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12 Pray PURE Week Beginning N< Ceremonial offerings ha<3 of God's ancient people, were a means of instructic witnessed the offering and tion to God. Each class significance and appropria authorized service of th the law of offerings we position of the gospel as himself and by his inspire ing was best suited to the of Christian truth and to 1 that then prevailed. Syml ture of language, in meth very process of thought, tiquity as recorded in symt rne ract tnat mtellectu pressed through a symbolk ness, if not the necessity, soul in this way. It was n mental and spiritual exer< to appoini chosen ceremoi of the soul's devotion. In formal and informal, pub! "Trust in him at all times; fore him." Inasmuch as pure worsl was required as an expres of the ottering was well del he without blemish. If it must be first fruits or th the higher truth was to be erence, or praise, or grat typical representations of t in character. To offer thei altar or * the blind for saci conaeiunea as an evil, it i treat his own superior ami great among the heathen, s There Is one offering whi because pre-eminent in its offered one sacrifice for si hand of God." "For by 01 ever them that are sanctifl sense in which this offering him, and the merits of his puted to us. "The Lord hi all." "The chastisement < with his stripes we are h others are unavailing. Th others divinely appointed a The offering, made in the we are habitually to bring t seech you therefore, brethri present your bodies, a livii God, which is your reasons be dedicated to God. All t dowed us, all our capacltli souls and bodies are to be used according to his holy 1 wise and gracious purpose bought with a price; we n bodies and spirits which ai Involved In this persona him of our subBtance; the i entrusted to our care. If c dedicated to God, how soc' very act of surrendering al blessing greater perhaps, th The bulk of God's bounty uses, and is consumed on tt THE PRESBYTERIAJ er Meeting OFFERINGS. avember 1. Malachi 1:6-11. I a prominent place in the worship Their design was two-fold. They >n to the worshiper and those who they were an expression of devoof offerings had a clearly defined ite truth was expressed by every is character. In the study of i may get a discriminating exIt was declared later by ohr Lord d apostles. This method of teachearlier stages of the development the means of communicating truth bolism was dominant in the strucods of onmmiinlrnHnn onH In tho We now read the records of an>olic characters. lal processes were habitually ex: medium, Involves the approprlateof expressing the devotion of the tan's method of communicating his dses. It accordingly pleased God lial as the appropriate expression all worship ancient and modern, lie and private, his command is, ye people pour out your heart belip was expected, a pure offering sion of that worship. The quality ined. If It was an animal it was to , was the product of the field, it e choicest of the harvest. When set forth aud the profoundest revitude were to he expressed, the hese exercises were to correspond efore "polluted bread" upon God's iflce" or "the lame and sick" was vas treating God es one would not >ng men. "For my name shall be jaith the Lord of hosts." ch is pre-eminent in its acceptance quality. "This man, after he had ns forever, sat down on the right ie offering he hath perfected fored." There is a holy and blessed f is ours. By faith we appropriate obedience and sufferings are lm ith laid on him the Iniquity of us 3f our peace was upon him and ealed." Without this offering all ough this one, and this alone, all nd rendered in faith, are accepted, i name of the one Mediator, which Lo God's altar, is ourselves. "I been, by the mercies of God, that ye ng sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto ible service." Our persons are to he powers with which he has enes, our faculties and talents, our given unreservedly to him to be will for the accomplishment of his s. We are not our own; we are r% tiof tKorofnrn fl*,1 l?% uuot WUVtVLVlG &1V1I1J VJVU IU VUI e his. 1 dedication is the surrender to material possessions which he has inly the wealth of the' world were iety would, be transformed! The I to God would Itself contribute a an the fruits of its administration, is diverted from its appropriate te altar of Mammon. I OP THE SOUTH. Another offering is that of oui activity. Men are running to a creasing. Intensity is character time for dedicating the spirit of we as intent linnn anirltuol are upon getting gain? There s girding itseif for a mightier an the hosts of ungodliness and for that are ready to perish. Let courage. Young People BEULAH Topic for Sunday, November 14: XI. Beulah Land. DAILY REA Monday: Beulah Land, the hi Tuesday: A land of heart-peac Wednesday: A land of plenty Thursday: A land of joy. Isal maay: A land of fellowship. Saturday: A land of love. 1 ( Away from the Hill Difficulty ow of Death, and the danger of of Doubting Castle, and the dr Land, Christian and Hopeful cnn Beulah. Beulah is a place of delight, m den of the Lord, where even thoi yet reached the believer may tj "Celestial fruits on earthly grou grow." The Delectable Mountain enjoyment are foretastes of heav The believer has a right to Beu of things hoped for; the evidenct Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, la faith, not having received the pro afar off, and were persuaded of and confessed that they were sti earth." Heaven ought to be enjoyed 01 tion as well as a place. The Kin nno TUHA V?oe? 111? >IUV uuo vmiot ailU HI a line advance, the chiefest glory of tb for the enjoyment of being with the fruits of life until the river < to miss a right and a joy. God gives this Beulah Joy botl for their faithfulness and as a pr trial through which they must p it just on the margin of the river entering the stream may not feel assurance of faith, nothing waveri The Beulah Land is wide to s Much depends upon how well w< our hearts, upon the care with whi will, upon the gratitude and appre velous deliverance of our souls, vi placed in his precious promises, and if we desire a long and rich B Temperament may have sometl alnn tn anma nf o RanloVt TVirvorv * subject to bondage and in tear however, for the richest promises who dwell under the clouds ha^ there. Let them learn to trust < of themselves and of their gloomy It is the knowledge of sin and prlves the soul of Beulah experiei remember that the blood of Jesus from all sin. Our Saviour is a co way Redeemer. "By one offering ""v/ ni c oa.uvuuuu lUvi cuj. troubled." November 3, 1909. r service. This is an age of nd fro and knowledge is inistic of our people. It Is a ' the age to holy uses. Are ivement as men of tho world ire signs that the Church is id supreme advance against the rescue of the multitudes . s thank God and tuko s's Societies LAND. Pilgrim's Progress, Series Isaiah 62:3-5 DINGS. *art. Romans 14:16-19. e. John 16:22, 33. . Jeremiah 31:12-14, 25, 26. lah 66:10-12, 14. Galatlans 5:25?6:6. lorinthians 13-1-13. and the Valley of the ShadVanity Fair, and the gloom owsiness of the Enchanted ne at last to the country of i>t of dreams. It Is the guriigh the celestial city be not iste of the joys of heaven. nd, from faith and hope do vision and the Beulah Land en. lah. "Faith is the substance i of things not seen." Abel, ;aac and Jacob "all died in mises, but having seen them them, and embraced them, 'angers and pilgrims on the i earth. Heaven is a condigdom is in the heart. That ness must have already, in ie world to come. To wait Christ and of partaking of )f death has been passed is i as a reward to his saints eparatlon for the last great ass. And he ofteneet puts of death that their feet on the cold, hut enter into full ng. ome and narrow to others. > have let the King rule in eh we have sought to do bis elation we have for his marion the trust which we have All these may be increased, eulah Land we may have it. ling to do with the possesvho spend all their life time of death need not miss it. have been made and thoBe re no warraht for staying Christ more and think less fears. the sense of guilt that deice. Let all who suffer thus Christ, God's Son, cleanses mplete Saviour, not a half ; he hath forever perfected ' "Let not your hearts be