Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-10-08
FROM A SMALL EiHD
TO A GREAT HEART

| to man from the beginning OF the
creation and lost to man by Adams
fallf Or did man come in possession
of those powers through his own pow
err And what are the constitutional
parts that make up great mindS In
the first place, man was created with
ont even the life of common animal.
But God breathed into bis nostrils the
breath of life, and man became liy-
ing soul. God created man in His
own image. In the image OF God
created He him. Now, let us consid-
or some of the attributes of a great
mind. Mind is the intellectual or in
telligent power in man, the under
stan ding, the power that conceives,
Judges or reasons Mankind as a mass,
were nothing before the beginning,
had no being. for in God we live and
move and have our being.
If then, we were created in His i'm
age or likeness, we, or Adam, we're
like God that created him before the
fall. For God saw His creation and
behold it was very good. So man in
the beginning was good, but too small
to contain all the power of God. yet
what power he had was great and Civ
en- of God. And the mass OF people
would have been a mass of great
minds after Gods image and likeness
If Adam had obeyed God. But, alas
the fall. Germany may fall, terri
BILE calamity. but the fall of the whole
race--who can measure it. Yes. you
say, Jesus is great enough, and has
the power, for He has the image and
likeness of God. Oh, the greatness of
the love of God and the power bestow-
ed upon man in and through Jesus.
For. "To as many as received Him, to
them gave He power to become the
sons of Cod oh, If we become His
sons wouldn't we be like him, and If
like Him what would be our life here
in this present world. Please read
the Beatitudes as given by our Savior,
Matt. 5, beginning with Bird verse.
Now, before, or while we sum up
the constituent parts. or what makes
up good or great mind, let us take
notice of three things:
First. In the beginning man was
created good by an instantaneous
work. and pronounced good.
Second. After the fall Enoch lived
to please God and was great man
and his light still shines. In these
last times we become good or great
men through this one way only. ''But
as many as received Him, to them
gave He power to become the sons of
God, even to them that believe on His
name"
Third. Who then will be saved
Now, the beatitudes give good out
line of great mind. The first one
presents all when we first give our
selves to God, "Poor in spirit" but
as we mourn for the sins of this
world we reap the blessings of the Sec
ond, and become meek like our pat |
tern, Jesus. and will be blessed as the |
third beatitude says, and we will be.
gin to hunger and thirst after right
eousness, and will reap the. blessing of
the fourth, and will be 80 filed with
His spirit that we will be merciful to
everything, which is the fifth. And
our language and conversation with
one another becomes pure at home and
abroad, and we begin to see God, get
ting the sixth blessing, and become
and don't want to injure
anybody any more. oh, what a sad
lack there is along this line. How
many of us have heard professed chris
tians call each other liars and other
bad names. Oh, to be peacemaker,
for they are all that are the children
Of God, which is the seventh beati
tude, putting us in a condition to bear
One of the greatest
marks of great and strong mind is to
bear persecution. Jesus was a true
sample of great and powerful mind,
and was despised by His own house.
lold. Let ne learn to measure true
greatness by the word of God, the on
y true measure, and while true great
less was given first instantaneously to
nan, now it must be grown up into,
Is in the 18th verse of the first chapter
It John. "But as many as received
lin, to them gave he power to become
he sons of God" The same power
makes great minds We cannot get it
hrough our own or carnal power, and
nly such as are willing to receive Je-
us into their lives. For it is Il God
iven power. To receive him is to be ,
doer of His word, like Martin Luz
her, Melancthon, the Websters, {
'eorge Washington, who could not 1
toop to tell lie. We have had a
reat many great minds that we're s
bove the trifiing things of this world. 1
treat because they were climbing the |
adder of fame and nobility, seeking I
igher plane that the world might be
etter for their having lived in it, and !
nat they might inherit crown of !
ghteousness. Let us be humble, for i
cd resisteth the proud, but giveth
race to the humble. +