Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13
} the acquisition of the same treas

to the acquisition of the same treas
ure.
BY so much as Christians live diff
ferent from the world do they help
make the world different from its
former self.
The question of secret discipleship
has always disturbed the church. Many
persons want to serve Jesus covertly
They are like the believing members
of the Sanhedrin, afraid to confess for
fear of public opinion; they love the
praise of men more than the praise Of
God In laying down the platform OF
his Kingdom Jesus deals with this
question. He said, People do not light
Ia lamp and cover it over, but they put
it on the lamp stand. where it gives
light to everyone in the house. In the
same way let your light shine before
the eyes of your fellowmen, so that,
seeing your good actions. they may
praise your heavenly Father"
Every Quaker said George Fox,
"ought to light the country for ten
miles around him."
Only different Christians can create
a different society.
Christians are Christ's advertise
ments.
The church has mission. She is in
the world to transform the world. Her
business was likened by Jesus unto
salt; and salt stings while it pre-
serves. She is not to become like the
world, but to make the world like her
self. The end sought is not assimila-
ton, but conversion. Steadily the
Church must hold to this one supreme
purpose of making over society, and
not be diverted by any partial vic
tories or beclouding praise. Until all
men have crowned Christ king in their
lives, living only to his will, the
Church may not be at ease Not
wealth or social prestige or political
power or educational leadership
proves the triumph Of the Church,
but conquest over the hearts of men.
a world won to the Redeemer Is the
only criterion of Christian success.
When the Church becomes like the
world, then we have nothing less than
salt without saltness.
'Blest incendiaries of the world Is
the happy phrase with which Arch
bishop Leighton describes the apostles
who were as burning Goals scattered
throughout the nations. 'Incendiaries
of the world what a mission for
lives that have been lighted at the
Light.
The mark of peculiar Christians is
other men, so much as that they are
like the Lord Jesus.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
+ man educated in mind but not in
morals is menace to society.-Roose-
welt.
There is that in man which sooner
or later is awakened to dissatisfaction
with the gods of his own choosing
w. Boyd Carpenter.
Let ignorance assail or hatred sneer:
He suffers not for long
Who doth his soul possess in loving.
and grows strong.
Lewis Morris.
Spirituality is seeking God in com
mon things, and showing God in com
mon tasks.-Babcock
Church-going, the keeping of the
Sabbath, are not religion; but religion
hardly lives without them-F. w.
Robertson.
Wherewithal shall young man
cleanse his way?
By taking heed thereto according to
thy word. The Psalmist.
Better methods may simplify the So
cial question. it can be solved by moth
ing less than better men.-Francis
Greenwood Peabody.
Mrs. Ann Cousins in Iowa "a Years.
New Hartford, Jan. 11.-Keokuk
and other places are claiming to have
the Oldest resident in the state, but
while so many are claiming that hon
or, this little city of New Hartford
will also present the claim Mrs. Ann
Cousins Utter, of this place, was born