What then can be done for us? How is the world to come to possess this inner holiness, which wil] keep the outer life clean? The Psalmists and prophets of Israel saw the only way; to have the Holy Spirit.of God dwelling in the heart; ''Sactifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened; burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not quired. Then said I, lo, I come; in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is written in my heart. ''When David wrote this Psalm XI, he was at the centre of things. That is what we need, what the South Dakota Senators have in mind, and they rightly want it teaching in all the schools, and preaching in all the churches,—honesty, truth, love; duty, rooted in the hearts of the people, that they delight to do God's will. The men who have made the world have been such men.
What then is the Christian way? It is the same in principle as the text I have just quoted, but with a huge difference, a living Saviour, the "power of God unto salvation,' who can and will, if we commit ourselves to Him, enter our hearts, fill them with His Spirit, and save us. Paul has it in this text I have taken from the Epistle to the Galatians, "I live; and yet not but Christ live th in me." There is no time to go into all this. But Christianity is as Bishop Gore once described it, "True Christianity is a personal relationship, the conscious relationship of men, -who know they are sinful and weak, to a Redeemer, who, they know, is supreme, sinless, infallible, gracious. "Being what He is, a divine Person, He can do what man cannot do; He can identify Himself with our personality, and fill us with His life, with His Spirit. The Christian way of morals is drastic, but deep and sure. Faith in a Saviour Who bore our sins. When that is felt, it. creates a personal love and desire to obey Him. The great Ward Beecher once said, "A passionate love to Christ was practically the whole creed of the primitive church." It is all that is needed. Christianity distilled down to Christian ethics becomes just- as powerless as any abstract moral law. The late Dr. Gwatkin of Cambridge puts the Christian way of morals thus, that the apostles seem to teach that morality. will take care of itself if men only love Jesus Christ with all their hearts."" Christianity is a great and pastionate loyalty to a great and holy Saviour. If we can get that into the soul of the world, the evil spirits that work such. ruin; hatreds, dishonesties small. and great, all the brood of sins, will be cast out, and crime-waves will be no more.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.