The Presbyterian of the South : [combining the] Southwestern Presbyterian, Central Presbyterian, Southern Presbyterian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1909-1931, June 02, 1909, Page 8, Image 8

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8 Devotional "HE WOUNDETH A WF So many things we cai So much there is to And yet, we trust. Oui To Him we look for g t ? ? - ??^ :tiiow ne woundeth Then, when life's troi Sweet faith will shine ti And raise us hcavenw Though sore afflictions The Groat Physician If on our wounds His hi We may rejoice,?"Ou All worldly avarice, trea With fortitude unfailing Kirk wood. Ga. THE SURR1 My Dear Mrs. B.: It : of the "full surrender" men. I believe; I am therefc Now prav tell me wha until I have 'made the "f The young woman "But she that livcth ir liveth." The young ma; sins. * And at the end of in perdition. They had might be true believers they could not. There is, however, as h der? in an orthodox sen ll'ovor'c ...HI -I-"'1 1? ? ..v * vi o win Mian uc uruii 'God's will. This is a pi strives daily to fulfill his when he has made good ; when he first believed, 1 glory." And now the question to this full surrender? Substitute full surrenc ing extract from The W< you- have my views to a * "Holiness can never cc any line of special theph in accepting any peculia vented and set forth by \ imagine that the proch statements, phraseologie men at once into this gr; Dogmatic affirmations the place of actual holy li "it is tar more a life th rather than a formal cr mony.' The secret of it metaphysics, but in insp in the imitation of Chri THE PRESBYTERIAN and Selections lND his hands make [O LE." a not understand, make our souls afraid; r Father lias cohimand. ;ui<lance and for aid; and* His hands make whole," m lbles are so hard to bear, o cheer the chastened soul, or/4 *-*?? ? ?m ?.u uii iuu wiuga ui prayer. have faint hearts dismayed sees and understands; ?aling touch is laid r times are in His hands"; icherv and deceit we may meet. Margaret Scott Hall. LNDERED LIFE. seems to me that the theology is well calculated to deceive )re a saved man. t sin I can refuse to surrender nil surrender." will hold on to her pleasures. I pleasure is dead while she II will continue in his grosser life both will find themselves heen led to believe that they without a full surrender. But as been admitted, a full surrense of the term, when the height into perfect harmony with rogrcssive work. The believer ; covenant engagements. And all that he surrendered to God, le will "immediately pass into arises, How are we to attain ler for holiness in the follow:stern Christian Advocate, and dot: >me as a result of a training in Dgical terms. It does not consist r and technical definations, invould-be specialists who vainly limed belief in some specific s, and distinctions will bring ace. concerning it can never take iving. an a 'profession,' an experience eed, a character than a 'testilies not in abstractions, not in >iration toward God daily and st. It is to be won, if at all, OF THE SOUTH. through every clay's discipline suffering, patience, self-denial through careful.study of the 1 tation upon its truths; throug ganized religious activities an the ordinary 'means of grac where every truly practical o is in verity a holiness sern meeting, the class meeting, service." THE CAMPHOR-1 It was early in the springt sapling was being planted in made bold to query of our la in years: "Do you expect to < camphor tree?" un, certainly," was the rej not have long to wait, eithei to see the rapid growth it m; year in California." The following month was every day we expected to s< broken by the force that carri< of sympathy for the little tre to suggest to our landlord tl wind. "Yon told me to watch it "but it surely can not grow 1 whipped about. It look's as >i Then the man who from lc culturist is considered an om head as he smilingly rejoinei sometimes, you know. I adm look as if it was making muc is that what seems bad for i Now. if I had nlanterl it aft passed, it would have held it but what strikes you as det only strengthening the tiny ti sunshine of our climate. For is, drives the roots deeper an so that while it may appear it is really getting rooted ant orous growth." The weeks and months hav six months later, the then saj little camphor tree that ever began to play their part it 1 actully see it grow. And its g sermon, for I have seen that saying that the winds which f gered the sapling but strengl 1 have been kept in mind of sians: "That Christ may dw< that ye, being rooted and grc many times when I have bee life's storms have so whippe dren, I have remembered tli Comforter has seemed to \v being rooted and grounded j June 2, 1909. : and trial; through work, , helpfulness, and prayer; 1 iYord and profound medijh the Church and its ord philanthropies; through 1 e'?the public worship, 1 r spiritual Gospel sermon ion; through the prayer and every other form of E. S. K. \l REE LESSON. || ime that, noticing that a front of our cottage, we ndlord, who is well along 11 sit under the shade of that idy rejoinder, "and I shall r. You will be surprised iL-pS fill's llPinnr irrviii- fi'cf so windy, however, that ee the tiny camphor tree I ] id so much before it. Out e, we even went so far as iat he protect it from the s magic growth," I said, when it is so continually it were dying alreadv." >ng experience as a hortiicle in his line, shook his d: "Looks are deceptive lit that the sapling doesn't :h headway, but the truth t is favorable condition, er the windy season had s own better, apparently; rimental to its growth is ee to endure the heat and being whipped about as it d deeper into the ground, to be suffering at the top 1 grounded, re^tdy for vig e slipped away until now, pling is such a flourishing sii\ce the whipping winds has seemed as if I could growth has been a constant the planter was right in rom our viewpoint endan:hened the roots. And so Paul's letter to the Epheell in your hearts by faith, I : I I ' 1 Mi- * < iuuucu in iuvc, tc. Ana n tempted to wonder why d about some of his chille camphor tree, and the rhisper: "They are only in love."?Selected.