Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-26

call it an ocean: don't light match
and think it the sun. You must know
you're a child of God. You must have
the witness In himself.
How do you know?" inquiries
lilly white fingered alabaster browed
professor, How" Nicodemus asked,
How Jesus did not answer He
said: The wind bloweth where It
listeth.r You don't need to tell ne
as the dust whirls and the trees bend,
that the wind is blowing, know it.
Never mind the How
The finite cannot comprehend the
Infinite. The fact Is all we demand.
The how is beyond our knowledge.
Can you tell how the mineral kingdom
is born up through the vegetable and
then from the vegetable, up through
the animal, and how the physical
/! brain can grasp the thoughts of the
spiritual and bring them into SER
mon? Tell me how God controls and
grabs the storm last night by the fore.
! lock and shakes It into obedience?
How does the food you eat become
the basis of the physical life? All I
have seen of God teaches me to know
all do not see. All long for find
In Him,
Culture vs.. Grace.
Human nature is radically bad. |
cannot rise to highest excellence, In.
dependent of any external help. 1t IS
not in man or of man to expel vice and
cultivate virtue unaided from about. It
is not in Oxford, or Harvard, or in
Cornell, Parsons college. State univer-
sity, high school or in esthetic or phil
osophy. but it is by the cross of Jesus
/ Christ.
Some say vice flows from ignorance
and want and that virtue comes from
education and plenty. There is power
in the law to restrain, but all law, So
cial. political. autocratic, theocratic,
as we'll as all government, fails to
suppress vice and produce virtue. Vice
and virtue lie beyond the boundary
Of law. Law does not touch the con.
dition in the heart, that made you D
law break, All laws have failed to do
away with vice and elevate virtue
The low can punish you for deed, but
1t can't take out Of your heart what
made you do it, You've got to be born
again
Then there Is socialism. No politi
the world across the river Jordan, into
/ q land of milk and honey. Israel wan.
dered in the wilderness because of ia
and not OF culture. The world weepa
for purity,
Not In the Flesh,
Vice in India is thought to dwell in
the flesh, Physical torture is deemed
efficient to drive out sin We've got
3 lot of fools in this country like that
Matter is only an allusion of the NOR
tai mind" Gee whiz, Not persecut
ing the flesh, Nothing in stone or stal
that will change mans moral condi
ton, Did knowledge make Solomon
good? Or Bacon, or Aaron Burr? ADD
art to science; let Phidias chisel tht
marble until it seemed to breath, ol
Appeles paint the grapes SO perfectly
that the birds sought to feed upor
them on the painted canvas. All II
vain revolutionizing and regeneratins
the soul Of man. The trouble is with
US; not in philanthropy. or benevolence
which has to do with the world
needs but by surrender to God, AM
a birth from above can this grea
change be wrought
When Helen was but baby how
we loved her. Her mother went down
to the brink of the river of death &c
give her birth and crept back again t.
life, and Helen was the world to moth
, er and father. I was young-and
used to save to buy something for hel
walked instead of riding on the cal
to save 10 cents to bring 1t to her
One day came home and heard hel
say for the first time, Papa" 1 fell
| repaid for all the months of waiting
and sacrifice. God is waiting for 70,
| to say: Abba, Father" 1t costs muct
sacrifice of the son of God He wants
to send His spirit into your heart cry
ing, Abba, Father"
al Know"
Il | don't think SOL don't hope SO.
KNOW! I'm glad I'm child of Gods
.