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THE PRESBYTER!*
Bible Standard of P
Miss Kate
(A paper prepared for the Women's
Presbyterian Mission Union, Abingdon
Presbytery.)
"Man looketh upon the outward appearance,
but the Lord looketh upon
the heart." God has a very practical religion
for his followers, and though man
sometimes terms a decent observance of
the laws of civilized countries and an
enrollment of one's name as a member
of some Christian sect, with a fairly
regular attendance on the meetings of
this sect, as all that is necessary for
the making of a Christian, one who is
at all conversant with the teachings of
God's Word knows that this is not sufficient
for enrollment in God's book of
life.
The first words ever recorded as spoken
by our Saviour are the keynote to the
Christian's right to his title: "Wist ye
not that I must be about my Father's
business?"
The world includes as '^Christendom"
the countries in which t"he Christian religion
is the leading faith; the faith on
which the laws of the government are
founded. The missionaries tell us that
such awful concepts of "Christians"
were formed in the minds of the heathen
by seeing the very immoral and
selfish conduct of many of the tradesmen,
soldiers, sailors and even governments
of Christian nations, that the term
"Jesus-men" had to be adopted by -the
missionaries, rather than "Christian."
to denote the followers of our Master.
What then are the marks of a disciple
of Jesus? and what the requirements of
one who would deserve that name?
There are three words that comprehend
all: knowing, being, doing. We must
know his will, his plan for the lives o'
his followers. We must be what he
wills us to be, his faithful children, "believing
in him alone for salvation; we
must do what he tells us to do, simply,
earnestly, humbly, without question.
The Knowing.
First, as to the knowing. He says,
"Search the Scriptures." He hilmeelf
resists the temptations of the evil one
by quoting to' him the Word of God.
and as we prayerfully search this Word
it reveals to us our duty to God and to
our fellowman; but it also reveals our
own weakness and unworthiness, and
the uselessness of our striving in our
own strength to do our duty. It does not
stop there; it shows us that God can
use the weak things of this world to
confound the mighty; that he can enable
us to do all things by his own strengthening
power. The Word tells us not to
neglect the assembling of ourselves together
for worship and instruction, and
that if we are to know God, we are to
follow on to do his will sterp by step
as he reveals it. As we search the
Word, if we are in earnest, the Spirit
reveals to us Its inner meaning; he
"takes of the things of God and shows
them unto us."
And as we know more and more of
the life of our blessed Master, the longing
to be like him grows upon us; the
willingness to yield ourselves to the
guidance of his Spirit, In order that hi*wonderful
prayer for us may be answered;
that prayer which shows that
even with the agony of Gethsemane
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cross Just before him, his thought was
of us. "Holy Father, keep through thine
own name those whoin thou hast given
me, that they may be one as we are:
. 'T pray not that thou shonldst
take them out. of the world, hut that
thou shonldst keep them from the m-11.
. as thou Father art In me, and
T In thee, that they also may he In us:
. . . that the world may know that
n or TBI 8 0 0TB
radical Christianity |
I M. Hunt. 1
tbou hast loved them as thou hast loved
me." It Is the realisation of this one- (
ness that can lift us above self, and
make us to be what he would have us to
be; make us to know that it is only
when we have the Spirit of Christ that
we are his.
The Doing.
And then comes the Inevitable result
of the knowing and being: the doing.
And this may be cdassed under three
heads: praying, serving, giving; all
action words, for the Christian life must
be one of action or it will never be one
of growth. One of the saddest things
in human life Is to see, as we occasionally
do, a child appearing healthy in
infancy, then living year after year
without mental development and with
but slight physical: reaching the age
of manhood or womanhood unable to
walk or talk; just existing, having to be
carried through life.
And just such cases are too often to
bp found in the church: nersons who
never become more tban the mere babes
in Christ, inactive often until the spiritual
powers seem to be atrophied.
Always the Master emphasized the
need of activity in his service. The
first recorded words of his ministry are.
"Follow me, and IT will make you to hecome
fishers of men." To Peter he
says, "Txrvest thou me?" "Feed my
sheep." He prays for his followers,
"As thou didst send me into the world,
even so send I them into the world.
. , . neither for these only )do T
pray, but for them also that believe on
me through their word." He tells us t"
go into the highways and hedges and
compel souls to come into his kingdom.
He does not say this to ministers only.
His command, "Go ye into all the world
and give the Gospel to every creature"
was given to all his followers; the crowd
of about five hundred who witnessed
his ascension, showing that each believer
must have his part in the redemption
of the world; whether his work be
at Jerusalem, home; at Samaria, among
the despised and inferior around us, or
in the uttermost parts of the earth. St.
John tells us. "He that saith he abideth
in him. ought also to walk even as he
walked;" and "My little children let us
not love in word, neither In tongue, but
In deed and in truth."
But the prayer life is that which fits
us for service, hence the stress laid
upon it. The Master sets us an example
in his going apart so often to pray, and
even continuing all night in Draver.
And. as in the sermon on the Mount he
teaches us how much more important it
is to keep the spirit thkn the mere letter
of God's law, so he teaches us that
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words, hnt actual communion with ?h?
Father and with him: a waltlnp uno**
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[September 18, 1912
the Spirit that he may teach ua what
lie cannot do unlesB we give him time,
roo often we do all the talking, and
so have no real communion; no quiet
waiting time in which tne still small
voice may whisper its suggestions to
our Innermost spirit; suggestions as to
our failures and the cause of them, as
to our duty to self, to our fellowman.
to our God.
And as we seek the guidance, and ask
Btrength to follow it, the old, Belflsh sins
will drop away, and we will be fitted to
serve. What higher blessing can a
ChriBtiah desire than a life full of loving
service. As the Master shows us
where this service is needed, he will fit
us for it. We can always trust: him,
but oh! how is it with us? How many
of us can he trust as he did that disciple
of old, the owner of the ass on which
he made his triumphal entry into Jer
usaiemr xou rememoer ne sent one of
his disciples and told him to tell the
owner, "The Master hath need of him,"
and "immediately he will send him." If
only our time, our money, our service
were as freely given when we know
that the Master hath need of them, how
quickly would his kingdom come and
his will be done in the earth!
And how do we give? How much
time do we give every morning to getting
the spiritual food that we need to
strengthen us for the day? The guidance
that alone can ihsure our safety in
temptation, our walking in the right way
through the day? Is a perfunctory
prayer at night and a hurried reading
of a chapter in the Bible the limit of the
time and thought we can spare for thp
Master? How about our money? Wfe
nowhere read that the tithe required
tk* At 1 m-Jx . * * * -
uiiucr me win restaxnent dispensation
was abrogated under the New. While
not commending the tithe, did not our
Ix>rd endorse it when he told the PhariWOOD'S
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They are combined in proper proportion
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Our customers report the most satisI
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