Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-25

clarifying our minds. Idlers rust and
become queer" workers bring forth
fruit in old age" We make our work
and our work makes US. Rare Is the
man who comes to his highest powers
outside OF some real task.
AS we behold the ardent spirit OF
Paul. faring forth to new adventures,
we are reminded that 1t was these very
experiences that developed his peerless
powers In the travail of journeys and
labors and sufferings his mind ma
tured the great convictions which are
today the Scripture of civilization.
Without the Pauline missionary jour
neys, there would have been no Paul
ary not been thrust again and again
into the furnace of affliction, his un-
derstanding of Gods great truths
would not have been refined and ciari-
fled for the enrichment Of the CEN
turtles. Paul found himself" his best
possible self, in his hardest service.
We do wrong to our noblest capab bill
tie1- when we fail to give them for de-
velopment the essential school of toll
and self denial.
WASHING THE DISHES AGAIN
Every housewife has had her mo-
ments of rebellion against the end
lessly-recurring task of washing dishes.
Nobody would mind doing it once: but
three times a day, thru all the years,
stretches this uninspiring task SO IT
is with cooking and sweeping ana
dusting and sewing. The dead monot-
ony of it has broken the spirit OF weak
women, who have not risen to an un-
derstanding of the truth that scarcely
anything in life is ever done for all:
to stay done forever thereafter. All oil
us are busy with repetition OF the
humdrum. Have you heard o { the
cause he grew tired of tying his shoe
laces? Tho small boy wearies of wash
Ing his face, oven as father complains
of having to shave daily.
What has all that got to do with
Everything; 1t is the same principle
at work. Paul evangelical the cities
on his first journey; and then did It
all over again on his second and
third journeys. He not only entered
now fields but he also went over the
old. Repetition is the way of learn
ing and of life. Paul taught his con,
verts the Way: then. patiently and
lovingly, by repeated visit and letter,
he made clear how they should walk
therein. This Is the practical s!Snifi-
cance OF that third sreat iourney-ln
some ways tho greatest of all-about
which ye shall be studying for some
weeks 20 come. We arc not to grow
weary In we'll doing.
IN ROTTEN OLD CoRINTH
Watching the sun rise one morning.
over the ruins of the old city OF
Corinth. and the hills behind II, my
thought was less of the almost COM
pletc extinction OF this famous Greek
city. than OF the magnitude OF the
heroic figure whose name is forever
associated with It. Every traveller to
Greece. thru the Corinth!an Canal. Will
be interested In the ruins OF Corinth;
nine out of ton will think OF the apostle
Paul and his association with the
place. In his time, tho city had given
its name ''Corinthianizc' to tho utter
most forms of immortality. Paul gave
tho city a new name. for II was to the
Christlans At Corinth that he wrote
some of hin sublimest wordn-as the
famous passage on love
In distress of mind and body. the
Srca. missionary laborrd In corinth
for n year and n half So difficult wac
his task there that he may oven have
had TO face tho possibility Of tho cS-
istcrcc Of people for whom Chris
tianity had no message. There seem
such even today. A young man told
me yesterday. concerning an admirable
family that he knew. "Rcligion doesn't
seem TO moan anything to them at all.
All churches In their opinion, arc alike.
except as ono may be more scothctical-
Is attractive than another But the
Bible and Christ and spiritual rcnli-
tics apparently have no significance
for them" Yet as Paul found in
Corinth. after being rcaSSurcd by a
vision. there were those with ears for
tho Word: so in every modern COM
rnunity and family thcro arc bound TO
como ,!mcs whom people answer to the
call Of Christ Reports Indicate such
spiritual turning In our own day. II
tho days Of hcathen corirth haNo
seemed 10 have "a vogue In tho modern
world. there r. coming a now day and
n new mood. when tho Pauline mes
saEo Is TO be needed. in all its trans
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