The Washington herald., 1908-05-03
A SUNDAY TALK.

For he that soweth 70 his flesh shah Of the flesh
reap corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit
shall rea9 Of the spirit life everlasting.
And lei US not be weary in Well-d0ing: tm IN Que
season re shall reap, If We faint rot
ST. Paul had converted the churches of
Galatea 10 the cause of Jesus Christ and
was IN Rome when he heard that the Ga
latiens were backsliding into their idola-
trous practices. and wrote therefore. the
epistle which bears the name Of Gala
tians. He tries to show them IN this let
ter that what he taught them was not
the wisdom of men, but the wisdom Of
God, from whom he had it directly. and
the burden of his letter Is that men are
justified by faith, not by works.
| He pleads here against the forms Of the
church. and bases the whole doctrine
the new doctrine with which he strove to
replace Judsism--on the law of love, fol-
| lowing in that the last commandment Of
the Master who had supplemented the
prohibitory law of Mount Sinai with the
words.
| And new commandment 1 give unto
you: that ye love one another"
| The people whom he addressed were in
| tenseiy human: as human as We of this
modern age, who, too often, grow impa-
tlen. at the silent faith that seems to
bring no quick results. The tendency Of
this age-and it was of that age-is to ex-
1 pect something for something much
faith, so much reward; but the trouble is
that the faith we give is of the spirit the
reward We expect is usually grossly ma
/ terial. And so II is to-day that We need,
as much as ever the world needed, to
realize that the service toward God is
| not paid In the coin OF this earthly realm.
HE that sOweth 10 the flesh shall OF
the fiesh reap corruption said the apOs-
| tie, and though nineteen hundred years
have elapsed since he wrote those words.
| from Rome, ali science, all philosophy,
| have only served to show their utter
truth. The man who gives himself up to
| the flesh shall through the flesh suffer.
/ He who cannot see beyond himself must
at the last look only 10 himself for help
in the hour Of need, and IN al the his
| tory OF the world no man has been found
/ strong enough to stand alone. Alexan-
/ der, and Caesar, and Napoleon, types of
/ the big men of the world. fighting for
their own hands and in their own pride,
came at the last 10 the same inexoTable
end that was meted out to the humblest
private soldier in their ranks. We hold
| their names in a certain awe because Il Is
plain that these men were certain instru-
ments OF the Lord to clear Up the waste
! places Of the world and TO do His work
| But who is there that envies them2
! The greatest force in the world thet
moves men is ambition, and why sheald
not ambition tend toward the highest
/ Riches some men strive for. power, 9th
ers; and yet others knowledge, but,
What shall il profit a man If he gain
the whole world and lose his own soul"
What St Paul meant 10 urge in his
/ epistle 10 the Galatians was that men
must not be impatient, because, having
] faith, they reap not at once material re-
wards and benefits. lie urged, rather
and the lesson is one that comes home "a
Us to-day-that men. instead Of seeking
TO sow for a world-haTyest which they
may never live TO reap. should SOW for
the spirit, whose harvest time Is eternity
| Above all, it needs sublime faith to fol-
low strictly the admonitiOn Of the apos-
tie II needs that we shall mot be weary
in welI-doing." but shall believe that the
welI-doing iustlfes itself, and that in the
end. IL we faint not. nor falter, but re-
main true 10 the best that is in us, we
1 shall reap the fruits Of our striving and
come into a reward far better than any
transient glory or happiness that the
| world-merely our testing place-has q
offer. Believing this and striving 20 fol
low It. surely the strength will be given
US 70 climb
! The great worlds aitar-siairs
I F7,a rtreE NJ