The Alaska citizen., 1915-12-13

i practical experience of sorrow in l the patient whom he is treating fOl | the gout. in that he obtains ces
 sation from Lis indulgences while he brings relief for them. As he
 quit the gout sins. he obtains re | lief from his gout pains"
 | 2. There is another thing that would come to such who pursue | the knowledge they now possess for
 a betterment of their life and that | is the solving of every doubt. There
 is no infidel now walking the misty i hak ,f doubt who would not be le ]
 into the eternal light of God, if he
 would follow the things that he
 knows he ought to follow There
 is no poor wretch sitting in the filth and slime of impurity and dis
 ease who would not be lifted ;o the eternal heights of health and happiness of glory if he would tol. 1 low the knowledge he possesses o( what he ought to do for God. Ton cant talk to one of these men or women who will not tell you that they know they are not dong tie thing that they know is right, bv' and there begins their excuses. If every infidel, who is leading young men down into the mist aud laby- rinth of doutt. would try to lead them into the highways and ave
 nues of Gods eternal truth he would not only save them. but would save himself in the process. "As they went they were cleansed' God has provided that salvation shall come to those who have faith 10 do the things they know they ought to do. And He has planted deep in the human heart desire to know these things and to do them As the old Scotchman says. Mon, it you would let your heart alone it would toddle off to Jesus"
 3. It would. then. lead to the re moval of stumbling blocks. Great people have they that love thy law and nothing shall offend them" Take the excuse that there are too many hypocrites in the churches. It is certain that few them have not found their way in as yet No hypocrite is keeping any man out of the work of the Lord who honestly wants to serve Him. But grant it so, then let the man who thus believes do all he can to fulfil the commands of God for his life and he will find that he has little time to devote to the hypocrites, The hypocIites are going in the opposite direction, anyhow, and all that he will be compelled to do with them is to meet them as he passes. The man who is looking at the stars and the things heavenward does not pay much attention to the mud that occasionally gets on his shoe. He is occupied with better things. It is said that MT Moody had a clock that he prized very highly because 1t kept in his u nd the answer to hypocrite's argl- ment that Was brought by the lady herself who gave him the clock. A certain woman would not listen to the overtures of the gospel be NF iy l,. oh, l es. Moody appealed to her with every argument of his being. Fin ally he suggested to her that the clock never thinks of the years an l years of service and difficulties that 1t may encounter, but ticks just one tick at a time. Doing the
 best it can with each tick it fin ally ticks off the minutes and the years. The woman was converted under the fensible spell of the thought. The next day she brought a valuable clock as a present to | the man who had so placed before her the plan whereby she could see ner IOlly. AS Sne went Sne was cleansed"
 | 4. At last these things will lead to knowledge, assurance, peace and 1 joy. Here are two boys, Tom and
 Harry. Tom Is industrious, ene!- setic and successful. Harry is lazy, frivolous and dissipated. Tom gets up in the morning snl has his work done bright and early, off to school he is with lessons we'll prepared. Harry wastes his time in idleness. and failure stares him in the face at every turn of his life. He tries to do the same things that Tom does and fails, thinking 1t Is of no use
 to try. Finally he realizes that there
 is plenty to do that Tom can't do and he begins in Harry's way ot
 doing things, and learns to his ever
 lasting joy and success that "as
 he went he was cleansed." Doing
 nothing he was failure, doing what
 he knew he ought to do he was a
 success.
 Coleridge was asked if he could
 prove the truth of Christianity. He
 replied "Try it." Taste and sec
 that the Lord Is good" Phillip said
 unto Nathaniel, Come and sec"