The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-01-21

| he suggests. LeG US lay asiue NIty
weight and the sin that doth Sc easily be-
set us. and let us run with patience the
! race that is set before us, looking unto
Jesus, the author and fnisher OF our faith,
| who. for the Joy that was set before HIM,
endured the cross, despising the. Shame,
and is set down at the right hand OF the
throne OF God"
Locking unto Jesus" may mean at least
| three things: Looking unto Him as the
final goal; looking unto HIM as the one
only emancipator, and looking unto Him
as a perfect model or pattern. 1 believe
| the author OF this epistle means all this
| here.
/. Jesus the supreme goal OF our ivcS-
! our highest purpose, our commanding as
piration, out to whom all our energies run
and upon whom all our ambitions and ac'
| tivitles terminate.
| Lord, let me not he too content,
| With lie in tritiing service spent,
Make me aspire.
| When days with petty cares are fled,
Jet ne with holy thoughts DC thrilled,
Or something higher"
| This must be our constant prayer, II we
arc to run the hurried and hurry,ng race OF
modern life and preserve oar eqdIpoIse
| through il all; and that something hlgh-
ei' TO which we must aspire is the service
o. Christ Let man begin to live his iife
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
| lcse its fevcrish heat and grow calm and
steadfast and serene. He Iced not s!acken
his pace bit. If that be its goal, ne may
continue to run and on to its ciose he will
remain patient despite his enriroLing con-
ditions. He may make haste to get rich,
to acquire leadership, to attain: success, to
exalt Jesus Christ instead of self, If the un-
seen be his chief aim and aspiration, and
| the material but a means thereunto, he
will 20 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 bust.
| ness men need, this is what our nervous,
self-centered society women need, tins Is
| the great need OF our ambitious and eager
youth, to make Jesus Christ, His glory and
service the sober ing, absorbing, controilns
| 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 for power IN
| our lives, as our great emancipator IRON
| the bondage of this matcrldllstlc 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 trafhc's insistent cry,
| To think of the calm in the cloud,
OF the peace in your glimpse OF the sky!
"Go out in the quiet fields,
That quietly yield You meat,
| And let them rebuke 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. TO Him we turn, as
| to its first great source, would we have the
| same atmosphere blowing through our
souls. You know Nine. Guyon's definition
of prayer: "The silence o; a sou. absorbed
in Cod" And Tennyson's, il possible, was
even better: Prayer is like opening. Il
siu;ce between the great ocean and our 1T
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 c.ose
touch with Jesus Christ, seek His help at
every turn, draw upon Him for our
strength and depend upon His grace for
sustaining and Transforming power. Henry
Drummond once said: Five minutes IN
the morning alone with Christ will change
for us the whole day." What then would
all the minutes OF all the days IN 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;
To look, 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 flood; detect
Within the hidden life sins dross, its
Revive thought of love for Him again;
Steady the steps which waver; help lis see
The footpath meant for you, and me-"
Forever true it is that those who run
life's race patiently are pre-eminently 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
| culiar to itself Expressed in a word, 1t
has the perspective OF eternity. Christ
lived His life not to crafty feeting'
success, pleasure, but to fulfill God-given
mission, to reach up to a divine standard,
and work ous an eternal equation. Put to,
gether three heart utterances of His and
the full pattern will be before YOU, Il do
always the things that please Him"-duty
to His Father. His will ever yielding Itself
to the will of God. Il am come that they
might have lie and that they might have
it more abandantly ly'-duty to men and
| complete dedication OF Himself to tine full
/ fiilment OF that duty. 81 must work the
works OF Him that sent Me"-duty to Him.
self as "the sent of God" whose one pas
sion was to make His life justify its high
purpose. As some one has phrased It:
'On one great mission bent,
He sped for God, forever unencumbered
OF earthly clogs whereby our souls are
| numbered