Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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man attainment, -unity with God,-by giving but a very
partial effort and thought in that direction. They seem
to think that their minds may be occupied with every
matter of passing interest, that they may enter into the
gossip of the day, and yet attain that high ultimate.
But this is an impossibility, for whatever occupies a person's
thought, in that is his consciousness, that he is;
therefore, it is a correct usage of the world which describes
one man as a physician, another as a lawyer,
another a mechanic, and so on thru the entire list of occupations,
a man is called by the name of that with which
he is occupied-and correctly, too, because the man is
his profession, and the profession is the man.
A walk
thru the streets of any city demonstrates this fact,-we
can almost locate the sphere of life which most of the
men we meet occupy; to the extent, at least, that we
point out one man as looking like a professional man,
another like a business man, a third like a clergyman, or
a mechanic, or a common laborer. A man's profession
or whatever vocation he may pursue,
enters so fully
into all his life and thought that it affects his facial expression,
his bearing, his complexion, dress, in short, the
entire man. We read that after the crucifixion they took
knowledge of the disciples that they had been with
Jesus.
If Jesus is an example, as he is accepted to be by most
profest Christians, then from the vague history that we
have of him let us endeavor to discern his habit of
thought. When his disciples come to him in order to
show him the buildings of the temple in all its grandeur
and beauty, he did not stop to discuss how long it took to
build it, its various points of interest, how much gold
had been used in the building, as other people _would
have done, but his answer evinced the fact that his mind
was wholly occupied with things eternal, immortal; he at