Orange County observer., 1904-01-28

upturnec faces: Let our author answer.
Looking unto Jesus is the sole remedy
he suggests. Let us lay aside every
set us, and let US US run run with patience pa a the the
race that is set before us, looking unto
Jesus, the author and tinisher of our faith.
who, for the JOY that was set before Him,
endured the cross, despising the shame,
throne of God"
Looking unto Jesus may mean at least
three things: Looking unto Him as the
hnal goal; looking unto Him as the one
only emancipation, and looking unto film
as a perfect model or pattern. 1 believe
the author Of this epistle means all this
here.
l. Jesus the supreme goal of our lives
our highest purpose, our commanding as
plratlon, out to whom all our. energies run
and upon whom all our ambitions and ac-
tlvities terminate.
Lord, let me not be too content,
With life in trihing service spent, Il
Make me aspire.
When days with petty cares are filed,
Let me with holy thoughts be thrilled,
OF something higher
This must be our constant PRAYER. If we
are to run the hurried and hurrying race of
modern life and preserve our equipoise
through it all; and that something high
err to which we must aspire is the service
OF Christ. Let man begin to live his life
in devotion to Him, for His sake and unto
His honor, turning all the intensity and en-
terprlse OF his strenuous existence toward
that as his goal, and his life will speedily
2 lose ,t its feverish heat and grow calm and
his pace a bit. IF that be it's goal he may
continue to run and on to it's close he will
remain patient despite his enviroring con-
dltions. He may make haste to get rich,
to acquire leadership, to attain success, to
exalt Jesus Christ instead of self, if the un-
hn h1of or,l
the material but a means thereunto, he
Will go through life patient-proof, and the
tumult and fever of the age will never get
into his soul.
For this is peace-to lose the lonely note
Of self in loves celestial-ordered strain:
And this is Joy-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 busi-
| ness men need, this is what our nervous,
self-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
hrst great look our author commends to us
looking unto Jesus, as our supreme our
pose? And what is the second?
Second-Looking unto Jesus for power in
| our. lives, as our great emancipation frora
| the bondage of this materialistic 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 lnslstent cry,
TO think of the calm in the cloud,
Of the peace in your glimpse Of the sEYS
~Go out in the quiet fields,
That quietly yield you meat,
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Jesus Christ alone can bring the quiet
ness of the fields and the calmness OF the
cloud into our being. To Him we turn, as
to it's first great source, would we have the
; same atmosphere blowing through our
souls. You know Nine. Guyon's definition
in Cod" And Tennyson's, if possible, was
, even better: prayer is like opening a
. sluice between the great ocean and our lit
tie channels, when the great sea gathers it.
self together and flows in at full time" II
, 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
4 every turn, draw upon Him for our
strength and depend upon His grace for
sustaining and Transforming. power. Henry
for us the whole day." What then would
! all the minutes of all the days in union
J | with Him do for us?
> ':Have you and I to-day
r Stood silent as with Christ, apart from JOY.
+ OF fray
s ! OF life, to see His face;
: To look, if but moment, in its grace,
4 And grow, by brief companionship, more
t | true,
q More nerved to lead. to dare, to do
t For Him at any cost? Have we to-day
Found time, in thought, our hand to lay
a In His, and thus compare
!. | His will with ours, and wear !,
n The impress of His wish? Be sure
+ l. Such contact will endure
!, Throughout the day; will help us wall
e erect
i Through storm and food detect
r. Within the hidden life sins dross, it:
}. stain;
y Revive thought of love for Him again;
n Steady the steps which waver; help lis SCI
!. The footpath meant for you, and me-"
< Forever true it is that those who rur
life's race patiently are pre-eminently mer
e Of prayer:
% ing unto Jesus as pattern for our lives
n There is something about this pattern pc
r culiar to itself Expressed in word, i
g has the perspective of eternity. Chris
e lived His life not to crafty a feeetlng
it success, pleasure, but to fulfill God-givel
lr mission, to reach up to divine standard
d and work out an eternal equation. Put to
J. gether three heart utterances of His ant
In the full pattern will be before you: Il d.
e, always the things that please Him"-dut!
If to His Father, His will ever yielding itsel
e. to the will of God ''I am come that the,
n might have life and that they might hav'
1t it more abundantly" duty to men AM
,e complete dedication of Himself to the full
It fillment of that duty. II must work th'
r works of Him that sent Me"-duty to Him
n self as "the sent of Cod whose one pas
n sion was to make His life justify it's higl
Is purpose AS some one has phrased it:
"On one great mission bent,
d He sped for God, forever unencumbered
Of earthly clogs whereby our souls art
If numbered,
In glory excellent
Keep this pattern before you. my fellow