The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-05-01

What beautiful thing to sleep for God. and eat for
God If you eating for God you will never indulge the
appetite we have to pray and have to watch and we
have to be on guard lest step aside and tell vou
brothers and sisters the time get back to God is when
vary cta from the straight narrow way Do
not close your eyes sleep until you confess and ask for
gveness and reconsecrate yourself That the only wav
The only way to have home heaven is for the hus
band when he yields to the tepter and does wrong towards
his wife and towards his children before he goes to sleep TO
make that wrong right at the family altar. Be humble
enough to own and will make all the wrongs right
around the family altar, will start the next morning
glorious day.
What plead for is to live wholly consecrated to God
am conscious of my mperfections and of my own
shortcomings, but am trying by prayer and by
ion with Cod and by studying the Word go forward and
in and in the knowledge of the truth it
Jesus Christ. believe all see better than we did
believe that have the vision but they fall short of
living the vision.
The Bbethe Word Gods Inspired
My brothers and sisters the Word of God-he inspired
Word of God-the Bible what it 1t is not
idle tale; it dream It means what it says want
you to live the hymns you sing and to live the Word of Cod
am not going to lower the standard am not going
to say that it too high God asks no mpossibtie Of
of you God the Almighty has made it plain in His Word
that in the last days. the coming of Christ draws Nigh
the Church must be prepared bride adorned for her hus
band that the Church must be brought to the place with
out spot or wrinkle Somewhere sometime through
body, this has to be done
Shame on the man that calls himself Christian who
would lower the standard! Shame the who would
pull down the IDEAL You live this day without wfu
transgresson and you should pray every morning
keep without sin this day. and you will pray in the
morning. and at and pray at night and at night
review the day and wherein you have rangessed you
will forward from strength to strength and from victory
to victory.
Lose yourself in Gods service Do not be afraid to
trust Him.
He said "Seek first KINGDOM GoD and His
righteousness and all these things shall be added"
Did He mean it?
Is it the truth?
Them my brothers and sisters Labor for the meat
that persheth Labor that you may pile up but that
you may do good.
Do Good to All Men, HE that Doeh Good is of God"
was impressed very deeply with what brothers
and sisters said during the Convocation II working
harder than worked but not for myself but that
may do good to others;' That is the life to live.
And so, told God when I used to fall upon my face
and plead for CITY, Lord let have it unless
the people right" and would today emphaticay:
Unless the people right before God would rather not
have ZION CITY
you are right with Cod then take this land
put the market to work this financial problem and
then live for God Work not to get rch work not to pile
up yourself your children but work for the extern
sion of GoD Then ask God to bless
this land and to make produce bounully to His Names
honor and glory.
he be The
"a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God!'
The lamb that offered under the Mosaic law was
be without beish 1t to be the most perfect lamb
of the whole flock.
I'll tell you God will accept unholy uncean sacrifice
required that you to God clean and pure and is
the blood of Christ that ceanse from all unrgeousness
A holy life! A holy life
Truthfulness Honestly Uprightness! Purity! Do
ing right Doing wrong for gan holy life!
World
Look at the commercial world today: 1t is rotten it is
corrupt Look at the counterfeit It is corrupt Look at
the theft Look at the fraud Look how the government
has pass laws and appoint inspectors and provide heavy
penalties the adulteraton of milk and of other
food-suffs
WE'LL it is wonderful sign. The age is closing and the
Christ is approaching Them ZION let the opposite prevail
May God help you!