The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-24
"WHO ARE SONS OF GOD"
Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev.
Robert A. MacFadden.
-Four Sources Of Success are Blood, viii Of
the Flesh, VIII Of Man and God.

Sunday in the Lafayette Avenue Presby..
terian Church. In the morning his subject
was "Who Are the Sons of God" He
Ny subject is "who Are the Sons of
God?" and my text John /: 13: (which
were born not of blood, or of the will of
The flesh or OF the will of man but Of God"
Here are four sources of success set in
contrast-blood, will of the flesh, will of
man and God. At first sight they are
Equal; but second sight reveals the war.
fare that ever goes on between heredity
and environment on the one hand and
faith in God on the other This contrast
implies, though does not state, that the
one true success is spiritual success, and
for this q secret power is to be furnished
Power in life means all the way through
to the final, victory over difficulties, and
difficulties cannot be ultimately overcome
except through this secret power.
Every life lived and every work done has
somewhere its sufficient explanation. God
has never yet permitted an accident in
His world. Every deed has its pedigree
So much producing energy in the cause
means SO much energy in the effect. There
is no such thing as luck Every life las
its pedigree. Young men are so apt to
think chance plays the great part in lie,
30 they wait for their chance. They gee
some one do easily the thing he under
takes, and they leap to the belief that there
is some trick about 1T. Ii they only had
the trick they could do it, also. Such
young men need to b, informed. T1c man
who succeeds to-day in business, scholar
shin or politics succeeds because he knows
how, and he knows how because he has
learned how. He who does rot know how
is foreordained to failure. There is no
more important question the young man
can ask himself than how he can prepare
for life as not to be castaway mot lost
in the next world, but shipwrecked In
this"
H. 40 IN "a bo+ yo,, ,,,L ~ ,,o-, ;,,nJ
what he can do is 9 constant ratio. Every
mai will have all the power he earns, and
the power that ne has will tell, not because
people like it or like him, but because it is
power, and such can keep itself erect
without being proppcG up by labor union
or held in its place because it is somebody's
so1.
1t follows, then, that the most import
ant thing boy can do is to get ready. 1t
is Inspiration to k.4ow tEat every ounce of
energy put into work in the cary years is
80 much distinct guarantee Of usefulness IN
the adult years. And next to getting
ready, the father should tell his boy that
he must get ready for rough weather. The
boy must learn to handle the boat of his
own experience If he is not to be driven
upon the Swallows or into the breakers. As
lie meets and masters the difficulties that
beset him getting out OF the harbor of the
higi school or the college, he is equipping
himself for the enemies that will assail
him on the high seas.
JOIN, then, here points out the possible
ways OF getting ready. He asserts that
hiaaJ iii of tho Ar nv on Iii ~ ,nn up
bnt .o;elv rnoo Cod Tet me me' tr,psiats sia
tbis ;nto tbe four ~, Eam;iv force f,r.
nishings, faith.
denend mon he fon,;,,, M, f,,mon mo' ab AL.
hott has Sa,,elnnod thiEs thnroht mai n..;onai.
iv. Tha+ No noania ara oraat 81 raod -
;nlv because OF their ancestrv "Tbe Great.
ness of America does not denend nrimari-
for 'p moment d;snute th;s with IIr him "JS Rnt
7 desire 70 emnhoe;ze tb;S frnn, tha do,nes'
4;c y;awno;nt 4 49, sn;r;tuaI sIe suonass
says John, does not ;,onend unon his fam.
ilv. Then il makes no dfferepca what the
family the RibIe laws no stress mon here.
div He who saws tb;s does NOT know the
jRible The R;bie Iavs areat st-ass rnnn
hereditv When II wr;9es tbe lie uf' Of a
great man II beg;ns With his norents The
foundations Of Coo Generation are in ali
resnects laid in the sntecedent genaraton
In an important sense the bow begins to to
child ia The narent cont;nmed down into n
now c,e,era+;pn Th;s ;s so;enoo and - ;s
GOOD scence Rrt this "a Snr;nt,ra 60 nd IL
is good Scr;ntnre Scrintmra emnha sized
hsreJ;ty Ionp he;ora sd;enna WI bnr,
Wannab tba onther &c MnSas. Ei;z,Teth
Mar LOIS and E,,n;oe ara ali mann;Gcanf
monvments Tho Cbr;st;on ,ynnsan ,rho
wom,d d,,nl;oota thssa O,nrn,,S "oea sons ,st WY
6rst dnni;nota +ha;r ,9atnhIass rnothars
Z A. p Gupnsa's h DIE m ,io.ne. =; .
tercst in beredity. 1t is the GOSPEL expec.
tation that the children grow up bearing
the physical features OF their parents. so
in time they will come to embrace and ex-
emnIifv the narents' faith That's what
Timothy did! in whom the great apostle
reioiced 40 much. Heredity ia mighty. but
lei MS NOT think II ia almighty. Heredity
gives ne tendancv hut II g;yes ma moth
mo else The cb;Idren of oood narents
take in ooodness more aas;lv fban the chill.
dren nj had narents The children of edu.
Gated narentS enn,,;ro ;daas mora aas;jv
than tbnae of ianorant narents Tho fatb.
ar ,ybn for fvas "a tn,ao ~, ,,aars has been
SAVING. 1Two timas t,vn sre fonr I' a,,ess
the tendencv n' to mske s tho % I same o Hult;nii.
caton h,,t tha " oh;I% ,,,,,st ,ahn .ha nhn;cs
hesnre y benoea ut - nNnr b;r, "asi s;n n' Hnw
w;sb that +bat n,sat sarraon os Henrv
;Ward Rssaohar ~ .usraa;tn fna,,annsS
oonid n;rt om iie,euey iyit ihhte"ov NC o,r
oour.o u oe piinicu aS suppiemens W Io,
,no, 49,. ~ e'es. na. IA seiinoh mon. ne,
10 ths;r nh;Ilra "Is. d.. my n,Y tq oa
se Gea Sh%naieh % out aitGr an, 'ne slae'
Wrat tu Suonger Ihah ehe sin Vi Insh
% iiah - he ehooses 70 Dc Wean
nss;, 'enuehey ate hlhued uoWh, pue the
Wo,s WSnO,se ,s Maue Dy .he inoiviuuai nihhsei, GU
- spiiituai success young man, qoea
ny ny uepeno upon your ancestry, your ner'
euitS, your iatncT naDits, OF your fanny