The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-07-25

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Now the Bible does not set out to
prove that God is. 1t assumes that
every intelligent mIn will believe this,
and 50 It's pages open with the sublime
and stupcndous statement: "ln the be-
ginning God" The Bible, however,
does tell us that "the heavens declare
the glory of God" and that "thc invisl-
Bile things of him from the creation OF
the world are clearly seen" So while
the Bible does not try to prove that
God is. II does tell US that God, whose
existence II assumes. may he known.
II tells us that nature Is one of
the books which God mas given us,
in which he tells us about himself II
tells us that another book in which
God is revealed Is the Bible itself, the
written word of God and that third
one Is the living or incarnate Word,
the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom II Is
said: "No man hath seen God at any
time; the only begotten Son, which Is
in the bosom of tn, Father, he hath
declared him." that Is, lied him
FORTH" as Doctor Scoheld says, "into
full revelation"
No man, then, need he in ignorance
Of God with three books making him
known, and with such threefold rev.
clation of God, how can anyone deny
that God is, or be ignorant of him?
Surely only that one whose heart In
filed with sin will say in the light cf
these revelations: "Therc is no God"
H. The One Who Plays the Fool.
He Is the person who fails to take
God into account that Is, he acts ms II
there were no God. Saul did this when
he sought David's life. He left God
out of his reckoning in his dctermina-
tlon to slay David, and one night when
he was encamped, surrounded by his
soldiers and bodyguard, David stealth
lily made his way through the guard
with one of his trusty followers, and
removed the bolster from under Saul's
head, and the cruise of water and the
spear that were by his side, without
awakening him or any of the soldiers.
Withdrawing in safety to the hillside,
David shouted back to the captain of
Sauls army, "Abner! Abner" and
when this sleepy captain, with Saul
and the encamped soldiers awakened,
they saw David on the hillside,
stretching forth'hls trophies that they
might see that he could have taken
Saul's life II he had chosen. Then 1t
was that Saul, realizing that he had
left God out of his reckoning in his at
tempt TO slay David, exclaimed: 81
have played the fool"
And so does every one who does not
take God into account. The man or
the woman who schemes or plans and
lives MS IL there were no God liz the
world Is as big fool as the person
who says in his heart: "There is no
God" Both are fools because they
deny the existence of God; one by his
words processes his atheism. while
the other lives his.
III. The Rich Fool.
He Is the man whose ambition In
life Is to accumulate wealth.
Christ portrays him in the parable
Of the man who, having great har-
vest pulled down his barns and built
greater and when they were filled said
to himself, "Soul, thou hast much goods
laid up for many years; take thine
ease; eat drink and be merry" But
God said unto him, "rhou fool. this
night thy soul shall he required of
thee; then whose shall these things be
which thou has providedT And
Christ adds this comment: $50 is he
that layeth up treasure Cor himself
and Is not rich toward Cod BY that
he says that the person who does this
is a fool.
How many folks there are in the
world with whom the supreme thing
In life is the getting of material things,
! their one ambition to accumulate
wealth? They strain and scheme and
work and worry to get gain, forgetting
that day is coming when their souls
shall be required of them, and then,
If they have succeeded, like the rich
man in the parable, II will be peril
ncnt to ask them, "Whose shall these
things be?" And If they die, having
laid up treasures for themselves, and
are not rich toward God they have
gone into the other world as paupers.
One night In New York city Il
wealthy man lay dying. He had every
material thing the heart could desire,
but one thing he felt his need Of and
that was prayer. Sending for his
gardener, godly soul, he asked him
to pray for him, and when the garden
er had finished his simple, fervent
prayer. the dying millionaire said:
"John, now sing for me-" "What shall
sing?" asked tie gardener. And the
man who was rich in houses and lands
and bonds and mortgages replied:
"S!ng. John, the song, Come ye sin
ners, poor and needy, weak and way
ward, sick and sore,'" and the gardener
sang this blessed song of invitation to
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