The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-10-30
BEHOLD! | MAKE ALL THINGS New"
Revelation 81: 81,


The inmates who attended Chapel Service last
Sunday morning, were given by Chaplain Mccoy
beautiful picture lesson of the Divine Creative
Power of God. He said in part:
The Bible opens and closes with picture of
Divine Activity exhibited in processes of creation
and construction. In the beginning God created
the heavens and the EARTH Behold! make all
things new
There are two ways in which thing can be
made. 1t may be done by calling into existence
material that had not been in existence, which
is creation. Or, it may be done by using material
already in existence and shaping and adjusting
into something entirely new and different
In Genesis the distinction is drawn between
the two methods. OF the heavens and the
earth it is said God created them, called into ex
istence material utterly new. Of man it is said
that God sn made him by which we understand
made OF IT something new by breathing into it
the breath of life.
This is the method by which He still makes
men new men today, morally and spiritually.
He does not introduce new material, does not i'm
part some faculty, some new power, some new
nature which men did not previously possess.
He takes us just as we are. ruined, marTed.
spoiled and faulty and out of us fashions new
creatures in Christ Jesus. 1t is the old material
so made over. re-shaped and re-adjusted that we
become different, new men, with new natures,
new hearts, new minds. spirit, aims and ideals
Suppose you and started out to make new men
and women. We would begin with the principle
that we must have entirely new and unspoiled
material with which to work. So we would strive
to secure brand new material, fresh and un-
spoiled. Not finding it, we would soon give up
the effort in despair!
God does not work after such principle or
into saint, an unclean person into pure and
holy man or woman. He does not repeat the
original miracle of creation. He takes that
which we have misused. wasted and spoiled.
He changes it, transforms itpuTifies it and makes
| of it something capable of new service. That
| bad temper, bad because it has become uncon-
| the motive power to drive the machinery of the
| SOUL The capacity for love which the woman
has perverted to base and evil use, God utilities
as the source and fountain of holy sacrifice. The
power which misdirected made the woman
Magdalen, God makes the principle of womanly
sainthood. Wrong doing is chiefly matter of
| instruction So get rid of that false idea that
before you can be made a new creature you must
offer God something other than you have and
are:
an old building. He put on new roof. added
porch and stuck in few new boards and daubed
| it over with fresh paint. Yet it was not and
| could not be new house. Another man tore
| down the old building, cleared away the rubbish
and put in good solid foundation of rock. Out
of the old material he selected good serviceable
! lumber, throwing away much that was worth
/ less and unsuited for his purpose He changed
the the style of architecture and when he was
| through he had a new house. The old building
| had been stable for the housing of cattle He
| made it home; neat, comfortable looking little
cottage where his children played and were hap,
| DIV. 1t is, notice, very much after this second
method that God makes of us new men and wO-
men, To reform man is not to make new
| man out of him. Patchwork is not God s method.
| We need more than adding few good habits
| and plastering ourselves over with veneering
| of religion God is far more than refOrmer; He
| is maker of new creatures. stream of crys-
| tai purity forced into channel of mud and filth
| becomes foul and polluted. beautiful thought
| loses it's beauty when passed through an unclean
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| a piece of new cloth on an old garment, or to
| pour new wine into old wineskins:
1T would be wonderful thing if we could be
made again into what we were as little children.
with clean, pure hearts, with an innocent child
| hood, when with unsinning eyes we looked
out upon beautiful world. But Christ offers us
| something even greater than that-to make us
new men and new people. with new natures,
| new desires, new ideals, new purposes. Nothing
@ 1ess sS works in the world When? insome flu
ture lfe another world? Oh. not at all, but here
and now. Christ does not deal in futures, nor
| wait till we get to heaven to make us new men.
| A man can have hell here on earth; equally so
| he may enjoy his heaven beginning from this
moment. Behold am making all things new
back to his house and found it swept and gar
nished; that is. empty and lonesome. For very
loneliness he went and took unto himself seven
| other devils. And the last stage of that man
| was worse than the first. The new man must
| have new companionship, new associations new
yery far Without that Think the old thoughts
do the old deeds, live the old life and you Will
| render Gods work ineffective.
| "Christ's purpose in making us new is that we
/ might walk with Him in newness of life. The
| new man will not walk very far at frst. neither
will his steps be firm and true. The little child
learning to walk stumbles often and falls. hest
| tates and falters. But the mother bends over
and picks the little one up holding him by the
hand until at last the child is able to run and
never fall. So may the new man falter and
walk on new road. oh! It is good then to re-
member that the nailpierced hands once out
stretched upon the Cross, are reaching down to
mercy and grace of God that man will after a
i while walk without falling and run without
/ WEAKNESS in the paths of peace and roads of
house. the house not made with hands. eternal
= in the heavens