The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-11-28

heather can build q system OF philos-
ophy on that Book. But it Is far
more necessary to have a life that IS
founded on divine realities. | care
not how much you may know about
the Scriptures, about Christ from the
testimony of other people; the thing
that is important TO me Is, is your
heart burning within you as you walk
by the way, while the Lord Is speak
ing to your soul?
o, my friends, let us not be de-
ceived. Christ can speak to you to-
day just as powerfully. just rs up
liftingly and Just as burningly, as
ever He spoke TO the disciples. Christ
can speak to you, in words adapted to
your peculiar need, just as much as
when He spoke to Moses i'm the burn
ing bush. He will reveal Himself to
us, just as truly as any patriarch ever
got vision of God am weary Of
the way the church of Christ goes
back to the Fathers May we have
the Christian foresight and brains
and ability 30 turn or faces TO God
and learn from Him. am q great
believer in giving all homage 10 those
VINO have gone before The linoUl-
edge of to-day is very largely found I'd
on what Is Left to us by those who
have antedeted us-it is .he coasum-
nation OF an eye.-inC-ecsing pro-
sress. But the only wa that those
who lived before us grew in knowl.
edge was by turning their own faces
to God that He might lead them. give
them illumination and l-nowledge OF
the truth. And, IL we are 10 make
any progress at al in spiritual things,
We must be willing to have q divine
and wholesoulad faith In Gods pur-
pose 10 lead US Alright, even as He led
the ratriarcns / do no. msan to say
that We are perfect, that we have
no reason for contritenos5 OF heart
but we helittle ourselves Some peo-
pie think that the power OF Cod
stopped in the hearts o. men. with
Jesus and Paul. Some people have
more faith in Abraham aud Moses
than they have in the nsn of their
own day. A man OF our day and aga
VINO bears uron his face the MARKS o.
divinity and of inspiration and OF
power, a man who is in all things
Just as good as Abraham. should re-
ceiye JUS. a. much recognition from
his own and from the world rs Abra-
ham gets. Whyl on the basis OF
common knowledge, what was the
wisdom Of Abraham cOul arad with
the wisdom Of to-day; the eulighten-
ment, the spiritual poWer of tie pa
triarchs cOmrared with wnat we have
with Christ in our hears? And vel,
we are more willing ID accept the
dicta of Moses or Abraham than of
Beecher or Spuggeon
| understand just what Jesus
meant when He said, "A prophet is
not without hcnor save in his own
country There He wa, q man in
His own day and age outrapklug any
man who ever lived, in spiritual
things; and yet they said. as not this
the carpenters Son from down yCnder
in Nazareth" why, oui OF that
town no good can come; that man
ltnoweth nothing We in our day
and age hail Jesus Christ and the
revealment OF God in His truth aud
beauty. And yet / know men to-day
who are just as much inspired OF Cod
as Abraham was ever inspired, who
are just as much filled with the Spirit
of God as was Abraham. and more SO;
men who have q better and wider
knowledge of the truth of God; men
viii live lives which are roblar. But
they are not trusted Let us have
some sort Of confidence thai God IS
able to lead Us to-day even rs lie led
cur fathers and the patrlarcns. You
may try to down that IL you will
But, my friends, unless the church OF
Jesus Christ begins to give men
God who is ruling in the world to-
day, God who is lifting men in the
world to-day, God who is just rs
powerful in your life and mine as in
any other mans, you will see that The
and the Baptist and the
Methodist and the Conversational
and all the other churches will ba
swept out OF existence that men may
get for themselves IN some way, un-
der some other orgallza tiop, tho
truth OF God.
/ know there is a good deal OF talk,
and good deal OF trouble in the
hearts OF men, in the church to-day,
lest various organizations outside OF
the church should cripple us. But let
us read in the moVings OF the people
away from us the signs of the times.
Let us read the handwriting in the
heavens. Let us see in the workings
of God to-day, q God who is Just
as powerful as He ever was in Pales-
tine.
Inc TIME Is coming when the
church OF Jesus Christ must get it's
eyes opened spiritually. Personally,
| cannot believe all the things that I
hear. / do not like the philosophy OF
certain cults; I do not believe their
logic is correct IN many points; but
you will find that there is In the
higher, intellectual classes Of men to-
day desire to have a God who is
present a God who is just as power
full in their lives to-day as He over
was in the lives OF the prophets. Let
rs give to man q God who will speak
to them by the way. Let us lead men
10 Comforter who viii make their
hearts burn as they walk through life,
a God who is ever present, around
about them, and within them. Let
us tell men that it Is one thing to
know about the glory ana the love
OF God, and another thing To know
the beauty and the lovelness OF the
Father. Let us lead men to compre-
hend that 1t is one thing to know that
Jesus spake to your fellow By the
way; that He may speak to you by
The way; and quite a far different |
hing to have Him speak to you by !
he way.