Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-12

No MORE OUT"
itual and the carnal-under manifold forms,
which comes with the changing times
1t is not, as ancient thinkers and ascetics
taught, the antagonism between mind and
body. Their ideal of humanity was either
a triumph of the former over the latter nor
a patchy compromise between the two. In
the doctrine of the spirit as opposed to the
flesh do we find the originality and the
truth of the view of man. He car only live
his true life by recovering spiritual endow-
ment, in which body and mind may be once
more united and by which they may be
purified The spirit pants for the invisible
world. for a sight of its high holy reali-
ties, the flesh pants for the visible
world for its present and sensual gratifca-
ions. The spirit lives in God finds in Him
its dwelling place and deep comInunion the
flesh is an invisible and .nveterate life
power against His presence and supremacy.
The spirit strives TO be the master of cir
cumstances. to resist their awful downdrag,
and. by resisting them. mount to its throne;
the flesh tends 10 be swayed by every in
fluence and enslavcd to the spirit of the
world to the worship of success, gold,
power and slothful pleasure,
Such are the we'I-fought fields on which
the great battle of the soul with evil is car
ried on and whore life in Christ is an over
coming life. The conquest Of the carnal ma
ture is an assured conquest; the supremacy
premacy.
How shall a man be raised effectively into
such vanquishing career? What is needed
is that flesh and blood which did in Adam
fall should strive against the foe, should
strive again. and should prevail But how?
Men know perfectly well they should be
good, unseifsh, holy, heavenly minded, and
should rise again to perfect life; but they
cannot do it; they have no power TO make
the law that is holy and just and good pre-
vail over that other law in their members
How, then, is life to be made an overcom-
ing life? Listen: John gives us the grand
secret when he says. This is the victory
that overcometh the world, even your faith.
II
Him that loved us" Christ meets all hu-
man needs by Offering an abundant spr-
itual power to rise out of the depths of sin
into the new life of righteousness. This is
the life that quickens the human soul and
lifts it up over many a defeat and fail into
the life of God and keeps the struggling
spirit till It is crowned victor in the Strife
The life of the flesh, which is self-life, be-
comes less and less; the life of the spirit,
which is a divine life. wakes stronger and
fuller, until there is none of self and all is
of God and all for God The power of re-
alizing this triumph is conferred on all who
receive Christ: ITO as many as receive Him
to them gives He the power Cor the priv.-
lego to become the sons of God"-born not
Of the will of man, but of God.
Receive, then, this personal Savior and
let Him live in you the power of an over
coming and endless life. Let this Sabbath
day be the date of your birth into this splr-
ituaI life and sonship, or let it be red
letter day of another fuller entrance into
the overcoming life.
If you. my brother. are true 70 Christ and
heavenly laws you are. in spirit, a great
warrior. taking part in the spiritual battle
of the ages; and, if faithful unto death are
assured of a blessed reward
You viii be sustained IN this great strife
by the one clear conviction of the voice
from heaven in this book, saying: Come
come p" and by tie assured and certain over
throw of evil, when universal creation, for
ever ransomed, shall sing this song of i'm
mortal triumph: oh. thou enemy, destruc-
tons are come to perpetual end"