The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-05-22

- ture. Gods advice a
ess-ss>S as to how TO act Al
costs nothing. 1t is altogether of grace ::
or favor. If it were not for this grace
oftentlmes greatly abused, human AT i
fairs would Immediately collapse, put
Gods hand is stretched out still, anu
we are simply to take what he oHers'
To every one who accepts his saliva
ton. through faith in the atoning sacri-
fee of his Son, God imparts his own
nature, by the Holy Spirit. When
man is thus possessed, he hates sin In
himself and others because God mates
1t, and he denies-he will not practlce
or sanction-"ungodliness and worldly
lusts." and he lives "soberly, righteous
ly and godly in this present world.
Under human government life for
the individual, and for society, mas
two neutrality-suspicious. or negation,
and then positive obedience, or action.
However men may object to prohiDl-
lions, they remain as facts In all laws
Man finds that there are many Things
that he must not do; he must deny
ungodliness and desires that encroach
on the rights of others. A man only
needs TO look about him to see ungodli-
:. ness. practically of all kinds, and ne
y must decline to enter into 1T. PROBABLY
v this Is not very difficult for those VINO
d read this sermon, but the most secure
II IN moral life. need to be careful, for
d Peter fell from the position or primacy
t, among the apostles to the position OF
hi,,r ctn
% There is no mo mans land" between
the prohibitions and positive inJunc-
e. tions If q man ceases to do wrong he
as must Immediately begin to do right'
n he must study the practice of soDriety,
u he should live righteously. Ana Una.
as Is what the president Of the uniteu
nd States is seeking to have the nations
ny Of the earth do. and this side OF the
direct divine government on the earth'
I'd. this Is the best guarantee or perha'
.er nency Of peace conditions.
PIN But n man should go further. ne
no should be godly. and this he cannon
en- he I'm reality until he accepts Coos
salvation through Christ.
A godly, righteous man is-the mes
type of man. To be truly religious u
iu- not to be fanatical or superstitious, Z
Ihe go back to the sixteenth century. Ii
ar, IN he abreast Of the age In which W
the live. The genuinely religious man
the a forceful man and has power OF innu
'n'' ence beyond others.
To everything in life there must o
:. motive. and here 1t is-the "blesse
hone of the glorious appearing of IN
great God and our Saviour Jes'
Christ"
The child always looks forward
the time when he will be grown-ul
the Young man looks to the time VINE
he can take his fathers business
profession, and the mature man, II
IL not willing to be considered wor
out horse, only fit to die, looks .
yond this life.
Even those who have immortality
mind are quickened by that hope, o
here the hope Is defined-the hope
the glorious appearing OF the gre
God and our Saviour.
Is that statement merely rhetori
appeal to the imagination or hgu
+ tive? As men and things are failing
all the time, and some OF the WIS
+ men are saying that the whole SOC
+ world is about to go to pieces uni
+ one little thing happens-the feed
= Of the starving peoples of Europe
i n not fine to have something that n
does not manager
\ Jesus Christ, as God, with MS
IS finite power, will gloriously appear
4 this EARTH and the arch-enemy OF
e race. Satan, Will be bound, and r.
+ of Righteousness be inaugurated'
+ that reign will never cease.
q There ia not hope that the W
4 has today but is questioned, ana q
+ hopes are many; but when the mop
+ the world rests on the infallible
% of God. indeed on God himself,
Il can sneak and act with absolute
q adence. II the coming of the
8 God was the same to all people
Z might not urge the Importance OF
T. text, but to only those who deny
oodI,ness and worldly desires. and
y sobriety, righteousness and godii
will the blessings from that comir
q secured. Those not thus described
be visited by destruction, with '
y the destruction Of the peoples on
4 in the war areas within the las
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