Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-11-17

rs loving mother would plead Win
Il maynard child. II IS taking us by
the hand and saying: Won't you give
up your sins: Won't you try to undo
the wrongs you have done others :?
Won't you follow the headings of Jesus
Christi That conscience Of ours will
never stop It's pleadings with us 10 do
right II has. too. the power to punish
II is said that when Professor Web
ster OF Harvard college was awaiting
his trial for killing a brother professor
he called into his cell one day the ward
en- Of the jail aud said: "Cannot you
stop the other prisoners from insulting
me; Every little while one Of them
keeps calling. Webster. you are muir
derer You are "A bloody man The
warden made an investigation He
stop II. for the words which Webster
heard came not from the other prison
ers cells. but were spoken by his own
conscience. so all about us We hear
the words OF our conscience pleading
with us 10 avoid evil and repent of our
sin. our conscience finds a voice in the
street 1aggngs and the walls and the
bedposts and the chairs which is Gull
Ing 10 us. as il did TO Professor Web
stcr IN the Boston Jail saying You
are sinner You must repent and re
nounce your sin You must come to
Christ" We are made IN Gods image.
God has put conscience within us for Il
purpose We SHOULD obey H. for we
can never be truly happy until we are
pure aud true aud good aud just. as
God is pure and true and good and
just Are YOU ready today 10 obey the
pleadings Of your conscience:
Not only did God create mau with a
conscience he also made man capable
III his pure state Of enjoying the bless
ing OF his presence. He seems to
come 10 man and say Man, II thou
wilt only become pure. as | am pure.
| will take thee some day 10 myself.
| will receive you into heaven. where
there ARE Joys forevermore There
is evil in the world: do not WELD to 1t.
And In his tendcreSt tones he encour-
ages us with the promise. He that
oyercoueth shall inherit all things. and
will be- his God. and he shall he my
son" We ARE made after his image.
The Creates, Love.
You remember how tenderly Jesus
impressed this iden on his disciples
He told them that the union between
his nature aud That Of his people was
rs close rs that OF the yin" and its
branches Aad again he 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 crucitiXion are
falling over him lie looks on the men
who had sut 1T his feet SO often in the
past and speaks these beautiful words
Greater love hath 10 man than this
that man lay down his life for his
friends We are my friends If We do
whatsoever | command you Hence
forth call you not servants. for the
servant knoweth not what his Lord
doeth. but | have called you friends
for all things that have heard of my
Father have made known 10 you ="
Cannot you. my brother interpret
these sentences in the language Of
your own life: You go and hire IA
servant In your kitchen She may lie
very good and faithful hut she is not
your friend She cooks your meals. she
cleans your room. but she does not Ell.
ter Ill" holy of hotties OF Your heart.
You do MT tell her your secrets You
do not let her become part of your
most sacred joys But II is 50 different
with your intimate friends II is diff
fcrent with the relationship which ex.
lists between n father and son or a
husband aud u wife In that holy re
lationShip we live in the closest union
We share each others sorrows We
lv" IN each others joys. We 20 hand
in hand and heart in heart SO G6l
says III yOu only obey me and be
come pure. as ! would have You pure.
together we shall live IN holy fellow
ship We shall be friends We shall
dwell together as friends forever aud
ever and ever. We are made IN the
same image"
Now, my friends, are we ready To
obey Gods will and become like unto
himself through the redemption and
the blood Of Jesus Christ: We have
been talking about man as Cod first
created him in his purity and simple
ity But sin has come into the world
and so nialformed US that we are far
from perfect The divine image Is soil
ed aud incrusted with the mrs Of sin.
As we say ~ man who has Welded
10 the power OF drink thar his mother
would scarcely recognize IN the sodden
blotched visnge the face of the child
she cherished In infancy. so we do not
see Gods image In the sinful man: but,
as Paul said 10 the people whom he
had led to Christ Such were some OF
you hut We are washed hut We are
Sanctiiied. but We are justified And
he says. too that they who behold las
in mirror the glory of the Lord are
changed into the same image" so the
image that is overlaid or lost X re
stored or brought 10 light by Christ
Christ says We are my friends II We