Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-01-07

the open-spirited receive these mes
sages as they offer day after day.
Growth in gra ce is growth into graz
c~iousneSs. \ boorish Christian sub
tracts from his religion to the extent OF
his boorishness.
Each life has it's individual need. and
all ives have cer.ain great common
needs. The former are to be met by the
individual soul and God; the latter are
for everyone's consideration. Among
them are surely to he included greater
loyalty to convictions, and increased
emphasis upon the supremacy of spir-
itual ideals, and q vivid ON
seriousness of the spirit s personal rela-
ton to God.
The new year will be a happier year
if it is a year filed with little kind
nesSeS.
growth toward God.
New Years resolutions are some
times the expression of wishes. rather
than of purposes.
The more of God we let come into
this year the more of life we shall
have.
Branches grow only as the roots
grow. The inner life must grow with
the outward duty.
We are not fun grown until we have
attained the measure of the stature
of the fulness Of Christ"
Like flowers. Christians grow even in
the night.
Better the knife than no fruit.
There are no circumstances that can
prevent a Christians spiritual growth.
Souls thrive best in the field of duty.
Growth out of self is growth toward
Christ.
Substantial growth is slow. A single
night may produce IL mushroom, but a
single day may blight it. The best things
take time. Character is not formed in a
day. nor by n single resolution. The slow,
steady accretions of years make manhood
and womanhood. So We should be patient
with ourselves, knowing that, II charac-
ter is long in the making, 1t will be longer
in the service, for character is one of the
few things that can be carried past the
narrow portals of the grave.
An increased love for spiritual concerns
for all truth. for the sacred page of holy
writ. for the fellowship with carth's saints.
for the hour of retirement in the secret
place of PRAYER for the house of Worship
is one sign of Christian growth.
Environment determines position. We
may know where we stand by considering
with whom we stand.
A brave heart is n better treasure TO
take into the new year than "a big bank
account.
Every plant grows according to it's ma
ture, to which it must be true. Wise old
Paul insisted upon this same principle in
and effectiveness. There are diversities
of gifts and works: each must grow In his
own place and in his own way. Some are
to be prophets, some cvangelists. some
cache and some pastors: but all are to
grow. Altering the figure. the apostle
speaks of disciples as members of the one
great body whose head is Christ. Each
member has IL different office, to which it
must be loyal. but all grow up, fifty and
fully, into the perfect body of Christ.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
They best
Can greet the New Years coming
Who best have kept
Faith with the Old, and freighted it's swift
hours
With their great thoughts and godlike pur-
poses
Translated nobly into noble deeds!
w. II. Burleigh.
High hearts are never long without hear
ing some new call, some distant clarion of
God.-Martineau.
Only the golden rule of Christ
Can bring the golden age of Man.
Francis willard.
We must go forth and leave our past:
let us go forth nobly as those whom great
err thoughts and greater deeds await be-
yond, and thus by the discipline of all the
| years be made fit for the everlasting world
where life shal count itself by years no
longer.--Phillips Brooks.
Where anxiety begins. faith ends: and
where faith begins anxiety e~nds.-George
Muller.
What has the Old Year brought you.
friend?
10y. and owe and sweetness?
Then pass them along to Others, friend.
That they to imperfect lives may lend
/ A little OF your completeness
e. c. Dowd.
Because He is in our future as much as
He Is in our past. and as much as we feel
Him to be i'm our present, we walk without
fear, full of hope and courage.-George
Macdonald.
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