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January 1927
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If you watch yourself narrowly, you will not be apt to pay yourself many com pliments. — o — The devil has to work hard for all he gets in the home of a praying mother. — o — ! . The best way to prove your religion is not to argue about its facts but to produce its proper results.
The way to freeze to death is to be wrapped in yourself. i— o — People wouldn’t get divorced for such trivial reasons if they didn’t get married for such trivial reasons. — o — The best interpreter of the love of God is the love of man.
Weights and Sins “Let us lay aside every weight and the' sin that doth so easily beset us.’’- — Heb. 12:1. r p HERE is something else to be put aside as well as sin. There is “every weight” as well as every transgression— two distinct things, meant to be distin guished. The putting away of both of them is equally needful for tlie race. The figure is plain enough. We as racers must throw aside the garment that wraps us round—that is to say, “the sin that easily besets us” ; and then, besides that, we must lay aside everything else which weights us for the race—that is to say, certain habits or tendencies within us. The distinction is important. Sin is sin in whatever degree it is done; but weights may be weights when they are in excess, and helps, not hindrances, when they are in moderation., What are the things which may thus become weights? Everything. It is an awful and mysterious power, that which we all possess, of perverting the highest epdowments, whether of soul or of circumstances, which God has given us, into the occasions for faltering and falling back in the divine life. Because we cleave to them too much, because we cleave to them not only in a wrong degree but in a wrong manner (for that is the deepest part of the fault), we may make them all hindrances. the New Testament: “There was a fixed idea in the Jewish mind, nourished by the Old Testament writings, that the Messiah would perform miracles, such as healing the sick and raising the dead. There was a strong persuassion in the minds of Jesus’ followers that He was the Messiah promised. So imagination got busy, or the “mytho-poetic faculty,” and instinct ively invented the miracles corresponding to the Messianic conception, and ascribed them to Him.” Others, to avoid the supposition of the disciples being deceivers or self-deceived, allow time for the formation of myths and date the Gospels about a century after Christ. This theory, however, is ruined by the mass of patristic testimonies showing the apostolic origin of the Gos pels and their full acceptance in the first century by the church. But—if it was an illusion, it must be ad mitted that the writers so believed in what they wrote as to seal their testimony with their life-blood. And how could such an illusion stand the combined hostility of the Jewish and heathen world, as well as the searching criticism of ages? Then) where are the traces of imagination or mytho-poetic art? The Gospel story is absolutely free from poetical ornament. The story is told in the simplest and most matter-of-fact way. The pages breathe the very presence of Christ. History speaks to the reader face to face. You feel that the writers must have been wit nesses. It doesn’t read like a concoction. It is free from reflections, subjective no tions and coloring. There stands the Christian church after nearly twenty centuries. Is it a stream without a fountain,—a house without a foundation—an effect without a cause? Explaining Christ Away XyTODERN skeptics have, tried thus to explain the extraordinary story of
The Gospel Soloist will be glad to find here each month, a carefully selected solo. Mr. Tovey favors us this time with a message from the new edition of his Gospel Solo and Duet Collection. Mr. Tovey’s book can be secured in beautiful binding at $1.25, Biola Book Room.
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