The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-01-11

C.. A. He had large audiences ana
keenest attention. His text was from
Joshua xiv. Is. Choose ye this day
whom ye will serve" He said:
In our day the human will. although
still ambitious and avaricious. has
taken n higher plane for its exercise
than in the days OF Alexander the
Great and Napoleon. 1t is rather en-
ployed in the conquering of mountains
and valleys. in the casting up of high
ways and piercing of tunnels: in the
erection Of bridges and the master
pieces Of mechanicai enginery which
traverse the land and the sea with al
! nest incrsdlb!e seeed
The wits 6rsassst Achievement.
But. said the Pastor. the most won
derful achievement Of the will is seen
in self-control. The Scriptures say tru-
ly, "Greater is he that ruleth his own
will than he that captures city"
H'roverbs XVII 3d. The most wonder
full illustrations OF the will thus eXer-
cised he believes are to be found in
the case Of Jesus and His footstep fol
lowers. BY the exercise Of His will
Jesus surrendered His glorious condi-
ton for the human estate and then de-
ivered up Himself. as the Man Christ
Jesus. to the doing Of the Divine will.
even unto death, that thus by the
grace of God He might taste death for
every man." (Hebrcws ii, 81 The
motive behind that strong will was not
selfishness. but love.
Compliments the Japanese.
When l note the gentleness and
kindness and courtesy Of japanese life
in general, am astonished and won
der little that the ordinary Christian
message has not appealed more to
your hearts and displaced Shinto wor-
ship, for which understand you have
two hundred thousand figures, temples.
Sympathetically putting myself in the
place of the Japanese. fancy you say
ing. Shall we exchange our simple,
esthetic gentleness anu kindness of
spirit for the rudeness and sometimes
swagger of the soldiers and sailors.
and the domineerins readiness Of the
upper classes who come to US?
Sympathetic iy. again ! hear you
say, The missionaries who have ex-
pounded Christianity to us for years
have told lis that our parents ana an
cestors whom we rcverently worship
are despiScd by your Christian God.
and are damned to IN eternity Of tor
ture because they did not know Jesus
and become His followers. They tell
US, additionally. that we also are bound
for that place of eternal horror and
torture unless we repudiatc the religion
Of our birth which has made us so
happy and contcnted Can yon won
der that We resent such teaching: that
We merely tolerate it to avoid war:
that we prefer Buddhism and Shinto-
ism, and that our Shinto temples in
crease the more rapidly because Of an
tagonism to Christianity?
Hsathsn Ancestry Not Roasting.
Alas, my dear hearers. Christianity,
with very precious truths at its foun-
dation, seriously lost its way long
centuries ago and wandered far from
the inspired teachings Of the Bible.
This is the explanation of the numcr
Gus sects and parties Of Christendom
and the different doctrines. none of
which am here to defend-either from
the standpoint of reason or the Bible.
The Bible does not teach, as once
you supposed. thut eternal torment is
the penalty for our first parents dis
obedience in the eating of the forbid
den fruit. On the contrary. it teaches
that "the wages Of sin is death" and