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are more or less imperfect) but he is sanctified by. the Holy Spirit and, being sanctified, he is one of God’s own elect, (x). We cannot make ourselves into, saints,—that is the work of the Highest—but we can seek His sanctifying power, and we can strive to live (“as becometh saints”) to His glory all the day long. (x) Men are not sanctified because they are elect, but elect because they are sanctified.
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BARE and desolate is the meadow! The scythe has passed over it, and all its verdure is gone. The hot sun has been blazing upon it, and the roots of the mown grass,, are burnt and brown, while the earth has become caked and hardened. Then comes the summer shower and lo! in a day or two there are new blades of green beauty peeping up through the softened soil. “All flesh is g r a s s i t had been mown down by sin; the glory of it had passed away; promise of life and of verdure there remained none. Then came the Christ—foreseen by the prophetic eye in this Messianic Psalm—and new beauty, new glory, new utility (because new life) was given unto men. Whatever, today, is admirable (and worthy, all that is profitable, all that'is hopeful upon the earth, is the re su lt'd the Advent of our Lord. Men talk of the failure of Christianity because they have no realization of the condition of humanity before He came; they know not what kind of a desert the earth would have been if the rain had not been sent. But as with the Race, so with the indi vidual. Upon the heart mown with the scythe of sorrow, upon the life burnt almost into barrenness in the fierce furnace of affliction, He falls like the gracious refreshing shower and, at His coming, new hope, new strength, new possibilities spring up; new interests assert themselvesnew peace takes possession of the heart. The barren ground confésses His fertilizing power, the very wilderness rejoices and blossoms as the rose. IS ours an ordered house? The angels, nay, the Blesse'd Trinity themselves, have been looking down upon i t ; supposing we were asked: What have they seen in thine house ?” what should we have to reply? Is it a house where daily prayer ascends- -if not from a family gathering, yet from each of those who dwell therein? Assurance of prosperity and peace there can be none else; a prayerless house is like a barren desert, with out shelter and without shade. Is it a house in which the Bible is read and studied as the one rule, and guide, and sustenance of life? If the food be neglected and the light unused, what won der if we starve and stumble by the way? Is it a house where the children are taught to love the Saviour and His Word, to seek Him by prayer, and to serve Him from their earliest years? They are a loan from God; how shall we answer to Him if we let them go astray ? Is it a house where the Sabbath is hon ored ; called “honorable, holy, a delight;” sanctified from all common use and spent in communion with God? Is it a house in which the Divine presence is recognized? Is He felt to be its real Head; the unseen Guest at every meal, the ever present partaker of its-sorrows and its joys? Such a house is a prep aration, as it is a type, of that other house “not made with hands,” to which we hope one day to remove. ‘,‘Thou shalt die” is as true of each one of us as it was of Hezekiah: woe to us if we live as though this earth were all. God meant our houses to be homes; places where He could dwell with us; sad that men should turn them into mere shelters from the wind and rain! J une 28. "Set thine house in order ."— 2 Kings 20:1.
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