Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-12-31

of greater present military strength.
God is very strong, and if it is pos
sible for man to SO act that he encoun-
ters God as an enemy, is he able to
meet him?
Meeting God.
What is it to meet God? Man meets
God in his everyday obligations Some
OF these are communal, while others
are individual. Men are as communi-
ties and as individuals meeting God
and they are enjoying or suffering the
consequences. There is a certain
meeting of God in death, the aoul
standing naked before him, and it is
very common EXPRESSION in connection
with the death Of anyone to say, He
has gone to meet his God" When a
Judge in court sentences a prisoner to
death he adds, And may God have
mercy on your SOUL But the chief
thing in mind is the meeting of God
in the final judgment. Neither taking
chance, reformation, nor becoming
religious will rake this preparation;
only belief in the Lord Jesus Christ as
Savior will do it.
The Outcome of Preparation.
One outcome of such preparation
will be an immediate blessing, the es-
tablishment of peace with God and the
experience of the peace of God. There
is the realization of mans true place
in the universe. He was created in the
image and likeness of God and he can
never be the whole of man." as indi-
Gated by the correct reading of Ec-
clesiastes 1913, unless he believes in
Jesus Christ. There is also deliver
ance from the power of death, which,
while as lion in the pathway it may
terrify, is chained. This outcome
means the ultimate, perfect Individual
and also the perfect social order Man
is not whole until he has a sound
mind in a sound body, and both OF
these are the Inheritance of the be-
lever in Jesus Christ. A man who
does not believe in Jesus Christ as his
Savior, is not of sound mind. The
prodigal was not in his right mind
when he demanded his fathers goods
and when he was spending them In
riotous living, and it was only wher
he came to himself; that is, when he
resumed nationality and determined t.
return to his fathers house, that hs
became of sound mind. This sount
mind will also be in a sound body. L
is the glory of the Christian religion
that it promises body that is incor
ruptible, powerful, honorable, gloriou,
and like Christ's body. The blind, thu
deaf, the dumb, the deformed ant
those lacking members of the norma
body, can certainly believe that the,
will have perfect bodies some day i
they meet the conditions that Go.
places on them.
When Shall Man Prepare?
Many who acknowledge the neces
sity of preparation, put it off until aft
er death, but while there is a mos
dangerous indifference to this fact o.
the part of those who theoreticall
profess it, it is true that preparation
must be made before death "It is az
pointed unto men once to die, but afte
this the judgment" That preparation
can be completely made now. But
says someone, That is too rapid, tha
is practically miraculous, it is a ere
ative act" Precisely so, and nothin
less. There is no evolution in reger
Grafton. Jesus, in his talk to Nicode
mus, settled the matter of mans righ
relationship to God in speaking of
as a new birth. That preparation ca
be made this moment by believing i
Jesus Christ.
Two soldiers in the trenches c
Flanders, who were brothers and d,
vout Christians, belonged to a reg
ment which had been ordered to max
charge upon the enemy. The con
manding officers said that there woul
be very serious business Th
younger of the two brothers said t
the other, as they went into the smok
and the smothering gases, "Brothe
we may not see each other again, br
it is all right" The older brother cam
back wounded, the name of the othe
was found in the list of those who ha
been killed, but he was prepared.