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N. IV. B. S. proceeded against the forts. The boats went against Fort Henry and captured it. J ort Donaldson resisted strongly. After four days of lighting, the Confederates hoisted the white (lag and asked for terms. Then Grant replied, “No terms other than unconditional surrender ' and it is in vain for us to lly a flag of truce and plead for this unspeakable favor at the Father ' s hands until we surrender. Surrender self—the whole self—body, soul and spirit. The Scriptures say, A ield yourself unto God ' and again, “Present your bodies a living sacrifice 1 I here is a story of a monk who was disobedient to the law of the monastery and was taken out to he buried alive, He was placed standing in the grave and the earth was i;ii ed in so that he could not move lus feet. The Superior asked him, “Are you dead yet?” He answered, “No!” They shoveled in more until it rose to his chest and he found it hard to breathe, and the Superior repeated his question, and he said, “No, 1 will not die ’ They filled up the hole to his lips, and when it was smothering him, he cried out to the Superior, ' I give up. I surrender. My will shall be thy will.” That surrender was victory for him over death and the grave, and also for him from the reigning one. You see your way? Surrendered to serve, and to serve, not as we desire, but as God indicates. This is success. You have sometimes thought that if you had been better horn, your success would have been more sure ; if you had been better bred, your success might have been more sure; if you had been more broadly educated, your success would have been more sure; if you had been the son of a bond holder, your success had been more sure. But what is each success beside the one and only thing to be desired-—power in the service of God? And for that, it makes little difference about the breeding your father gave you. if only you have put yourself into the Heavenly bathers hands; little difference about the education of the schools, if only the Spirit is now your instructor; little difference about the riches of earth, if only you know how to get those that God is daily sending down from Heaven, When one of my brothers was at college, there was a young fellow there who was a poor student, the subject of many a smile on the part of his intellectual superiors; a constant trial to the patience of learned professors, and often a chagrin to himself. But he surrendered to God for service, and wherever he went, revivals were in his wake. He was able to win more to Jesus Christ than the combined Christian faculty and two hundred students were winning. I reckon him the suc¬ cessful man of that school, and since lie went out from it, for forty years he has gone on, God with him. Whatever our privileges in life; whatever our station; whate ver our favored circumstance, we might well covet that man’s station, for he stands well with God, and the Holy Ghost speaks in him and through him. “The strong man ' s strength to toil for Christ, The fervent preacher’s skill, 1 sometimes wish; but better far To be just what God will. No service in itself is small, None great though earth it fill; But that is small that seeks its own, And great that seeks God ' s will.
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A ' . IF. B. S. Personal Qonsecration a Qondition oj Success in Spiritual IP:ork W. B. Rii.i:y, Superintendent P ERMIT me to make four plain statements in the presentation of this subject: First of all, personal consecration is THE SOLE CONDITION of success in spiritual work. There arc many other things men might brine to their Master which He could use, but there is absolutely nothing else that our Master demands, for consecration means self-dcvotement. and what more can any man bring to bis Master? Hubert Brooks has called attention to the fact that in the consecration ot the priests, as described in Exodus 29 and Leviticus 8, three things were placed m their hands and waived before God: the fat from around the heart and inwards of the offering, representing the affections of the offerer; the right shoulder, typifying strength and power; and food from the basket, symbol of all goods and possessions Sclf-devotement carries with it all of these. Nothing short of that meets the Divine demand, “Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” We have been trying to get God to accept our fleshly strength. We have been thinking to satisfy Him with an offer of youthful enthusiasm. We have come to His altar with our elaborate and beautiful organizations. We have reminded Hun of our up-to-date activities, and we have come even unto His seat and there plead our cause in the name of numbers. But 11 is answer is. When e come to appeal before me, who hath required this at your hand? Except there be personal con¬ secration. these are all vain oblations; and the calling of assemblies, and even the solemn meeting, are iniquity, not acceptable to God. 1 do not say this to discourage the use of physical energy. John said, I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong. I do not say this to dampen the ardor of any. God’s best men have always been enthusiastic. 1 don’t say tliis to antagonize organization. The church of God could little better afford to dispense with organization than could commercialism dismiss all machinery, 1 don’t say this to decry numbers. A body in motion carries with it a momentum determined not alone by its speed, but by that and its bulk. But I do sa , on the authority of God’s Word that success in Spiritual work is “not by might nor by power, else would the delicate, feeble Paul have failed. Not by the enthusiasm of the flesh, else would Peter have been a power prior to Pentecost, Not by elaborate organization, else bad Judaism remained the religion of the world ; and not by swollen numbers, else had Gideon s 30,000 speedily affected what God took from them that He might turn it over to the better 300. Oh, for the day when God’s adopted children shall learn what His only Begotten Son so well knew, and so clearly expressed in the words, l do nothing of myself. Our iirst business is not to do. Our obligation and our privilege are one and the same, namely— to devote. CONSECRATION INVOLVES SURRENDER You have heard the story of the two strongholds. Fort ii enry on the Ten¬ nessee, and Fort Donaldson on the Cumberland, held for some time by the Con¬ federates. General Grant, with his army fleet of gun boats under Com. Foote,
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