The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-16

more revealing or suggestive than
the words: Christ Jesus. who. ex-
lstlng IN the form of God. counted
not the being on an equality with
God a thing to be srasped. but emp
led himself, taking the form OF a
servant, being mad in the likeness
OF man: and being found in fashion
as a man. he humbied himself be
coming obedient even unto death.
yea the death of the cross" The old
version reads that "he made himself
Of no reputation" The ambition of
the suffering. sacrificing Christ was
only to obey and serve.
Anybody may rail at ambition. u
when III sober. dispasSionate careful
ness We consider the subject We find
that this frailty introduces itself into
the most sacred occasions and places.
The high tragedy of the experience
Of our Lord with his closest friends.
the men who knew him best. makes
a deeper appeal than all
Up at Caesarea Philippi, after Christ's
popularity in Galilee had begun to
Wane. Jesus tool his intimates apart
and, with a human yearning for sym
pathy, began to reveal to them his
deepest secret-the story of what
awaited him at Jerusalem. This hour
IS often called. The Passion of the
North Did these friends enter into
tender sympathy with him? Moses
and Elijah had been sent from heaven
TO talk with Jesus concerning the
cross: what of his closest disciples
They came clamoring for the best
seats in his kingdom. Their ambi-
ton blinded them to friendships most
sacred office. SO it was also at the
Last Supper. The tenderness of that
hour is commemorated in the sacra-
ment that is celebrated all over the
world. But here again these apostles
squabbled over who should have the
place of honor. What a stab at the
tender heart of Jesus? SO near him
and yet so far from understanding hi
spirit. The record should set every
Christian to earnest Self-eXaminatiOr
as to whether his pride in himself is
not greater than his love for HI:
Lord.
God resisteth the proud, but h,
giveth grace to the humble.-James
In Christ's school the lowest seat
are the places of honor. His in
struction is Learn of Me, for | an
meek and loWly in heart
After all, place does not brin
peace. The king who cried, WANT
of vapities, all is vanity has bee
? echoed by the high and powerful eve
since. EminenCe does not satisfy TT
deep cravings of the human hear
2 Unless one nave his springs Of happ
ness elsewhere than in the honor thu
comes from men, he cannot know tn
s real joy of living. An everyday proc
: of this is the hard, lined. cynical an
: dissatisfied faces of many person
whose names are often in the publ
. prints.
Three times in the New Testamer
the word ambition in some form az
pears, and then only in the revise
: version. All Of the instances occur i
the writings Of the Apostle Paul. a
three indicate worthy l~ife-ambitior
for every Christian. The first (Rt
{ mans, fifteenth chapter, twentieth an
Z twenty-firSt verSeS). reveals the Apo:
S ties burning desire to have a pioneer
part in the extension of the king
II dom: Being ambitious SO to preac
n the gospel, no where Christ was a
q ready named, that | might not bull
e upon another mans foundation; bu
as it is written,
y They shall see to whom no tidins
of him came,
And they who have not heard Sha
-. understand
The second is found in h min,
le verse of the fifth chapter of the Sc
> ond Letter to the CO~rlnthlan
I. "Wherefore, also, We are ambition
n whether present or absent. to be wei
pleasing INTO him There you ha'
a standard for all of life: to plea
,r Christ. The third use Of the word
SIS Paul is i'm the eleventh verse of II
re fourth chapter of First Thessalonian
h But we exhort you. brethren
n that We be ambitious to be quiet. ar
t to do your own business, and to VOL
m with your hands And anti-clima>
Not a bit of it. The mind Of serenit
the diligence in daily duty. are, a
IN ter all, the finest fruits on earth
to the Christian gospel. 1t is not
ID worthy. though: hat none of the
e. New Testament ambitions at all col
lv eide with the aims for which Il
ia world strives. Bible ambitions satisf
he they do not turn to apples OF SodO
We on the toDpup. they are falrer in ra1