The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE,
A FAITH FOUNDATION NECES
SARY.
Luke vi, 39-49-June Q.

D.
! BE we doors of the Word and not
hearers only, deceiving your own
selves. James +, %.
The Great Teacher in today's lesson
emphasizes the necessity of knowledge
and of faith built thereupon. The
blind leading the blind represent the
ignorant leading the ignorant into diff
| fculties.
The destination sought by the Jews
was fellowship with and RELATIONSHIP
to God-His highest favor, mentioned
to Abraham, saying, I'm thy Seed shall
all the families of the earth be bless
ed" st. Paul says of that promise,
Israel hath not obtained that which
! ne seeketh, but the election hath OBJ
tanned it and the rest were blinded. "
The entire Jewish race was blinded
and turned aside and fell into the pit
Into confusion, darkness, separation
from God. This was the very matter
against which Jesus forewarned them.
How important that Gods people rec
ognlze the true Leader, Jesus, and
heed not the voice of others,
Alas! we find that many of the great
and wise of the principal puIpits of
the world are undermining faith by
telling that the Bible is not Divinely
inspired, that Moses and Prophets did
not write the books ascribed to Them
and hence indirectly saying that Jesus
and the Apostles were deceived when
they made quotations from the Old
Testament and ascribed them to Isai-
ali, jeremiah, Moses, Habakuk, etc
These great men style themselves
Higher Critics and endorse the theory
that humanity is undergoing a process
of evolution from monkey likeness up
to God likeness They are thus indi-
rectly telling their people that there
was no fall from Gods image and like
ness, that there was no sin committed,
no sentence for sin, no Redeemer from
sin and its sentence and that Restitu-
ton is not to be hoped for-Acts ill,
1921.
Humility a Character Foundation.
The parable of a man with a beam
IN his eye trying to pick mote out of
his brothers eye was & forceful meth
cd whereby the Master inculcated the
necessity of humility. Humility is a
foundation virtue. The Latin word
for humility is humus, ground This
implies that it is the soil out of which
other virtues are produced. Those
who think they know everything can
learn nothing. How beautiful it is to
realize that Jesus was humble and
that all the holy angels are SOL
Grapes on a BrambIe Bush.
While the Scriptures forbid Gods
people to judge one another, they do
commend to us another kind of judg-
ing. While not condemning the heart
We are to judge of the outward con-
this lesson gives respecting the gath
ering of grapes from bramble bushes
illustrates this point. Gods people are
likened to the grape vine, which pro-
duces no thorns but luscious clusters
of fruit. Mankind in general are lik-
ened to bramble bushes, ready to in
jure, on the slightest provocation, and
are merely self sustaining. We are to
distinguish between such characters
and Gods people: by their fruits
shall ye know them
1t is said that at times a bramble
bush is entirely covered by a vine so
that the grapes appear to be coming
from the bush. However, we are not
to be mistaken. A good tree cannot
bring forth evil fruitage, neither can
an injurious tree bring forth good
fruitage. The lesson is that those who
are really Gods people must be fruit
bearing else they are none of His.
1t is therefore useless for any man
to the Lord in fullness of conservation
and that he has received the sanctify-
ing influences of the Holy Spirit and
yet find him rejoicing in sin, taking
pleasure in iniquity. injustice, selfish
ness and a course of life injurious to
his neighbors. If his heart be changed
the results will be manifest in his dali
" life, because "out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth speaketh.''
The House on the Rock.
This parable illustrates two classes
of believers. Both hear the Great Tach-
ers Instructions and believe and rear
faith structures and entertain heaven
ly hopes. But the one is more prudent
than the other. One seeks for the doc
trines of the Divine Word, and buildsl