ECHOES FROM THE FIELD.
sage in the Bible that will show that
God predestinated anyone to destruc-
tion. God is too broad-minded to do
it. When He created eternal bliss,
He made it to take in. everybody. I
thank the Lord that I can say about
Him, He loves all and wishes to save
all of us.
Ingersoll, the great Agnostic, did
not like to be responsible to God, but
argued that he could not be held ac-
countable, since he was brought into
the world without his consent. How
impossible to think of God bringing
us into the world with our consent. It
is absurd. God has made man in the
image of His Son. and then asks man
if he will accept His plan. He has
given us a free will to choose life or
death. Christ is the condition in
God's predestination, and it is with us
to say individually, ¢¢ will I become
like Christ?’ The object of God's
predestination is our salvation ; that we
may be like Jesus Christand be saved;
“because God hath from the begin-
ning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the spirit and belief of
the truth.”
When God shall come to judge the
living and the dead, not one can
charge God as being arbitrary. Those
who are lost are not predestinated to be
lost, but because they will not accept
God’s plan. If we are not saved, whose
is the fault? It is with us and not
with God. God wants us to make our
calling and election sure, we will also
be glorified as was Christ. In a few
short years this will take place, and may
God impress these truths upon our
hearts and help us to co-operate with
Him that we may not fall out by, the
- way, but meet our Lord in peace when
He shall come. S. F. SvENSsON.
REVERENCE FOR GOD’S HOUSE.
We believe God has chosen us as
His people. We base our faith in this
high and holy calling and precious
privilege upon the fact that God has
chosen men and women in our midst,
enlightened by His spirit, to bring to us
the right knowledge of His word and
will at the right time. He has made
us servants to propagate His word, a
truth which cannot be too highly
prized. As a peculiar and chosen
people, we believe we can teach and
obey His word, and endless thanks be
to our Heavenly Father for this grace
given us. We must, therefore, strive
with all our might and strength, and by
a life blameless show our appreciation
of the light given us.
Children can and must be taught to
come before God (in God's house)
with softness and humbleness of heart,
and with reverence. Therefore it is
my request to you who are holding
office in the Sabbath-school, to teach
the lambs of the fold, and all others
to. whom you say by your profession
that you are one of the chosen people
of God, by a good example. Enter
the house of God with reverence and
prayer. Enter His house with a peni-
tent heart, free from frivolity or
thoughts of a worldly nature, and
filled with thoughts of God's great-
ness, Almighty power and goodness
for us poor sinners. Here we may
ask for forgiveness of sins, for grace
and strength, and the attributes of our
dear Savior. In order to daily fulfil
our duty. We must enter His house
to-day with the same reverence and
holy awe as was required of the child-
ren of Israel in former days, for we
come into God's presence. We dese-
crate and profane His house when we
use it as a place of social intercourse,
to entertain, amuse or converse with
each other; when we unnecessarily
move the chairs about, and run in and
out during the hour of service. The
moment we enter the church (God's
house), we are standing in God’s pres-
ence, and will be held accountable for
every desecration to His house. O my
dear brethern and sisters, think of this
and do not be guilty of the sin of ir-
reverence. Let us worship God as is
required of His people, that His wrath
come not upon. us, and others be
chosen to take our places.
Let God's house be indeed a house
of prayer to those who are strangers to
God, that by our devotion in God's
service they may be drawn to Him.
We may teach them the way to God
by ou precept and example.
Serve the Lord with gladness; come
before His presence with singing ; cul-
tivate your voices and let them re-
sound to the praise of our loving
Father. All, both young and old
should unite their voices in euphony,
thus offering to God their best possible
service. God expects our bes? service
and will not accept anything short of
this. Let all reverence the house of
God and keep it holy.
Mgrs. A. EHRHART.
THE SPIRIT OF [LATLH PRINCI-
‘ The body is dead * * * hut the
spirit is life.”” So said the Apostle
Paul, and his pregnant words may be
applied to the principles of health,
Take the divine life away from these
principles, and they become dull, ar-
. character,
bitrary rules, a , veritable yoke of bond-
age, an instrument of death instead of
the minister of life.
The life of the health principles is
Christ. The true motive for building
up the strength and beauty of the body
is in order that it may be the fit temple
of the Holy Spirit. The glory of God -
should be the uppermost thought in
the mind of every intelligent creature.
Now the glory of God is His perfect
of which His law, both
natural and moral, is a revelation.
Therefore, the desire to glorify God
impels one who secks to know and
strictly obey the physical laws govern-
ing the health and well- being of the
body.
Quibbling over small matters is one
way to take the life out of these great
principles. Prescribing for others
precisely the same rules as you have
adopted for yourself, is another way of
losing this life and attractiveness of
health reform. Remember that princi-
ples are living things. If they are to
thrive they must have fit soil, and an
abundance of divine sunshine. More-
over they must be allowed to grow and
adapt themselves to the circumstances
just as any other living thing. As
soon as you have put a limit to the
size of a given tree, you have pro-
nounced its death sentence, for a tree
cannot live without growing. Just so,
when you precisely define a divine
principle it becomes in your hands a
dead thing. You may embalm and
adorn it so that it may appear beauti-
ful to the eye, but the action is want-
ing. The saving power is not there,
and the thing is practically worthless,
It is a very hard thing to live by rules;
but it is a most easy and natural thing
to live in accordance with divine living
and life-giving principles. Health re-
form, while apparently pertaining es-
pecially to the physical organism, is
essentially a spiritual matter. In fact,
rightly considered, the interests of
body and soul are identical.
Because health principles are spirit-
ual, we need the aid of the spirit in
order to properly comprehend them.
On a casual examination, many things
may appear inconsistent; but prayer-
ful, earnest perservering study, will re-
veal only beauty and harmony. That
which Christians especially need to
realize in these days, is the close con-
nection between physical and spiritual
things, and the obligation resting upon
all to glorify God in their body as wel}
as in spirit. M. E. OLSEN.
The Colo. Sanitarium i is enjoying a
good patronage.