The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-08-30

inter day and weektafter week tnat OLD
hen sat upon those' eggs. She sat SO
long that tie feathers were worn OF
her breast. She sat so long that her
breast became like fire. The warmth
of her body went into the eggs, and
that warmth developed there the little
germs of life which grew until they
were able to burst asunderNthe shells
and walk forth as perfect chickens.
"Why do you not plant your flowers
and vines on this side of the houseT
asked a wealthy gentleman at
whose country home l was stopping.
'These archways would form a perfect
trellis where the vines could cling.
Then, the first view the visitor has OF
the house is from this driveway. In
stead of planting most of your flowers
toward the east side of the house /
would plant them on the west "Ah,
said my friend, = nothing l would like
better than that, but my flowers will
not grow bere. You must remember
that the sun rises in the east and that
means that during the morning hours
the west side of my house Is shut out
from the light of the sun. That means
the ground here is always cold. Seeds
and flowers must have heat in which
to grow" Heat means life for the
vegetable world, and cold always
means death. So you see that fire is
not always destructive, but is the SYM
Dol of life. Now, when | hear Christ
say. II am come to send fire upon the
earth" In a broad sense l seem to
hear Christ say, Il am come in order
to put children into the cradles of the
nurseries and to weigh down the or
chard branches with fruits and to COW
er up the harvest fields with golden
headed grain and to fill the gardens
with busy bees and to hatch out the
salmon eggs which have lain in the
shadows of the rivers" Oh, the won
ders of nature as revealed in the mi
raculous creations of life! Have you
ever ceased to be amazed at the first
sentence of the Apostles Creed, Il be-
lieye in God the Father Almighty, Max
err of heaven and earth, and in Jesus
Christ, his only Son, our Lord?"
Need of a Providence.
Utter folly is it TO deny the Father
hood of God and the divinity of Jesus
Christ as revealed in the creations of
nature. Many years ago in a debating
society the Earl of Rochester, in order
to fill out the list of debates. tried to
prove that this world had no need of
an overruling or creating Providence.
After he had finished his speech and
won the applause Of his auditors he
turned and said, How can a man who
walks upright, who sees the wonderful
creations of God and has the use of his
senses and reason use them to the de-
nying of his Creator?" So say we all
of us. When we witness the miracu-
lous effects of heat in the creation of
life, we bow before the great God who
has built the fires of reproduction upon
every hillside and in every valley,
whether we see that life illustrated In
the wing of a bird, the leaf Of tree
or In the throbbing heart of mortal
and yet immortal man.
But l find that fire is the symbol of
publication as well as of creation.
When Christ says he will send fire, /
remember that one Of his purposes is
to take the dross out of the hard me-
tallic heart. This is as truly part of
his mission as to create the seeds of
life and by heat burst those seeds into
the white blossoms of the springtlme.
The more l study Christ's life the
more I am impressed with the fact
that Christ continually has to make us
over and purify us, even as the nuggets
of gold must be burned in the smelling
furnaces to separate the alloy from the
true gold. What" you say; "all?"
Yes; all There is no exception to the
rule. We have all erred and strayed
like lost sheep. We have all followed
too much the devices and the desires
of our own hearts. There is none that
doeth good-no, not one.
Atmosphere Not Antfseptic.
We have all been contaminated by
sin from the very atmosphere which
we have breathed To a certain extent
it is possible in an operating room to
keep the patients wound free. from
poisonous infection. In the first place
the patient before being operated upon
has his body thoroughly cieansed.
Then he is etherized and carried to the
operating table. There every instru-
ment and every piece of furniture
and cloth has been made antiseptic
to receive the patient. There the
nurses and the doctors are all dressed
In pure, clean, antiseptic linen. They
even wash their hands, their faces and
their hair in carbolic solution. The
very atmosphere Is filtered through
apertures covered with gauze. Thus is
the sick patient cared for in the oper-
ating room. The attendants are thus
careful that no external dust or impu-
rity touch that patient But the atmos-
phere we breathe In life is not made
antiseptic from sin The hands that
touch us upon the streets are not al
ways pure hands. The lips which
speak to us are not always pure lips.
Behold, we were born In sin; we have
grown up amid the yitiating atmos-
phere of sin, Though we have again
and again bowed at the mercy seat
and made the publican's prayer, God
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