East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-03

by Church Members.
Sunday at the Christian church,
was the greatest day in the service
in the revival meetings. After an inn
pressive communion service Evange-
list Wilson read the second chapter
of Philippines and the 18th verse.
Prof. Init sang in his usual earnest
and expressive way. Just for To-
day." The text chosen by the speak
er was as follows: Have this in you
which was in Christ Jesus"
The religion Of Jesus Christ ought
to make people act and teach like
him. We are willing to keep Christ
mas and Easter in memory of events
in his life, but many are not willing
to keep his precepts. We are willing
to observe the holy land, holy sepul-
chre. but many are not willing to
make their lives holy.
An idea is abroad that anything
in religious way makes a man a
to be like Christ, to act like him, to
teach Ike him, to initiate him in
spirit and letter. To know Virgil
we do not go to the place of his
birth or the place where he lived, or
the place where he died, but We study
works pertaining to his life. To
know the promptings of Jesus
Christ's great heart we do not need
to go to the place of his birth Or the
place Of his life or the place Of his
death, but we must study his life as
set forth by those who associated
with him.
The mind makes the man. AS a
man thinketh, so 1t is he" Better
thoughts make the better man.
Pure thoughts make the pure man;
corrupt thoughts make the corrupt
man; evil thoughts. makes the evil
man.
The eagle does not think how, but
stretches his wings and flies; II Is his
nature. The flower does not think
how to grow; 1t simply grows. Man,
and man alone, Is left to think his
way through life. He who thinks
much does much. He who thinks
little, does little. The heather in ILL
ness resorts to the incantations OF the
medicine man; the more intelligent
have studied a system of therapeu-
tics which really accomplishes the
relief of the ailment.
Wrong thoughts make a wrong
life. or dwarfed thoughts make a
dwarfed life. BY making a man ca
pable of thought and study God has
made him capable of development
and OF great usefulness to himself
and to his country.
instruction of divine writ Is. Study
to show yourself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word
Of truth" Again, LET this mind be
In you which was also In Christ Je-
sus." What was the mind of Jesus?
First, meekness and lowllness. He
says, II am meek and lowly In spirit"
of the divinity Of Christ. II he had
been creature OF the imagination
of some man he would not have been
humble and lowly. but honored and
honorable and high and mighty and
the ruler that the Jews expected him
to be.
There are two steps in his humil-
ity. First, from being the son Of God
at the right hand of his father at the
throne of God, helping to rule the
universe, the all-powerful and mighty
Prince of Peace, he came to earth
and was born in the most lowly pos
sible way, Of humble parentage.
Second, he became the servant or
slave of man, occupying the lowest,
most menial position during his earthly
life. It was he who first taught us
to call our servants friends. His
death proved that he was looked up
on as a slave, for no country cruel
fled its citizens, but its slaves only.
Jesus died the death Of a slave.
The second step in the mind OF
Christ is purity. The man with the
dirty story, or the woman with the
gossiping tongue has not the mind OF
Christ. The instruction to let this
mind be In you which is the Christs
mind should eliminate all that Is low
and base that satan would put into
our minds. Thoughts are deeds and
may be crimes"
Thoughts always come before ac-
ton and deeds follow. A man may
saw when he has committed an evil
deed that he did 1t unthoughtedly.
but this is not true. If the seeds Of
evil had not been in his mind, the
evil deed would not have followed.
Pure thoughts bring a harvest Of good
deeds. Jesus had the mind Of God,
for he said, 1T Is my will to do the
will Of God"
The third step in the mind OF
Christ is faith The prayer OF
Christ was always carried on the
wings of faith. When he approach,
ed the grave of Lazarus he was told
that the body had been in the grave