Article January 6, 1906 Issue

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with contributions from Morgan Dix, Thomas Van Ness

Death is not in our case a natural event. We are not made to die. It is horribly unnatural that we should die. A reason is rendered why we must die; and then comes the Gospel. For men, death is the wages of sin. To deny this is to decide with the philosophers of this world and to contradict the words of Christ and his apostles, that man is physically and spiritually one. Think as you may of the old account in Genesis; make it legendary if you please, but the sense does not change. Man was not made to die. He was warned not to sin against God lest he should die. He would not hear the warning, but disobeyed, and he died as he had been told that he must, and surely would.

Morgan Dix, D.D.
The Homiletic Review.

The moral or spiritual elements that enter into human effort are the deep sources of final victory. They are brought into human experience in a very marked way when one lays hold of God who has eternal energy and is carrying forward all the movements of the world and human life to glorious moral victory. He who is doing God's work and gains the help of God himself feels within his soul the mighty divine impulse that sustains faith, hope, patience, courage, and other moral elements of character. Prayer secures and sustains these elements until a man overcomes all difficulties and obtains the original object of his desire.—The Watchman.

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