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MONDAY, JUNE 21, ISIS,
PLATTSMOUTS SEMI-vYKIJLLY JOTJKNAE.
PAbL 8.
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Tiioss Who Truly Belong to.
; i3 Lord Are Brethren
of Christ.
God Desires Sincerity of Heart Re
pentance an Evidence cf Honesty.
Consecration cf LKe a Further Evi
' dence Hew V.'e Become Brethren of
i Christ Walking In His Steps Care
! ful Training Bestowed Upon the
Members cf God's Family Transfor
, mation Work Character-Likeness to
Our Elder Brother, the Lord Jesus.
Denver, Colo.,
June I'. Pastor
liusseil is here to
day. "We report
hi diso'ir-se fivin
the txt. " lie that
d spiseth von tle
sp'iMtil Me; ai:l lie
that ties;.;-;, tli Me
ilei-I'isel ii Iliiu
tb:i t ! t Me."
(Luke 1" I'-.) He
s:tiil iu part:
l'y nature we arc
.rj
K is t
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all thili. rea ol'
wrath, siiiiiers under e;iieii-e of O.-Mth.
ol i.:d'!-d tel; us tli.it lie plirpo.e.
to Mess the world liy and I y, 1 1 1 r . u 1
Hie great Mediatorial lviiido-n tii..
will rule the world l'.-r a :h.us;;ii..
j ears to he!; mankind up oil: of den
rad-itioii. sia and d-alli to ful perf.-e-ti-n
of human nai tre: and t!i;'t He
has appointed Jcmis 'h:Nt t ! tli"
MeJialol' hetweeli Himself and the
worid durii.sr t!i"-e t li-"iand years
Meantime, He has ai-o mrp.-ed to
take out of the world .lae who will
have the same mind as was in "!:ril
JeU. and t" asso. i.ite this i.:--s with
our Lord pa the wTk of M'--in:: the
world. .Tesjis Himself wi'i he "he 11-ad
over this e".!;p.ii.y, and tie- will he
the P. dy of 'hrist. Wii ., r d'-sj-e
To lweoiije a niem'ier of this I'.ody
whi Ii '" is -i-tii! mils: comply
with the reouiiv.l e nd:i ions.
Kvidenily the on.- p:.ihty f r v 1:1 -tj
od is l ..:.::.u is hoiie.-ty. -dm-en; y;
He desir -s ivuiy tr ie and ivniiy loyal
liearts. ;; n.iu-hi he very aieful to
a penny in r-p'vt to niotiev obliira
ti 'lis, an 1 yt not he stri.tiy and
thoroughly honest. lie might overes
timate Jilmself and undeiest imate oth
ers. S i:!,(. pt-opjo are horn with an
lioi.,-st disposition. All whom ',od is
now rc-eivin sir- of this lion st heart
ed kind. If He his thus favored us
with th - Truth, it is for us to main
lain this honesty; fop unless honestj
enters ;;.;, all the n.f airs of life, it will
he impo--dl.p to maintain cur relation
ship with the Lord.
We cannot he to.) rare ful with out
eons. ie;,e": V. e eatmof he to i o;iest
We annot think of tlx- Lord .Ie-ui ns
lx-inu dishonest or of th'- Apostles as
giving ii '-information. Then-fore it is
evident t li.it they did not helieve in
Hell lire ai d eternal torment: for we
eaunot think that they would have
omitted prett him' ahout eternal tor
mei,t if they h:ol l.el'n-ved iT. We love
to think of the Apostles as leimj hon
est m n, in favor w ith CJod.
There Is a t' luieney on the part of
all mankind to say. "I am all richt."
P.ut every. .oiy w Iiii is not an idiot
knows di.'i eieniiy. "There is hoik
lih.teoMs, no. not o?ie. All have sinned
and eou e s!i rt of the glory of fJod'
sliort of t In. t i.!ori ns condition whi?h
od approved when He created ou:
lirst juireuts. We nil come short of
that peifeetio.i ,.f human nature. P.ut
if we confer our sins, we demonstrate
our lemesty; ;iiid lie who arranged for
the l"ori;! :.e-s of those sins is faith
ful to forcive us. f w assert that
ve are not. siiiiiers, wi ina'it Gol a
liar; and ih trut'i is not in us we
would he uishoi,est. W- should he
hotiest enough to ted fiod that we de-j-ire
to 1 e ri'ln . 1 .lohn 1 :'., V:
The Terms of Diccipleship.
W! ver would he- otne a niemhcr ol
the P.dy of Chr-.st must lirst tnrr
awy from sin and turn townrd f',i
To fh.se who liav taken that teT
: :id a:e desirous of pro-rej-iiur, thf
Lord Jesus s:iys, "Sit down ;iinl coUJil
the eost." The P.i'iie never iies any
ho ly ::l..e.r this lo . iLuk( 14:UT.
P-opl.- U i, .t midei'sta ,d '.he Pi
hie viik upon one's emotion in urs
) i others to !'ive thems. !es to ;od
They do not understand that ;id'
way is to think everything out eare
fully, that :ods pl.jn is tcry ool atn'
calculating, and that every. hin on
c(rn:ii2 it is to he detenu Hed Intel
leetually.
There is only one way of leomin? t
Christian, and that is Py en'i-rin Intt
a covenant with the Lord. This cove
nant is a positive agreement, in wh'.cl
w pive ourselves in bacriHee to re
itounce everything of an earthly na
ture. Tliis is the kind of covenant
v. hii-h our Lord Jesus made; it is th(
only kind to ho made now. (Psaln
T-ho.) Jesus made His Covenant ot
S-riti-e at the lx-sinnii;:; of Ills lain
istry, as it is written: "Lo, I come (ic
tlo volutne of the P.ook it is written ol
Met to do Thy will. O God." (Hebrews
I'LT.) Whoever would re a follower ol
the Lord must make this same core
mint.
It did not take our Lord lenz tc
count the cost: for lie had such a hist
appreciation of the privilege that lit
delighted to give Himself to God. lit
manifested loyalty to that consecration
throughout His life-tiuie, even unto
the death of the Cross. "Wherefore
God also hath highly exalted Him and
tiven Hiui a name which is above v
fry name: that at the name of Jesus
every knee should tnv, and that
every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Pather." I'hiiippians 2:0, lo.
Giving Up One's Will.
The Church are to te joint-heirs
with Christ. "If we suffer with Him.
we shall reign with Him. If Me if
r.cid mMIi Him. we shall live with
Him." i2 Timothy 2:11, V2.) It is no
wonder that there are terms attached
t. so hih a calling! These terms we
have in Jesus' own words: "If any
man wiil come after Me, let hiui
deny himself, take up Ids cross and
follow Me." Matthew 1':24.
The first step is to will to le Christ's
disciple. The next step is to deny
himself to give up his own will and
to take the Lord's vi ill instead of his
own. The will represents the man.
If we deny ctrselves, if we give up
our own wiiN. it carries everything
absolutely that we possess. Hut do
not give up your ii!I to anybody ex
cept the Lord. This does not mean
that we shall not be considerate of
others and not try to yield to others.
The people cf God should Ik? ready to
favor others. We should 1-e williinj to
give up our preferences in matters of
no importance. P.ut it is another thing
to gie over what we shall think and
what we shall do. AVhoevcr does so
would not thereafter have control cf
his l.oly.
This is exactly what the evil spirits
endeavor to have us do. They desire
to get control of the human will, and
thus to have control over the human
body. When a person becomes thus
possessed, the evil vpirits get control
of his mind and lie cannot think for
himself, liet-ause his will is gone. This
is :dso true of a person win lias come
under the power of hypnotism. But
it is an altogether different matter to
iold the will to our Lord Jesus Christ.
;.d has tried and tested our Lord
Jesus. ;.n l has set Him to be the Head
over the Chun h, which is His P-'dy;
and all the members of that P.ody
must give up their wills to their Head.
The Spirit of the Head, the mind of
Christ, must operate in every member.
A Transformation Work Going On.
l'roni tie time one becomes a mem
ber of the family of Cod a great work
of transformation i in progress. As
members of the Adamie race nil are
iu -perfect - met tally, morally and phys
ically, p.ut this class who feel their
condition .and are honest about the
matter coine lne kly to the Lord and
accept Ihe riches of His gra-e in Christ
Jesus. When they receive theirchange
in the glorious Pirsf Pcsiirrection there
wi'l .e nothing ignoble about them, as
there is now. Just as surely .'is titer
are seeking to know and to do the
will of the Lrd. in that same projr
tlott wiil th'-y come into harmony with
that will, and thus be bl'ssid in their
minds and their b-Mlics. The in-aee of
God. that passes all human under
standing, will rule in their hearts and
in their lives.
Pear and worry constitute a great
prrt '"f rho trouble that U up-u the
world, bringing Jill kinds of disease to
mind and body. Put v hen we cast all
our care upon Him who cares for us,
the load of cate rolls away from us.
Alilinii'.-li the Lord has not promised
His church earthly blessings of any
sort - neither earthly riches nor health
imr any of these things - nevertheless
in His providence He has grunted to
ns many physical blessings. Whoever
is with the Lord and His Word and
in the ompanv of His c hildren is sure
to be benefited ; f'T He shows us the
way we should take. As whoever as
sof-i.pes with cultured people is sure
to absorb their ways, no matter how
humble the condition in which he has
been brought up, so whoever is asso
ciated witli the Lord Jesus Christ is
sure to be Mossed. '
Despising the Brethren.
The point we desire to make is that
whoever is iu company with God must
lte right in heart. No matter how lm
Itorfcct that person may be by nature,
there is something right about him;
else God would never have recognized
hiui as being of His people. There
fore "whosoever receiveth you receiv-
cth Me. and whosoever despiseth you
despisoth Me; and whosoever despiseth
Me, despiseth Him that sent Me."
Our Lord is still present in the flesh
the llesh of His consecrated nieiu
hers; and the world still despises llim
as at tirst and as He foretold, saying.
"If the world hate you. ye know that
it hated Me Ignore it hated you. If yr
were of the world, the world would
love ils own." (John lo:lS, 10.) The
world is still ashamed of Christ. Nom
inal Christians, nominal Spiritual Is
radius, are as mti' h ashamed of Him
today as were the Natural Israelites
eighteen centuries ago.
When we consider that our Lord is
represented in the flesh by the mem
hers of His P.ody in the flesh, we sec
that love f ( r the brethren means love
for the Lord. Hence the A jostle de
clares that love of the brethren is one
cf the great tests of our relationship to
our Lord and to the Pather. "He whe
lovcth not his brother whom lie hath
seen, how can he love God. whom he
hath not seen?" 1 John 4-S) "Lore
one another as 1 have loved you."' is.
therefore, the recognized test of dis
cipleship; and whoever is ashamed ol
the brethren is ashamed cf the KIdei
Brother, v. ho counts all the youngei
brethren as Himself.
It may be a new thought to sonic
that in despising the brethren they
are despising the Lord; that in being
ashamed ' the brethren they are bein?
ashamed jT the Lord, and that thus
they are lemonstr.tting that they are
not fit for tie Kingdom, that they have
Dot reached the mark of ierfect loTe,
that they have not only not learned to
love their enemies, but not learn-ed to
tove those who are striving to walk
lu the footsteps of Christ. How out
Lord's words sift and test our very
iunermost thoughts!
Following the Master's Steps.
On the other hand, we are not so
much astonished that we should he de
frpised. Py nature we were children
of wrath, even as others of Adam's
family, and we had no pre-eminence
t.bove any others of humanity. Hut it
f u rely does surprise us to learn that
cur Lord Jesus should be despised! We
remember the record that He was per
fectperfect to that extent that He
could say, "He that hath seen Me hath
een the Pather." No human leing
t an see a spirit leiug. Put since Adam,
who was created perfect, was in the
image and likeness of God. whoever
w ould see a l erfect human being would
see the earthly representative of the
Heavenly Pather.
Since our Lord Jesus was a jerfeet
man while on earth, in full harmony
with the Pather, whoever saw Him
saw the Pather iu the only way in
which it was jxissible for humanity
ever to see ;od. As the Ai-ostle says,
"No man hath seen Gtnl at any time;
the Only Begotten Son, who is in the
bosom of the Pather. He hath revealed
Him" our Lord has made the Pather
known to us. Hence the Church, in
seeing Jesus, were becoming acquaint
ed with the Pather. We can very well
perceive, then, the purport of our
Lord's words that whoever despised
Him would be despising the Pather
who had sent Him.
To us it seems a very different mat
ter when He said. "He that despiseth
oil despiseth Me." How poorly we
represent our Lord! How imperfect
our representation of Him! It is very
wonderful that our Lord should con
sider us as His members in any such
way as this. It implies that He con
fers upon us a great honor, especially
when we consider how imperfect we
.".re. "There is none righteous, no, not
one"; heme for our Lord to say that
whoever receives one of His little ones
is receiving Him. and that whoever
despises one of His little ones is des
pising Him, seems very wonderful.
Herein is an imiortant lesson for us.
As we realize, then, that we are
down near to the dose of the Gospel
Age and that the time is at hand for
the rendering of our accounts, let us
be faithful in confessing the Lord, His
Truth and the brethren. Then when
we shall have finished our course with
joy, we shall hear His "Well done,
good and faithful servant! Thou hast
been faithful over a few things; I will
mnke thee ruler over many things.
Bitter thou into the joy of thy Lord!"
Love For the Brethren.
The Lord's will concerning all His
followers is that they should love one
another as He loved them. St. John
amplified the statement, saying that
as Jesus loved the C-hureh and laid
down His life for the Church, so also
His followers should lay down their
lives for the brethren. (1 John 3:10.1
If this is the standard which our Lord
has set for His people, how sorely dis
appointed will some be who have Ig
nored this requirement! If. instead of
lov ing the brethren and laying down
their lives for thorn, some have said
all maimer of evil against them, what
then? Then those who do those things
are surely false brethren!
It is well that Christians note care
fully the insidious canker which gnaws
at the root of brotherly love, which
tends to poison the disposition and to
bring forth the evil fruitage of anger,
malice, hatred, envy and strife. The
wrong spirit Is a growth, a devehi
nioiit Apparently, in some cases, the
spirit of pride, the spirit of sectarian
ism, the spirit of ambition, are the
lending incentives to the wrong course,
which, if permitted to affect the heart,
will develop a bad fruitage which will
produce false breathren, iersecuting
brethren, heady, high-minded, blind to
the real spirit of the Master.
Whoever would le found worthy to
be forever with the Lord to share His
glory and be associated with Him In
His future work must l-e transformed
in character, must bo renewed in heart,
must become not only pure in heart
intention, but so far as iKtssible pure
in weird and deed.
Oh, how much the true followers of
Jesus should seek to impress upon
themselves the great lesson that love
docs no ill to his neighbor, that love
Is sympathetic, stiff ereth long and is
kind, is not puffed up, vaunteth not
itself, socket h not its own interest and
welfare merely, but the interest nnd
welfare of others!
The supreme test of our loyalty to
God is our love for Him; and this love
is manifested by our desire to do those
things acceptable to Him. (1 John 2:Tt.)
There is little that we can do for the
Almighty. lie is so great and we are
so small! But if we have Ills Spirit of
love, then we shall love a'l those who
love Him. and our conduct toward
them will tlcmonstrate the real senti
ments of our hearts. Thus setn. we
are daily making our record in the
Lord's sight, daily showing Hun to
what degree we are worthy or unwor
thy of His great reward, which will
go only to those in whom love abounds
in w ffoni the Spirit of Christ abounds.
Let us then be more and more on
cniard against the encroachments of
the Adversary upon us as New Crea
tures! Let us more and more show
forth the praises of nini who has call
ed us out of darkness into His mar
velous light! And in no way can we
better show forth these praises than
by exemplifying in our daily conduct
the lessons which we have learned of
Him. "Let Ms not be weary in well
doing: for in due season we shall reap
if we faint not." According to the
riches of His grace lie will "Ho exceed
ingly abundantly above all that we
can ask or tli ink.
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Plattsmouth,
BR. DAVIS OSTEOPATH
IC PRACTITIONER TO
LEAVE THE CITY
And Turns Over His Business to Dr.
Reynolds, Vhcm He Recom
mends Verj- Highly.
As I expect to leave Plattsmouth
shortly to go to a new location, I wish
to express my appreciation for the
moral and financial support I have en
joyed while here. In order that no
misunderstanding may arise in regard
to my action, I will say that I am
leaving Plattsmouth beacuse I believe
I can do better somewhere else. I have
enjoyed my work here and have made
some friends who will always have a
place in my memory.
To those who have been treated and
benefited by me I wish to recommend
Dr. Reynolds to take my place in the
future. He has been my family doc
tor since his arrival in Plattsmouth
and I can most cheerfully recommend
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him as a careful and painstaking doc
torwho understands his business and
who will not misrepresent anything
for the sake of getting a patient.
If he gives the opinion (after one
of his most thorough examinations)
that osteopathic treatment will benefit
vou, I will vouch for the foundation of
the opinion. If you've been thinking
for some time of taking a course of
treatment, begin now. Go and see
Dr. Reynolds and give him a chance
to show you what osteopathy can do
for' you.
Do not get the impression that
osteopathy consists of nothing more
than the treatment you get at the of
fice. Osteopathy is defined in the
medical dictionary as "a system of
medicine," and if this is the case,
purely osteopaths have a right to pre
scribe in regard to diet, hygiene, ex
ercise, sanitation, etc., and if the doc
tor treats you and tells you to come
back in a day or two for further treat
ment, do as he tells you. He probably
understands your case better than you
do, so give him a chance to benefit
you.
I have nothing but contempt for the
person who has "tried osteopathy and
it did no good." One or two treat
ments will do little good except in
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acute conditions. Chronic diseases re
quire special care. After you have
taken a month or so of treatment
pay your doctor bill, or at least, make
some arrangement which will be satis
factory to the doctor. He has to live,
and he doesn't like to resort to the law
courts to compel you to pay your just
debts. He isn't in the profession
from mercenary motives if he
was he wouldn't stay long but he has
to pay for what he gets and he's de
pending on you for part of it. Treat
him right. Call him when you need
him. Tatronize him before you go
away to some other town for treat
ment, and you will always have him.
Dr. Davis.
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LAW PROHIBITING RIDING OF
eiCYCLES ON SIDEWALKS
From Saturdv nat'y.
The habit of persons riding with
bicycles on the sidewalks of the city
has caused some annoyance, and
especially in the south part of the
city, and last evening a man who was
riding on the walk out on Lincoln ave
nue was taken up and given a severe
lecture on the practice that is not only
a nuisance, but also a menace to per
sons riding on the bicycle. Those who
are not familiar with the law cover
ing such an offense should get busy
and cut out the practice of making
the walks a speedway before they are
called upon to pay a fine for the of
fense. Such practices as this caused
the injury of one of our citizens a
few years ago and the police intend to
see that any future violation will be
dealt with according to the law and
the offenders fined.
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