Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-08

meetings and Is. I. L. Us, and EpWOrth
Leagues and Woman's Missionary So
cieties are useless and worthless and
then listen to the testimony of a Jew
who haG Travelled much and in his wan
derings ran across a town dilapidated
| and heathenish in its manner of life.
| Unclean and non progressive. He pas
sed through the same town some years
later after a missionary bad preached
there and conditions had changed So
he went to the missionary and present.
ed herewith a check because of the
| cleanliness Of the village and the chang
ed conditions which now confronted
travellers. Christianity changes the at
mosphere and thus assists nightly in
growth and development
d. Work.
The schoolboy is seldom ever still. He
is on the go pretty nearly all the while
Never Idle, always on the go,-hale,
| hearty, well, Woodworking and thus
developing muscle and strength and pow
ers of endurance Not long ago l saw
a man in grain field sweeping a scythe
and it was pleasure to see the ripened
grain fail beneath the swing of his
| powerful shoulders. 1t looked easy.
/ had at one time been able to do such
work myself but several years had pas
sed away and the muscles had not been
| developed by such strenuous physical
| exercise and when l tried it, it didn't
| appear so easy. Too many of our Chris
! tians join the church and then remain
idle. They never sing, they never pray,
| they never exercise any and when they
| 10 attempt to work for their Master,
| hey find that they are out of practice,
and that they can't do the work like
! experts. What they need is practice
| and drill work and exercise. Study to
show thyself approved unto God a work.
man, that needeth not to be ashamed
said Paul and the advice is good for
| each one Of us To-Day. Go into the shop
and ask to feel the muscle of the stall
wart blacksmith and inquire as to why
he is so strong and he will quickly tell
you it is because he daily and hourly
swings the hammer. ASK Mr.. Torrey
why his success as a sure winner and he
will tell you il is continual work as a
soul saver Work gives skill and strength
and power and ability. Therefore work
to grow. II you can't do the work OF
Moses then try to be landholders as
were Aaron and Hur. Even the hold
ing of hands produces strength and
growth.
But It's Growth in Grace.
| There is absolutely no growth apart
| from grace. 81 can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me-" but no
one can do anything apart from Christ
Jesus must give you the natural strength
| before you can work it out A man
can grow in grace, but out Of grace
! he is dead and lifeless and inactive. lis
| all Of grace and none of self And af-
| ter all grace is a word that is almost
| indefinable One has to experience it
| before he can appreciate it's meaning.
| it is love bestowed upon unworthy OBJ
| iects. 1t is tenderness manifested to the
undeserving. It IS love given to the I'M
| lovely 1t is all that love can perpe.
trate and hand down to the needy lost
ones Of earth. BY it we are saved. BY
it we are made heirs of God and Joint
heirs with Christ. BY it we come away
| from the land of slavery into the land
| Of freedom in Jesus. Jesus gives us
| life and health and gracious surround
! ings and then commands us through Paul
| to grow--to become manly and useful
| childhood is beautiful, but when we be-
| come men we must put away childish
| things. The sincere meat of the word
should be fed upon because it produces
strength and not milk always Jesus
wants us to be manly In our thinking.
in our planning in our working, in our
praying and he has promised not only
the high ideal but the grace and strength
to live up to and attain unto it,
Goes On Forever.
| Blessed thought that this growth never
| ceases. 1t commences in time and goes
on throughout eternity Its throb is felt
| the moment a child of God is born, 1t
| never ceases as long as eternity lasts.
| Progress, progress, development, growth
enlargement--no limit to the blessed re-
suits. The soul that is good increases
| in goodness and cycles and cycles Of
| time pass, and aeons OF eternity roll
on and the righteous soul grows and
| expands and elapses and gets more and
| more like Christ No limit now to Its
| perfection. No drawbacks, no him
| ORANGES no weaknesses, no undesirable
| surroundings that drag down and re-
| tard but all enlargement. The life of
| The man who is growing In grace is like
| a sewer that brUadens and widenS and
| deepGns as it goes through fertile val
| leys and broad acres always Increasing
| as 1t goes toward the sea until grad
| ually it loses itself in the great unfath-
! omable ocean that has no limit God
| struggling to go upward, wrestling TO
| grow strong The more he learns about
| Christ the more strength he gets to
| buffet the storms Of life. The deeper