author commends TO us
looking unto Jesus, as our supreme pur-
pose? And what is the second?
Second--Looking unto Jesus for power in
our lives, as our great emancipator from
the bondage of this materialistic age.
Have you ever thought my friend,
As you dairy toll and p!od
In the noisy paths of men.
How still are the ways OF God?
Have you ever paused in the din
OF traffic's insistent cry,
10 think OF the calm in the cloud,
VI the peace in your glimpse OF the sky!
"Go out in the quiet fields,
That quietly yield you meat.
And let them rebuke your noise
Whose patience is still and sweet"
Jesus Christ alone can bring the quiet.
ness of the fields and the calmness OF the
cloud INFO our being. TO Him we turn, as
t. its fret great source, would we have the
same atmosphere blowing through our
souls. You know Nine. Guyon's definition
OF prayer The silence of a soul absorbed
in God And Tennyson's, if possible, was
even better: Prayer is like opening u
sluice between the great ocean and our lit
tie channels, when the great sea gathers it.
self together and flows in at full time" IL
you and L would run with patience, we,
too, must let this tide flow into our lives,
and that can never be until we live in close
touch with Jesus Christ, seek His help at
every turn, draw upon Him for our
strength and depend upon His grace for
sustaining and Transforming power. Henry
Drummond once said: Five minutes in
the morning alone with Christ will change
for us the whole day" What then would
all the minutes of all the days in union
with Him do for us?
Have You and to-day
Stood silent as with Christ, apart from JOY,
or fray
OF life. to see His face;
To look, if but moment. in its grace,
And grow, by brief companionship. more
true,
More nerved to lead, to dare, to do
For Him at any cost? Have we to-day
Found time, in thought our hand to lay
In His, and thus compare
His will with ours, and wear
The impress of His wish? Be sure
Such contact will endure
Throughout the day; will help It's walk
erect
Through storm and flood; detect
Within the hidden life sins dross. it's
stain;
Revive a thought of love for Him again;
Steady the steps which waver; help us see
The footpath meant for YOU, and me-"
Forever true il is that those who run
liie's race patiently are pre'eminentiy men
Third-What is the third look? Look.
ing unto Jesus as pattern for our lives.
There is something about this pattern pc.
culiar to itself. Expressed in word, it
has the perspective of eternity. Christ
lived His life not to crafty a. feeting,
success, pleasure, but to fulfill a God-given
mission, to reach up to divine standard,
and work ouT an eternal equation. Put to-
gether three heart utterances of His and
the full pattern will be before you: II do
always the. things that please Him'-duty
to His Father, His will ever yielding itself
to the will of God. Il am come that they
might have life and that they might have
it more abundantly" duty to men and
complete dedication of Himself to the full.
fillment of that duty. 81 must work the
works OF Him that sent Me"--duty to Him.
self as ''the sent of God" whose one pas
sion was to make His life justify its high
purpose. AS some one has phrased it:
"On one great mission bent,
He sped for God, forever unencumbered
OF earthly clogs whereby our souls arc
numbered,
In glory excellent"
Z Keep this pattern before you. my fellow
runners, consult it the first thing in tho
morning. turning to it often through the
day, and'let it be the last thing you look
upon at night ere your eyes forget to see,
and you will be too serious to be otherwise
than calm OF soul; too much in earnest to
lose your poise, too set upon linlling every
moment of time with eternity and work.
inG out the answer OF your life to God to
let temporal aim command you or sordid
things enslave you. Then the weights shall
be lifted off the inner and laid hard down
Upon the outward life. and you will con.
tinue to .ruh-perhaps your pace may
qucken-life win be a prompt, an earnest,
eager, intense race, but you will run it
clean down to the end with patience. This
is the trinal secret / bring you Christ the
purpose of our lives. Christ the power in
our lives! Christ the pattern for our lives!
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