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...large, true, Christian ends. The forces at present at work on young life are a craving for serious results in thought and a desire to make the most of one's self. With the last generation it was method; with the coming it will be motive. Christianity is God working in every conceivable direction...
...would do, she bade the guests do whatever He said to them. She struck the note that has come down through the year. Christ has often seemed dark to the inquiring man; but the man looks up and sees a duty he cannot escape. He feels it coming from God, and, in doing it he finds that Christ is thus showing what He means. Christ does not communicate his nature by mere contact or mere words: there must be the sympathy and the love which comes from obedience. We need not wait to know what Christ...
...anthems "Oh, for a closer walk with God," by Foster, and "O give thanks unto the Lord," by Watson, were sung by the choir, Mr. J. D. Merrill taking the solo parts...
...grown in experience and in wisdom. This incident from the Old Testament leads to the thought of the attributes of material and moral progress in the lives of Christians to-day. We cannot choose our environments at the beginning of our life. Gracious circumstances are given by God alone, but it is due to human activity and exertion that the growth of the body in material prosperity and of the soul in moral strength is made possible. Neither goodness nor wealth are of spontaneous development. With honorable success comes an honorable end. The change takes place unconsciously; we feel only...
...into the world and of the rewards which follow the fulfillment of those purposes. The world is a training school for the enlargement of our lives. A higher level of existence is promised to all sorts and conditions of men if they will yield obedience to the laws which God has established. We are measured not by the situations in which we find ourselves, nor by the possessions we have, but by the growth our souls make in faith, hope and love. It is well for us if we make use of the matchless opportunities given us. God will promote...