The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1921-10-21


Not long since, at a crowded street
| corner, young aspirant for easy
| gain directed a bystander to tie
| his hands together. When secured!
fastened, he proceeded in plain sight
Of all to loosen his imprisoned men,
bers. When free, he offered to dis
close the secret of such a feat for 10
cents each. Nearly every man pres
ent contributed to his purse. All
wanted to know.
! This Is most simple and insignifi-
cant, but the native human element Of
curiosity and the lure of the unknown
have enriched with vast wealth and
crowned with imperishable fame thou
sands who have penetrated the re-
| giOns beyond the seen and beneath the
surface.
| Greatest amid all this life of secrets
Is the secret of life. How to live is
the undiscovered to most of us, but
the discoverable to all of us. "This
is life, to know Thee the only true
God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast
sent" ...
Long, long ago a man discovered the
secret of great living, and his whole
life was devoted to telling others. His
secret has been passed on for CEN
turtles, and we may still profit by it
today. 1t is worth knowing. If meas
Cred by earthly standards of values,
1t would cost a princely sum. But 1t
Is free. This mostly discounts its
high values. Nevertheless, it is price
less, though costless.
This secret is three.oid, disclosed in
three fragmentary expressions.
First: Paul, the bond slave Of
Jesus Christ" Rom. 1 Il. This sets
| forth
| The Relation to Person.
Every life is the product of it's reIa-
| tionships. "a man Is known by the
company he keeps" or that keeps him.
The people we meet either make us or
mar us, either elevate or degrade,
either enrich or despoil.
How little we realize the veal or
| woe of an introduction to a passing
pilgrim on the road of life. Some have
entered our lives. Oh, would God we
had never known them. Others have
been a lifelong benefaction.
Think of what these relationships
have meant-mother, father, Sunday
school teacher, pastor, chum, wife.
| children. Oh, can you compute their
| values? But Paul in the final analysis
| totaled his life in this statement: 81
am what 1 am by the grace of God"
| One day he met Jesus of Nazareth.
the conqueror of death, the glorified
| Christ of God, and he was never the
same afterward. That introduction
ripened into bonded friendship that
left its ineffaceable brand. When he
would commend his secret to the me-.
| trepolis of the world, he signs himself,
not degreed alumnuS of Tarsus or
jerusalem but 80 bond slave of Jesus
| Christ" So completely did he hand
over his personality to that Of another
as to be able to say after: Il live, yet
not /, but Christ liveth in me'-abso-
lutte self-renunciation and abandon
ment, absolute dedication and en-
slavement to the Son of God as Lord
| and Master. -... ...-s-
Second: Il am debtor to all men,
| Rom. ID.
The Recognition of a Principle.
This is Pauls PHILOSOPHY. 1t is not
| idealistic, that spends itself in the
culture of the ego nor materialistic,
| seeking sensual enjoyment of things,
| nor vet socialistic, as found in the
! varied dreams and schemes of today.
| This is theistic-God so loved the
world that He gave" The Son Of
man came not to be fninistered unto
| but to minister and to "give." Paul
| did not declare the world owed him
| living. but he was a debtor to the
| world. Owed something to somebody.
Owed the riches of grace to all men.
EIe lived to discharge that debt.
Secret of great livtng-not to get but
| to give.
| Third: Zone thing 1 do."-Phil. 8 :13.
A Resolution of Power.
Paul had a understanding that
| moved him, a mighty impulse, a ire
mendous conviction, consuming pas
| sion. He was energized by dy-
manic. zone thing do" What was
that one thing? ITO me to live Is
| Christ" To reproduce the person
atty at whose feet he had cast him.
self a slave forever.
This is a secret of greatness-the
highest, most transcendant motive, re-
soluting power to life. 1t is the dy-
namo, the engine, the generator of
power. The size of our motive Is the
size of our life. Behold I show you
secret" Oh that we may learn the
secret of a great life from this dis