The Meeker herald., 1909-10-30

MUR Lord did not establish His
Church merely to gather to-
~ gether congregations for Chris
tian worship and consolation. He es-
tablished the Church to carry on
what he began - the revelation Of
Gods love for men everywhere;
hence the Church's mission is world
wide work and it Is the bounden duty
Of every church member to further the
passionate desire Of our Lords heart
rs expressed In his last words to His
disciples. How? We are not left In
darkness. Christ says, Follow me,
I am the Way, the Light, the Truth"
"Abide In me and l In you" "As the
branch cannot bear fruit Of itself,
except 1t abide in the vine; 30 neither
can We, except We abide In me. ]
am the vine, We are the branches"
Abide In Him and we must love
Him. Love Him and We must obey
Him. "kove is the fulfilling Of the
Law" Christ's one secret Of a
Christian life. Love is the energy Of
life.
"For life with all It yields Of Joy or woe
and hope and fear
In lust our chance. u the prize Of learning
love
How love might be. hath been indeed.
and u.s."
Love is not a thing of enthusiastic
emotion. 1t Is rich, strong, manly or
womanly, vigorous expression Of the
whole round Christian character, the
Christlike nature In its fullest de-
velopment And the constituents OF
this great character are only to be
built up by ceaseless practice. st.
Paul In three short verses In letter
to the Corinthians gives the con-
stituents, the analysis of what the
supreme thing of life Is A. seen
through the magnificent prism Of his
inspired intellect:
Love sufIereth long-patience.
And 10 kind-kindness.
Love envieth not-generosity.
Love vaunteth not itself, Is not
pulled up-humility.
Doth not behave unseemingly =
courtesy.
Seeketh not his observation-disclosures.
Is not easily provoked-good tenn
per.
Thinketh no evil-guilelessness.
Rejoiceth not in iniquity but re-
joiceth in the Enthusiastically.
Notice they are virtues we hear
about every day.
Love Is Light. LET your Light SO
shine before men that they may see
your good works and glorify your
Father which lie In Heaven"
To live Is to work is to do. Have
you ever noticed how much Of Christ's
life was spent In doing kind things !?
The greatest thing one can do for his
Heavenly Father, is to be kind to
some of His other children. How
much the world needs 1t. How easily
1t IL done. How instantaneously 1t
acts How infallibly 1t is remem-
bered. How superabundantly 1t pays
itself back. Love never faiIeth.'
ut Is more blessed to give than to
receive" Give-for there is nothing
that 80 surely leads toward spiritual
growth as giving. We have to learn
1t. We have to train ourselves In 1t.
We have to go through the discipline
and the drudgery before we learn to
know the joy of tito learn to do the
giving that delights.
Let US rejoice and be glad All
over the world the Church il at work
faithfully and successfully.
CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS FOR EF-
FECTIvE WORK.
Every third year, on the first
Wednesday in October, the General
Convention meets. The membership
includes all the bishops Of the Church,
four clerical and four lay elected
deputies from each diocese and one
clerical and one lay elected deputy
from each missionary district They
determine the general lines Of the
Church's missionary policy and elects
as Its executive committee for mis-
sionary management, the Board of
Missions, composed Of fifteen bishops,
fifteen other clergy and fifteen lay
men.
To make the Christian revelation
known In its fullpess, the Church
must send not only her messengers
tn nreach the 1osiAel hut othar ranra.