The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-12

ability to use It. For God never
sends opportunities to men that they
are unable totally TO use. For God
never tests with men. And to call
a man to n hopeless task Is to iest
with him, TO make light Of him. But
upon every man to whom the golden
opportunity comes Is laid the respon-
sibility to utilize that chance to the
glory of God and to the best OF his
own ability. The church. not other
wise than man. Is under compelling
responsibility to make use of the OPP
portunities that are hers. She cam
not still the appeal of those oppor-
tunities; she ought not TO deny them;
she ought not to endeavor to avoid
or evade them. She should gather
the opportunities to herself with Joy
and welcome the responsibilities
thereto attendant with happiness un-
feigned
Life is determined In the terms of
possibility That is to say. that life
is hope. while there is life there is
hope" Is no mere catch phrase. 1t
is profound philosophy in a sentence.
For live men who are really living
are expectant They look ahead
Their faces front the future. They
are interested in that which is un-
attained. that which may be achieved,
that which IS not vet realized. For
life Is full of possibilities. And pos
sibilltles made progress possible. To
be alive is to progress. But where
there are no possibilities there Is no
progress. Life Is delightful because
Of its possibilities; possibilities for
self-culture. for moral and spiritual
advancement, for constructive SER
vice, for the doing OF deeds both
doughty and glorious for man and
for God. This is the salt OF life.
This lends life zest and gives it
favor,
Life is determined in the terms Of
divinity. For life Is of God. And
every soul that lives may partake of
the character and of the beauty of
the personality of God. Whatever
you and are not. of this we may be
sure, we are the children of God, we
are divinely born. Our life Is the
Fathers gift. Therefore. II we are
children we should be obedient. We
should enter into such flial relation
ships with God that our divinity shall
be manifest. that we shall show forth
the heirship with Christ that Is ours
LtA US lntllt ut dllNt W OuI OIl-
portunities. glorying In our RESPONSE
bility, augmenting our forcefulness in
the achievement of our possibilities.
maturing the divine life of God that
indwells us. For this is life.
Filled With the Fulness of God.
This is how the Rev. Dr.. Dixon IL
lustrates the thought OF being filled
with the fulness of God:
Standing on the deck of ship in
midocean. you see the SUI reflected
from its depths. From a little boat
on a mountain lake you see the sun
reflected from it's shallow waters
Looking into the mountain spring,
not more than six inches In diameter,
you see the same great sun.
Look into the dewdrop &C the
morning and there it is again. The
sun has a way of adapting itself to its
reflections. The ocean is not too
large to hold It, nor the dewdrop too
small SO God can fill any man.
whether his capacity be like the
ocean. like the mountain lake, like
the spring. or like the dewdrop.
Whatever. therefore, be the capacity.
there is opened up the possibility of
being filled with the fulness of
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