The Washington herald., 1922-05-22
SACRIFICE BRINGS RICHEST JOY
NLIFE, DECL ARES PREACHER
Discipline of Bearing Hardships Rewarded BY
Great Blessings.

needs, that all that man puts into
1t is one-tenth. and that God sup
plies the other nine-tenths. Man
plows the ground and prepares the
soil and sows the seed. Suppose II
depended upon him to complete the
undertaking? The elements that
are in the soil that germinate and
sprout and cause the stock to
shoot upward. man did not put
there. He could not control the
heat and the cold-the air and the
rain and the sunshine. These
might be considered small things
but they are really the big things,
seen in their true light.
The greatest joy and sweetne.
that can come to us in life, is tina,
which comes through sacrifice
Never be afraid to lose your life in
love. There is an old legend that
tells US that the thorns of the
thorny crown became lovely roses
on Easter morning. every thorn q
rose. That Is the way all our sacri-
fices are transformed by the sacri-
nee of Christ and the discipline OF
life. The beautiful life Is not the
one that has known only pleasure
anu
Joys From sacrince.
Some feople are forever COM
planning about the hardness of duty
that they have to make so many
sacrifices for others-that they
have to give UP 50 many pleas
ant things that others may have
them i hope that we will learn
the lesson some day that our great
est blessings, our sweetest joys
our richest comforts come out OF
the very things that we often chafe
and fret over.
Someone referring to some things
that he had seen on an old battle
field said: II saw pretty, pure.
delicate flowers growing out of the
empty ammunition boxes and a
wild rose thrusting up its graceful
head through the top of a broken
drum, which doubtless sounded its
last charge in that battle. and
cunning scarlet verbena peeping
out of a fragment of an exploded
shell, in which strange pot 1t was
planted. Was that not peace grow
ing out of war? Even so shall the
beautiful and the graceful ever
grow out of the horfid and terrible
things that transpire in this chang
ing but ever advancing world. Ma
ture covers even the battlefields
with verdure and bloom. Peace
and plenty spring up in the track
OF devouring campaigns, and all
things in nature and society shall
work out the progress of man
kind"
Law of Life In Christ.
This is one of the ways Christ Is
saving the world. We are called to
present our bodies as living sacri-
fees to God. These sacrifices are
not to be made, however. just for
their own sake. One tells that at
an auction in London there was a
large sale of all kinds of badges OF
honor-silver stars, gold crosses.
jeweled medals-celebrating hero
isms on many battlehelds. These
were all marks of honor for those
who had won them. They were
noble decorations for those on
whose breasts they had been
pinned as tokens of personal worth
or costly achievement. But i'm
agine anyone buying these badges
at an auction and then pinning
them upon his own breast and
wearing them among men. What
could they mean to him? He had
not won them. They would only
have been tawdriest tinsel to him.
Other peoples living sacrifices
can bring no honor to US. They
must be our own. The honors
must be won by our own faith and
courage and sacrifice Some peo-
pie like others to make the sacri.
fice for them and then let them
get the honor. l have. read Of a
great humorist who flourished in
the days OF the civil war who was
wont to tell of how many of his
relatives he had given to his coun-
try's service. Some people like to
urge and inspire others to make
sacrifices. to give and to suffer.
while they do nothing of the kind
themselves. But We never can have
other peoples badges of sacrifice or
decorations of honor pinned upon
us. You must present your own
body as a living sacrifice to God
your very own-not another's. You
must bear the cross in your own
life.