The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-24
LOYAL SPIRIT
IS NECESSITY
Rev. Adams Says Faith Is Requi.
site in Church and State

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have not chosen me but have chosen
YOU and ordained YOU and bring forth
fruit and that your fruit should re
main. Rev. c. l.. Adams at the Calu-
met NJ. +. church, sunday evening,
said;
1t is great thing To Ice child Of
God. with all that it implies by way of
privilege and opportunity and rospon-
sthility
1T is. however. q greater thing q
be such child that your Heavenly
Father can trust you with any respon
sibility. great or small. Such trust
worthiness is pleasing 10 God and nun
has tho highest commentator; Thou
hast been faithful over few things
will make thee ruler over many things:
enter thou into the JOY of thy Lord. p
such quality OF service is greatly
needed in our day in both church and
state II is this for which the Master
was looking when He chose his early
disciples, and this same spirit OF loyal
ty would lie find today in those whom
he calls TO serve in his kingdom.
The Masters choice means 4 call
20 fellowship with him.
1t is not enough TO send the boy to
college If ne is TO become his fathers
partner in business ne must get his
fathers vision, learn his methods
catch his spirit. Otherwise he is only
"a day laborer working for pay. As a
partner he shares his fathers burdens
and responsibilities, also his joy or
sorrow in success or failure. The Mas
tcr's purpose of taking his disciples
into partnership with Himself he eX-
pressed as follows: "Heuceforth | call
you not servants for the servant know
eth not what his lord doeth; but !
have called YOU friends; for all things
that l have heard of my Father l have
made known into YOU" We need TO
get very close to the Master. To walk
with him. that we may catch the yis
ion Of his purpose in the cOnquests of
the world and in the building of his
kingdom in the hearts and lives Of
men. No man will ever be worth
lllAtA II III Nllf WI n VI llAt Z llhiAll VI az
the kingdom of God who lacks this
fellowship with the Master This prin-
ciple is equally true i'm any line of hu-
man activity or service We have far
too many time servers i'm these days
and not enough partners in the great
concerns OF life such as education,
business, politics, religion
The Masters choice means call
10 training and discipline
THE twelve did not constitute a very
encouraging group If workers when
the Master first called them To be his
followers. They were not college men
or men of wealth or distinction. While
they We're the best avilable they were
far from being ideal either in culture
or character They were just ordinary
men with hardened muscles and cal
louscd hands. James and John We're
vcritable sons of thunder" hot
headed, rcscutful. vndictiye. Peter
was a regular tempest in a tea pot
Boosting of his loyalty and then deny
ing his Master inside of tWenty-four
hours. Judas was sclf-scckng, greedy
of gold, lacking in high ideals of life
and Yet in spite of all this with one
notable exception. the Master made of
these men splendid workers i'm his
Kingdom. All he needed was a fair
chance and plenty of timc. So today
out of some very impromsiug mater
ial, the Master through discipline and
training, produces some beautiful
characters, some men of rare power
builders Of his Kingdom OH earth.
ours is day of sports and pastimcs
and amuscmcnts and some men are
fearful lest our young people are
swept off their feet 10y their charm and
fascination. But it is this day IF
testing, of discipline, and the Master
looks upon the scene with intense in
tcrost noting the choice that each one
makes between those amusemeuts
that are clean and wholesome and
those that are demoralzing and ruin
Gus. And even when the sane and
SAT-" forms Of sport are chosen. He
watches 10 see whether the youn
pcupl" play the game fair or contrary
tp the rules. I'm their games and in
their school agd in their homes they
are being disciplined and tested, and
later Wien cod wants a young man o
take charge O. great industrial plant
or 10 manage an extensive railroad
50 stem or 10 guide the destinies uc -
strong nation for him he will pick out
the boy who always played fair who
was honest in his school work, ana
loyal to his home. God Is not blind
and he is seeking partners who have
proven themselves true. II is not 81
much a question of ability or talents
as of loyalty, To- hiph Ideals and e.: Do
}otion to what is truc ana right
The Masters choice means call =,
the hlghest Kind Of service.
First. the service of being ~ Chris
rnn. II may seem strange To call th'
task If being Christian "a service
but i'm a very real scusc il Is Va" irjicst
| Kind OF service ana taxes all our ppw.
era 10 the utmost. lie that ruicth MI,
own spirit is greater than ne That taxi
| 9TH a city" is the way one dIsrcruinl
! writer stated the problem ana an,
worth Of the true Christian. ca learn.
ing of the death of Phillips Eroo',s. on,
~ his little friends said. How glat
the angels will be To see him. Il wls