The Detroit times., 1915-09-24
In he Religious World
Friends For Fight With Soul.Foes

Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic Of the
Young Peoples soeieties-chris-
tian Endeavor. ete---foc septem-
Der 20: Shields Against Temp
tations." Eph. e:1o-18.
10y WILLIAM r. eliIS.)
Mans real life is his spirit life.
To know that truth is essential TO
all wise living. Not what happens
In the outward world. but the ex-
periences within ones own soul. de
termines happiness and power and
destiny. las a man thinketh in
his heart. so is he" So the con
Germs OF the spirit are our first
business II is more important to
learn how to safeguard the citadel
Of the soul than it is to learn how
to protect the body. Safety first.
the modern slogan, should include
sedulous zeal for the welfare Of the
spiritual life. Deliverance from
temptation Is quite n important as
protection from automobiles and
railway trains. Let Us put hrst
things first. and make provision for
the well-being OF the spirit.
Closer is the Lords protection than
a near.invested wall;
Closer than a moat about me, clos
er than tower tall;
Closer than a suit OF armour. or my
hands and feet can be,
For against my own assailing, His
protection keepeth me.
AMOS r. Wells
Why have all the books on ma
tional welfare and personal health
and the countless volumes treating
of success and efficiency. passed
away with their own generation or
century. while the Bible lives on
from age to age, In increasing pow
er? Is II not because the Bible
deals with the two eternal and SUI
preme factors in the universe--the
everything God and the deathless
spirit OF man? THE things which
are seen are temporal, but the
things which are unseen are eter-
mai Spiritual values alone are
eternal. The Bible helps us live
for two worlds. II ministers to the
immortal I'm u.s.
Political economy seeks to make
conditions OF life easier, which Is
good: but the Bible seeks To make
men and women stronger. which Is.
better.
There is no shield for temptation
like a feeling of fellowship with
Christ I'VE have not a high priest
who cannot be touched with feel
ing OF our ,infrmities. but one who
was tempted in all points like as
we are. yet without sin" I'm that
He Himself hath suffered. beini
tempted. he Is able TO succor them
that are tempted" Every tempta.
ton that assails a Christian has
FIRST thrust its point at the Say
Tor.
Christ's mastery OF you will give
Won self-mastery; yes. and mastery
over the powers OF darkness and OF
hell.--T. l.. Cuyler.
In this the tempted man finds
succor. first. that he In In Christ.
and second. that Christ is In him.
r. g. Meyer.
Only those temptations which we
encountered in the path Of duty.
only these our Lord promised us we
should conquer-Phillips Brooks.
God believes in what you may be.
John Kelman.
What man has done. man can
do" il one OF the ringing Slogans
that f. a summons TO higher life.
We know that temptation is univer-
sal. There Is no temptation taken
you but such as In common TO men"
Also we know that millions have
withstood temptstion. What they
could do. We can do. They had no
resources which may not also be
ours. Their God II our God, and
HIS arm Is not shortened. None
Of rs In foredoomed to defeat. The