Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-08

without bending their knees in
prayer, they never get what they
called religion from the Lord.
Love beareth all things. all
Sights. all affronts. all Islander.
You can break the back of love, but
you can't break it's heart. 1t won't
complain. 1t will bleed. it viii SUI
fer. it will die. but it won't ask you
TO take any of the load off.
Love that comes from God never
lets go of His hand. Love always
looks on the bright side OF things.
Love always finds the bright side
upon which to look, because the
side upon which love looks is the
God-side, and the God-side is al
ways bright
Love Centered in God.
Love hopeth all things. Being
centered in God, love never loses
hope. 1t hopes always because it
believes always. The devil has
mighty hard job trying to discour-
age anybody whose life is built on
the rock OF Gods word. 1t will
from the heart in which Jesus
Teigns. never, never, never.
Love is always rich, because it is
always hoping for something better
to come to it than it has. Love al
ways wants everybody to have the
best. 1t wants the best itself, al1
what God gives you is the best.
Love endureth all things. 1t can
patiently endure all that man and
devil can pie on il. It's courage
and power come from God AMI
never waivers. When we hear peO-
pie complaining that they are haV-
ing a harder time than any one
else. they need more of Gods love
in their hearts, that is what they
need.
Now, love never shrinks from
trials, never, never! Love glories
in them. II is the only atmosphere
in which love can be seen. Can you
go straight on when you hear the
devils roar?
Now, we see that love suffers
that God asks and love
firches at nothing that God Al
mighty requires of absolutely
no. Love has in il the faith that
never shrinks and never shall
shrink from any sacrifice that God /
wants it to make. Love is as pure
as the melody of heaven, as con-
slant as the sunshine. That is the
kind of love that God Almighty
asks children to have and is able
to give you, and that is the kind of
love which, if you possess, you
have something that rubies and dia-
monds can't buy, and that nothing
can take away from you.
If we have 1t in its fulness. we
have a motor in our hearts that
will keep the machinery of our +
hearts constantly going, and those
that come near US will feel the .
presence that is within us, and
they will be filled with a longing to I
know our God. 1t will give US a
light that cannot be hidden and
hone that cannot be hidden. and a
faith that will move the mountains. I
It will put a revival in our souls
and we will carry a camp meeting
with US everywhere we go.
If the Lord could do nothing
more than just convert the church
members, would it not be great?
Get their faces to shine, get them
10 stop lying and talking about you.
That was all the work that Moody |
lid in the last five years of his life,
preached to a back-slidden, prayer
ess church, aroused them, and got
hem on their knees. He said. THE
church ought to be doing this. Let
hem get right and they won't need
he Evangelist to dot It."
If everybody lived the way they
ought to live, they wouldn't need !
,vangelists. I could go out aud
blow and plant potatoes.
Love of that kind will be rich
money and strong enough
o resist the devil, and will enable
Is to please God and know that we
ire pleasing God. My, but l take
,reat delight in knowing that I am
pleasing God, and I take equal de-
light in knowing that I am dis
pleasing the devil And 1t will give
-ou a mansion in the skies, without
. flaw. a
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