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“DOING THE WILL OF 60D” SEaday Scmofl By the Rev. Jobs

Erakloc Aduas. Preleaed Perpoi Lite sad Labors el

Deafer* *1 Spirit el Materisllsa Ktw York CTrr.—"Doing the Will of God" «a» the subject ol the sermon preached Sunday morning by the Kev. John Erskmr Ads'n., paalor of tKe Ross Street 1’rr.bytcriau Church, lie took as his text John 4: 31. "Mv meat ia to do the will of Him that sent Ale, and to linish Hi« work ’’ Mr. Adams said:

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... Adams said:

There words express the profound purpose whit-b animated the life and labors of our Isord. He has Ik-cu encaged in that wonderful conversation with the sinful woman of Samaru, and to her lie has unfolded truths which have in part at least, been kept up to this hour even from His faithful followers. Things which bad been hidden from the wise and prudent are reveiled unto babes. Some of the most wonderful truths that Jesus uttered were to •inner*; some of the most gracious promises to those who, like Himself, were despised and rejecud of men. To this outcast woman whose life was branded with •hamc. He not only reveals His willingness to impart the gift of God, the living water, i springing up into everlasting life,’'but He : reveals to her Hit divine nature and Mcsiumj. character. "T that speak unto thee The woman has gone from His presence with a new hope in htr heart and a new light upon her face, and the disciples approach their Master. He must be hungry, lor the fast, hko the way, has been long, and they offer Him meat. He repliea: :I have meat to eat that ye know not of; My meat it to do the will of Him that sent Me and to finish His work." Again does our Lord declare that man shall not live by bread alone. There is s deeper satisfaction than that which come* from gratification of the carnal nature; the satitfac-

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the Father’s one of there little onei shall perish. That philosophy, which proved too profound for those disciples is, we fear, just as incomnal and mater-

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* M«asTt.v srrtaeca re

power of Ilia mcarnation. He knew no

of the profouDdcat thought that could come to a msti; the ‘•Father’* huameai” was the supreme business of Jesus’ life He knew no other miaoion or message. And we are speaking truly when we aay that it was this supreme purpose which e*v« power and dignity to our Ra- :

ilty to" our Evavionr’s

an aimUxs one. Without that purpore of doing the Father's will and manifesting Hi* glory there would have been no eoherCbrufs deeds or teachings, but in the will of God we find all thatHe waa

SS S

Now what waa true of Chriat

measure true of every one of e

purpose waa and gave to ' U>rd, it must be and give

i'or'u.- "hK the life of our

to ns. We can

-- —; ... live* of atrength without the deep unpulaet of a noble purpore stirring within them, than can the vessel reach her destined haven without the compass or the pole sUr. Behind all things are the Infinite purposes, Tennyson give* us the

thought:

‘Yet I doubt not thro’ the ages one increasing purpose run*, And th; thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.” . G ° a tote no delight in chaos or confuoop. Hi* works ore ordered according to a divine pur poor. Not only His works of creation, which move in the harmony of a perfect Plan, but thoae of redemption .and wisdom ia d

' purpose

fifs?i^ r £rygf_ Hi* glory in the accomplishment of His purpose in nature and in grace, and if Christ e life was lived in the light of a noble purpore, how essential it it for us to move onward in accordance with well defined plana, under the inspiration, aye, compulsion of some aim in fife, that sWl fire to file definiteness and coherence. Saint Bernard had over his study table in illuminated letters there words: “Bernade. ad quid vomit:?" "Bernard, why are you here!" The reference waa not to the routine task* of his life. There were determined for him. But it was: What is the animating purpore of your life! What is the meaning of your existence! Is •very pleasure and every task made subservient to the one purpore; the one supreme motive, of your being! Amiel in his journal records, "Life ia a of beginning* and ending*.” We hare all experienced his meaning. We hare begun to — -“ t fiSiah. We have laid cur

them broken in upon and

build, but did not

plan* and found them broken in upon destroyed; we have akimmed over the face of things, but not gotten at their den meaning. And if we ask the reasc is evident. We bare f “ ' '

presiding purpore has w skein into harmony and I

— akfein~iuTo harmony snd'bsauty'T'We'liare

dMJymg with purpose, we hare been K.l/ w-llin^ w. 1..V. 1... 1 — . _ t

in the

_ willing, we have been tanging foreru u the balance, and so we hare been losing

our grip on life.

Aa a man mupowth in his heart ao. is he. The difference between aimlessness and decision is the difference between the stagnant pool, lying motionless, thick end •limy, breathing malaria and breeding venom, and the cataract, which rushes onward, a living, moving, plunging thing, something destructive in it* energy, but s thing of beauty because a thing of Kfe. "Better r.n ignoble purpose even, says Dr. ^ieraon, "than non? ataS." Better to be • Saul of Toraua, breathing out threatening! and slaughter, but breathing, than auch a man aa Bobert Dale Owen, who eon■1 committed o

sees: "1 a >uth, and arted in

life without an

fatal error In my I bewailed rit; I

object, even temperaaMBt

aggie for anything. Had I creat mraelf a definite pursuit—literary, scientific, artistic, social, political, no matter what, so there was something to labor for I frel This^now— gone. Habits have E'sLrrH have thrown away a

[to remember with pride

sjyw.’g iffis.'sissyi? - The necessity, therefore, of purpose in

life is apparent. And the auastion we are .

of my life? The Homan mads martial #*• "

Physical Changes In flan.

Recent researches have furnished

Un(| facts regarding cha

ling changes

is at present undergoing It ia believed that man • —•’■wed with more teeth

ises. Abundant evi-

r t3endid l *i'aSSsT* Hu“l<£ou ! !j u . n « n te cth were used at weapons of nqucrable. but hit moral nature delence. Ihe practise of eating our eloped, and Home fell because , food cooked and the disuse of teeth re ailt upon power without prind- weapons are said to be ri f —

:ter. The the degeneration that is tic*. 8b* J ancient times a short-siirh

was undevi .

she was built upon powet pie and conquest without

i i !”r

^ uloac"*— ' “- v !

;cneration that is going on. I»

:ient times a short-sighted soldier «•

almost an impossibility; te-

| hunter w-as almost an im|>ossibiluy; t®inj i 'cctive vision. It is almost certain that

_ ^ t _r**p ! nan «nce possessed a third eye. by divine philosophy of life; the truth I means of which he was enabled to see tow "righteousness cxalleth a nation, but | above his head. The human eyes for■in ia a reproach to any people. The au- „. crIy reKar rf cd t h c world from the two SSSSsst ss as i ps ‘d A polytbeiatic imgamsm; not too much of. -*pn. In the dim^kst the ear flap was God, but too many Gods, that waa their | of ~reat service in ascertaining the diundoing. | rection of sounds, and operated largely And so wc might particularise. What it | in the play of the features. But the true of nations is true of men, for it ia ( muscles of th\ car have fallen into disthe man that makes the nation. Any mo- | usei f or the fear of surprise by ecetive, other than the higbeaCt* fatal to pere ! a .j el no | onger exilts Again, our

I

i* to court destruction. Wc need this ; Teasing is evidenced by observations

——-- to-day. We pride ourselves on the I >i the olfactoo’ organ. : we are a peaceable and peaceful We enter upon, war only aa.a der- , Russian Ballooning.

Ballooning under any conditions is -.vceedingljr perilous, but the aeronaut :r. Ru'.sia would appear to be exposed •ri danger of sudden death from an isn-••-ual quarter. Recently a large miliary balloon left the fortress of C etre. on thc western frontier of 1 a. and after a voyage of four hun< "id fiity miles descended in the | rntnert of Smolensk. That jout ■.ted nineteen and one-half he Massing over Vitebsk thc aeronauts -t-iic near to the earth to obtain some 'I'otographa of thc town, when two bullet* whistled close by the car. To ?‘cape this danger a rapid ascent * •cade, but, later on. coming down a lower level, fifteen or twenty bullets Hew by them in unpleasant proximity. The descent accomplished, inquir— were tf on foot, when it was a«c •ained that the balloon had been repeatedly fired at by the peasants and inhabitants of the districts passed ovjf; by -.ome because it was believed to be an evil spirit, by others because it was taken-for a flying fish, and by others again because it was regarded as a hat Linger of approaching misfortune.

warning to-day. We pride o fact that we ore a peaceable and peaceful people. We enter upon war only as s dernier resort. We are seeking to develop the ; industrial side of our life. We bout of : our achievement* in commercial competi- ' tion; that the balance of trade U largely ! in our favor. We point to the enormous ; accumulation of capital; to our ever increasing exchequer. We are thc wealthiest nation on the face of the earth. Our resources are inexhaustible, our possibilities of increment unlimited. But herein lie* our very - periL It needs no figures to declare that tbeoepirit of materialism is rife as never before in our land. The domination of wealth becomes daily more cruel. The quest ol riches is more snd mors

strenuous.

Millionaires are not numbered by the score*, but by the thousands. Materialism is rampant. Its interests are supreme. It hu been said that “market is beginning to dominate literature and art, instead of classic models and superior excellence. Today men no less than things have their price, and the money value is made the standard of the worth of an object. It u true that in some quarters there is revulsion of spirit on this question. The pendulum is beginning to swing the other way. We take hope from the thought that many are studying with insight the gross materialism of the age. Thc prophetic voices against it are on the increase in the pulpit. Ignorant, vulgar and brutal wealth receive* severer chastisements than a few decade* since. Empty show, extravagant display and seinth luxury are seen by increasing numbers, according to their hollowness and iniquity. There is a growing demand for simplicity of life, for solidity, for i nest realities, for ethics, for spiritual

but os yet the lump remains prncticaHy u leavened. What, then, it the duty of the church and the Christian in this matter? Do w* not need to stand where Christ stood, to make the motive of His life the supreme motive of ours? Let us remember our spostleship. We are ambassadors lot Christ as truly as was Paul. Through ua, through our lives, our thoughts, our ac- »&. i, SSS“XSS k H. , k.r'i ’ ' i! Ia it a message of worldlinese, of

bring! Is it a message of worldlinese, of selfishness, of carnal desires, a message of skillful temporizing with His commanda and skillful attempts to make Hia claims upon us consistent with luxury and pleasure and worldly conformity! There ia no doubt that many in our churches are seeking to apply this soporific to their conscience*; to be in this world and of tMa world, and yet belong to God. I*t ns remember the word* of the great apostle: "Be not fashioned according to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of ir mind, that ye may prove what i* the d and acceptable and perfect will of

What was needed in Rome is not leaa needed with ns here to-day. Should there come such a transformation, ahomd there be in every life the proving of the will God. the whitened harreet would wait

HSbit , h 0 |^ l wS 1 ^hon«htJej. girl of •even teen year*, used to all the refinements of luxury and a fife of eaae, wholly eelfish and wholly uaeleaa, when God came to her through the voice of a Qoakfr preacher. She consecrated her Kfe to God. Her meat and her drink were the doing of the Maw ter’* will and work. At the age of sixtyfive she wrote: "Since my firert wae tonebed, at the age of seventeen, I believe oat my first waking thought keing how best I might serve my Lord?' There could be but one result from such consecration. God sent her among the outcast, and hsr life’became a constant benediction. The work she began in Great Bn tain among female convicts spread all over the continent of Europe. Letter* from crowned heads, as well aa from philanthropic people in the common walks of life began to pour in, inviting her to visit the prisons of other lands, and-subsequently she nailed Scotland, France, Germany and other countries, upon this errand of mercy, every- —— hailed as an angel of peace and ill to men. The prisons of Europe jformed through her labors, and the law* to punish enm inala were greatly modified in nearly all European eountrieiL

where

modified ^“nwly^Ewpe^comtrire. Indeed the reformation spread throughout the world. Thia waa Gie work accomplished by one woman, who had submitted her life wholly to the will of God. She was changed from a thoog*^’—

into a woman of great er. But *

'thoughtless, frivolous girl

great wrefatow and powsjsj" Evrsa^ss: £•<£; and to Hia plana; aha put them first, and so God used and honored hsr. And what wa* true of Elizabeth Fry may be true of each one of us. We may not be called to

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