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mark for the prize. • (6) There are crowns for Christians, but crowds of Christians will be uncrowned. (7) Many a man who "runs the race needs many a body blow. (8) The soul-winner’s seed-sowing will be rewarded with a rich harvest. 1 Cor. 6:19. Your body. “He that is joined to the Lord is one body.” Do we appreciate the religion of the body? Bought a t so great a price, inhabited by so divine a COMMENTS FROM Guest, set apart M AN Y SOURCES by so noble | a Keith L. Brooks purpose, do we put the proper emphasis upon the body? The body is Christ’s. In His incarnation He as sumed it. In His life He honored it. In His death He redeemed it. It is dreadful to take the body of the Lord and put it to immoral purposes. The believer is a walking temple of the Holy Ghost. This is an argument for a clean body.—Evans. Temple of the Holy Ghost. Is there any other religion or philosophy that puts such honor upon the human body? How many prac tices that weaken or defile the body would be given up if we always bore in mind th a t it is a temple of the Holy Spirit.—Torrey. It is easier to build temples than to he temples of God.-— Jowett. Which is in you. The Spirit dwells in the human spirit and’the body. The whole personality becomes a shrine. —Camh. Bible. Ye are not your own. Consecration is letting God have what He has bought and paid for, restoring stolen property. (See Ps. 100:3 . ) —y Garry. v. 20. Bought w ith a price. To recognize to whom you belong solves all questions. Be careful what you do with other people’s property.—Inglis. The price is the blood of Christ, The phrase emphasizes the cost of redemp tion as an appeal to the heart of the re deemed. The best Stoic teachings en forced the duty of chastity on the ground of self respect, but Paul brings in the new motive of religious duty based upon the new relation of man to God in Christ.—Parry. Glorify God. To glorify God is to exhibit the power and character of God in th a t which iB His.—Sel. Which are God’s. When He redeemed us He undertook to save us
tory of men and of nations. God has made it evident to every thinking per son. The husbandman knows that he can depend upon this law.-i^wheat produc ing wheat; tares producing tares. A dissipated life means years of sorrow to the sower and to others. Many a preacher has shortened his days and spent the last of them with a wrecked, nervous body, because he permitted himself to be banquetted, feasted, functioned to death. Many of them have deteriorated through the influence of unclean, funny stories. Some have gone down through greed of gain; some through unholy ambitions. “Sow-—reap!” You cannot change this law. Evangelists have sowed to the flesh in an effort to he popular and have reaped a legitimate reward in a barren ministry. The shores are lined with the wrecks of men and women once used of God who, through spiritual pride, robbed God of His glory and have been cast aside by Him for their unholy sowing. No lesson is more im portant than this. Press it home. Con fess its unfailing operation in your own life. Every thought, act, deed, is fraught with tremendous results. Life is a serious and solemn business. We are blessing or blighting our lives and the lives of others each day. Read Psa. 126:6. What could be more solemn than Matt. 13:30 and James 5:7? We must sow. God help us to sow by the power of the Spirit. PRACTICAL POINTS' (1) The sealing of the Spirit attests the tru th that the body is the tem ple of God. (2) You were sold under sin, hut bought hack unto God. (3) Many perish in the pursuit of an
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