The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-22

Lords uplift of your soul from the hor-
rible pit? What a wonderful lift it was
for you when your feet, taken from the
miry clay, We're placed upon the rock. 1t
was rest-glving act To the poor sheep,
weary and faint, If II could have under
| stood it, how full OF rest to feel itself
upon the shoulders of the shepherd, car
ried back to safety. OH what a rest to
you to know that you are borne along by
the eternal power and go-ahead OF the
Lord Jesus Christ. You have no need of
strength If you are leaning on the ever
lasting arms
The shepherd is consecrated to the bur-
dens of his sheep. The Lord Jesus SEEM
eth to bear no burdens but those of his
people. oh 1.-THE glorious grace of our I'M
failing Savior, who consecrates Himself
to our salvation. and concentrates upon
that object all that He has and is.
When we speak of bringing salvation to
the lost ones, do we comprehend the i'm
mense scope, the immeasureabe sweep
of that word? The diameter of that word
describes an orbit whose circumference
is as wide as the nature of man, as COM
prehensive as the relations of society, as
high as the throne of God. Men are not
to be saved out of the world. but saved
in tho world. Herein lies the constructive
and conserving element of our work.
That Christ may have the greatest posi-
BILE revenue of glory from our redeemed
lives. The spirit of evangelism is by no
means exhausted when specific result
called Conversion is gained, because the
whole spiritual life under the gospel in
its method and ongoing Is germlnally
contained in the taking OF one such step.
Failure to inculcate this In developing
the newly begun life results in the loss
of their evangelical bearings. The evan
gelism SO profoundly and widely needed Is
to train and aecustom the churches to live
truly in the eyangelistic spirit In which
the gospel would place and establish
I them, as we'll as to bring In new con-
verts. Thus viewed the evangelization
required Is a vastly deeper and more uni
yersal thing than is commonly supposed.
Along with our evangelistc efforts new
emphasis should be given the truth that
there is nothing secular which religion
cannot both touch and glorify. Our times
| are pre-emlnently noted for practical be-
nevolence and utilitarian tendencies. We
face demands for the most comprehensive
and perfect application of Christian
| thought to all classes and all social con-
ditions. The changes sweeping over the
economical world are without parallel
IN history. We should be in an agony of
effort to apply the principles of the gos-
pei to the social and Industrial conditions
of the hour The whole work of sancti-
fication is wrapped up In the saving acts
of Jesus. Every thought has to be
brought into captivity; every motive has
to be elevated, and a greater and an ever
enlarging horizon set before us Our local
thinking and acting must be lifted into
larger relations. We never do our work
so well as when we have a world PLAN
Does the architect allow any detail of the
work to be constructed without reference
to his high ideals? If any workman start
to build In one place by himself and con-
struct a barn instead Of a palace, the ar