Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-11-17
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pIeadings or your consclencef
NOT only did God create man with
conscience: he also made man capable
IN his pure state Of enjoying the bless
ing of his presence. He seems 10
come TO man and say: "Man, II thou
wilt only become pure, as am pure
I will take thee some day to myself
| will receive you into heaven, where
there are joys foreyermore." Ihere
Is evil In the world; do not yield 10 It.
And in his tenderest tones he encour'
ages us with the promise, He that
oyercometh shall inherit all things, ana
will be his God, and he shall be my
son." We are made after his image
The Greatest Love.
You remember how tenderly Jesus
Impressed this idea on his disciples
He told them that the union between
his nature and that Of his people was
as close as that Of the vine ana It's
branches. And again be returned 10
the thought in that last solemn hour
of his parting before he suffered
Christ is about to leave his disciples
The shadows Of the cruclixion are
falling over him. He looks on the men
| who had sat at his feet SO often in the
mast and speaks these beautiful WORDS;
"Greater love hath no man than this
that a man lay down his life for MS
friends. Ye are my friends If ye dc
whatsoever | command you. Hence
forth I call you not servants, for the
servant knoweth not what his Loru
doeth but I have called you friends,
for all things that have heard OF my
Father | have made known to you.
Cannot YOU. my brother, interpret
these sentences in the language OF
vo,Ir own life? You go and hire a
servant in your kitchen. She may be
very good and faithful, but she is mol
your friend. She cooks your meals, she
cleans YOUR room. but she does not en-.
ter the holy of holles Of your heart
You do not tell her your secrets. You
do not let her become part OF your
most sacred joys. But it is so different
with your intimate friends. 1t Is dlr'
ferent with the relationship which eX'
, lists between a father and son or
husband and a wife. In that holy re-
, | latlonship we live in the closest union
, We share each others sorrows. we
, live In each others joys. We go hand
, ! in hand and heart in heart. So God
, says: IF you only obey me and be-
, come pure as would have you pure,
, together we shall live in holy fellow
. shin. We shall be friends. We shall
dwell together as friends forever and
ever and ever We are made In the
n same image"
: Now. my friends, are we ready to
q obey Gods will and become like unto
r himself through the redemption and
n the blood Of Jesus Christ? We have
been talking about man as God hrs'
o created him in his purity and simple
a ity. But sin has come into the worlo
n and so malformed us that we are faI
. from perfect. The divine image Is soil
,s ed and incrusted with the mlre or sin
a As we say Of man who has yielded
=, TO the power of drink that his mothe
q would scarcely recognize in the sodden
= bIotched vlsage the face Of the chilli
j, she cherished in infancy, so we do no
A. see Gods image In the sinful man; Du'
70 as Paul said to the people whom n
q had led to Christ, "Such were some o
y. you, but We are washed, but we ar
- sanctified. but We are justified" An
80 he saws. too, that they who behold "a
in q mirror the glory of the Lord ar
~ changed into the same image" so tn
~ image that is overlad or lost Is r'
% = stored or brought to light by Christ.
IA Christ says. "Ye are my friends If y
~ do whatsoever I command YOU" Tha
r means. you shall again be stamped
~ 40 nv image if you will accept my atom
90 ment and my love and sacrifice" WI
YOU do it? VIII you today throw you
y" self upon his mercy and become pur
70 as he Is pure, and dwell with hlm
earth and dwell with him forever an
~ ever? Jesus said, 81 am the way
r VIII YOU take that way to become III
We INTO himself and dwell with him
"" heaven rs his friend throughout ete
~ ~ nityP The opportunity is yours II y(
We will accept him, for God will recrea
Won in his own spiritual image. )
God created man in his own image.
iee 80 rcopyright, 1906. by Louis Klopsch.l