Evening journal., 1913-02-06
Christian Endeaver
February 3. 1918.
~The Ideal Christian-His Zeal.v
Cor. 6: 1-1O.


nificance of the work in regard to our
Christian lives. Let our zeal for the
cause be the Zenith of our ambition,
and let It be Emulative of the tender
ness, mercy and righteousness, that
we may be Appreciative of the Love
that characterizes the great sacrifice
of our Saviour.
The zenith is the elimination Of
ones ambition or the line which in
dicates the heighth Of the earnestness
to save souls for the Master. Each
of US must have some objective in
life or we live in vain: "a some
have as that objective the New Jeru-
salem; CD some have not thought of
this city as being a proper zenith /;
(3) some never will accept the city
as their objective The first catch a
vision of that which is to them the
topmost step where the steps Of life
end this existence of worldliness and
the glorious new life of eternity be-
gins. They see their Master in the
skies and determine to follow His
guidance. The enjoyment of this life
on this earth is the realization of the
presence of the Holy Spirit. The sec
ond have not this enjoyment or the
not accepted the Christ as the example
they are TO follow in service here be-
low and they labor through life miss
ing all the beauties on account of their
negligence. These people will awak-
en- to their senses at some future day
and behold the glories of God. The
third are those who deliberately re-
ject the Christ and who never have a
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come. They die in their sins and are
lost eternally.
With this zenith kept in view all
the while we should seek earnestly to
emulate the Christ. Emulative as
commonly used means riyaling and I
do not use It in the sense that we
could ever hope to attain the perfec-
ton of the Master but in the sense
that we are to try for the highest
perfection possible and the aspiration
of our lives be as near righteousness
as mortal man can claim. It is good
to emulate the Lamb in daily living
for while many know something at
least of the way He would have us
90 we do not know the vital points
and we must keep reaching out for
the higher things in the truth of His
gospel. It is not good TO emulate
worlydl men or things, for they are
vain and have no thought for the fu-
ture, seeking only the lust Of the flesh
and are blown about by every wind of
caprice that may lead them to enjoy
the full stomach and purse and the
fancy clothing on their bodies.
Apprecative, the third is one which
VIC could dwell indefinitely for 1t is
of such death. Have we seen apprecia-
tive of Gods wonderful blessings'
Examine yourselves and see for the
most part you have not Think. my
friends. of that wonderful mercy to
us while we we're yet in our sins
How He sent Christ that we might be
saved from all our uprighteousness;
how Christ taught us the love of God
and presented the gift of eternal lift
to the unworthy. Il ought TO stimulate
every heart action and make us zeal
Gus in the extreme for the work II
an earthly friend gave us a present
we would be anxious for a chance Il
show how much we appreciated tha
gift. but we fail in great respect ts
appreciate Gods gift. The haryes
is ready for the workers in the Mas
ters moral vineyard. Who will wOrl
today? When | see the many yOuns
men and women of the city throwins
away their talents in useless things
and wasting their substance in wrong
living I wonder If there will he the
workers to save them or If they vii
be lost to the kingdom, being enticet
by the DEVILS smooth way TO dcstruc
ton There is room for the workers
Get busy in the name of Christ.
Love is the beginning of and tn,
foundation for Christian characters
Love of what? Surely not the love O
the worlds alurements But the l0y,
of God that constrains us to becom,
His. Love of God first because IL
first loved us; love of man because W,
are in Gods image and brothers o
Christ; of our church because that il
where we worship our Creator; love
home because that is the sacred insti
tuition we have from God to America
love of our enemies because He loveC
us who opposed Him in all things Tt
take Pauls version of it we have, lie
love be without discrimination; alb
hor that which is evil; cleave to tha
which is good BE kindly affectioneC
one toward another with brotherll
love; in honour prefering one another
not slothful in business; fervent il
spirit; serving the Lord"
WM. II. HANTZMON.
February 1919