The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-01-28

control, and therefore unsuccesslully:
"What is the secret OF such patieDce:'
you ask of me. eagerly, earnestly, III Your
upturneG: faces: Let our author answer.
Looking unto Jesus is the soc remedy
he suggests. Let Us lay ASIDE every
weight and the sin that doth so easily BE-
set us. and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us, looking unto
Jesus. the autnor and iinlsher OF our 1alth,
who, ior the Joy that was set before him.
endured the cross, desDis!ng the shame,
and is set down at the right hand OF the
throne of God.'
Looking unto Jesus may mean at least
three things: Looking unto Han as the
final goal; looking unto Him as the one
only emancipation, and looking unto i1m
as a perfect model or pattern. l beheve
the author OF this epistie means all this
here. ;.
I. Jesus the supreme goal OF our lives
our highest purpose, our commanding as
piration. out to whom all our energies run
and upon whom all our ambitions and ac-
tivities terminate.
Lord, let me not te too content,
With life in trihing service spent,
Make me aspire.
When days with petty cares are filed,
Let me with holy thoughts be thrilled,
OF scnetning higher"
This must be our constant prayer, II we
are to run the hurried and hurryIng race OF
modern life and preserve our eqalpoIsc
through it all; and that something high
err to which we must aspire is the service
Of Christ. Let man begin TO live his llie
in devotion to Him, for His sake and unto
His honor, turning all the intensity and en-,
terprise of his strenuous existence toward
that as his goal, and his life will speedily;
lose its feverish heat and grow calm and
steadfast and serene. He Iced not siacken
his pace a Bit II that be its goai, ne may
continue to run and on to its c.ose he wilt
remain patient despite his enviro1.;ns con-
ditions. He may make haste to get rich,
to acquire leadership, to attain success, to
exalt Jesus Christ instead of self, II the un-
seen be his ches aim and aspiration, and
the material but a means thereunto, he
will 90 through lie patient-proof. AID the
.umult and fever of the lge will never get
into his soul.
For this is peace-to lose the ione.y note
OF self in loves celestial-ordered strain;
And this is joy-to find one S self again
In Him whose harmonIes forever Hoat
Through all the spheres OF song, below,
above,
For God is music, even as God IS love-
Oh! this is what our hard-headed busi-
ness men need, this is what our nervous,
self-centered society women need, this IS
the great need OF cur ambitious and eager
youth, to make Jesus ChriSt, HIS glory ana
service the sobering, 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 ior power IN
our lives, as our great emanclpato" from
the bondage of this materiaiStic age.
Have YOU ever thought my friend,
AS you daily toll and plod
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.
70 thinl. of the calm in the c.ouc,
Of the peace in your glimpse Of tie sky!
"Go out in the quiet feds,
That quietly yield you meat,
And let them rehuke 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 into our being. 70 Him we turn, as
t, it's irst great source, would we have the
same atmosphere blowing through our
souls. You know Nine. Guyons definition
of prayer: "The silence of soul absorbed
in God" And Tennyson's 5, If possible, was
even better: Prayer is like opening, a
sluice between the great ocean and our ut
tie channels, when the great sea gathers IT.
self together and flows in at full time" Ii
TOO, must let this tide flow into our lives,
and that can never be until we live in c.ose
touch with Jesus Christ, seek His help at
every turr, draw upon Him ior our
strength and depend upon His grace for
sustaining and Transforming power. henry
DrummoHd once said: Five minutes i'll
the morning alone with Christ will change
for US the whole day What teen wcu.d
all the minutes of all the days III 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;
10 ;ook. if but a 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 US walk
erect
Through storm and food; detect
Within the hidden life sins dross. its
stain;
Revive thought of love for Hin. again;
Steady the steps which waver; hep ,,s see
The footpath meant for you, and me-
Forever true it is that those WHO run
life's race patiently are prc-eniiuentiy men
Of prayer.
Third-What is the third look? Look
ing unto Jesus as pattern for our lives.
There is something about this pattern pc
cular to itself. Expressed in word, 1t
has the perspective OF eternity. Christ
lived His life not to crafty d feetlng,
temporal. selfish sense. like avarice., fame,
success, pleasure. but to fulfill God-glven
mission. to reach up to divine standard,
and work OUT an eternal equation. Put to:
gether three heart utterances Of HIS ano
the full pattern will be before YOU: i do
always the things that please Hiln''-duty.
to His Father, His will ever Welding itself
to the Will of God. Il am come rhat they
might have life and that they might have
it more abundantly' to men and
complete dedication of Himself to the full
hliment of that duty. Il must work the
works 81 Him that sent Me'-duty to Him
self as the sent OF God" whose ore pas
sion was to make His lie Justify. its high
purpose. As some one has phrased It: