The Newtown bee., 1907-02-15

been enlightened by the Spirit of Truth, the whole tenor of his life was changed. His consciousness was then conformed to the will of God. He be- came conscious of the consciousness of the Lord of life and his conduct, after that experience, grew out of a new motive.
 The perfect Christian conscience then, is the consciousness of man en- frightened, made alive to the conscious ness of the Lord Jesus Christ, and working in harmony with the divine will. In accord with this thought St Paul's advice to the Philippians is: "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Thus we see that good conscience is in agreement with God, and 8 bad con- science is at disagreement against God and out of joint with all that is good. Indeed, bad conscience puts man out of tune with himself
 A man cannot easily rid himself of his conscience, because it is an oriRi- nal and inherent part of his God d-given nature. Being made in the image of God We are like him in our moral con- stitutio and must therefore have and feel and be conscious of the relations we sustain toward Him and toward men. Hence our sense of duty. By the very terms of our life we have du- ties to God and duties to men.
 Every one has in some degree. the faculty or instinct of moral conscious ness, and therefore the sense of right and wrong. We call it conscience. We know that we ought to do right and that we ought not to do wrong, and to a certain extent we know instinctively what is right and what is wrong. As President Seelye says: "Every person knows some duty. He knows it in his own heart. He may not be able to tell why 1t is, but he knows that he ought to do right and he is just as cer- tain of this as he can be of anything. He hears voice in his own soul, bid ding him do what Is right; he has an inner light in which he sees law laid upon him and binding him to duty. This hearing ear, this seeing eye, which every person has in his inner soul, we call his conscience. His con- science is his first teacher in the knowledge of duty. If he should obey his conscience first and always, he would always know his duty.
 "But every person does not always follow his conscience. Duty, though always good. is sometimes hard and is not always done. It seems often easier to do wrong than right and thus the wrong is chosen. When this takes place, it dulls the voice and aims the light of duty in the soul. Conscience " rms us before and reproaches us aft CT the wrong deed, but when we keep doing wrong these warnings and re- breaches keep growing feebler until they sometimes almost cease and both the light of duty and the gladness of life go out together.
 ''To get back the knowledge we have lost, we must take up the duty we have left. The quick ear and clear eye will come from the dutiful heart. The pure in heart shall see God and thus shall know His will"
 If we would live in the strength and joy of a good conscience we must faith fully and willingly do the duties which are laid upon us by our own sense of the will of God. If we are not true to that which is best in our own hearts and minds how then can we expect to And if by our abuse and neglect the light that is in us becomes darkness | how great is that darkness!