The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-07

oSh heln Gelehrter yOm Himmel
selallen' in Interpretation: No ono
I mas ever been born master. is true
herman proverb. The mind must be
Trained for everything, we want to
iearh' The child's mind is trained to
read, to write, to learn arithmetic
geography, history, etc. The mind
must be trained and Influenced to
learn music, foreign languages. ZOO
iosy, Dotony, algebra, physiology,
lhechanlcs hydostatics, pneumatic,
magnetism, etc The mind If every
scientific man has to be trained and
lhnuenced for the respective science.
+ III one mind is not trained and in
huenced for art he will never make an
artlst. If business mans mind is
not trained for business, he will never
make business man. If farmers
hllnd IS not trained for farming, he
VIII certainly not make good farmer
Ii teachers and preachers mind is
not trained for teaching and preach
ing he has certainly missed his or her
place. AS the mind, the intellect,
has to be trained and influenced for
everything else, in order to know a
certain art or profession, thus our
mind must also be trained in the
! Christian religion, in the gospel of
Jesus Christ, in order that a man may
accept Christ. But how is this to be
done? We must begin with the chi
dren. Children ought to learn first of
all the simple bible stories, for ex-
( ample. the stories of the creation. of
the paradise, of Cain and Abel, of the
flood; the stories of Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua etc. If
they have learned the stories of the
! bible up to the 18th year of their age,
very much has been accomplished.
From this time on their mind ought to
be trained for heavier food, they ought
to learn to know God in His will and
His being, as creator preserver, gov
ernor and lawgiver, they ought to be
trained to learn the great plan of sal
cation, how God in His mercy and
kindness resolved from all eternity to
redeem the fallen mankind by His
only begotten son, how He prepared
mankind for redemption by the prom
Use given in the paradise, by the
preaching of the prophets. and by the
various typical institutions in the old
covenant; how He accomplished mans
+, redemption by sending His only begot-
ten son, as Jesus Himself testified :
For God SO loved the world. etc.
Furthermore they ought to learn to
/ know Jesus as true God and true man
in one person, that He revealed Him
self as our redeemer even before His
death, by His holy life, in which He
perfectly fulfilled the law of God in
our stead by His preaching the for
giveness of sins through faith in His
name.
The Love of God.
Himself to a fallen race by giving
His laws aud commandments. by
making His sun rise over the evil and
the good and sending rain to the just
and unjust. by giving us food and
raiment. home and family and all oul
possessions, by providing us with al
the necessities of life, by protect :
/ and preserving Us from all danger ant
! last but not least by sending His only
begotten SON This love of God, il
presented with heart full of love fol
/ the souls, will effect and touch, movS
+ and arouse souls
Let us preach the love of God ant
that of Jesus Christ to our congresa
tons as we'll as to the individuals
! Let us tell them, that love was the mo
4 tive of his incarnation; let us show
4 them how Christ when on earth loved
not only His disciples, but also tn,
sick and needy, the poor and hungry
the publican and sinners; let us tel
them about the great sacrifices II,
made not only for few, but for tht
whole world, how He gave His prec
ious life and His innocent blood as al
atOnemGnC tOT our SlnS, lndl lie De
came the Precipitation for our sins
that He was wounded for our trans
gresSions and bruised for our iniqui
ties, that the blood of Jesus viii
i cleanse from all sins, that His love
is still the same and that He invite:
us this very day to come unto Him
with the promise: Whosoever com
meth unto Me, | will in no way cas-
out. This love story presented will
heart full of love will touch ant
| move the hearts of men and women
Many christians of today will confess
i that the love that the cross reveals
has brought them to Christ. But Ii
we employ this agent in our therap
cutie. we must do it with love. We
all know what Paul says in the 18th
chapter of the first letter to the Cor
! inthians: Though | speak with the
tongues of men and of angels and
have not charity | am become a
sounding brass or a tinkling cymbol
And though | have the gift of proph
! esy. and understand all mysteries, ana
! all knowledge, and though have all
| faith so that | could remove noun
| tains, and have not charity am moth
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