Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-05
SERMONS IN PARAGRAPHS,
LINES AND SENTENCES

Nothing so purihes the thoughts.
heghtens the acts shuts out self adj
mits God, as. in all things, little or
great. to look to Jesus. Look to Him
when ye can as ye begin to act. 10
converse or labor, and then desire to
speak or be silent. as He would have
you; to say this word or leave that
unsaid; to do this or leave that un-
done; 70 shape your words as If He
were present. and He will be present
not In body, but in spirit; not by your
side but in your soul Faint not, any
selves yet far short of what He Him
SELF, who is Love. saith OF the love
OF Him. Perfect love is heaven.
When ye are perfected in love- your
work on earth is done. There Is no
short road to heaven or to love. Do
what in thee lies by the grace Of
God. and He will lead thee from,
strength to strength and grace to grace
and love to love.-Pusey.
The maximum achievement of any
mans life. after 1t Is all over, is to
have done the will of God. No man
or woman can have done any more
with life; no Luther. no Sturgeon.
no Wesley, no Melancthon. can have
done any more with their lives, and a
dairymaid or a scavenger can do as
much. Therefore the supreme prin-
ciple upon which We have to run our
lives. is to adhere. through good re-
port and Ill, through temptation and
prosperity and adversely, to the will
OF God, wherever that may lead US
Henry Drummond.
We men who can sing may sit COM
fortably and sing:
Watt. watt. We winds, his story.
And you. We waters, roll:
TIL, like a sea of glory,
1t spreads from pole to pole"
But that doesn't solve the problem.
The only way that the wind and the
waters can carry the story the world
around is by carrying forward men
who go to tell 1T. C. Buxton.
Worldliness does not consist in dis
tinct acts. nor in thoughts of trans
erosion. but IT is the spirit Of a. whole
lie. which hides all that is invisible,
real and eternal. because 1t is devoted
10 the visible. the transient and unreal.
Christ and the world cannot exist in
the same heart. Men who find their
all in the world-how can they, fe-
vered by its business, excited by It's
pleasures. petrifed by its maXims. see
God in His purity or comprehend the
calm radiance OF eternity?-Rel.gious :,
Herald. ;
hoSt TellSlonS are meant to be
straight lines connecting two points
God and man. But Christianity has
three points-God and man and his
brother, with two lines that make a
right angle. Each one of us Is at the
point of the angle. looking up to God
ana Out to our brother. What God
sends down on the perpendicular line
We must pass on along the horizontal.
lf one hand goes UP to God, the other
must go out to our brother.-Dr. NJ
+. Babcock.
AS the lark that scars the highest
builds her nest tho lowest: the night
ingale that sings SO sweetly sings In
the shade when all things rest: the
branches that are most laden with
ripe fruit bend lowest: the valleys are
fruitful in their lowliness. and the ship
so the hottest Christians are the
humblest.-Mason.
Like the star that shines afar.
without haste and without rest,
Let each man wheel with steady sway
Round the task that rules the day.
And do his best.
Goethe.
Happy are the meek. for IL they are
meek they are teachable, and IL they
are teachable they are humble Tho
less mummy a man mas, the less wt1l-Sf
ing he is to be taught by events or,
by man or by God ]. Burtscher.SS
We are what God sees us to be, and
that only. II ! am a criminal. man,
appreciation will not make mo inno-@a
cent; and II innocent. mans conden,s
nation will not make me criminai.-
Guyon.
What is thy faith who sayest: ri
believe in God tho Father" and yet
livest not as II God were and were