T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S 7. Jesus, our Sanctifier................ 13:12 1 -£-Marsh. Jesus The One who is Able—Mt. 28:18 1. Able to save to uttermost-.Heb. 7:25 2. Able to make all grace abound...... — ............2 Cor. 9:8 3. Able to succor the tempted........ ........................................Heb. 2:18 4. Able to make us stand....Rom. 14:4 5. Able to keep from falling....Jude 24 6. Able to subdue all things..Phil. 3:21 7. Able to keep that committed to Him...................,........ 2 Tim. 1:12 8. Able to do above all we ask or think.............................Eph. 3:20 — Shepard. The Touchstone If I could deliver but one discourse to a congregation composed of all na tions of the globe, this should be my text, “ Jesus Christ died for our sins.” This is the truth that has lain closest and warmest to the Christian heart in every age( of the Church. This is the touchstone for every pul pit. Wherever the highest spiritual power has been attained there has been the most faithful preaching of the guilt of sin, and of salvation only through the redemptive work of Christ Jesus on the Cross of Calvary. It is the duty of every minister to thunder against injustice and intem perance and fraud and selfishness and hypocrisy and covetousness and every form of wickedness, but the true van tage ground from which to assail them is beside the cross where Jesus died to- condemn all sin and to save the sinner. -—Theo. L. Cuyler. The Preachers That Wear Preachers who saturate their sermons with the Word of God never wear out. The manna which they bring is pure, and sweet, and freshly gathered. It never clogs. God’s Word is deep, and
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he who studies it will ever have some thing near. He will never be dull, for the words of the Bible are strong, Liv ing Words, and its wages and descrip tions are flowers of elegance. Apt cita tions clinch the passages of the preach er’s discourse, and give sanction, dig nity, positiveness, authority to it. And they shed light into his subject, like windows in houses,rl^-Christian Guar dian. CONDITION OF COMMUNION We can be baptized and keep our sin. We can search the Scriptures and keep our sin. We can say our prayers and keep our sin. We can join the church and keep our sin. We can attend the sac rament of the Lord’s Supper and keep our sin. We can be theologians and take all our sins along with us. We can be churchmen and take all our sins along , with us. We can be denominationalists and take all our sins along with us. But .we cannot be in communion with Christ and take our sins with us. Unless we are prepared to lay aside our sin com munion with the Lord is impossible. The one condition of communion with the Christ is to lay our sin at His feet that He may bury it in an eternal grave. THE DEVIL’S SUBTLETIES In the Boer war ammunition was car ried out in piano cases and military ad vices were transmitted in the skins of melons. That is the way with the enemy of our souls. He makes us think we are receiving music when he is sending us explosives. He promises life, but his gift is laden with the seeds of death. Surely we need clear eyes, a moral sense which can discrim inate' between the true and the false and discern the enemy even when he comes as an “ angel of light.”
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