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* The path of the just is as
the shining light, that shin-
eth more and more unto the
perfect day.”
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Vol.
THE WATCHMAN
NASHVILLE, TENN., OCT. 29, 1907
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“The way of the wicked
is as darkness; they know
not at what they stumble.”
No. 44
AANA
TO THE
Jlave vou wandered far from Jesus?
Has the dazzling fruit of sin
Turned to ashes on your palate?
Are you sick and sad within?
Have vour life-plans all been thwarted,
And your hopes been turned aside?
[lave vou chosen sin and folly,
Drifting with the tide?
Gloomy mountains rise above you,
Farth-enamored is your mind:
Jut a voice to vou is speaking,
Christ the Lord is wondrous kind,
“Turn. O turn,
Come and find thy promised rest:
for I've redeemed thee.
In my arms are love and safety.
Lean thy head upon my breast.”
BACKSLIDER
Eliza H. Morton
Sunny memories wrap thy spirit
In a vision of the past,
Home and mother, happy childhood,
Then a chaos dark and vast:
Come, O come, make known thy yearning.
Seek the Lord in contrite prayer:
Though upon a desert dying,
God will bless you even there.
[lave you known the truth now sounding
Far and wide o'er earth and sea,
Yet have failed to keep and hold it,
Fearing not the last decrec?
Sad, O sad, if still rejecting,
Darkness deepens more and more,
Till the Saviour comes in glory,
And probation’s hour 1s o'er. .
LIVING FOR CHRIST | |
a il Mrs. E- G. White I oo ce |
S a Christian submits to the
solemn rite of baptism, the
three highest powers in the
universe,— the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit,—
place their approvaleon his
act, pledging themselves to
exert their power in his be-
half as he strives to honor God. Te 1s
buried in the likeness of Christ's death,
and is raised in the likeness of his res-
urrection. The S
the grave, but he rose from the dead,
Saviour went down nto
proclaiming over the rent sepulcher, “1
am the Resurrection and the Life.”
The three great powers of heaven
pledge themselves to furnish the Chris-
tian with all the assistance he requires.
"The Spirit changes the heart of stone
to the heart of flesh.
of the Word of God,
an experience that is after the divine si-
militude. When Christ abides in the
heart by faith, the Christian is the tem-
ple of God. Christ does not abide in
the heart of the sinner, but in the heart
of him who is susceptible to the influences
And by partaking
Christians obtain
of heaven.
The light that shines forth from the
life of the true Christian testifies to his
union with Christ. Self is hidden from
view, and Christ is revealed. Heaven
recognizes the fulfilment of the promise,
‘I will make a man more precious than
fine gold,
wedge of Ophir.”
even a man than the golden
“ Now arc we the
sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be; that,
we shall be like
but we know
when he shall appear,
him; for we shall see him as he 1s.”
Then those whose lives have heen hidden
Christ, those who on this earth
have fought the good fight of faith, will
shine forth with the Redeemer’s
in the kingdom of God.
with
glory
My brother, my sister, God’s purpose
a life that
a life which
will show that Christ is formed within,
the hope of glory. It is his purpose that
vou shall be able to say with the apostle
Paul, “I live: vet not I, but Christ liv-
In perfect content, resting
for vou is that vou shall live
will make others better,
eth in me.”
in the love of Christ, trusting the Re-
deemer and Life-giver to work out for
vou the salvation of your soul, vou will
still
what it means to endure
God
in his love.
know as you draw nearer and
nearer to him,
as sceing him who is invisible.
desires us to rest content
The contentment that Christ bestows is
a gift worth infinitely more than gold and
silver and precious stones.
Love the right because it is right, and
analyze vour feelings, vour impressions,
in the light of the Word of God. Mis-
directed ambition will lead you into sor-
Cherish
an ambition that will bring glory to God
because it is sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
row as surely as vou yield to it.
Consecrate every power of your being to
the accomplishment of a holy work.
Make every effort, in and through the
grace of Christ, to reach the high stand-
ard set before vou. You can be perfect
in your sphere, even as God is perfect
in his sphere. IMas not Christ declared,
‘Be ye therefore perfect, even as your
‘ather which is in heaven is perfect”?
Our lives are pure only when we are
under the control of God, and happy only
when we hold communion with him. The
luster possessed by those who have
gained the richest experience is but the
reflection of the light of the Sun of
Righteousness. Ile who lives nearest
to Jesus shines the brightest. And let
us thank God that the Master has his
hidden ones whose value may not be rec-
ognized by the world, but whose names
arc written in the Lamb's book of life.
The Lord knoweth them that are his.
*T'hey shall be mine. saith the Lord of
hosts, in that day when [ make up my
jewels; and I will spare them, as a man
spareth his own son that serveth him.”
cometh that shall
burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea,
and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble ;
and the day that cometh shall burn them
up. saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall
But
unto vou that fear my name shall the Sun
of Righteousness
his wings.”
* Behold, the day
leave them neither root nor branch.
arise with healing in
have a God who
T am so glad that we
understands— a God who will reward