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September i, igog. the present life, unknowa that are awaiting our trai prehension. This fact cor and power of the apostle anticipation as we hear 1 had already attained eith< I follow after if that I ma also I am annrphptvlp^l wrr.-..?..MVU V^l count not myself to have thing I do, forgetting tho and reaching forth unto fore, I press toward the high calling of God in Chi If we belonged to a Kii appreciable and measurab significance of whose trul lowly estate, we would n< the thought of the far n weight of glory. It is b< pands beyond vision and d yond our present power c dently anticipate boundles heritage of the saints. But how about the skej lems. He is confronted v on every hand. To avow relief from these: no relic none from the imperative wisely to their bearing on of great moral and spirit questioning either their e: personal well-being. The tian sees and accepts are cant to the unbeliever. ror example, the existe ery honest man confesses fact of sin implies the fac alty. Accountability impl whom the guilty must ans personal moral law is an ii must give account to a s taking cognizance not onl and motive, it becomes < know and accept any poss may be just with God. 1 vision that in his judgment He accepts that one pro edges that the perfect bal tice and the perfectly hai vine judgment and divine for accurate moral discrin plan. To the extent of h that it is wise and just ar the answer to the awful ii while yet retaining all its bearing on his own perso The question of immor and is as momentous to 1 each it is attended with cepts it as a truth of revel patient continuance in hopes for that immortali life. The unbeliever by re does not comprehend it in dignation and wrath, tribi THE PRESBYTER ble magnitudes are realities isformed and glorified comisecrated the whole purpose : and his spirit glows with lim say, "Not as though I :r were already perfect, but y apprehend that for which f Jesus Christ. Brethren, I apprehended, but this one se things which are behind those things which are bemark for the prize of the ist Jesus." ngdom whose realities were le by us here, and the full :hs we could master in our fit dwell with ranturo lore exceeding and eternal :cause the heavenly life exIreams and has treasures be f estimating, that we confi5S and endless glory as the itic's attitude toward probsrith difficulties and mystery himself a skeptic brings no f from their perplexity and obligation to adjust himself his life. The solemn reality ual facts is not relieved by xistence or their relation to problems which the Chrisjust as serious and signifi nee and results of sin. Ev; that he is a sinner. The t of accountability and penies a superior personality to iwer. Accountability to imrrational conception. If one iuperior person capable of y of action but of affection jf supreme consequence to ib'ie provision whereby man 'he believer knows one prot is reasonable and adequate, vision though he acknowlancing of the scales of jusrmonious adjustment of diInvP arc Kcvnnrl Vilr? -.7 ?.?o v-ci jyciv? i ty lination. He accepts God's is comprehension he knows id good. To the unbeliever iquiry is locked in mystery, i solemn and tremendous nal destiny. tality confronts the skeptic lim as to the believer. To mystery. The believer acation and rejoices in it. By well-doing he confidently ty whose crown is eternal jecting the truth because he all its bearings, incurs "initiation and anguish." * 1 IAN OF THE SOUTH. The inspiration and authoi volve difficulties. The belies tionallv believes that thp i-pv and plans includes themes toe feeble and impaired compreh< fact of mystery is an evidenc the holy oracles. In lowlin God's judgments to be unsear finding out. The skeptic reje ficulties and because his rati< the facts and methods of reve truths of the gospel appeal with tremendous force and they will determine his fate whether he will forbear. Rejecting truth because it ther relieves the magnitude bearing of the truth on persoi it increases the magnitude an of those problems. To the Word, a new heart, sins forgi presence and sovereignty, the life and in moulding charactei eternal blessedness are facts i joice and in the realization o preme satisfaction. By the i born and heaven-making trut they were not, and he is left t< night of non-belief while he 1 the radiance of light that strc "I am the light of the world ; \ not walk in darkness but sha Meekness is not softness, n the absence of a spirit of justi ness is ready submission to ( and classic illustration of mee had led that mighty concoui tented, murmuring people in 1 of Promise. Acting towards 1 of a father, a general, and a heavy burdens incident to tin held him through it all was the end of the journey his i to press the sacred soil of This was his dream by day In his weariness he refresl thought, with that draught strength. But for an act of d fell like a doom upon him, h< should not lead the people ir head and in silence accepts hi the greatest moment of Mose a member of Pharaoh's famil of his life. Greater when h Ills lovaltv tf> 3 clo vo nonnlo J " God's ambassador he stood I pie's cause. Greater yet in in the years in the wilderne when all the dreams of his lift ment and no word of rebellior ing passes his lips. God coul like that. t. 3 ity of the Scriptures in/er accepts both and raelation of God's thoncrht ) high and vast for man's jnsion. To his mind the e of the divine source of ess of mind he expects chable and his ways past cts because there are difDnality is transcended in lation. Yet all the great to his personal interest with unerring certainty whether he will bear or involves problems neiof the problems nor the lal resoonsibilitv. Rather I J - d the tremendous aspect : Christian the inspired ven, a Saviour's love and ! Spirit's influence in the , the heavenly home and n which he may daily ref which he may find suinbeliever, these heavenhs are treated as though d grope his way in a midnight be walking amidst ;ams from him who said, le that followeth me shall 11 have the light of life." r\ r r* 11 o K1 <> T * " ui j/iiawiciit^3. 11 Id I lOl fiable resentment. Meek'iod. Moses is the great kness. For forty years he rse of homeless, disconthe direction of the Land them the three-fold parts l judge and bearing the ; parts. That which upthe expectation that at feet would be permitted the much-desired Jand. and his vision by night, led himself with that he ever renewed his lisoherlienrp flip epntpnrp ; might see the land but i. And Moses bows his s punishment. This was s' life. He was great as y in the first forty years e left Egypt because of Greater still when as before to plead his peothe character he reveals ss. But greatest of all i were shattered in a moi, no word even of plea'dd not help loving a man