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have no one to blame but ourselves. If men do not see.in us “the glory of the LORD and the excellency of our God,” it is because we have not sought for the precious boon. Meanwhile we are injuring both Him and our fellow men. We are robbing the Lord of the praise which is His due, and we are hindering our neighbors from coming to the fountain of eternal life. Our responsibility in this matter is immeasurable, and one which should stir us to earnest and prayerful thought. S eptember 17. "Supposing him to have been in the company.’ ’SLuke 2 :44. THEY did not miss Him, because they were occupied with their acquaintances and friends. They took His presence for granted, and for a whole day they were not aware of His absence. When at length they failed to find Him, they had to seek Him sorrowing. How often is that the case with us. We allow our attention to be withdrawn from Christ by the things of every day. We take His presence for granted and do not trouble our selves to make sure that He is with us on the pathway of life. We go on, our whole attention absorbed by our business, our pleasures, our cares, our social engagements, blindly unconscious that we havq dost the presence which means more to us than aught that earth affords. And when,' by and by, we awake to a sense of His absence, we have to seek Him sorrowing, with sighs of penitence and with tears of grief. We may well learn a lesson from the thoughtlessness of Joseph and Mary. Every day as .we set out upon our diurnal pilgrimage we .should make certain that our beloved Lord is accompanying us. Every hour of the day we should turn our eyes to see that He is still by our side. He may leave us if we become neglectful or forgetful of Him, not.irà anger but in love, that He may teach us the need of fixing our first and highest thought and desire upon Himself. The Devil - is never so happy as when he can lure us to forget the Christ. He knows that then we are at his mefiey and are certain to fall ah easy prey to his insidious devices. I i.; m S eptember 18. “We preach Christ crucified.” —1 Cor. 1:23. THE true Christian preacher does not preach the Church or the Sacraments (though of course he will sometimes refer to both) ; he preaches, not an organization, nor a'system, but a Person. Nor does he .preach Jesus of Nazareth alone,'the Phil anthropist, the Teacher, the Pattern, the political Economistes he preaches CHRIST, the Anointed, the Eternal arid Co-equal Son. of God. Moreover, he preaches Christ crucified, not as a martyr for His life or for His doctrine, nor as an example of self-sacrifice and humility, but as a propitiation for the sins of the world. This, and this only, is the true explication of the Gospel; this, and this alone, is the real message of Heaven’s ambassador; this, and nothing short of this, Will satisfy the craving of the human heart and lead to the salvation of men. Jesus of Nazareth as a mere man, living as a Rabbi and dying as a martyr, is either an anachronism or a gospel of despair. He is an anachronism, for no uninspired human being could have, uttered such sublime truths, or lived such a blameless life. But if He Were not, He would be a gospel of despair. His life, un aided, we are powerless to imitate ; His death brings us no remedy from the consequences of sin; the story of His resur rection is a cunningly devised fable, fit only for the credulity of fools. How different is the result when we listen to the story of Christ crucified as a sacrifice for sin, of Christ risen that He may be our life. Jesus the Carpenter may stimulate, but can not help us; Jesus the Christ meets and satisfies the deepest needs of our fallen souls.
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