The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-12-03

that God called the old priest was
aroused to the meaning OF the voice and
told Samuel how he should answer and
what he should do II again the voice
should call. God grant that self may
be reused to the consciousness OF God.
and when He calls again the soul may
be bid to say: Speak. Lord. for Thy
servant heareth."
e ELF rules IN the body temple. God
- wants self to surrender and 10 let
His spirit control. Self as the high
priest of the life Is unresponsiye to
Gods will and Gods leading. Self seek
eth its own qualification, Its own ambi-
ton, its own plans, ana is Jealous OF It's
rights. 1t rules, and proposes to rule.
1t Is not willing to surrender to God.
Old Eli in the temple must make room
for the younger man. And when at last
he opened the way for Samuel to meet
God and hear His voice and receive His
message, 1t was that God might deliver
His judgment upon Eli and ELS house
for sin and misrule. When self at last
Is brought to the point OF recognizing
Gods voice and bids the soul respond
to Gods call, 1t means that self is at
last ready to step to Gods judgment
bar and receive sentence. II was Gods
plan that Samuel should I'LL the place
Of Eli, and 1t is His plan. His blessed
plan, that the soul should occupy the
place of self Self is under judgment.
1t Is to be destroyed. AS Gods word
puts 1t, "the old man Is to be crucified.
with the affections and lusts." In order
that the soul may expand ITO the in
filling of God and occupy the body tenn
Pile: in order that the new man, the
new creation in Christ Jesus. may come
to the fullness of the stature of son
OF God. Self is the present occupant
of the body temple that is to be judged
and removed, while the soul Is to be
quickened by the touch of God and ap-
pointed to fill the high priestly Office.
1t Is not pleasant for one to contem-
plate the giving up OF self In order that
God may be formed in him, except az
we view it from God standpoint. With
all the awful judgment before him, ELI
could say: 1T is the Lord; let Him do
what seemeth Him good" And so can
we say, as we hear the judgment Of God
against self and the will of the flesh.
T HERE are three things In the atti-
| tude of Samuel which We wish to
specially emphasize: First, he was
awakened; second, he was stirred to
seek, and, third, he was patient to wait.
Had he had the spirit OF some people
when the voice of God at last pierces
the heavy ears and wakes them to con-
seriousness, he would have listened for
a moment or two in impatience and then
would have turned over for "a little
more sleep and a little more slumber."
But the voice of God aroused him, and
he was thoroughly awake and anxious
to hear and obey. He did not know
God in a personal way. God had never
spoken to him with distinct voice. All,
how many there are who are in the same
spiritual condition. But God speaks.
and the voice Is heard. and the evidence
is furnished in the case of Samuel by
his springing out or bed and seeking
the voice, and In the case of the soul in
its search after the voice that has
spoken. Bed was no longer the place
for Samuel, and the present place OF
indifference is not the place for the
soul to abide. The voice has called.
You are in perplexity and doubt. You
know not what 1t all means. But the
voice has called, and your duty is to
spring from the place of Indifference to
that of active search And "he that
know clearly as Samuel did that 1t Is
God that has been calling, and then It
Is your part to patiently wait In faith
until God speaks again, so that you
may answer In obedience and faith:
Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth."
Such must be the attitude Of the soul II
1t would come to know God and hear
Him speak. Awake. oh soul, to thy
need! Seek that you may flnd! Pa
tiently wait that God may speak to your
soul His revelation!
c AMUEL, as he listened that night TO
y the revelation of God, discovered
three things, and every soul as he re-
ceives the revelation Of God through
the Holy Spirit has . like experience.
Samuel found new relationship with
God. And because Of the revelation and
the fellowship with God his RESPONSE
bilities were increased toward the ma
ton whose prophet and Judge be was
to become. Has God revealed Himself
to your heart? Have you been made
one with the Father through faith In the
crucified Son? Then upon you has rolled
new and heavy responsibility. Dare
you be Indifferent to 1t, while you hear
the judgments OF God pronounced
against sin and the sinner? Dare you
keep silent, while men are going down
to eternal death2 Can you remain in
different while friends and loved ones
are being swept along In the tide that
will plunge the soul to eternal de-
struction, Yours Is new and tre-
mendous responsibility, II the light
of Gods revelation has skinned in
your heart. And the third expe-
rience which comes with the revc-
lation OF God to the soul Il the realiza-
ton OF Gods righteousness and the aw-
full sinfulness of sin. Before you re-