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power in personality, the executive OF
the individual life. Every man is
small army OF faculties, but the will
is the commander. the pilot that runs
the ship, who can bring it safely
through the stress OF weather and
wave TO its destined harbor. The will
is the king on the throne OF the soul!
We are not led into right relations 10
God In our religious life through the
feelings or the intellect: IL is not
what man knows. or what he feels.
but what he Wills 20 be and do. that
makes him n Christian and a man!
II YOU want something that is going
10 push YOU Immediately up TO tho
higher levels of life and give you a
kingly attitude before God and man,
listen 10 this: You are what your
will is, not your knowledge or feel.
ings At the Battle OF Waterloo,
both Napoleon and Wellington knew
that the old farmhouse at Uougou-
mont was the strategic point I'm the
conflict; whoever held Hougoumont
would win Waterloo! So man wins
moral rule over the world Just as he
Is in possession OF his will and its
conscious exercise. To lose HIS will
is 90 lose the most divine element In
his nature; 20 lose II is 10 be insane.
\ friend OF mine in good circum-
stances-good enough to take me
riding In his own carriage-got the
Wall Street fever; he presently sold
out his business and went on the
street." but tho street" soon sold
him out! That's Wall Streets way
The man was beside himself When
| met him, he explained how II was
He said THE one difficulty is that
| have no will: have lost my will
not my reason, not my love for my
family. or my interest i'm life. but my
WILL | urged him TO hold on. Ia
attempt the exercise OF choice; but II
was OF no help 10 him. and to-day
he is I'm an insane asylum. where he
viii probably remain for the rest OF
his life. So every man who has lost
his will is practically insane, too: just
as every man who has the power 20
viii has the power TO win I'm the bat
Ties OF life and assert his manhood
under any circumstances.
The true Christian Is the kingly
man everywhere In the world. In
Japan and America alike,
When YOU begin 60 talk about
man, IL Is question of his viii, not
OF his ignorance or his unbelief II
a man is not a Christian Il is because
he IL unwilling TO give mp sin. | will
tell you-although YOU know it your.
self, God knows II and the devil knowe
it-your sin, something I'm your life
YOU are unwilling 20 give M. alone
keeps YOU from Cod 70 is something
that lies deep down I'm your heart,
and YOU don't want 60 drop IL out.
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ho may become so used 60 it that he
sins mechanically, and may cease TO
regard II as sin. If religion Is 10 be
real and practical, "A man must say II
will will give mp my sim"
The second thing / want TO talk
about is, "Unwillingness TO do God =
Will" When YOU know the will OF
Cod YOU lA~gin 90 sec the hideousness
OF sin. aud YOU will curse the hour
that YOU turned YOUR heart away
from God and good; you will wish
YOU had never seen the vision or HIS
love Think OF the grand message OF
God 90 man, OF its beauty, OF It's ten.
dcrness. and youll wish you never
had seen the vision OF Il at all unless
YOU turn from YOUR sin. Here H. Is:
"WbOsoryer viii. may come" D." "tf a
man VIII, he may take Of the Water
Of Life And the most pathetic
words Jesus ever uttered are these:
"Yc will not come unto Me that va
might have Life" oh. how black IA
sin when il Will draw forth such
words from the Son OF Cod When
YOU left the wife and the home, and
went away TO meet sin, you put your
foot out and crushed the beautiful
flower Of the Fathers lovel We
think OF such a case. she told us OF II
herself ] had married them myself
She was beautiful Christian girl:
but he had gone away TO sin. and
bad com" home again and damned
her whole physical life. do not
think there is "A hot enough corner
I'm hell for that man who is willing
10 wreck the soul OF wife and child
and taiBt their blood with the conse.
quences OF his sin,
In closing, let me speak 20 YOU ot
the highest and holicst experience In
my life. One Sunday afternoon some
months ago ! was In Jerusalem, with
leisure 20 do as ! pleased for ten dave
or more. So ] went through the
Damascus Gate that day, and climbed
10 the crown OF Calvary, that green
hill outside tho wall Of the city
There read the whole story Of re.
deeming love, prayed over II. wept
over IT.; then / went TO the foot Of
the Mount OF Olives and into the
Garden OF Gethsemane, whore, 10 my
delight, found myself alone. FROM
thence ! passed down the Damascus
Road along which they brought my
Lord. and through the gate once more
into the city and over the Via Dolor.
osa 20 Pilates Judgment Hall In
Imagination. ! saw the soldiers bring
Him before His Judge. followed by
the priests and city rabblo: and
heard their voices demanding His
crucihXion, though plate said. II
find no fault In Him a. alli" ] heard
them clamOr for the release of Bar.
abbas. and saw plate surrender Him.
the King of Glory. 10 their cruel Will.
Barabbas they freed; but Jesus they
cruci6ed on Calvary This Is the
question before you men to-day:
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