Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-12-14
FAITH.
By Rev. Roderick Terry, D. D.

By Rev. Roderick Terry, D. D.
Text-."But We, beloved, building up
yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Ghost, keep your
selves in the love of God, looking for
the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
unto eternal fe."-Jude 20, 81.
| Were it not for the supreme and In
| finite love of God we should have no
! hope either for this world or for the
| world to come, and the more deeply
we appreciate that love, and the more
strongly we cling to it, the more con-
! fident may we be of our own future, and
| the more will we be led to give unto
| Him in return that love which He
seeks from us. And not less certain IS
| it that only through the expectation of
! the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ can
we have hope unto eternal life, as 1t is
the only hope which can sustain US In
the time of our weakness, Of our sin,
of our despair.
Faith Is in danger of being under
mined by the human characteristics uni
versally found among men which make
them unwilling to accept Of and to live
up to it's moral and ethical teachings.
The standard of morality in the world
being much lower than that taught in
the Scriptures, all men are apt to suffer
their ideas to drift lower and lower In
sympathy with the ideas of the world
Men will judge us, not by our living
as they see it, but by the life, life or
character, personality in life, as they
learn to know it. God judges us, not
by the material living, but by the i'm
| material life as He sees it. This clay
will again turn to clay. But the char
| acter we build, the life we live, the in
| f1uence we exert, the life we impart,
the hope we strengthen, the faith we
| encourage, these things will never die.
SIN AND RELIGION.
By Rev. Orrin r. jerks.
Is there any power that can remove
| the bloodstains Of sin? Is there any
remedy that can cure the malady of
sin? Modern skepticism distinctly
| SAYS no. Professor Clifford says that
no God can forgive sins committed
against men any more than the Sultan
by pardon can clean the bloody hand
of Pasha. But Christianity joins H.
sue and says yes.
The greatest of the prophets de-
| clared: LET the wicked forsake his
way and the unrighteous man his
thoughts and let him return unto the
Lord and he will have mercy upon him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly
| pardon Paul, the apostle Of right
eousness says: 1--WE have redemption
through His blood, even the forgive
ness of our SINS"
1t is the purpose of the gospel to
undo our wrongdoing, to repair the ir-
! reparable past, to open door Of es-
| cane from the dreadful harvest of SOW
ing to the flesh. History is on the side
| of this doctrine, Augustine, the profit
| gate, was transformed into the father
of modern theology. John Bunyan, the
drunken tinker, was changed into the
| prophet whose vision of "Pilgrim's
| Progress has regenerated millions of
lives John B. Cough, the inebriate
seeking relief in suicide, was converted
into preacher Of temperance who
shook two continents into a new era in
| reform.
| Short Meter Sermons.
| ONLY veneer virtues fear bad wealth
err.
Things are without what they are
| within.
There is little love In long distance
| charity.
Orthodoxy is apt to be conformity
to my habits