Milford chronicle., 1905-05-26

These Jesus sent forth-Matt. lO-5.
The centuries have produced
moral teachers of celebrity. Witt
respect and gratitude students hav,
hung on their utterances. Moses
the illustrious founder of the He,
brew nation and institutions; Go.
tama, the distinguished creator OF
Buddhism, Confucius the renowned
sage of China Socrates, the mar
tyred teacher of Plato; Calvin, Ar
minicus, Knox, Luther and Wesley
are among the famous moral teach
ers of the world,
But towering above them all is
the Parsonage characterized in the
text. The solitary moral teacher
claiming superhuman and super
angelic origin, still further claims
the cooperation of human agencies
to aid the completion of the well
wrought plans for His kingdom.
The text plainly declares that He
personally commissioned the Apos-
ties and sent them forth, and we
may add, the same for all time.
l. We learn from this lesson that
as God has some design in our Gre
alton He expects us to carry out. /
we want to address ourselves with
reference to that design and our
fitness for it.
We are almost criminallv careless
IN the estimate of our worth or use
fulness. Unfolding into something
is necessary. Time moves on
year succeeds to year, our educa- I
tion days are over. The wheel al
ways revOlves; Gods touch is on {
the clay. But the clay is nodded '
under the influence Of motive. We '
are left to choose whether we will K
be a vessel to honor or dishonor
The old Greek injunction, know ,,
thyself is good advice, but no man h
can know himself without knowing r
God. God is the only standard 7
with which a man can safely COM e
pare himself, our judgment respect a
ing ourselves is always relative. 4
1t is like our judgment of archi n
-ecture-if we have been brought a
up in a little hamlet, where the {,
'nly building that makes pretence n,
o size or grace, is the store, hotel, h,
academy or chuch, we look upon w
hat with feelings of young admira- in
ion. But when we have seen such =,
protusion of graceful structures, v,
IS were the crowning attractions of Re
,ur several national expositions, we "
10 not regard such buildings as hi
worth mentioning. tits so of emf II
ent men. In our boyhood we bc
hought the country barristers, who CO
rowbeat witnesses, assumed atti- il,
1des and phrased periods before or
ne village justice, were illustra- hi
ons of forensic accomplishments. of
ut when we came out into large
orld, and listened to real barrist- n,
IS learned in the law, dignifed in ~ ~
fought and speech, we changed r,
II minds, and so of preachers and tG' tG'
)ctors. Tx
1t is one of the many advantages tt' .I'
college life that it gives us new III til
i'd higher standards. At home or SIC Sla
the preparatory institutions we ~ ~
emed to be somebody. But in W. W.
e university we find ourselves ts We
e of hundreds who have been - -
me bodies in a narrow sphere any any
, realize our relative value and eI;, eIa
ainment. iai'
II. God designs to come into our e. ne
es if we will give Him room and N0p
len He comes He brings all His l
feet ideals with Him. He does oy
make any of us drift to and fro tam
a log with the tide. Nay ior
e are not az a weed. flung from the ySa
rock, on oceans foam to sail ana
eTe'er the surges dash, or tempest's seer
breath prevail" disc
We are here to master tides, to was
: them at their food and go on daw
ortune. into