The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-04-30


Il edncation. have position. 1 have
Ispleasures. but i lack Jesus Christ TO
II lack Jesus Christ means more 10 you
n than to have everything without Him.
If some OF you were given your wish
Il would be that you become the most
sbeauEiful person in Lace and form In
all the world SS11pose Sou should be-
come the most handsome and attract
I'VE person in form and face IN alI
tine world WhUt would 1t amount 10
4 II you lacked Jesus Christ? In Paras
i 2 few years ago there lived a woman
said to be the NEST beautiful woman
3sof France Her picture was painted
iSoF q famous artist. It MAS the OBJ
/ Jet Or her admiration and worship
But in ahfeW years her life OF sin and
gadety began 10 make her beauty fade
i She saw the change that had come
She realized that she was 10 longer
the beauty she used 10 be. !Her pride
drove her to desperation over her fad
ing figure. And one day she took a
i pair OF scissors and tipped the pic
ture TO pieces R:
4 There are many who are like that
1 woman. Their chief aim of life Is to-
adOrn their body TO dress attractiyeIy
and seek the admiration or Others.
!sIshey are like a house bu:it on shifting
sand. your ambition reaches no
4 higher than that youewf1l soon discover
THAT Your God is fading thing and
!. that IN few years the worm Will
Iced upon your face
~ some of YOU had your desires
! It would be thaty surpass all 9TH
jjers IN knowledge in our day and gen
ieratlon. But Your knowledge will be
IL greater curse to you without Christ.
~ heard Major Cole say Ii e visited an.
Old soldier who was well educated
and Dassionately fond Of his great Ii
brary The old soldier was not 4
!lChristian- Major Cole said to him.
Now tell me. you are an old man and
YOU have been great student and
scholar che What DO You get out of
I your books to help you face eterni-
w He replied: get great pleas
urc out OF my intellectual pursuits
The old man asked Major. What
do you get out oui of the BibEe2+
I Major Cole said. If every school
building we're filled with coins. and
EVERY court house filled with twenty
4 dollar gold pieces and they were all
mine. It would not give me the sa it's
faction that this book gives ME. I
have nothing to do with my past
am depending on it for the present.
/ The future is without q fear TO me.
Y The old man said. YOU would be IA
fool to exchange The book for 1t ALL
II some of You had wour desire. 1t
would be that you would achieve
great fame and honor. But to seek
Tame and honor and popularity is
| to make a shadow OF bubble I
have known people to get popularity
isfof a time and loose 1T. 1t is thing
i'easily lost When I was o boy there
We're certain men who were popular.
Their names We're. in the papers
They Were praised. They we're con-
5demned, they We're in the lime light
for IA while. Some could not bear
tine light. Some had Tom Pesuous
histories. Some were plungers In
my short life have seen men come
land go. They have been talked abou t
LA little and they have been d dropped
into obscurity. With the has besns'
They have been forgotten. You may
munger for fame and notoriet w but
many Of us will never be EknoWnaout-
i;side OF aF1ftue circle Of friends. But
lisuppose your name would be EN-.
a;blakened on banners and your statue
would appear In the market places
isof the world. and your name would!
become a household name. What
would that amount to il you lacked
| that one 4 thing. Jesus Christ Sup
| pose You had all the wealth Of the
IWorld. and every pleasure known
were yours, and every wish of yours
/ s5ratified and YOU were without
Christi Fame passes away; riches
cannot satisfy, beauty is but a fading
thing, but he that doeth the will of
i3Ged 'abideth forever. You will never.
have all theS wealth of the world.
You will never have alp the world s.
pleasures. You will never have ali
the worlds fame, but If YOU do the
will of God you shall abide forever.
Kingdoms rise and fall. Thrones OF
earth crash. But you can outlive
ikingdom and empires If YOU do the
Will of God, yon shall abide forever.
Turn My Feet Unto the Testimonies.
Here was a man who thous ht and
laid. He thought and o beyed. All or
your pious thinking and wishing
about what you ought to do will
Iamount to nothing, If 3o:: do not act.
!Ttswill add to the weakness OF your
IEcharacter. It will add to Your con
defamation.
.sSv5hen Christ met the man with
1.-THE 8withered hand. He said Stretch
forth thine .i1and - and the man.
;sstretched 1t forth and Il was made.
whole. Suppose the man had said.
IT would Ike to have my hand healed!
but can't lit it. have had no use
loft for a long time. He would not
.haNe been healed. But at the com
mand of the Christ he stretched forth
Ibis hand. He did what was the inn
possible ching in his own strength,
land his hand was healed When
Christ saw the t;:an born blind. he
IiLut clay on his eyes and said, Go
wash in the pool Of s. loam, The man
i1nigh have said what is the good OF
lit You might speak the word and
my eyes viii see. He would have
remained blind to the end OF his
days But this the command, Co
wash In the spoolsof Sloan. He went
j in his blindness and at the command
fof Christ he washed and came seeing.