The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-15
Sunday School
Lesson

Scripture 1 Cor. 40 and IL, also
chapter 1871 20 10.
Faith snail pass away, gays Paul,
when We shall see eye to eye and
hope shall be lost in possession, but
love. never. So we read in the GOLD
On text.
| think one OF the saddest OF sights
in the sigh. OF our Lord, Cody pas
ter or father, to see his church, his
ccngrcga or family split up.
Every quarrel is as bad as rip in
tic coat. You see the quarrel was moi
the division but tc cause.
How often I've sat under men WIN
have he q up out of the. Book thilgs
/ rcver thought OF, and from lessons
! bad gene over SO many times. what
did it mean? 1t meant that he was
developing the lesson. making it larg-
CT and brighter. And those blessings
! have come rom Cody men and wo-
men of the different sects which be-
liove in The ,atonement of Jesus, as
Savior The Billie will always tell
every man the same thing. where
people get ba!led up in trying to tell
us what it means, instead of giving
what it says.
No ere can prayCrfully study the
Bible and not Sc that God The Father
loved us before the foundation of this
world; that He gave His son 10 pay
the awful price that was aga MS us;
that He Eor His word give the leaat
room fer GoUbi. Satan is always b.
hird any hing Of shat sort. Not few
ministers. fire fellows, have admitted
how the were told all about the
Bill, G in the school. but they Werc
rot told the Bible.
Bat Pdul-.;cc again Gal 1-15-16-
was there cIer a man VINO was bette:
liked to held uD Eeeorc lost race
ilh3 gospel of God more perfectly,
Read praycriully Erh "a to 10 ana
Titus 2-1l-14. One has said, Words
nave never served q higher purpose
Than 20 speak the name Of God. 1t is
I!ho sam of knowledge and the glory
Of inortai's thought. Well paul was
just filed with Him. Ii he was here
today he'd say, TO know Him is to
all that may be SiRowh' The love OF
God when it frds its way. No, no;
ihat's not ;hc0way to say it. But whc.
God, which is lcvo, and His grace and
uIbounding love AID grace fills fell
low as was Paul. Oh, how often l
meet fellows who think they are talk
ing socialism ThSn they talk about
dividing M, No, I shoCld a:y TO, but
give all, not t5 OR set but to a los
world No end to His love and grace.
III -
empty vessels could be found the oil
didn't fai So with GCd AID His love
in man. II love and grace are not
flowing; in end through us, it S be-
cause we let something else flow in.
God does not give grace aId love TO
dc vast d. One has said, Get four
iold view of Gcd,' and then sums up,
mercy. Glove. grace ard badness
'herc is TO other source Of salvation
20 guilty man-to III. the idea into
inc scntcncC-gra and love is a
boon purchased for us by the very
art which found us guilty God
ilstiGcs the Iclieyins man, not the
= or.hncss Of his belief, but for the
Worthless OF Him il whom he be-
licvcs The blessing my dear reader
is wholly Of God.
Every instant Of our life the in
dwelling power OF God is pressing
outward to scmc holy act, and says
one. Did we hut yie.@ to it, what
might our livc3 be-" Another, at is
one thing t. work for God, 1t is
Innothcr t. have God work through us.
We arc often eager for The former.
Gcd is always dozirous Of doing the
after. Orc ct the ~important facts
in the surrer der of the life is that i.
is the attitude which gives GCd the
chance to work HIS perfect will
thrcugh us. For it is God that is
working to evangeliZe the world; it is
God who has laid the plans for it;
it is God who has the power to sue
cessfully execute them Paul made
this surrender and Cod did the work.
/ Cor, 18th chapter, is one of the
greatest, things ever written by man.
Another beauty about this is that
Paul lived it all. BY his very manner
he illustrates the love in his letters.
He was by the. grace of God, lifted
q bovc tho religion that had caused so
much cussed work in the hands of
Inc devil Now he had salvation. Nc,
not that, but salvation had him and
the very essence of salvation is love
| No one who truly loves his brother
! will boast over the possession o.
greater spiritual gifts than his
brother. but he will yearn that he may
have even more. Love does not get
mad does not pitch into folks, it is
the selfish man that does that. Love
kcops no .>4odger CT wrongs ana
alights. It does not harbor grudges,
for il has no room for them in dis
heeri III pities the sinner for too
much to.g;cry in their fall No true
Christian 10 q pcgsimist, except when
he locks at the man against God and
all Is wrong in his case. We cant
say that God is hope or Gcd is faith.
God is love and the Old Book says as
Jesus the Son CT God in heavenis so
/ are we here. So God has made US for
Him end with Him.
Horny Drummond has to- us how
lin the llepTt OF Africa, amon5 the
! great lakes. he came across black
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