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TOE CUNTOS CHBOMCMC. < fit- - ‘i/J® IUTH CAROLINA P THE MONTHLY SERMON A Sermon For Thia Department Will Be Supplied In Rotation “ “ Local Pastora. Each Month By the intends to win this race, to attain this goal,” they that wait for Jeho vah shall know their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.'’ I. THIS ONE THING—It’s com pass. Yet as the discussion proceeds, we find that this one thing equals whatsoever things are true, honorable, just, pure, lovely and of good report. This is the only way just one thing could be HIS one thing. What extreme contrasts we have in this age. How broad we are even unto utter shallowness; how liberal unto license; self indulgence runs riot; extravangance at home and as we travel abroad, in all our work, in all our play, but especially in our Creeds and consciences. Yet when we come down to the real things—the things of business, of Dollars and cents, we realize that fogs generate no foot JftUihall Jintif.P in thrfif no wheels. Here TWIT VFRV WAPPV we tuv "THIS OWE 'fW By DR. D. J. WOODS, Paator First Presbyterian Church. (This is the first of a series of 3 sermons on the requisites of a joyful life. The other two are Phil. 4:6-7 and 4:8-9). “ONE TIHNG I DO.” Phil. 8:13 with context Phil 8:1-16. The Apos tle in verses 13 and 14 of this 3rd chapter of Philippians states his goal. . This epistle may be entitled CHRIST IN THE DAILY LIFE; 1:21 very well expresses it. Very natur ally then it soon developes into THE JOYFUL LIFE, see 3:1 and through 4:10. The expression “joy” and “re joice” occur some sixteen times in this very short letter. Chapter 3:1 seems to be the clos ing, but suddenly he has an inspired after thought, and from 3:1 to 4:10 in opposition to formalism and ritual ism, he sets forth THE JOYFUL LIFE. ' ' that for THE VERY HAPPY, or JOYFUL LIFE—just as for the very healthy body,—three things are neces- aary—A GREAT PURPOSE; A PRO PER ENVIRONMENT; THE PRO PER FOOD. We consider today the GOAL or PURPOSE. This is expressed nega tively in verses 4-7, positively 8-11, summing up 12-14 How he does despise petty, stupid formalism: how sarcastically he con trasts the “concision” of the body with the “circumcision” of the heart. And what a wonderful man he is, *‘Paul the aged” indeed, about to end his life’s battle, in the prison cell— yet no senile reminiscing here about the “good, old days.” His good days, his best are still beyond. He is think ing about a foot race, and he is in terested in it; he has a goal, and he specialists. We often know this to our sorrow with the Doctors, the En gineers, the Contractors, the Work men; and it is so in the miriad de partments of science. This gives concentration and ef ficieney: but there is danger of very lopsided characters. How now 'shall we secure r the apparent contradiction, the - utterly impossible—efficiency ~and breadth; intensity and liberality; spe cialism and all round development? Here we have it; a Gospel which imperiously anathematizes all others as “falsely so called”; yet compre hends all that is in all others, clean sed of all falsehood and indecensy, and all that is good raised to infinity. Here is an “ONLY ONE NAMfe" which is above every name in Heaven and earth”; it denominates HIM in whom fa all the fullness of the whole Godhead. Here is a great lense which gathers in every ray of the whole so lar system of the spiritual universe and concentrates all its light and heat upon “one thing” at a time until it burns its way clear through, and leaves only “whatsoever things are true—;” see 4:8. II. ONE THING it is, but ONE THING AT A TIME—CONCENTRA TION. And concentratioh involves abstraction; attention demands com pletely forgetting everything besides. Note how the things forgotten— left behind—despised, verses 4-7 and 9.—Moses and Paul both prayed for anathemas upon themselves for Is- raeal’s sake: Moses had given up a princely estate, pleasures and treas ures almost immeasurable. But Paul gave up the equivalent of all these and his own people besides in his pur suit of This One Thing. He left be hind, forgot, despised his Church, Na tion, Tribe, family, all pride in glory of noble ancestry. Just think of be ing called upon to give up home, par ents, brethren, children, community, state—to love not the world or aught that is in the world—to even hate father and mother, brethren and friends ? «rw*- And still more—he must, he did for u Owners of higher priced cars are coming to the Hupmobile in greater numbers every day ELLIS MOTOR CO. . Hupp Cars and Hood Tires \. # ' M. W. ADAMS Tinning and Plumbing ESTIMATES FURNISHED FREE — **% ‘ . ‘‘ . #.’’♦* * * e' * _ * —:— We Guarantee Everythin? We Do s ^ i , , ' „ • , 4 ... 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The treatment needed is not the use of narcotic drugs, but— CARDUI The Woman’s Tonic JM man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh—in circumcision—I yet more—”; as touching righteousness of the law” and “zeal”,—“blameless”; “ not hav ing any righteousness of my own.” How we love to sit back upon our own righteousness—morality, and carve up the characters of fellow men with-as- little compunction—as we would whittle a stick; especially if these men be elders or deacons. But all this must bb forgotten, despised, left away behind. It must be as filthy rags. Not by any righteous ness which I have done, only by mercy; “could my zeal no respite know, could Tny tears for ever flow— all for sin could not atone, Thou must save, and Thou alone.” III. This “ONE THING” as His Goal. “Forgetting the things which are behind—stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the Goal.” And what is this goal ? What is it which de mands so much ? What is it that can blind us by its glory to all else, and then trahsform all else and compre hend all the True, the Beautiful and the Good?—“The prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus”; “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesua,*my LowT’J “to gain Christ, and to bb found In Him” - ; “through faith in Christ”; “the righteousness which is from God through Christ”; “to know the power of His resurrection— the fellowship of His suffering—to bo conformed to His death.” He must be our very God; His Name is won derful, counsellor, mighty God, ever lasting Father, Prince of peace—”; to know Him Is to know the Father —they are one. Yet he is the seed of the woman, son of Abraham, of David; he is born of a virgin; and “seeing we were partakers of flesh and blood, he himself partook of the same that by His death he might destroy him who had power over death—.” Yes, he “was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities—”; but he arose from the dead, baling., “destroyed him who had power over death,” and leading cap tivity captive, he gives all needed gifts to men. His resurrection at tests all His claims; and with all thrones, dominions, principalities and powers under His feet, he is head over all things unto the church. By His Holy Spirit He* opens the eyes of our understandings; puts to death the old life of sin, and.empowers us with the joyful resurrection life. And in this life we can face death and hell and sing—“where death is now thy sting, where grave thy vic tory”; we pass triumphantly through the valley of the shadows of death, knowing that when this body is dis solved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the skies.” . But to know His life, we must first be conformed \o His death; to over come we must first undergo; to wear the crown requires to bear the cross. Except the grain fall into the ground and die, it remaineth alone. But when we have been conformed to His death; when we have had the fellowship in His sufferings; then we shall attain-unto, the resurrection of the dead. And unto all this, and through all this—the love'of Christ constraineth us. Conclusion. And now hear this man, this master man, this man who had suffered more and accomplish ed more, who had attained to far more than any other man. This man who had been so often granted di rect visions of Christ; who had once been in the very heaven of heavens, and seen things unlawful to declare. “Not that I have already obtained, that I have already been made per fect—I am still pressing on.” Yet there is a perfection with him—see verse 15. “Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded.” And note that the “thus minded” is the mind just described in 18-14,—“ONE THING I DO, forgetting—I press on toward the Goal—This is the only human perfection which this most perfect of all men recognizes,—the mind to press on. And is this not a necessary element in any permanent joy? Is not the real happiness al ways in the pursuit?—all ceases with final attainment. We have a goal of attainment so infinitely perfect in Christ Jesus, that we are to press on and on and on forever, and al ways there is yet more beyond. Here is the ONE THING which compre hends “whatsoever is true and honor able—” 4:8. This is the lense which gathers up in Christ the whole plero- ma of the Godhead and concentrates it upon every common task; this alone gives the broadest liberality in full harmony with the most tremendous efficiency. “ONE THING I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretch ing forward to the things which are before, 'I press on toward the goal, unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” STRONG EVIDENCE Is the Statement of . Woman. This Clinton Backache is often kidney ache; A common warning of serious kid ney ills. “A Stitch in Time Saves Nine”— Don’t delay—use Doan’s Pills. Profit by the experience of Mrs. J. H. M, Young, E. Ferguson St., she says: “My kidneys were out of condition and caused a great deal of annoyance by their weakened state. I had dizzy spells and spots appear ed before my eyes when I got up suddenly after being in a stooped po sition. My bock gave me a great suffering. I had small at the energy. I but they didn't help me at oil. 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