The Alaska citizen., 1915-06-21

difference between these two young
men,
Here is young woman, refined,
educated, with delicate sensibilities,
with spiritual depth and insight,
conspiracy of some wicked circum-
| stance, coarse where she is refined
and vulgar where she is stainless
/ The husband loves the lure of the
underworld and the wife loves the
atmosphere OF the prayermeeting.
| He is proud of his wife for she is
I beautiful, but as to her true worth
and motives he knows less than
nothing. These two people are not
| OF the same world. The marriage
vow gives them privilege of dwell
| ing together. but their souls ara
OF different spheres. Jesus speaks
| a parable of the judgment when he
says of these: "One shall be taken
and the other shall be left"
Rivers wide and deep and noun
tains high and perpendicular separ
ate souls in the world of thought
and feeling and conduct. Imagine
a heaven of music. Could the I'M
musical enter there with pleasure?
Imagine heaven of philosophy.
Could the unphilosophic enter there.
| or entering would they feel at home?
Imagine heaven of truth. Could
the maker of lies enter there, or
entering feel at home? Imagine
world Of purity. Could the lber-
tine, the scarlet woman entering
not finish until it has recorded
these words; He that is unjust,
let him be unjust still; and he that
is filthy, let him be filthy still; and
| he that is righteous, let him be
righteous still; and he that is holy,
let him be holy still" Life moves
on hereafter unchanged by mere
organic dissolution of the body, and
the resurrection of a body fitted
to inhabit the realms of eternity,
having been shorn of those qualities
and properties needed for time
There are two kinds of souls, the
spiritual and the unspiritual seekers
after God and those to whom self
is their god; lovers of truth. and
those who welcome truth only when
it is convenient; keepers of a good
conscience, and those who recog
niZe no conscience that they are
bound to respect; the saved and
the lost; the sheep and the goats;
the wheat and the chaff" No one
of us has a right to say which one
of his individual fellows belongs to
the one class or the other as saliva
ton is definitely known only to the
individual, but we have a right to
say that those who belong to the
one class are saved and those who
belong to the other class are lost.
To know God is to be saved; to
know him as our ultimate goal, and
to strive to reach that goal to
strive and fall and strive again; to
die striving; to face life with noble
reverence and a spirit bound to
win for Jesus Christ.
| To be lost is not to know God,
not to desire to know Him, to bar
Him out of the life. The Heavenly
Father has sent voices to beckon
ls up higher, but they are disregard
ed He has stretched out hands to
help the fallen sinner rise, but these
hands are spurned and the help
turned away. There are those who
treat the human soul as if it were
mole to burrow in the earth when
| it was created to aspire to flights
the eagle has never dreamed Of, and
to wrestle with the storms that
only man whose destiny is heaven
will conquer.
Are there few that be saved?"
What is the number that are to be
victorious in the battle in life for
a better eternity? Does good or
evil predominant among men? Is
the human race to be considered
a failure, or is the remnant saved
but few?
In answering such a question we
must first set aside all those who
do not come under the scheme of
salvation which considers that man
has a choice in the matter of his
own destiny. "Of such are the
kingdom Of heaven" applies at once
to the children who have died be-
fore coming to the age of account
ability. This includes about half
of the human race. The missionary
was right who addressing an au
dience Of heather said, Il know
where all your dead children are"
Again look at the condition Of
the heather world. Think of the
myriads who have died never having
heard of such a person as Jesus
Christ. Let the inspired Peter an
swer in his address at Caesarea:
In every nation he that feareth
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