The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1909-08-19
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THE POWER OF AN
ENDLESS LIFE
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By the Rev. w. Jasper Newell

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By the Rev. w. Jasper Newell
Text: WHO is made, not after the
law Of carnaI commandment, but after
the power Of an endless life."-He-
brews viii, IS.
There is change and decay in the
most enduring structures that men
build The Cathedral in Cologne was
632 years in building. The great
! Cathedral Of Milan was 419 years in
building. But we know that these
are not permanent buildings. The
architecture of man, at the touch of
the tooth Of time, hall crumble and
fall. Scriptural in lction lifts our
eyes toward celesti. architecture
"A house not made with hands, eter-
nal in the heavens" That building
shall abide. Our home is not here,
but there. How few of the produc-
lions of men abide A noble life is
mans only enduring building. This
earthly life is brief and like an inn,
where passing travellers spend but
transient night. The pages of history
tell of the passing of material things.
Forms of government change. Ma
teri things and institutions of men
perish, but principles never die. Cart
hage and ancient Rome lie In the
speechless dust. Archaeology is an
other voice-a voice from the tomb.
We have uncovered the Buried
Cities" of the past, which, bridging
the centuries, stand as mute monu-
ments of ruin and decay. Fame is
transient. Many struggled for the
honor of becoming members of the
Roman Senate, but the names of few
found place in history. Fame is only
a fnger-mark in the sand. Geology
proclaims the ceaseless transforma-
ton of the earth.
Men have always hoped for and be
lieved in an after life. Immortality
has been the hunger and the hope of
all the ages. Socrates INDUCED this
hope, yet he lived centuries before
Jesus and the New Testament Cos
pels. The nations that have never
lieved in life beyond the grave. Such
a belief is not created by the teach
ings of Scripture only, because it Is as
universal as humanity itself Jesus,
in his priestly prayer, exclaimed this
joyous discovery: Father, this is
life eternal that men may know thee,
the only true GOD and Jesus Christ
whom thou hast sent" The desire of
every heart is for an endless life. a
perennial springtime.
Death does not reverse character
Eternity does not change what time
hath made What we are now, we
shall be then. Jesus forgave the sins
of the penitent thief. but He could do
no more A mans sins may be for
given, while his personality is still left
impaired. 1t is a wrong emphasis,
that so long as man is saved it
makes no difference what he has been
nor what he has done. We enter
yonder where we end here. We be
gin there where we end here. If we
end here upon a high plane we begin
there upon lofty plane. The more
man has to invest, the larger will be
his income
This endless life is impossible to
all except to the Christian. The re
generation of the Holy Spirit alone Sc
cures this life Life in the New Tesla
ment means salvation. Salvation is
possible only by a new birth. Physi-
cal life is harmony with environment
The endless life or Salvation is har
d mony with the spiritual laws of God.
This life can begin only when Jesus
takes His control of the inner pur-
pose and affections of ones heart.
This endless life begins when a man
becomes a penitent and inquiries.
What must do to be saved?" There
can be no endless life of moral char
acter where there has been no begin
ming of spiritual struggle. None but
those who are following Jesus by a
moral and spiritual discipleship can
ever know either here or hereafter
the rapture, the Joy and the final tri-
umph of this endless life. Eternal life
becomes a present possession at the
moment of conversation. Jesus says:
"He that fndeth me, fndeth life. -
HE that believeth in me hath ever
lasting life" This means that he has
that life here and now This endless
life begins. therefore, when one be-
comes disciple of Jesus. The aim of
Jesus as teacher and Saviour was to
restore men into fellowship with the
Father If you have this fellowship
now you already have eternal life So.
on this side of the resurrection, in
this present life and in this present
moment, the Christian has fellowship
now you already have eternal life. So.
on this side of the resurrection. in
this. present life and in this present
moment, the Christian has fellowship
| with his Father.
Spiritual life must grow or die. This
present life must always be a growth
| Life beyond the resurrection will be
a growth of personality. There are
different capacities here. Two men
are differently affected by the sight
1 IF SORROW trial and hardship IN 9TH.