Is not that the case with many of us to-night? We accept the reeds and formularies of the Church, our opinions are orthodox enough.. The trouble is not with our thoughts about Jesus but our prac-cal attitude toward him. And it is to be feared that scores and hundreds sind thousands of peuple to-day fare uniting correct views about Jesus with a complete practical reudiation of Him.
But it is the attitude and not the opinion that counts. Our Lord said so Himself again and again. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord. Lord, shall enter into the the Christian Life isa very serious state of affairs.We do well to remind our. selves of that wonderful parable of Judgment recorded in Matthew XXVL, to which I have already, referred. For one day we shall all, small and great, stand before the Judgment Seat of God. It will not be enough then to be able to say, "Lord I was frequent in my attendance at Thy Table. Every Sunday I recited the creed. Why, I have taught in Sunday School and subscribed generously to the work of the All that will avail us nothing if we have not been living Christian lives, trying to walk by the strength that'He gives us in the footsteps of His most holy life, being "imitators" of His as we are commanded. If we have not done that, if rather we have combined right opinions and wrong actions, divorced creed and conduct, then we too shall hear those dreadful words, "Depart from me ye workers of iniquity." of my Father which Then on another ocea~ wwion he showed in a vivid figure "What think: ye of, Christ?"
"What. shall I- do with Jesus, which is called Christ?"
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