Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-13
SERMONS IN PARAGRAPHS,
SENTENCES AND LINES

StRMUNS IN PARAGKAPHS,
SENTENCES AND LINES
We offer Christ the submission of our
hearts and the obedience of our lives
and He offers us His abiding presence
We take Him as our Master. and He
takes as His friends. Our Lord
takes us up into relationship Of love
with Himself. and we go out into life
inspired with His spirit 10 work His
work 1t begins with the self-sur-
render OF love: and love. not fear or
favor, becomes the motive To feel
thus the touch Of God on our lives
changes the world. Its fruits are Joy
and peace, and confidence that all the
events Of life are suTused. not only
with meaning. but with a meaning Of
love. The soul that Is bound by this
personal attachment to Jesus has life
in the eternal, which transfigures the
!ife in time with great joy.-Hugh
Black.
! have thought I am a creature of A
DAY, passing through life as an arrow
through the air. l am a spirit come
from God. just lowering over the great
gulf I'LL few moments hence am no
more seen. I drop into an unchange-
i able eternity. want to know one
thing-the way to Heaven, how to land
on that happy shore. God Himself has
condescendcd TO teach the way; for this
very end; He came from heaven. He
hath written IL down in book. O
give me that book! AT any price give
me that book of God, have It: here
is knowledge enough for me. Let me
be man of one book
Here. then. am. far from the busy
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God is here. In His presence / open. |
read this book; for this end-to ind the
way 10 hearen.-John Wesley.
our God is willing TO light up our
ordinary roads. even the byways and
back streets OF our daily life. Few Of
us spend our days in the main streets
Most OF our life is passed in very quiet
ways. often in trudging along very
rough and rutty roads. Well, we can
go along them al! by revelation" with
Gods soft light OF grace falling upon
the deep ruts and tn, sharp stones In
every path OF duty we can have these
| revealing rays. warm and sunny with
the very love OF God. Every way can
be illumined. and in the heaviest and
most miry road the place of our feet
can be glorious.-Rev. J. H. Jowett
Christianity is the last word OF God
10 world struggling in the throes
or It's own blindness. Christianity ia
the final expression of God chaIleng-
ing mankind 10 the highest possible
standard of living. But Christianity
mas an attractive and impelling side to
those who desire high ideals Christian
ity cuts with one sweep that wide gulf
which separates God and man through
the risen life of Jesus Christ fecundat-
ing in the life Of the believer
Christianity is both life and conduct
as ourselves. but II Is difficult to an
proximate that only as we are driven
TO IT by great compelling power
the life OF the Risen Lord in the world
to-day. The Risen Lord is the one
faith fact in the light OF which all
other faith facts of Christianity are in
Observation-Disclosures Churchman.
With the war and without vodka.
Russia Is more prosperous than with
vodka and without the war" This
sentence comes. not from profess
sional prohibitionist, but from NJ.
Kharitonof. controller of the treasury
speaking before the budget commit
tee OF the Russian Parliament.-Ex-
positor.
Mans happiness consists in present
peace. even in the midst Of the greatest
trials, and in more than hope Of n
glorious future.-Charles G. Gordon.
To work with all ones heart is the
right thing. and whose does this may
feel satisfied, whatever the result of
his labor may Bee. F. Watts.
"Baptists ueber allies" my be a good
motto or a bad, according to it's in
depreciation. Christ above all is bet
ter.-Religious Herald.