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makes the man. The Baintliest, the noblest and the most heroic of all his tory have been men of prayer. We become like Him by association with Him. “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a compan ion of fools shall be destroyed." This means a conscious, daily realization of the Indwelling Christ (Gal. 2:20). As one long ago expressed it, "practicing His presence.” Character is formed by suffering and hardship. As the sculptor chisels the
We may form character by the study of God’s Word. The Bible exerts a tremendous force in making and Ax ing a right character, and in produc ing stalwart men of conviction, cour age, compassion and consecration. True character depends on sound doc trine and correct thinking. W r o n g thinking results in wrong acting. Christian character follows Christian thinking. We may form character by prayer. Prayer begets great characters. Prayer
DECEMBER 5, 1926 Character How Form It? What Affects It? Prov. 22:1; 8:1-11; 1 Cor. 15:33 (Consecration meeting) D. L. Moody once said, “A man’s character Is what he Is In the dark.” One of Napoleon’s soldiers who had been wounded In the left side said to the surgeon who was attending him, "Probe a little deeper, doctor, and you will find the Emperor.” What are you
rough stone until it takes a different shape and then by m e a n s of thou sands of strokes of the hammer be comes an object of b e a u t y , so by trials, disappoint- m e n t s, sorrows a n d temptations are we chiseled and fashioned into men and-women of sterling character. (Heb . 12:6-12; Psa. 106:16). DECEMBER 12, 1926 T h e Children of Our Community— What Shall We Do For Them? John 21:15-17; Matt. 25:40 One of the great est needs if not the greatest need today is that the children should be reached for the Lord. This can be more fully met by the C h r i s t i a n young people than by any other class. The three objec tives a r e : first, turn the children to the Lord Jesus Christ; s e c o n d , t e a c h them the great truths of the Scripture that they may be thoroughly indoctrinated while young; third, train them in Christian work—to distrib ute t r a c t s and Gospels, to engage in personal s o u l winning and var ious phases of def inite Christian ac tivity. There is danger of some C. E. so cieties becoming
on the i n s i d e ? W h e n we have p a s s e d the out ward life with Its veneer of culture, i t s pretensions, subterfuges a n d conventionalities, what do we find? T h e i m a g e of Christ, or----------? That which domin ates the inner life is the real man. It is impossible to build a charac ter w i t h o u t a foundation. T h e personal accept ance of J e s u s Christ, the Son of O o i , as Saviour and Lord, with an open confession of H im constitutes the foundation. (1 Cor. 8:11; Acts 4: 12; Rom. 10:9, 10 ). It is impossible to build a charac ter without mater ial. The new life and nature of God which we receive at the new birth furnishes the ma terial. (2 Pet. 1: 4; J o h n 15:1-8; Rom. 8:3, 4; Phil. 2:18). It is impossible to build a charac ter without t h e Master Builder,— the H o l y Spirit. (G a 1. 5:22, 23; 4:19; Eph. 4:11- 16; P b a . 127:1). This means a com plete surrender to the Spirit of God; t h e transformed life inevitably fol lows the surren dered life. He is waiting to change your life, empower it, beautify it, en rich and ennoble it.
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