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...that of position. His word of prophecy was the important thing. When the crowds asked him who he was and where he came from, he made no answer; he had a great message to deliver and this was the only thing which interested him. He urged only God's claims, not his own, and this made him great...
...desires influence he must first learn to forget his own strong points; if they are virtues they will speak for themselves. There can be no higher aim and no better way of becoming influential for the best than getting a message from God and letting it take absolute possession...
...words of the text seem for away; seem to be fiting for our time. Yet what is wilderness? Is it not a place where law does not govern? If impulse rules the hour. If conscience ceases to be the throne from which God rules the human race. then civilization itself becomes a wilderness. So it may be said that in our time there is a wilderness, for secret potting, sedition, crime hold away and the law of the strongest still rules. Though the need for voices in the wilderness is ever decreasing, though all observation shows that the world...
...students must let Christ shape our lives as Michael Angelo shaped the figure of a famous fresco, leaving the local coloring for his pupil, the painter. If we receive our general direction from God the details of our lives will take care of themselves and we shall be truly voices in the wilderness...
...Sunday opening would be un awful. - (a) Against the law of nature: Crafts, Sabbath for Man, 4, 353. Civil Sabbath, 66 - (b) Against the law of God: Method 1st Review, LI. 212. - (c) Against the law of the State of Illinois: III. Criminal Code, ch. 38, S 259; Civil Sabbath...