Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-03-03

first spoken of is
in connection with a possible enemy
Of greater present military strength.
God is very strong, and IL it is pos.
sible for man to so act that he encoun-
ters God as an enemy, is he able to
meet him?
Meeting God.
What is II to meet God? Man meets
God in his everyday obligations. Some
Of these are communal, while others
are individual. Men are as communi-
ties and as individuals meeting God
and they are enjoying or suffering the
consequences. There is q certain
meeting of God in death, the soul
standing naked before him, and it is a
very common expression in connection
with the death of anyone to say, He
has gone to meet his God" When a
Judge in court sentences a prisoner to-
death he adds, And may God have
mercy on your soul" But the chief
thing in mind is the meeting of God
in the final judgment. Neither taking
a chance, reformation, nor becoming
religious will make this preparation;
only belief in the Lord Jesus Christ as
Savior will do it.
The Outcome Of Preparation.
One outcome of such preparation
will be an immediate blessing, the es-
tablishment of peace with God and the
experience OF the peace of God. There
is the realization of mans true place
in the universe. He was created in the
image and likeness of God and he can
never be "the whole of man." as indi-
Gated by the correct reading of &c
clesiastes 1913, unless he believes in
Jesus Christ. There is also deliver
ance from the power of death, which,
while as lion in the pathway 1t may
terrify, is chained. This outcome
means the ultimate, perfect individual
and also the perfect social order. Man
is not whole" until he has a sound
mind in a sound body, and both Of
these are the inheritance of the be-
lever in Jesus Christ. A man who
does not believe in Jesus Christ as his
Savior, is not of q sound mind. The
when he demanded his fathers goods
and when he was spending them in
riotous living, and it was only when
he came to himself; that is, when he
resumed nationality and determined to
return to his fathers house, that he
became of sound mind. This sound
mind will also be IN a sound body. II
is the glory OF the Christian religion
that 1t promises a body that is incor-
ruptible, powerful, honorable, glorious
and like Christ's body. The blind, the
deaf, the dumb, the deformed and
those lacking members of the normal
body, can certainly believe that they
will have perfect bodies some day II
| they meet the conditions that God
places on them.
When Shall Man Prepars7
Many who acknowledge the neces'
sity of preparation, put it OF until aft
er death, but while there is a most
dangerous indifference to this fact on
the part OF those who theoretically
profess it, it is true that preparation
must be made before death. 1T is ap
pointed unto men once to die, but after
this the judgment" That preparation
can be completely made now. But
says someone, THAT is too rapid, that
is practically miraculous, 1t is a ere
ative act" Precisely so, and nothing
less. There is no evolution in regen
Grafton. Jesus, in his talk to Nicode
mus, settled the matter of mans right
relationship to God in speaking of il
as a new birth. That preparation car
be made this moment by believing IN
Jesus Christ.
Two soldiers in the trenches oi
Flanders, whp were brothers and de
Vout Christians, belonged to a regi
ment which had been ordered to make
charge upon the enemy. The com
manding officers said that there woult
be a very serious business. The
younger of the two brothers said L
the other, as they went into the smoke
and the smothering gases, Brother
we may not see each other again, bu
| it is all right" The older brother came
back wounded, the name of the othel
was found in the list of those who haC
been killed, but he was prepared.