The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-30
GODS STANDARD
Continued From Page Seven.

-Ro viii do something Of love. This
8S shows 10 In Els dealings with.
mankind. God was only 1ust when HA
condemned the rae Of Adam as unfit
for everlasting Hfo; and He would still
have been Just IL Hs had never pro-,
vfds6 redemption or any other oppor.
ttIftty for the world whatever. :
0ed L. more than just however, and
90 In due time he provided the Be-
Gesn1sr. This was Grace, this was
Mercy, this was Love. And Love has
been working all through His great
Plan Of tho Ages. providing first the
Savior, than mating provision for the
Church, that through His mercy we
might come from the ranks Of sinners
up to the ranks Of glory. To accom-
piish this, He has forgiven the sins of
the Church. has encouraged them by
assurances Of His love and favor all
the way and has made ali things work
together for their good
"RS We Perfect"
This, then, 10 the Love Of God; and
the New Creatures in Christ must
have this charactsEnkeH1ass to God.
We must have love, sympathy, and not
merely Justice. There so nothing OF
grace In the giving OF justice: any
thing less than Justice Ia wrong. But
the LOFd's people must be more than
just: they Ire to be kindly sffectfoned
VA % another, tsnder-hsarted, 6orgtv-
ing one Rnother, even as God for
| Chrtsts sake has forgiven them. Our
Heavenly FRthar wishes His children
10 see that quality In Els character
and to copy it. This fs what Jesus
meant when He said. BE 70 perfect,
even as your Father In Heaven 10 Per
fecE"' We cannot bring our mortal
body to that degree Of perfection
where every act would be perfect, ev-,
ery word perfect, but the mind must.
Do in full sympathy and aocogd with
God and Ills arrangements, ana each
must atrtve to the best Of his ability
TO brtng the body into harmony with
God.
As the Bible teaches. the Church
class are in the School of Christ, being
taught Of God-His workmanship. By
Ills providence and His Word he has
BEEN working In Us, by our experiences,
which He has shaped for w, and by
the opportunities which He gives us.
All these things are designed BY the
Lord 20 bless us and TO develop uS IN
His own Observation-Disclosures, so that, as
Jesus sa4d. we may be like unto our
Father In Heaven, 50 that we may be
holy, even as he IL hoty-that our In
tsnttong, aims, desires, may be Of x
actly the am hind as His WIZ.
IL, therefore, any one who processes
10 be q New Creature In Christ has in
his heart a feeling Of bitterness, envy
or strife, let him beware! Such a con
dition Of heart ts dangerous; It 1s not
Of the Holy Spirit at all Those who
have such elements Of character are
not holy as the Heavenly Father is
holy. On the contrary, as the Apostle
explains, these qualities of character
are works Of the fiesh and Of the Devil;
and to whatever extent one possesses
these, they are the result Of the spirit
OF the iesh ana Of the Devil at WORK
In the heart,
Buff, on the contrary, has holt
meas and a fuAnesS Of desire TO know
and TO do Gods will as an increasing
power In his heart, then he Is indeed
being-sealed Of the Holy Spirit>oe God.
The character-likeness Of q Father
In Heaven is being impressed upon
him. He is more and more coming to
zee things from Gods vfewpoint-to
S@e as God sees, to s~ympathize with
the things with which God sympa-
thizes, to be opposed to ~therth1ngs to
which God is opposed.
The Grand Climax Of Character.
OF our Lord Jesus it was written:
Thou lowest righteousness. and hatesty
tniquity; therefore God, Thy God
hath anotnted Thee with the oil OF Soy
above Thy fellows" psalm $50
above the angels, above the Church,
making Him to be Head over all
things to the Church and decreeing
that all the angels shall worship Him.
Hebrews 1852 In order to COPY
Him we must see to what extent He
loved righteousness and hated anicuttys7
he 90 hated wickedneHa that in SveEy
way He avoided injustice. inSuuaty, I'M
righteousness. sin; and He 50 loved
righteousness that He preferred to-die
wen the death of the o ratheC@&haD.
to resist the will Of God. 1@4
This, then, is the great test OF char
acter going on with the Lords people
and according to these lines God 10
dealing with them. 1t 10 not merely
that they are lighting the good fight
and trying to accomplish something in
their flesh; for the New Creature will
nsver succeed In getting as good con-
troll of the flesh as he could wish. But
what God wishes to- see in His people
is that their whole hearts are set for
righteousness, that they love the right
and hate tine wrong, and that they ere
striving to the best Of their ability to
put down the wrong and 20 uphold the
right, especially in theragslves-in their
OWE characters and In their own acts,
words and thoughts.
30 shall they be the children of the
Highest; and when our great Redeem
er shall examine them for graduation
from the School OF Christ, He shall be
ready to say to each. "Tell done. good
and faithful servant: thou hast been
faithful over q few things. I win make
thee ruler over many things"
MY life flows on In endless sons,
Above AnFfb'A fermentation. 1--we Ea%5