Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-03-02
ACTIVITY

Editor News:
True activity never fails. No true
work since the world began was ever
wasted; no true life since world began
/ has ever failed. oh, understand those
two perverted words, failure" and
success" and measure them by the
eternal, not the earthly, standard.
When after thirty obscure, toilsome.
unreeordsd years in the shop Of the
village carpenter, one came forth to DO
prominently the man OF sorrow, to
to wander from city to city in hopeless
labors, aud to expire in lonely agony
upon the shameful cross-was that
failure? Nay, my brethren, ii was the
death of Him who lived that we might
follow his footsteps; it was the life, 1t
was the death, of the Son OF God.
Christian life Is action; not aspecula-
ton, not a debating, but doing one
thing, and only one, in this world has
eternity stamped upon it. Feelings
pass. resolves and thoughts pass. opin-
ions change. What you have done
lasts-lasts in you thru ages, thru
eternity, and what you have done for
Christ-that, and only that You are
The work of men"-and what is that?
Well, any OF US may know very quick
~ on condition of being wholly ready
to do it, but many OF us are for tne
most part thinking not OF what we are
to do, but of what we are to get, and
the best of US are sunk into the sin of
Ananias, and it is a mortal ono. We
want to keep back part OF the price, and
we continually talk OF taking up our
cross, As if the only harm in a cross was
the weight of it, as il it was only thing
to be carried, instead OF crucifled upon
They that are Christ's have crucifsd
the flesh with the affections and lusts,
The question is not merely what we
can feel, but what we can do for Christ.
and not how many tears we can shed,
but how many sins we can mortify; not
what rapture We can experience. but
what self denial we can practice. Not
what happy frames we can injoy, but
what holy duties we can perform. Man
must work. That is certain as the sun.
But he may work grudgingly or he may
work gratefully. He may work as q
man or he may work as a machine. He
can not alwys choose his work, but he
can do it in a generous temper and with
an up-looking heart. There is no work
so rude that he may not exhalt it.
There is no work so impassive that he |
may not breath soul into it. There |
is no work so dull that he may not en- |
liven it. Learn these two things, |
never be discouraged because good |
things get on so slowly here and never
fail daily to do that good which lies |
next to your hand. Do not be in
hurry, but be diligsnt and inter into |
the sublime patience of the Lord. Be |
charitable in view of it. God can
afford to wait. Why can not we?
h -, fall all
let patience have her perfect work and
bring forth her celestial fruits. Trust
to God to weave your little thread into
4 web, although the pattern show
b not yet. | am not the only one that
the idle, for once when was
yoiDg to give our minister pretty long
list OF the sins of one of our people
whom he was askingabout,I began with:
He's dreadfully lazy" That's g.
lough", said the old gentleman. "All
'orts of sins are in the one" Christ
owes to dwell in house which is built
to His own plans, and not
Iccording to the whims of men. The
hureh ought not to set up as her
authority the DEGREES of men, either a
i've or dead. Her ruler is Christ. Asso-
iations formed otherwise than accord
ng to Scripture must fail in the long
un. l wish the christians would be-
ieve this. "The Bible and the Bible
My, is the religion of Protestants."
The worst thing that can be said ofany
tristan community is this. "Thou |
last & name to live and art dead, thou
.rt neither cold nor hot" Our Lord,
esus says: 81 would thou vert cold
r hot. So then because thou art
ukewarm and neither cold nor hot
viii spew thee out of My mouth" A
hurch without life and zeal makes
,hrist sick. You never will be saved
y works, but let me tell you most
that you never will be saved
,ithout works. If there he one thing
pom earth that mankind loves and ad-
1ires better than another, it is brave
1an. A man who dares to look the
evil in the face and tell him that he
5 tho devil.
Am soldier OF the cross, follow
rof the LAMB"
Rev. s. d. QUARLES.
Apison, Tennessee.
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