R REWARD
my though and see if there be any
wicked way m me," ought to be the cry
of every Christian everywhere.
'The old law touching'the priesthood is a
good thing for us to remember (Leviticus
xxu: i to 3): Ana tne JLora spaKe unto
i .. t nrnif n .1 1 ami. a iu ui aiiu mc juvj
HD fHAPMAlVS SUNDAY 3CKAlU Moses, saying: Speak unto Aaron and to
u ' . his son3, that they separate themselves
from the holy things of the children of
He Shows to us the Great riercy of Israel, and that they profane not My holy
Christ Who Grants us a Reward &
For Faithful Service. Whosoever he be of all your seed among
" ' . . , your generations, that coethain to the holy
New York City. ine i aisunguisuea j thiW wnich; the children -of Israel hallow
nd well-known evangelist, tne ttev. ur. w. unto . tbe
tx7;iv.T. PKanman. ha3 furnished for pub
lication . the following sermon v entitled
"Rules of Service." It was preached from
the text: "No man that warreth. entang
leth himself with the affairs of tliffe lite,
that he may please him .who hath chosen
him to be a soldier. And if a man also
strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned,
except he strive lawfully." 2 Timothy, 11:
4 5 K :
'it is not enough simply to perform what
might be called good deeds, in the estima
tion of the world, for one might receive the
applause of men, and miss his reward at
the hands of God. Neither is it enough
that one should be so given to service that
lie might win the applause of people every
where There is no special promise in
God's word written for the man who is
eimply faithful in outward service. Paul
must have had this in mind wherf he eaid:
"tfet is he not crowned except he strive
lawfullv." It is a good thing for the Chris
tian to square his life, both public ana pri
vate, his innermost thoughts, and the hid
den man of his heart. by the word of God,
to see if in any point he is falling away
from God's ulan and the Holy Ghost's
guidance. When John, in Revelation,
wrote, "Let no man take thy crown." he
presented what to my mind is one of the
most solemn subjects in all the,, J3ible
namely, that one might be saved, have ins
dns. forgiven, stand before God justified,
be perfectly sure of being ultimately re
ceived into His presence, and be saved
throughout eternity, and yet miss his re
ward and lose his crown.
.This chapter is a note of warning and a
heart cry to people everywhere to search
their lives, aided by the Spirit, to ask God
to deal very thoroughly with them even
though this dealing may mean the cutting
off of s,ome very mucli loved sin or the giv
ing up of some long cherished plan.
1. All service must be prompted by
riht motives.
It is not so much how the work appears
outwardly that commends it to .God in
this His judgment is given differently from
that of man, but it is altogether a question
as to what, back of it all, prompted the
service. The giving of the widow's mite
and its hearty acceptance by our Master
is an illustration of this fact, for m the de
sire that prompted" the gift was found
tfoat which was of ten thousand times
more value than the gift itself.
One- might preaeh the gospel and win
hundreds of souls for Christ, and the mo
tives that prompted the preaching be
wrong. One might superintend a Sunday
school with much success, be a teacher of
acknowledged ability, lead the youug peo
ple's work in the church, be a chosen lead
er of the mission work, and upon all these
positions have the seal of the approval of
men and the plaudits of the multitude be
cause ol acknowledged success, and yet
miserably fail at the great day of awards
to receive one single crown for faithfulness
simply because the work was born in sel
fishness and carried on in pride. It was
not done for the glory of God, but rather
for the glory of man. - One might build
churches, and for his supposed generosity
be highly esteemed of men, and yet re
ceive a rebuke from the lips of the risen
Christ. One might endow schools which
God would use lor the betterment of so
city and for the accomplishment of His
own purposes or the working of His own
plans, and yet have no recognition on the
great day of awards. One might give his
money to clothe the poor, and feed the hun
gry; he might be known wherever the
English language i3 spoken, for his charit
able works, and when the great day of
awards should come might hear the Mas
ter say:
"Depart, for I never knew vou."
nis soul is saved, but his lite is lost. All gathers himself up into Pharisaic perpen
i tnese tmngs are true, because, while dicularity and fcavs: I discovered that, I
outwardly the service was wonderful and 1 mmtn,i ,f ii,f v., ;ifr- t u
the success great, the motive that prompt- can be no pit deep enouzh for a wretch
having his uncleannesa
upon him, that soul shall be cut on from
My presence: I am the Lord." The doc
trine of separation in the Old Testament
for the priests is for us in the New Testa
ment, for Peter tells us that believers are
Sriests unto God, every one of us. The
Id Testament doctrine has, however,
been intensified by the teaching and the
touch of Jesus Christ.
"And thou shalt put the mitre upon his
head, and put the holy crown upon the
mitre. Then thou shalt take the anointing
oil and pour it upon his head and anoint
him." (Exodus xxix: 6, 7). , The anointing
oil put upon the head of the priest was a
sign that he was separated from all world
ly services and every selfish principle of
life. Henceforth he was not his own man.
but God's. The oil in the Old Testament
represents the Holy Ghost in the New,
and whether we have recognized it or not,
nevertheless it is true. By the Spirit of
God we have been regenerated, by that
same Spirit we have been quickened, and
by the same Spirit have been sealed or
anointed as God's own special treasure. If
i we have not allowed Him to use us we
have robbed Him of His right, and at the
great day of awards shall oe called to a
strict account.
"And he that is the high priest among
his-brethren, upon whose head-the anoint
ing oH ras poured, and that is consecrated
to put on tne garments, shall not uncover
his head, nor rend his clothes; neither
shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile
h'imself for his father, or for his mother;
neither shall he go out of the sanctuary,
nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for
the crown of the anointing oil of his God
is upon him; I am the Lord." (Leviticua
xxi: 10-12). How close this teaching is,
and how completely many of us are con
demned as we apply it to our own lives!
And yet there is no reason for discour
agement. In the olden times, when the
priests or the people were in touch with
sin, the ashes of the red heifer were
sprinkled upon them for cleansing, and
immediately they stepped back into fel
lowship, and God clothed them with pow
er. In the New Testament a better provi
sion is made Hebrews ix: 13, 14: "For if
the blood of bulls and' of goats, and the
ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh;
how much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit offered
Himself without spot unto God. purge
your conscience from dead works, to serve
the living God?"
I have not been able to find in the New
Testament, with the exception of the
Lord's Prayer, any place where it is said
that the Christian must ask for forgiveness
of sins, but I do lead in 1 John i:. 7. 8, 9:
"If we walk in the light, as He is in the
light, we have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus, Christ His Son
cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that
wc have no sin we deceive ourselves, and
the truth is not in us. If we confess our
sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse ua from all un
righteousness' I learn then that j if I
confess my sins He is faithful and just to
forgive them and cleanse me perfectly and
when He forgives sin He always forgets it.
ft od Sees the Best.
God does not set the less against the
greater, as wc do: He sets the greater
against the less; that is His way. Who
will nit say: Blessed be His love? Man
being small, being petty at the kingliest,
finds a flaw. Thus the wise fool talks: He
is honest, he is wise, he is gifted; he is, on
the whole, a man of notable intellectual
stature and influence; but man thinks he
is clever when he discovers a but. He
;ed it all was selfish. Jc3us Himself has
paid that there would be some who
! should say: "Lord, have wc not prophe
sied in Tfiy name, and in Thy name done
many. wonderful works?" Thus the teach
ing becomes more Intense and the lesson
,more startling, for one might even thmk
1 !... tr Jtl- "I - 71 rrti
mwu iiiiu. xiow uoui vjou speaK; Anus,
hear the music of infinite love: He has
gone astray, he has been unfaithful, he has
turned aside from Me a thousand times,
he has done the things he ought not to
have done; yet that is the difference be
tween human judgment and divine judg
,that he -was shaping his life according to raent in relation to that greatest of
.Gods plan and yet most terribly miss the ipysteries. human character! It is be
II
reward.
. When Paul wrote his first letter to the
Corinthians he said: "For other founda
tion can rto man lay than , that is laid,
.which is Jesus Christ. If any man's work
shall be burned he shall suffer Inss!-Vnr.
he himself shall be saved; yet' so as by
1
better
to fall into the hands of God than into the
hands of men. Your brethren like to
speak against you. to have discovered a
peccadillo, one little sin and to have fin
gers dainty enough to pick-out that little
hair and to be able to say: "I've got it!"
The Lord eaith: "You have wounded Me
w ATu - r17, ei'ly' my mm1' and disappointed Me and gone awav from
lesson to Christian vorker m general, but Me, yet-iow can I give thee up? Re
to ministers m -particular. The found a ton t.i ti. 4 1. .i rL
is the same for us all .Jesus Christ, but
the superstructure may be ; very different.
It is a most solemn! thought-Kne of the
most solemn I know that When the great
-day of fire shall come every man's work
ehall be tried, of what sort it is. The min
istry of the man whom the world honored
.fjchool teacher, throughout his or her en- 1Jr- Ineodore 1. Uu
'tire Christian experience, .shall be bought .what he deems to be
beneath the searching light of the Son of is life, fays: "Dangei
God. The testimony of every Christian 'dangerous as worldly a
your human, theories and the ereat T)i
vine idea of redemption God always see
ing the best, fixing His eyes upon the sal
vable points, looking to .those elements
Jthat are . still left out of' which He can
rear manhood. He will not quench the
,na"irN,De. touched by fire. The service of reed Jocnli Pirfcpr T) Tl
the Christian worker, from the first effort reea-J0cPtl 1 aiKei, i;. U.
made for Christ to the last, shall certainly .
be tested. The teaching of tlm Snnrlav- The I oe to Fear.
ifjchool teacher, throughout -his or her eh- Dr. Theodore L. Cuj-ler, in estimating
what he deems to be our worst enemv in
rous as the devil is.
ii
cverv UhristjaTi uaugurous as woriuiy amusements are. tne
in every land shall be searched through 'most dangerous enemy that we often have
and through. The life in the home, in the to encounter walks in our own shoes. That
place of business, in the streets, at home1 cunning, artful, smooth tongued heart-
or in foreign lands, by day arid bv nieht. devil, self, is the foe that needs the most
shall be tested by the fire of. God. If the constant watching and subjects us to th
work is burned, the man shall suffer loss,
but he himself be saved, though as by fire.
It is a tremendously solemn message; .
I might havs all 'the experience God has
given me, as preacher, teacher, evangelist,
father, husband, friend, and then stand be
fore God at the last with all my work
swept away, going into His presence with
the smell of lire upon my garmntsi God
forbid. Pant had this fate in mind when
he said (1 Cor. ix: 25, 27):-"Every man
that stiiveth for the mastery is tcmnerate
r-in-all. things.: Now, they dovit to obtain. a
worst defeats. "The flesh lusteth against
the Spirit, and the Spirit asrainst the flesh.
and these are contrary the one .to! the
other.' Paul had a tremendous jbattle
along these lines, beating do wn his, carnal'
, nature by hard blows, and th? old herb
was able at last to shout: 'I have fought, a
good. fight; henceforth there. is laid up for
me a crown - of righteousness!' Whoever
has, by God's help,' laid, his desires, hi-s
plains, his purposes, his property, and,
above all, his own will at the feet of Jesus-
Uhnstv is already one of the overcomers.
corruptible crown, but we are?incoiTunti- T Jejaireaay oegins w wear clean raimCnT;
blc. Jat I. keep 'under my ? body, and anavtne,omnvscienteye jot God .discerns on
..bring it into subjection, lest that bv anv hls Drow the hrst flashings of the victors
means, when I have nre&chl tn nhhva T crown
myself should be a'" castaway," pr '(as' we
have already seen), "be disapproved." . ,t-
vj-oa Keep us irom meeting mich'an cx1
? perience aithis on that.great.day!'. ,j
2. Wc must labor with' clean, hands. d
God never, uses an ;unc;lean. man. It is
possi Die tnaz one may be - saved , and vef
allow 'sin, in ..some way to control him, but
it is not possible for God to-use that which
is cither common dr unclean. "Come out
' from .among them and.be ye yeraratc, and
:,touch not the unclean thing" from, which
fommand of the Scriptures we learn that
i T one is in the very slightest touch with
- ihz yorld h? U against God, and soon loses
his, power;. : he is shorn: of his-. testimony,
and God fets lum aside. "Search me, oh
Cod, and know my heart; try mc and know
; ..: The Lord tg Good.
The Lord is "good. 'Sometimes we1 fbrget
itf, , Sometimes, vc. feel .it. Always we
know it. I ew men are really skeptical as
to the goodness of the great God who is
at the heart of the whole universe as its
author and upholder. We pi ty the man,
that rare man. who has lost all faith in?
goodness, and all faith in God. The Lord!
is good. The need is to translate that dec-'
laration of Holy Writ into terras of a per
sonal experience, .to carry it with one as a
daily conviction and comfort, and to -live
in a constant atmosphere of praise and
prayer in the spirit of the Psalmist, who
declared : -"I will bless the Lo?d nt all
times. New York. Observer.
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