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w* v: 7W?Pi !bgr7~^p? 1 50NDAV/I n^jn ]| 11 I SERMON lP-1 UUUIT Subject: Clothe Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at the < Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme, "Clothed With Christ," the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as his text Romans 13:14 and 14:8: "Put ye on the Lord ? rtl -*-i T-? Hro jesus u arise. ror wutuic; v?^ ve live unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; wheth- : er we live therefore, or die, we are ,the Lord's," He said: The need to-day in the church of ' our Lord and Saviour is for men and women who are truly Christ's. The call of God and of the world about us is for men and for women who in life and unto death are the Lord's. High in. His Heaven the Father ' yearns an the deepest recesses of His 'heart for human souls who will serve the Master tirelessly and with a living faith. The world looks toward ' the servants of -Jehovah for leader- 1 ship -and light. Whichever was* we may turn our -eyes, we may discern the pleading, beckoning hands of Jescs and of men who want salvation. Do we listen but a moment we may catch the cry of a sin-sick world and may hear the call of God. Beloved, God desires and man needs a strong, full-Wooded, sanctified host to live and t? preach the true Christ, life. The consummation of the Kingdom and the coming of the Christ depend largely upon the activity of . us who are called Christians. The measure of our fullness of life within Christ Jesus will be the measure of our lasting influence with men, or our favor in the sight of God, of the amount of Heaven's happiness that ?hall fill 'our hearts. The way unto ^ v "righteousness and peace and joy" ds through thorough-going <union within the Christ. He is the mediator >.*' -of our sure salvation. He -is the i. leader who can bring us perfect love and who is worthy of our' aid. Within Him and clothed with the power that He gives we may fear naught hut God. Without Him all ? \ is vanity. Are you weary ? Put on 1 Christ. Are you sad or sick or do ( you wish the richest joy? Turn to ( ? - Jesus. He is the healer of the whole world's ills. He is the Saviour who v/ -can really give salvation. ? The burden of our text is a -call for < the strict and whole-hearted alle- ' gi&nce of the individual man and j Christian to Jesus Christ. '"Put ye < on the Lord Jesus," says Saint Paul, * and the implication is that we are to 1 'dwell wholly within the Christ. The Ji. call is for men and for women who 1 .will be clothed upon with Jesus ] Christ?not merely once but contin- * ually?unto the attainment of the ] perfect likeness of our Lord4-VIA +Avf. Vvv*irtfro lie fooo frt < ^uw vuc ux &u50 uu &uvv w jlmvv ?do we think a moment?with these & two separate and distinct truths. The 5 .. first is that it is the duty of every man to enter into the Christ life. The second is that having entered if. into that life "we must progress toward Christlikeness. That is to say, we must grow continually toward spiritual maturity and toward the perfectness of character which should accept the Lord as Saviour, for His power to save is a fact proven and attested by a long line of human experience. We Christians ought to grow into new and richer graces, for * thus only do we evidence our love for ; .v that Master whom we serve. The duty which we have predicated to be dbligQtory upon every man is j. not less a need. The man who neg; . lects to obey the call of Christ for entire yielding of self up to God, destroys for himself the greatest ^blessing which, in life, may be attained, ahd which God proffers to hufwn kind. Only as we accept the V. Christ as our Saviour and our Friend are we surest of life eternal and of r. fellowship with the Father here. Convinced of the awfulness of our own sin, as every normal, rightminded man must be, it is clearly as much a necessity as an obligation for each of us to seek and to sleze that certain cleansing from the stains of an evil life which God has sent us through His Son, our Elder Brother. \ Desiring, as we all do, the highest happiness for self, it is hard .to understand why men refuse the Gospel. Hoping, as each of us should . hope, for the accomplishment of the ~ greatest usefulness in the world, it is c difficult to believe tnat men can, ae- t - liberately and willfully, disdain to c accept that Heaven-born power which i can make us most worth while. Pur- t ity, happiness, success: All three can i be had at the hands of God Himself i v". if men will but heed the Gospel of i His Son. Wise is the sinning soul t who believes. For he who loves' ^ Christ, lives best. <3 If the ne$d of the man who is far a away from God is great to put on t Chris*, the obligation of the Chris- i jtian to be continuously clothed upon a .by Christ is just as real. We must ? ever be renewing that spiritual life t with which the Christ in our first r acceptance of Him hath clothed us. a The Christ life permits neither stand- s stills'nor retrogression. We must be e . on the move and that always ahead, s ,To stand still is to stagnate. We s must push on. Desire for further r < and grander attainment in the Godblessed life should always consume xls as with a fire. Our faculties should be concentrated not upon pres- a "ent success but upon future accom- ^ , .plishment. Self-survey is a good f thing if so be it lead not to self-satis- c faction. That self-survey, moreover, r is most nrofitable which takes stock ; of mistakes and which incites to g i further and finer effort. Belief on r | Christ is not merely assent to a fact, t l -but the consecration of the soul to f a life of service for His sake. Mere belief may gain us Heaven, but we must labor would we grow in grace. . Many of us who would be ashamed i. to be rated as "just passed" in the : records of this life's victories, seem \ to be very well satisfied to slide into Heaven with but small margin to spare. The best of our love and our work is none too good for God. The apostle was right when in the words r r- ' _> ~ '?. S V*. * .? V? J + ' ?' ' : ; - -'-w>-' ;: . . -" v.. : '.-; :. * i-yrr .r ? 1, i ??bbbw"^ vmnW\ GYTrt?"RLV-? , "? A^W-'H EN DEf^p^: ME'PANPUS.Dfliftl d With Christ. of the text he advised us unreservedly to put on Jesus Christ. Thus only can we become the children of God whom we should be?for the fullness of the Christ is perfection. And now that we have considered thus briefly the reasons why all men should serve God and all Christians should be re-clothed day by day with Christ, let us also reflect what is the nature of this life wherewith we are clothed by Christ. What does the ^ wViem Vi o 11 rtrcic; nt; f f-j <X [J LRi lie liicau \1 HVIL iiu put on Jesus? What sort of men will we be? Well, to be sure the first answer will be that the nature of that spiritual life wherewith w^fare to be reclothed or clothed uJPfl, as the case may be, is essentially Christly. The apostle advises us to be Christlike when he points us to Jesus. Necessarily and logically, therefore, we will be men who act and live like Jesus Christ. The "hymn which runs, "Jesus Christ is myall and in all," states the situation perfectly. Self is glorified through the losing of self in the Saviour. To put <on 'Jesus Christ and to be clothed upon by Him is to be saved, to grow from grace unto grace, to be one of that strong, full-blooded, sanctified host who, under God, live and preach the Christ life. You will notice ? say live and preach, for the only preaching that is of value "or that, in the long rim, will 'count for anything very much, is the preaching that flows rich and fuTl and free out of a life that is consistent, that rings true; out of a heart Tich with experience 'of the glorious joys and possibilities of the life within Jesus. And as with the Dreachmg, so also with all the means by which God's Gospel is mediated to men. The only testimony which secures resnlts is that which springs from a trusted source. The only word which will-strike home is that which has "behind It a conviction and an assurance that is born of experimental knowledge. To preach Christ with power we -must be accounted sincere and sure. The Christ man will he a strong man. That is to say, he will be full of force. He may be warped and 3rawn physically, as one mighty messenger of God whom I "know, but his heart is pure, and his mind is clean, ind his soul-looks out toward Heaven hrougjh windows that are not dimmed t>y sin. The man who is clothed by 'and with Jesus is a full-blooded man. His heart beats powerfully, his eye s clear, his head works quick, lis hand is ready and his step .s firm when sin is to be met ind battled to the death. Without i quiver, a quaver, or even the slightest fear will, he fight against the wrong. To be sure, he may not be Jlue-blooded, as the social standards >f our day set the term. He may inail to force the unjust combat. He nay refuse to pick a quarrel merely n order to despoil a people. But ;here, there where the fight is hottest md sin is strongest entrenched; there where the odds are against him and t seems his God must fail; there, on ;he Lord's own side, will you find he man who is clothed upon with Christ. But, above all, the man who puts m Christ continually is sanctified, j Je is being perfected in holiness. | Je is in process of attainment in ;rowth in godliness. Sanotification is lot only perfectness, but the process f md way to holiness entire. The aim >f the man who is serving is for the ;oal. His hand is ever in the hand >f God. He never lets policy give the sidetrack to principle. With him ;ruth has the right of way and the ;lear road always. His motives are ibove suspicion. If he falls In the *ace he is still undaunted. For him, o be well up at the end, is ambition's lope. To keep the faith is hie enieavor. "For Christ and the world" s his motto. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ md be ye clothed progressively with Jim. Thus shall ye learn the highist service, thus shall ye enter Isitc knowledge of the finest life. Xourishing the Soul. Why should not everybody, espelially every church member, belong o the Sunday-school? asks the editor >f the Observer. Surely no one can ay claim to sufficient knowledge of he Bible. Even the most scholarly nen of the age are constantly studyng the Old Book, and are ever findng something new in it. In spite of he sensation Droduced bv recent. vorks of fiction, the Bible is more liscussed to-day than any other book, tnd the interest is of the intensest ;ind. Such a book ought to be studed regularly by every person. We ire convinced that by joining the iunday-school and making use of the test helps in Bible stud}', the best esults can be secured. Good helps ire cheap, for one thing. Then the tudy of certain portions of the Bible ivery week will tend to regular and ystematic habits of nourishing the oul with the very food that it most leeds.?Ram's Horn. , Make tJs Strong in Trial. We remember the temptations that 1 ire before us, when passion from vithin is allied with opportunity rom without, and that we have so , >ften therein gone astray, and we TV iL.l .1 ]_ ! .4 12 : nay iuce iutii me spziiu ui rtrugiuu | nay be so strong within us that it hall enable us to overcome evil, and i >rove ourselves stronger for every . rial. Amen.?Theodore Parker. Best Environment. True religion comes not by vioence, but chiefly, I think, from being irought up with good men, reverencng their ways and words. ? S. II Crockett. Meaning of Watching and Praying. The call to watch and pray meaiiS nore than watching your neighbor. ,*' v * *. V <r> "j Prog's Hearts in Men. Once again have the scientists proved to be wrong. Until recently it was thought that a child could only live eight or ten years with! what is known as "a frog's heart"?a ! heart with single ventricle to perform the double purpose of propelling the pure blood throughout the system and sending the impure blood to the), lungs for purification. In the normal being these two operations are performed by separate ventricles. In the course of the post-morten examination of a man about thirty-five years old who had suffered from heart disease, in one of the Manchester hospitals. it was found that he had lived the allotted span with a heart in all its details like that of a frog, except that it was muoh larger. It is said that such a case is unique in the annals of medical science.?Dundef Ativeruser. Leprosy Patient Nurses Children. An evening contemporary, in its issue of Monday, deriouhced the authorities of tiie Lazaretto for avowing a patient smitten with leprosy to act as assistant nurse in the children's ward. Given the contagious nature of the awful disease named, it seems increditable that under the careful superintendence of the medical officers of the institution such an irregularity oould exist. The interest of the matter lies in the bare announcement, which shows how quickly the city .grows accustomed to circumstances. If, three months ago, anyone dared to say that there was such a thing as leprosy anywhere within wiimi'Mntl llmito the Trhfkla XL'picht UIC UUiiiu, i?v ? c.., of public opinion would have hern discharged upon the luckless wight. And now leprosy in one form or -another is Jto be met with daily in the metropolitan press. -1- Buenos Ayres Herald. In the Game. Once tjhere was a man who thought TJncfle Russell Sage ought to stop work. He spoke to him abotft it. ""Why get together any more money, Mr. Sage? You can't eat it; ycm -can't drink it. What goofi. "wSll it do youT" "Ever play marbles?" Uncle Russell aeked. "Yes, when I was a boy."" "Uohldn't eat 'em, cccilE you? -couldn't drink tem, could you? No vise to you, were they? "What did you play '.marbles for.?"?Harperte Weekly. FITSj-Gt. Vitus'Daaoe :Nervous Diseases per maneirtly cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerw Restorer. S2 trial bottle and treatise free. Ur.dEL?. Kline, Ld^flgl Arch St.. Phila., Pa A kiss on the Saps is w<r?ih two ?oi "the thend. 'Piles Qnred in 6 to 14 Days. Paso- Ointment is guaranteed to cure -sin ease otf Itching, Blino, Bleeding or Protruding ^Piles fart to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. The elephant* trunk," says T)r }Ray 'Isankaster, ^originated throngl ^ shortening of the lower jaw. There ^foTe I:am sorry tc upset Mr. Hudyard 2Kipling*s explanation thattthe lengtt ?Jf thetfcmk was accounted for by its thaving ibeen pulle0 by the ^crocodile.' I HURT, BRUM ST. 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