El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-14
LORIFTCATION Of God Means Happiness;
" It Is Best To Live the Best Way
pi+ + - c+ Faith Better Power or Pleasures
"9- 19 - Which GrU nresrained, Bible Teaches
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,- sirl-ine in the west he reached his
I 1oa1 and he had gained II all. But
SsTe Tolstoi when they picked MIN up
Re- was limp and dead. And, with the
stroke Of a true genius ne auuS, ana
--bo+ shall it profit man, II ne gam
~ whole world, and lose his own
so1I1q's How often it happens that when
: man begins to say to himselI, soul
Of mine. have much goods
lii tear down my barns and build
e~rras+eT-and will take mine ease,
fbaf the Lord says to him, This night
fbv soul shall I require OF thee.
~ Cd if we should continue our IN
o,1irv we would find that there IS a
great variety OF oplIlloil a. " " IL -
fords the highest happiness or what is
fbe true aim in life. Narro' a E1oman
ei+er received no less than 800 an
svreTs TO this question, he tells US.
Reverenee to God True Incentive.
This being true, howe important is
This inspired statement on the question;
'sFear God, and keep his command
ments. for this is the whole duty Of
ms1@ This. to Solomon, seemed to
sum I'D all the commandments Of COD,
Is11t bacaIIse the commandments of God
receive SO much higher and ruler ap-
Dlfcation and meaning IN the Ieachlngs
of Jesus we find that our nlgneSI
reverence for God and obedience TO his
will are best expressed IN our accep-
lance of and obedience to Jesus Christ.
To be a believer IN ana IolloWer OF
Jesus. to be a Christian, is to fear
Cod. and keep his commandments
And herein we find the true incentive
ia life and the source Of the greatest
1t Pays to Be Christian.
It pays to be Christian even If this
life were all. Blot out, If you Will all
consideration of the future; admit that
death ends all, as few would have US
believe; take our life as we must live
it here and now; and what can compare
with the Christian life for usefulness,
happiness, satisfaction and peace? But
when you add to this all that must
await the Christian in the future, In
that unknown eternity to which our
feet are so rapidly carrying US, it
would seem that the whole race of men
would turn with one accord to be
commandments.
'Wiu man rob God?" the bible
asks. The man who is not a Christian
is not only rObbing God, but is rObbing
himself of happiness, of usefulness, of
eternal hope. "Ye are not your own;
We are bought with a price" we read
in the scriptures. And the man who
knows that, knows that he belongs to
God, and yet goes on using for his own
selfish ends and aims his time, his tai
ents and his life, that man is robbing
God God has the first claim upon our
strength, our time, our talents. All
we have and are we owe to him, and
the very best We have is none to good
for him.
Best to Live the Best Way.
Joseph Cook once said. There is a
best way to live, and it is best to live
the best way" To fear God and keep
his commandments be a Christian
lis the best way to live. 1t is best
first of all because we must live. Not
with the thought of death would seek
to brighten people into escaping the
faith Of Christ, but with the sublime
thought Of life. Many people seem to
think that religion is a sort of insur-
ance, intended merely to save man
from punishment of his sins; that Jesus
Christ is a sort of barrier raised up
between mans soul and hell Bus
this is a very crude conception Of
Christianity.
Christ not only saves from the pen
atty of sin, but, more important than
this, he saves one from the dominion Of