The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

In these days whei knowledge is
spread through the whole earth. while
the making. Of many books goes mer.
rlly on and much study is a weariness
TO the flesh, 1t may be timely to call
attention to the Importance Of know.
ing God.
While man is In this mundane life
there are many things which owing to
the limitations of this life he shall
never know. It is not for him to
know the time and the seasons but.
II he be wise, he may understand the
signs -. the times Yet we are ex.
pressly told that far away above even
the imaginatIons OF the human mind
In its ghostic flight in the one great
indestructible truth that a man may
nay, that a man must-know God.
If man would cease his molellke fer.
reting after the mysterious earth
worms Of philosophy and come out
OF his pessimlstic darkness, and try
to know God and TO serve him now.
many OF his doubts would resolve
themselves. n n man does not know
God, he has missed the one great. inn
portant thing; he has not yet found
the key by which he may enter the
holy place of his own life.
How he came here, why he came
here, why. he goes from here and
whittier he goes-these things ho
knows not.
The work OF God speaks In no un.
certain tones on this subject. It tells
us that knowledge OF God Is de-
pendent upon a spiritual awakening
and a revelation from God himself.
We are told that there was a time
when Samuel did not know the Lord.
for the word Of the Lord was not yet
revealed to him" We are further
told that there came a time when
Samuel did know the Lord, and all Is.
rae knew that Samuel knew the
Lord. And the knowledge Of God so
impressed itself on the lay mind that
the servant OF Saul testified of him:
Now. there is a man Of God In this
city" A man who knew God. who
walked with God; who made himself
felt in the national and individual life
of Israel.
The key which David handed TO
young Solomon was the key OF Dl-
vine knowledge And thou, Solo
mon. my son. know thou the God OF
thy father. and serve him with a
perfect heart and willing mind"
jeremiah told the men of his day
that worldly wisdom. might and rich
es never would bring a man to glory:
that II any man would glory. Let him
glory In that he knoweth the Lord"
Gods controversy with Israel
through his prophets was concern
ing their lack OF knowledge. Isaiah
goes so far In his rebuke as to ac-
cuse them of the densest stupidity
and calls upon the heavens to hear
and the earth to give ear. He Is
astonished that the OK knows his
owner, and the ass the place for his
fodder, but Gods people do not know.
The depravty Of that day was not
on account OF the lack OF religious
observance. The smoke from the
and evening sacrifice went
up as regularly as the days came and
went.
1t was a time Of decent. decorous.
esthetic, eye pleasing ear tickling
service; but It had no core. there
was no heart in t. II was all exter.
was something which the Lord
'ould not get away with. il was
domination to him, and we have no
eason to think that God has changed
lis mind in this year of grace They
'ffered Incense God wanted clean
learts and pure lives, and these come
rom knowing God. The apostle
'aul denounced the church at Cor.
nth for this very thing. and a strange
enunciation II is to come in his
latchless argument for the resurrec-
lon.
Awake TO righteousness and sin
OF, for some have not the knowledge
God. | speak this TO your shame"
1t any less disgraceful In any Chris
an community, In any Christian
md. not to know God? We trow not!
But the great reason given by the
atchless Son Of God ought to set all
len seeking for God It is given not
, the disciples, though heard by
lem. II is spoken in the holy place
prayer. ANY man. be he sin.
ire man, is most sincere. ia at his
est, is approaching mis- zenith. when
his closet. after shutting the door,
, prays to his Father This is no
ting place for cant, dilettantism or
lam. 1t is the one real moment OF
S life. and the Son of God tells his
ather that: 1T is life eternal to
low the true God, and Jesus Christ,
hom he had sent"
Friends. what an opportunity! To
ow in the knowledge OF the Father
ID the Son; this is worth while. To
low God eXperimentally-hs pur.
ses in creation and In redeemina
ace - this is life eterral And
sus Christ" The knowledge IS
I one for there is no saving knowL
ge apart from him, just as there
IS without him nothing made that
Is made. All men know him. but
men do not know him What does
Is knowledge mean?
Salvation alone to him He alone
i'd the price of sin. His blood alone
'anseth from sin. He rose for our
and he will demand
,koning for our knnwladpa nnr