THE K I N G ’ S B US I NE S S 779 “ Is It not distinctly affirmed in Scripture that we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the deeds done in the body? Why, then, should Christians so industriously plan that their best deeds be per formed after they get out of the body? Is there any promise of recompense for this extra-corpus benevolence?” Then he states a solemn fact : “ And, after all, these benevolences of the dead hand are usually nullified. By a strange irony of custom we call a man’s legacy his ‘will.’ It is really too frequently an ingenious contrivance for getting one’s will defeated.” We suggest a solution to this problem. Use your funds, as far as you can, for God’s glory now where they will bring the largest possible spiritual returns. Put into an annuity such an amount as you need for your own purposes now and which, after your departure, will be used to bring glory to our Lord. We will be glad to advise or serve you in any way. —T. C. H. • ^IIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllHllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^ii | THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN METHODISTS WERE 1 | CALLED “BIBLE BIGOTS” j | a tract'entitled “ Thoughts upon Methodism,” issued in 1786, John | | • 1 Wesley asks the question, “What is the fundamental doctrine of the | jj * Methodists?” and his answer is this: “ That the Bible is the whole i | and sole rule both of Christian faith and practice.” In a sermon entitled | = “ On God’s Vineyard” (Text: Is. 5 :4 )— Sermon No. 107 in the authorized | = edition of his sermons— in which he surveys the work of Methodism, he | - = says:— § | From the very beginning of the Methodist movement, from the | | time that four young men united together, each one of them was a 1 | man of one book. God taught them, all to make His word a lantern | | unto their feet and a light in all their paths.” They had one, and | | only one, rule of judgment, with regard to all their tempers, words, I = and actions; namely, the oracles of God. They were one and all de- | | termined to be Bible-Christians. They were continually reproached i | for this very thing; some terming them in derision Bible-bigots; | | others, Bible-moths, feeding, they said, upon the Bible, as moths do | = upon cloth. And, indeed, unto this day, it is their constant endeavor § | to think and speak as the oracles of God. . = I 1 .TiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiinuiinininiiiiiaiiiiiniiiniiiniiniiiHiiiiiiiiiinniaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiT
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