The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-12-15
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nation would build great memoria
palace over it to preserve it from de
cay. Not because it was shack
nobody is interested in shack be
cause it is a shack, but shack coult
become shrine to which loyal Amer
leans would make pilgrimages if i
could be established that Lincoln wa:
born there. The shack would bt
glorified by his presence.
Some such lesson Jesus is teaching
the world through his glorified man
ger. You will glorify anything as
sociated with your life if you are
glorious in your personality. Gar
field said that Mark Hopkins would
make a seat of learning out of al
ordinary log if he sat on it. Not that
the log was anything extraordinary
but the man would make glorious
anything with which he was associat-
ed. And so it may be with you. If
you have been touched by the glorious
presence of the Son of God who has
come to dwell in your soul, you will
become so TRANSPORTED in your own
personal life that even the humblest
surroundings and the meanest tasks
will be glorious because that you are
there making the surroundings bright
with your presence and transferring
the task by the gracious manner in
which you perform it.
The story is told of crippled girl
in London, brought up in the midst
of poverty and great wretchedness.
She was bitter about her deformity
and helplessness and wicked at heart
and foul-mouthed and blasphemous.
While spending a few weeks at the
home of her aunt in the country she
was thrown in contact with lady do
ing evangelistic work, and while she
was not at all impressed by what
was said to her there was something
about the lady which so impressed her
that she began to think of herself and
her own wickedness. She thought
that she was such a wretched mortal
that God could not by any possibility |
love her, and she really began to hun !
ger for the love of God and finally
to pray for herself that she might be
made worthy of his love. Slowly the
victory of prayer came to her heart
and she was entirely changed in spir-
it She began to want to serve God
in some way because she had learned
to love him. One c"cning she heard
some people singing Oh the street as
they were holding a street corner
meeting. Size saw at once that here
was a possible way to serve God if
she could get someone to carry her
down to the street. 1t was sitting at
the street corner that Harold Begbe
Tirs saw her. There were men Of ill
appearance and hard faces leaning
against the wall listening to her as
she sung the wonderful hymns of the
love of Jesus and then bowed head
prayed the blessing of God upon
them. No queen on her throne robed
in purple and bedecked with jewels
could be one half as glorious as that
nlisshapen crippled woman sitting in
her wheel chair in the midst of all the
filth and wickedness of the London
slum for she had become Gods mir
ror reflecting down there in the
midst of all that wretchedness the
glory of heaven If Jesus dwells in
your home and works in your shop
as he will if he is in your heart, your
little work room may outshine a
throne.
The manger is glorious because Of
Jesus association with the sons OF
toll 1t is quite significant that the
angels came to the shepherds who
were watching their flocks at night.
Who were they? Sons of toll. The
first proclamation of his birth came
to these poor working men. They
were led not to palace to see their
king, but to a nanger amid the beasts
of the stall. His boyhood was not
home of luxury but scene of poverty
and toll. 1t is no disgrace to be poor
and to toll, for Jesus came to the
world as the inmate of a home of a
poor working man. He was himself
a toiler. He said concerning himself,
"The Son of Man came not to be
served, but to serve and to give his
life for many" His whole attitude
toward life was that of one who
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world is service. No service was too
ignoble for him if it needed to be
done. That was the lesson that he
taught his DISCIPLES. l do not think
sacrament Of the church although l
have no quarrel with those who so
that he wanted to make foot washing
consider it, but when his disciples
were sitting around tie table too proud
in their own conce;t for any one to
be willing to take the place that was
usually taken by a mental slave,
Jesus put aside his garment and grid
ing a towel about himself took bas-
in of water and began to wash his
disciples feet. And men saw some
thing so glorious in it that they have
made of foot washing a sacrament of
the church to commemorate the ex-
ample of humility of Jesus. That was
so fine, so glorious that if men were
in possession of our Lords wash basin
and towel kings ransom would not
be sufficient to buy them, and there is
a large portion of the church today
who would not hesitate to bow in rev.
erence before them as objects of wor-
ship. But we may not possess the