Milford chronicle., 1905-01-20
we Need the plvine BLANC.

q We Need the Divine Flame.
e Only the divine light can produce IL
: true light of life "One day the lanter
D was talking to the candles which stoo
{ upon the mantel," wrote an imagin,
J tive author. "Oh. how much my ma,
ter thinks Of me-" it said. HE has Oi
/; ten told me it would be impossible 70
him to go out into the dark nights if
, did not go with him to point out th
: way" "Aye, aye" answered a candle
'that may be all true. But your maste
would sing a different song if it wer,
not for my bright eye in your socket
shining through your windows of glass
Did it never occur to you, o lantern
that you would amount to naught un
less my light shone within you and
through you" Christian disciples, does
it not occur to you that you are as moth
ing and will continue to be as nothing
as divine light unless Christ's light is
in you and shines through you? We
must have divine fine burning with
in us before we can be a divine light to
sinful and a dying world.
But, though the divine flame within
us is absolutely essential for the send
ing forth of a divine light out of our
lives, how many of Christ's prOfessed
disciples neglect imparting the holy
fires within themselves which are al
ways burning at Gods mercy seat! In
one of the heather temples Of the east
1 saw fire which. the priest told me,
had been in existence hundreds of
years. Those priests never allow that
fire to go out. Have we always kept
the divine flame burning within US?
BY diligent and unceasing prayer by
continual reading of Gods word, by
holy communications with Gods saints.
by pure, gentle. true, forgiving spirit,
have we always fed the necessary fuel
to the fires of our spiritual life? Like
EnOch. have we been continually walk
Ing hand in hand with God? Do not
think for one instant that you can i'm
pose upon the world an earthly fame
as heavenly light.
Music For Music's Sake.
A musician told me recently that she
could intuitively feel when she was
playing whether or not the members Of
Ter audience loved music. If there
we're twenty listeners present and nine
cen were merely pretending to be low {
rs Of harmony, she would play over the
leads Of those nineteen to the twenti- I
tn, who loved music for music's sake.
20 In your life God knows whether {
our light is a divine flame, and man {
lsO intultively can separate the earth
light from the divine Oh, so called
hristian disciples. before you attempt f
lead others to the cross get the di- O
Inc fires burning within you at the al v
lrs of your own heartsl Be not like I
lie five foolish virgins with lamps. but c
18th no divine oil for their lamps. Ii
ray. pray. pray! Plead, plead. plead "
the affairs of mercy for this light! II
e only can make the spiritual fires al
i'm within you. h,
When the divine fires begin to burn d,
thin us, what happens? Their inhu- OF
ce exerts itself all around us. Their Y,
Wer is felt by the people with whom m
come in contact. Their quickening gl
rs fall on fields that we know not Cl
and nourish and develop seed that sa
" have been carried from remote on
lrces. Many years ago Mr. Beecher, iu
nesick and lonely, was wandering ex
ough an Alpine village. where, to his tb
prise, he found some of the Ameri- Ike
flowers growing in the gardens of Cl
Swiss hamlets far from their ma n
soil. When our gospel light be- liy
S to shine it will develop spiritual sol
nts in fields or rocky soil and in sai
untain ravines, far from the places VIC
ever expect to find them. hr,
Spiritual Light Needed. les
i'd you ever stop to think that spir- VII
Il seeds are a great deal like the the
lmon seeds we plant in our gardens? ligl
'ir development depends not more roc
II the soil than the sunbeams which tia
them. What is the matter with got
gardenY l ask a neighbOr. Il have Ye
ght exactly the same kind of seed p
you. l have faithfully watered the loo
Ind every morning and evening. 1 nor
e dug out all my weeds as soon as II 5
poked their green heads above the nv
ace of the earth. Yet here am loss
! a few struggling plants looking crir
all the world as though they were fro,
g from a fatal attack of typhoid onr
hospital Of flowers while YOU of
roses galore and great. sturdy ho- one
beauties that are scattering their 70 ,
lse every whittier" "Ah," answers hloo
neighbor, you have starved your Is II
is for light. You have not given boI
the suns rays. Make your garden tbe
Inder the shadow of a wall. Dig it Cbri
place where the first sunbeam ont
h dances over the eastern hills can tbe
hide and seek among your roses. won
them sunlight! Flowers. like veg Cbri
es and harvest fields. must have wifi
They must have lightw All men ballc