The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-13

him and his company to the ground, unto him: Saul, Saul, why perse cutest thou me- And he replied: Who art thou, Lord?' And the Lord said: "I am Jesus. whom thou persecutest; it is hard for thee to kick against the bricks The fires of the volcano were out, the snow self. IL now requires no argument to prove to him that Jesus is the Messiah. the Lord; for in utter sui render of himself he humbly asks: Lord. what wilt thou have me do?' Here is the moral miracle of the age. Men might deny that the the beautiful. tempestuous Galilee, but they cannot deny that he forever smothered the fires that burned in rage in the soul of Saul to destroy the principles that have ever made men free.
 Again, We see old powers put to new uses. When man is converted the natural powers he possesses re main the same in force and possi- bility. God destroys nothing of the art and skill of the performer The musical instrument that played to the condemnation of souls now plays in tenderer, far sweeter strains for their salvation. Cowper, the converted, delights more to sing of the Fountain filled with blood" than to make Homer sing of the deeds of Achilles, for his own peo- pie. Joseph Parker the unconvert- ed contended against the fact Of the Divine existence, but converted he poured out the love of his soul in burning characters of mercy. So Saul, the cultured man of Tar5us, noted scholar. member of the San hedrim, Pharsee of the Pharisees, was a cruel foe of Christ But Saul, the converted man, still the man of culture, refinement, power, and vision, is now Christly man: his powers used for Christ; his logic consecrated to Christ; his life thus consecrated laid at His feet; his watchword now is: For me to live is Christ"
 And so it always results that men becoming Christians old things pass and new things appear. Actuated by different motives they perform different works. Now from the pen pure literature flows; from the art ist hand pure, chaste art is given; from the business life only lawful. honest business develops; and thus appears the great importance ot Christianity to the world. As m,r become its followers things helpful, right, strange, mighty, appear to the building up of their fellow men Men possessing the Christian spirit live on higher plane than do other men and reap pleasure from the utilization of their powers other men do not.
 Further, We see the spirit of Chris tianity He had scarcely time to get his bearings in the new world of possibilities and joy, until he began to preach Christ in the syna- gogue1 that He was the Son of God. Scarcely had the scales fallen from his eyes than he began to preach to men Jesus. This is ever the case. The saved man seeks the salvation of other men. The reasons are plain, for he sees sin as he had never seen it, and he sees the dread ful doings and consequences of sin and appreciates as never before. He has no philosophy of sin that takes away it's heinousness. He loves the souls of men. He is now interested in his fellow men truly. He has love and sympathy for his Lord that he never had before. He not only prays, "Thy kingdom come," but does his best to hasten that king dom. The Christian who does not have profound interest in the cause of his Lord and the salvation of his fellows has not the spirit of Christianity in him.
 Finally, we see the nature of the argument that is most convincing for the Divinity of Christianity. This is manifest in the conversion of the cultured Pharisee. A change in the life of a blood-thirsty man to one of tenderness, love and pity. The hater and persecutor of Christ and His followers into one of the mightiest and profoundest preachers of righteousness. The giving over of a life of destruction to one of unequaled logic and argument that the Christ whom he persecuted was indeed the Son of God and the Savior of the world, and would save to the uttermost all that put their trust in Him As we see this mis- erable low wretch lifted from the world of harm to the heaven of peace, up into man of smiling | cOuntenance and noble life if there