The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-29
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JESUS AND THE PROBLEM OF
SIN

Ye must be born again John 2:7.
 There Is power in the world, not ourselves. that makes for right eousness' is the truthful utterance of Matthcw Arnold, and can be ap- piled to everything that is good With your eyes you cannot seq the invisible electricity but you can sit in car as this strange fore" swiftly carries you from place to place, or faster than the wings Of the wind waits your voice to a friend thousands of miles away. No, you cannot see the force, but you know it is doing it's service in the world Even so there is a force that makes for righteousness, with out ourselves, and that force comes from the Almighty Father who would have all of His children know and love Him. God wants men to traf- fic in goodness You cannot see electricity but you can buy and sell it. you cannot see gravity, bus you can use gravity. You cannot see righteousness. but you can use that power that makes you good. and kind. and obedient, and loving. The car stands still until the motor man turns on the current and your life will not advance in good things things and their invincible power Ii you will permit these forces to enter your life Gods wisdom will make you 9 scholar. and His judo ment will make you Q patriot. ard His law will make you statesman, and His love will make you a Chris tan
 Mere growth in the life is not enough Growth in the wrong dt- rection is a great injury. The other day man found little lump on his sons arm. When the doctor saw the lump he shut his lips tightly and called the father aside The father insisted that the chilG would outgrow the spot, but the ev- perlenCe of the doctor taught him that that spot" was the seed of great deal of harm, and that it had better be removed at once. If the seed is a thistle seed it may cover d continent. Once We had slavery in the republic Foolish men said, Let il alone; America will outgrow slavery" But the little cub was furious beast, and when full-groWn leaped up to destroy the child Lib erty. Growth did not change slavery. it simply strengthened it. When boy learns to be selfish, and in hate strikes his playmate he has within him the seed that makes misers and murderers, and when it grows to completion there is a force that makes for mischief Growth can be good only when the seed is good, growth is ever bitter when the seed is bitter Yesterday the little boy went to the orchard and ate too many green apples, and came cry ing to mother with a severe pain in his stomach. Something had to be done to change the sour acid and relieve the suffering boy. Now no true mother would try to cure that pain on the inside by brushing the dust from the coat on the out side. So when boy has in his heart hate, or lies or envy, il is not growth that he needs, but a new heart, so that he will hate what God hates and love what God loves and happiness will be with him all the day long. It was a spark that grew and grew until Jesus talked to men about the new life He told them that they must have new hearts if they would ex pect new lives.
 Now not all the apple trees have sour apples. How well you remen- Der that sweet apple tree in the orchard There was a beaten pa,h that all the boys knew, for the ap pies were sweet delicious, juicy Sure, there were plenty of other apple trees. but they bore sour ap. ples. Now where did that sweet apple come from. The story is simple and interesting. Once there was a little apple tree that had very sour fruit, and the farmer went to sweet apple tree. and, cutting a small branch grafted it into the root of that sour apple tree. Then the sap made sweet apples just as lump of sugar makes the acid of the lemon sweet. Mir. Burbank has taken many bitter oranges and tasteless berries, and by grating has brought about what he calls the creative shock of a new life" He said to the little daisy, You must be born again. And in the process that he found in God he used in the life of the little daisy, and now he gives the Shasta daisy to the world for it's