Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-18

sIrE@SSS QeaQ, ana christ
@a2R.&gssEY shall give thee
!, light'-Eph. 5:14.
The Pastor holds that the majority
of humanity pass through life in a
dreamy state, thtnking about triviaIi-
tes-what to eat, what ,ta,wear, where,
TO go e@.-rather than, about things
pertaining to God and the future life
This state Of mental Inactivity, he de-.
clared, has been brought about by
Adams disobedtence to. the Divine
command. Our first parents sinned:
and their postefity shared with them
the penalty, dying, tlsou shalt die.n
But God foreknew the fall of man.
and, purposed to redeem the human
tam1ly from death, tha speaker declar-
ed. Ia the Divine Program Jesus was
the lamb OF God slain from the /.
foundation of the merld. Therefore
when communicating. with those who.
believe His Word, God always speaks.
of death as a sleep.
T. The A~vsskenins Of the Soul.
The Pastor. discussed his theme IN,
three divisions: tha awakening Of the.
World now, the awakening Of the
christian, inc the future awakening o
humanity during che Messianic. King.
dom. There Is a time. he claimed.
when men& begin to think of God a
the world to come. Before that time,
some had, been stepped in sin; others
mad lived merely for the things. of the
present But somehow or other thev
began t~a>realize that they were sinners
under Divine sentence. Perhaps they
got the right view-that the sentence
was one of death; but usually they got
the wrong ons-that 1t wassa sentence
of eternal torment.
The majority of children, the. Pastor
declared, reach this crisis between the
ages Of twelve and afteensyears. AT
q period there Is a great change In
human nature, and therefore it lis q
most advantageous time for spiritual
growth. The speaker dwelt upon the
duties of parents and teachers. While:
from the very beginning OF Its exist
eace the child should. be trained in the,
nurture and admonltdon Of the Lord,
yet both parent ana teacher should be-
especially alert with, children at this.
most favorable time for opening their
mental eyes to look beyond the trivial
ties Of the present life to the higher
things pertaining TO, the life to come.
sArise From the Dead.n
The Pastor pointed out the fauacy
OF the belief that tho young must SOW
wild OATS" and regretted that y .
Christian parents seemed imbued with
this erroneous Idea. According to the
Scriptures, whatsoever a man soWeth,
that shall he also reap The child
mind should ever be kept near the Di-
vane standard.
Those RwakS to O sense OF response
biity to their Creator should arise from
the dead condition as far as possible,
the Pastor holds. AS when one awak-
ems In the morning there is a mental
freshness which is invariably lost IL
q falls asleep again. SO the moment
OF the souls awakening Is d favorable
time of which to take advantage. If
the soul receives no encouragement at
that moment, It may drop asleep again.
achrist Shall Give Thee Light"
Those who have awakened are APP
preaching Righteousness, the Pastor de-
clared. The Scriptures represent the
dead as being down. Those who arise
from the dead become upright In char
acter, N desire. But merely to awake
% e realization Of ones condition Is
nos 20 become a Christian. While
SnIlss gave the light which enabled
one e gee that the wages OF sin is
ueaen, and that the gift Of God Is life
MIougn ne Redeemer, vet the newly
a@dkened must accept Cnr,st 10 their
hansoIn-sacrtnca ma - -
Him before they may iss -
Christians. Sunsidetss
The Pastor explained thai
become Christians, meribess " V ny
Body Of Christ, when frsf, g Lne
or when first we arise rons.ss AssaAs
We are merely awakening 49,
harmony with God and scapeS.ss.1s
condemnation for sfn are possibl6s
st Paul intimates, from the moments
we get into Christ we pass from nm
der the Adaxnic condemnation. Noone
can have an indiytdual trial until he IS
freed from that condemnation. a
mere realization OF ones condition
does not constitute Q trial for lfass
| Only she Church are now on trial.
For nearly nineteen hundred Years
the tudgmsht OF the Church his pro
gressed. The first to be tried 3fFas the
Head 81 the Church-our I{rd ana
Eayi6t Nesus Christ. no WI found
worthy and was glorified. All thfdnghs
the Gospel Age the individual nlssD.
bers have been tried Soon the traI
{ 1.-The Church VIII have been lnishe4
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