The Gavelyte, May 1912

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE 312 ment of inversion of the premises, heaven is witbin you." So many of the conclu ion is affected. History us mis,interpret these words and rev al!:', to us that battles have been think if we rollow Jesus, "·all these lost and nations have fallen because things will be subtracted from us." men have substituted secondary for But it is rrot so. Leaders of tlle primary affairs. vVhich is first in our church ,are often asked, "Is it wrong daily work, athletics or study, loafing to do this or t11•at ?" A ·comprehen· or study or anything else, that mig;ht s,ive answer couM ·be given; it is enter into the student's life? Was wrong to do anything that relegates il not Galileo who said that "The loyalty to Christ to a subordinate better is the enemy of the be!:!t?" Are place and spoils one's taste for spirit– thEre not many good things and some ual things. Tn order to lose one's sioul not so good that become sources of fr j.s not necessary to be an abandon– evil just because they are wrongly ed Pinner and to be sowing to the emphasized? Pleasure has a value flesh with might and main. All one not to be d ,spised, but when we live noeds to d,o is to neglect •Jesus Obrist only for plf asure we live an empty, for other thin"'s of less value. When yes. worse than useless life. "·Busi- Profess'Or Pritchard, of Oxford, was ness, the cares of life, have a very once asked if it was not ·the tendency importan place, yet when they have of sC'ientific thinking to unsettle reli– the supreme place th€y become cor- gious faith and devotion, he replied: roding cares eating like a canker at "It is pre-occupancy of mind r ather the very substance of being and leav- than !:deuce, that is and always has ing nothing but an empty shell." been the prolific parent of scepti- But I must be careful lest I err at cism." Then he went on to 1 ask: "Are . this ve;·y point. All preparation for not the 11re-occup,a tion of •high posi– ,service mnst be beaded up in one di· tion, amJ:.it.ion, literature, money-get– rection and can we te.tter express ting and rnonPy-spend 1 in1<, conceit, this thought than use the words of sensual habits and even of idleness, our Divine l\Jaster and Teacher when at least aR unfriendly to the hearty Ti said: "Seek ye first the kingdom acceptanC'e of Chris·tian revelation as of noel, and his righteousness; ancl are the nr -o.::-cu1.1ation of scientifi ,~ all thLse things shall be added unto pursuiij3 ?" A young woman of a Joutt" To graduate from a college, Christian home and a member of a r,oing 01,t to fight life's battles with- Chri>'.tian church ruttended a state un– cut having enlist ed ,on the .side of ouc iversity for th ree years. After she l lne;onquered Captain, JJPUS Christ, came home she v,ent to her pastor iR lbe greatest misfortune and awful- and said s·he "wished her name t•aken &st handicap that could possibly coma off the C'hurch roll , she was a sc,i,en– to the holder of any degree. tific istudent and C'OUldn't believe in T'he JJORSession of the Kingdom of the doctrines of the church." After Heav u is not rE,served for un unii1 we real·l1 the oth r shore, but comes to u,s when we let C'hrist into our souls. C'hri"t said unto his disciples on al'lh: ''Behold the kingdom of some in inry the pas tor learned that during the whole three :'>"ears that young lady had 110'1 once devotionally read her Flibl . "How shall we es– cape if we negl ct RO gre 1 a.t s•alva– tion ?"