Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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Glhv CBIPMH E23 I . 5 Llterary 'Q PERFECTION-AN EXHORTATION 3 QConc1udedJ fully used you? They need to be prayed for. Don't you think so? Well, if they need to be prayed for and you and I are Christians, we ought to pray for K9 them. If we ean't pray for them, we can fulfill this law legally. And if they CQ didn't despitefully use us, we need prayer for saying that they did, don't we? And if we need prayer, we ought to pray for ourselves. Say, young people, I want to tell you that some of you are going to be lost because of the low standards that are on every side of you andthe low practices that are being carried on by professed people who claim to have per- GA fect love in their hearts. Brother Taylor, ean't you please cut the corners 9 a little here and let us out? Yes, I will let you out and this is the way I am going to do it. You must be terribly ignorant of the grace of God, and ignor- IL' ant of the Bible, and the holiness if it is not true. I do not know whether I would rather be carnal or ignorant. It hurts a lot of folks about as bad to Q3 say, I don't know, as to say, HI am wrong. Amen! Gy How does God act toward a fellow that despitefully uses you? How does He act toward the fellow that rejects the blood? How does he act toward the fellow that won't have anything of God or His Christ? How does he act , toward the folks that murder and kill, and everything else? Let us read it. 'tThat ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven, and if you F'-A are going to be a child of His, you will do the things I have been saying and G3 if- you don't do them, you are not His child. For He maketh His sun to rise K9 on the evil and on the good. Do you make the sun to rise on the evil and 55 the good? He does. He does Do you? HAnd sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. God doesn't. make any distinction. Do you? Praise the Lord! What is the text? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. He is just as ready to do all He can 5 1? for the sinner as for the saint, just as ready to help the ungodly as the godly. To do what? Why to love your enemies, to bless them that curse you-bless C9 them that curse you, and to pray for them that despitefully use you and perse- Q9 Q cute you. There is the test and if you are perfect as He is perfect, you will P prove it in acting as He acts and working as He works. The same love will act the same way if you have that love in your heart. I declare to you that J if we are perfect, we are very ignorant of God's love, for we are doing things ga that are not like Him. P ' That is the trouble with the church, she is giving place to the world, fol- GN lowing the customs of the world, doing things like the world. The world I doesn't use the things of God, of prayer and blessing. Consequently the Q gf Church is powerless because God can't give power to a church, a people, and individual, that doesn't do the will of' God in their daily life and practices. I believe that is God's standard of the things right here in the sermon on the Q3 mount. G3 The sermon is yours. It is not mine any longer. I have given it over. God bless it and make it fruitful in our lives. If you haven't the experience, Kg if old carnality is predominant, if the hiss of the serpent is heard, if there is Q, malice and envy and self will and selfish ambitions and disobedience in your P heart, and in your practices, you are as carnal as earnel can be and your pro- 5 fession is false and .you know not the. perfect love of .God in your soul. But 5 you ought to have 1t and 1ts God's wlll for you. Pralse the Lord! W2 -101-

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Uhr 51931115 i L't 3 gl 1 erary L. 67 Qi Q PERFECTION-AN EXHORTATION Gy fContinuedJ say unto you, love your enemies. That is the test of godliness. I want to E9 know how God acts in times like this. Bless them that curse you. Oh, Q 95 somebody said something mean about you. What Cid you say in return? Did P you bless them? Come now, was what you said a blessing? How did you 3 children treat your mothers when they forbid you doing' something? Did you f say. The Lord bless you, motherm! Come on, girls and boys, Did you bless g gl the mother who had done so much for you 4? You said you wanted to go some- he where and your mother said, t'No , or your father said, UNO . Did you - EJ turn around and ask God to bless them? the ones dearest to you. And He G0 Q said to bless your enemies. Did you say, Thank you, I love you ? Here is the test of the thing. Thank God for the children who do love and honor their parents. They are keeping one of the commandments, but there is a self-will set up against the judgment of older people that is just writhing and squirming Q ca all over the country. Disobedience to parents is one of the things that is writ- EQ ten in the Book as a sign of the last days, and yet when I touch these things gt somehow there is something begins to grind in hearts and they would throw i it right back in my face. You are talking about me. I said something Q here in school the other day about a certain thing and I think there were no less than three persons who either came or sent word that I meant them. e , guess ey mus ave oug ey e onge in e crow was a - fs' WllI th th th htth bl d' th dI tlk ing about. Q He said Bless them that curse you, do Good to them that hate you and 59 pray for them that despitefully use you. I tiilked straight to a girl the other 5 evening and I said, Let us have prayer together. I finally got her into the Q. parlor and I prayed and asked her to pray and she refused. If she thought F9 that I had despitefully used her and if she was going to fulfill this command- K ment she would have prayed. That very fact evidences to me that there are da a lot of folks who are not fulfilling the law of Christ for He asks them to - pray and they cannot. pray. There is something that has hit them with such Q, force and strength that they haven't enough strength left to fulfil the law of Christ. We are weaker than the ten or twelve year old children used to be in the things of eaag It is a fact. g I wil never forget little Georgie. The folks had made fun of him down Q town and slapped him and despitefully used him and he came into the ya1'd g and said, Thank God! Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! Q I said, What is the matter? Why are you praising the Lord so? i fy. He replied, They ha.ve treated me the meanest today, Wouldn't let me fi I play with them, pulled my ears and slapped me and I just said, 'Praise the 'jf 3,4 Lord! Hallelujahi' p Q I said, George, you are just doing that to hold your feelings down. No, I am not. Q Do you really mean it? Do you want God to bless them? Q4 Yes, and I will get right down here and pray for them, too. And he t did. -I There are a lot of so-called holiness folks that it takes them hours and e9 days to get over a thing. What good does it do to go to your brother who E5 Q is at fault and tell him that he had no business to act that way? Why don't Q. you go to him and tell him, and not to the crowd around you? Why don't I9 you pray for him? Has somebody told some evil thing on you and despite- I ' V Q

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' 51112 4512211111-is f F I 1 :gl o ei if Ji K9 ca Q9 cj ci 22' JZ 69 Q3 Q9 S3 UN L1terary , THE POWER OF DIVINE LOVE It was a bright October afternoon. The sun in all its magnificence was about to drop beyond the horizon. The early autumn frosts had nipped the foliage of 'the forest giving a Kentucky landscape that added beauty of a hun- dred colors, tints and hues from dark green to brightest Vermillion. In the midst of all this amazing beauty, a neat little log cabin with some modern additions and improvements stood. A well cultivated garden was situated to one side of it. An old row of maple trees grew on each side and although there were some signs of thrift about, theloutbuildings indicated a retrogression from former conditions. Yet everything about the house and gardens showed great care and neatness. V From the side door odors of frying potatoes came floating through. Say, ain't cha' 'bout got my supper ready? I'm going out tonight so he mighty 'snappy' There was no love or tenderness in the' voice of the speaker but on the other hand, it was exceedingly harsh, t ' ' Yes, dearq supper is ready, come on. ' .After a few words' of grace spoken by the frail little woman, the meal was 'eaten in silence, except for an occasional wail of the whippoorwill. When he had tinished the gruff old man left without a word and jumping on his spir- ited horse, rode away. Tired, discouraged and lonesome Nancy went. to the door to watch him ride out of the distance. As he disappeared she sat down on the step. Ten years ago she had married John Rogers, a handsome young man, with no bad habits except for an occasional drink with the boys, and this she had hoped to persuade him to drop afterwards. But on the 'contrary he only became worse and it wasn't long till their cozy little home had to be sold. The world had been a hard one for her and her only source of joy and love, she found in her own little son. But alas, he was now gone and the fresh mound just a short distance from the cabin caused tears to come to her eyes-tears of sorrow because she had lost him, the little comforter, who had slipped away to heaven, and tears of joy because she had found Him, the Great Comforter, who never forsakes. After all she was happy in her new found joy that had come to her heart, yet she longed to see the one Whose love had seemingly turned to hatred. Meanwhile conscience was doing its work. Its victim, though he had been KJ intoxicated for days, wasnow quite sober and the purity and innocence of his Q once beautiful bride made him miserable as he sauntered along, he became conscious that he was nearing the old gang. T 'tWcll, Jed, hain't seen yer' in a coon's age. Goin' ter join the gang ,O tonight? We're goin' ter give the parson a little scare, laughed one of '-J the crowd. C9 P 'f'Perhaps, Bill, Jed replied. I , Q The crowd which he had now joined grew Wilder and more diabolic than ever in their plans. - - D 1 - -jj The holy humbugl Heis got no business lurking 'round here blowini' off 'is bazzoo, gettin, sap headed men and some crazy women to git on their knees an' snub around. This part of the wood got along mighty well 'fore he Q come and a few of us 'as got. our fill. fn t'And say, Jim, there ain't a speck of good in this mess they call religun. I never knowed a person yit that ,wou1du't .tly offthe handle and make, things, -102-