Cheyenne record., 1917-05-10
ATONE WITHC CHRIST
How All Divisions Of Life Are
Overcome in the Divine
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might gather together In one all
things in Christ"
This is gathering together Of scat
tered things, sundred things, things
which ought to be living In fruitful
harmony, but which are rioting in
alienation and revolt. It is the gath
ering together Of distracted and waste
full members round about the govern
ance Of common head. 1t implies
the ending of riotous independence
and Of sluggish and selfish apathy,
and welding together of many mem
bers into blessed and prosperous
unity.
How is the gathering together ef-
fected? asks DR.. ]. II. Jowett in the
Christian Herald. Let me illustrate:
You take handful of steel filings and
scatter them over surface of sheet
Of paper. There they lie. severed and
apart. each one to itself. having no
communion with the others. Now
take strong magnet and draw 1t be-
meath the under surface of the paper.
What happens? Each Of the steel
filings stands erect, and the whole
company moves across the page in or
derly and cooperative movement.
Eeach item was first Of all pervaded
by the common power of the magnet,
and then In the strength Of the COM
mon pervasion all the items moved
in fellowship.
I look, then. at myself. Here is
divided kingdom. It is full Of sun
dered members and powers which
often plunge my being into state
Of civic insurrection, member fighting
against member in dire hostility.
There is distraction and division
where there ought to be harmony.
think Of the many capacities by which
am endowed. There Is conscience,
there is will, there is Imagination,
there is desire, there is all the varied
agency Of passion. And then there
are outer powers, all the means of ex-
preston by which am endowed, the
gift of speech, the language of gesture
and all the many agencies by which
my thought is conveyed to another.
Then have my senses, and along with
these the hungers and thirsts and
cravings Of the flesh. All these many
and varied capacities are often waging
warfare in the life, and producing the
discord of revolt.
How Harmony 10 Produced.
Before the conductor comics on to
the orchestra every member of the
band appears to do as he likes. One
instrument proclaims one note, and
another another, and there is discord
and confusion. But when the conduc-
tor appears. the individual wills Of
the members are subdued to his own,
and the one will controls the host.
And when the Lord Christ comes into
my being, where every instrument has
been playing for itself, without any
cooperation with the rest, and has
produced jarring discords and pains,
the strength Of his own controlling
purpose restrains the individual riot
ing and brings the disorderly orches-
ira into fellowship and harmony.
Now, let me turn to another sphere
where the individual members are
often scattered and In mutual revolt.
I turn to the sphere of the home.
How frequently home is divided
kingdom, its members severed by deep
CULTS. living frequently In a spirit Of
unlovely isolationl There are many
things in home life to create division.
There are differences In body. Some
members of the family are physically
strong and others are physically weak.
One member has nerves like steel,
while another has nerves like the ten
derest strings of violin. One Is COM
paratively coarse-grained and is un-
troubled by trifling shocks; another is
finely organized and sensitively trem-
bles like an Arab steed. Where there
are these differences in bodily consti-
tuition there is abundant scope for mis-
understanding and strife.
The Problem In the Home.
The members Of family are like
sundered units; how can they be
gathered together" All things must
be gathered together in one in
Christ" The different members Of
the family must be Christ-ruled and
Christ-pervaded. The temperament
must be Christianized, the gifts must
be sanctified, and in this common spir-
1t the uniting fellowship will be found.
It is the same IL we turn to another
sphere and contemplate the divisions
of society. How great and deep are
the dividing gulfsi There are social |
divisions separating men into rich and
poor, Into employers and employed.
There are CULTS created by culture, |
dividing society into the literate and
the illiterate, the mentally dark and
the mentally illumined. And there are |
the ecclesiastical CULTS separating mer
into sect and sect, and often placing |
them in fierce and relentless antagon-
ism. How shall all these scattered
members become one, and cooperate
in smooth and progressive fellowship |
Thev ran On1v he pafhered together |