The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-24

AT lsaga rightly dividing | the word of
 truth" And we have subtraction in
 the words: Cease to do evil" Ad-
 1ition in the ringing charge of
 Peter: Add to your faith vir' tue, and to virtue knowledge,
 and to knowledge temperance.' The
 word also which occurs in many
 connections, has to do with addition.
 though in the first text we shall study
 1t is an addition to be lamented.
 You find it in Matthew 10:4 Judas
 Iscariot, who also betrayed him." | The name of Judas is among the
 apostles, though the list is made out after the betrayal. He had a high
 position and great opportunity. He
 was trusted with the money, and may have done much good, but we know | him not as Judas the disciple, or
 Judas the apostle or Judas the work CT, but as Juras the traitor. It is the also of shame, the black brand which he placed upon himself, one of the addition which we wish had not been made.
 And Christians of today may have l the also of shame attached to their names It would not be slanderous to write after the names of some preachers, a minister who also denies the deity of Christ and the inspiration of the Bible; a Christian who also | takes his social glass and sits be- fore the footlights gazing at spectac- | ular obscenity; believers who also are penurious and grasping. Bene- | dict Arnold was a barve soldier, but | he is known to the world, not as Arnold the brave, but as Arnold the traitor Mir Gladstone said to Charles | Stewart Parnell that he was the greatest man he had ever known, and but for his divorce proceedings Ire land would have had her parliament. The also" of shame neutralized and destroyed the influence of his great ness. And so with many Christian | One false step, one sin committed un
 der stress of temptation, may blacken a fair name forever. God save us from 1 tho also of shame.
 In another Scripture we have the also of tribulation. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God, and not | only so. but we rejoice in tribulation | also. o."-Romans 5:3. We are saved now, but there is salvation to be | revealed. Christ is the morning star" We face the east, watching for the sunrise. But have we learned
 to rejoice in tribulation also,' or | do we regard the sorrows and calam- | ities of life as out of harmony with it's joys and hopes? Such is the view of unbelief A speaker once said that man and woman have been ever since creation fighting duel, each one | striving for the pre-eminence. If we | have no faith in the superintendine | providence of God, there seems to be duel between sorrow and joy, pros. | perity and diversity, tribulation and | jubilation, but to man who believes | that all things work together for | good to them that love God" there is no duel. but duet. The deep bass | notes of sorrow are in perfect har- mony with the high eXultant notes Of | joy.
 When Jesus went into certain viii | laPe. a certain woman named Martha | received him into her house, and she | had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus feet and heard his word" This also" is the vindica- | tion of Mary. We are apt to think ot her as neglecting her household du- | ties that she might sit at his feet and hear his words. Martha com 1 plained that she had been left to | serve alone, and Jesus took Mary's 1 part The also indicates that Mary had attended to her duties in receiv- ing Christ and providing for him, but | she also sat at his feet and heard | his word" This also" of devotion is necessary for the fullness and com | p!etion Of our Christian life It is | the mealtime of the soul
 Jesus said. If I go and prepare d
 place for you, I will come again and
 receive you unto myself, that where | am ye may be also" This also" | binds us forever to Christ Where | he is, we shall be also. As | look at
 this also" it becomes chariot of
 glory into which l may step and be
 carried through the gates of pearl | Jesus will not be in heaven without
 me. He is preparing a place that
 may go and enjoy it also Let us
 treat him here as we expect him to treat us there. "In my Fathers
 house are many mansions.' and the
 word mansion" in this verse is the | same as the word abode" in another
 verse which says: We will come
 into him and make our abode with
 i'm" which, being interpreted means,
 while l am preparing an abode for
 ;ou, will you not furnish an abode foI
 ae? While l am getting heaven
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