The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-01-08

Christ, but he still
has sin Gin" him. To confess" this
sin is different from simply asking
forgiveness for IT,
A man may ask forgiveness without
ever Identifying his sins. but when
he confesses them he enters into de-
tail and brings himself into the place
OF judgment for each. But to hold
fellowship with God In such confes.
sion is to know Jesus Christ as the
Precipitation for sin and the everything
intercessor for his people. He is the
way. the truth and the life, and no
man can come unto God save through
him.
Jesus the Carpenter.
(2) But in the second place, walking
In the light means keeping Gods com.
mandments (2:3-6); and this is not
limited to an external observance OF
the decalogue. but includes heart sur
render TO all his revealed will. IL is
walking. even as. Jesus walked. who
did always those things that pleased
his father Nor does this mean only
the public Jesus, the Jesus OF the
three years ministry, but the private
Jesus. the Jesus OF the home, the vii.
lage school, the shop. Ii means Jesus,
the carpenter, who, as Campbell Nor
gan says, never made a yoke that
CALLED an OK" II was because the
father was well pleased with those ST.
lent years at Nazareth that the great
er honor Of the public ministry was
conferred God gives the Holy Spirit
to them that obey him.
(3) Walking in the light means low
ing the brotherhood. verses I'll. BY
the brotherhood here is meant those
that are In Christ To love ones
neighbor is an old commandment, but
the new commandment" OF which
John here speaks, is loving the breth'
rem. This love is not an emotion or
passion. II is not a natural, but q
supernatural experience. We see II
defined in Corinthians 13, as includ-
ing such simple things as long-suffer'
ing, kindness, humility. courtesy, un.
selfishness. meekness and the like. ]
am with the priest who publicly re.
buked a college president for advising
the graduate that the way to get along
was TO push and crowd other people
out OF the way That may be the
way OF the world. but II is not the
way OF Christ, and he who acts upon
II will never know fellowship with
God.
(4) Separation from the world thus
becomes fourth means OF walking in
the light, verses 1917. There is a
proper love for the world, but II is not
that which is incompatible with the
love Of the father. There are two ar.
guments against the love OF the world:
first, II passeth away and the lusts
thereof. and second. he that doeth
the will of God abideth forever"
Chauncey NJ. Depew was defending
the second marriage, late in life, OF
his colleague, Senator Platt, and said
that a time came when the love Of
power, OF wealth, OF fame. OF pleas
ure receded, and left nothing to a man
but the companion OF his fireside.
The difference between Chsuncey NJ
Depew and the apostle John is this,
however, that in the one case we have
the world slipping away from the
man, and in the other the man is
slipping away from the world. II IL
the last that understands and appre-
ciates the fact OF fellowship with God.
D. L. moody's Memory.
On the tombstone which marks the
grave OF d. L. Moody at Round Top,
Mortified. Mass, is engraved that In
spring sentence OF John, He that
doeth the will OF God abideth forever"
How true II is that d. L. Moody abid.
eth still in the hearts and lives OF
thousands In this cbuntry and Great
Britain. whom, by the grace OF God.
be won 10 Jesus Christ. and in the
missionary and philanthropic enter
prises which were set In motion az
the result OF his great evangelistic
work But he himself abideth in an
other senseAthe literal sense that
John meant because the life OF God
was communicated TO him through his
son. Jesus Christ In this sense II is
the privilege OF every one Of Us TO
abide forever. ''Becanse I live" said
Christ "ye shall live also" The
wages Of sin is death. but the gift OF
God is eternal life" Who would not
accept this gift 10 freely offered
ofough the pon OF 0od1