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

560 BIBLE REVIEW Feb.-Mar.
"THE stolid saint or the sparkling sinner?"
There are
those who in their efforts to live right have drilled themselves
to do no palpable wrong.
But those who seek to
advance in the regeneration may not stop there.
To be
able to do no wrong is a virtue; but it is a negative virtue.
Such a one has learned how to apply the brakes
merely. Useful as a break is, it has in it no power to enable
one to travel.
If the stolid saint has not the mind to perceive the positive
thing to be done to enable him to grow and to develop
into the Divine likeness, to perceive not only the
evil to be avoided but also the good to be done, it is possible
that the words of the Lord Christ to the Pharisees
may apply, "The Publicans and harlots go into the kingdom
of heaven before you."
To follow the Lord Christ into the regeneration means
not only to avoid doing the wrong but also to do the right,
the right in view of the ultimate to be attained. To do the
right and necessary thing may seem to the mind lacking
in sufiicient discrimination to be very wrong indeed. But
he who would follow the Master must have the keenness
of vision,
the fulness of perception to grasp clearly
causes and effects, to apply the law in order that he may
attain. He must not only hear the words, "Thou shalt
not," but he must also hear the words, "Son go work today
in my vineyard."
THERE are many who claim to believe the teachings of
the Bible.
But that belief can be but little more than
credence until thru living according to the teachings, one
has had those experiences which convince. For this
reason, it is necessary for one to follow carefully the
teachings and prove by their results their truthfulness
before one can with a confidence born of knowledge de-