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...Dyke at Appleton Chapel last night made an eloquent plea for the adoption of Christianity. He took his text from Acts V, 42 verse, "And daily in the Temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ...
...desires are reasonable. Great desires may be perfectly so. We need much help from wise men who study and know God Himself, if we are to learn what God's desire for the future of the world is. Among these great men none is more important to study than Christ. We must try to find by patient study the real nature of Christ's power...
...last of all the Lord sent His son saying: "Surely they will reverence My son." This is the appeal to the soul; but mark how the householder did not sit in judgement, but the husbandmen. So Christ stands at the bar of your poor human judgment and asks if you will receive Him. Each one must make a deliberate judgment. Perhaps, however, you will say that the question is not settled in this way. Your judgment is the result of the many little judgments that you have previously made. The boy who yielded to the influence of evil companions, disobeying...
...wish peace and happiness, but how can we secure it. The conflict between the good and the bad is torture, and Christ's pure life is a terrible reproach to us. Too often a man can't stand the struggle, and sinks himself deeper in his lusts to stifle conscience. This is the true killing of Christ...
...possible for us to accept this call. Two roads are open to us; the one leads to a shaming and crucifixion of Christ, and to the casting out of our lives all purity, truth and nobility. The other to a life of peaceful happiness with Jesus Christ...