The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-05-13

Little children, let deceive you: he that doeth
righteousness is righteous even He is righteous.
"He that commtteth sin is of the devil for the devil
snneth from the beginning For this purpose the Son of
God manifested that He might destroy the works of
the devil
"Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for
His seed remaneh in him and he cannot SIM because he is
born of God.
'In this the children of God are manifest and the
children of the devil whosoever doeth not Righteousness
not of God, neither he that loveth not his broher
GENERAL OvERsEER Still bowed in prayer let us sing
very thoughtfully:
Pass not, gentle Savior
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art smiling,
Do not pass by.
Savior, Savior, hear my humble cry,
While others Thou art calling,
Do not pass by.
Let me at throne of mercy
Find sweet relief;
Kneeling there in deep contrition
Help my unbeef:
Trusting only in Thy merit
Would I seek Thy face;
Heal my wounded, broken spirit,
Save me by Thy grace.
Thou the Spring of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have ] on earth beside Thee?
Whom in heaven but Thee? "
Elder TindaI offered the general supplcation, after
which the hymn, "NIY JESUS LOVE THEE sung.
GENERAL OvERsEER: Let us all turn to the Gospel &C
cordng to St. john the fourteenth chapter and read to-
gether the 21st, 22d and 23d verses:
it is that oveth Me- and he that oveh Me shall be loved Of
MY Father and will love him. and will manifest Myself to
him.
"Judas saith unto Him, not Iscariot, Lord how is it
that Thou wilt manifest Thysef unto and the
world?
"Jesus answered and said unto him. If a man love Me-
he will keep My words and My Father will love him. and We
will come unto him, and make Our abode with him..
would like to have read by either the officers the
platform by in the congregation of the most
important portions of Gods Word on the subject of ODE
DIENCE.
eye are My friends if we do whatsoever command
you.
"Henceforth call you not servants for the servant
knoweh not what his lord doeth but have called you
friends for all things that have heard My Father have
made known unto you."-John IA, Is.
eff We love Me- keep My commandments" John IA Is
''For as by mans disobedience many made
Sinners by the obedience of shall many be made
righteous" Romans 5:19.
These things command you, that We love another
John SIT.
"And it shall to pass if thou shalt hearken dill
gently unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe and to
do all His commandments which command thee this day,
that the Lord thy God will set thee high above all nations
of the earth:
"And all these blessings shall thee and over
take thee if thou shalt hearken the voice of the
Lord thy God"-Deuteronomy 28:1, 2.
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if
any man be worshpper Of Cod and doeth His WILL him He
heareth.' John 9:31.
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice
oil the Lord thy God and wilt do that which right in His
sight and wilt give to His commandments and keep all
His statutes, will permit to be put of these dis
eases upon thee which have (permed to be) brought
upon the Egyptians for the Lord that heaeth thee"
EXODUS Is :26.
Ii We keep My commandments, We shall abide in My
love- even as have kept My Fathers commandments and
abide in His love.'-John 1910
10 obey IS better than sacrifice and to hearken than
the lat OF rams"-I Samuel Is 22
But be We doors of the word and not hearers only,
deceving your selves.
For II any man be nearer of the word and not
doeT he is like unto behoding his natural face in
glass:
For he behodeth himself, and goeth his way and