The Alaska citizen., 1916-08-28

nake known unto them HedNef- ly Fathers love. Yes. always and ever going about doing good
 Jesus did not organize code, or make laws. like Moses; He did not assemble an army and conquer ter ritory. like Joshua; He did not as pire to be crowned king, like Saul; He did not write orations, mons, but lived as He wished his followers to live. He was here to help. to redeem. to save, because His heart was filled with compas sion and He saw the people like sheep without shepherd. Now pre- cisely what Jesus did on earth is the mission of His church. It is merely an incident that His peo- pie amass gold, achieve office and position; the substance and the heart of the life of the followers of Jesus is to go about doing good. As God has placed in your hand candle to give light, or the great arc light to give light in the city. or the magnificent sun in the sky to give light to the world, ever so has He given to His followers to be light carriers, that into whatso ever corner of the earth the gospel is carried it shall tighten those to whom it is carried. Men are to become joy producers, happiness makers, a center of sweetness and life.
 The Christian is not only to pos sess the light. but Is to help others to possess it. The candle of the author or hymn writer has not only the power to send light in a dark conner of the world, but also to set aglow some candle that it may touch there, and others having the same power, soon the whole corner is flooded with light The more can
 
 light is given forth. Darkness is to be driven away by the lives of burning Christians. But life is a gift: life does not develop from the inside, it is an importation from without No one knows how the acorn takes up the dead soil and converts it into living bough and succulent leaf, but We know | that where the acorn was the sturdy oak now is. No one knows just how the seed of life planted by God in the soul grows on to completion things that are good and passes by all things that are evil, but we know that where the sinner once wrought, the saint now works.
 Having received the life of God into His own soul, and communi- cated His own life to His disciples, Christ endowed them with plenary power to communicate that life to others. What men saw in Jesus they initiated. What you are see ing in the lives of Christians you have initiated. What others see in your lives they will initiate As men stand for righteousness and holiness so will other men stand. One strong man in community, who is unwilling to do wrong be- cause others do wrong, will have measure Good grows out of gotd, just as evil grows out of evil A community is good or evil just as it's strong men are good or evil The strongest men for good are found in the church, because the church stands for higher principles and loftier aims than does any oth- CT movement for good.
 This fact of grand principle in the church is far reaching Men go. but the church remains. If the golden age is ever ushered in, the men who hold the principles of thr church must fling wide the gates. Strange as 1t may seem, an omnipo- tent God is incompetent to do this task without the help of His sons and daughters. Whatever wrongs are righted, what evils are over thrown. what new laws are estab lished, whatever gains are made will represent the achievement oI the followers of Christ, ill that they are faithful to their mission. God loves them, redeems them, and ther most wonderful of all, God trusts them to love and redeem men and institutions The root has power to lay hold of dead soil and con vert it into bough and branch, sc the followers of Christ, the church has power to lay hold of the lives of others and convert them into useful servants for the good ol their fellow men. It is this widen ing circle of life that tells of the inevitable victory of Christ The peb ble falls into the pool and starts circle in motion, whose radius lengthens until it has reached the shore of the pool, so one Christian enters community and his lift