THE KING’S BUSINESS 753 (and we often wonder how many who read it see any deeper meaning in it), how it Would revolutionize daily living. “Keep to the RIGHT.” That would involve the careful study of the Word of God to determine what is right. By what means shall a young man learn His way to cleanse, O Lord? By taking careful heed to it, According to Thy Word.-—Psa. 119:7. To follow Conscience is safe, provided conscience is trustworthy. Most men’s consciences, however, are like their watches ; they need to be corrected frequently. The WORD must be to the believer’s conscience what the chro nometer is to his watch. It is not enough to know what is right; there must be the deliberate de cision to choose to do the right. This involves the prayerful waiting upon God for grace to choose. Steadfastness also is involved in the message of the sign “KEEP to the right.” It is not just one act, but a series of acts, so closely related, so quickly following each other that, like the moving picture, it produces the effect of continuity. “Keep moving.” Now and again some one pronounces judgment; “Bet ter living heresy than dead orthodoxy.” It sounds big, but dead orthodoxy is an impossibility. Death is always heretical. The orthodoxy that does not “keep moving” is just heresy in that measure. The religion of Jesus Christ is living, and life-giving, whatever current Christianity may be. “Dead orthodoxy” is a contradiction. Truth gripped and gripping always manifests itself in action, in loving action. “Faith works by love, if true,” said the saintly and sainted McCheyne. “I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.” God’s law in the heart always mahi rests itself in God’s will in the life. “Keep moving” involves growth as well as activity. “They go from strength to strength.” Each day must see some advance in Christlikeness ; not always, perhaps, perceptibly to us, but always seen and marked by Him. “Add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge,” and keep on adding all that God has made ours in Christ, until the day when we shall see Him, and be like Him, and be satisfied with His likeness. Who keeps to the right and keeps moving will always be a safe, example for others to follow, and will never block the way causing others inconven ience, delay and disaster. “Keep to the right—keep moving.”
This question raised in a Men’s Bible Class recently, elicited an interesting discussion, during the, progress of which it became apparent that such a discussion was necessary to help some of the men to think cor
What Makes Right and Wrong?
rectly on this very important topic. At the beginning of the discussion it was the expressed opinion of many that right and'wrong,were determined by what God said; that what is not wrong morally would have been right had God chosen to say so. And it is safe to say that such a statement,- and nothing deeper, is accepted by many
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