Article February 13, 1915 Issue

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with contributions from Edward C. Moore

[The Christian Intelligencer]

"The husks that the swine did eat" are not fit nutriment for immortal souls. It must occur to many, if they reflect at all, that they are living on the lower planes of life. Their interests and activities are strictly within the confines of the physical, the natural and the material. They are laying up treasures, but not in heaven. How sordid life becomes when spiritual interests and moral riches are lost sight of. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." One of the marks of this present age is the absorption of men in the things that are seen. Religious indifference among those who have made the great profession, reveals the hold material things have upon the present generation. How better can we enter upon the new year than by placing ourselves before the judgmentseat of conscience and Christian ideals! Life is too precious a gift and too great a prize to be trodden under foot. If indeed we are "born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God," it becomes us walk worthily as sons of God.

Add to the fact that man is a spiritual and moral being, the further fact that great things have been done for him, and it will appear that imperative obligations to live unto God rest upon every one. The life any one is living must be measured by the possibilities opened up to it and the grace expended for its enrichment.

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