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THE HILL
Topic for Sunday, June 20:
Th? Hill Difficulty. Romans 7
Daily F
Monday: Stiengln for all t
Tuesday: David's Hill Dil
Wprtnpsrlnv Tho Honaprs
Thursday: A call to awak
Friday: The victor. 1 Jot
Saturday: Retracing our
John Bunyan's grasp of t
have come only of rich person
Every step along the pilgr
duce3 phases in the Ch:ist!ar
liever has passed.
1 here are not only lions i
of difficulty which are hard to
fain get around.
These hills, however, must
i in the straight path. Happi!
spots on almost all of them, w
mere is a spring at tne
refresh himself and gather str
H? should drink deeply of its
self to the work.
The roll will be a great
climb. It will assure him th
strength, and that he will be
Christ which strengtheneth hin
The attack upon the Hill 1
at the firit, one must not he
"running" he gets down to m
is forced to his knees to clan
[ Those who try to avoid thl
tion. There is only one way,
follow it no matter what it cut
is the way; walk ye in it. "I
God places refreshment f
difficult path. It is never a
if we fall asleep, in unconsclou
pay the penalty. Our roll maj
Hillsides are hard to climb
j points. The panorama which
pays one for the toil of the
pelted glories are opened to 01
well worth the hard climb.
The best things are never
gems do not lie on the surfac*
the deepest mines. The awar
laurel after the race?else woi
world ye shall have tribulation
In our up-hill efforts the
not ask Christ to go along an
knee3 enough. We are trusting
spiritual momentum. "Lean i
Ing." "Trust in the Lord and
Lord shall mount up with wins
Profit by other men's exper
ing and live your own life.
All men, if they work not a
will work wrong.?Carlyle.
Hope both expects and deal
and pleasure.
y
THE PRESBYTERIA]
le's Societies
DIFFICULTY.
Pilgrim's Progress Series VI.
: 14-25; 2 Corinthians 6: 1-10.
leadings.
asks. Isaiah 49: 8-11.
flniltv. 1 Snnnipl 17- S9.Fi1
of slackness. Rev, 2: 1-7.
e. Romans 13: 11-14.
in 5: 1-5; Revelation 3: 12.
steps. Numbers. 14: 26-35.
he Christian's conditions could
al experience.
1 ill's way. In his allegory, reproi
life through which every ben
the way to affright, but hills
surmount, and which we would
ue guiie over n we wouia Keep
ly for us there are breathing
here we may pause and rest,
bottom where the climber may
ength for the task before him.
waters ere he addresses himcomfort
to him in the arduous
at as his day so shall be his
able to do all things through
a.
Difficulty may be made in ardor
discouraged, however, if from
lere "going," and from "going"
ibering.
s hill fall into evil and destrucand
the heavenly pilgrim must
s through or passes over. This
am the way."
or his people along the most
loss to stop and take it, but.
sness of duty, we snail have to
sup oui ui our nanus,
i, but hilltops are glorious viewis
seen from the summits reascent.
New views and unexur
enraptured vision. They are
the easiest secured. The rarest
e. The virgin gold is found in
d comes after the contest, the
iild they not be prized. In the
trouble wlih us is that we do
d help us. We are not on our
; to our own amiuy or our own
not to thine own understanddo
good." "They that fear the
;s as eagles."
ience, but do your own think8
in a great Taskmaster's eye,
res; therefore it gives courage
N OF. THE SOUTH.
Prayer
WORSHIPPING
Week Beginning Jun
Col. 2
The tendency to substitute
the one true and living God 1
appearance and it3 persistencj
apostle's ministry elicited some
ous testimony. Certain teache
trcme humility, teaching that
the mediation of angels rather
of grace. It was a clear case
the doctriues of men. It has li
qrcnt ages in the religious hot
angels and images graven by
worship is the pr.duct cf religit
source of this tendency is to b
natural heart to vital godliness
worshipper is that, while assun
is "vainly puffed up by his fles
The attitude of true wors
supreme headship cf Christ, of
ir.ese constitute his body. Th
with him. Their common vita
inasmuch as they are united
* not by the proc?sses of natura
moral, but "with the increase c
.Natural shrinking from spiri
subject to ordinances "which ar
cause they are "after the coi
men.'' There is opportunity for
vents his own methods of wo
wisdom in w.ll-worship and h
body." The observer will say
ordinance is and how contrite is
of wisdom in will-worship and
Now all such inventions ar
take of the essential character i
ator for guilty men. The medi
mockery. God wants us to t
Christ. He tells us to seek his
of him and to worship h'm in
formalism which is an evasion
We should cultivate the
diately accessible to us, that it
tact with our individual lives
there is none other who will
tbize with us so sincerely, or
promptly, or minister to us so
for us if we can increasingly gr
companionship of Christ?that i
not supply, that there is no co
net invoke his sympathy and n
m.'iV Tint PYUPPt hia tntoroat on/1
Let us remember that God
that he will not give his honor i
our petitions and confessions a
is his delight and his glory. t<
graces which are the gifts of 1
vated by means of our deyptlon
communion with him whose im
normal than that the redeemed
to its Redeemer. The life that
delight in glorifying its rescue
endows that life with qualities
union with himself.
June 9, 1909.
' Meeting
G ONLY GOD.
e 13. Col. 2: 18-23. ..
: 18 23.
something for the worship of
ias always been apparent. Its
r in the very presence of the
of his clearest and most vigorrs
assumed an attitude of exlowly
humanity should invoke
than come boldly to the throne
of teaching for commandments
iad its counterpart in alPsubseaags
that is pa'd to saints and
art and man's device. Such
ous fancy and superstition. The
e found in the aversion of the
. And the true attitude of the
uing "a voluntary humility" he
hly mind."
hip is that of recognizing the
whom believers are members,
ey are bound together in unity
ility is derived from him, and
to him .vitally, they increase,
1 growtu, either intellectual or
?f God."
tual worship tempts men to be
e to perish with the using," bemmandments
and doctrines of
vainglory if the worshipper Inrship.
They have a "show of
umility and neglecting of the
, "Behold how impressive the
he who emerges in it?*a show
humility.' "
c uuuiaive iu *jrua. i ney parol
idolatry. There is one Mediation
of saints and angels is a
ipproach him directly through
face, to call upon him, to ask
spirit and in truth. He abhors
of spiritual worship,
realization that God is imme1
his own person he is in coni.
We should be assured that
hear us so readily, or symparespond
to our appeal so
effectually. Happy will it be
ow into the idea of the abiding
Ihere is no need which he can
ncern of life in which we may
o care or service In which we
help.
is glorified by our worship and
to another. He is pleased with
3 well as with our praises. It
a nourish in our hearts those
his Spirit and which are culti.to
him. The soul is made>for
age it bears. Nothing is more
soul should pay its devotions
is rescued from despair should
r, especially when the rescuer
like his own and brings it Into