THE SABBATH

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 12 (Supplement)

THE SABBATH

OBEDIENT SERVANTS Be sober, then; be vigilant; forbear To seek or covet aught beyond thy ; sphere; Only be strong to labour, and allow \ Thy Master’s will to appoint the ] where and how. Serve God; and winter's cold or j summer’s heat, • The breezy mountain or the dusty street, Scene, season, circumstance alike shall be His welcome messengers of joy to thee; His Kingdom is within thee; rise and prove A present earnest of the bliss above. —J. R. Lowell BEAUTY OF THE GOSPEL REVEALED IN HUMAN LIVES The Gospel as seen in the world is seen in human lives. Thus a godly life is regarded as an adornment of the Gospel. The beauty of a Christian life is like a frame in which the i Gospel is set off to advantage. It ! does not alter the Gospel any more | than the frame alters the picture, but ( j it adorns it. I This truth we have all realised in ! ! our experience. We have seen a | godly man live his religion in all the | varied relations of life. We instinci tively feel that the Gospel is adorned ! by such a life. On the other hand, i we have seen many professing ; Christians live inconsistent lives, and j we feel that the Gospel is disfigured by such lives. St. Paul’s language becomes clear to us when we look at it in the light of our own experience. We feel the force of this exhortation to “adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour” more when we con- | sider the reasons which should lead us to seek to adorn the Gospel of ! Christ. We should adorn the docI trine of Christ, for in so doing we glorify Christ Himself. We cannot think of the Gospel without thinking of Christ. He is the centre of the Gospel. We cannot disgrace our religion without disgracing our Lord. This should impress us with a sense of the duty of adorning the

doctrine of God our Saviour. We may not be able, from our talents, or position in the world, to influence many in favour of the Gospel, but it is possible for all of us to exert the higher influence of a holy life. Without that it will matter little how much talk or how eloquently we can talk. If our lives do not commend the Gospel our talk will be of little value. But the beauty of a holy life will give power to every word we speak and everything we do for Christ. If you ask what can I do for the Gospel, I reply you can live it. —Rev. Isaac Jolly.

TESTS FOR THE WEEK The Microscope and Telescope 1 Prove This:—O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and know- j ledge of God ! how unsearchable are j His judgments, and His ways past finding out.—Romans 11:33. Great Minds Grasp the Unity of All Things:—But to us there is but one God. the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are all things, and we by Him.—l Corinthians 8:6. It is the Main Business of Life:— Whether therefore, ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.—l Corinthians 10:31. Speak 111 of No One:—Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour; for we are members one of another.—Ephesians Supplant All This With Love:—Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. ; —Ephesians 4:31. Learn Self-control:—Lay hands : suddenly on no man, neither be par- j taker of other men’s sins: keep thy- ' self pure.—l Timothy 5:22. There is a Sense Higher Than i Physical Senses:—Now faith is the ! substance of things hoped for, the ■ evidence of things not seen.—Hebrews 11:1.