,,studies ,,in ,,the ,,life ,,of ,,the  
,,christian  ,his ,faith and ,his       
,service  ,by  ,,henry ,t4 ,,sell1      
,d4,d4     ,,preface  ,these studies    
consider the questions3 ,what did       
,christ teach8 ,what is the standpoint  
of ,christianity8  ,what is a           
,christian8 ,what ought he to believe   
and why8 ,how shall he regard the ,bible
 and the church8  ,what should be his   
relations to ,god1 to his fellow men1 to
 his home1 to society1 to business1 and 
to the state8  ,the strength and        
reasonableness of the great main        
positions of ,christian faith and       
service are constructively presented4   
,careful attention is also given to the 
practical application of ,christian     
principles to the perplexing problems of
 modern life4  ,this book is for use in 
adult ,bible classes1 ,bible study      
circles1 pastors' training classes in   
the essentials of ,christianity1        
educational institutions and private    
study4  ,it is uniform with the author's

 ,bible ,studies in the ,life of        
,christ1 ,bible ,studies in the ,life of
 ,paul and his other ,bible study books4
  ,,henry ,t4 ,,sell4 ,chicago4         
,,contents     ,i4 ,,christ1 ,,the      
,,great ,,teacher    ,,ii4 ,,the        
,,christian',s ,,god   ,,iii4 ,,the     
,,christian ,,man    ,,iv4 ,,the        
,,christian',s ,,fellow ,,man     ,v4   
,,the ,,christian ,,faith    ,,vi4 ,,the
 ,,christian',s ,,book   ,,vii4 ,,the   
,,christian ,,prayer  ,,viii4 ,,the     
,,christian ,,service    ,,ix4 ,,the    
,,christian ,,church     ,x4 ,,the      
,,christian ,,home    ,,xi4 ,,the       
,,christian ,,business ,,world   ,,xii4 
,,the ,,christian ,,society  ,,xiii4    
,,the ,,christian ,,state   ,,xiv4 ,,the
 ,,christian',s ,,hope     ,,study ,i   
,,christ1 ,,the ,,great ,,teacher       
,scripture references3 ,matthew #d3bc2  
#e3a1b2 #g3bi2 #ac3ed2 #bf3ee2          
#bh3ai1bj2 ,mark #a3ba1bb2 #d3a1b2 #f3f2
 ,luke #e3c2 #aa3a2 #ai3dg2 ,john #f3ei2
 #g3ad2 #h3bh4   ,,the ,,founder ,,of   

,,christianity  ,the heart of the       
,christian religion is found in ,jesus  
,christ4 ,if we desire to know what     
,christianity is and of what elements it
 is composed we must look to ,him and   
,his teachings4 ,he is the great source 
of our knowledge of what ,god1 man1 sin1
 righteousness1 duty and salvation are4 
,our interest in the books of the ,old  
,testament lies in the fact that they   
lead up to ,him4 ,we study the books of 
the ,new ,testament because of their    
vivid portrayal of ,his life1 teachings1
 death and resurrection4  ,with ,jesus  
,christ a new era dawned for the world  
with new principles1 ideas and          
aspirations for humanity4  ,his         
teachings touch every department of     
human life and1 where they are accepted 
and followed1 they show their marvellous
 transforming power4  ,there can be no  
more important study than what ,jesus   
,christ said and did while upon this    
earth4  ,never man spake like this man  
7,john #g3df74   ,,what ,,christ        

,,taught  ,there are five great lines   
which ,his teachings followed2 they have
 to do with ,god1 man1 sin1 salvation   
and the future life4  ,the ,right       
,relation of ,god to ,man and ,man to   
,god4--,how does ,god regard man8 and1  
,how shall man look upon ,god8 are      
questions upon which the best thought of
 men in all ages has been expended4     
,upon the answers given have been       
founded all sorts of religious and      
philosophical systems4  ,man in this    
great universe desires to know in what  
relation he stands to the ,author of it4
 ,is man only a creature of fate8 ,what 
does ,god care1 great as ,he is1 for one
 man8  ,jesus ,christ recognized this   
desire of man to know his standing with 
,god and ,he proclaimed not only the    
power1 but the ,fatherhood of ,god4     
,when ,he taught ,his disciples how to  
pray ,he began ,his immortal prayer not 
with ,great ,god of the universe1 or    
,creator of all things1 but ,after this 
manner therefore pray ye3 ,our ,father  

which art in heaven 7,matthew #f3i74    
,here was a new conception of ,god4     
,through ,christ man comes into personal
 relations with ,god as the ,father     
7,john #af3bg7 who cares for him as a   
son4 ,man is to love and forgive as ,god
 loves and forgives in this relation of 
,father 7,matthew #bb3cg2 #f3ad1ae74    
,man is to do all that he does as in the
 sight of his ,father in heaven         
7,matthew #f3a-bf74 ,god is made known  
as supreme love 7,john #c3af74  ,the    
,right ,relation of ,man to             
,man4--,there are many causes which     
divide men into classes1 castes and     
nationalities4 ,once divided men begin  
to develop a class feeling and pride    
which tend to deepen and widen the gulfs
 which separate them from each other4   
,with the truth proclaimed by ,christ of
 the ,fatherhood of ,god came also the  
great truth of the ,brotherhood of ,man4
 ,the true relation of man to man1 no   
matter what the caste1 class1 employment
 or nationality1 is that of sons who    

have a common father4  ,the second great
 commandment given by ,christ is1 ,thou 
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself     
7,matthew #bb3ci74 ,when ,he took the   
example for a good neighbour ,he        
selected a ,samaritan1 a man of an alien
 race4 ,men are naturally inclined to do
 good to those who treat them well and  
whose help they need2 but ,christ1 in   
carrying out this new law of brotherly  
love said1 ,love your enemies1 bless    
them that curse you1 do good to them    
that hate you1 and pray for them which  
despitefully use you1 and persecute you1
 that ye may be the children of your    
,father which is in heaven 7,matthew    
#e3dd-dh74 ,it is only through this love
 of man for man1 no matter what the     
class or condition1 that right relations
 between men can ever be established and
 maintained4  ,the ,right ,relation of  
,man to ,sin4--,man violates his sense  
of righteousness and justice4 ,he       
transgresses the laws of ,god and his   
nature4 ,man's sin is everywhere doing  

its destroying work4 ,there is          
individual1 social1 corporate and       
national sin 7,romans #c3bc74 ,this fact
 of sin is not only set forth in the    
,bible in unmistakable terms1 but every 
government recognizes it in its laws and
 courts of justice4 ,society puts up its
 bars to protect itself against the     
sinner1 and all literature proclaims the
 evil results of sin4  ,what ought to be
 man's attitude to sin8 ,shall he make  
light of it and call it a necessary part
 of living8  ,shall he continue in it1  
although he recognizes its evil results1
 and draw others with him into greater  
and larger violations of the laws of    
,god and man8  ,these are practical     
questions4 ,some temporize with sin and 
say1 ,let us lead outwardly correct     
lives1 but within certain bounds we will
 do as we please2 hence arises the      
practice of secret sinning4  ,christ    
came declaring that man's relation to   
sin should be uncompromising4 ,he used  
vigorous language in regard to sin4 ,he 

said1 ,woe unto the world because of    
offenses6 for it must needs be that     
offenses come2 but woe to that man by   
whom the offense cometh6 ,wherefore if  
thy hand or thy foot offend thee1 cut   
them off and cast them from thee3 it is 
better for thee to enter into life halt 
or maimed1 rather than having two hands 
or feet to be cast into everlasting fire
 7,matthew #ah3g1h74 ,but ,jesus in thus
 advocating heroic treatment for sin was
 but doing what eminent surgeons are    
advising every day in regard to certain 
dangerous bodily diseases4 ,jesus also  
laid ,his finger on the source of sin   
when ,he declared1 ,for out of the heart
 proceed evil thoughts1 murders1        
adulteries1 fornications1 thefts1 false 
witness1 blasphemies3 these are the     
things which defile a man 7,matthew     
#ae3ai74 ,a man must think evil before  
he does evil1 and hence the emphasis    
which ,jesus placed upon keeping the    
heart clean4  ,the ,right ,relation of  
,man to ,salvation4--,man feels his     

inclination to do evil and1 seeing also 
the degradation wrought by it1 desires  
to be saved from it4  ,the cry has gone 
up from many hearts to be free not only 
from the power of sin but from the      
desire to commit sin4 ,no man can save  
himself4 ,he may succeed in a certain   
outward reformation and correctness of  
habit and speech1 but he cannot control 
the thoughts and inclinations of his own
 heart4  ,the special mission of ,jesus 
,christ was to place man in the right   
relation of salvation from his sins and 
to show ,himself the ,saviour of ,man4  
,it was declared of ,him before ,his    
birth1 ,he shall save ,his people from  
their sins 7,matthew #a3ba74 ,he said at
 the last supper1 ,this is ,my blood of 
the ,new ,testament which is shed for   
many for the remission of sins 7,matthew
 #bf3bh74 ,he had power to forgive sins 
7,mark #b3aj74 ,he said not1 ,i show you
 the way1 but ,i am the way1 the truth  
and the life 7,john #ad3f74 ,there is   
here a mighty spiritual power which can 

save man from sin and can keep him from 
the desire to sin4 ,it is only as man   
enters into personal relations with     
,jesus ,christ1 repenting of his sin and
 having faith in ,him1 that the burden  
of sin is lifted from his heart         
7,matthew #f3cc2 #aa3bh1cj74  ,the      
,right ,relation of ,man to ,death and  
the ,future ,life4--,the facts of death 
and of what comes after cannot be set   
aside2 they must be faced4 ,all forms of
 religion and systems of philosophy have
 striven to sustain and comfort men at  
their trying hour of need4 ,the trouble 
has been1 however1 to find any certain  
ground of the hope of a future life upon
 which to rest4 ,no man has been able to
 do more than present a good argument1  
in regard to the hereafter1 which might 
or might not be true4  ,but when ,jesus 
,christ came ,he was able to speak with 
authority and power4 ,he plainly1 in    
,his description of the last judgment   
scene 7,matthew #be3ca-df71 showed the  
relation of man's faith and actions in  

this world to his state in the world to 
come4 ,he declared that a man need have 
no fear of death or the hereafter who   
trusted in ,him4 ,i am the resurrection1
 and the life3 he that believeth in ,me1
 though he were dead yet shall he live3 
and whosoever liveth and believeth in   
,me shall never die 7,john #aa3be1bf74  
,in ,my ,father's house are many        
mansions1 if it were not so ,i would    
have told you4 ,i go to prepare a place 
for you 7,john #ad3b74 ,in a supreme    
trust in ,jesus ,christ all dread of    
death and the hereafter may be taken    
away and man may enter into a right     
relation to immortality in this life4   
,,forms ,,of ,,christ',s ,,teaching  ,he
 used many forms in placing the truth   
before men4 ,he paid great regard to the
 timeliness and the manner of presenting
 what ,he had to teach4 ,upon many      
occasions the multitudes were so        
captivated by ,his words and works that 
they followed ,him out into desert      
places4  ,direct ,discourse4--,the      

,sermon on the ,mount is a good example 
of this teaching4 ,here ,he taught      
plainly1 7#a7 ,the nature and           
constitution of the ,kingdom 7,matthew  
#e3a-af72 in itself 7blessedness1 vs4   
#a-ab7 and in its relation to the world 
7vs4 #ac-af74  7#b7 ,the law of the     
kingdom 7,matthew #e3ag-g3ab72 general  
principles 7vs4 #ag-bj71 the moral law  
7vs4 #ba-dh71 religious duty 7#f3a-ah71 
and duty in relation to the world and   
the good and evil things in it 7#f3     
#ai-g3ab74 7#c7 ,invitations to enter   
the kingdom 7,matthew #g3ac-bi74  ,he   
was equally plain in regard to ,his own 
mission4 ,he declared ,himself to be the
 ,son of ,god and claimed equality with 
the ,father 7,john #e3ah-bc74  ,he said1
 ,i and ,my ,father are one 7,john      
#aj3cj74  ,he affirmed ,his preexistence
 and that ,he had glory with the ,father
 before the world was 7,john #ag3e7 and 
whoever had seen ,him had seen the      
,father 7,john #ad3i74 ,at ,his trial1  
in answer to the question of the ,high  

,priest1 ,he declared that ,he was the  
,christ1 the ,son of ,god 7,matthew     
#bf3fc-ff74 ,after ,his resurrection ,he
 told ,his disciples1 in sending them   
forth to their mission1 that all power  
was given ,him in heaven and in earth   
7,matthew #bh3ah-bj74  ,parables 7,mark 
#d3b2 ,matthew #ac3c74--;,christ spoke  
in parables to convey and send home to  
the hearts of ,his hearers the truth1   
just as ,nathan employed the parable of 
the lamb in the case of ,david to make  
him acknowledge his sin4 ,they were     
adapted to the capacities of ,his       
hearers4 ,each parable had some great   
central truth4  ,the parables have been 
classified as3  #a4 ,the ,theoretic1    
which teach general truths concerning   
the kingdom of ,god1 such as1 ,the      
,sower 7,matthew #ac3c-bc71 ,the        
,treasure and ,the ,pearl 7,matthew     
#ac3dd1de74  #b4 ,grace1 setting forth  
the divine goodness and grace as the    
source of salvation and law of          
,christian life1 such as1 ,the ,lost    

,coin1 ,the ,lost ,sheep and ,the ,lost 
,boy 7,luke #ae74  #c4 ,the ,prophetic  
or ,judgment parables1 which proclaim   
the righteousness of ,god as the supreme
 ruler1 rewarding men according to their
 works1 such as1 ,the ,wicked           
,husbandmen 7,matthew #ba3cc-da71 and   
,the ,ten ,virgins 7,matthew #be3a-ac74 
,miracles 7,john #c3b2 #b3bc2 #f3b2     
,mark #a3cb-cd74--;,christ appealed to  
,his works as an evidence of ,his divine
 mission 7,john #aj3ch74 ,miracles are  
possible1 probable and credible1 when we
 believe there is a personal ,god1 who  
is the ,supreme ,ruler of the universe  
and that ,he cares for man4  ,the       
thirty-six miracles of which an account 
is given in the four gospels have been  
divided into three classes2 their       
teaching is important3  #a4 ,the ,nature
 miracles show the divinity of ,christ4 
,the feeding of the five thousand men   
7,matthew #ad3ae-ba7 reveals ,his       
creative power1 and the stilling of the 
storm on the ,lake of ,galilee 7,matthew

 #h3bc-bg7 ,his divine command over     
,nature and its forces4  #b4 ,the       
,healing miracles reveal not only ,his  
divinity but ,his humanity and          
compassion4 ,they set forth the one     
being who loves the human race with ,his
 whole heart4 ,this class of miracles   
shows the mission of ,jesus to be the   
extinction of sin and disease1 and the  
redemption of man1 body and soul4  #c4  
,the ,moral miracles are the life of    
,christ and its effect upon the world4  
,example of ,living and ,dying1 the     
teaching of which is elaborated in the  
,acts and ,epistles 7,acts #a3h2        
#b3ca-da2 #ac3bc-db2 ,philippians       
#b3e-aa2 ,colossians #a3ac-bj74   ,,how 
,,christ ,,taught  ,with ,authority     
7,matthew #g3bh1bi2 ,mark #a3bb74--;,he 
declared that ,all power is given unto  
,me in heaven and in earth 7,matthew    
#bh3 #ah74 ,he did not quote precedents 
but said1 ,i say unto you4  ,with       
,persuasiveness and ,love 7,matthew     
#aa3bh-cj2 #ai3ac1ad2 ,john #c3ag2 ,luke

 #i3ef74--,people of all classes        
gathered about ,him1 in the             
marketplaces1 in the fields and by the  
seaside4 ,they followed ,him into desert
 places to hear the gracious words that 
fell from ,his lips4  ,with ,originality
 7,john #ab3df74--;,he taught a new     
philosophy of sorrow and suffering1 a   
new law of self-sacrifice and a new law 
of love for fallen humanity4  ,with     
,promise 7,matthew #bh3bj2 ,john        
#ad3ab-ai2 #af3a-ad2 ,acts              
#a3d-h74--;,his work ,he declared was   
not to end with ,his resurrection and   
ascension1 but was to continue4 ,he     
promised to endue ,his disciples with   
power from on high in their task of     
converting a world4 ,this promise of    
divine help was also extended to all    
,his disciples in their effort to lead  
pure and righteous lives4   ,,questions 
,what can be said about the ,founder of 
,christianity and ,his teachings8 ,what 
did ,christ teach2 about the right      
relation of ,god to man1 man to man1 man

 to sin1 man to salvation and man to    
death and the hereafter8 ,what can be   
said of the forms of ,christ's teaching2
 direct discourse 7give examples71      
parables 7give the teaching of the three
 classes71 miracles 7give the teaching  
of the three classes7 and example of    
living and dying8 ,how did ,christ      
teach8  ,what can be said of ,his       
authority1 persuasiveness1 originality  
and promise8    ,,study ,,ii  ,,the     
,,christian',s ,,god   ,scripture       
,references3 ,genesis #a3a2 #ag3a2      
,exodus #cd3f1g2 #bj3c-g2 ,deuteronomy  
#cb3d2 #cc3bg2 ,isaiah #dj3bh2 #de3ba2  
,psalm #ij3b2 #ade3ag2 #aci3a-ab2 ,john 
#a3a-e2 #a3ah2 #d3bc1bd2 #ad3f-aa2      
,matthew #bh3ai1bj2 ,revelation #d3aa2  
#bb3ac4   ,,who ,,is ,,god8  ,how ,shall
 ,we ,think of ,god8--,upon the         
conception that is entertained of ,god  
will depend the nature and quality of   
the religion of any soul or race2 and in
 accordance with the view that is held  
of ,god1 ,his nature1 ,his character and

 ,his relation to other beings1 the     
spirit and the substance of theology    
will be determined4 ,when one man says1 
,i believe in ,god he may have in mind  
an entirely different conception of ,god
 from another man who uses the same     
expression4 ,there is a ,christian idea 
of ,god and there are many              
non-,christian ideas about ,god2 it is  
the latter which keep men from heartily 
engaging in the service of the ,lord    
,jesus ,christ4  ,wrong ,conceptions of 
,god4--,some of these are3  #a4 ,that   
,he is a blind fate or unknowable force4
  ,personality is denied1 and it is     
asserted that this great force neither  
sees1 cares nor even knows what men do  
or do not do4  #b4 ,even if this great  
force be personal1 and knows what is    
going on amongst men1 ,he is perfectly  
indifferent to right or wrong actions4  
#c4 ,god knows and sees all that is     
going on1 but ,he has wound up this     
universe like a great clock4 ,to help or
 succour any man in his distress would  

disarrange the whole system4 ,natural   
law must have its course2 it is useless 
to pray4  #d4 ,god is revengeful or     
weak2 in the first place men seek to    
keep out of ,his way1 in the second they
 do not care4  ,when men adopt these    
wrong ideas of ,god and cherish them    
they are fashioned after them in life   
and character4 ,here are the            
stumbling-blocks which need to be       
removed before men1 who think this way1 
can be brought into sympathy with the   
,church of ,christ4  ,man can never come
 into personal loving relations with a  
,universal ,substance or ,force1 no     
matter how mighty it is4  ,right        
,conceptions of ,god are necessary for  
the true worship of the ,almighty1 for  
the exercise of proper conduct to our   
fellow men and for the upbuilding of our
 own spiritual life4 ,never was there a 
time when the great fundamental         
positions of the ,bible1 in regard to   
,god1 needed to be more plainly stated  
than to-day4 ,when men stand firmly upon

 these positions a whole host of        
perplexities and anxieties will take    
their departure4  ,the ,christian       
,conception of ,god has been thus       
expressed1 ,god is the ,personal        
,spirit1 perfectly good1 who in holy    
love1 creates1 sustains and orders all4 
,the essential matters covered in this  
statement are3  #a4 ,the nature of ,god4
 ,he is the ,personal ,spirit 7,exodus  
#c3ad2 ,john #d3bd7 who can enter into  
personal relations with man1 and who    
hears and answers prayer4  #b4 ,the     
character of ,god4 ,he is perfectly     
good1 pure and holy 7,psalm #be3h2      
,nahum #a3g2 ,romans #b3d74 ,man may    
have perfect confidence1 however matters
 may seem to him to go wrong with his   
imperfect vision of the world and the   
happenings in it1 that there is a good  
,god who governs all in the interest of 
righteousness 7,matthew                 
#ac3bd-cj1cf-dc74  #c4 ,the relation of 
,god to all other existences4 ,he       
creates1 sustains and orders all        

7,genesis #a3a2 ,psalm #ai74  #d4 ,the  
motive of ,god in ,his relation to all  
other existence2 it is holy love 7#a    
,john #d3h74  ,supreme power1           
personality1 intelligence and perfect   
goodness are then the great revealed    
truths which the ,bible presents to us  
as the proper conceptions which we      
should have of ,god4  ,but if it is     
desired to know what ,god is like we    
look at once to ,jesus ,christ4 ,he is  
supreme intelligence4  ,he has power    
over nature and men and ,he uses all    
with the motive and purpose of a holy   
love4 ,we know that ,he controlled      
nature1 when on earth1 and not nature   
,him4 ,he taught the great love of ,god 
for man4 ,he made it plain that men were
 not in a relation as atoms of matter in
 a whirlpool of action1 but as sons to a
 loving father4   ,,god ,,is ,,supreme  
,god's ,attitude to the ,universe4--,the
 ,scriptures are consistent in the      
statement1 many times made1 that ,god is
 the source of all things4 ,he brings   

all things into being and sustains all  
by the word of ,his power4  ,his is a   
work of perpetual administration4 ,but  
,god is not wholly occupied in          
conducting the affairs of the universe1 
neither does it exhaust ,his            
possibilities 7,psalm #h3a2 #adh3ac74   
,he is greater than the universe4  ,god1
 says ,dr4 ,clarke1 in his ,outline of  
,christian ,theology1 is like the spirit
 of a man in his body1 which is greater 
than his body1 able to direct his body1 
and capable of activities that far      
transcend the physical realm4 ,god is a 
free spirit1 personal1 self-directing1  
unexhausted by ,his present activities4 
,this statement affirms both the        
immanence and the transcendence of ,god4
 ,by the immanence of ,god is meant that
 ,he is everywhere and always present in
 the universe1 nowhere absent from it1  
never separated from its life4 ,by ,his 
transcendence is meant--not as is       
sometimes represented--that ,he is      
outside and views the universe from     

beyond and above1 but that ,he is not   
shut up in it or limited by it1 not     
required in ,his totality to maintain   
and order it4 ,by both together is meant
 that ,he is a free spirit inhabiting   
the universe1 but surpassing it1        
immanent as always in the universe1 and 
transcendent1 as always independent of  
its limitations and able to act upon it4
  ,god's ,attitude to ,man4--,god has   
not only placed man at the head of the  
animal world1 but has endowed him with  
qualities which make him its lord and   
master4 ,god is more than the ,creator  
of man4 ,he is his ,father1 ,saviour and
 ,friend4  ,god comes to man in the     
attitude1 of ,the ,supreme ,spiritual   
,being1 approaching a spiritual being   
who is of priceless value4 ,jesus       
,christ makes this truth very plain4 ,he
 everywhere teaches the great worth of  
the life of a man and that ,god is      
seeking to come directly into touch with
 this life which is so precious in ,his 
sight 7,john #c3af2 ,matthew #aj3cj1ca74

 ,this life is not the physical but the 
spiritual which is the real life of a   
man4 ,not what one has1 but what one is1
 gives the true measure of a man4 ,he   
said1 ,for what shall it profit a man1  
if he shall gain the whole world and    
lose his own soul8 ,or what shall a man 
give in exchange for his soul8 7,mark   
#h3cf1cg74 ,is not the life more than   
meat and the body than raiment8         
7,matthew #f3be74 ,in harmony with this 
view of the worth of life1 ,professor   
,stevens in ,the ,theology of the ,new  
,testament1 says1 ,jesus taught that the
 most humble and insignificant person1  
on whom men set no value1 is precious in
 the sight of ,god4 ,these little ones1 
be they children or humble believers1   
are not the despised 7,matthew #ah3aj74 
,the least important person who goes    
astray from goodness excites the pity   
and solicitude of ,god1 and ,he seeks   
him and brings him back as the shepherd1
 leaving his ninety-nine sheep1 goes    
into the mountains in eager search after

 the one that has wandered away 7,luke  
#ae3ad74  ,the hope of everlasting life 
is bound up with the recognition by man 
of the priceless value of the spiritual 
life and of the necessity of his coming 
into harmony 7in thought1 will and      
action7 with ,god's plans for him 7,john
 #ag3c2 ,luke #ab3af-ba2 ,john #a3d2    
#c3ae1cd-cf2 #f3ce1dg2 #ad3f74   ,,god  
,,is ,,the ,,personal ,,spirit  ,god is 
,spirit1 these words of ,christ1 uttered
 to the ,samaritan woman 7,john #d3bd71 
have reference to the nature of ,god and
 show us how we are to think of ,him4   
,he is not limited to a particular place
 of worship1 but is to be worshipped in 
spirit and in truth 7,john #d3bc74      
,when we speak of a spirit we mean a    
being who has intelligence and will2 one
 who thinks1 feels and wills4 ,god the  
great intelligence and will can enter   
into communication with man who1 while  
he has a body1 has also a spirit        
possessing intelligence and a will4 ,we 
need not define the difference between  

,god and matter1 if only we give full   
weight to this vital and practical      
difference1 that ,he is one who thinks  
and feels and wills4 ,the composition of
 spirit we may never understand1 but    
this is the action of spirit and this is
 intelligible4 ,god is everywhere       
represented in the ,scriptures as       
exercising intelligence and will        
7,genesis #a3a1b2 #f3c2 ,job #bf3g-ad2  
#ch3a-da2 ,psalm #b2 #ai2 #gb2 ,isaiah  
#fa3a2 ,mark #aj3bg2 #ab3bg2 ,john      
#c3cd2 ,acts #c3bf74  ,god is           
,personal4--,personality has two        
characteristics2 self-consciousness and 
self-direction4 ,when it is said that   
,god is personal1 the meaning is that   
,he knows ,himself as ,god and directs  
,his own actions4  ,in the ,bible ,he is
 represented as saying ,i 7,exodus      
#bj3b2 #c3ad7 and as directing all      
things4 ,personality does not limit     
,god4 ,he is the one perfect            
personality4  ,personality in man exists
 only in a more or less imperfect       

degree4 ,personality is understood here 
not as bodily1 but as belonging to the  
spirit4   ,,god ,,is ,,good  ,the       
,character of ,god is a subject of great
 importance to man4 ,god is the ,supreme
 ,personal ,spirit1 yet to know only    
this is to leave out a very vital part  
in our estimation or knowledge of ,god4 
,we desire to know and feel that ,god is
 not only the greatest1 but the best    
being in the universe4 ,hence ,god is   
shown to us in the ,bible to be inwardly
 perfect and outwardly consistent with  
this perfection4 ,the ,old ,testament   
shows a struggle between ,god and man2  
,god seeking to bring man to the        
thinking of right thoughts and doing of 
right actions and man resisting ,him4   
,the history of ,israel is a story of a 
nation whom ,god would make a righteous 
people2 all the laws given to it1 civil1
 sanitary and ceremonial1 were with the 
end in view to make it a holy nation2   
all its prophets and teachers proclaim  
the righteous and just character of ,god

 7,exodus #ai3f2 ,leviticus #aa3de2     
#ai3b2 #bj3g1 #h2 ,numbers #ae3dj2      
,deuteronomy #ad3b1ba2 ,joshua #bd3ai2  
,psalm #bb3c2 #ii3c2 #aaa3i2 ,isaiah    
#f3c2 #eg3ae74 ,in ,jesus ,christ and   
,his life upon earth we see the goodness
 of ,god in its largeness4 ,in ,his     
gospel holiness is the ideal1 the       
substance of ,christian character and   
the end in view in ,christian           
experience4  ,he says1 in the ,sermon on
 the ,mount1 ,be ye therefore perfect1  
even as your ,father which is in heaven 
is perfect 7,matthew #e3dh74  ,in       
,christ we have the one perfect ideal of
 moral excellence4 ,in ,him we can see  
what goodness in ,god means 7,john      
#ad3i74  ,the standard for the conduct  
of man is that of ,god's goodness1      
righteousness and truth2 this is not a  
double one--the ,old and the ,new       
,testament--but a single one and        
applicable to all men of all races and  
climes4  ,if sin exists holiness in ,god
 must absolutely and forever oppose it4 

,from the holiness in ,god's character  
we can understand ,his righteousness and
 justice4  ,the man who does evil sets  
his will against ,god's will and against
 the principle upon which ,he conducts  
the universe4 ,such a man has placed    
himself where he must either turn back  
and forsake his sin or take the         
inevitable consequences of resisting the
 purpose which ,god is fulfilling4      
,god's love for man is bound up with    
,his goodness4  ,god1 foreseeing the    
fearful consequences of man's sinning1  
seeks in every way to warn and turn him 
back from the evil way4 ,he knows the   
great worth of the soul and desires to  
save it to everlasting joy 7,john #c3ag2
 ,luke #i3ef2 ,john #ad3a-c74   ,,god',s
 ,,manifestation  ,the ,manifestation of
 ,god in ,jesus ,christ4--,paul says1   
when the fullness of time was come1 ,god
 sent forth ,his ,son 7,galatians #d3d72
 ,that at the name of ,jesus every knee 
should bow1 of things in heaven1 and    
things in earth1 and things under the   

earth2 and that every tongue should     
confess that ,jesus ,christ is ,lord to 
the glory of ,god the ,father           
7,philippians #b3aj1aa74  ,this personal
 manifestation of ,god in ,christ is in 
perfect harmony with the nature and     
character of ,god as we know ,him       
through the ,scriptures4 ,this          
manifestation of ,god is not only       
subject to a historical test1 but may   
also be made the subject of a personal  
experience test1 ,if any man will do    
,his will he shall know of the doctrine 
7,john #g3ag74 ,soon after the          
resurrection and ascension of ,jesus the
 disciples1 who had been with ,jesus    
when ,he was upon earth1 began to urge  
others to make a test of personal       
experience in regard to the             
manifestation of ,god in ,christ 7,acts 
#b3ad1ca-dg2 #c3ai-ba2 #g3ef74 ,paul1   
who had a special experience 7,acts     
#i3a-h71 preached this test of personal 
experience throughout the ,roman        
,empire4  ,ever since those early times 

there has been the same urgent appeal   
for men to come to a knowledge of ,god  
through ,jesus ,christ and to make the  
test not only historical1 but one of    
personal experience4  ,the ,threefold   
,self-manifestation of ,god4--,christ in
 instructing ,his disciples after ,his  
resurrection1 said1 ,go ye therefore and
 teach all nations1 baptizing them in   
the name of the ,father and of the ,son 
and of the ,holy ,ghost 7,matthew       
#bh3ai74  ,in the ,old ,testament we    
have the manifestation of ,god as the   
one living ,god of all4 ,he was         
specially known as the ,god of ,israel  
in preparing that nation for the great  
part it had in the divine economy4  ,in 
the ,new ,testament ,christ is          
recognized by ,his followers--and so    
taught ,himself--as the personal        
manifestation of ,god1 to whom divine   
honour was and is to be given4 ,christ  
told ,his followers that ,he would pray 
the ,father and ,he shall give you      
another ,comforter1 that ,he may abide  

with you forever 7,john #ad3af74 ,this  
,comforter 7#af3g-ae71 the ,holy        
,spirit1 would guide them into all      
truth4  ,the ,holy ,spirit1 upon whom   
they were to wait for ,his manifestation
 7,acts #a3h71 came in wonderful power  
on the ,day of ,pentecost 7,acts        
#b3a-d71 thus beginning the great work  
which was to spread around the world4   
,when ,paul and ,barnabas were ready for
 their large missionary task1 the ,holy 
,spirit called them to it 7,acts #ac3b74
 ,the early ,church felt the presence of
 that mighty indwelling ,holy ,spirit4  
,as ,god ,himself had come in the ,son  
so it was felt that ,he had come in the 
,spirit4 ,the one ,god of all known to  
the fathers1 had manifested ,himself in 
the divine human ,christ1 and in the    
invisible ,spirit of truth and life4    
,both was ,his and yet each was truly   
,himself4   ,,questions  ,who is ,god8  
,how shall we think of ,him8 ,give some 
of the wrong conceptions of ,god4 ,what 
can be said of the right conceptions of 

,god8 ,what is the ,christian conception
 of ,god8 ,how can we know what ,god is 
like8 ,what is ,god's attitude to the   
universe and to man8 ,what do we mean   
when we say1 that ,god is a ,spirit8    
,how is ,god personal8 ,what can be said
 of the character of ,god8  ,how is ,god
 manifested1 in ,christ1 and in the     
threefold manifestation8    ,,study     
,,iii  ,,the ,,christian ,,man          
,scripture references3 ,genesis         
#a3bf-bh2 #b3g2 #i3f2 ,job #cc3d2 ,psalm
 #ajj3c2 #h3d-i2 ,ecclesiastes #g3bi2   
,acts #ag3bf-bh2 #a ,corinthians #aa3g2 
,ephesians #d3bd2 ,colossians #c3aj2 #a 
,corinthians #ae3de2 ,hebrews #b3f1g2   
,ephesians #f3aj-ah2 #a ,corinthians    
#b3i4   ,,what ,,is ,,man8  ,what ,shall
 ,we ,think of ,man8--,who is he8  ,what
 is his place on the earth and in the   
universe8  ,what is his destiny8 ,he is 
of necessity an object of thought4 ,he  
is the subject of natural laws1         
instincts and passions4 ,how far is he  
free2 how far bound8  ,how is he linked 

with the physical and the spiritual     
worlds8 ,these and a host of other      
questions press upon us for answers1    
when we begin to think about man and his
 destiny4  ,taken in detail the         
inquiries lead investigators in many    
different directions and result in many 
contradictory systems of thought4       
,taken1 however1 in a general practical 
way all questions about man may be      
considered from two standpoints2 the    
physical and the spiritual4 ,the danger 
is in making the physical alone         
interpret the spiritual and in declaring
 that man is simply a ripple on the sea 
of human events and human life1 merely  
on episode marking a particular stage in
 the cooling of a nebula4 ,this method  
of interpretation leads to the ruling   
out of any personal responsibility on   
the part of man for his thoughts or     
actions1 the obliteration of the        
distinction between right and wrong and 
the denial of a personal ,god and       
personal immortality4  ,the right       

standpoint from which to consider the   
many questions about man1 as he appears 
upon this earth1 is that of a personal  
spiritual being with a physical body4   
,there is here no denial of the physical
 part of man1 but it is made subordinate
 to the spiritual4 ,man is personal and 
responsible for his thoughts and        
conduct2 upon this conception of man is 
founded human society and the state4    
,man is spiritual1 knowing the          
distinction between right and wrong1    
capable of knowing ,god who is ,the     
,personal ,spirit and looking forward to
 a personal immortality4  ,the          
,christian ,thought of ,man recognizes  
him as a personal spiritual being with a
 physical body2 he has large            
responsibilities1 and a great destiny to
 attain--if he so wills4  ,there are six
 heads under which the ,christian       
conception of man may be considered3    
#a4 ,man is mortal 7,psalm #ij3e1aj2    
,ecclesiastes #ab3e74 ,the physical part
 of man is quite definitely limited in  

years4 ,his body is formed of the same  
elements as that of any other animal and
 is subject to the law of decay and     
death4 ,this linking of man with1 what  
we call1 the material universe is       
asserted at the very opening of the     
,bible 7,genesis #b3g74 ,man is a member
 of a race of men with all that this    
membership implies 7,acts #ag3bf74  #b4 
,man is immortal 7#a ,corinthians       
#ae3ec1ed74  ,the physical body is the  
house of the spirit of man4  ,all the   
appeals in the ,scriptures are addressed
 to this personal spirit of man         
7,matthew #f3be1cc2 ,john #ad3a-d74     
,there is in the ,new ,testament a great
 forward look to the things that shall  
come to pass after the passing away of  
the physical body 7,matthew #be3ca-df2  
,revelation #ba1bb74  #c4 ,man is a     
moral being 7,romans #b3ad1ae74 ,there  
is a law of conscience impressed upon   
man when he comes into the world1 which 
makes him a moral being capable of      
distinguishing between right and wrong4 

,man knows when he sins against the law 
of his conscience4  #d4 ,man is a       
responsible being 7,romans #b3a-aa74    
,he is self-conscious and               
self-determining4 ,he knows himself as  
himself and he can determine his        
actions2 it is these characteristics    
which make him responsible for his sins4
 ,he has the power of choice and in     
willing to do right or wrong he brings  
the consequences of his doing upon      
himself4  #e4 ,salvation for man is     
through ,jesus ,christ4  ,man sins and  
violates his moral nature2 he feels the 
responsibility for his sin2 he desires  
forgiveness for his sin and to be freed 
from its power over his spiritual nature
 7,romans #g3bc1bd74 ,but he finds no   
earthly help4 ,such help can come to man
 only through a spiritual being who1    
subject to all the assaults of sin      
7,matthew #d3a-aa71 has triumphed over  
them all 7,romans #h3a-d2 #b            
,corinthians #e3ba74 ,jesus ,christ1 the
 manifestation of ,god the ,father1 is  

the ,spiritual ,being through whom man  
can receive forgiveness for sin 7,luke  
#e3bc1bd2 ,acts #b3ch2 #ac3ch1ci2       
#af3cj1ca74  #f4 ,large possibilities   
are everywhere asserted for man in the  
,scriptures4 ,this earthly life is      
looked upon as the beginning of a       
greater and fuller life 7#a ,corinthians
 #ac3i1ab74 ,yet in doing the will of   
,god man may even here enter upon a life
 full of joy 7,hebrews #ab3a1b74   ,,man
 ,,made ,,in ,,the ,,image ,,of ,,god   
,the ,statement of the ,case4--,in      
,genesis #a3bf we are told that ,god    
said1 ,let us make man in our image1    
after our likeness4 ,in ,genesis #b3g   
the narrative relates1 ,and the ,lord   
,god formed man of the dust of the      
ground and breathed into his nostrils   
the breath of life and man became a     
living soul 7see ,psalm #h3d-h74 ,these 
passages have a great representative    
character and the truth expressed in    
them has lived and will live under all  
theories of the appearance of man upon  

this earth4 ,in the ,bible man is shown 
as the latest and highest creation of   
,god1 the last and best of ,his work in 
the animal world1 but with a difference 
that is world-wide between him and the  
brute creation4 ,here is an animal1     
coming up out of the dust1 endowed with 
spiritual qualities which place him not 
only at the head of the animal kingdom1 
but dominating it4 ,the most radical    
evolutionist must admit that man is the 
last in the list of uplifts in the      
animal world1 that he has qualities     
which elevate him far above it and by   
which he dominates it4 ,somewhere back  
there1 again1 he must admit that there  
came a change and the dust-born animal  
was changed into a ,god-born soul4 ,the 
great truth then remains1 man is an     
animal but endowed with a growing       
marvellous self-conscious1              
self-determining personality4 ,as the   
,bible is a progressive revelation1     
showing us more and more the greatness  
of spiritual truths1 it represents man  

as starting from no high plane of       
civilization and as a learner through   
the ages4 ,man is even now in the       
process of making2 he has not yet come  
to his best estate4  ,the ,image of     
,god4--,what is the likeness of ,god8   
,god is ,spirit 7,john #d3bd7 and that  
part of man which counts is his         
spiritual kinship to ,god4  ,man's      
intelligence1 moral nature and will     
constitute the image of ,god in him and 
make it possible for him to come into   
communication with ,god and to occupy   
his unique place in the universe4 ,only 
a person can understand a person4  ,man 
is dear to ,god because he is like ,him4
 ,vast and glorious as it is1 the sun   
cannot think ,god's thoughts2 can       
fulfill but cannot intelligently        
sympathize with ,god's purposes4 ,man1  
alone among ,god's works1 can enter into
 and approve of ,god's purpose in the   
world and can intelligently fulfill it4 
,without man the whole material universe
 would have been dark and               

unintelligible1 mechanical and          
apparently without any sufficient       
purpose4 ,matter1 however fearfully and 
wonderfully wrought1 is but the platform
 and material in which spirit1          
intelligence and will1 may fulfill      
themselves and find development4  ,the  
,bible seeks to show men in how many    
ways they resemble ,god and to urge them
 to be worthy of their likeness to ,god4
 ,there is a certain philosophy on the  
other hand1 sometimes called the dirt   
philosophy1 which seeks to show men in  
how many ways they resemble the brute   
and to urge them to live the life of the
 brute4  ,but a great practical question
 which demands an answer of us--as we   
look out upon the world of men taking   
them as they are--is1 ,did ,god make the
 evil man in ,his likeness as well as   
the good man8  ,the ,good ,man4--,the   
best things bear the stamp of their     
maker4 ,if a good judge of pictures is  
taken into some famous art gallery it is
 not necessary to point out to him the  

excellencies of the paintings1 they tell
 their own story4 ,there are men in the 
,bible who manifestly bear the image of 
,god2 ,abraham1 ,isaac1 ,enoch1 ,moses1 
,david1 ,john1 ,paul and others4  ,there
 have been many men in ancient and      
modern times who1 when some great crisis
 has come in the state or church1 have  
conducted themselves as men born in the 
image of ,god2 men who have sacrificed  
their own interests to be loyal to the  
truth4 ,we all recognize such men as    
,god-born4  ,the ,evil ,man4--,the      
difficulty is however to recognize any  
image of ,god in a certain class of evil
 men who have low instincts and desires2
 men who lie1 cheat1 steal and break    
every commandment of ,god and man4  ,did
 ,god make the worst and the lowest of  
men8  ,if we are to consider fairly the 
question of the making of man in the    
image of ,god we must not shun this     
problem1 which the vilest of men and the
 most degraded savage presents4 ,what   
can be seen in these men that reminds us

 of the likeness of ,god8 ,we are to    
judge men1 however1 by what they are    
capable of and are1 at their best1      
rather than at their worst4  ,the art   
world regards ,michael ,angelo's statue 
of ,moses as one of the greatest        
creations of the sculptor's genius4     
,suppose1 however1 some one should      
maliciously deluge this masterpiece with
 ink1 smash it into fragments with a    
huge hammer1 and then ask as he looked  
upon the marred and blackened bits of   
marble1 ,is that a masterpiece of       
,michael ,angelo's genius8  ,so we look 
upon a man who has been marred and      
broken by sin and ask the question1 ,was
 that man created in the image of ,god8 
,lo1 this only have ,i found1 that ,god 
hath made man upright2 but they have    
sought out many inventions4 ,trace back 
the cause of the degradation of the     
individual or society or state and we   
always find the root to be in some      
transgression of a righteous law of     
,god4  ,the ,bible uniformly asserts    

that ,god is not the author of sin or   
man's fall into evil ways1 but that he  
has sufficient light to follow right    
ways1 if he will4  ,but that an evil man
 has this marvelous heritage of being   
,god-born is shown by the fact that even
 when he has marred the likeness of ,god
 in him1 by sin1 beyond human           
recognition there is still a possibility
 of its being restored4 ,jesus ,christ  
said1 ,for the ,son of man is come to   
seek and save that which was lost 7,luke
 #ai3aj2 ,matthew #ae3bd2 ,luke #ae3d72 
the most evil men came to ,him and1     
confessing their sins1 were brought back
 into sonship with ,god4 ,the incentive 
to ,christian work1 in the slums of the 
cities1 amongst the most degraded       
savages and everywhere1 is the finding  
of men broken and marred by sin and the 
possibility of bringing them back to    
,god4  ,god disapproves the sin but     
loves the sinner4 ,god commended ,his   
love towards us in that while we were   
yet sinners ,christ died for us 7,romans

 #e3h-aa74   ,,the ,,chief ,,end ,,of   
,,man  ,the ,bible declares the divine  
origin and the divine destiny of man1   
and that he was made in the image of    
,god and for ,his glory4  ,a ,threefold 
,obligation rests upon man to serve and 
glorify ,god1  #a4 ,on account of his   
creation by ,god1 the ,father4  #b4 ,on 
account of his redemption by ,god1 the  
,son4  #c4 ,on account of his           
regeneration and sanctification by ,god1
 the ,holy ,ghost4  ,the ,great ,concern
 of ,man should be conformity with the  
divine likeness 7,john #e3cj2 ,matthew  
#f3aj1cc2 #af3bf2 ,romans #ad3h2 ,i     
,corinthians #aj3ca74 ,be not conformed 
to this world3 but be ye transformed by 
the renewing of your mind1 that ye may  
prove what is that good and acceptable  
and perfect will of ,god 7,romans       
#ab3b74 ,it is only when man succeeds in
 bringing his will to do ,god's will and
 makes ,god's plan his plan of life that
 he comes to his best and highest       
estate4 ,the world is full of sin and   

misery1 and there are many burdens heavy
 to be borne1 because man insists upon  
having his way instead of seeking ,god's
 way4 ,many great civilizations have    
gone down and many forms of society have
 been disrupted because1 in them1 man   
strove to set up his glory1 rather than 
,god's glory1 as the standard to be     
striven for4 ,man has repeatedly        
attempted to attain to the dominion     
promised him only to fail because he has
 desired such dominion to spend it upon 
himself4 ,god desires to crown man with 
glory and honour and to do exceedingly  
large things for him1 the ,scriptures   
are filled with great promises1 but man 
only grasps at the shadow of power1 when
 he might have the substance4 ,all great
 inventions and discoveries but point to
 still greater ones1 when man shall be  
fitted by spiritual grace and goodness  
to be intrusted with them4 ,the kingdom 
of heaven must come in man's heart      
before any great material or spiritual  
advancement can come in the world4      

,education1 commerce1 art1 science1 in  
all their majesty of strength1 can never
 do what the ,christian religion can do 
for men when it shall succeed in getting
 them to seek to be conformed to the    
divine likeness3 this is a truth too    
little emphasized1 but it is fundamental
 and necessary to any real progress in  
the world4 ,there is a higher law for   
life than self-will and unregulated     
impulse2 the real world goes deeper than
 things of sense2 this temporal life is 
related to eternity2 and ,god is the    
central verity of all4   ,,the ,,perfect
 ,,example  ,god's ,measure of a        
,man4--,what is the standard by which   
man is to compare himself8 ,great things
 are expected of a man but how is he to 
work them out8  ,these are fair         
questions4  ,jesus ,christ has two      
titles in the ,new ,testament1 ,the ,son
 of ,god and ,the ,son of ,man4 ,if we  
want to know what ,god is like we look  
into the face of ,jesus ,christ4 ,if we 
want to know what man ought to be we    

look into the face of ,jesus ,christ    
7,john #ad3e-i2 ,matthew #e3dh74  ,jesus
 ,christ is the ,perfect ,example4  ,he 
is the ,perfect ,example of a ,physical 
,man4--,the test here is bodily         
endurance and perfect control over the  
body4 ,look at ,jesus ,christ and note  
,his physical endurance tests4 ,he was  
forty days without food 7,matthew #d3b72
 this is not a weakling's task4  ,a man 
must have a strong body to endure       
through such a starvation period4 ,for a
 man to be crucified upon a cross1 after
 being scourged1 was to undergo the most
 terrible agony2 yet ,christ so had ,his
 body under control upon ,his cross that
 ,he could speak forgiveness for ,his   
enemies and commend ,his mother to the  
care of a disciple4 ,how can ,i start a 
religion8  said one great ,frenchman to 
another4 ,go and be crucified1 was the  
reply4 ,if we want to behold the perfect
 physical man1 who had ,his body in     
complete control and made it do ,his    
will1 we must look to ,jesus ,christ4   

,how many sins come to man through a    
weak physical control6  ,he is the      
,perfect ,example of an ,intellectual   
,man4--,what man can compare with ,jesus
 ,christ in the power of ,his intellect8
 ,he stands ready before all to state   
and defend ,his precepts and principles4
 ,he so spoke to the people that they   
listened with growing conviction4 ,never
 man spake like this man4  ,difficult   
questions were brought to ,him1         
questions which would make the wisest   
judges hesitate in their answers1 and at
 once ,he gave ,his replies which stand 
unimpeached to-day for marvellous wisdom
 and power4  ,living in an age long     
before modern science had its birth1 ,he
 handles ,nature as her ,master and     
makes no mistake4 ,his words to-day are 
a power in the court1 in the senate and 
the marts of the world1 as well as in   
the pulpit4 ,he is the perfect          
intellectual man for our example4  ,he  
is the ,perfect ,example of a ,moral    
,man4--,many intellectual and physical  

giants fail upon the moral test2 but in 
,christ we find no moral flaw4 ,he is   
the standard of moral perfection4 ,he is
 the perfect moral example for all men4 
,here is the foundation for physical and
 intellectual progress1 but without a   
true moral foundation they will both    
fail4  ,no man ever so ministered to men
 as ,jesus ,christ4   ,,questions  ,what
 is man8 ,what shall we think of him8   
,what is the ,christian thought of man8 
,give the five points in the ,christian 
conception of man4 ,man made in the     
image of ,god2 give a statement of this 
case4 ,what is the image of ,god8 ,did  
,god make the good man1 the evil man8   
,what is the chief end of man8 ,what    
threefold obligation rests upon man to  
serve and glorify ,god8 ,what should be 
the great concern of man8 ,what can be  
said of ,god's measure of a man8 ,what  
can be said of ,jesus ,christ as the    
perfect physical1 intellectual and moral
 man8    ,,study ,,iv  ,,the            
,,christian',s ,,fellow ,,man           

,scripture references3 ,luke #aj3bi-cg2 
,matthew #g3ab2 #e3af2 ,luke #ab3ac-ae2 
#a ,corinthians #ac2 ,matthew #g3c-e2   
#e3db-di2 ,john #ba3ba1 #bb4   ,,man    
,,and ,,other ,,men  ,the ,question of  
,relationship4--,one of the most        
important questions is that of the      
relation which a man shall hold to other
 men4  #a4 ,it is fundamental in every  
system of philosophy and religion4 ,the 
answers1 which are given1 show their    
widespread practical bearing in the     
social1 industrial and political        
spheres1 as well as in the religious4   
#b4 ,it is imperative from the fact it  
demands a reply which becomes at once   
the basis of action4 ,a man1 amongst    
men1 is under the necessity of deciding 
how he will conduct himself towards his 
fellow men4  ,there are many divergent  
opinions1 in regard to the relation     
which a man should sustain to his fellow
 man1 which lead to widely divergent    
courses of action and largely affect the
 world for good or ill4  ,jesus ,christ 

was outspoken on this matter4 ,his words
 7,luke #aj3bi-cg2 ,matthew #bb3cf-dj7  
go at once to the heart of the question 
and give its only possible solution4    
,,the ,,differences ,,between ,,men     
,the ,inequalities in the ,lives of ,men
 are many and far reaching4 ,they divide
 men from each other and tend1 if       
brooded over1 to make them live lives   
apart1 with a lessening sympathy and a  
growing hostility4 ,they pertain to     
race1 education1 business and society4  
,they may be natural1 or artificially   
induced4  ,the great inequality to-day1 
however1 upon which men place an acute  
emphasis is that of wealth or the lack  
of it4 ,a man once came to ,jesus and   
said1 ,master1 speak to my brother1 that
 he divide the inheritance with me      
7,luke #ab3ac72 there is the same demand
 to-day4 ,men are not seeking to share  
the responsibility of a self-denying    
service to their fellow-men1 such as    
,jesus gave2 neither are they greatly   
desirous of advancing the cause of      

righteousness in the world1 but they are
 too largely looking to the betterment  
of their material condition4 ,it is this
 state of affairs which often spurs men 
on to accumulate wealth by the          
oppression of their fellow men4 ,many   
men work and plan for certain great     
results in financial matters 7as though 
these were the supreme things71 only to 
be disappointed and in consequence lose 
their interest in life4 ,it is the      
making of the struggle for material     
betterment the chief thing in life which
 causes strikes1 lockouts and most of   
our modern industrial troubles4 ,here we
 find also the cause of heart-burnings  
and jealousies and deep-seated hatreds4 
,it is said that out of these struggles 
between competitors1 and employer and   
employee1 there is coming a better      
understanding between the contending    
parties and also new adjustments which  
will do away with these destructive     
strifes4 ,this may all be true1 but so  
long as men seek simply and only for    

material betterment1 ignoring the       
spiritual and moral in their lives1 any 
readjustment of hours of labour or scale
 of wages or agreements will only be of 
a temporary character1 for the real     
cause of the whole trouble is left      
untouched4 ,one of the ablest writers   
upon ,the ,social ,unrest says1 ,at the 
heart of the larger labour movement is  
the race longing for a society in which 
at least the spirit of equality shall be
 realized4 ,most radical remedies are   
only means to this end4 ,beyond1 and    
deeper than all the machinery of social 
reconstruction1 is this master passion  
of democracy4 ,but this same writer     
also1 after a survey of the whole       
question1 declares that before this     
equality can be realized there must come
 a character founded on love4  ,cause   
and ,remedy4--,selfishness is often the 
real cause of the sting of inequality   
and of the keeping of men apart2 until  
this is eradicated and replaced by the  
master passion of love--employer for    

employee and employee for employer--no  
agreements and no legislation1 between  
the contending forces will serve the    
purpose4 ,it was the master passion of a
 supreme love which produced the first  
social equality society 7,acts          
#d3cb-cg72 it was selfishness which     
broke it up 7,acts #e3a-ac74 ,this      
selfishness is also at the root of the  
arrogance which causes men to despise   
men of an inferior race1 culture or     
social position and seeks to use them   
for purposes of gain4  ,perfect equality
 amongst men1 however1 outside of       
equality before the law and ,god1 hardly
 seems a realizable thing2 certainly all
 men cannot be of the same age and of   
the same stature at the same time2 there
 are gifts of talent2 there are         
different races1 but where supreme love 
is it takes out the sting of a sense of 
an inferiority and the jealousy and     
hatred of superior gifts2 under its     
benign influence the rich and the poor1 
the talented and the untalented1 work   

together as brethren4 ,the brotherhood  
of love is the only true brotherhood and
 the only solution of this vexed        
question4   ,,the ,,true ,,relation ,,of
 ,,man ,,to ,,man  ,who is ,my          
,neighbour8--,the answer which ,jesus   
gave to this question 7,luke #aj3bi71   
which a certain lawyer asked of ,him in 
order to justify himself1 shows the true
 relation of man to man4  ,the lawyer   
doubtless supposed when he put this     
question to ,jesus that he would silence
 ,him4 ,the ,jews in their proud        
isolation considered themselves the     
chosen people of ,god and despised other
 races1 even looking with a certain     
contempt upon their ,roman conquerors4  
,how would the ,jewish ,messiah1 if not 
put to silence1 answer a question like  
this8 ,doubtless the reply would be that
 only a ,jew could be neighbour to a    
,jew4 ,the race spirit is a strong one  
and men born to a certain nationality   
have many stout binding ties of speech  
and customs1 which are not easily       

broken4  ,mark1 however1 the large      
mindedness of ,jesus4 ,he breaks at once
 through race ties and without so much  
as mentioning the ,jew1 he takes the    
,samaritan as the example of a good     
neighbour4 ,now the ,jews and the       
,samaritans had no dealings with each   
other1 their animosity was well known2  
at this distance of time we can hardly  
realize how startling a thing it was to 
take a ,samaritan as an example of a    
good neighbour4 ,but it is right here   
that ,jesus begins to show us the true  
relation of man to man and that this    
relation is superior to race1 caste1    
language1 social distinctions1 customs  
and organizations4  ,my neighbour1 then1
 is not only the man who lives next     
door1 or is in the same business1 or    
belongs to the same church or labour    
organization1 or political party1 but   
all men are my neighbours and ,i am to  
seek to do them good 7,luke #aj3cj-cg74 
,this definition of neighbour does away 
with all clannishness and exclusiveness1

 and man comes face to face with his    
fellow man as a man4  ,how ,shall ,i    
,treat ,my ,neighbour8--,a number of    
answers may be given3  #a4 ,investigate 
the claims of my neighbour when ,i see  
him in a sad condition4 ,the good       
,samaritan did this at considerable     
personal risk1 for he could be by no    
means sure that the robbers would not   
return and rob him4 ,too many men1 when 
they see their neighbours in want1 pass 
by on the other side1 as the priest and 
,levite did4 ,adversity has been        
described as a deep pit1 into which a   
man has fallen1 which is surrounded by  
his near-sighted friends4  #b4          
,sympathize and succour my neighbour in 
trouble and do what is needed to help   
him get upon his feet4  #c4 ,interest   
myself in the well being of my neighbour
 after the immediate and acute necessity
 for aid is past4 ,there are many who   
are willing to aid when a pressing call 
comes1 but who are unwilling to keep up 
that aid through the convalescing stage2

 here is where the summons comes to be  
not weary in well doing to one's        
neighbour4  ,outside of money help and  
aid in times of disaster and sickness   
there are many who are lonesome for     
words of cheer and acts of kindness on  
the part of those with whom they daily  
come in contact4 ,there is a deeper     
meaning in the parable than that which  
relates to physical pain4 ,there is a   
suffering of the soul and a mental      
trouble which beseech the kindness of   
the ,christlike neighbourly touch4  #d4 
,there is also the larger work1 which is
 fundamental1 of bringing one's fellow  
man into the fellowship and communion of
 ,jesus ,christ2 this is the greatest   
benefit which any ,christian man can    
confer upon his brother-man 7,john      
#a3dj-db1de74   ,,christ',s ,,law ,,of  
,,love  ,statement of the ,law4--,thou  
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself     
7,matthew #bb3ci74 ,a certain lawyer    
asked ,jesus1 ,master1 which is the     
great commandment of the law8 ,jesus    

said unto him1 ,thou shalt love the     
,lord thy ,god with all thy heart1 and  
with all thy soul and with all thy mind4
 ,this is the first and great           
commandment4 ,and the second is like    
unto it4 ,thou shalt love thy neighbour 
as thyself4  ,the kingdom of ,god will  
come when this commandment is fully     
obeyed by men4  ,exposition of the      
,law4--,it would seem as if a law so    
plainly stated would need no explanation
 or exposition4  ,but before men can    
rightly love each other they must have  
certain principles and a certain        
character4  ,it is not desirable that   
evil men with depraved thoughts and bad 
lives love us as they love themselves2  
for they love that which1 if accepted by
 men1 would lead to deep corruption of  
character4  ,jesus ,christ well put it  
that ,god must first be loved1 with all 
the heart1 soul and mind1 before a man  
is ready to love his neighbour as       
himself4 ,this loving of ,god1 first1   
implies an acceptance of the standpoint 

of ,god in regard to man and the looking
 upon one's fellow man as ,god looks    
upon him4 ,this standpoint of ,god is   
best seen in the words and acts of      
,jesus ,christ4 ,a man in order1 then1  
to love his fellow man aright must be   
thoroughly imbued with the principles of
 the ,master4 ,a man must look upon     
other men as having souls of eternal    
value4 ,a man who would do as ,jesus    
would have him do must first have ,his  
spirit of self-sacrificing love         
7,matthew #bc3h-ab2 ,john #ag3ai2       
,philippians #b3e-g2 ,isaiah #ec3c2     
,john #ac3ab-ae74  ,application of the  
,law4--,the beauty of this law of love  
is that it may be universally applied4  
,there is no condition of man that it   
cannot meet and satisfy4  ,the crying   
wrongs of the home1 society1 the        
industrial world1 the state1 arise out  
of its neglect and condemnation4  ,men  
seek to make good their claims for      
things which they think belong to them1 
they fight for them1 gain them or lose  

them1 fight again or are fought1 and in 
consequence race hatred1 class and      
industrial hatred embitter the hearts of
 men4  ,this law applied to the life of 
the individual1 sweetens it in its      
lowest depths and makes the strongest   
kind of a character4 ,paul is an example
 of an able yet impetuous man1 who let  
the gospel of the love of ,christ have  
its supreme way with him4 ,we find in   
him no shrinking from difficulties or   
death itself 7#b ,timothy #d3f-h74 ,in  
the midst of sore trials he wrote that  
remarkable classic 7#a ,corinthians #ac7
 upon love which has been the help and  
stay of many a burdened soul4  ,this law
 applied in society is its only saving  
power4  ,it is this ,christ love which  
sends men into the slums of the cities  
to work for their fellow men4 ,it is    
this love that is the moving power of   
the missionary of the cross1 when he    
goes into the heart of heathendom4 ,it  
is this love that has brought into the  
world all the reforms that are worth    

having and caused it to care for its    
sick and its poor4  ,it is to be        
deplored that in some quarters we should
 hear voices talking about the inability
 of the ,church to cope with the modern 
conditions of life and that these voices
 should be calling for new institutions 
to take its place4 ,so long as the      
,church recognizes its duty to preach   
and practice the love of ,god to man1   
man to ,god1 and man to his fellow man1 
no institution can take its place2 for  
it has in this preaching1 and the       
application of it1 the supreme remedy   
for the ills of mankind4 ,where there is
 no love or regard of man for his ,god  
or fellow men all agreements and all    
laws however stoutly made1 with and for 
contending parties1 have in them a fatal
 weakness4  ,it is love that sent ,jesus
 ,christ into the world 7,john #c3af1ag7
 and it is its proclamation1 and        
acceptance as the ruling power of life1 
that has caused all the real advancement
 in civilization since ,his advent4     

,,questions  ,what can be said of the   
question of the relationship of man to  
other men8 ,what can be said of the     
inequalities in the lives of men and the
 great inequality8 ,what is the cause   
and remedy of the sting of inequality8  
,who is my neighbour8  ,how shall ,i    
treat my neighbour8 ,what is ,christ's  
law of love8 ,give the statement1       
exposition and application of the law4  
,,study ,v  ,,the ,,christian ,,faith   
,scripture references3 ,hebrews #aa2    
,matthew #i3bi2 #ag3bj2 ,mark #aj3eb2   
#aa3bb2 ,acts #b3ch2 #c3af2 #aj3dc2     
#af3cj1ca2 ,romans #a3ag2 #e3a2 #aj3ag2 
,galatians #b3bj4   ,,faith ,,and       
,,practice  ,belief ,controls           
,action4--,as the man is1 so is his     
strength 7,judges #h3ba71 ,for as he    
thinketh in his heart so is he          
7,proverbs #bc3g74 ,according to your   
faith be it unto you 7,matthew          
#i3bh1bi74 ,keep thy heart with all     
diligence2 for out of it are the issues 
of life 7,proverbs #d3bc74  ,the        

,scriptures place stress upon the fact  
that a man's actions are largely        
dependent upon what he believes or      
disbelieves rather than upon his        
environment 7,proverbs #d3bc2 ,romans   
#aj3aj2 ,acts #h3ba2 ,matthew #i3d2     
#ab3cd2 #ae3aa1ah-bj2 #bc3be74  ,there  
is the will to believe and there is the 
will not to believe 7,matthew #ae3bh2   
#af3bd2 ,luke #i3bc2 ,john #e3dj74 ,man 
grows from the inside out4 ,what he     
believes in his heart will sooner or    
later manifest itself in his acts4 ,if a
 man thinks evil in his heart and       
cherishes that evil1 while outwardly his
 life is moral and upright1 it is only a
 question of time when the inner badness
 will break through the thin crust of   
outer goodness4 ,the real battle of life
 is in a man's soul and if a man sets   
himself to win this battle he need have 
no fear of outward evil circumstances2  
he will have to set no guard upon his   
words or acts for he will speak and act 
from a pure and upright heart4  ,it is  

not what he disbelieves1 but what he    
believes1 his conviction of truth1 that 
makes him strong4  ,hence the necessity 
for the vigorous and living faith which 
,christ urged upon ,his followers 7,mark
 #aa3bb-bd2 ,matthew #ag3ai1bj2 ,luke   
#h3 #bd1be71 a faith that could not be  
daunted by mountains of difficulty or   
great storms of afflictions4  ,jesus    
came into the world with a positive     
program4  ,he had a constructive gospel 
to preach to men4 ,his disciples after  
,his death followed in the footsteps of 
their ,master and carried out ,his      
commands4  ,the result was that faith   
was translated into action2 the old     
world was changed and myriads of men    
gave in their allegiance to the ,christ4
 ,the positive setting forth of the     
,christian faith always brings definite 
results4   ,,basis ,,of ,,christian     
,,faith  ,the ,christian ,faith is      
,founded ,upon the ,fact and ,experience
 of ,jesus ,christ4--,without ,him there
 would have been no such faith4  #a4    

,the fact of ,christ4 ,this faith bases 
itself primarily not upon reason or     
feeling1 but upon ,jesus ,christ1 a     
historical person1 and what ,he said and
 did while upon this earth in bodily    
form4 ,the early disciples and preachers
 declared themselves to be witnesses4   
,they were sent forth as witnesses      
7,matthew #bh3ah-bj2 ,john #ae3bg2 ,acts
 #a3h2 #b3 #cb74 ,the speeches of ,peter
 7,acts #b3ad-dj2 #c3ab-bf2 #d3h-ab71   
,stephen 7,acts #g3a-ef7 and of ,paul   
7,acts #ac3af-da2 #bb3a-ba7 are         
recitals1 of certain well attested      
occurrences1 which have for their chief 
point the setting forth of the fact of  
,jesus ,christ1 the ,son of ,god1 as the
 ,saviour of men and hope of the world  
7,acts #b3ch1ci74  #b4 ,the experience  
of ,christ4 ,by this is meant the       
experience which men have who receive   
,christ as their ,saviour and ,lord4    
,there is a historical ,christ2 and     
there is a spiritual ,christ who enters 
into a communion of happiness and joy1  

with believers in ,him4  ,jesus ,christ1
 when on earth in bodily form1 promised 
the coming of the ,holy ,spirit who     
should glorify ,him 7,john #af3ac1ad72  
,he also declared to ,his disciples1    
,lo1 ,i am with you alway1 even unto the
 end of the world 7,matthew #bh3bj74    
,wherever this gospel of ,jesus ,christ 
is preached and men under its power     
truly repent of their sins and accept   
,him as their ,saviour1 as in the past  
so now1 men may enter into personal     
relations with their risen and glorified
 ,lord 7,acts #b3dj-db2 ,john #g3ag2    
,acts #h3 #e-g2 ,romans #h3a-aj2        
,colossians #a3bg2 ,acts #bf3ae-ai74    
,essential ,elements4--,in the          
,christian faith there are six component
 elements4  #a4 ,belief in ,god as ,the 
,spirit1 infinite1 eternal1 and         
unchangeable in ,his being1 wisdom and  
power1 holiness1 justice1 goodness and  
truth 7,john #d3bd2 ,exodus #bj3b-g2    
,deuteronomy #f3d2 ,isaiah #dd3f2 ,john 
#ag3c2 #a ,corinthians #h3d1f2 ,psalm   

#ai2 #ajd3bd74  #b4 ,belief in man1 as a
 child of ,god1 whose spirit is destined
 to live forever 7,genesis #b3g2 #b     
,corinthians #e3a2 ,ecclesiastes #ab3g2 
,matthew #f3be2 #e3bi1cj74  #c4 ,belief 
in sin which taints and corrupts the    
heart of man1 making it finally1 if     
unchecked1 the dwelling place of all    
evil4 ,the effects of sin are everywhere
 plainly manifest4 ,men not only sin    
through ignorance and carelessly but    
willfully4 ,the worst sins are those    
which are of the spirit1 anger1 pride1  
malice and envy 7,isaiah #ec3f2 #fd3f2  
,romans #c3bc2 #a ,john #a3h2 ,romans   
#a3ah-c3bc2 #h3g74  #d4 ,belief in      
,jesus ,christ1 the ,son of ,god and the
 ,saviour of men1 who can cleanse the   
heart of man and save him from his sins4
 ,jesus ,christ came not only to reveal 
,god1 the ,father1 to man but also to   
purge his heart from evil4 ,he is the   
propitiation for our sins 7#a ,john     
#b3a1b2 ,romans #h3cd2 ,hebrews         
#g3bd1be2 ,matthew #bj3bh2 ,romans      

#c3bd1be2 #e3h2 #h3c2 ,galatians #c3ac2 
#b ,corinthians #e3ba2 #a ,corinthians  
#a3cj2 ,matthew #i3b-f74  #e4 ,belief in
 the sanctifying power of the ,holy     
,spirit 7#a ,corinthians #f3aa2         
,ephesians #c3af2 ,galatians #e3bb7 who 
testifies of ,christ1 as the ,saviour of
 sinners1 unites us to ,him by faith1   
and makes us partakers of all ,his      
benefits4 ,jesus said1 ,when the        
,comforter is come1 whom ,i will send   
unto you from the ,father1 even the     
,spirit of truth1 which proceedeth from 
the ,father1 ,he shall testify of ,me   
7,john #ae3bf74 ,the ,spirit of truth   
444 will guide you into all truth4444   
,he shall glorify ,me3 for ,he shall    
receive of ,mine and shall show it unto 
you 7,john #af3ac1ad2 #ad3bf2 #a        
,corinthians #ab3c2 ,titus #c3e1f2      
,matthew #bh3 #ai2 ,john #c3e1f74  #f4  
,belief in the resurrection and the life
 to come1 the issues of which are       
declared to be eternal4 ,the hour is    
coming in which all that are in the     

graves shall hear ,his voice1 and shall 
come forth2 they that have done good1   
unto the resurrection of life2 and they 
that have done evil1 unto the           
resurrection of damnation 7,john        
#e3bh1bi2 ,matthew #be3ca-df2 #be3a-ac74
 ,the great rainbow of promise that     
spans the future1 for those who trust in
 ,christ1 is in the fact that ,he said1 
,i am the resurrection and the life3 he 
that believeth in ,me1 though he were   
dead1 yet shall he live4 ,and whosoever 
liveth and believeth in ,me shall never 
die 7,john #aa3be1bf2 ,i ,thessalonians 
#e3bc2 ,john #f3dg2 #ad3b1ai74 ,the     
resurrection body will be spiritual1    
immortal1 incorruptible1 and like unto  
the glorious body of ,jesus ,christ     
7,philippians #c3bj1ba2 #a ,corinthians 
#ae3bj-bc1ce-eg74                       
,definiteness4--,there is a marvellous  
directness and definiteness in the      
statements of the ,new ,testament       
writers1 in proclaiming the ,christian  
faith1 because they believe that they   

are dealing with the tremendous facts of
 life and destiny4 ,god has manifested  
,himself and spoken in ,jesus ,christ as
 ,he has never manifested ,himself      
before4 ,god who at sundry times and in 
diverse manners spake in time past unto 
the fathers by the prophets1 hath in    
these last days spoken unto us by ,his  
,son1 whom ,he hath appointed heir of   
all things 7,hebrews #a3a1b74 ,the      
eternal things of ,god1 kept secret from
 the foundation of the world1 are now   
made known to man2 why should he not1 in
 spite of any punishment or threatened  
ignominious death1 proclaim these truths
 definitely and plainly to his fellow   
man 7,acts #d3ac-bj78  ,the keynote of  
all of ,paul's work is sounded in a very
 definite and direct way in his first   
,epistle to the ,corinthians 7#b3b1e7   
where he says1 ,for ,i determined not to
 know anything among you1 save ,jesus   
,christ and ,him crucified4444 ,that    
your faith should not stand in the      
wisdom of men but in the power of ,god4 

,paul consistently maintains throughout 
his ,epistles that the sole basis of    
salvation is the grace of ,god through  
,jesus ,christ1 to be appropriated by   
faith on the part of man4   ,,tests ,,of
 ,,christian ,,faith  ,effects ,upon    
,men and ,institutions4--,jesus ,christ 
was ever urging ,his disciples to test  
,his words and principles4 ,he declared 
the difference between true and false   
prophets could be known by their fruits4
  ,he said1 ,do men gather grapes of    
thorns or figs of thistles8  ,even so   
every good tree bringeth forth good     
fruit2 but a corrupt tree bringeth forth
 evil fruit 444 wherefore by their      
fruits ye shall know them 7,matthew     
#g3ae-bj74 ,when ,thomas expressed doubt
 of ,his resurrection1 ,christ gave him 
ample opportunity to test its reality   
7,john #bj3bd-bi74 ,christ's challenge  
to the world is1 ,try ,me6 ,come and see
 what ,i can do6  ,what kind of men has 
the ,christian faith made8  ,what kind  
of communities has it produced8 ,two    

pertinent questions are asked in a      
recent book of sermons1 ,what would be  
the effect upon this world if everybody 
was a consistent ,christian8 ,what would
 be the effect upon this world if       
everybody was a consistent infidel8 ,the
 argument is a crushing one1 for of a   
truth ,christianity can stand such a    
test with a glory that would astonish   
even the most ardent enthusiasts4 ,and  
it is the one test1 let it be admitted  
with sorrow1 that a reviling world is   
not willing to have it judged by4  ,a   
,saving ,faith which meets men at their 
extremity of need and gives them a new  
heart4 ,it is not only a faith that did 
save men when ,christ walked the earth  
and healed the sick1 giving sight to the
 blind and raising the dead1 but it is a
 faith which saves men now4 ,christ is  
still performing ,his miracle of        
cleansing the hearts of men of evil4 ,he
 is saying1 ,come unto ,me1 and men are 
coming as of old4 ,the question whether 
,he can save now is being put to the    

test every day and every day it is being
 answered in the regeneration of men4   
,wherever this gospel is preached       
amongst the wealthy and learned or the  
poor and ignorant1 it shows its splendid
 fruitage as it did of old4   ,,uses    
,,of ,,christian ,,faith  ,to ,make     
,plain the ,great ,cause of ,all as     
,father4--,we live in an immense        
universe1 in the midst of giant forces  
of which1 after science has made its    
most searching investigation and said   
its last word1 we know comparatively    
little and that little imperfectly4 ,no 
set of men is more ready to admit this  
state of affairs than that which has    
made the closest scrutiny of the        
phenomena of nature4 ,there is a host of
 questions to which the most painstaking
 investigation on the part of the       
philosophers can afford us no answer4   
,without this ,christian faith which    
tells us of a revelation from ,god and  
,his plan and purpose for man we should 
be helpless1 ever seeking for light in  

this universe which we could not find4  
,then again we might believe in a first 
great cause of all things1 but without a
 revelation we could not know ,god as   
the ,creator of all things and as our   
,father who cares supremely for us--made
 known in the manifestation of ,jesus   
,christ4  ,by faith in ,christ we are   
brought into communion with ,god the    
,father4  ,to ,show the ,importance and 
,value of ,human ,life4--,how could man 
know that he was more than an atom in a 
whirlpool of atoms1 his life of sense   
but a transitory thing1 if it had not   
been for the ,scriptures which seek to  
impress upon him the value of his life  
in the sight of ,god 7,john #c3af1ag2   
,matthew #af3bf78  ,without the pale of 
the ,christian faith men hold life but  
cheaply1 they squander it and waste it  
in sin2 they too often say1 ,let us eat1
 drink and be merry for tomorrow we     
die--forever passing out of existence4  
,the ,christian faith holds human life  
as a very precious thing1 something to  

be cherished with infinite and loving   
care1 for the spirit in man is to live  
forever4 ,here is a new significance    
given to life which1 when the individual
 accepts it1 gives him new and great    
ideals1 which lift him to a higher level
 of living4  ,by faith in ,christ we are
 brought into proper fellowship with our
 fellow men1 and their lives are made   
precious in our sight4  ,to ,show the   
,way to ,happiness and ,joy ,through    
,jesus ,christ4--,if there is one thing 
more than another which man is seeking  
it is happiness1 but it is the kind of  
happiness which frequently destroys the 
body and soul--still he seeks it4 ,many 
men seek happiness through relaxation of
 their moral nature4  ,christ came      
preaching the happiness of a conqueror1 
the victor who sings the song of        
rejoicing over some victory won2 ,he set
 forth a joy which celebrated a conquest
 over evil desires and made a man noble 
and pure in his thoughts and            
aspirations4 ,jesus did ,his work for   

the joy that was set before ,him        
7,hebrews #ab3b74 ,the ,christian faith 
was never intended to make a man gloomy 
or downcast1 but to put joy in his heart
 and a song upon his lips4 ,no one has  
more right to a cheerful countenance    
than the sincere ,christian1 for he can 
be sure that he knows the way of        
happiness here and nothing can come to  
him hereafter save peace and glory in   
the redeemed life4   ,,questions  ,how  
does belief control action8  ,what is   
the basis of ,christian faith8 ,give the
 six component elements of the          
,christian faith4 ,what can be said of  
the definiteness of the ,christian      
faith8 ,give some of the tests of       
,christian faith4  ,give three uses of  
,christian faith4    ,,study ,,vi  ,,the
 ,,christian',s ,,book   ,scripture     
references #b ,timothy #c3af1ag2 #b     
,peter #a3bj1ba2 ,john #e3ci2 ,romans   
#ae3d2 #b ,samuel #bc3b2 ,luke #a3gj2   
#bd3cb1de2 ,john #b3bb2 #aj3ce2 #ai3cf2 
,acts #a3af2 ,romans #a3a1b2 #a         

,corinthians #ae3c1d2 ,james #b3h4      
,,what ,,is ,,the ,,bible8  ,what is the
 ,bible8 ,how shall we regard it8       
,where shall we place it8 ,these and    
many questions like them at once come to
 the front when we begin to discuss the 
,bible as a book4 ,it is only possible  
in this brief study1 of a great subject1
 to indicate the line of some of the    
answers4  ,it is not ,like ,other       
,books4--,although its last paragraph   
was written and the canon completed many
 hundreds of years ago1 it is still one 
of the freshest and newest of books and 
its moral precepts and admonitions are  
far in advance of the world's practice4 
,it has an adaptability to all sorts and
 conditions of men and a flexibility in 
meeting the most radical changes of     
thought1 which is possessed by no other 
volume4 ,it has been attacked and       
denounced and seemingly demolished only 
in the end to lead its critics captive  
and to come forth from the fray stronger
 than ever4  ,it is a ,god-filled and   

,god-inspired book4 ,it is the most     
lasting in its popularity of all books4 
,it is ,like ,other ,books in that it is
 cast in the mold of the literature of a
 certain people4 ,we find here all the  
forms of literature1 history1           
philosophy1 poetry1 letters1 etc4 ,there
 is much plausibility in the plea for   
the study of the ,bible as literature   
for it is the best of its kind4  ,it    
,leads the ,world's ,thought of         
,righteousness and ,purity of           
,life4--,the ,ten ,commandments 7,exodus
 #bj3a-ag71 ,the ,beatitudes 7,matthew  
#e3a-ab7 and ,the ,sermon on the ,mount 
7,matthew #e3a-g3bi7 set forth the      
highest ethical standards known to man4 
,it is the ,record of a ,revelation from
 ,god4  ,the theme is1 the entrance of  
,god into the spiritual life of man4    
,this makes it superior to all other    
books and invests it with a unique      
character which commands our most       
earnest attention4 ,god1 who is speaking
 to men through this book1 says1 ,thou  

shalt have no other gods before ,me4    
,god is not only the ,god of the        
,israelites but of all nations and      
peoples4  ,the great men1 whose life    
stories are given in the ,bible1 were   
,god called to1 and ,god guided in1     
their work of uplifting the world4 ,we  
have only to look at the record to see  
how the initiative is declared to have  
been taken by ,god4 ,here is the roll   
call1 ,abraham 7,genesis #ab3a-c71      
,moses 7,exodus #c3ad71 ,joshua         
7#a3a-f71 ,samuel 7#a ,samuel #c3d-ba71 
,david 7#a ,samuel #af3c1aa-ac71 ,isaiah
 7#a3a71 ,ezekiel 7#a3a71 ,jeremiah     
7#a3b7 and all the prophets1 ,john the  
,baptist 7,luke #a3ac-ag2 ,matthew      
#c3a-ab71 ,peter1 ,john and ,paul 7,acts
 #a3h2 #b3a-d2 #ac3a1b74  ,the ,old     
,testament shows the looking forward to 
the ,christ and the ,new ,testament     
records ,his coming as the ,spiritual   
,light of the world4 ,no other book or  
set of books announce the entrance of   
,god to the spiritual life of man       

through ,jesus ,christ 7,john #a3a-ah71 
who came speaking of the new spiritual  
birth of man 7,john #c3a-ba74  ,the only
 key to the understanding of the ,bible 
is this plan of ,god to enter into the  
spiritual life of man4  ,we may easily  
look in the ,bible for what is not there
 and read into its pages what is in our 
own thoughts or read out of them that   
which we do not wish to see1 but back of
 all we must acknowledge this peculiar  
purpose of ,god4  ,back also of all     
theories of revelation and              
inspiration--and giving rise to         
them--stands the great thought of ,god  
for the spiritual redemption of men4    
,for this end ,he enters into covenant  
with the ,israelites1 ,he sends them    
prophets and teachers1 and at last ,he  
sends ,his ,son4 ,continually ,god is   
calling to men1 ,be ye holy for ,i am   
holy4   ,,structure  ,in any book1 after
 the consideration of the theme1 we look
 for the form and the plan4 ,in order to
 study a book to the best advantage1 the

 different parts and their relation to  
each other and to the whole must be made
 plain4 ,the ,bible readily lends itself
 to an investigation of its structure4  
,the ,bible is ,one ,book with one      
thought running through it1 ,god's      
purpose to redeem man1 and may be so    
read and studied4  ,the ,bible is       
,composed of ,many ,books written by    
different authors in different          
languages1 at different times4 ,some of 
the books were circulated separately    
before they were gathered either into   
the canon of the ,old or ,new           
,testaments4 ,the gathering together of 
the books and the placing them in the   
order that we have them now was a slow  
process1 but all in the order and       
interest of a progressive revelation of 
,god and because of a common sympathetic
 subject4  ,the books take different    
forms and have different                
classifications1 such as books of the   
law1 wisdom1 history1 poetry1 etc4 ,in  
studying any book it is necessary to    

attend to its classification2 there has 
been much misunderstanding of the ,bible
 books because of the interpretation of 
a book of poetry as history or the      
holding the free style of a letter to   
the hard and fast standards of a        
carefully worded court document4  ,the  
standpoint of the author of a book1 and 
some consideration for the age in which 
he lives1 must always be taken into     
consideration2 in this way a book1 which
 may seem to us now to be behind the age
 in its thought1 will be seen to be far 
ahead of the age in which the author    
lived and making and marking an         
important epoch in a progressive        
revelation4  ,each ,bible book has a    
well considered plan1 a special aim1 a  
historical setting and a practical      
value4 ,for instance1 in ,genesis we    
have a book of beginnings2 a broad      
explanation of the origin of the world1 
man1 sin1 salvation2 and the revelation 
of ,god as ,creator1 ,preserver1        
,lawgiver1 ,judge and ,merciful ,father4

 ,after the introduction the book1 if we
 look into the book itself1 is divided  
into ten parts with the recurring       
formula1 ,these are the generations of4 
,this book cannot be overestimated from 
a religious standpoint4 ,the fact of a  
,creator is the fundamental teaching of 
its cosmogony4 ,god1 one ,god1 is here  
clearly distinguished from a host of    
heathen gods4 ,he is over and above     
matter1 everything in the universe is   
subject to ,him4  ,again in this book we
 have the early history of the human    
race shown in large outline and also the
 story of the fathers of the ,jewish    
race from the calling of ,abraham to the
 death of ,jacob4 ,behind any theory of 
the construction of ,genesis the great  
representative truths stand firm4 ,every
 ,bible book can be considered and its  
plan and purpose shown in this way4     
,even a small book like ,ruth1 which    
seems to be only a little pleasant      
story1 has an important part to perform4
 ,without it the times of the judges    

would present only a very somber        
picture1 but with it we can see that in 
those dark and troublous times there    
were noble1 ,god fearing men like ,boaz 
and true women like ,ruth4 ,we could not
 spare a single book of the ,new        
,testament1 for with one lacking        
something would be wanting in the       
picture of early ,christianity4  ,the   
,bible is ,composed of ,groups of ,books
 ,which ,relate to ,special             
,eras4--,they show ,god revealing       
,himself and also dealing with the      
chosen nation1 under different forms of 
administration2 they indicate the steps 
leading up to ,christ and ,his          
appearance on the earth4  ,first ,era1  
the ,time of ,beginnings 7,genesis      
#a-aa3cb74 ,this extends from the       
creation of the world to the call of    
,abraham4 ,we have here set forth the   
connection of the world with ,god1 the  
beginning of life and beginning of sin1 
which rendered salvation necessary4     
,second ,era1 the ,theocracy4 ,the      

record is found in the books of         
,genesis1 ,exodus1 ,leviticus1 ,numbers1
 ,deuteronomy1 ,joshua1 ,judges1 ,ruth  
and #a ,samuel4  ,this period is known  
as the ,theocracy because it marks the  
direct rule of ,god over ,his people4   
,it lasted from the covenant of ,god    
with ,abraham to the anointing of ,saul 
as king4 ,we here see the beginning of  
the chosen family1 and nation1 what laws
 and precepts were given it and what    
fortunes befell it4 ,this training time 
shows ,god's high standards in the laws 
and precept given this ,israelitish     
people4  ,third ,era1 the ,monarchy4    
,the record is found in the books of #a 
and #b ,samuel1 #a and #b ,kings1 #a and
 #b ,chronicles1 ,psalms1 ,jonah1 ,amos1
 ,hosea1 ,micah1 ,joel1 ,isaiah1 ,nahum1
 ,zephaniah1 ,habakkuk and ,jeremiah4   
,we have here the story of the rise1    
glory1 division and fall of the ,jewish 
monarchy4 ,the people desired a king and
 the king sought to rule by his own will
 rather than the will of ,god4 ,we note 

,god's desire to make this nation a     
,holy ,nation and its sin and failure4  
,the function of the prophets was to    
declare the sin of the nation1 to set   
the right way before it and seek to lead
 it back to ,god1 but the nation would  
not heed the voices of the prophets1    
hence the fall of the monarchy4 ,the    
coming of the perfect king and kingdom  
under the ,messiah is prophesied4 ,the  
work and place of ,christ is foretold by
 the prophets4  ,fourth ,era1 the       
,captivity4 ,the record is found in the 
books of #b ,chronicles1 ,jeremiah1     
,daniel1 ,ezekiel and ,obadiah4 ,the    
people rejecting ,god are taken into    
captivity4 ,in this captivity the people
 turn to ,god in their affliction1 their
 worship is purified and the hope of the
 coming of the ,messiah grows very      
strong4  ,fifth ,era1 the ,restoration4 
,the record is found in the books of    
,ezra1 ,nehemiah1 ,haggai1 ,zechariah   
and ,malachi4 ,the people purified by   
their captivity and uplifted by their   

hope of the coming ,christ are restored 
to their own land4  ,sixth ,era1 the    
,christian4 ,the record is found in the 
books of the ,new ,testament4 ,the      
,christian era is ushered in by the     
coming of ,christ and the fulfillment of
 ,god's promises4 ,the mission of the   
,jewish nation finds its fruition in    
,christ and the coming of the ,saviour  
of all mankind4  ,it will be seen from  
this very brief summary of the eras how 
,god gradually revealed ,himself and    
,his plan for the spiritual             
enlightenment of all men4 ,the necessity
 also of studying each book1 not only in
 its own plan but in its group place1 in
 order to find its meaning1 cannot be   
too earnestly commended4   ,,credibility
  ,it is natural that a book demanding  
our belief in such great things should  
be asked for its credentials and that   
these credentials should be subjected to
 the most searching investigation4 ,the 
,bible has nothing to fear1 however1    
from the keenest scrutiny of any scholar

 who has only the desire to get at the  
truth4  ,the trouble begins when a      
critic1 who is hostile to its spiritual 
truth or who has a theory to maintain1  
takes a part in the investigation2 even 
then the truth is sure1 in time1 to     
assert its rightful claim 7,acts #e3ci74
 ,the fact of different interpretations 
of the same set of facts in different   
times1 but leading to the same practical
 results1 must also be taken into       
consideration4 ,all men do not receive  
the same truth in the same way while    
they may be one at heart in the         
fundamentals 7#a ,corinthians #ab3d-ad74
  ,the ,bible welcomes any and all      
searching of its claims2 it stands out  
in the open2 it has won its way amongst 
mankind not by the might of those who   
advocate its claims1 but by the power of
 the truth within its pages4  ,some of  
the arguments for the credibility of the
 ,bible are here given4  ,the ,argument 
from ,history4--,back of all questions  
of authorship1 date and composition of  

the books of the ,bible1 is the one     
great question1 ,are the records true to
 the facts8 ,is the ,bible1 in plain    
words1 true history8  ,the writers of   
the ,new ,testament use the historical  
argument4 ,they speak of the things most
 surely believed amongst us and of the  
testimony of eyewitnesses 7,luke #a3a-d2
 ,john #ai3ce2 #ba3bd1be74  ,the        
disciples were not to go forth preaching
 a subtle philosophy1 but were to be    
witnesses of certain facts and were to  
testify of the things which they had    
seen and heard 7,acts #a3h74 ,peter's   
speech upon the day of ,pentecost is a  
recital of facts4 ,paul's argument for  
the resurrection of ,christ is based    
upon the testimony of eye-witnesses 7#a 
,corinthians #ae3a-bj74 ,if ,god has    
manifested ,himself in the person of    
,jesus ,christ we need to know it       
through the best of testimony in regard 
to the fact4 ,the record of the ,new    
,testament is made to this end4  ,the   
writers of the ,old ,testament profess  

to give us statements of facts in regard
 to ,god's dealings with the            
,israelitish people4 ,the critical      
dealing with each of the books of the   
,old ,testament is all to the intent    
whether it fairly represents a          
historical situation4 ,the older        
scriptural narratives show of the doings
 of other nations than the ,israelites1 
they describe situations in times long  
past1 where owing to broken and         
imperfect records1 it has been difficult
 to get at the exact facts4             
,unfortunately in some quarters the     
tendency has been to cast doubt upon the
 ,old ,testament writings where the     
statements were not corroborated by a   
research in the archives1 often very    
imperfect1 of other nations4  ,but      
happily this state of affairs is being  
changed and confidence in the           
historicity of the ,old ,testament      
records is being greatly strengthened by
 the investigations of the              
archaeologists in the ruins of the great

 empires of ,egypt1 ,assyria and        
,babylonia with which ,israel came so   
closely in contact4 ,until recently the 
,old ,testament stood alone in its      
assertion of a comparatively high       
civilization antedating ,moses and      
,abraham1 but now we know from          
excavations made in ,nippur and other   
buried cities that the contention of the
 ,bible is true to the letter4 ,the     
situation in ,egypt and ,palestine about
 the time of the ,exodus is made plain  
by the ,tel-el-,amarna tablets4 ,the    
history of first and second ,kings is   
not only corroborated but amplified by  
the monuments4 ,much yet remains to be  
done along this line1 some views may    
have to be changed1 but the period of   
destruction has passed and that of      
construction has begun4  ,the ,argument 
from ,prophecy4--,the ,old ,testament   
prophets were not only the preachers of 
righteousness for their own times and   
their own nation1 but they had a mission
 to other nations and times as well4    

,their ruling idea was the establishment
 of ,god's kingdom upon earth4 ,they    
taught the unity1 spirituality1         
holiness1 justice and goodness of ,god4 
,they made predictions in regard to     
,egypt1 ,babylon1 ,assyria1 ,syria1     
,moab1 and their cities1 when they were 
at the height of their power2 these     
predictions were remarkably fulfilled4  
,they foretold the captivity and        
restoration of ,israel4 ,their great    
subject was the expectation of the      
,messiah and the ,messianic ,kingdom4   
,the prophecies in regard to the ,christ
 became more and more explicit as the   
time drew near2 they declared ,his      
mission1 ,his prophetic power1 ,his     
kingly office1 ,his priestly activity1  
the circumstances of ,his coming through
 a man1 a nation1 and in a definite     
place4  ,the ,arguments from ,vitality1 
,adaptability and ,growth4  #a4         
,vitality4 ,the religions of ,babylon1  
,egypt1 ,greece and ,rome died with the 
nations which gave birth to them4 ,the  

religion of the ,bible1 shows its divine
 author in its vitality and power to    
outlast the religions with which it has 
come in contact4 ,empires1 systems of   
thought1 mighty kings1 great men rise   
and have their day and pass away1 but   
this book lives on4  ,here is a vitality
 which persists in spite of any and all 
adverse circumstances and influences4   
#b4 ,adaptability4 ,the ,bible is at    
home with all races in all climes4 ,it  
adapts itself to all conditions of life1
 the most humble and the most exalted4  
,the ,asiatic1 the ,african1 the        
,european1 the ,american accept it as   
their book4 ,it finds men1 as men1 in   
the deepest needs of their nature and   
shows them the all loving ,saviour4  #c4
 ,growth4 ,the multiplying power of the 
book is shown by its translations into  
hundreds of languages and dialects4 ,it 
makes its own way into the remotest     
quarters of the globe and is found      
wielding its power in the hut and the   
palace4 ,more popular than any book that

 has ever been published1 its sales1 of 
millions of copies a year are ever      
increasing1 because it comes with a     
message from ,god direct to the heart of
 man4   ,,questions  ,what is the       
,bible8 ,how is it not like and how is  
it like other books8 ,how is it the     
record of a revelation from ,god8 ,what 
can be said of its structure8 ,what can 
be said of its books1 of its groups of  
books8 ,what can be said of its         
credibility8 ,give the arguments from   
history1 prophecy1 vitality1            
adaptability and growth4    ,,study     
,,vii  ,,the ,,christian ,,prayer       
,scripture references3 ,matthew #f3e-ae2
 ,luke #aa3a-ac2 ,john #ag2 ,matthew    
#bf3da2 ,mark #aa3bd1be2 ,luke #f3ab1bh2
 #i3bi2 #a ,thessalonians #e3ag1be2 #a  
,corinthians #ad3ac1ae2 ,psalm #ai3ad2  
#ej3ae1 ,matthew #g3g2 #a ,timothy #b3a2
 ,ephesians #c3bj1ba2 ,john #af3bc2     
#ad3ad2 ,james #e3af4   ,,the ,,province
 ,,of ,,prayer  ,definition4--,prayer is
 the communion of man with ,god4 ,it is 

not first of all the means of getting   
something from ,god1 but the realization
 of ,him in the soul4  ,seek ye first   
the ,kingdom of ,god and ,his           
righteousness 7,matthew #f3cc74 ,the    
glory of a man is in his uprightness of 
character1 the purity of his spirit and 
his nearness and likeness to ,god4 ,man 
becomes like that which he thinks about 
the most often and with which he most   
frequently communes in the secret       
recesses of his heart4 ,prayer is not   
merely1 then1 a matter of stated times  
and seasons1 although these should be   
observed1 but a constant walking with   
,god and a realization of ,his presence 
at all times and in all places 7,luke   
#ah3a2 ,romans #ab3ab2 #a ,thessalonians
 #e3ag74 ,the man who thus communes with
 ,god will lay before ,him his plans and
 purposes and will ask for direction and
 guidance in them2 he will expect help  
from ,god as a partner in all his       
enterprises2 he will grasp the power    
unseen to work great things in the seen4

 ,there will be special needs and       
occasions when a man1 in harmony with   
,god 7,james #e3af71 will require       
special help and for this aid from ,god 
he will make strong and earnest         
petitions to ,him4 ,call upon ,me in the
 day of trouble3 ,i will deliver thee   
and thou shalt glorify ,me 7,psalm      
#ej3ae2 ,james #a3ag2 ,psalm #ai3ad2    
,ephesians #c3bj1ba74  ,the ,different  
,kinds of ,prayer4--,they are adoration1
 thanksgiving1 intercession1 petition   
and praise 7#a ,timothy #b3a74  ,the    
,different ,places of ,prayer4--#a4 ,in 
the public assemblage 7,psalm #abb3a1b2 
,acts #c3a2 ,hebrews #aj3be74 #b4 ,in   
the social and family gathering         
7,matthew #ah3ai1bj2 ,acts #a3ad2 #b3df2
 #ab3ab74  #c4 ,in private 7,matthew    
#f3f2 ,mark #a3ce2 ,psalm #ee3ag2       
,daniel #f3aj74  ,the ,approach of ,man 
to ,god4--,all men pray at some time or 
other1 whether fitfully or constantly1  
in weakness or in strength1 in sorrow or
 in joy4 ,some men pray because it is   

their chiefest delight to do so1 and    
some pray because necessity drives them 
to it2 but they all pray4 ,prayer is a  
constant element1 and the impulse to    
pray is ever present to human nature4   
,man has been called a religious and    
praying animal1 because of this         
universal desire of men to come into    
some touch with the power over them4    
,this tendency is shown in lands where  
the true spiritual knowledge of ,god is 
lacking and where men deify and adore   
objects of nature4 ,the sun1 the earth1 
the stars1 trees1 mountains1 waters1    
winds and carved images have all been   
made divine objects of adoration and    
prayer1 because of the desire of man to 
find or place the supernatural in them4 
,paul said to the men of ,athens when he
 saw the altar to the ,unknown ,god3    
,whom therefore ye ignorantly worship   
,him declare ,i unto you 7,acts #ag3bc74
 ,all the research of natural science is
 to find out what is the ,ultimate      
,power behind all the phenomena of      

nature4 ,man by his very nature seeks to
 approach ,god4 ,he is driven by an     
inward impulse to come to ,him4 ,hence1 
where men do not have the true light by 
which to approach ,god or reject it     
there are found all sorts and kinds of  
caricatures of religion4  ,what are the 
proper means of approach to ,god through
 prayer8  #a4 ,right knowledge and      
faith4 ,he that cometh to ,god must     
believe that ,he is1 and that ,he is a  
rewarder of them that diligently seek   
,him 7,hebrews #aa3f74 ,this is life    
eternal that they might know ,thee the  
only true ,god and ,jesus ,christ whom  
,thou hast sent 7,john #ag3c74 ,god is  
above all and in all4  ,there are no    
other gods before ,him4 ,he is supreme1 
manifested as ,father1 ,son and ,holy   
,spirit4 ,we come at once here to the   
,great ,personal ,power1 beyond whom    
there is no greater4 ,we do not look    
upon ,him as a cold abstraction or blind
 force1 but as a loving1 kind ,father4  
,he desires to do more for us than we   

can ask or think4 ,no man prays to ,god 
in the right way who does not first of  
all have a proper conception of ,god4   
#b4 ,right attitude of the heart4 ,if ,i
 regard iniquity in my heart the ,lord  
will not hear me 7,psalm #ff3ah74 ,again
 the prayerless prayer of the ,pharisee 
began with ,i and the burning of incense
 before himself4 ,no man1 cherishing    
something in his heart which he knows to
 be contrary to the will of ,god or who 
only seeks to foster and advance his own
 selfish interests1 will come1 or desire
 to come1 or can come into a very close 
communion with ,god4 ,a wrong attitude  
of the heart keeps many men from the    
enjoyment of ,god's presence1 and makes 
them choose to remain away from ,his    
sanctuary4 ,no matter what the sin1     
however1 if a man truly desires to get  
it out of his heart that man can come at
 once into close touch with ,god        
7,isaiah #a3ae-ai2 ,psalm #ea2          
,revelation #g3ad74  #c4 ,right subjects
 of prayer4 ,the advancement of the     

,kingdom of ,god and the spiritual      
interests of man come first4 ,too many  
prayers move in the narrow circles of   
self and purely physical wants2 they    
take no wide sweep out over larger      
interests4 ,god knows that we have      
physical needs that must be supplied    
7,matthew #f3bf74 ,jesus said1 ,is not  
the life more than meat and the body    
than raiment 7,matthew #f3be78  ,and by 
,his urgency ,he would have our prayers 
rise higher than our physical wants into
 an infinitely larger sphere4 ,then ,god
 will more than bless us and take care  
of those things about which we are now  
so anxious 7,matthew #f3bf-cd74  #d4    
,persistency 7,matthew #aa3ab74 ,it is  
difficult to deny a persistent man who1 
when thwarted in one way1 begins to plan
 and act for the object which he seeks  
in another way and who will not be put  
off4 ,christ commended the way of the   
persistent man to those who sought ,god 
in prayer4 ,he gave examples of the     
widow who continually importuned an     

unjust judge until he listened to her   
plea and gave her justice 7,luke        
#ah3a-h71 and of the man who would not  
take no for an answer when he wanted to 
borrow bread from a neighbour at        
midnight 7,luke #aa3e-h74 ,he said1     
,ask1 and it shall be given unto you2   
seek1 and ye shall find2 knock1 and it  
shall be opened unto you 7,luke #aa3i74 
,men who do not persist in their praying
 will fail to receive the higher        
blessings and the larger benefits which 
otherwise ,god would gladly bestow upon 
them4 ,if men know how to give good     
gifts to their children when they ask   
for them1 then much more ,god knows how 
to grant the best things to men when    
they ask ,him4 ,the kingdom of heaven   
suffereth violence1 and the violent take
 it by force 7,matthew #aa3ab74  ,the   
,approach of ,god to ,man4--,how does   
,god come near to man8  ,does ,he hear  
when men pray to ,him8 ,can ,he and will
 ,he answer prayer8  ,these questions   
are all simply and plainly answered in  

the ,scriptures4 ,there is no doubt     
expressed here that ,god comes near to  
men and will hear and answer when they  
pray to ,him4 ,the ,lord is nigh unto   
all them that call upon ,him1 to all    
that call upon ,him in truth 7,psalm    
#ade3ah2 #aci3g-ab2 ,ephesians #c3bj74  
,christian experience answers these     
questions in the same affirmative way4  
,multitudes of ,christians testify that 
,god comes near to them and that ,he    
hears and answers their prayers2 there  
are many recorded and remarkable answers
 to prayers4  ,it is only when the      
testimony of the ,bible and the         
experience of ,christians are set aside 
that difficulties appear which seem very
 formidable4  ,one of the chief         
objections urged against ,god hearing   
and answering prayer is the discovery of
 the widening sphere of what is called  
natural law in the ordering of the      
universe4 ,where ,god was formally      
looked upon as directly controlling in  
certain things1 it is pointed out that  

we now can plainly state the causes and 
the working of the laws which produce   
certain results4 ,according to one      
theory ,god is shut out of ,his         
universe2 and according to another1 ,he 
is shut up in ,his universe2 on either  
hypothesis the direct control is out of 
,his hands4 ,hence1 why pray8 when our  
prayers even if they reach ,god cannot  
be answered4  ,this objection from the  
domination of law annuls the freedom of 
,god4 ,it is like looking at a great    
piece of complicated machinery1 and     
having it explained how part depends    
upon part and1 because the dependence is
 plainly shown1 being asked to believe  
that the maker and controller is under  
its power4 ,we are asked to-day to      
concentrate our attention upon the      
levers1 the springs and the pulleys and 
all the machinery of the universe rather
 than upon the first great ,cause and   
,ruler of all4  ,it is assumed in this  
objection that much more is known of the
 laws and forces which govern the       

universe than really is4 ,prof4 ,john   
,fiske says in his lecture on ,life     
,everlasting1 ,i once heard ,herbert    
,spencer say1 you cannot take up any    
problem in physics without being quickly
 led to some metaphysical problem which 
you can neither solve nor evade4  ,again
 he says1 ,the more things we try to    
explain1 the better we realize that we  
live in a world of unexplained residua4 
,widening knowledge is throwing back    
into the lumber room many much vaunted  
theories of origins4  ,many wrong       
conceptions of the order of nature have 
in recent years been radically changed4 
,it is freely acknowledged to-day by the
 foremost men of science that no man    
fully understands the order of nature4  
,under the present limitations of human 
knowledge ,god cannot be shut up in or  
out of ,his universe4 ,further research 
may show that such shutting up to be    
impossible2 for in the end we are to    
depend not upon our ignorance but upon  
our knowledge of the universe for ,god's

 free control of all things4  ,already  
the light begins to dawn when it is seen
 that all the natural forces and matter 
itself are beginning to reveal their    
origin and control in one ,great ,master
 ,force4 ,but in this we but return to  
the biblical statement ,in the beginning
 ,god 7,genesis #a3a74  ,we are         
perfectly justified in believing1 in the
 intelligence of ,god when we see so    
many evidences of intelligence in the   
world1 and the freedom and personality  
of ,god1 when we note the freedom and   
personality of man2 for however we may  
argue that man is not free or personal  
we believe that he is and act upon this 
belief in all the practical affairs of  
life4 ,the created thing is not greater 
than its creator or the law greater than
 the lawgiver4 ,god is greater than the 
universe or man4 ,god as all powerful1  
and as intelligent and personal can be  
approached by man and comes near to him 
through his communion in prayer with    
,him4  ,it is perfectly possible for    

,god1 in ,his providential wisdom and   
power1 to answer the prayers of ,his    
people4 ,it is an every-day occurrence  
for man to deflect the beams of the sun 
and make nature's laws do what they     
would not have done if left to          
themselves4 ,we know men to be personal 
and to be changed by petitions to their 
mercy and entreaties to use their power 
in certain directions4 ,we believe that 
,god1 infinitely greater than man1 can  
be entreated and will use ,his power for
 the benefit of the petitioner4 ,it is  
not unreasonable for men to pray for    
material and spiritual blessings4 ,while
 the sphere of prayer may be narrowed in
 certain directions by what we know of  
nature's processes1 it has been greatly 
widened in other directions4   ,,the    
,,model ,,prayer  ,this is the ,lord's  
,prayer which ,christ gave ,his         
disciples when ,he preached the ,sermon 
on the ,mount 7,matthew #f3i-ac7 and    
when one of ,his disciples said to ,him1
 ,lord teach us to pray 7,luke #aa3b-d74

  ,it is the prayer of prayers4 ,it is  
the best and most beautiful1 the        
simplest and yet the deepest1 the       
shortest and yet the most comprehensive 
of all forms of devotion4 ,only from the
 lips of the ,son of ,god could such a  
perfect pattern proceed4 ,it embraces   
all kinds of prayer--petition1          
intercession and thanksgiving2 all      
essential objects of prayer1 spiritual  
and temporal1 divine and human1 in the  
most suitable and beautiful order4  ,it 
has been divided1 and this is the       
natural division1 into three parts1 an  
address1 six petitions and a doxology4  
,the ,address4--,our ,father who art in 
heaven 7,matthew #f3i74 ,this phrase    
,our ,father shows the paternal relation
 which the ,almighty sustains to us in  
,christ and the filial relation which we
 bear to ,him through faith in ,christ4 
,it also reminds us that since we have a
 common ,father in ,god1 we are all     
brothers in ,christ4 ,the phrase1 ,who  
art in heaven shows us our heavenly     

origin and that our home is in our      
,father's house4 ,we use the word our   
before ,father and by it mean to embrace
 in prayer all the children of ,god4 ,in
 using the word1 ,father we at once say 
we believe in a personal good ,god at   
the heart of all things and controlling 
all1 one who loves and cares for us     
supremely 7,galatians #c3bf2 ,ephesians 
#b3ai2 ,psalm #ajc3ac2 ,matthew #g3aa2  
,john #a3ab1ac2 ,romans #h3ad1ae74  ,the
 first three petitions refer to ,god4   
,first ,petition4--,hallowed be ,thy    
name 7,matthew #f3i74 ,god's name stands
 also for ,his word1 ,his day and ,his  
commandments4 ,god's name is hallowed   
when we think and speak of ,him with    
reverence and love4 ,any man who speaks 
of ,god's name with contempt or takes it
 in vain at once shows his position in  
regard to ,god4 ,the character of a man 
and of a community is shown by the      
respect or disrespect in which ,god's   
name is held4 ,hence in praying         
,hallowed be ,thy name we pray not only 

that ,god may be rightly worshipped but 
for the upbuilding of the character of  
men and communities4 ,holy1 holy1 holy1 
is the ,lord of hosts3 the whole earth  
is full of ,his glory 7,isaiah #f3c2    
,john #ag3c2 ,matthew #e3af2 #a         
,corinthians #aj3ca2 ,exodus #bj3g74    
,second ,petition4--,thy ,kingdom come  
7,matthew #f3aj74 ,this is the spiritual
 kingdom of grace and glory4 ,the       
supplication is here for the reign of   
righteousness in all hearts throughout  
the world2 this includes the building up
 of the home church1 and home and       
foreign missions4 ,it expresses the     
desire for the conversion of all nations
 and bringing them under the dominion of
 our ,lord 7,revelation #aa3ae2 #a      
,corinthians #ae3bh2 ,matthew #i3cg1ch2 
#f3cc2 #ac3ca-cc2 ,luke #ag3ba74  ,third
 ,petition4--,thy will be done in earth 
as it is in heaven 7,matthew #f3aj74    
,the will of ,god concerning us is that 
we should be holy as ,he is holy        
7,leviticus #aa3dd7 that we should be   

perfect as ,he is perfect 7,matthew     
#e3dh7 and that we may believe on ,his  
,son 7,john #f3dj74 ,in proportion as   
,god's will is done on earth1 evil1     
want1 misery1 oppression1 hate1         
jealousy1 vanity and evil speaking will 
disappear from the earth4 ,we might     
then1 when ,his will is done on earth as
 it is in heaven1 shut up our jails1    
dismiss our police force1 close our     
courts1 and reduce taxes to a minimum4  
,when we offer this petition we are     
asking for large things4  ,the last     
three petitions refer to man and his    
needs4  ,fourth ,petition4--,give us    
this day our daily bread 7,matthew      
#f3aa74 ,this supplication calls our    
attention to the fact that we are       
dependent upon ,god for daily food and  
that we are to ask ,him to supply our   
bodily wants4 ,daily bread includes     
food1 raiment and shelter and all that  
belongs to our temporal necessities4    
,the answer to this prayer may be in    
health1 bodily and mental strength to   

procure daily bread1 but nevertheless it
 comes from the hand of ,god and ,he    
should be thanked for it as well as     
asked for it 7,deuteronomy #h3aj2 ,psalm
 #ade3 #ae1af2 ,proverbs #cj3h74  ,fifth
 ,petition4--,forgive us our debts as we
 forgive our debtors 7,matthew #f3ab74  
,the word debts here means sins4 ,in    
asking for forgiveness of sins1 we      
acknowledge that we have sinned and are 
in need of forgiveness4 ,we pray the    
,father to forgive us and seek in this  
way to be reconciled to ,him4 ,but it is
 through ,jesus ,christ that the ,father
 forgives men their sins4 ,behold the   
,lamb of ,god1 which taketh away the sin
 of the world 7,john #a3bi2 #a ,john    
#a3g-i2 ,john #c3af-ai2 ,ephesians      
#a3g74 ,in repeating the latter clause  
of the petition1 as we forgive our      
debtors we acknowledge that we have not 
only sinned against ,god but also       
against our fellow men and that they    
have sinned against us and caused us to 
cherish enmity in our hearts4 ,if we    

desire ,god's forgiveness we must       
forgive our fellow men and be reconciled
 with them before we can expect to come 
to ,god and receive ,his full           
forgiveness for our transgressions4  ,be
 not overcome of evil but overcome evil 
with good 7,romans #ab3bj1ba74 ,if ye   
forgive men their trespasses your       
heavenly ,father will also forgive you1 
but if ye forgive not men their         
trespasses1 neither will your ,father   
forgive your trespasses 7,matthew       
#f3ad1ae2 #ah3ba1bb2 ,luke #ag3c1d74    
,sixth ,petition4--,lead us not into    
temptation1 but deliver us from evil    
7,matthew #f3ac74 ,in this petition we  
acknowledge our weakness and proneness  
to go astray4 ,we seek for ,god's strong
 power to guard us from and in all      
temptations of the flesh and spirit4    
,we ask for final deliverance from the  
power and effects of all evil4 ,we look 
forward to an abode with ,god where no  
evil can come to us4 ,the ,lord shall   
deliver me from every evil work and will

 preserve me unto ,his heavenly kingdom 
7#b ,timothy #d3ah2 ,psalm #ca3e2 #a    
,peter #e3h2 #a ,john #e3d2 #b3ae2      
,matthew #bf3da2 #b ,timothy #d3g1h74   
,the ,doxology4--,for ,thine is the     
kingdom1 and the power1 and the glory   
forever4 ,amen 7,matthew #f3ac74 ,this  
is an ascription of praise showing that 
in ,god is vested all power and glory1  
that there is no kingdom above ,his     
kingdom and that ,he is supreme over    
all4 ,before ,him must come all things  
for judgment4  ,he alone is to be       
worshipped1 for in ,him is all power and
 truth and goodness4 ,thine1 ,o ,lord1  
is the greatness1 and the power1 and the
 glory1 and the victory1 and the        
majesty3 for all that is in the heaven  
and in the earth is ,thine2 ,thine is   
the kingdom1 ,o ,lord1 and ,thou art    
exalted as head above all 7#a           
,chronicles #bi3aa1ab2 ,psalm #aae3a2   
,ephesians #c3bj1ba74   ,,answers ,,to  
,,prayer  ,nothing could indicate more  
plainly that ,god cares for and loves   

men1 and is not indifferent to their    
wants1 than the great stream of prayer  
flowing through the ,bible4 ,he is not a
 ,god afar off1 neither has ,he wound up
 the universe as a great machine and    
left it to its fate4 ,he is in touch    
with ,his people4 ,he hears them when   
they cry to ,him4 ,he is long-suffering1
 merciful and righteous4 ,happy is the  
man who loves ,god with all his heart   
and who seeks constantly to commune with
 ,him4  ,notable ,instances of ,prayer1 
and the response of ,god1 are shown in  
the following passages of ,scripture4   
,abraham 7,genesis #bj3ag71 ,jacob      
7,genesis #cb3bd-ca71 ,moses 7,numbers  
#aa3b71 ,samuel 7#a ,samuel #ab3ah71    
,elijah 7#a ,kings #ah3cg-df71 ,hezekiah
 7#b ,kings #bj3b-f71 ,ezra 7#i3e-ae71  
,daniel 7#i3c-bg71 ,jesus ,christ       
7,matthew #f3f-ae2 ,john #ag71 ,the     
,apostles 7,acts #a3ad2 #d3ca71 ,peter  
7,acts #ab3e-aa71 ,paul and ,silas      
7,acts #af3be-cb71 ,prophets and        
teachers at ,antioch 7,acts #ac3a-c7 and

 ,paul and the elders at ,ephesus 7,acts
 #bj3cf74   ,,questions  ,the province  
of prayer2 give a definition of prayer4 
,what are the different kinds and places
 of prayer8 ,what can be said of the    
approach of man to ,god8 ,what is right 
knowledge of ,god8 ,right attitude of   
heart to ,god8  ,right subjects of      
prayer8 ,what has persistency to do in  
praying to ,god8 ,what can be said of   
the approach of ,god to man8 ,how does  
the ,bible and ,christian experience    
testify of this approach of ,god to man8
 ,what is the great outside difficulty  
urged against ,god's approach to man and
 what can be said of it8 ,what is the   
model prayer8 ,give the divisions of the
 model prayer and explain them4 ,what   
can be said of answers to prayer8       
,,study ,,viii  ,,the ,,christian       
,,service   ,scripture references3      
,matthew #bh3ah-bj2 ,luke #aj3a-ag2     
,matthew #be3ad-cj2 #bc2 #ac2 ,john     
#ac3d-ag2 ,hebrews #ab3a-c2 ,matthew    
#e3af2 #a ,corinthians #c3ac-ae2 ,james 

#b3ad-bf4   ,,the ,,call ,,to ,,service 
,all ,christian belief must culminate in
 service or else the belief itself will 
wither away4 ,jesus said in ,his ,sermon
 on the ,mount1 ,let your light so shine
 before men that they may see your good 
works and glorify your ,father which is 
in heaven 7,matthew #e3af72 again1 in   
giving ,his parting instructions to ,his
 disciples1 ,he commanded1 ,go ye       
therefore and teach all nations         
7,matthew #bh3ai1bj74 ,faith1 if it hath
 not works1 is dead 7,james #b3ag74     
,the ,new ,testament rings with an      
optimistic trumpet call to service2     
there is not a single pessimistic note  
sounded4 ,a man expresses his belief and
 he at once goes to work4 ,to the fact  
that men were so willing to lead a      
strenuous ,christian life in those early
 times is due in large measure the      
marvellous spread of the gospel faith4  
,the ,object of the ,call was not a     
cause but a ,person 7,acts #a3h2        
#b3bb1cf1ch2 #d3ab2 #aj3dc2 #af3ca72 to 

set forth ,jesus ,christ as the ,saviour
 of men4 ,the world was full of evil4   
,society was corrupt4 ,the state was    
bad4 ,there were many giant wrongs      
crying out for the reformer4 ,the       
apostles might have devoted themselves  
to the causes of social and political   
reform with splendid success4  ,they    
might have bought only a gradual and    
purely friendly approach to the people  
whom they wished to influence1 as we    
often do now1 with some success1 but the
 ,new ,testament writings show that they
 believed that in the person of ,jesus  
,christ they had a more powerful remedy 
for bad social and political conditions 
than any other which they could urge4   
,in ,christ they found a supreme object 
of service2 for ,him they were willing  
to give up houses1 lands1 position1 even
 life itself 7#b ,timothy #d3f-h72 for  
only through ,him1 they preached1 could 
the world be truly reformed4 ,why then  
potter with temporary and minor remedies
 when the permanent and great remedy was

 at hand8 ,times have changed since the 
apostolic days1 but for any lasting good
 in reform work ,christ is still the    
great remedy4 ,he must be at the centre 
of all social1 political and temperance 
betterments or they are destined to fall
 short of the largest success4  ,the    
,place4--,where shall men serve the     
,christ8  #a4 ,in the heart2 there is a 
goodness of conduct on the part of some 
men which has no relation to their      
heart's desire and is simply a cloak    
worn for appearance's sake4 ,with this  
sort of goodness ,jesus had no sympathy 
and denounced it as hypocrisy 7,matthew 
#f3a-cd2 #bc3bg1 #bh74 ,christ's service
 must commence with an inward conformity
 to the law of ,god4  ,this necessity   
for a new heart is very clearly brought 
out in ,his conversation with ,nicodemus
 7,john #c3a-ba74  #b4 ,in the home4    
,jesus said to a man whom ,he had       
healed1 ,go home to thy friends1 and    
tell them how great things the ,lord    
hath done for thee 7,mark #e3ai74       

,anything that strengthens the home     
strengthens society and the state4 ,good
 homes are essential for the bringing up
 of children and the making of right    
characters4 ,but it is in the home that 
the real testing often comes of a       
professed ,christianity2 if a ,christian
 life can be lived and manifested here  
it is quite sure to stand the outward   
strain4  #c4 ,in the community4 ,the    
disciples of ,christ were commanded to  
begin their first service in ,jerusalem 
7,acts #a3d1h71 where ,jesus had been   
the most persecuted and was finally     
crucified4 ,it was no easy task for them
 to begin to preach ,jesus1 where they  
were the most looked down upon4 ,but the
 command was justified when the day of  
,pentecost came with the marvellous     
moving power of the ,holy ,spirit 7,acts
 #b74  ,there can be no clearer teaching
 from this than that a ,christian man   
should begin to serve ,christ1 testify  
for ,him and work for ,him in the       
community in which he resides no matter 

what the adverse conditions are4  ,here 
is the sanction for home missions4  #d4 
,abroad4 ,go ye into all the world and  
preach the gospel to every creature     
7,mark #af3ae2 ,matthew #bh3ah-bj74 ,the
 field of service broadens out from the 
heart until it takes in the whole world 
and every class and condition of men4   
,man under the guidance of ,christ is   
led not only to think of saving himself1
 his home1 his community1 but all homes 
and communities however remote they may 
be from his own4 ,here is the sanction  
for foreign missions4  ,the urgency of  
the call is everywhere manifest in the  
,new ,testament4 ,in the three years of 
,his ministry ,jesus ,christ is         
incessant in ,his labours1 calling upon 
men to turn to ,him 7,matthew           
#aa3bh-cj74 ,he urges watchfulness1     
prayerfulness1 and earnestness in       
seeking to enter the kingdom of ,god    
7,matthew #aa3ab2 #be3ac2 #bf3da2 ,mark 
#ad3ch2 ,luke #aa3i1aj74 ,paul declared1
 ,woe is me1 if ,i preach not the gospel

 7#a ,corinthians #i3af71 and he urges  
,timothy to preach the word and to be   
instant in season and out of season 7#b 
,timothy #d3a1b74  ,a conflict is going 
on in the world and those who believe in
 ,christ are besought to take every     
possible opportunity and every means to 
advance ,his gospel and cause men to    
accept ,him as their ,saviour           
7,ephesians #f3aj-ah74   ,,the ,,pattern
 ,,of ,,service  ,the world of men is   
frequently more easily moved by the     
force of example than by precept4       
,christ declared ,himself to be the     
great exemplar of the ,christian life4  
,he said1 ,i have given you an example  
that ye should do as ,i have done to you
 7,john #ac3ae2 #ab3cb2 #a ,peter       
#b3ba74 ,he practiced what ,he preached4
  ,personal ,work4--,in winning persons 
to the new life there is an admitted    
need of a work of the individual for the
 individual1 but it is a task from which
 many draw back4 ,yet it is right here  
that the most effective service may be  

accomplished4 ,every man who receives   
,christ becomes in a certain sense a    
trustee to enlist others in ,his service
 and to give to them the light of life4 
,christ said to ,his followers1 ,ye     
shall be witnesses unto ,me 7,acts      
#a3h74  ,jesus was no recluse1 ,he went 
out amongst men and sought them 7,mark  
#aj3de7 in the market-place1 in the     
fields and by the lakeside4 ,everywhere 
,he entered into personal conversation1 
with those whom ,he met1 about the      
kingdom of ,god2 now it was with        
,nicodemus 7,john #c3a-ba71 then again  
with the woman of ,samaria 7,john       
#d3d-bf7 and others4 ,this personal work
 of ,christ with individuals shows the  
importance ,he attached to the winning  
of persons one by one to ,himself4 ,many
 of the most important teachings are    
brought out in ,his personal            
conversations4  ,the win one movement   
which has been inaugurated in certain   
churches is very important4 ,it had its 
incentive in the narrative of ,john     

7#a3dj-ea71 who tells us how ,andrew won
 ,peter and ,philip won ,nathanael by   
personal appeals to follow ,christ4 ,if 
all the followers of ,christ in all the 
churches would each win one soul for    
,christ every year there would be no    
more complaints about decadent churches4
  ,training ,others for                 
,service4--,personal work has its       
limitations in the time and strength of 
the individual who does it4 ,jesus      
thoroughly understood this fact and at  
the outset of ,his ministry began to    
train a band of followers who would     
carry on ,his work after ,his           
resurrection4 ,not only did ,he train a 
select company of twelve but also other 
men4 ,we read in ,luke1 the ninth       
chapter1 that ,he sent out ,his twelve  
disciples to do the work which ,he had  
been doing1 and in the tenth chapter we 
are told that other seventy were also   
appointed to carry on a similar work4   
,careful instructions were given the    
seventy as to what they should do4 ,the 

need 7,luke #aj3b7 and the danger 7v4   
#c7 of the work were impressed upon     
them4 ,they were instructed how they    
were to approach the people1 what they  
were to teach and what they were to do  
in case they were rejected 7vs4 #d-aa74 
,they returned from their journey with  
great joy over its success 7v4 #ag74    
,this multiplication of self through the
 inciting and training of others to do  
work in which the individual is         
interested often leads to far-reaching  
results4 ,there are many people who     
desire to advance a cause and are       
willing to devote themselves to it1 but 
they have no power to set about it      
themselves4 ,there is any quantity of   
this usable and helpful material1 in our
 churches1 ready to be made of service  
for the ,master4  ,here is the waste    
that every professing ,christian is not 
set to advance the kingdom of ,god4 ,it 
is not only what a ,christian may do    
himself1 but what he can get others to  
do1 which counts4  ,teaching4--,many men

 go wrong from erroneous thoughts about 
,god and the importance of a right      
character4  ,too frequently those who   
have come to a saving knowledge of      
,christ are content to rest satisfied   
with it4 ,no effort is made to instruct 
others in a belief which has helped     
them4 ,the church believes in a teaching
 ministry1 but has not yet come to fully
 believe in a teaching laity4 ,the laity
 for the most part assumes a receptive  
attitude4 ,our ,bible-schools might be  
doubled in numbers and effectiveness if 
,christian men and women1 well qualified
 for the task1 could be induced to      
respond to the strong demand for more   
teachers4 ,there is no reason why ,bible
 instruction and ,christian teaching    
should be wholly confined to ,sunday4   
,it is time that the church made an     
aggressive move upon the week-days and  
began the establishment of night schools
 7for a definite term7 for the          
systematic study of the ,bible for      
adults and short after day school       

catechetical classes for children4      
,these classes could and should be made 
auxiliary to the ,sunday ,bible-school4 
,in them there would be time for that   
larger instruction which is so much     
needed and for which no opportunity is  
found under the present arrangement4    
,besides1 much talent not available upon
 ,sunday1 at the time of the session of 
the ,bible-school1 might be utilized4   
,this is an age of clubs organized for  
the study of ancient and modern secular 
literature1 where careful and scholarly 
papers are read upon subjects given out 
long in advance4 ,this study-club idea  
ought to be utilized by the church for  
the investigation of the best literature
 which the world knows1 namely1 that    
found in the ,bible4  ,jesus said1 ,go  
teach 7,matthew #bh3ai1bj71 and ,he     
,himself taught the people in large and 
small groups 7,matthew #e3a1b71 on a    
mountain1 in the synagogue 7,matthew    
#d3bc2 ,mark #a3ba71 by the seaside     
7,mark #b3ac71 in the temple 7,matthew  

#bf3ee71 as ,he walked through the      
fields and when ,he went to feasts and  
social gatherings4 ,he had ever in mind 
,his teaching mission4 ,he set an       
example of persistent and painstaking   
instruction of the people under bitter  
opposition and in adverse circumstances4
 ,he said1 in encouraging ,his disciples
 to persevere in their teaching1        
,remember the word that ,i said unto    
you1 the servant is not greater than his
 ,lord4 ,if they have persecuted ,me    
they will also persecute you2 if they   
have kept ,my saying they will keep     
yours also 7,john #ae3bj74  ,works of   
,mercy and ,love4--,jesus was the       
supreme embodiment of mercy and love4   
,possessed of almighty power ,he used it
 not for honour or for selfish purposes1
 but to heal and help men 7,matthew     
#aa3e2 #i3cf2 #ad3ad2 #ae3cb2 #bj3cd2   
,mark #a3da2 #f3cd2 ,luke #g3ac74       
,modern philanthropy had its origin in  
,him4 ,all the modern state institutions
 for the care of the poor1 the blind1   

the crippled1 the sick are in existence 
to-day because of the teaching and      
example of ,jesus ,christ4 ,before ,he  
came to earth and taught men how to be  
compassionate towards the unfortunate   
ones there were no such institutions4   
,wherever ,jesus went1 when ,he was in  
bodily form upon this earth1 the people 
thronged ,him for the healing touch4    
,this is another way in which the       
followers of ,christ may reach men1     
namely through the healing touch4 ,in   
the fierce struggle in the world1 for a 
living and a position1 many men are     
worsted and trampled upon2 such men need
 the brotherly help of those who have   
been with ,christ4 ,there are many sick1
 discouraged and poor2 here is a large  
field for this service of mercy and     
love4  ,suffering4--,there is a ministry
 of suffering in taking and bearing the 
burdens of others4 ,for it became ,him  
7,christ71 for whom are all things and  
by whom are all things1 in bringing many
 sons unto glory1 to make the captain of

 their salvation perfect through        
suffering 7,hebrews #b3aj74 ,this       
suffering of ,christ is represented by  
the ,new ,testament writers as having an
 object in the salvation of man and     
bringing him to glory 7,romans #h3ah2 #b
 ,corinthians #a3e-g2 ,hebrews #b3i2 #a 
,peter #a3aa2 #d3ac2 #e3a2 ,philippians 
#c3aj74  ,isaiah said of ,christ1 ,he   
was wounded for our transgressions1 ,he 
was bruised for our iniquities3 the     
chastisement of our peace was upon ,him2
 and with ,his stripes we are healed    
7,isaiah #ec3e74 ,we are urged to follow
 the example set by ,christ             
7,philippians #b3e-aa7 in ,his humility 
and suffering for a great purpose4  ,in 
every age ,christ's sufferings attract  
to ,him the hearts of men2 for they     
prove the boundless extent of ,his love1
 ,his absolute unselfishness1 and ,his  
loyalty to truth and principle even unto
 death4 ,thus they have power with men4 
,in following ,christ1 and placing ,him 
in a right light before men1 ,christians

 must have a devotion to ,him which will
 endure and stand steadfast through     
suffering4 ,it is often only through the
 sacrifice of self that the best things 
in life are attained4 ,if so be we      
suffer with ,him that we may be also    
glorified together4 ,for ,i reckon that 
the sufferings of the present time are  
not worthy to be compared with the glory
 which shall be revealed in us 7,romans 
#h3ag1ah74   ,,the ,,joy ,,of ,,service 
,jesus is represented as doing ,his work
 through love 7,john #c3af71 and for the
 joy that was set before ,him 7,hebrews 
#ab3b74  ,the ,search for               
,happiness4--,how can ,i be happy8      
,this is the great question with        
multitudes of people4  ,men seek joy    
with the same eagerness that they dig   
for gold4 ,yet this world is a sad one1 
full of care1 sickness1 anxiety and     
sorrow4 ,many are the railers at fate   
and circumstances which keep them from  
realizing the object of their search4   
,the failure to find happiness arises in

 large part from going wrongly about it4
 ,men seek happiness through relaxation 
and the lowering of the moral standards4
 ,men ask1 why should we obey this or   
that law of ,god1 man or our moral      
nature1 if it bars the way to our       
enjoyment8 ,let us eat and drink for    
to-morrow we die2 and eating and        
drinking they go out into a wild and    
barren land of sorrow4 ,again men seek  
happiness through the abundance of      
things2 as if a human soul1 born in the 
image of ,god1 could be satisfied with  
mere things4  ,the ,conditions of       
,christian ,happiness4--,christ1 as the 
,great ,pattern of life1 showed that    
true happiness must be attained through 
the mastery of the situation1 the       
victory over temptation 7,matthew       
#d3a-aa71 and the hardest and most      
adverse circumstances of life 7,hebrews 
#ab3c2 ,philippians #b3h-aj2 #b3a1b2    
,matthew #af3ba-bg74 ,there is no       
greater joy than that of the victors in 
a hard fought battle4 ,heaven is for    

conquerors 7,revelation #ae3b1c2        
#ag3ad74 ,it is the man who has gone    
down into the tumult and uproar of the  
arena of life and fought and conquered  
in some good cause who tastes the       
supreme cup of happiness4  ,the master  
words of the ,christ were1 fight1 watch1
 pray2 here is the entrance to the      
,utopia so long sought by men4 ,the man 
who has no control over his appetites1  
passions and temper1 and who cannot     
endure hardness in a service in which he
 is interested1 can never know what     
genuine joy is4 ,read the roll call of  
the heroes in the eleventh chapter of   
,hebrews4  #a4 ,a great object in view4 
,there can be no greater object than to 
serve ,christ in all the relations of   
life 7,matthew #f3cc2 #aj3ch2 #h3bb2    
#af3bd2 #ai3ba74  #b4 ,harmony with the 
will of ,god 7,matthew #f3aj74  #c4     
,endurance4 ,paul exhorts ,timothy1     
,thou therefore my son1 be strong in the
 grace that is in ,christ ,jesus4 ,and  
the things that thou hast heard of me   

among many witnesses1 the same commit   
thou to faithful men1 who shall be able 
to teach others also4  ,thou therefore  
endure hardness1 as a good soldier of   
,jesus ,christ 7#b ,timothy #b3a-c74 ,it
 was this quality of endurance in       
service which ,jesus sought to set      
before ,his followers in the strongest  
light 7,matthew #aj3bb2 #bd3ac74  ,here 
then are the elements of the greatest   
human happiness and a divine joy4 ,it is
 only as the human heart is thus        
prepared for the reception of the       
enlightenment of the ,holy ,spirit that 
,he can be received in ,his glory1 which
 ,he desires to impart to men and to    
bring them into joyous fellowship with  
the ,father and the ,son4   ,,questions 
,what is the call to service8 ,what is  
the object of the call8 ,where shall men
 serve the ,christ8 ,how shall men serve
 the ,christ in the heart1 home1        
community1 abroad8  ,what can be said of
 the urgency of the call to service8    
,what is the pattern of service8 ,what  

can be said of personal work1 training  
others for service1 teaching1 works of  
mercy and love1 suffering8 ,what is the 
joy of service8  ,what can be said of   
the search for happiness8 ,what are the 
conditions of ,christian happiness in   
service8    ,,study ,,ix  ,,the         
,,christian ,,church   ,scriptures      
references3 #a ,corinthians #c3aa2      
#c3f-i2 ,colossians #a3ah2 ,acts #b3dg2 
,ephesians #e3bc-bg2 ,matthew #af3af1ah2
 #ah3ag2 ,acts #e3aa1ab2 #ac3a1b2       
#ad3bc2 #af3e2 #a ,corinthians          
#aa3ah-cd2 #ab3bh-ca2 #a ,thessalonians 
#a3a2 #b3ad2 #a ,timothy #c3ae2 ,hebrews
 #ab3bb1bc2 ,revelation #a3d1aa1bj2     
#b3g1aa2 #bb3af2 #bb3ab-ae1ag4   ,,the  
,,foundation ,,of ,,the ,,church  ,what 
is the ,christian ,church8--,one of the 
best definitions is as follows3 ,the    
church consists of all who acknowledge  
the ,divine ,lord1 ,jesus ,christ1 the  
blessed ,saviour of mankind1 who give   
credit to ,his gospel1 and who hold ,his
 sacraments1 the seals of eternal life1 

in honour4 ,another definition is3 ,the 
church is a holy kingdom established by 
,god on earth1 of which ,christ is the  
invisible ,king4 ,there are some        
organizations calling themselves        
,christian churches which have          
substituted certain philosophical       
doctrines in place of the principles of 
,jesus ,christ1 but it is a fact of     
history that in proportion as the       
,divine ,lordship of ,christ has been   
exalted the greater has been the growth 
of the church4 ,the church has been able
 to meet the needs of the people as ,he 
has been lifted up 7,john #ab3cb7 that  
men might turn to ,him for light and    
life 7,john #a3d2 #h3ab2 #ab3df2        
,matthew #aa3bg-cj74  ,the ,head of the 
,church is ,jesus ,christ4 ,when ,simon 
,peter made the declaration1 ,thou art  
the ,christ the ,son of the living ,god1
 ,jesus said unto him1 ,blessed art     
thou1 ,simon ,barjona3 for flesh and    
blood hath not revealed it unto thee1   
but ,my ,father which is in heaven4 ,and

 ,i say unto thee1 ,that thou art       
,peter1 and upon this rock ,i will build
 ,my church 7,matthew #af3af-ah2        
,ephesians #b3bj74 ,the question is1    
,what is this rock8 ,the ,romanists say1
 ',it is ,peter'2 but ,christ did not so
 say4 ,his statement was1 ',thou art    
,petros and on this petra ,i will build 
,my church4' ,the words are cognate but 
not identical2 the former is masculine  
and the latter feminine2 petra is a     
rock2 ,petros is a stone hewn out of the
 rock4  ,when ,christ uttered these     
words ,he was on ,his way to ,jerusalem 
where ,he was to be crucified4 ,in the  
face of the cross1 the ,master was      
preparing ,his disciples for a great    
trial and the time when1 in bodily      
presence1 ,he should depart from the    
earth4 ,it was necessary that ,he should
 now speak plainly in regard to ,himself
 and ,his mission4  ,paul1 in writing to
 the ,colossians1 said of ,christ1 ,and 
,he is the head of the body1 the church3
 who is the beginning1 the first-born   

from the dead2 that in all things ,he   
might have the preeminence 7,colossians 
#a3ah2 compare ,ephesians #a3bb1bc74    
,however ,christian churches may differ 
from each other in form of government   
and in other matters they are united in 
the great essential doctrine of the     
,headship of ,christ1 this is their     
strong bond of union4  ,a ,divine       
,institution4--,the ,christian church   
was not organized by any one man or a   
company of men1 but was given to man as 
an expression of the compassion of ,god 
7,john #c3af-ba71 that in it men might  
associate themselves together for the   
proper worship of ,god and that they    
might draw near to ,him 7,hebrews       
#aj3ai-be74  #a4 ,the beginning of the  
organization of the church was in the   
upper room1 where ,jesus partook of the 
last supper with ,his disciples         
7,matthew #bf3bj-cj74 ,here ,he showed  
the significance of ,his death 7v4 #bh71
 ,his relation to the ,father 7,john    
#ad3i71 and the coming of the ,holy     

,spirit 7,john #ad3af1ag2 #ae3bf1bg74   
,in the last instructions given by      
,jesus1 and ,his prayer 7,john          
#ad3a-ag3bf7 we have a body of teaching 
which constitutes the basis of the faith
 of the church4  #b4 ,the completion of 
the organization of the church was in   
the descent of the ,holy ,spirit upon   
the day of ,pentecost 7,acts            
#b3a-bd1cb1cf-da71 which the disciples  
had been commanded to await in the city 
of ,jerusalem 7,acts #a3f-h1ad74 ,those 
who accepted the word which had been    
preached through the ,holy ,spirit were 
baptized 7#b3da74 ,the ,lord1 not men1  
added to the church daily such as should
 be saved 7,acts #b3dg74  ,ordinances   
and ,faith4--,the church1 with its      
ordinances of the ,lord's ,supper and   
,baptism1 its faith in ,god the ,father1
 in ,his ,son ,jesus ,christ and in the 
,holy ,spirit1 now begins its victorious
 career4  ,human ,elements4--,the divine
 institution of the church has been     
subject to the admixture of human       

elements1 there was a traitor amongst   
the twelve apostles4 ,the organization  
and the doctrines have been tampered    
with in the interest of human ambitions 
and the pride of human philosophy1 but  
no institution has shown itself so      
adapted to satisfy the great needs of   
men of all conditions of life1 to purge 
itself when the human elements proved   
too great a burden1 and to outlast all  
man-made organizations4  ,authority and 
,teaching4--,the church and its         
ministers have authority to teach       
through ,christ and what ,he has        
commanded4 ,there is a certain and quite
 definite body of truth4 ,this body of  
truth1 preached in the heart of         
heathendom or in the most fashionable   
church1 in the most highly civilized    
country1 is quite sure to produce       
certain definite results in awakening   
men from their sins and causing them to 
lead a new life4 ,by their fruits ye    
shall know them 7,matthew #g3ae-bj74    
,jesus said1 ,all power is given unto   

,me in heaven and in earth4 ,go ye      
therefore and teach all nations1        
baptizing them in the name of the       
,father1 and of the ,son and of the     
,holy ,ghost4 ,teaching them to observe 
all things whatsoever ,i have commanded 
you and lo ,i am with you alway1 even   
unto the end of the world 7,matthew     
#bh3ah-bj2 ,luke #aj3bb2 ,john #c3ce2   
#e3cb2 #ac3c2 #ag3b2 ,acts #b3cf2       
,romans #ad3i74  ,paul said1 ,for other 
foundation can no man lay than that is  
laid1 which is ,jesus ,christ 7#a       
,corinthians #c3aa74  ,form4--,the word 
church1 in the ,new ,testament1 is used 
in three senses to denote the           
differences in the form4  #a4 ,the local
 congregation worshipping in a house    
7,philemon #b2 ,colossians #d3ae7 or a  
certain place as1 ,the church of ,god   
which is at ,corinth 7#a ,corinthians   
#a3b7 and the church of the             
,thessalonians 7#a ,thessalonians #a3a74
 ,this is much the most frequent use of 
the word4  #b4 ,the entire community of 

,christians throughout the world or some
 portions of it 7#a ,corinthians #ae3i2 
,galatians #a3ac2 ,matthew #af3ah74  #c4
 ,the total company of the redeemed1 the
 bride of ,christ 7,ephesians           
#e3bc1be1bg1cj2 ,hebrews #ab3bc74  ,the 
,life of the ,early ,church1 as we have 
seen1 had its origin in ,jesus ,christ4 
,those who came into the church1 did so 
because of their belief in ,him and     
acceptance of ,him as their ,saviour4   
#a4 ,the organization was simple2 each  
church looked to ,christ as its head 7#a
 ,corinthians #a3b-ah1cj2 ,ephesians    
#e3bc74  #b4 ,the officers were         
appointed for certain necessary duties  
7,acts #f2bj3ag-bc2 ,titus #a3e-g72 it  
was the ,lord who called men into       
certain vocations for the edifying of   
the church 7,ephesians #d3aa1ab2 #a     
,corinthians #ab3bg1bh74  #c4 ,the time 
of meeting was upon the first day of the
 week 7,acts #bj3g2 #a ,corinthians     
#af3b71 thus commemorating the          
resurrection of the ,lord 7,john        

#bj3a1ai2 ,luke #bd3a2 ,mark #af3b2     
,matthew #bh3a74  #d4 ,the aim was to   
build up pure and godly lives 7,titus   
#b3a-ae7 and to bring all men into      
fellowship with the ,master4 ,there was 
an intense enthusiasm for the faith and 
propagation of it4 ,there was an        
extraordinary religious elevation and   
purity of conduct4  ,the churches set   
themselves to eradicate the selfishness 
in man1 out of which all forms of       
injustice sprang and aimed to affect the
 moral renovation of the individual and 
of society4 ,there were abuses which    
arose out of the former lives of        
believers2 it is surprising1 considering
 the evil influences surrounding the    
early churches1 that they were so few4  
#e4 ,but there arose in the midst of a  
gross heathenism1 with all its great    
immoralities1 a rapidly growing         
community1 which demanded purity of life
 and conduct from its communicants and  
supreme allegiance to ,christ1 the ,lord
 and ,saviour2 how strong it was is     

shown by the fact that the ,roman       
,empire tried to stamp it out1 failed1  
and was taken captive itself by the     
religion it had despised4   ,,the ,,work
 ,,of ,,the ,,modern ,,church  ,the     
,chief ,end of the ,church is to carry  
on the work which brought ,christ into  
the world 7,luke #ai3aj2 #ag3cc2        
#ae3a-bd2 #bd3dh2 ,acts #a3h74 ,all     
things should be made to serve this     
purpose4  ,the ,activities and methods  
of work have a wide range4 ,what is     
highly successful in one community may  
prove1 however1 a failure in another4   
,the means1 which produce large results 
at one time1 tried again in the same    
place1 at another time1 sometimes show  
small or no results4  ,the problem of   
each church and community needs to be   
studied1 that means may be properly     
adjusted and adapted to the ends sought 
to be accomplished4  ,it is remarkable  
how ,jesus adapted ,himself to the times
 and circumstances4 ,he said to ,peter  
and ,andrew1 ,follow ,me and ,i will    

make you fishers of men 7,matthew       
#d3ai72 ,he spoke to them in a language 
they were able to comprehend2 to fish   
for fish meant care1 understanding of   
their habits and much toil to accomplish
 the desired results4 ,in the           
conversations with ,nicodemus and the   
women of ,samaria ,jesus arrives at the 
same end but uses entirely different    
means4 ,the letters of ,paul fit exactly
 the needs of the churches to which they
 are addressed4  ,it is the really      
earnest spirit desiring to bring men to 
,christ which will produce the largest  
results2 this spirit appeals to men and 
compels them to listen2 hence it is the 
cultivation of this spirit which is most
 earnestly commended4 ,mere machinery of
 effort is doomed to failure1 but when  
the living spirit is in the wheels and  
is adequate to the moving of them1 the  
results are sure to be large4 ,the      
disciples of ,christ knew all the facts 
about ,christ's life1 death and         
resurrection1 but they were not equipped

 for their great work until after they  
had spent much time in prayer and the   
,holy ,spirit had come in power2 then   
they became mighty men in the upbuilding
 of the church4  ,worship4--,men not    
only need to be urged to be true to     
their consciences1 but their consciences
 need to be informed4 ,one of the great 
functions of the church is to teach men 
how to worship ,god aright2 to do this  
they must have right thoughts about     
,god4  ,jesus said1 ,god is a ,spirit3  
and they that worship ,him must worship 
,him in spirit and in truth 7,john      
#d3bd74 ,men must be led in their       
worship by a proper exposition of the   
,scriptures1 by prayer and by praise4   
,the place of the church in this matter 
is clearly defined in the ,new          
,testament1 it can be taken by no other 
institution2 and no other organization  
has so high a mission as this1 to bring 
man into harmony with ,god4             
,fellowship4--,man is a social being and
 he seeks contact with his fellow men4  

,many of the worldly ways in which this 
fellowship is sought are ways which lead
 to the wrecking of man1 body and soul1 
or to the obliteration of all the finer 
feelings4 ,the mission of the ,christian
 ,church is to strengthen the social    
bond by seeking to cultivate all the    
better impulses and finer feelings in   
man1 and to place society on a firmer   
footing in love1 purity and             
righteousness 7#a ,john #a3c2 #a3e2     
,acts #b3db2 #a ,corinthians #a3i74     
,bible ,study4--,christianity is a book 
religion as well as one in which ,god   
enters into spiritual communion with    
man4 ,the ,church has ever acknowledged 
its duty to teach the ,scriptures1 for  
in them it finds the truths which it    
desires to inculcate 7,john #e3ci74     
,evangelization4--,beyond the bounds of 
the ,church there are those1 near and   
far away1 who need to be taught about   
the gospel of ,jesus ,christ4 ,more and 
more the church is feeling the          
responsibility for the welfare of       

individuals and of society and of the   
state4  ,if there are great evils and   
giant wrongs which need to be remedied1 
they have their origin in the evil in   
men's hearts4 ,for the cure of bad      
hearts there is no remedy in all the    
world save that given by ,jesus ,christ4
 ,hence the activity of the church in   
seeking to evangelize men not only at   
home but throughout the world4  ,there  
are three things which every church     
needs to realize in order that this work
 may be prosecuted with the utmost      
vigour and enthusiasm4  #a4 ,a clear    
conception of what the church is and its
 relations to ,god and man4  #b4 ,the   
opening of the eyes to the fact of sin  
in the world and its destructive power  
upon the soul of man1 here and hereafter
 7#a ,john #a3h2 ,romans #e3ab2 ,john   
#h3cd2 ,matthew #ah3g-aa74  #c4 ,that   
the only real help or salvation of man's
 soul is through our ,divine ,lord and  
,saviour1 ,jesus ,christ4 ,neither is   
there salvation in any other3 for there 

is none other name under heaven given   
among men1 whereby we must be saved     
7,acts #d3ab2 #af3cj1ca2 ,philippians   
#b3aj2 #a ,john #b3ab2 ,romans #aj3ac2  
#a ,john #a3g1i2 ,matthew #i3f74  ,the  
,equipment for the carrying on and      
extension of this work cannot be too    
good4 ,the cause frequently lags from   
making it one of the interests of life  
and not the chief care4 ,every church   
building should express in usefulness   
and beauty1 in all its appointments1    
man's thought of a temple erected to the
 great and living ,god4   ,,the ,,hope  
,,of ,,the ,,church  ,the ,establishment
 of the ,kingdom of ,god ,upon          
,earth4--,the prophets of the ,old      
,testament had two great thoughts which 
they continually presented1 namely1 the 
coming of the ,messianic ,king and the  
establishment of the ,messianic kingdom4
 ,isaiah said1 ,unto us a ,child is     
born1 unto us a ,son is given3 and the  
government shall be upon ,his shoulder  
and ,he shall be called ,wonderful1     

,counsellor1 ,the ,mighty ,god1 ,the    
,everlasting ,father1 ,the ,prince of   
,peace4  ,of the increase of ,his       
government and peace there shall be no  
end 7#i3f1g74  ,when ,john the ,baptist 
came1 he proclaimed the coming of this  
,king and kingdom 7,matthew #c3aa1ab2   
,john #a3a-bh7 and when he saw ,jesus he
 said1 ,behold the ,lamb of ,god which  
taketh away the sin of the world4 ,this 
is ,he of whom ,i said1 ,after me cometh
 a man who is preferred before me3 for  
,he was before me 7,john #a3bi-cc74 ,and
 ,i saw and bare record that this is the
 ,son of ,god 7v4 #cd74  ,jesus spoke   
much about ,his kingdom1 the kingdom of 
heaven and the kingdom of ,god4 ,he     
sought to explain by many parables and  
by direct discourse what this kingdom   
was like2 it is mentioned by name many  
times in the ,new ,testament 7,matthew  
#ac3aa1ai1bd1ca1cc1dd1de1dg1 #eb2 #bb3b2
 #be3a74 ,he claimed that ,he was the   
,messianic ,king 7,matthew #bf3fc1fd2   
#bg3aa1cg2 #bf3ec1ed2 #af3af1ag2 ,john  

#ad3i2 ,luke #bb3fg1fi2 ,john #ah3cg2   
,mark #ad3fa1fb71 and the ,son of ,god4 
,he declared that before ,him all       
nations should come to be judged        
7,matthew #be3ca-df74 ,as in the ,old   
,testament so in the ,new ,testament the
 world-wide character of this kingdom of
 ,god is plainly shown4  ,there are     
,four ,conceptions of the ,kingdom of   
,god set forth in the ,bible4 #a4 ,the  
reign of ,god over all ,his creatures4  
#b4 ,the reign of ,god over men and     
nations4 #c4 ,the reign of ,god over    
,israel4  #d4 ,the reign of ,god as     
,divine ,love over human hearts1        
believing in ,him and constrained       
thereby to yield ,him grateful affection
 and devoted love4 ,it is this fourth   
conception which is most prominently set
 forth in the ,new ,testament4 ,the     
special work of ,christ on earth was to 
reveal the supreme rule of ,divine      
,love4  ,the ,church and the            
,kingdom4--,it is the care of the church
 to forward the establishment of this   

kingdom of ,divine ,love everywhere1 in 
the heart of the individual1 in society1
 in the business world and in the       
national life4 ,for this we pray1 as    
,christ taught us1 ,thy kingdom come4   
,thy will be done in earth1 as it is in 
heaven 7,matthew #f3aj74   ,,questions  
,what is the ,christian ,church8 ,define
 it4 ,who is the ,head of the church8   
,how is the church a divine institution8
 ,what can be said of the beginning and 
completion of the organization8 ,what   
are the ordinances8 ,what can be said of
 the human elements8 ,where is the      
authority and ground of teaching8 ,what 
can be said of the forms8  ,what can be 
said of the life of the early church8   
,what is the chief end of the church8   
,what can be said of the activities of  
the modern church8 ,what of the worship8
  ,what of the fellowship8 ,what three  
things are necessary to keep clearly in 
mind1 in the work of evangelization8    
,what ought the church equipment to be8 
,what is the hope of the church8 ,what  

are the four conceptions of the ,kingdom
 of ,god8 ,what is the chief conception8
 ,what can be said of the church and the
 kingdom8    ,,study ,x  ,,the          
,,christian ,,home   ,scripture         
references3 ,ephesians #f3a-i2 #e3be-cc2
 ,colossians #c3ag-be2 #a ,corinthians  
#g3ab-ag2 ,mark #aj3b-ab2 #g3i-ac2      
#e3ai2 #a ,timothy #e3d2 ,luke #ae3f2   
,titus #b3a-ae2 ,exodus #bj3ab1ag2      
,deuteronomy #f3a-i4   ,,the ,,home     
,what is a ,home8--,it has been answered
 that1 ,it is the unit of society4 ,it  
has also been pointed out that this unit
 must be kept clean1 pure and right1 in 
all its relations1 or society and the   
state will suffer grave consequences4   
,certainly1 in the past1 the            
institutions of society and state have  
been seriously weakened only when the   
moral decay of the family has first set 
in4 ,there are many organizations which 
have for their special care the         
fostering of the social and political   
life1 while the strengthening of home   

ties has been sadly neglected4  ,to the 
individual the good character of the    
home is of the utmost importance1 for   
his growth in all the finer things which
 pertain to morality and spirituality4  
,the ,difference in ,homes4--,one ideal 
of a home begins and ends with the      
externals2 a great house1 a splendid    
service and fine furnishings4           
,everything is here made to bend to the 
more or less perfect realization of this
 material ideal4 ,when all is attained  
that is possible in this direction1 and 
this end1 and only this end1 is sought  
of outer adornment1 it is found that the
 essentials of a true home life have    
been missed4  ,another ideal seeks for  
the cultivation of love between husband 
and wife1 and all the members of the    
family4 ,care and forbearance are urged 
and commended in speech and action4     
,there are set forth a mutual kindness1 
a careful consideration of the feelings 
and a helpfulness in bearing burdens1   
which exalt the soul and make life worth

 living4 ,according as this ideal is    
striven for1 and attained1 will the true
 home be realized4  ,many a man has     
wrecked his business1 betrayed his      
friends and gone down to a dishonoured  
grave in the struggle to surround his   
family with luxuries which he could not 
afford1 but no man ever sincerely tried 
to cultivate the graces of love and     
kindness in himself and in his family1  
who did not succeed1 in a large measure1
 in realizing the great purpose of the  
home4  ,the ,true ,home may be found1   
and is found1 in great houses and in    
small houses1 where there is large      
wealth and where there is dire poverty4 
,it is not dependent upon circumstances 
but independent4  ,the great essential  
is love for those things which make a   
beautiful and strong character4 ,low    
standards of truth and morality in the  
family tend to reproduce themselves in  
exaggerated forms in the social life of 
the community4 ,individuals1 coming out 
of families where there is no love for  

the good and no regard for              
righteousness1 often become a serious   
threat to peace and good order4 ,no     
educational system can do very much for 
children with an evil family            
environment4 ,on the other hand the     
world is full of examples of men1       
trained up in righteousness by their    
parents1 who have strictly kept to the  
path in which their feet were started4  
,,the ,,ideal ,,christian ,,home  ,jesus
 honoured the home4 ,his birthplace was 
mean 7,luke #b3g7 so far as external    
things go4 ,the house and the city1     
where ,his parents lived1 showed plainly
 the poor estate of the family which1   
while it was of noble lineage1 was      
greatly reduced in circumstances4 ,jesus
 ,himself learned and practiced the     
trade of a carpenter4 ,in living in this
 home at ,nazareth for thirty years of  
,his life ,jesus showed that it was     
possible under hard outward conditions  
to live a noble life and to cultivate   
and practice those virtues and qualities

 which were afterwards so greatly to    
bless the whole world4  ,duties of      
,husbands and ,wives4--,the beginning of
 every ,christian home is in a supreme  
affection between two1 a man and a      
woman4 ,for this cause1 ,christ said1   
shall a man leave his father and mother1
 and cleave to his wife2 and they twain 
shall be one flesh1 so that they are no 
more twain but one flesh4 ,what         
therefore ,god hath joined together1 let
 not man put asunder 7,mark #aj3g-i74   
,he honoured and sanctioned the marriage
 relation by ,his presence at the       
marriage in ,cana 7,john #b3a-aa74 ,in  
the first century divorce was very      
common2 ,hillel1 the ,jewish teacher1   
held that the bond was so loose and     
flexible that if a wife burnt her       
husband's food while cooking it1 he was 
justified in procuring a writ of        
divorcement from her4 ,jesus denounces  
this practice and declares 7,matthew    
#e3ca1cb2 ,mark #aj3b-ab7 that there is 
only one cause that justifies divorce4  

#a4 ,love to one another4 ,in the       
various vicissitudes of married life1   
and in the bringing up of children the  
bond which needs to be strengthened1 and
 the duty which needs to be urged1 is   
that of love4 ,love can alone carry     
husband and wife over the more difficult
 places of life4 ,paul says1 ,husbands  
love your wives1 even as ,christ also   
loved the ,church and gave ,himself for 
it 7,ephesians #e3be-cc2 ,colossians    
#c3ah1ai74 ,let every one of you so love
 his wife even as himself2 and the wife 
see that she reverence her husband      
7,ephesians #e3cc74 ,no stronger        
language can be employed than ,paul uses
 in urging husband and wife to love each
 other with a whole heart1 yet he       
provides for cases where one or the     
other party in the married relation is  
not a ,christian1 and where a strong    
love may be absent 7#a ,corinthians     
#g3ab-ag74 ,he further says1 ,unto the  
married ,i command1 yet not ,i1 but the 
,lord1 let not the wife depart from her 

husband2 but and if she depart let her  
remain unmarried1 or be reconciled to   
her husband3 and let not the husband put
 away his wife 7#a ,corinthians #g3     
#aj1aa74 ,but a supreme love settles all
 troubles 7#a ,corinthians1 chapter     
#ac74  #b4 ,forbearance and kindness    
towards children4  ,provoke not your    
children to wrath but bring them up in  
the nurture and admonition of the ,lord 
7,ephesians #f3d2 ,colossians #c3ba74   
,when ,christ was upon earth1 a father  
had the power of life and death over his
 offspring4 ,a weak and sickly child    
might be abandoned to death2 and this   
was approved by such eminent authorities
 as ,plato and ,aristotle4  ,jesus      
declared for the rights of the children4
 ,he not only opened ,his arms for them1
 but ,he gave them a new standing in the
 world 7,mark #aj3 #ad-af2 ,matthew     
#ah3e74 ,he said1 ,see that ye despise  
not one of these little ones2 for in    
heaven their angels do always behold the
 face of ,my ,father1 which is in       

heaven4 7,matthew #ah3aj74  #c4         
,hospitality4 ,true ,christian love will
 extend itself beyond the bounds of the 
household1 and seek to do those outside 
of it good by drawing them within its   
charmed circle4 ,this hospitality should
 be given not only to those who can     
return it again1 but also to those from 
whom no return can ever be expected     
7,matthew #e3df74 ,use hospitality one  
to another without grudging 7#a ,peter  
#d3i2 #a ,timothy #c3b2 ,titus #a3h2    
,hebrews #ac3b74 ,but when thou makest a
 feast1 call the poor1 the maimed1 the  
lame1 the blind3 and thou shalt be      
blessed2 for they cannot recompense     
thee3 for thou shalt be recompensed at  
the resurrection of the just 7,luke     
#ad3ac1ad1aa1ab2 compare ,matthew       
#be3ce1db74 ,in the midst of our        
splendid charitable boards1 which do    
such a needed work1 individual charity  
and hospitality should not be forgotten 
and put out of its rightful place4  #d4 
,commending the home to ,god4 ,in       

writing to ,timothy 7#b ,timothy #a3e7  
,paul calls to mind the unfeigned faith 
that is in ,timothy1 which dwelt first  
in his grandmother ,lois and then in his
 mother ,eunice4 ,paul himself was      
brought up by devout parents4 ,the      
,bible has many instances of men1 like  
that of ,samuel1 who have been trained  
for great parts in the world in a       
religious household4 ,the old proverb   
has it1 ,like father1 like son4 ,if ,god
 is honoured by the parents and the home
 commended to ,him1 the children will be
 quite sure to honour ,him also4 ,bring 
up your children in the nurture and     
admonition of the ,lord 7,ephesians     
#f3d74 ,have them ready to meet ,christ 
at any time 7,mark #ac3cd-cg74  ,duties 
of ,children4--#a4 ,honouring parents4  
,children obey your parents in the      
,lord1 for this is right 7,ephesians    
#f3a1b1c2 compare ,exodus #bj3ab2       
,colossians #c3bj74 ,the first necessary
 lesson in every human life is to learn 
the lesson of obedience2 if this is not 

well studied and practiced in the home1 
the child1 when he grows up and goes out
 for himself1 will be quite sure to have
 a hard time of it and receive some     
severe buffetings4 ,those who break the 
laws of society and the state are those 
who have first broken the commandment to
 honour father and mother4  #b4 ,care of
 parents4 ,children1 when grown up1 are 
sometimes apt to forget the love and    
care bestowed upon them when they were  
young4 ,their parents become old and    
feeble and are often unable to look out 
for themselves4 ,in ,jesus' time there  
was a bad custom of repudiating parents 
who for any cause needed to be helped4  
,the children had only to say ,corban1  
that is1 that their goods were dedicated
 to a sacred purpose1 to secure release 
from their filial obligations4 ,christ  
denounced this custom in the strongest  
terms and declared that the children    
ought to honour their parents by caring 
for them4 ,thus ,he became an advocate  
for the rights of parents as ,he had of 

the rights of children 7,mark #g3 #aa1  
#g-ac2 ,matthew #ae3c-f74 ,when in ,his 
last agony1 on the cross1 ,jesus        
provided a home for ,his mother 7,john  
#ai3bf1bg74  ,duties of ,dependents and 
,servants4--,jesus commended the        
honourableness of service4 ,he washed   
the disciples' feet 7,john #ac3d-af7 and
 then told them that ,he had given them 
an example of the kind of service which 
they should render to each other4  ,he  
took upon ,himself the form of a        
servant1 hiding ,his glory1 that ,he    
might accomplish ,his great work        
7,philippians #b3f-i74 ,paul exhorted   
servants of the household to be         
obedient1 serving1 not with eye service1
 as men pleasers2 but as servants of    
,christ1 doing the will of ,god from the
 heart 7,ephesians #f3e-h2 ,colossians  
#c3bb-be2 #a ,corinthians #i3ai74       
,masters are told to be just towards    
their servants1 remembering that they   
have a ,master in heaven 7,colossians   
#d3a74 ,when the runaway slave1         

,onesimus1 is sent back to his master1  
by ,paul1 he is commended to ,philemon  
as a brother beloved 7,philemon #af74   
,we should hear but little of strikes   
and lockouts if employers and employees 
would only take these principles1 laid  
down in the ,new ,testament1 for the    
guidance of masters and servants1 for   
their rules of conduct towards each     
other and seek to carry them out4       
,duties of ,young and ,old4--,that the  
aged men be sober1 grave1 temperate1    
sound in faith1 in charity1 in patience4
 ,the aged women likewise1 that they be 
in behaviour as becometh holiness1 not  
false accusers1 not given to much wine1 
teachers of good things2 that they may  
teach the young women to be sober1 to   
love their husbands1 to love their      
children1 to be discreet1 chaste1       
keepers at home1 good1 obedient to their
 own husbands that the word of ,god be  
not blasphemed4 ,young men likewise     
exhort to the sober minded 7,titus      
#b3b-f74   ,,the ,,attack ,,upon ,,the  

,,home  ,there are many influences at   
work which seek to minimize the         
importance of the home life and to      
undermine it4  ,there are four quite    
well defined lines of the attack upon   
the life of the family4  ,the ,assault  
,upon the ,marriage ,relation4--,the    
moral leper advocates that marriage be  
dissolvable at will1 not by mutual      
consent alone1 but when either party to 
the contract desires its conclusion4    
,the church1 in its different branches1 
stands as a unit against this iniquitous
 proposition4 ,but how far the civil    
power has yielded1 by the pressure which
 has been brought to bear1 is made      
manifest by the fact that in the        
different states of the ,union there are
 now recognized by the courts forty-six 
legal causes of annulling a marriage4   
,our courts are crowded with divorce    
cases and the suits which grow out of   
them in regard to property and the care 
of children4 ,that the odour of scandal1
 going up from such cases is bad1 is    

unquestioned4 ,that the influence1 of   
such proceedings upon the morals of the 
country1 is evil is also sadly admitted4
 ,a blow struck at marriage is one which
 is felt not only by the family but by  
society and the state4 ,the fall of the 
,roman empire was preceded by an        
extraordinary laxness of the marriage   
tie4 ,it is time the church bestirred   
itself to oppose more strongly the      
theory and practice of the moral leper4 
,the ,assault ,upon the ,quiet of the   
,home4--,in the modern stress and strain
 of life there is need of a quiet place 
in which to rest1 to get acquainted with
 ,god1 to know one's family1 to live to 
the best things and to get ready again  
to engage enthusiastically in the daily 
battle of life4 ,the home is designed to
 furnish such a place of rest1 when the 
work of the day is done2 it is here1 in 
a ,christian home1 that there should be 
an atmosphere of supreme love and care4 
,it is1 however1 when night comes that  
all the attractions1 which appeal to the

 love of excitement1 put forth their    
most strenuous efforts to draw to them  
the inmates of the home4 ,there are     
amusements and amusements2 a person1    
however1 who looks only to be amused    
seeks by and by those of the strongest  
flavour and those which border very     
closely on the forbidden land4 ,the love
 of excitement grows upon what it feeds 
and soon1 to the habitual               
pleasure-seeker1 the quiet atmosphere   
and love of the home no longer appeal2  
he has begun a chase for excitement and 
pleasure which will never satisfy him4  
,multitudes of wrecked homes and burned 
out characters1 show the disastrous work
 of this assault upon the quiet of the  
home4  ,the ,assault ,upon the ,purity  
of the ,body4--,we are told by ,paul    
that our bodies are temples of ,god and 
members of ,christ and therefore they   
should be kept pure and clean 7#a       
,corinthians #c3af1ag2 #f3ae1af74  ,yet 
a certain class of so-called reformers  
are seeking to teach men that to sit in 

a saloon drinking the beverages there   
served out1 and which defile the purity 
of the body1 makes for manhood4  ,the   
modern saloon1 which destroys the purity
 of the body1 is one of the most        
successful of all agencies for the      
demoralization and the destruction of   
the home4  ,once it has fastened its    
hold upon a man1 the time which he      
should spend with his family is spent in
 defiling his body in this place2 the   
money which should be spent1 in clothing
 and feeding his wife and children1 is  
squandered here2 until the home loses   
its hold upon him and he selfishly      
indulges his appetite1 no matter who    
suffers4 ,we are faced with actual      
conditions and no substitutes of better 
kept saloons or purer beverages can help
 very much4 ,it is a travesty of the    
truth to call a saloon a working men's  
club2 it is his destruction4  ,what is  
actually needed is a reform which will  
send men1 who frequent saloons back to  
their homes4 ,the real problem is not   

how to reform the saloon1 but how to    
make the home better so that father1    
mother and the children may take delight
 in spending their evenings there4 ,the 
policy of some social organizations1    
which work in the slums of our great    
cities1 seems to be by providing great  
public dance halls and fostering the    
saloons to draw the people still further
 away from the home life and to make it 
harder to maintain it4  ,after all the  
only real remedy for the saloon habit is
 ,christianity4 ,it is only when ,christ
 comes into the heart of a man that he  
begins to care for his home and to spend
 his evenings there4 ,the ,church1 then 
as possessing the lure for the home1    
ought to take more seriously to this    
work in the slums4 ,but the trouble is  
that the slums do not receive very      
pleasantly those who seek to cleanse    
their hearts and bodies1 but they do    
take kindly to the agencies1 and often  
throng them1 which look kindly on those 
things which really keep them down1 and 

insure them miserable homes4 ,still it  
remains true that the teaching of       
,christianity1 even when received with  
hostility1 is the only leavening power  
for better things in the slums4 ,it is  
one of the hard things to cleanse a     
man's body before his heart is made     
clean1 but let his heart be purified1   
and the purity of the body will follow2 
then the first thought of that man will 
be for his home and its betterment4     
,the ,assault of ,freedom of            
,speech4--,in no place is there more    
need of kindliness of speech and manner 
than in the home1 yet in no other place 
is there more plain speaking4 ,the mask 
of pleasantness1 which may be worn all  
day in business or social relations1 may
 be in the home laid aside2 and the     
character revealed and the vigour of    
language used may easily drive away     
every vestige of happiness4 ,when people
 live together under the same roof the  
feelings become very tender and are     
easily hurt4 ,what is said outside may  

be thought little of1 but in the home it
 is different4  ,take us the foxes1 the 
little foxes that spoil the vines3 for  
our vines have tender grapes 7,song of  
,solomon #b3ae74  ,incompatibility of   
temper is a reason sometimes given for  
the breaking up of a home1 but the real 
reason is an undue familiarity and      
freedom of speech4  ,because persons    
live together in families there should  
be no license to say everything and     
anything1 no matter who is hurt4  ,home 
happiness is a tender plant1 it needs   
much care and watching1 but when it     
blooms the flowers are of a rare beauty 
of form and their fragrance exceeds that
 of all others4   ,,the ,,preservation  
,,of ,,the ,,home  ,how may the home be 
preserved and made to serve its great   
end8 ,there are three ways1 amongst a   
greater number1 which are here          
indicated4  ,personal ,care4--,all      
betterment of the home must begin with  
the individual and every individual has 
a chance to exercise this care as his   

lot is cast in some family4 ,thought1   
time1 money1 all need to be employed in 
working out in a practical way the ideal
 of the true home4  ,placing the ,home  
,under the ,care of ,god4--,there is a  
need of the reinstatement of the custom 
of family worship2 the place and time   
where and when the family is commended  
to ,god and placed under ,his care4 ,as 
children of the great household of ,god 
we need constantly to keep in touch with
 our ,father4  ,the ,obedience of the   
,golden ,rule1 as it is stated in a new 
form3 ,i will not do unto others that   
which ,i would not have them do to me4  
,i will not think of others that which  
,i would not have them think of me4 ,i  
will not say of others that which ,i    
would not have them say of me4          
,,questions  ,what is a home8 ,what is  
the difference in homes8  ,what is the  
true home8 ,what can be said of the     
ideal ,christian home8 ,duties of       
husbands and wives2 what are the four   
lines8 ,duties of children2 what are the

 two lines8 ,what are the duties of     
servants and dependents2 of the young   
and aged8 ,what can be said of the      
attack upon the home2 the marriage      
relation1 the quiet of the home1 the    
purity of the body1 freedom of speech8  
,in what three ways may the home be     
preserved8    ,,study ,,xi  ,,the       
,,christian ,,business ,,world          
,scripture references3 ,proverbs #bb3bi2
 ,romans #ab3aa2 ,psalms #bd3a2         
#ej3aj-ab2 ,haggai #b3h2 ,psalm         
#di3f1aj1af1ag2 #fb3aj2 ,matthew #ac3bb2
 ,mark #aj3bc1bd2 ,job #ca3bd-bf2       
,proverbs #c3i2 ,matthew #be3ad-cj2     
#bd3de-ea2 #f3ai-ba2 ,luke #ab3af-ba4   
,,the ,,ideal ,,in ,,the ,,business     
,,world  ,there is often a wide         
difference between the methods actually 
employed in doing business and when they
 should be4 ,good men who are in the    
thick of the battle of competition and  
rivalry with other firms in the same    
line of trade1 are the quickest to admit
 this fact4 ,they would gladly see      

things managed so that every employee   
should be satisfied with his wages and  
hours of work and every competitor and  
customer gratified by the treatment he  
receives4  ,business as a ,fight4--,the 
truth is1 says a recent eminent writer  
on this subject1 modern business is a   
fight4 ,at bottom it is a question of   
strength and courage4 ,in this fight    
there are all sorts of men engaged2 men1
 who are honourable and upright and who 
fight fairly1 taking no mean advantage1 
yet nevertheless fighting strongly for  
place1 power and wealth4  ,over against 
this company of men are those who are   
fair only when they are compelled to be 
fair and who contend with any means1    
good or bad1 for the objects which they 
seek to attain4 ,it is this latter class
 which upsets trade1 causes great       
commercial and banking houses to fail1  
and casts suspicion upon all            
corporations1 by the sale of watered and
 fraudulent stocks4  ,it is this idea of
 business as a struggle which causes    

working men to strike sometimes rightly1
 against great abuses1 and sometimes    
wrongly1 over minor matters which might 
easily have been adjusted if they had   
been taken up in the right way4         
,business as a ,service4--,so long as   
the ideal of the business world is that 
business is a fight1 little can be done 
to improve the present conditions under 
which capital and labour work and       
suffer4 ,there is nothing which is so   
costly as war1 nothing which is so      
far-reaching in its disastrous effects  
and which leaves such a trail of misery 
behind it4 ,industrial war is no        
exception to the rule4  ,but why look   
upon business as a fight8 ,already a new
 ideal is before the world1 that of     
service4 ,this is what business really  
is1 it carries things from the place    
where they are abundant to where they   
are not1 it seeks to feed1 to clothe1 to
 house all mankind and to facilitate    
travel and commerce4 ,upon the earth1   
and in it1 enough of all things has been

 provided for all the inhabitants--the  
table spread by ,god has been           
bountifully furnished--if only there    
were a proper distribution no one need  
want4 ,it is this matter of             
unwillingness to unselfishly serve      
others which slows down commerce to-day4
 ,when1 however1 men shall cast aside   
all other ideals save that of being of  
the largest service to their fellow men 
we shall have a new order of things4    
,men will no longer seek to accumulate  
for themselves alone and the labourer   
will work with his full strength and a  
glad enthusiasm4  ,no man ever did his  
best work without some great ideal      
before him which refreshed and quickened
 all his energies4 ,if the business man 
would save himself from becoming sordid1
 and the poorest paid working man from  
becoming sullen and hardened1 they      
should keep ever before them this vision
 of service4   ,,ownership  ,if the     
ideal of service is accepted in the     
business world as true1 then the        

question arises1 ,what or whom shall man
 serve8 ,shall it be a thing1 silver1   
gold1 house or land8 ,shall a man serve 
another man as a man8 ,whatsoever a man 
serves he becomes subject to4 ,he is    
dominated by it and his thoughts go no  
further4 ,every man is tempted to serve 
the lower instead of the higher4 ,jesus 
was tempted 7,matthew #d3a-aa7 by       
certain seeming great and temporal      
advantages to relinquish ,his service of
 ,his ,father1 but ,he made it clear    
once and for all that the supreme object
 of service should be ,god 7,matthew    
#d3aj71 ,him only shalt thou serve4     
,paul also exhorts all men1 in all      
occupations1 to keep in mind first of   
all the service of ,god and of ,christ1 
and to do whatever they do to ,god4     
,then if they administer great or small 
affairs1 if they are masters or         
servants1 they will seek to please ,god 
and1 having this higher ideal1 will do  
far better work1 than they otherwise    
would1 in every sphere of life          

7,ephesians #f3g2 ,colossians #c3ag1bc2 
#a ,corinthians #aj3ca2 #b ,corinthians 
#h3e74  ,god1 the ,owner of ,all4--,god 
as sovereign1 and over and in all1 is   
the proper object of service 7,exodus   
#bj3c1d1e7 for the business man4        
,nations have parceled out the earth    
amongst themselves and claim ownership4 
,men hold the titles of lands under the 
laws of the nations4 ,men dig1 plant and
 reap and call the products of the soil 
their own4 ,but back of the titles of   
men1 and the claim of nations1 ,god is  
the great proprietor4  ,the earth is the
 ,lord's and the fullness thereof2 the  
world and they that dwell therein       
7,psalm #bd3a2 #a ,corinthians #aj3bf74 
,for every beast of the field is ,mine1 
and the cattle upon a thousand hills    
7,psalm #ej3aj-ab74 ,the silver is ,mine
 and the gold is ,mine1 saith the ,lord 
of hosts 7,haggai #b3h74  ,man is a     
,tenant at the ,will of ,god4--,no man  
really owns the goods in which he deals 
or the lands to which he holds the      

deeds4 ,he may be called away from the  
temporary ownership at any time4 ,it was
 asked1 when a certain very rich man    
died1 ,how much did he leave8 ,the reply
 was1 ,he left it all1 he took nothing  
with him4 ,for we brought nothing into  
this world1 and it is certain we can    
carry nothing out 7#a ,timothy #f3g2    
,psalm #di3ag2 ,job #a3ba74 ,christ     
emphasized the uncertain tenure upon    
which all property is held by the       
parable of a certain rich man who had   
much goods laid up1 who congratulated   
himself upon this fact and proposed to  
pull down his barns and build greater1  
saying to his soul1 ,take thine ease1   
eat drink and be merry1 but ,god said1  
,thou fool1 this night thy soul shall be
 required of thee3 then whose shall     
those things be which thou hast provided
 7,luke #ab3af-ba78   ,,trusteeship     
,man as a ,trustee4--,there is no truth 
more clearly brought out and stated in  
many ways in the ,bible than that man is
 in the position of a trustee4 ,jesus   

used the parable of the talents to      
illustrate this great truth 7,matthew   
#be3ad-cj74 ,it is plainly taught in    
this parable that man is under          
obligations to ,god4 ,no man ever       
brought himself into the world4 ,no man 
ever originated his own talent2 some men
 have been endowed with what seems to be
 greater possibilities than others4 ,to 
one man has been given the talent for   
administration1 to another that of a    
ministering spirit1 to another          
mechanical genius1 to another that of   
wealth and to another the power of song 
or speech4  ,but whatever the talent    
given1 great or small1 it is distinctly 
set forth in the ,new ,testament that it
 is given in trust and is to be used in 
the service of ,him who has bestowed it4
  ,the business man is expected1 by his 
,lord1 to buy and sell1 not for himself 
alone1 but as a trustee4 ,in this office
 it is of great importance that a man be
 found faithful to the confidence       
reposed in him 7#a ,corinthians #d3a1b2 

,luke #af3b1aa2 ,romans #ad3ab2 ,luke   
#ai3aa1 #bg74  ,a man in a trusteeship1 
if he is honest1 will not waste or      
squander the property entrusted to his  
care4  ,he will treat fairly and        
honestly all men who work for him4 ,the 
men working for him will feel that they 
are also trustees seeking to use their  
skill and time1 so that the best        
interests of ,god and man may be served4
  ,man's ,right to ,hold ,property and  
,do ,business is recognized by ,christ4 
,in the parable of the pounds 7,luke    
#ai3ab-bf7 ,he commends those who used  
the money in trading to gain more and   
were ready when the nobleman returned to
 render a good account4  ,he condemns   
the man who having received one pound   
made no effort to increase it4 ,he says1
 ,if ye have not been faithful in the   
unrighteous mammon1 who will commit to  
your trust the true riches 7,luke       
#af3aa74  ,he made no demand of ,his    
disciples1 so far as the record shows1  
to give up their property4 ,the case of 

the young man of great wealth 7,mark    
#aj3ag-bg71 who would follow ,christ1   
and of whom ,jesus required that he     
should divest himself of his property1  
is fully in accord with ,jesus' teaching
 concerning wealth and the holding of   
property4 ,the key to the whole matter1 
on this point1 is found in what ,jesus  
says of this very case1 ,how hard it is 
for them that trust in riches to enter  
into the kingdom of ,god 7,mark #aj3bd74
 ,this young man did not possess his    
wealth but his wealth possessed him1 he 
was the servant of his money4 ,jesus'   
teaching is that a man should hold money
 in trust4 ,jesus warned men of the risk
 of possessing property1 lest it become 
their master4 ,money1 considered simply 
as money1 is a hardening influence and  
in the restive desire to get more the   
best things in men are quite sure to be 
eliminated 7,matthew #ac3bb74  ,the     
danger lies in the power of money to    
gather affection and to absorb trust1   
thus displacing ,god 7,matthew          

#f3ai1bj1bd2 ,luke #ah3bd2 #ab3ae74     
,the ,reckoning4--,there comes a time   
when every trustee is called upon to    
render an account of how he has         
administered the business entrusted to  
his care 7,matthew #be3ai2 ,luke        
#ai3ae74 ,this time may be long delayed1
 and in the meantime many abuses may    
grow up1 and it may appear that no      
accounting will ever be demanded2 these 
conditions are plainly pointed out by   
,jesus in the parables of the vineyard  
7,luke #bj3 #i-af7 and the tares        
7,matthew #ac3bd-cj71 but it is also    
made equally clear that in the end every
 man's work shall be judged4  ,in this  
reckoning there can be no making of     
things appear as they are not4 ,there   
can be no juggling with the accounts4   
,every business man must show his books 
7,revelation #bj3ab7 and how he has     
dealt with that which was entrusted to  
his care 7#a ,corinthians #c3aa-ae2     
,romans #b3af2 ,matthew #be3ca-df74  ,it
 is the looking forward to the time of  

reckoning which makes men1 who are in   
offices of earthly trust1 pay careful   
attention to the investment of funds and
 painstakingly investigate the security 
offered4 ,jesus would have every man    
equally careful in the investment of his
 time1 labour1 talent and money for he  
will surely be called upon to give an   
account of his stewardship4  ,in the    
uncertainty of the time of reckoning    
every business man is expected to be    
ready for an investigation at any time  
when the examiner shall appear 7,matthew
 #bd3db-ea2 ,mark #ac3cd-cg2 #a         
,thessalonians #e3f74  ,the ,profit of  
business done1 as a service in the sight
 of ,god1 is declared to be sure and    
large4 ,whatever sacrifices may have to 
be made will be more than amply repaid  
7,matthew #ai3bg1bi2 ,luke #ai3 #af-ai74
  ,it is a well-known fact that1 in the 
business world at large1 there is a very
 great percentage of failures and too   
many mark not only wrecks of business1  
but of characters4 ,the reason often    

given is that the eye is fixed too      
frequently and earnestly on immediate   
and large profits for self4 ,but no man 
ever yet made a failure who openly and  
honestly sought in his business to be of
 service to ,god and his fellow men4    
,real failure in business is a failure  
in character4 ,a business man may be    
carried down by unexpected circumstances
 or the fall of other firms but1 if he  
keeps his character intact1 he is no    
failure2 on the other hand a man who has
 taken a selfish advantage of others may
 be made rich in goods1 but he is a rank
 failure in character4  ,the standard of
 character in business is after all that
 by which the small or the large dealer 
in any kind of goods is judged1 and by  
business men themselves2 business       
transactions are constantly being raised
 to a higher level by the enforcement of
 this standard4   ,,principles  ,if     
employers and employees are ever to be  
brought into harmony1 strikes and       
lockouts abolished1 the industrial      

forces attain to their highest          
efficiency and the products of the world
 distributed with the utmost facility1  
it must all come about not by the       
invoking of courts of law1 but by the   
bringing in of a new sentiment and the  
adoption of certain principles4 ,a      
sentiment is at the base of the present 
troubles and1 until it is changed1 they 
will be likely to continue and the world
 at large will suffer the consequences4 
,so long as men think only of the       
inequalities of life--and there are     
glaring inequalities--the unfair        
distribution of wealth and the          
comparatively obscure positions which   
they hold1 they will be discontented and
 will fight to better themselves1 no    
matter who suffers4 ,the spirit of      
discontent and contention finds lodgment
 in the heart of the humblest working   
man1 up through all grades1 to that of  
the richest employer1 for no man1       
however wealthy1 ever thinks he has     
enough of this world's goods2 those who 

have the most are often the most eager  
in grasping for more4 ,courts of law can
 only regulate the more flagrant        
outbursts of the prevailing sentiment1  
they do not and cannot remedy the       
causes4  ,what are some of the          
principles which are destined to help   
the industrial world out of its         
difficulties8  ,the ,observance of the  
,golden ,rule4--,therefore all things   
whatsoever ye would that men should do  
to you1 do ye even so to them 7,matthew 
#g3ab74 ,just before giving this rule   
,jesus was speaking of a man whose chief
 object was to serve ,god 7,matthew     
#f3cc7 and in the beginning of the      
,sermon on the ,mount1 ,he showed the   
blessedness of the character which was  
to be sought 7,matthew #e3a-af71 before 
this rule could be rightly carried into 
practice in any life4 ,thou shalt love  
thy neighbour as thyself 7,matthew      
#bb3ci7 is in the same line of thought  
as this rule1 but1 and here is the      
point1 we do not want certain men to    

love us as they love themselves1 the    
thief1 the gambler1 the drunkard1 and we
 do not want them to do to us as they do
 to themselves4  ,in order then that    
this rule be rightly observed there must
 be first an avowed allegiance to ,god4 
,thou shalt love the ,lord thy ,god     
7,matthew #bb3cg7 precedes the command  
to ,love thy neighbour4 ,it is only when
 men love ,god aright and obey ,his     
commandments that they can come into    
proper relations with their neighbours4 
,hence1 in seeking ,god first and       
obeying the ,golden ,rule1 the whole    
outlook of employer and employee will be
 changed1 the attention will not be     
fixed upon the inequalities of life or  
the making of a fortune1 but upon the   
desire to be of service2 each man will  
look into his work to improve it and    
seek to help his neighbour2 whatever the
 compensation1 he will seek to do his   
best1 serving as in the sight of ,god4  
,a just consideration of the rights of  
others is the very beginning and end of 

true social economy4 ,it is difficult to
 enforce any law which works against a  
public sentiment1 but let the latter be 
in favour of the former and the law will
 enforce itself4 ,let the sentiment in  
the industrial business world be in     
favour of a supreme service and the     
difficulties and trials of strikes and  
lockouts would disappear2 the energy1   
time and money now spent in fighting    
could be turned to the benefit of       
employer1 employee and consumer4        
,cooperation4--,jesus never set class   
over against class4  ,he mingled with   
the wise and the unwise1 the rich and   
the poor4 ,he sought to draw men        
together in a common brotherhood2 this  
brotherhood was not composed of         
employers or of men who worked at a     
certain trade but of those who sought to
 build up the kingdom of righteousness4 
,there is cooperation to-day amongst men
 but it is the coming together to build 
up some trade and make it strong that it
 may contend more stoutly for its       

rights4 ,there have been various        
attempts for the federation of unions1  
but they have too often been for the    
purpose of coercing a like federation of
 employers' unions into taking a desired
 course of action4  ,the world awaits a 
cooperation of all men in the business  
world upon the basis of love for each   
other and seeking for the best interests
 of all concerned4  ,this again is a    
sentiment but it is one which must work 
against the prevailing sentiment of     
selfishness and looking out for self    
alone1 if ever a better state of things 
is to be brought about4  ,the           
,acceptance of ,jesus ,christ as the    
,great ,example and ,leader4--,no man   
was ever so marvellously endowed with   
power as ,jesus1 yet that power was used
 for the good of mankind4 ,he said ,all 
power is given to ,me in heaven and in  
earth 7,matthew #bh3ah74 ,he made it a  
proof of ,his business on earth that the
 blind received their sight1 the lame   
walked1 the lepers were cleansed1 the   

deaf heard1 the dead were raised        
7,matthew #aa3b-f74  ,the man who       
follows ,christ is the one who makes his
 business minister to the wants of men  
and helps them to better conditions1    
whether he be ruler or ruled4  ,the     
glory is that1 to-day1 there are many   
men who are trying conscientiously1 in  
the ranks of the employers and          
employees1 to carry out the ,golden     
,rule1 cooperate with their fellow men  
and to follow ,christ in ,his business  
of ministering to men4   ,,questions    
,what can be said of the ideal in the   
business world2 fight or service8 ,what 
can be said of the ownership of         
property8 ,who is the owner of all8 ,who
 is a tenant at the will of ,god8 ,what 
can be said of man as a trustee8  ,what 
can be said of a man's right to hold    
property8 ,what can be said of the      
reckoning8 ,what of the profit8 ,what   
are some of the principles which can    
help the business world out of its      
difficulties2 the observance of the     

,golden ,rule1 cooperation1 the         
acceptance of ,jesus ,christ as the     
,great ,leader and ,example8    ,,study 
,,xii  ,,the ,,christian ,,society      
,scripture references3 ,matthew         
#ac3ca-cc2 #e3ba-bd2 ,mark #h3a-i2 ,john
 #b3a-aa2 ,luke #e3bi2 #ad3ac2 #a ,peter
 #b3ag2 ,galatians #f3i2 ,matthew       
#aa3bh-cj2 #ab3ej2 ,luke #ae3e1f1h-aj2  
,john #ag3aa-ae2 ,luke #e3bi1cj2 ,mark  
#a3bh-cc2 ,matthew #f3cc2 ,luke         
#ab3ac-ae4   ,,the ,,social ,,circle    
,the ,word ,society is used to designate
 the set of people with whom we are on  
more intimate terms of                  
acquaintanceship--whom we call          
friends--and those whom we do not know  
so well1 and whom we call acquaintances4
 ,the term society may also have other  
definitions1 such as1  #a4 ,a collective
 body of persons composing a community1 
or the aggregate of such communities4   
#b4 ,a body of persons associated for a 
common object4 #c4 ,the more favoured   
class or classes1 or the fashionable    

portion of the community4  ,the ,extent 
of the social circle of any man or woman
 is largely dependent upon personal     
choice4  ,there are persons who are     
exclusive in their preferences and who  
seek only the society of those of the   
same rank1 wealth or profession as      
themselves4 ,hence the different classes
 in society at large4 ,the pride of the 
poor often equals the pride of the rich 
in this matter4  ,the ,character of a   
social circle is also dependent upon the
 convictions and opinions of those who  
compose it4 ,there is a social          
conscience which is very lax in one     
group and will allow almost any         
departure from the moral law1 but in    
another group it is very strict in its  
requirements4 ,the social conscience is 
constantly weakened in one case by      
persons joining the first group1 who are
 weak in moral principle2 and as        
constantly strengthened by those1       
joining the second group1 who are strong
 in the things which make for a right   

life4  ,the ,example of ,christ4--,when 
,christ came upon earth ,he found that  
the rich and educated classes had       
largely withdrawn from all intercourse  
with those whom they considered beneath 
them4 ,he also saw that the tone of     
society was arrogant and that of moral  
restraint there was none at all or it   
was exceedingly weak4 ,the situation was
 such that many men despaired of        
anything better and were secluding      
themselves from intercourse with their  
fellow men4 ,john the ,baptist felt that
 he could not stem the tide of evil in  
society and retired to the desert to    
deliver his message4  ,those who contend
 for the regeneration of a corrupt      
society1 and who are decidedly in the   
minority1 always are prone to step      
outside and seek to do their work there1
 and sometimes it may be the best to do 
so4  ,jesus however entered into the    
midst of society4  ,he went to feasts   
7,luke #e3bi1cj2 #g3cf2 #ai3e74 ,he was 
present at a wedding 7,john #b3 #a-aa74 

,he said that the kingdom of ,god was   
like unto ten virgins who prepared to   
attend a wedding 7,matthew #be3a-ac74   
,so constantly did ,he enter into social
 intercourse with men that the          
,pharisees and the scribes criticised   
,him severely for it 7,luke #ae3b7 but  
,jesus justified ,his course in being   
social to save by the three parables2   
the lost sheep1 the lost coin and the   
lost boy 7,luke #ae3a-bd74 ,he gave a   
great feast at which about five thousand
 men were present besides women and     
children 7,matthew #ad3ae-ba74 ,he told 
what garments a guest should wear at a  
wedding1 what seat he should take and   
who should be invited 7,matthew         
#bb3aa-ad2 ,luke #ad3g-bd74 ,he did not 
wait for men to come to ,him1 but ,he   
went out to meet them by the seaside1   
and in the city4 ,he sent ,his disciples
 out also that ,he through them might do
 as wide a work as possible4  ,there is 
no trace of the recluse in ,jesus4 ,he  
desired to meet people of all classes   

and mingle with them4  ,at the last ,he 
gathered ,his disciples about ,him1 in  
an upper room1 and instituted a memorial
 supper as the chief ordinance of ,his  
church 7,luke #bb3ai2 ,matthew          
#bf3bf-cj74  ,everything that ,jesus did
 in meeting people in a social way had a
 purpose and that was to level up       
society and cause it to conform to the  
principles of the kingdom of ,god4      
,wherever ,he went ,he led the          
conversation to the better things of    
this kingdom4  ,the man who quotes      
,jesus and ,his relation to society1 as 
a justification of attendance upon      
numerous social functions1 ought also to
 carry out the purpose of ,jesus in     
bringing others to a better life2 he    
ought also to lead the conversation to  
the same topics4 ,if society sways any  
man from the right purposes of life1 and
 he finds that he cannot breast its     
temptations he should remain out of it  
or increase his spiritual strength4     
,the ,christian ,society1 composed of a 

body of persons associated for the      
common object of exploiting ,jesus      
,christ and ,his principles1 at first   
was almost wholly social4 ,the early    
,christians met in each others' houses4 
,they partook of meals in common after  
which they observed the ,lord's supper4 
,the basis of organization was the      
fraternal equality of believers4  ,the  
barriers between the rich and the poor1 
the learned and the unlearned1 seemed to
 drop of themselves4 ,no pressure was   
brought to bear to force men together in
 this fraternal organization1 but they  
were united by a common love for ,jesus 
,christ1 their ,lord1 and like ,him they
 were at home in all social circles4    
,no law1 no urgency of appeal1 no       
pressure1 can to-day abolish class      
distinctions or the conflict between    
capital and labour4 ,it is only when    
men's hearts are filled with love for   
,christ that they cease to antagonize   
and begin to care for each other and a  
true social bond is formed4   ,,social  

,,institutions  ,there is no problem of 
importance to humanity which has not    
some relation to the ,gospel of ,christ4
  ,there is a social question and it is 
a live question4  ,it is closely related
 to the wrongs and inequalities of life1
 in wealth1 in position1 in privileges  
and in opportunities4 ,there is a social
 impulse which causes men to get        
together in smaller and larger groups   
and through these groups to found       
institutions which will aid in          
abolishing the wrongs and in lessening  
the inequalities4  ,it is in and through
 social institutions that the larger    
life of the individual is expressed and 
he is able to bring about certain       
results1 working in connection with     
other individuals1 which he alone could 
not bring to pass4 ,in the social       
organism there is specialization of     
work1 one member performing one function
 and another another and all working in 
harmony for a common purpose 7#a        
,corinthians #ab3ad-bg74  ,there are    

three great social institutions through 
which men seek the larger life1 the     
family1 the church1 and the state4 ,they
 exist in some form1 elementary and     
crude it may be1 wherever man is found4 
,christianity entering into all human   
relations1 has much to say about their  
construction and specific powers and    
duties4 ,its mission is not only to     
regenerate the heart of the individual  
but to penetrate and transform society4 
,its work is to leaven the whole mass of
 human interests with a divinely        
purifying power4 ,it touches every act  
and every relation of humanity with a   
life from above1 and interpenetrates all
 that a man can do with a new spirit and
 a heavenly light4 ,it affects          
governments1 moulds education1 rectifies
 manners1 sweetens fellowship1 makes the
 common ways of men better1 healthier1  
happier1 as well as holier4  ,its       
endeavour is to realize a divine society
 not hereafter only1 but upon earth2 to 
have the kingdom of ,god come not in the

 skies alone or in the future merely1   
but here and among men4  ,the           
,family4--,this is the earliest and most
 primitive social institution4 ,we are  
all born into some family1 however      
imperfect its form4 ,upon the family    
depends in large measure the good or bad
 training of the children2 here they    
receive their earliest impressions and  
what they are taught in the family often
 dominates all other instruction4 ,if   
the bond between husband and wife is not
 regarded as binding and sacred the     
institution of the family becomes       
corrupt and a menace to the good order  
of society4  ,jesus spoke in no         
uncertain way about the sacredness of   
the marriage relation 7,matthew #ai3c-i2
 #e3cb7 and the obedience which children
 owed to their parents 7,matthew        
#ae3d-f74  ,the ,church4--,man has been 
called a religious animal4 ,his desire  
to worship is instinctive4 ,he seeks the
 care and protection of a stronger power
 than himself4 ,even a man who says he  

has no religious opinions will often be 
found1 when questioned1 to hold most    
strongly to things which he believes4   
,individuals1 then holding to certain   
religious beliefs1 naturally come       
together and form groups in which they  
worship in common4 ,this is the social  
impulse applied to worship1 because man 
likes to do things in connection with   
his fellow men4  ,christ sought to      
direct men to the proper object of      
worship 7,john #d3 #bc1bd2 #ad3f-aa71   
the way to pray 7,matthew #f3e-ae71 the 
way to enter into life with ,god 7,john 
#c3a-ba7 and the character which was    
required of those who desired to lead   
the divine life 7,matthew #e3a-af2      
chapters #e-g74 ,men who believe in the 
principles of ,jesus ,christ associate  
themselves together in a ,christian     
church4  ,the ,government4--,everywhere 
we find men uniting for mutual          
protection against their enemies1 the   
guarding of property1 the settling of   
disputes between individuals1 the       

administration of justice and the       
exercise of other powers4 ,this         
government may take different forms from
 the one man power in a monarchy to that
 of the most liberal democracy4 ,the    
necessity for some form of government   
seems plain4  ,christ recognized the    
duties which a man owed to the state    
when ,he said1 in answer to the lawyer's
 question1 ,is it lawful to give tribute
 unto ,caesar1 or not8  ,render         
therefore unto ,caesar the things which 
are ,caesar's2 and unto ,god the things 
that are ,god's4 ,he saw the corruption 
in the government of ,his times as      
plainly as any one1 more plainly in     
fact1 but ,he was showing the necessity 
of the functions of government4 ,he     
submitted to the decree of the state    
condemning ,him to death although ,he   
knew it to be unjust1 and that the power
 was not with ,pilate 7,john #ai3aj1aa2 
,matthew #bf3eb1ec74  ,what ,jesus      
sought to do was to usher in a new      
kingdom of righteousness4 ,he taught    

,his disciples to pray for the coming of
 this kingdom upon earth4  ,thy kingdom 
come4 ,thy will be done in earth as it  
is in heaven4 ,he was continually       
speaking of this kingdom 7,matthew      
#ac3bd-eb74 ,he declared that all       
nations should come to ,him finally to  
be judged 7,matthew #be3ca1cb74 ,one    
great theme of the prophets of the ,old 
,testament was the righteousness1 purity
 and justice of the new government which
 ,god desires to set up amongst men4    
,social damage comes to men and great   
evil is done to individuals when social 
institutions are not patterned after the
 plans given by ,christ2 these are      
divine institutions when they seek to   
approach to the divine ideal4  ,much of 
the unquiet and restlessness of the     
masses of men to-day and the great      
wrongs in the world are due to the      
tampering with the marriage relation1   
the substitution of the worship of      
wealth and worldly power for ,god1 and  
the seeking of government positions1 not

 to be of service to men under ,god but 
to rule over men4  ,social health and   
vigour will come in the family1 church  
and government when men turn again to   
,god and obey and serve ,him through the
 social institutions with supreme love  
and enthusiasm for ,his service4        
,,social ,,aims  ,in ,socialism4--,there
 are many schemes presented to-day under
 the broad term of ,socialism which have
 for their proposed end the betterment  
of the people1 the abolishment of all   
wrongs and the bringing in of a new     
order of things2 where every man shall  
do a minimum amount of work and receive 
a large return for what he does4 ,these 
plans vary from the mildest of          
reforms--and from the public collective 
ownership of land and capital and the   
public collective management of all     
industries with the recognition of      
certain private rights--to the taking of
 all land and capital absolutely from   
private control1 the abolishing of the  
right to hold private property1 the     

giving up of the marriage relation1 the 
suppression of the church and the       
renunciation of the government4  ,the   
trouble with extreme schemes of this    
sort is that they seek in the end to    
abolish the individual and private      
rights1 even in marriage4 ,but all      
social and moral health and wealth is   
but the aggregate of individual health  
and wealth4 ,no community and no class  
of men are better than the men who      
compose them4 ,if there are evils in the
 present system they would continue1 in 
a magnified form1 in the new4 ,there is 
here the old political fallacy1 made    
over into a new social fallacy1 that by 
mere putting of the ballot into every   
man's hands the government would be     
purified of all its evils4 ,we must     
begin with the individual to purify him 
before the state or society can be made 
much better4 ,it is the levelling down1 
the bringing the better working man to  
the rate of work and quality of the     
poorer1 which is sought1 rather than the

 levelling up4 ,the common goods scheme 
was tried early in the career of the    
,christian ,church and it failed to work
 because of the element of selfishness  
which came in 7,acts #b3 #dd1de2 #d3cd2 
compare #e3a-aa72 this has been the     
cause of the breaking up of numerous    
social and communistic settlements and  
communities4  ,in ,christianity4--,when 
the precepts of ,christianity have been 
accepted and lived up to by any man or  
company of men1 they have never failed  
to stand all the social tests which have
 been applied to them4  ,they seek the  
regeneration of the individual and the  
purification and usefulness1 for him1 of
 all the social institutions4 ,they     
endeavour to abolish evil desires and   
practices in the individual and all     
social1 industrial and political wrongs4
 ,they give full play to all man's      
powers in private and in public matters4
 ,they have never been proved inadequate
 to their task1 but they have found much
 refractory material with which to deal4

  ,they level up not down and seek for  
every man a new moral and physical life2
 they present before him the very       
highest ideals of life and service4  ,it
 is a fact that it is only where their  
light shines that the working man has   
anything like decent wages or hours of  
labour4 ,in ,china1 ,india and ,africa  
we find the labourer gets little or     
nothing for his toil4  ,it is only in   
,christian countries that we have       
anything approaching true social        
equality1 in others no man may rise out 
of his caste or class4 ,take the ,united
 ,states and we find that a number of   
our presidents have come from the       
poorest families and most of our        
influential and wealthy men have risen  
from the ranks of the common people4    
,it is the lack of ,christian principles
 in individual1 industrial and public   
life which is at the bottom of the      
present day social unrest4  ,in ,christ1
 the ,social ,reformer4--,when ,he came 
upon the earth and before ,his time all 

labour was performed by slaves without  
pay and with but a dole of food4 ,the   
mighty buildings of ,egypt1 ,assyria1   
,babylonia1 ,greece and ,rome were all  
built by the unrequited toil of slaves4 
,such would have continued to be the    
state of things had not ,christ said1   
,the labourer is worthy of his hire     
7,luke #aj3g2 ,matthew #aj3aj74 ,that a 
working man should receive wages or any 
pay for his labour was revolutionary in 
that time for ,plato1 ,cicero1 ,lycurgus
 held that it was a disgrace to touch   
the implements of toil4 ,christ         
dignified labour by toiling at the bench
 as a carpenter4 ,if ever labour is to  
gain any real advantage it must be      
through taking ,christ as a leader      
7,matthew #aa3bh74  ,he taught that the 
true bond of social equality was a moral
 and spiritual one 7,luke #h3ba2        
,matthew #bc3h2 ,philippians #c3ac-ae2  
#d3h74  ,in the ,social                 
,settlement4--,what is a true social    
settlement8  ,this question is not so   

easily answered4  ,there are all kinds  
and sorts of social settlements4  ,some 
minister to the health of the community 
in which they are situated and some do  
not4 ,the saloon has recently put forth 
its claim to the doing of social        
service1 but no one ever slandered a    
saloon keeper by affirming that he had  
anything in view save a selfish motive4 
,whatever little social service he may  
render is more than counterbalanced by  
the social havoc wrought by his trade4  
,again there are social settlements     
where the principal thought and effort  
seems to be to provide somewhat         
questionable vaudeville entertainments  
and frequent public dances2 the leaders 
say they are compelled to adopt these   
features to hold the people2 here comes 
in again the question of social damage  
to the community in which they are      
situated4  ,the true social settlement1 
with all its features of mental and     
physical culture1 is one which places   
,christ at the front of all its work and

 keeps ,him there4  ,it is ,christ and  
,christ alone who can really help the   
individual and the community and there  
are numbers of social settlements where 
,christ is kept at the head of the work4
  ,the church has changed its methods   
very much during the past few years4    
,seldom is a church now built which does
 not have its well appointed kitchen1   
dining-room and parlours and other      
social equipments4  ,it is according as 
a church uses these adjuncts1 whether   
they really help it1 or not1 to do its  
work4 ,the church is powerful as a force
 for social betterment not as it does or
 does not open its doors to lecturers1  
plan social entertainments1 give dinners
 and hold festivals--these may be       
helps--but in so far as it sways the    
inner life of the community4 ,this inner
 life1 influenced in right ways1 finds  
expression in a better individual1 home 
and community standard4 ,this standard  
makes for the uplifting of the social   
state outside as well as inside the     

church4 ,the principle is1 not social   
for the sake of being social1 but social
 to save4 ,it is quite certain that     
unless the church sets up its ideals in 
the community1 a worldly community will 
set up its ideals in the church4 ,the   
more spiritual a church as a social     
settlement is the stronger the social   
bond becomes between rich and poor1 the 
learned and the unlearned4              
,,brotherhood  ,the ,christian ,social  
,brotherhood is not a brotherhood of a  
class but of all classes and conditions 
of men4  ,to-day the popular idea of    
brotherhood is the association of men of
 a certain trade4 ,there is a strong    
tendency for social groups to be formed1
 which are exclusive of all who do not  
conform to a certain standard in the    
industrial world and inclusive of all   
who do4 ,the members are looking for    
protection and mutual benefit4  ,christ 
said of ,his brotherhood1 ,one is your  
,master1 even ,christ and all ye are    
brethren4444 ,one is your ,father which 

is in heaven 7,matthew #bc3h1i74  ,we   
find here the great principle laid down 
that there can be no true brotherhood   
without a common fatherhood4 ,christians
 are brothers because they have a common
 ,master and ,father hence they seek to 
do good not only to the members of the  
brotherhood but to all men1 because ,god
 is the ,father of all4 ,it is this     
thought that is to bring men up out of  
their selfishness4  ,the employer and   
employee will strive to do all they can 
for each other when deep down in their  
hearts they believe they are brethren in
 ,christ2 we shall hear no more then of 
injustice upon either side4  ,the church
 of ,jesus ,christ holds the only       
solution to the peaceful and happy      
settlement of the social unrest4        
,,questions  ,what can be said of the   
social circle1 what does the word       
society signify8 ,what is the extent of 
any social circle1 the character8 ,what 
can be said of the example of ,christ in
 society1 the ,christian society8 ,what 

can be said of social institutions2 the 
family1 the church1 the government8     
,what can be said of social aims2       
,socialism1 ,christianity1 ,christ1 the 
social reformer1 the church as a social 
settlement8 ,what can be said of the    
,christian social brotherhood8          
,,study ,,xiii  ,,the ,,christian       
,,state   ,scripture references3        
,matthew #bb3ag-bb2 #ag3bd-bg2 ,acts    
#bc3e2 ,john #f3ae2 ,matthew #d3h-aj2   
,john #ah3cf-ch2 ,mark #ad2 #fa1fb2     
,john #ah3cc2 #ai3ai2 ,isaiah #i3f1g2   
#fj3c2 ,zechariah #i3aj2 ,daniel #g3ad2 
,matthew #bf3fd2 #bf3ec1ed2 #af3af1ag2  
#be3ca1cb4   ,,christ ,,and ,,the       
,,state  ,the ,relation of ,christ to   
the ,state4--,he was an intense patriot4
 ,he loved ,his country4 ,the names of  
,his great countrymen1 ,abraham1 ,isaac1
 ,jacob1 ,joshua and ,david1 were ever  
on ,his lips4 ,he offered ,himself as   
the national ,messiah 7,matthew         
#ba3a-ag71 ,he was rejected 7,john      
#ah3ch-ai3af2 ,luke #bc3bg-cj2 #ac3cd7  

and crucified 7,john #ai3ah71 after ,he 
had been unjustly condemned to death    
both by the ,jewish and ,roman          
authorities4 ,upon the cross and over   
,his head was placed the inscription1   
,jesus of ,nazareth the ,king of the    
,jews4  ,what ,jesus ,taught ,about the 
,state4--,the ancient idea of the state 
was that it was everything and the      
individual nothing4 ,the first question 
was1 ,is the state strong and           
prosperous8 ,the happiness or           
unhappiness of the individual was not   
considered4 ,the purity or impurity of  
the life of the individual was of little
 consequence4 ,the citizens existed for 
the state and to serve it and its ruler4
 ,this idea has lingered long and is not
 entirely yet extinct4  #a4 ,jesus      
discovered the individual in the state4 
,he taught that the soul of one man is  
worth more than the whole world         
7,matthew #af3bf74 ,jesus put the       
individual first and the state second4  
,this teaching was entirely new and     

revolutionary4 ,christ's principle was  
make the man1 the unit1 right and the   
state will be right4 ,he insisted that  
the test of the state is the kind of    
individuals it produces 7,matthew       
#g3af74 ,by their fruits ye shall know  
them 7,matthew #g3bj74 ,formerly the    
state was thought of as an institution  
to minister to the comfort or happiness 
of the ruler or ruling class4 ,christ   
reversed this when ,he declared that    
rulers existed to serve the state4 ,he  
said1 ,ye know that the princes of the  
,gentiles exercise dominion over them1  
and they that are great exercise        
authority upon them4 ,but it shall not  
be so among you1 but whosoever will be  
great among you let him be your         
minister2 and whosoever will be chief   
among you let him be your servant4 ,even
 as the ,son of ,man came not to be     
ministered unto1 but to minister and to 
give ,his life a ransom for many        
7,matthew #bj3 #be-bh74 ,he is the      
greatest in the state who renders the   

greatest service4  #b4 ,he laid the     
foundation of a true state4 ,in the time
 of ,christ the common people had no    
choice in the selection or election of  
any officer of the state1 of high or low
 position4 ,popular government in any   
form was unknown4 ,if things went wrong 
people must endure them4 ,when ,jesus   
laid the responsibility upon the        
individual ,he made a basis for a       
popular government of some form4 ,if    
things are not right now in a ,christian
 state the people have the power of     
protest and change4 ,it is for the      
people to send their representatives to 
the legislature1 to congress1 to        
parliament1 etc41 and to make and alter 
the laws when new laws or changes are   
needed4  #c4 ,he was a civil reformer   
from the inside4 ,jesus taught the      
necessity for the moral and spiritual   
regeneration of men before much could be
 done by the state in weeding out its   
evils4 ,he saw plainly the folly of     
trying to transform the character of the

 state solely by the coercive power of  
law4 ,satan tempted ,him to take the    
short cut1--seize power over men and    
then change the character in men        
7,matthew #d3h74  ,to have become the   
kind of a king the ,galileans proposed  
in ,john #f3ae would have frustrated    
,his mission4 ,he sought in society and 
politics what ,he sought in each man's  
life 7,matthew #ab3cf2 #bc3bf2 ,luke    
#f3de2 ,john #aj3aj74 ,jesus was a true 
reformer4  #d4 ,jesus taught obedience  
to the state and ,himself strictly      
observed what ,he taught4 ,he paid ,his 
taxes 7,matthew #ag3bd-bg74 ,he declared
 that it was lawful to give tribute to  
,caesar 7,matthew #bb3ae-ba74  ,when ,he
 was unlawfully arrested1 on a trumped  
up charge1 ,he made no resistance 7,john
 #ah3a-i72 this was not because ,he was 
not able to do so1 for ,he could have   
summoned more than twelve legions of    
angels to aid ,him 7,matthew #bf3ec74   
,jesus thoroughly understood the        
corruption of ,his times1 and the       

character of the rulers4 ,he said of    
,herod1 when it was told ,him that he   
would kill ,him1 ,go ye and tell that   
fox1 ,behold1 ,i cast out devils and do 
cures to-day and to-morrow1 and the     
third day ,i shall be perfected 7,luke  
#ac3cb1cc74 ,he obeyed the law for a    
purpose and the bringing in of a new    
order of things--the abolition of force 
and the substitution for it of service  
in the kingdom of ,god4 ,he suffered the
 ,just for the unjust4 ,he was a ,martyr
 for ,his country4 ,he died that it     
might live in a new order of men1 under 
the banner of ,christianity4  #e4 ,he   
taught the right principles upon which  
the universal state should be founded4  
,up to and at the time of ,christ       
nations were separated from each other  
not only by natural boundaries of       
rivers1 seas1 plains1 mountains1        
languages and racial differences but by 
religions4  ,one people worshipped one  
set of gods1 while another people bowed 
down to other gods4  ,jesus set forth   

the large ideal of uniting all races and
 all peoples in one great spiritual     
kingdom 7,john #ah3cg2 ,matthew         
#bh3ai1bj2 ,acts #a3h2 #ag3bd-bg74  ,it 
is only as different peoples and nations
 are united in a common religion that   
there can be a proper political         
federation or union 7,john #d3bj-bd2    
#aj3af74  ,jesus taught ,his disciples  
to pray that ,god's kingdom1 a reign of 
righteousness1 justice and peace1 might 
come1 not to one people only1 but to all
 peoples4  ,this prayer1 ,thy kingdom   
come4 ,thy will be done in earth as it  
is done in heaven 7,matthew #f3aj7 means
 that the earth and no one restricted   
part of it is to be occupied by the     
kingdom of ,god4 ,jesus looked beyond   
the ,jewish state and the ,roman state  
and saw the beginning of a kingdom of   
,god which would embrace all nations4   
,it is this kingdom which is to         
permeate1 purify and control the        
governments of the earth4   ,,the       
,,authority  ,the ,source of ,authority 

is in ,god4 ,there is no power but of   
,god2 the powers that be are ordained of
 ,god 7,romans #ac3a2 ,daniel #b3bj1ba2 
#d3cb2 ,psalm #b74 ,god is sovereign4   
,he is the final basis of all authority4
 ,government has authority delegated to 
do its duties1 but it has no inherent   
authority to do anything4 ,god has      
inherent powers2 institutions have that 
which is conferred upon them by law4    
,each one who exercises authority must  
derive it directly or indirectly from   
,god 7,matthew #ah3ah2 ,daniel #g3ac1ad2
 ,isaiah #i3f1g2 ,luke #aj3bb2 ,john    
#c3ce74  ,this is one of the fundamental
 principles of the ,christian state4    
,this authority may be delegated to men 
and may be used rightly or it may be    
abused4  ,in the ,old and ,new          
,testaments it is distinctly taught that
 all nations--,christian and            
unchristian--are directly accountable to
 ,god4  ,the ,sanction of ,authority is 
in the righteousness and justice of     
,god4 ,shall not the ,judge of all the  

earth do right 7,genesis #ah3be2 ,psalm 
#eh3aa2 #fg3g2 #ig3f2 #i3h2 #ej3f2      
,proverbs #af3aa1ab2 ,romans #c3ba1bb78 
,the ,old ,testament prophets looked    
forward to the perfect state wherein    
righteousness and justice should rule4  
,sovereignty over a state may be        
initiated by force but it can never be  
made the permanent basis on which       
sovereignty rests4 ,states have been    
defrauded of their birthright with      
scarcely the grace of a contract for a  
mess of pottage1 but the possession may 
be kept only by a return to justice4    
,the strongest is not strong enough to  
be always master1 unless he transform   
his strength into right and obedience to
 duty4   ,,the ,,law  ,reign of         
,law4--,the philosopher1 the natural    
scientist and the ,christian theologian 
all believe that we live in a universe  
governed by law4 ,certain natural       
scientists may believe that the law is  
impersonal in its origin1 but the       
,christian theologian believes that the 

origin of law1 and the carrying it out1 
is the expression of the will of a      
personal ,god4  ,law has been defined1  
as the necessary relations which pertain
 to the nature of things4 ,when men come
 to associate themselves in a state they
 find it necessary to define and        
formally set forth their relations by   
certain enactments for the general good1
 which are called laws4 ,but these laws 
naturally will be the expression of1 and
 will rise no higher than1 the social   
conscience of the people4  ,the revealed
 will of ,god in regard to men and their
 political relations to each other1 as  
given in the ,scriptures1 presents high 
ideals1 which1 if realized1 go to make  
the perfect state 7,micah #f3h74 ,the   
,old ,testament prophets were           
continually presenting these divine     
ideals of the state to the people of    
,israel and urging them to accept them4 
,christ had much to say about the higher
 political relations of men4 ,paul in   
his epistles also had much to say upon  

this topic4  ,moses urged not only the  
keeping of the provisions of the        
ceremonial1 but also the moral and civil
 laws 7,deuteronomy #f3a-i2 ,exodus     
#be3dj2 ,joshua #a3g2 ,exodus #ac3i2    
,nehemiah #i3ac2 ,psalm #a3b2 ,isaiah   
#a3aj-ag2 ,jeremiah #h3g1h2 ,daniel     
#i3aj1aa2 ,matthew #e3ag2 #bb3cf-dj2    
,hebrews #h3aj2 ,titus #c3a1b2 ,ezra    
#g3be74  ,god is the ,lord of all       
nations and they are to be judged       
according to ,his law 7,psalm #b2       
#dg3b1c2 ,malachi #a3ad2 ,psalm #fg3d2  
,matthew #bh3ai2 #be3cb2 ,romans        
#af3bf74  ,the ,end of the ,law is to   
make a holy nation1 wherein             
righteousness shall reign4 ,the effort  
of the ,mosaic law was to make ,israel a
 holy nation4 ,even sanitary and dietary
 laws were not laid down as such but    
were made the distinctive marks of the  
consecrated life of a chosen people2    
details of ritual were prescribed to    
express the sense of the holiness of    
,god in whose service they were         

exercised 7,exodus #ai3f74 ,and ye shall
 be holy unto ,me2 for ,i the ,lord am  
holy1 and have severed you from other   
people1 that ye should be ,mine         
7,leviticus #bj3bf2 ,deuteronomy #g3f2  
#bf3ai2 #bh3i2 ,isaiah #fb3ab2 #a       
,corinthians #c3ag74  ,the effort of    
,christianity1 under the leadership of  
,christ1 is not only to perfect the     
church1 but also the state4 ,in so far  
as the principles of ,christianity      
prevail amongst the people they reflect 
themselves in the laws of the state4 ,in
 a community which is thoroughly        
,christian it is impossible for certain 
evil institutions to maintain           
themselves4  ,the ,duty of the          
,christian ,citizen is to recognize the 
state1 to give it loyal support and     
obedience and to seek to make its law   
conform to the law ordained by ,god4 ,no
 man ought to hold himself aloof from   
the political interests of his community
 or country4 ,in many towns and cities  
where ,christian public sentiment has   

secured the passage of excellent laws   
for the suppression of certain evils1   
the evils flourish in spite of the good 
laws because they are not strongly      
supported by that sentiment which       
secured their passage4  ,never was there
 a time when the highest type of        
,christian citizenship1 setting forth   
the ideals of ,christ1 was more needed  
than at the present day4 ,the outlook   
for any true national greatness must    
necessarily be from an ethical and      
,christian standpoint1 bringing to the  
front the principles of love1 loyalty1  
service and sacrifice4   ,,functions    
,,and ,,purpose  ,functions4--,the      
,christian state is continually widening
 its sphere of care and action over and 
for the individual4 ,it not only assumes
 the protection of life and property1   
but provides schools1 from the primary  
grade to great universities2 it cares   
for the sick and mentally deficient2 it 
provides food1 clothing and shelter for 
the destitute poor1 it supervises the   

morals of the people1 and enforces      
sanitary regulations4 ,the more         
thoroughly ,christian the state the more
 it seeks the betterment of the         
individual4 ,the less ,christian the    
state the less it cares for the good of 
the individual and the more it seeks to 
oppress and to use him as its slave4    
,purpose--,this is the realization of   
the kingdom of ,god on earth4 ,the      
,christian is working for a state1 where
 the principles of justice and brotherly
 love shall prevail4   ,,questions      
,christ and the state2 what was ,his    
relation to the state8  ,what did ,he   
teach about the state8 ,what did ,jesus 
teach about the individual and his      
relation to the state8 ,in what way did 
,he lay the foundation of the true      
state8 ,in what respect was ,he a civil 
reformer8 ,what did ,jesus teach about  
obedience to the state8 ,what did ,he   
teach about the universal state and the 
principles upon which it should be      
founded8 ,what is the source of         

authority for the state8  ,give the     
sanction of its authority4 ,what can be 
said of the law of the state1 the reign 
of law1 definition1 end of the law and  
the duty of the ,christian citizen8     
,give the functions and purpose of the  
,christian state4    ,,study ,,xiv      
,,the ,,christian',s ,,hope   ,scripture
 references3 #a ,timothy #a3a2          
,colossians #a3bg2 ,psalm #acj3e2 #dc3e2
 ,proverbs #aj3h2 ,acts #bd3ae2 ,psalm  
#ga3e2 ,romans #e3a-e2 #ab3ab2 #ae3d2 #a
 ,corinthians #i3aj2 ,galatians #e3e2   
,ephesians #a3ah2 ,philippians #a3bj2   
,colossians #a3e2 #a ,thessalonians     
#a3c2 #b3ai2 ,titus #a3b2 #b3ac2 #c3g2  
,psalm #ca3bd2 #ga3ad1ae4   ,,hope ,,in 
,,the ,,present ,,life  ,that which a   
man ardently hopes for he strives to    
realize4 ,if he desires fame1 office or 
wealth he will seek to set forces in    
motion1 here and now1 which will bring  
him that which his soul covets4 ,back of
 every man's striving there is always   
some hope1 an ideal1 which he endeavours

 to make a reality4  ,the man who       
enthusiastically believes in ,jesus     
,christ cherishes the hope that every   
man may be brought to believe in his    
,lord and ,master 7,acts #bf3bg-bi74 ,he
 wants to see ,christ not only rule and 
reign in the life to come1 but in this  
present life4  ,the urgency of the ,new 
,testament appeals to men is to1 at     
once1 believe in ,jesus ,christ1 and to 
begin to live the ,christian life 7,acts
 #af3ca-cc2 #b ,corinthians #f3a-aj2    
,galatians #b3bj74 ,the attempt was made
 by the early preachers of ,christianity
 to bring about upon the earth a new    
order of things4 ,they prayed and       
laboured for the immediate conversion of
 men's souls and the betterment of the  
conditions under which men lived4 ,a new
 kingdom 7,matthew #aj3cb-db2 ,mark     
#a3ad1ae7 was inaugurated with new      
ideals 7,matthew #e3a-af71 new          
principles and new aspirations1 which   
was to supersede the old social and     
political orders4  ,it was the preaching

 of this kingdom of ,christ1 and that   
men owed their first allegiance to it   
7,acts #e3bh1bi71 which provoked the    
terrible persecutions of the first      
centuries4  ,christianity has much to do
 with this present life1 it has a       
panacea for all its ills and evils and  
it has a certain definite programme to  
carry out4  ,the ,christian hopes and   
works for3  ,the ,regeneration of the   
,individual through faith in ,christ    
7,john #c3e1ad-ba74 ,this is an inward  
change wrought in the soul by the grace 
of ,god4 ,while this is a work of ,god1 
the responsibility for it rests with    
man4 ,god does not desire the death of  
the sinner4 ,by the sending of ,jesus   
,christ ,god has shown ,his love for man
 while yet a sinner4 ,every unregenerate
 man either does not desire this new    
life or else feels that he never sought 
with all his heart to have ,god         
regenerate his soul 7,john #e3dj2 #a3d2 
#e3bd2 ,isaiah #a3ah74  ,the regenerate 
man in ,christ thinks and acts from a   

new basis 7#b ,corinthians #e3ag2       
,galatians #f3ae74 ,it is only as the   
love of a man's heart is really changed 
and centred upon right things that he   
can be depended upon to walk in right   
ways4 ,a man may act right1 may be      
honest and upright from prudential      
motives1 but if his heart is evil the   
way of the righteous will be irksome to 
him and he may depart from it at any    
time4 ,the unmasking of the double life 
of a man1 every now and then1 shows how 
the heart's desire will have its way    
with a man who does not love ,god4      
,heart faith in ,christ leads a man to  
follow and be like ,him4  ,hence we have
 such a large emphasis placed upon work 
for and with the individual by ,christ  
and ,his disciples4  ,christ ,himself   
called ,his apostles to ,him one by one 
and ,he was continually holding         
conversations of the deepest interest   
with individuals 7,john #c3a-ac2        
#d3f-bf74  ,the possibilities of the    
work of the individual ,christian for   

the individual non-,christian man are   
too largely left untried4 ,if every     
follower of ,christ should try to win   
one1 who did not follow ,him1 to ,his   
cause every year the good effects of    
such a campaign would be felt not only  
in the church1 but in every department  
of life4  ,all true reform work must    
begin with the regeneration of the      
individual4  ,the ,enlightenment of the 
,social ,conscience4--,there is such a  
thing as a social conscience4 ,it is    
possible to say and do things in certain
 communities which would not be         
tolerated in others4 ,one town will not 
only sanction the liquor business within
 its boundaries but will resist all     
efforts to abolish it2 another town     
right beside it will have none of this  
iniquitous traffic4 ,lawlessness and    
immorality find a hearty welcome in     
certain cities and in others they dare  
not show themselves4 ,all this is due   
not to the perfection or the            
imperfection of the laws or to the large

 number or small number of men upon the 
police force1 but to an evil1 an        
apathetic or an enlightened social      
conscience4  ,the progress of the gospel
 of ,christ is often hindered or        
prevented by a hostile public sentiment 
7,matthew #ac3eh2 #ag3bj2 #aj3ad2 ,luke 
#aj3aj-ab74  ,when ,christ sent forth   
,his twelve disciples ,he recognized the
 strong opposition which their message  
and mission would often meet and said1  
,behold1 ,i send you forth as sheep in  
the midst of wolves2 be ye therefore    
wise as serpents and harmless as doves  
7,matthew #aj3af74 ,the disciples were  
taught to expect social ostracism and   
private and public persecution 7,matthew
 #aj3ag-bf74 ,there were times when they
 were to flee before the gathering storm
 of opposition and there were times in  
which they were to maintain their       
position to the death1 but even if they 
fled 7,matthew #aj3bc7 they were not to 
cease to preach the gospel4  ,it is the 
duty and the right of ,christians not   

only to seek for the regeneration of    
individuals1 but also to protest and    
work against social and political wrongs
 and to seek to create and strengthen a 
strong public ,christian sentiment4 ,the
 ,church of ,christ should be the       
conservator and promoter of high moral  
ideals in every city and town where it  
has a name and place and seek to extend 
its good influence into regions where it
 has no standing4  ,better ,conditions  
of ,living4--,the ,bible is always upon 
the side of the oppressed and           
down-trodden4 ,no laws ever enacted by  
any nation ever made it so easy for the 
working man as the ,mosaic ordinances2  
every seventh day 7,exodus #bj3i1aj7 was
 a day of rest2 there were seven feasts 
in seven months which called for many   
other days of rest2 every seventh year  
7,leviticus #be3b-g7 was a rest year2   
and every fiftieth year 7,leviticus     
#be3aj-ag7 was one of rest and          
restitution4 ,christ everywhere         
championed the cause of the poor and the

 heavy burdened 7,matthew #i3cf2        
#aa3bh-cj2 #aa3d1e74  ,but the ,bible   
also clearly sets forth the fact that   
little can be done towards bettering    
even the material conditions of living  
when men's hearts are not right towards 
,god4 ,if a man lets the spirit of      
avarice reign over him1 no matter how   
much money he may have he will still    
want more and he will not care whom he  
oppresses to get it4 ,if the spirit of a
 purely worldly pleasure rules him his  
money will go into a bottomless pit and 
he will not care whom he makes suffer to
 get more money to gratify his          
insatiable desires4  ,better material   
conditions of work and living can only  
come from the adoption of high moral and
 spiritual standards and in advocating  
these the ,christian ,church to-day is  
the truest friend of the oppressed4     
,the ,maintenance of ,law and           
,order4--,it is not an unusual thing for
 political parties to elect men to      
offices of trust and then to have these 

same men refuse to enforce the laws     
which they have sworn to uphold4  ,in   
consequence we have all kinds of abuses 
and evils growing up in the body        
politic4 ,too often the political race  
is for the honour and the spoils of     
position4  ,outside the political arena 
stands the ,christian ,church and it    
can1 if it will1 demand that clean and  
upright men1 whatever the issues of the 
parties may be1 be placed in nomination4
 ,here ,christians may hold the balance 
of power4 ,if their loyalty is to       
,christ first of all they will vote for 
no man for any office who is known to be
 of an evil character4 ,the maintenance 
of law and order depends in large       
measure1 in any community1 upon the     
,christian sentiment of that community4 
,the ,turning of the ,world to          
,christ4--,the ,christian's hope is that
 ,christ may be ,lord of and dominate   
the individual and the home life1 the   
social1 the business and the political  
worlds1 as well as the ecclesiastical4  

,the worship of ,god in ,christ ought   
not to be only upon a particular day or 
in a certain place1 but upon all days   
and in every place men should lift up   
their hearts to ,him 7,john #d3ba-bd74  
,if ,he is ,lord of all 7,john #a3a-ad2 
#ad3i-ac7 ,he should be ,lord of all2   
there is no matter too small and none   
too great to bring before ,him4 ,when   
,christ said1 ,go ye therefore and teach
 all nations 444 teaching them to       
observe all things whatsoever ,i have   
commanded you 7,matthew #bh3ai1bj7 ,he  
meant that ,his teachings should be     
dominant over all the earth and in every
 department of life4 ,and for this we   
pray ,thy ,kingdom come1 ,thy will be   
done in earth as it is in heaven        
7,matthew #f3aj74 ,it is only as this   
kingdom shall come in power that we can 
expect to better the conditions under   
which men live and work4   ,,hope ,,in  
,,the ,,future ,,life  ,christianity is 
not small in its anticipations1 its     
desires1 its aspirations and its plans4 

,it speaks of a large hope for the      
future1 so large that many men fail to  
comprehend its magnificence 7,john      
#aa3bc-bf2 ,mark #af3aa74 ,it declares  
that while the body may be placed in the
 grave1 the real man never dies4 ,man in
 all that he thinks and does lives with 
two worlds plainly in view1 the one that
 now is and the one which is to come4   
,the disciples immediately after the    
ascension of ,christ began to preach and
 teach the resurrection from the dead   
7,acts #b3cj-cb2 #c3ae2 #d3aj1cc2 #a    
,corinthians #ae3a-h74 ,they used this  
fact of the resurrection as a reason for
 the belief in ,christ as the ,saviour  
of men1 a forsaking of sin and an       
incentive to a life of righteousness4   
,they taught1 as ,jesus ,himself did1   
that this life1 no matter how great its 
opportunities1 was but the vestibule to 
a new and larger life beyond the grave4 
,it is better to sacrifice everything in
 this life1 if necessary1 rather than to
 miss the glory of the life to come     

7,matthew #e3bi2 #aj3bh2 ,mark #i3dg74  
,no good deed done in this life1 in the 
name of ,christ1 can fail of large      
reward in the life to come 7,matthew    
#ai3bh1bi2 #be3cd-dj74 ,by this         
emphasis1 which was laid upon the future
 life1 the horizon of thought and action
 was marvellously widened4 ,men were    
taught no longer that they were to exist
 for a few years and then go out forever
 into the darkness of annihilation1 good
 and bad alike1 but that they were to   
live forever4  ,conscious ,personal     
,existence of the soul after death4     
,this fact is conspicuously taught in   
the ,gospels1 the ,acts1 the ,epistles  
and ,revelation4 ,in the world to come  
people are not shades or ghosts1 but    
they have certain bodies 7#a            
,corinthians #ae3dd71 they know         
themselves to be and are known as the   
same persons who once lived on the earth
 7,matthew #ag3b-d2 ,luke #bd3cf-dh2    
,john #bj3bd-bh2 #aa3be1bf2 ,luke       
#af3ai-ca2 #bc3db1dc74 ,christ said1    

,but as touching the resurrection of the
 dead have ye not read1 that which was  
spoken unto you by ,god saying1 ,i am   
the ,god of ,abraham1 the ,god of       
,isaac1 and the ,god of ,jacob8 ,god is 
not the ,god of the dead1 but the living
 7,matthew #bb3 #ca1cb74  ,eternal      
,citizenship in heaven4 ,the aim of     
,christianity is to make men righteous4 
,the abode of the blessed hereafter is  
one wherein dwells holiness1 purity and 
truth4  ,there are conditions and       
hindrances to the entering of the abode 
of the blessed4  #a4 ,conditions4 ,the  
great prerequisite to entering into the 
joy of heaven is righteousness1 perfect 
obedience to the law of ,god4 ,but every
 man of himself1 when he enters into an 
honest self-examination1 feels that he  
comes far short of the perfect keeping  
of the divine commands 7#a ,john #a3h1i2
 ,romans #c3bc74  ,he needs forgiveness 
for past disobedience1 he needs help to 
lead a righteous life4 ,hence ,jesus    
,christ1 the divine ,son of ,god1 came  

that through ,his life and death we     
might receive pardon for past sin and   
help to live the righteous life 7,john  
#c3af-bc74 ,what man could not do for   
himself ,jesus ,christ does for him     
7,romans #c3bj-bf74 ,the disciples of   
,christ were rightly enthusiastic in    
proclaiming ,him as the propitiation for
 man's sin and belief in ,him1 with all 
that it implied1 as the entrance gate   
into the heavenly life4  ,jesus said of 
,himself1 ,i am the way1 the truth and  
the life2 no man cometh unto the ,father
 but by ,me 7,john #ad3f74 ,in ,my      
,father's house are many mansions if it 
were not so ,i would have told you4 ,i  
go to prepare a place for you4 ,and if  
,i go and prepare a place for you1 ,i   
will come again and receive you unto    
,myself2 that where ,i am1 there ye may 
be also 7,john #ad3b1c74  #b4           
,hindrances4 ,the great hindrance to the
 entering of heaven is disobedience of  
,god1 not only acts of disobedience but 
a state of disobedience1 where the soul 

of man desires to have no fellowship    
with ,god or ,his righteousness4 ,there 
is a disobedience of ,god through       
carelessness1 through ignorance and     
through willfulness2 there is little    
hope for a man when he deliberately     
turns his back upon ,god4 ,it is        
wonderfully shown in the ,bible how ,god
 has sought to make ,himself known to   
man and to save him here and hereafter4 
,every possible appeal has been made to 
man to turn to ,god4 ,the ,scriptures   
give no answer of hope for a happy      
hereafter for those who deliberately    
reject all of ,god's invitations and    
pleadings in this world 7,matthew       
#be3df2 ,daniel #ab3b2 ,john #e3bi2     
,romans #b3a-f74  ,the ,glory of        
,heaven4--,the ,new ,testament writers  
vie with each other in striving to make 
plain the glory of heaven4 ,john        
describes it1 in a vision1 as a         
magnificent city of gold and precious   
stones1 wherein can come no evil thing  
7,revelation1 chapters #ba1bb74  ,and   

the city had no need of the sun1 neither
 of the moon1 to shine in it3 for the   
glory of ,god did lighten it1 and the   
,lamb is the light thereof4 ,and the    
nations of them which are saved shall   
walk in the light of it3 and the kings  
of the earth do bring their honour and  
glory into it 7,revelation #ba3bc1bd74  
,the real glory of heaven1 however1 is  
not in its outward adornment or         
pageantry1 but in the triumph of        
righteousness and the supreme reward of 
constancy to the truth of ,god          
7,revelation #g3i-ag74 ,the holiness of 
,god is vindicated 7,revelation #d3h1i74
 ,the tabernacle of ,god is with men    
7,revelation #ba3c1d71 and every good   
deed stands out glorified in the clear  
white light of eternity4 ,every saint in
 heaven will feel that he has the       
hundredfold reward for all the          
sacrifices he made when upon the earth  
for the kingdom of ,god4  ,the effort of
 the ,new ,testament writers is to make 
the followers of ,christ joyfully do    

their work here1 much of which may be   
distasteful and difficult4 ,looking unto
 ,jesus the author and finisher of our  
faith2 who for the joy that was set     
before ,him endured the cross1 despising
 the shame and is set down at the right 
hand of the throne of ,god 7,hebrews    
#ab3b74 ,it is worth while to work for a
 limited future earthly reward2 it is   
much more worth while to work for a     
heavenly reward which shall endure      
throughout eternity4   ,,questions      
,what can be said of the ,christian's   
hope in the present life8 ,what is the  
regeneration of the individual through  
faith in ,christ8 ,what is meant by the 
enlightenment of the social conscience8 
,how can better conditions of living be 
secured through ,christ8 ,how can law   
and order be maintained through the     
advancement of ,christian principles8   
,what is the ,christian's hope in       
turning the world to ,christ8  ,what is 
the ,christian's hope in the future     
life8 ,what is meant by conscious       

personal existence after death1 eternal 
citizenship1 the glory of heaven8