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VOLUME NO. XXVIII. ANDERSON, INDIANA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1(}08. NUM3ER 37.
CONTENTS.
EDITORIAL __ • ________________ 1
POETRY:
Give Yo 'l'hem to Eat. ..................... ~-... -.... -.-.. - ...... 2
rA.RTICLES :
What Is Your Hope 1......................................................... 1
'l'he Strength of God............................................................ 2
'lThe 'vVord of God .................................................................. H
'1'he 'rcmptation of Christ .......................................... 4
Unity ..... _ .............. __ ........ ._ ..................................................... 4
(( I Am IJiving for the Lord11
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IIeed the Warning ............................................................... 5
,The Day of Salvation ............ m ...................... •• .... • .. • .. • .. •• 5
. Our Young People: '1'heir Affections, Court-
1 ship, a nd Mnrriage .................................. , .................... ~ 6
Helpful Counsel for the Ministry ........................... 6
Is Your Zeal Declining L .............................................. 7
PFFIOE .AND HOMIll EVEN'IS __ ..... .............................. 8
GENERAl, NOT~ .AND NEWS-... ...... _ ._ ...... _ ....... ·_- 8
;QUESTIONS ANSWERED ...... _ ............. ............................ - .... 8
COmu:sPONDENCE __ ... ...... ._ .......................................... 10
t.uSCELLANEOUS:
Girl or Boy Needed ................................................. · .... ··· .. · 9
Oklahoma City Address--........................................... · 9
Land Offered for Homes .................................. · ... · .. ·...... 9.
rrouse of Worship at Muskogee, Okla ............. 9
rrhe New York Home .... - .................. · ......... ··· ........ · .. ·· .... 9
r.rESTIlI!ONIl!B .............. __ ....... __ ................................. 7, 10, 16
!I~.,rELD IblPORTS ......... ___ ..... _ ..... ............ .11, 12, 13
:OBlTU'ARY _ .... _ ......... _ ... _ ... _ .................. ................. 14
(REQUES'l'S FOR PRAYER ... 14
lCALLS FOR. MEIl.'TINO-.... . ........... ................... 14
MEETING NOTICES _ ........ _ ._ •• ....... "' ...................................... 14
!ADvERTISEMgNT _... _____ ......................... , ..... .15
1)lVn\F; IfF.ALJNG:
Gems' or Truth on Healing _ .................................... 16
WRAT IS YOUR lIO:PE 1
BY J. W. BORTMASS.
('Bnt sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:
and be ready always to give an answer to every
man that Rsketh you a reason of the hope that
is in YOll with meekness and fear." 1 Pet. 3: 15.
The Lord God here is Jesus Christ; and to
have hi~ sanctified is to have him in our life,
permeating our whole being; it is to have Christ
enthroned in our hearts so that he becomes our
life. "He that hath the Son hath life, afld he
that hath not the Son of God hath .not life.,"
g:esus told the J e'WS that he came that ,,:t~y
might ha.~e life ana. that they might have); 'it"
:m:JJte abundantly. But they were ~ting:. ,i$"
:the mw 'and di<i$ot .ss't nation 'receIve hiin.
So they failed to get life, for the law could not
give life; if so, ((righteousness should have beGn
by the law." Gal. 3: 21.
The mission of J csus to thjs world was to
abolish death and to bring lifo and immorta.lity
to light through the gospel. 2 '1'im. 1: 10. This
life is in Christ. To have it we must be dead
to sin. "If Christ be in you, the body is dead
because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of
righteousness." Rom, 8: 10. So it is Christ ill
us, the hope of glory; and if he be in us, "ve
have sorr..ething more than life; for he says that
he is the 'way, the truth, and the life. So we
should be truthful in our business. Our word
should be as good as a government bone1. His
word should be at par, and that is the only way
we can adorn the doctrine of Chri.s~. vVe are
either adorning the doctrine or bringing re­proach
on the cause.
How can "vo have this life? We must get it
as Paul got it. In Gal. 2; 20 he says, "I am
crucified with Christ." Now, we do not under­stand
that he had been put to death in the
flesh and had been resurrected. We shall
understand it better "iThen we read another
scripture, where he says that he was crucified
to the world and the world to him. But he says,
"Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me." Now, he had put off the old man
and put on the new man, which was
created in righteousness and true holiness.
lIe got a new heart and a new life; but
he lived it in the same body of flesh.
It was no more Saul of Tarsus, but Paul,
the new man with Christ in him; and the liie
he now. lived he lived by the faith or the SO.n
of Ged. So it was Christ in him, the hope of
glory; and unless Christ is in us and in our
lives, we have no hope. Oh, how many there are
who profess and do not prove it by their lives!
If we have Christ, we must have his life and
be the light of this world. To come short of
the Christ-life will be to come short of heaven
and to go down to an awful hell. What you
sow that shall you reap.
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The Lord tells Hi:; tu ,> prove" (test) him, lmt
none can snfilt;ielltly do tl;is unless tlh'Y ha\'~
faith in him.
"Acquaint now thyself ,vith 111lll, 'llllLl be at
pence." Acquaintmlel~ 'with ally ~Hle i::; obtaiuL'd
by associatioll. To hecome acquainted with God
we must assDr:inte ,vith him. (~et- with him, 1.Jt.!
with him, wulk und talk with him.
"IIow may I do th:81" Access to God is-had
through the Spirit. He gives the Spirit to thOHI:'l
who ob.eY him. Act'S 5; 3:;. The more, I:lpil':tual
vve become, the better acquainted with, God we
shall be, alld this will gloriously increase our
peace and confidence in him.
'rhe most honorable of all births is the new
birth, and the most royal of all families is the
family o~ Gael. 'rhe greatest of all kingdoms
is the kingdom of God.
To be l)orn again makes us cl~sciples, and to
be cl:sciples means to be SOIlS of God, and t~J b"
sons of 'God llleans that "ye are joInt-heirs with
Christ. ' 'For both IlGthat sanctifi.eth, 'and they
who are sanctified, have all one Father; where­fore
he is not ashamed to call them brethren."
Beb. 2: 11] Conybeal'e and Hawson. Thank
Goel ! The Syriac reads, "all of one natura."
'V'i..l' ell, if 'we have "one natu're," "ve must neces­sadly
have the same Father. "All of one."
How glorious! '1'0 be heirs together with Christ
meaDS that ,ve share equally with him in the
great inheritance of the Father. There is no
wealth that can be compared with that of his,
and no heir has ever inherited so great riches
as await the children of God.
No king ev~r swayed scepter over any nation
so holy, so peaceable, and so loyal as the king­dom
of God. The scepter of rIghteousness is a
a right scepter and the scepter of Christ's king­dom.
No other kingdom is ruled by the power
of love. '1'he only weapons used by the subjects
of God's kingdom are the sword of truth, the
fire of the Holy Ghost, and the love of God; but
ManwiU try, test, and prove that which he they al'C mighty through God to the pulling
tl'U~S. down of strongholds and to the bringing to'
---- naught of the works of the enemy. No weapon
If we,~jJ:u.ilryi'(~ taith in God, we shall prove it; rthat was ever formed against this kingdom
if :;wr8",~a~~';;;f!g:i:t}H#at,dt,:lunllthingl3, we shall ,prove ,has prospered. Her subjects win by the power
it.: f~~;9'i1~~~:m3' be~a;scertained by, the way ~ of lovre and reign through righteousness.
'J. E. WI.