The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
LAST OF SERIES
 ON CLEAN LIFE
REV. PATTERSON TALKS AT Y. M. c. A. ON AUTHOR OF CLEAN LIFE TAKING JESUS CHRIST AS MODEL.

The Rev. L. D. Patterson, pastor of the Fountain Heights Methodist church, who has been delivering series of addresses atithe mems meetings at the Young Mems Christian association, gave the last of the four talks yesterday afternoon al o'clock on 'The Author of a Clean Life" talk ing Jesus Christ as his model.
 MT. Patterson began by giving a brief review of the first three talks, namely, "The Value of a Clean Record' "The Beginning of Clean Life" and "The Living of a Clean Life"
 ''It is impossible to live a clean life without Jesus Christ" said MT. Pattel- son. "TIe is the source of a clean, over coming life. In human strength man can not overcome the fierce temptations to which all are subjected. When a man Is unclean and impure it is hard for him 10 believe in the Bible, hard to believe In the purity of woman, and in fact his whole life is thus blighted, the bright side being yelled by his impure thoughts and actions. It is an old saying that there are only two good men-one of them is dead and the ether has not been born Man IS prone to sin. In every place where Jesus Christ is not know, men do not know what the clean life is. He came and took upon Himself the infrmities of the flesh We have an High Priest who was tempt ed like as we are, yet without sin Jesus Christ came and lifted mankind out of sin and uncleanness and showed him that it is possible to live a clean life.
 Tn this day and time everything is done by pattern. In building a house, a bridge, or in fact anything, first a pat tern is made, and the workmen have something to go by. They know just where each piece ought to go. Just so Tn living the clean life We need an ex- ample, and Jesus Christ has furnished us this example. Men will not go far wrong if they follow the example given by Christ
 Read the four gospels, see how He lived an upright life in the ineessant ac- tivities of life, Aand go thou and do like wise. Jesus, you will notice, did not only preach a clean life, He furnished living example in His own life of thirty years.
 ''One of the curses of the flesh Is that it loves the very things that damn our souls and bodies. Take whisky, for in- stance. Man, knowing that 1t Is his own wreck and ruin, will go on drinking until he finds himself completely given up to this habit. Just so with others.
 ''There is one time when a man wants to be clean, when he stands before tho pure face of the girl whom he is to wed. Her very face rebnukes his past record and then it is that the remorse of an un- clean life comes up before him. It Is then that he feels like saying, Lord have mercy on me a sinner and Create Tn me a clean heart, oh God"
 Jesus not only made man see that 1t Is possible to live the clean life, and not only furnished an example, but further more he rebukes uncleanness in man ard creates in him the desire to live the better life. What men need Is power not human power, that is too weak. They need power from on high. and this power comes from God only. By this power man is able to conquer and be the master over temptations.
 Jesus Christ is the author of clean life. First, He showed men the possi- bility of Twin, a clean life; second He furnished the ,attern in His own life; third, He rebuked sin and created in man the desire for this clean life, and lastly, He furnishes the power by which man can live this life. Will you accept Him and live the life that is the only life worth living?"
 After the talk the men arose and sang, Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb?"
 MT. Jackson, secretary of the associa- tion, closed the meeting with an earnest appeal for men to accept Jesus Christ as the power by which they could overcome. "You cannot do it in your own strength. men," continued MT. Jackson, but the power and strength must come from on high. All you have to do is to accept Him and He will be the strength of your life. Several of the young men present showed a great deal of interest in the talk, and when the invitation was given they asked Tor prayer In order that they might live the better life after the example of Christ.