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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
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October 8, 1908,
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cowardly neglect of duty, betrays
oil never fails.”
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DeVotional—Spiritual
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CHRIST’S FRIENDS.
attractive
influences
flow
nezim/ak
vidual is God’s challenge to under-
take greater things for him, coupled
with the distinct promise that we shall
not be loser but gainer by so doing.
2. The tithe rule is especially just
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our faith, but God is asked, to?
. - In all cases where there is a wasng
sion, that went down to the roots of away of flesh, loss of appetite, with weak
"---A, as in the early stages of com-
de system. Of course, it muzt
ected to work miracles. It will
stricken husband and wife took coun- the babe came back into their arms wounded me.”
ral conditions, but to help in meeting coffin.* They got a little goods box, and teach the law of God!
the obligations they impose by bless- _____________________ ____________________
ing what one has. The promise im- ------------
The next to speak was Mrs. D., a Church said go, and they rarely sent God. But I was cheered by the sweet him to his enemies! It is a glorious
widow, who said, in substance: “As him where anybody else wanted to go, assurance that the babe would hear honor and privilege to be a friend of
plied is this: “If you will obey me,
I will make nine-tenths do more than
, nsumption except in its earlier'
_ _t will cure veryse v e re. ‘o b s t i -.
hang~ffii~ chronic coug
Bruised herbs send forth the
sweetest smell;
Were plants ne’er tossed by stormy
wind,
The fragrant spices who would
find ?”
about our resolve to tithe and asked upon which we and our loved ones dened parents put the little goods box we bring reproach upon the ramp of lies; yet the odors of riven hearts,
him to join us, but he laughed us to were so largely depenaent for hope in and its precious contents into one of Christian before the world. The have been sweet with the spirit of
scorn; said he was having enough this life and in the life to come! the wagons and went across the Ken- doser we get to Christ in our pro- submission. Almost every believer’s-
trouble as it was, without throwing Joseph N. Ison was a member of tucky River to bury their babe., where fession the more cruel is the stab we experience contains the record of se-
away any money. We paid for our the Kentucky Conference of the M. E. they could rarely, if ever, hope to see give him when we sin. Many a man vere trials which were sent in order
house long ago; our neighbor never Church, South. He was not great by the grave again. When I heard the kisses his Master in the prayer-meet- to shake the spice trees.
was able to pay for his home, and any token but that of faithfulness. He story my heart ached at the double ing, and then, by shameful conduct
had to give it up.” went where the authorities of the disappointment of these servants of or cowardly neglect of duty, betrays "Who bears a cross prays oft. and
well;
you can make ten-tenths do.” The
prosperity of the Church and indi-
The inspired poet of the Canticles
also prays for the “south wind to
come upon my garden.” Not only
the keen north wind, that may bring
us to repentance, and the sharp
blasts of adversity to test and de-
my friends know, I have no certain At last the itinerant wheel dropped the angel trumpet in the last day, Jesus Christ, but it involves a prod-
income, and sometimes the way seems him at Jackson, the county seat of notwithstanding the goods box, the igious responsibility. Happy is that
dark for me and my children. But “Bloody Breathitt” County, in Ken- weeds and the loneliness; and that disciple to whom his Lord can say,
what I do get I tithe according to tucky. While there his little babe father and mother would some day "I call thee my friend. I was
God’s law, and somehow the cruse of sickened and died, and the sorrow- rejoice with joy unspeakable when wounded for thee, but thou hast not
had much sickness and other things those with whom they must associate trimmed it as best they could, put the sorely wounded in the house of his Another one, under distressing pe-
to keep us back. In the midst of our and thus be affected, despite all we precious little form in it, and started friends. What a cruel stab one of cuniary adversities, has been like a
distresses we became convinced that can say or do. Here, above every- on their mournful journey. When they them gave him in the courtyard of shaken cinnamon tree; her cheerful
tithing was right and determined to where else, has our robbery of God re- reached Nicholasville they found that, Pilate j What a cowardly desertion fortitude has proved that nothing
obey the law. We had a neighbor acted upon us, as we robbed him and after all, they had not money enough when that very group from the upper can impoverish a soul that is en-
who worked in the shops with my hus- ourselves grew poorer in material to buy the lot. The relatives had come chamber all forsook him and fled! riched with the unsearchable riches
band, and who bought his house on things as well as in spirit, and in- from Garrard County to be with them We wound our Master whenever we of Christ. Bereavement has sent its
the same plan. We told the neighbor volved with us all of the influences in their sorrow, and the heavily bur- break his commandments and when bitter blast into some of our fami-
A great blessing sent upon a
Church, or upon a Christian, often
makes the hearts thus blest to be-
come like a bank of violets under a
May shower. Do we not need to,
Here were people from every condi- sel as to how to manage the funeral to remain forever. Around it all, how- M
tion of life, all testifying that God’s on their little store of money. They ever, there was the shadow of an un- FRAGRANT CHRISTIANS.
Word could be believed, and yet men did not want to bury their loved one speakable horror as I thought of a By Rey Theodore L Culer D D
who assume to teach God’s law will at the' family burying ground in the Church or an individual anywhere “ * . ‘ ‛ ‘ ‘
not believe! county of Garrard, for there was no which would make such an experi- ur X-he aster directs its
IV. Is the Tithe Rule Just? railroad near, but at some place where ence necessary! Poor Jackson! Guilty ScP e 0 5-uminouS e ou
1. That the tithe law is just as be- the railroads crossed, and where, as blood has stained your quiet streets ight 8 ine"" e remin B hem at 'elop .
, ...... 2,, ,1 d"' ......... ......... ... , ........ ot n 1;1 they are to be the salt ol the earth, send the warm south wind of love, to.
tween individuals will be at once ap- they went up and down the land serv many times in and 8ui to preserve society from moral cor melt us into gratitude and praise,
parent to any unprejudiced mind mg God and the Church, they might ty souls have gone out into eternity lt.on. There is also a steady and ‘ -
Whichsives fair consideration. A nave occasionally an hour to go out to meet the just Judge I wonder 1 often unconscious influence shed off
Methodist preacher said to me once: to the grace, pluck the weeds and your sin began in robbing God? I from the genuine Christian which
“It cannot be right to require a man, plant a flower, while the heart grew wonder how many souls are in eternal , 1:uon 41 .1, -o., shed
with a large family and a small in- tender with sweet memories. They despair today who started by robbing 1 . -aromatic plants Travelers in
come, to pay in the same proportion finally decided to bury the babe at God? I am so glad that there is one Southern France can detect at once have more of the felt presence of
as a man with a large income and a Nicholasville, Ky., and in order to side of this question which leads to their entrance into the lavender-pro- Jesus in our souls, and more of the
small family.” He missed the point, save money to buy the lot in the no loss here and no hopelessness here- ducing districts—the air is laden warm breath of his love to set all our
There is no promise to equalize natu- cemetery they did not try to buy a after! Holy Spirit, help us all to do with grateful perfumes. . affections growing and glowing and
In the Canticles there is a lively breathing out a holy joy? However
picture of the Church as an “in- softly the south wind may blow upon
closed garden/’ with its pleasant the lavender bushes, it is from the
fruits, its pomegranates, its cinna- bushes themselves that the fragrance
mon, its myrrh, and all the. chief must be diffused. God’s mercies
spices. Then follows the prayer: come alike to saint and sinner. The
Awake 0 north wind ■ and come balmiest of zephyrs can not draw
were my enemies,to be “my friends.” "thou blow 'my garden, sweet odors from a pigweed or •
by Theodore L. CUYLER, D. D. I he group to which he originally ut- that the spices thereof may flow thistle. Dead trees yield no fra<
A little group of men—who had tered these words had been obscure out! As odors may lie latent in a grance. It is from a zealous, ear*,
been obscure nobodies three years day laborers, Who were not known a plant, so graces may remain unde- nest, Christ-imitating life that the:
before—were gathered in an upper score o1 miles from then homes and veloped in a Christian. What is sweet, attractive influences flow
under the compact. In establishing room at Jerusalem. The divine would havebeen forgotten in a score needed is to call them forth. Prun- forth: but you and I must do the
the Levitical priesthood it was dis- Jesus, looking around on the com- of years after their death. He does ing is a sharp process, but God’s living.
tinctly and repeatedly stipulated that n says to them. Ye are for them what the sun does for the people often require it to make them *
the Levites should “have no posses- friends.” They had not chosen him; planets—he floods them with his om- fruitful. Certain processes are A GOOD GUIDE,
sion" but the tithe. How like the he had chosen them. The electric nipotent lighsandlove untilthey be- needed, also, to make them fragrant. Bishop Wilberforce was out dry,
Methodist ordination vow, in which cord of divine love had made the lit- came stars of the first magnitude for A "north wind" is prayed for to • one day when a man on horse
the Bishop solemnly asks: “Will you tle group one. Presently the charm- the guidance of all generations, start the odors. Perhaps this may back stopped him, and. thinking to
be a man of one work? No posses- ed circle widens; a brilliant and bit- Brethren, do ton and I even begin to signify the work of the Divine Spirit have a joke, asked:
sion to the Levite, one work to the ter enemy of Christ is stricken by appreciate what it is foi the Loi d in producing deep conviction of sin “Excuse me Rishoo but could
modern pastor. the heavenly electricity and trans- Jesus to say to such creatures as we and shortcomings. Christians need ou tej m th', ronq ‛ Heaven?”
It is, therefore, simple justice that formed into a most enthusiastic are. Thou art my friend; I have to be convicted of sin as much as ’ . , ,,"—1
the law of God on this subject should friend A Wretched ’ snatein chosen thee; I have died to redeem unregenerate sinners. Many of the Certainly, sir, the Bishop an:
be obeyed today. It is God's method tLe slums of Rme is lifted into dis- thee; 1 have pardoned thee, and most pungent calls to repentance in swered. . Turn o the right, and
ot providing for the old preacher, now cipleship. By and by, great thinkers, graven thy name on my hand, and the New Testament are addressed to ^eeP straight on.
on the retired list, who took you into scholars, philosophers 'and orators, have prepared a house for thee, that members of those early Churches. ’
the Church in childhood, who was with Jeromes, Augustines ' and Chrysos- where thou art 1 shall be also ?" The Peter was under heartrending con- A Most Valuable Agent.
father and mother when they went toms and Bernards are drawn in. The Prince of Gory fits UP a place for viction of most odious sin when he The giycerine employed in Dr Pierce’^
away to be “forever with the Lord,” circle keeps widening as the ages roll paupers and transforms them into went out of Pilate’s courtyard weep- medicines greatly enhances the medicinal
but who now, in age, has “no posses- on Poor cottagers in their cabins his confidential friends and joint ing bitterly. That started the spices, properties which it extracts from native
sion.” poor widows and orphans in their heirs to his own inheritance. for true contrition has the savor of a medieinal roots, and.holds.in solution
By this law God meant to extend garrets, sailors in the forecastle, suf- 3. This is a corrective and chas- sweet smell in God’s estimation, possesses medicinal properties of its own,
his kingdom in the regions beyond, ferers in hospitals, are admitted to toning friendship in this world. He Many years ago a powerful awaken- being a valuable demulcent, nutritive,
the abounding prosperity of his people the wonderful household of love. And is the best friend who points out ing occurred in one of our theologi- antiseptic and antiferment., it adds,
being God’s own measure of the rapidi- as the converting grace transforms our faults. Jesus says to us: “As cal seminaries. . The “north wind”
ty with which the message of life was them, and the great arm embraces many as I love 1 rebuke and chasten, of the Holy Spirits power smote so root and Queen’s root, contained in.
to be given to those who now sit in them, we bear him keep on saying. No part of our earthly' schooling mightily that some of the students "Golden Medical Discovery" in subduing;
the “darkness and shadow of death.” «T Have called you friends • °‛ costs so dearly or yields such precious abandoned their hopes, threw away chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchial,,
These men and women not only leave 1. It is a confidential friendship; fruits. How often we need the file, all their previous impressions as
home and friends for heathenism and Jesus tells his chosen ones, “I call the chisel and the hammer to shape shallow and unsatisfactory, and ex- ard medical authorities,
enmity, but we at home rob God and you not bond-servants, for ‛ the ser- us into something like the ideal perienced a deep, thorough reconver-
impoverish ourselves by withholding vant knoweth not what his master which Christ has before his own eye! , " „ / stom:
the re-enforcement and equipment for doeth." A master sets his slaves to Christ was continually chiding, re- character. One of the best evi- sumptibn, there can be no doubt that giy
which they plead for doing their work work without any explanation. But buking, educating and pruning those dences of the power of a revival is cerinelacts as a valuable nutritive and
—for doing God’s work. Jesus had opened God’s thoughts to poor fishermen and publicans, until that it brings delinquent Church Queers ropt and Black Cherrybark in
By this law God meant to provide his disciples and initiated them into he made them fit to go out and be members to repentance. he same promoUng digestion and building up the
for Christianizing the vast multitudes the great mysteries of redemption, his witnesses and ambassadors before gtrong 8ale that uproots false pro- fies^a^^ troaingytconanuoh
from other lands coming to live among He had also chosen the twelve, “that the world. Jesus never loves us SetS the spices of penitence of the w ■ — — -
us, and who must be reached for God they might be with him.” For the more than when he is pruning us of flowing from those who had grown notberr
or they will help Satan to take this same reason Christ takes us into his the dead branches, to let the rich indolent or worldly-minded. Awake, stages.
lair land. Robbing God we have un- comvanionship, offers us his escort, duster ripen. Cnrrthwind and upon our irnuMes. and ehron^re.
wittingly endangered the value and promises us his presence, helps us on 4. But his wondrous friendship is u i 5s , tjirda t /mhJ1 o~a rsen e ss? I n ac u te co u g h s.'
peaceful enjoyment of all our posses- the journey and intercedes tor bless- all conditional. It depends on a God has many metheds oLsdeyel-
sions, deprived ourselves of joy and ings that we need. There are limi- great “IF.” “Ye are my friends if T P ,. 8-ce5 ° 1115 L mV even when accompanied by bleeding from
power, and devised an artful and pow- tations, for love, has its reticence as ye do whatsoever I command you.” iscipiine 1, one of them. They nngSathstcurteshas performed its most
erful snare for our loved ones. The well as its revelations. Our hearts Obedience to Christ is the only evi- te US thatthe Juniper p a nt emitS Prof. Finley Eilingwood, M. D., of Ben-
preachers on our home mission fields often ache to pry into certain myster- dence of genuine affection for him. : 4 sweetest odor when i is ung nett^Med. College, Chicago, says of 81-
are doing an incalculable service for ies, but our Lord keeps the veil Jesus himself acknowledged no 1n ° he. nre- .e.d. Know, ha «in dyspepsia it serves an excellent purpose.
God and his Church, as well as for drawn and says: “What I do ye know other test than entire submission to ruise overs Yield he mostt..fra- Eoronenaimxsdiuuantiteis’therrroxidsest
the State and Nation! not now, but ye shall know here- his will and the letting Christ have 8rmne: a a Some stlmin8 manuracturedP roductsiofthespresenttimein
By this same law God meant to pro- after.” It will be one of the joys his own way with us. To all such exhibitions among my own flock— achs, especially if there is ulceration or ca-
c, j jin ; c-. , ii- ri of the influence of severe +rials in tarrhal gastritis (catarrhal inflammation of
vide for the maintenance of the local of heaven to study the finished tapes- true friends, in storm and shine, the , —5 95 -55 trials in stomach), it i a most efficient preparation.
Church and its pastor, which were to tries of Providence, which in this Master is constantly saying: “If ye bringing out the richest and noblest
be the dynamos furnishing power and world look often so rough and rav- keep my commandments ye shall traits of Christian character. A Medical Discovery „ enriches and
sinews of war to the other depart- eled. abide in mv love; my Father will lovely young woman has preached to purities the blood curing blotches, pimples.
i x 5 i ; i eruptions, scrofulous swellings and old sores,
ments of work, as well as to keep true 2. A conferring of infinite honor ove yoU and We will come unto you me far more eloquently from her or ulcers. n,
faith burning on the altars of our is this friendship, I, the Son of God, and make our abode with you/ dying pillow than I had ever for'free booklet’ timnera buttet
own hearts, saving our loved ones and call you, poor, ignorant sinners, who .5, Our blessed Lord was often preached to her from the pulpit, medicinal FALresomnposndothlawondertul-
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