The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1905-01-07
Entered Vt the Post Office a Chicago
) q a. Seccod-elas Matter.
WHAT WINS?

A great many parents have inquired
of me how to win their children, they
say they have talked with them, and
sometimes they have scolded them
and have lectured them, and signally
failed. think there is no way so sure
to win our families and our neighbors
and those about whom we are anxious
to Christ, than just to adorn the doc
trine of Jesus Christ in our lives, and
grow in all these graces, if We have
peace and joy and love and gentle
ness and goodness and temperance,
not only being temperate in what we
drink, but in what We eat, and tenn
perate in our language, guarded in our
expressions, if we just live in our
homes as the Lord would have us, an
even Christian life day by day, We
shall have a quiet and silent power
proceeding from us that will con-
strain them to believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ But an uneven life. hot
today and cold tomorrow. will only
repel, many who are watching Gods
people, it is just the very worst thing
that can happen to those whom we
want to win to Christ, to see us, at any
time, in a cold, Sliding state;
this is not the normal condition of the
Church; it is not Gods intention, he
would have us growing in all these
graces, and the only true, happy
Christian life is to be growing, con-
stantly in the love and favor of God,
growing in all these delightful graces
of the spirit, even the vilest, the most
impure, acknowledge the power of
goodness; they recognize the fruit Of
the spirit, it may condemn their lives
and cause them to say bitter things at
times, but down deep in their hearts
they know that the man or the woman
who is living that kind of life is SUI
perior to them; the world don't satisfy
them, and If we can show the world
that Jesus Christ does satisfy us in
our present life, it would be more
powerful than the eloquent words of
professional reformers. man may
preach with the eloquence of an angel
but if he don't live what he breaches
and act out in his home and in his
business what he processes, his testi-
mony goes for naught, and the people
say it is all hypocrisy after all, it Is all
sham, words are very empty, If there
is nothing hack Of them, your test-
mony is poor and worthless, if there
is not a record back of that testimony
consistent with what you profess.
What we need is to pray to God to lift
us up out of this low, cold formal
state that we have been living in that
we may live in the atmosphere Of
God continuously, and that the Lord
may lift upon US the light Of His
countenance, and that We may shine
in this world, rejecting His grace
and glory, the first Of the graces
spoken of in Galatians and the last
mentioned in Peter, is charity and
love; we can serve God, we connot
work for God unless we have love,
that is the key which unlocks the hu-
man heart; If can prove to a man
that 1 come to him out Of pure love,
If a mother shows by her actions that
it is pure love that prompts her ad-
vising her boy to lead a different life,
not a selfish love, but that it is for
the glory of God 1t wont be long be-
fore that mothers influence will be
felt by that boy and he will begin to
think about this matter because true
love touches the heart quicker than
any thing else.
ELIZABETH MCDONALD.
$50 Ada street.