{"1": {"fulltext": "ji JU III\\nx 4 i:Ji\\\\\\ntj fi/1 O l\\nm i\\nJLUAM\\nI", "height": "3841", "width": "2385", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap, Copyright No.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "FULL LIFE\\nFOR\\nEMPTY MEN\\nBY\\ny\\nREV. W. DEWITT LUKENS\\nBOSTON\\nJAMES H. EARLE, Publisher\\n178 WASHINGTON STREET\\n1900", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED,\\nl Ibrary of CesgEi\u00c2\u00ab%\\n0-ffl-s of thy\\nFEB 2 3 1900\\nAgister of Copyright*\\n54388\\nCopyright, 1899\\nBy W. Dewitt Lukens\\nAll Rights Reserved\\n8S00ND COPY,\\n\\\\\\\\\\\\S", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Go mg wife\\ndfoarg \u00c2\u00a9aroemec Xufcens", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nINTRODUCTION.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nCause of Emptiness.\\nSin Guilt of Sin Sins Disharmony Sin is Transgression\\nSecond, Law of Love Moralist and Humanitarian Sin is\\nFailure to do Good\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sin is Unbelief Why is Unbelief Sin\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWhat an Unbeliever Believes.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nHow to See Emptiness.\\nGoodness and Method Paul Job Jacob Isaiah Peter\\nEight Reasons The Past The Present The Future Con-\\nscience Conviction by the Spirit.\\nCHAPTER III.\\nHow to Get Rid of Emptiness.\\nRepentance Things Men Say Things Men Do Inventions\\nThe Easiest Method\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Best Method\u00e2\u0080\u0094 God s Way\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The\\nSource of Difficulty Turning the Direction, Obedience,\\nWill, Work\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Paying a Debt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In Hell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 God s Thought.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nThe Cause of Fulness.\\nThe Gospel Safety Plan Power Belief Mystery Utility\\nMuch More Law Evolution \u00e2\u0080\u0094Morality Reforms Wis-\\ndom Crises Achievement Victory Christ.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nWhat is Fulness.\\nLife Hapginess Satisfaction Capacity for Life Complete-\\nness Born Again Fruit Growing Power Love.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nHow to Get Fulness.\\nCannot Believe our Senses Belief Outside of Sense Influence\\nWithout Contact Belief is Reception Belief is Threefold\\nBelief is Action.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nHow to Know that You Have Full Life.\\nHumility Finding God s Will How to get Eyes How to get\\nHealth How to get Happiness How to keep Safe Diso-\\nbedience The Test Morality Grace to Obey.\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nHow to keep Full Life.\\nChrist in You The Bible and Christ Elijah s Test Christian\\nGraces Proof of God s Love God s Reckoning.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nHow Full Life is Developed.\\nFull Life Life from Death Failure to Grow Grace Works\\nDead Works.\\nCHAPTER X.\\nHow is Full Life to be Used.\\nDoing Good Pleasing God Living to God s Glory Revealing\\nGod God Glorifies Us.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nDuring several years of Christian service it has\\nbecome more and more painfully evident that\\nthough nearly all persons in Christian lands were\\ngenerally familiar with the Christian religion, yet\\nthere were very few Christians who could intelli-\\ngently tell a fellow-being how to become a Chris-\\ntian. Few sinners know how to help themselves\\nin reaching the kingdom, through ignorance of\\njust how in particular to become a Christian.\\nWhere to begin and what to do at each succeed-\\ning point they knew not, though from infancy they\\nwere familiar, in general, with Christianity. Then,\\nfurther, when the Christian life was begun, how to\\nsustain and develop it was a continuation of the\\nsame problem. This ignorance was recognized\\nalso by a multitude of non-professors in their fre-\\nquent excuse, I cannot live it. Both in the\\npastoral and evangelistic work I have been forced\\nto emphasize the particular along these lines.\\nThis is a prayerful attempt to set forth in plain\\nform, How to become a Christian, and, How to\\nstay a Christian especially for use m my own\\nwork. It is not a theological treatise in that there\\nis an attempt made to set forth a divine order in\\ndogmatic form, of God s supernatural grace in\\nregeneration and sanctification. The clock can-", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8 INTR OD UC TION.\\nnot tick out Christian experience for each suc-\\nceeding hour, or brains understand the divine.\\nAn attempt is made to show the way to satisfac-\\ntion, full life, for hungry and thirsty, empty\\nmen. A view of the plan of saving grace with the\\nemphasis on the human side. A word, however,\\nconcerning the source of salvation by way of\\nintroduction.\\nWe would not lose sight of the ground of our\\nsalvation found in Jesus Christ alone. We would\\nnot needlessly trouble the mind about questions of\\nsin and repentance, regeneration and sanctification.\\nSo now a word which must indeed be the first\\nword, that concerning the salvation provided for\\nus in Christ. This must be recognized by the\\nsinner before true repentance is possible. A man\\nmust guard against making works of righteous-\\nness which he can do out of feelings about sin\\nand repentance and even his professed belief, so\\nsubtle are the deceptions of Satan in regard to\\nsalvation in Christ. God saves through a look of\\nfaith at the uplifted Christ (John 3 14, 15). We\\ncannot be saved by looking at our own sins, nor\\nby looking at the Bible, nor by reasoning about\\nthe relationship between sin and God.\\nThere is life for a look at the crucified one,\\nThere is life at this moment for thee.\\nA criticising skeptic came to one of God s be-\\nlieving saints and asked, What is the gospel you\\nbelieve, and how do you believe it? She replied,\\nGod is satisfied with the work of His Son this\\nis the gospel I believe and I am satisfied with it\\nthis is how I believe it. Another has given this", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nexplanation of it, There is a great difference\\nbetween your religion and mine yours consists\\nof two letters, D-O, and mine consists of four,\\nD-O-N-E.\\nJesus said upon the cross, It is finished.\\nWe may ask what is finished? Jesus answers in\\nJohn 17: 4, I have finished the work which\\nthou gavest me to do. How did He view this\\nwork? We get His answer in John 4: 34, My\\nmeat is to do the work of Him that sent me, and\\nto finish His work. As Jesus has finished His\\nwork and God has accepted it, we may for our-\\nselves wisely ask the question of John 6 28,\\nWhat shall we do that we might work the\\nworks of God. His answer comes direct. Jesus\\nanswered and said unto them, This is the work\\nof God, that ye believe on Him whom he hath\\nsent. Then we read the 47th verse as the result\\nof such belief: All that the Father giveth Me\\nshall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I\\nwill in nowise cast out. Our faith links us with\\nthe completed work of Jesus and His work be-\\ncomes ours. Then according to Colossians 2\\n10, Ye are complete in Him.\\nYou must beware of resting your peace on\\nyour feelings, convictions, tears, repentance,\\nprayers, duties, or resolutions. You must begin\\nwith receiving Christ, and not make that the ter-\\nmination of a course of fancied preparation.\\nYou are as welcome to Christ now as you\\never will be. Wait not for deeper conviction of\\nsin, for why should you prefer conviction to Christ?\\nOur peace with God, our forgiveness, our recon-\\nciliation flow wholly from the sin-atoning sacrifice", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "I O INTR ODUC TION.\\nof Jesus. Here we have the ground of our salva-\\ntion in Christ. The following pages mean to set\\nforth in somewhat of order man s part in and\\nman s recognition of the plan and purpose of sal-\\nvation. Without the atoning sacrifice of Christ\\nnone of it is possible to man. He cannot see sin\\napart from grace, neither can he repent, believe,\\nor obey apart from the Spirit s operation in his\\nlife. The following pages are true to man because\\nof what Christ has done for every lost man, and\\nbecause of what the Spirit is now doing in the life\\nof every lost man.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "I.\\nTHE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS.\\nSin robs a man of life, physical, moral,\\nSin. spiritual. While sin abounds there is no\\ncomplete or full living. Christ came that we\\nmight have life and that we might have it abund-\\nantly. Sin has emptied the human race of its\\ninheritance from Eden onward. Now we have the\\nLast Adam whose mission provides for the filling\\nof our emptiness. Since Adam no man has fully\\nlived or lived full as God intended except in\\nChrist. Half or partial living is the universal ex-\\nperience. Half alive because of the absence of\\nGod. Dead in sins. Of the prodigal his father\\nsaid, This my son was dead.\\nThe distinction between the number of\\nGUILT sins committed and the guilt of sin is im-\\nOF portant, but largely unrecognized. See\\nSin. yonder beautiful and accomplished young\\nwoman? With gay, light, and smiling\\npresence she passes her admirers. From her\\nnature this morning she wove into the day a\\nthread of meanness. A mean thought showed\\nitself in a mean act expressive of her character.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nSee yonder dusky figure, with scowling mien?\\nHe is just from the murderer s deed. He is\\njust risen from the pit, fiendish. The one be-\\nfore men, is a devil, the other, a good woman.\\nIn both God sees a bad nature. A nature that\\nis capable of a mean act is capable of sin, sin is\\ncapable of making its possessor a demon. So\\nthat he who offends in one point is guilty of all,\\nbecause the nature that is capable of one white,\\nairy, summer sin, is capable of doing way-down,\\ndeep, zero sins. The picnic sins come from the\\nsame source as the pit sins, so are alike sinful,\\nnot as to the number committed, but as to the\\nquality. Poison is poison, even though it be in\\never so small a quantity. Healthfulness does not\\narise from diminutive portions of disease, but from\\nfulness of life. One little unthinking error is not\\nany more beautiful in God s sight than a thousand\\nheinous crimes. For God cannot look upon sin\\nSIN, with one degree of allowance. He asks, Is\\nit sin? Not how much or how many sins.\\nThis does not invalidate a consideration of\\nSlNS. particular sins, which is often necessary.\\nMany will admit that they are sinners but\\nwill not allow the finger placed upon any particu-\\nlar sins. The story is told of a man who got\\ndrunk, and sought pardon and peace, but was\\nunsuccessful. His minister urged him to pray\\nagain and so they knelt together. The man", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS. 1 3\\nprayed, O God, thou knowest thy servant in a\\nmoment of unwatchfulness was overtaken by a\\nsin.\\nNonsense said the minister; tell the Lord\\nyou got drunk.\\nThe man could not bring himself up to that,\\nand so began again O Lord, thou knowest thy\\nservant, in his weakness and frailty, was overtaken\\nby a besetting sin.\\nNonsense tell the Lord you got drunk.\\nAt last the poor fellow said O God, have\\nmercy on me I got drunk.\\nIn answer to that prayer the man received for-\\ngiveness and peace. In speaking of sin as guilt\\nbefore God we would not minimize the great\\nimportance of dealing with particular sins and say-\\ning, Thou art the man guilty of this particular sin.\\nErroneous opinions are those out\\nDISHARMONY. of harmony with right thinking.\\nInsanity is action out of harmony\\nwith right thinking. Drunkenness is caused by ap-\\npetite out of harmony with the needs of a physical\\nman. The shoe and the foot must fit. A hat too\\nlarge covers the ears, making the man look ridi-\\nculous. Sin is that which does not correspond to\\nthe need and happiness of the physical, moral, and\\nspiritual nature. A man out of harmony with his\\nown nature would be out of harmony with the\\nnature in whose likeness he was created. Sin is", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "1 4 FULL LLFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nlack of correspondence with God. Being what\\nGod is not. Doing what God does not do.\\nAn ajfple tree that does not bear apples defeats\\nthe purpose of its planting and growing. So a\\nman who does not love God. A house in which\\nno one lives is not meeting the purpose for which\\nit was built. So a man in whom God does not\\ndwell. A grocery store that does not keep coffee,\\nsugar, soap, is only half a store, for those are\\nstaple groceries. Spirituality is a staple in the\\nman whom God made. A man who pays no re-\\ngard to the keeping of his body is a suicide. One\\nwho disregards morals is a criminal. One who\\npays no regard to keeping spirituality is a sinner.\\nThese only half live, for man is physical, moral,\\nspiritual. If the body lacks food, if the heart lacks\\nmorals, if the spirit lacks Christ s gospel, \u00c2\u00a3he man\\nis only half supplied, and only half lives. Food\\nfor the body, morals for the man, and Christianity\\nfor the spirit. Neglect feeding either with its suit-\\nable food and you have death. Sin is what hurts\\nus. If a thing is harmless to all parts of our\\nnature it is not sinful. All sin injures. God s\\nlaws are those regulations which he knows will\\nkeep us in harmony with the nature he has given\\nus, and so with his own nature.\\nBeing in sin is possessing a nature out of accord\\nwith God s nature. Sinning is obeying the dic-\\ntates of this corrupt nature. I am carnal sold", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS. 1 5\\nunder sin. That is, he obeys, goes according to\\nhis flesh nature. He, is living the flesh life which\\nhas the control over him. To be ruled by the\\nflesh life is sin. An earthly man, though moral, is\\nliving in a condition of sin, because only following\\nhis feeling, impulses, and reason. His very acts of\\nmorality may be sin, for an evil tree cannot pro-\\nduce good fruit. He may be even priding himself\\nthat he lacks the spirituality, without which, God\\nsays, there is none good, no not one, and without\\nwhich no man shall see the kingdom of heaven.\\nA man might so live as to commit no sin against\\nhis body or his moral nature, yet be a grievous\\nsinner, because he neglects spirituality. A perfect\\nman is right with himself, his neighbor, his God\\nbodily, morally, spiritually. Notice for illustration\\nthe young ruler and Paul before conversion.\\nIn his first epistle, 5:19,\\nSlN is John says, The whole\\nTransgression, world lieth in wickedness. All\\nwill admit that the world is\\nwicked. But the devil s delusion is couched thus:\\nThe world is bad and needs reforming, but I per-\\nsonally am fairly good. They regard only the\\nfirst Mosaic definition of sin, law-breaking, Sin is\\nthe transgression of the law. Civil and social\\ncrimes the law of the country deals with largely.\\nSheriffs, prisons, and the gallows regulate their\\ntransgression. Others of them, such as lying and", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "1 6 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nvarious forms of dishonesty, the conscience con-\\nvicts of in civilized countries. Moral men do not\\nbreak these according to their interpretations of\\nthem, and therefore conclude that their lives must\\nbe acceptable in God s sight. But Jesus speaks a\\nforgotten commandment in Matthew 22 34 and\\nfollowing. Now the Pharisees hearing that He\\nsilenced the Sadducees, were brought together\\nwith one accord and one from among them\\nproposed a question, tempting Him Teacher,\\nwhich commandment is great in the law? And\\nHe said unto him, thou shalt love the Lord thy\\nGod, with the whole of thy heart, with the whole\\nof thy soul, and with the whole of thy mind. This\\nis the great and first commandment. Mark adds\\nto this, with the whole of thy might. Luke adds,\\nwith the whole of thy intention. So we have as\\nthe great and first commandment the duty to love\\nGod with the whole of our heart, soul, mind,\\nmight, and intention. Love God with the total\\nbeing. This is a commandment. Who is guilty\\nof breaking it? Loving God in any less degree\\nthan this language conveys is breaking the first\\ncommandment. Men whose consciences are not\\nquickened make the sad blunder of thinking that\\nall that God requires is that they shall not break\\nthe ten commandments. He requires this and\\nmuch more, that men shall love him with the\\nentire being. This is not a question of choice", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS.\\n17\\nbut the first and greatest commandment. Failure\\nto so love God is the first and greatest sin.\\nSurely all have sinned and come short of the\\nglory of God. Failure to love God leaves us\\nopen to the charge of breaking all the command-\\nments. In Malachi s day this failure was con-\\nsidered robbery. Will a man rob God? Yet ye\\nhave robbed me. The people ask as in surprise,\\nWherein have we robbed thee? They are\\nthinking of the external evidences of love to God,\\nbut God s burden about them is seen in the\\nwords, I have loved you saith the Lord. Their\\nchief robbery was in not returning God s love to\\nhim. Failure to love God all through the\\nprophets, is recognized as spiritual adultery.\\nJesus indicates that failure on the part of the\\nPharisees to love him breaks their relationship to\\nGod, and makes liars and children of the devil.\\nIf I should say I know him not I would be a\\nliar like unto you. Ye are of your father,\\nthe devil. How astounding this language con-\\ncerning a people whose lives were spent in pro-\\nfessed law-keeping. Surely an impressive lesson\\nfor every moralist. These men were murderers^\\nWhich of the prophets have your fathers not\\nkilled Saul was a murderer of Christians, and\\nwas authorized by these men to do his deeds of\\nslaughter yet he thought he was doing the will\\nof God, and keeping strictly, better than others,", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1 8 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nthe commandments of God. Failure to love God\\ncrucified Christ. Of those who knew most about\\nthe law Jesus says, Ye cannot hear my word.\\nThe whole decalogue is broken when the first and\\ngreatest commandment is broken, love to God, as\\nwhen the keystone falls from the arch.\\nFollowing the first great law is\\nSecond, Law the second, namely, Thou shalt\\nOF Love. love thy neighbor as thyself.\\nLove to God is first, and love to\\nhumanity is second. They that love God keep\\nhis commandments. His first commandment is\\nlove to himself. When a man is seen showing\\nlove to humanity before love to God, we know he\\nis in error. His benevolence is sin. A religion\\nof love to my neighbor is no better than any\\nother natural religion. Though the Bible is\\nclaimed as its source does not alter its real merit.\\nThis is an angel of light which deceives many.\\nSatan, in quoting scripture to these people, is more\\nsuccessful than he was with Christ. To love your\\nneighbor before you love your God is sin. More-\\nover, your professed love to your neighbor is spu-\\nrious if you do not love God first. There is no\\ntrue passion of love but from God, and if you have\\nit you will first keep his commandments.\\nA moralist and humanitarian may as such re-\\nceive their reward for the lives they live and the\\nlove they show to their fellow creatures, but as", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS. 1 9\\nsuch only they cannot enter into the kingdom of\\nheaven. But a man who truly loves God cannot\\nhelp but be moral and show practical love to. his\\nneighbor. Education and cir-\\nMORALIST AND cumstances make men moral and\\nHumanitarian, brotherly, but those forces will\\nnot regenerate the soul. There\\nis much confounding of morality and Christianity,\\nand so thinking the two are one. They are as dif-\\nferent as any separate conditions can well be. The\\none person is a decent member of society the\\nother a spiritually regenerated person, a member\\nof the invisible kingdom of God. The one keeps\\nmen out of an earthly jail, the other out of a spir-\\nitual hell, and more, admits him into the everlast-\\ning home and presence of God.\\nIn James 4 17 we read, There-\\nSlN IS FAILURE fore to him that knoweth to\\nTO DO GOOD. do good and doeth it not, to\\nhim it is sin. Another transla-\\ntion is: To one therefore who knows how to be\\ndoing a noble thing and is not doing it, a sin to\\nhim it is. The unthinking say that they are not\\nsinners when they find themselves free from com-\\nmitting crimes but failure to do good is sin. A\\nquestion of what good was there which I could\\nhave done and which I failed to do or what no-\\nble thing. It goes beyond the merely good doing\\nand reaches into the realm of the heroic. Failure", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nto act noble is sin. Failure to do our best and act\\nthe true hero is sin. To do anything less than we\\nmight is sin. Good omitted is sin committed.\\nThe five foolish virgins were shut out for what\\nthey failed to do, and especially for what they\\nfailed to do on time. They did the right thing,\\nbut they did it too late. The man with the one\\ntalent was dealt with for not using that one talent.\\nHe let it lie hidden, and so unimproved. The\\nwedding guest came, but he was cast out for fail-\\nure to have put on the provided garment. The\\nlaw of the judgment of nations is, Inasmuch as\\nye did it not unto one of the least of these. In\\nmaking superficial definitions, men say sin is only\\nthe absence of holiness, just as cold is the absence\\nof heat, and darkness the absence of light; but\\nwhen that absence is God s absence, and so of\\nholiness, it becomes the depth of human misery on\\nearth, and hell in the coming dispensation. Even\\nsuch negative definition is appalling.\\nOur age prides itself upon its knowledge and\\nenlightenment, and pleads its advancement as com-\\nmendatory in God s sight. This, however, is a\\ncause for condemnation. Knowledge and ability\\nonly add cursing to the disobedient, And that\\nservant who got to know the will of his lord, and\\nneither prepared nor wrought with regard to his\\nwill shall be beaten much but he who did not get\\nto know, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS. 21\\nbeaten little. So the greater condemnation of the\\ngospel enlightened. Had I not come and spoken\\nto them, they had not had sin but now they have\\nno excuse for their sin. Their knowledge leaves\\nthem without excuse. Jesus said unto them,\\nIf blind ye had been ye had not, in that case, had\\nsin but now ye say, We see your sin remains.\\nBecause they are not heathen they shall receive\\nthe greater condemnation their enlightened con-\\ndition adding to their condemnation. They knew\\nhow to act nobly, but would not.\\nIn Romans 14:23 we see that What-\\nSlN IS soever is not of faith is sin. In\\nUNBELIEF. Eden man cut himself off from\\nGod and started an independent life,\\naccording to the flesh and the world. Hu-\\nmanity has been living that life ever since. The\\nplan of the gospel in Christ is to bring men into a\\nlife of union again with God. Living the self-life,\\nwhic*h is a walk by sight, in contrast to a walk by\\nfaith, is sin. It is independence of God, self-suffi-\\nciency, doing one s own will, following human\\nopinion and reason, following a self-made plan of\\nlife, living a self-made character. It is a life apart\\nfrom faith. Now everything that is not of faith\\nis sin.\\nJesus says concerning the mission of the Holy\\nSpirit after his own departure, And coming he\\nwill convict the world of sin, of sin indeed,", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nbecause they are not putting faith in me. So\\nwe have it very clearly set forth that unbelief is\\nsin. We can readily see the superficial thinking\\nof our age when they see sin to be only the actual\\nbreaking of one of the civil laws of the land, such\\nas stealing, murder, and the like. In John 3:18,\\nwe have the translation, He who puts faith in\\nhim is not to be judged, but he who puts not\\nfaith, already has been judged, because he has not\\nput faith in the name of the only begotten Son of\\nGod. The man of unbelief has passed before\\nthe Judge and been charged with and condemned\\nfor the crime of Calvary. Unbelief crucified Jesus.\\nEach unbeliever is guilty of the shed blood of\\nChrist. The righteousness of Christ is given to\\neach believer.\\nIn 1 John 5 10, we read, He that believeth\\nnot God hath made him a liar, because he\\nbelieveth not the record that God gave of his\\nSon. Unbelief is no slight matter, as it deter-\\nmines God to be false. He that has not faith in\\nGod, false has made him. If unbelief concerning\\nthe love of God in Christ to them, makes them\\nproclaim God false, and gives him the lie, what\\nwill they not do concerning lesser relationships\\nto the Deity? So unbelievers are placed in the\\nfrightful category, but as for the timid and unbe-\\nlieving and abominable and murderers and forni-\\nnicators and sorcerers and idolaters, and all the", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS. 23\\nfalse, their part is in the lake that burns with fire\\nand brimstone; which is the second death. If\\nin human experience birds of a feather flock\\ntogether, and if God who knows the hearts of all\\nmen places unbelievers in the same list as to qual-\\nity with murder and idolatry, then surely it is a\\nheinous sin. Says Luther, This white devil\\nwhich urges man to commit spiritual sins is far\\nmore dangerous than the black devil, which only\\ntempts them to commit fleshly sins, which the\\nworld acknowledges to be sins.\\nBut why is unbelief a sin of such\\nWhy IS deep dye We have seen from Scrip-\\nUNBELIEF ture that it sets God down as false.\\nSlN? It is wilfully blind to the teachings of\\nhistory, to these nineteen hundred\\nyears of historical evidences showing the truthful-\\nness of the gospel. Blind in personal experience\\nand observation, failing to recognize that the\\npresent day civilization comes from Christianity*\\nIt fails to see God s purpose as revealed in the\\nOld and New Testaments, which is to bring the\\nunbeliever to faith. It takes upon itself to do in\\na few years by works of self-righteousness what\\nGod has taken centuries to do. To make eternal\\nreconciliation to God by prayers and resolutions\\nand gifts. Counting their own deeds of equal value\\nwith the atonement of Christ, they set themselves\\nup as being equal to Christ in good works. It is", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\npractically claiming sinlessness of life. Unbelief\\ncharges God with murdering Christ unnecessarily.\\nThey can be saved by their own works, and so\\nof what value and to what purpose was it for\\nGod to sacrifice his Son? They say to God, You\\nneed not have gone to the trouble from Abel\\nonward to shed blood, we can be saved by our\\nown devices without shedding of blood. You are\\na bloody, murderous God. God s greatest work\\nis the redemption of man, and they claim that\\nthey can do it in shorter time and with much less\\neffort and cost than God can. They set them-\\nselves up above all that is called God, or that is\\nworshiped as God. The utter blindness of unbe-\\nlief The tremendous deceptions that men will\\nallow Satan to play upon them Satan originally\\nthought to ascend above God and rebelled.; now\\nhe deceives men into unbelief, and brings them\\ninto the same state of rebellion with himself.\\nUnbelief put Christ upon the cross and it would\\ntake God from his throne.\\nWhat does an unbeliever believe?\\nWhat an It cannot be Christ or he would\\nUNBELIEVER believe Christ wrio is the truth. Of\\nBELIEVES. him it is said, His word ye have\\nwithin you abiding, because whom\\nhe sent, in him- ye are not believing. It must be\\nthe opposite from the truth they are believing.\\nIf they are not believing Christ, they must be", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS. 25\\nbelieving some other power. Jesus says to unbe-\\nlievers, Ye are of your father, the adversary;\\nand the covetings of your father ye wish to be\\ndoing. He was a man-killer from the beginning\\nand in the truth does not stand, because there is\\nno truth in him. Whensoever he may be speak-\\ning falsehood, of his own he is speaking, because\\nfalse he is, and the father of it. God and truth\\ngo together, and if a man does not believe them,\\nwhom does he believe? He must believe some\\none and some thing. There is no other beside\\nGod but Satan with his lie. An unbeliever must\\nsurely believe the devil and his lie. This was\\nAdam s choice in the garden. There is nothing\\nelse that he can accept if he denies God and the\\ntruth.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nII.\\nHOW TO SEE EMPTINESS.\\nMen see the lowest when their gaze\\nGOODNESS is upon the highest object. Nothing\\nAND so effectively reveals the depth of\\nMETHOD. human depravity as a view of God.\\nThe desire is commendable to ap-\\npear, and to be, good. The end in view is noble.\\nGod sanctions it. Man aspires to it. But why\\nshould there be a difference in the method 4 of\\nattainment, as set forth by God in contrast to that\\nmostly practised by humanity? Herein the per-\\nversity of human nature. Herein the vantage\\nground of devil deception. Suppose a man, as he\\nexpresses it, feels all right. He does not rec-\\nognize or aspire to anything better than he has.\\nThen we repeat to him the language of Christ in\\nsimilar conditions: I am come to seek and to\\nsave that which was lost. They that are whole\\nhave no. need of a physician. Many make a des-\\nperate attempt to believe that they have no con-\\nviction, so intent is sinful nature upon its own\\ndestruction. Sin is a shorter term for suicide or\\nself-destruction. Until a man is brought to the", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "HOW TO SEE EMPTINESS. 2*]\\nconviction that he is sick, you cannot administer\\nmedicine. Man s spiritual sickness was set forth\\nin a former section. Here we endeavor to SEE\\nthe difficulty. Man naturally, or rather unnatu-\\nrally, avoids thinking of, and dealing with, his sin.\\nHe views his goodness, and contemplates that,\\nwith his chances of its being received by God, as\\ntrue spiritual worth. God intends that all his peo-\\nple shall be as good as his Son, Jesus. In Christ\\nhe has set forth the single and simple method of\\nobtaining goodness. God in the gospel would\\nhave men contemplate their sin, and then the\\nrighteousness of his Son, Jesus. Not to look\\nwithin, but unto Christ for spiritual worth. To\\nlay no claim to goodness, except that received\\nfrom Christ.\\nPaul looked at himself for years, and saw\\nPAUL, himself the best of his race. One day he\\nreceived a view of Jesus, and he fell\\ndown, down from his own goodness, down from\\nhaughtiness and pride, down from self-sufficiency,\\ndown into fear and blindness. Then the Lord\\nsaid to him, Arise. He arose into permanent\\nexaltation. His work, character, mighty power in\\nthe world, have never gone down. The way to\\ntrue spiritual exaltation is through a low valley,\\nin which is seen human sin, and in which that sin\\nis lost in forgiveness.\\nInto the environment of Job, the devil, by per-", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 FULL LLFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nmission, entered. Ruin reigned. Job looked\\nJob. about, and within himself, saying: I have\\nbeen, and am, righteous. Later, God spoke\\nto Job, and turned his face upward, and in the\\nview he obtained of God there came a change\\nin Job, and he said I have heard of thee by\\nthe hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth\\nthee, therefore, I abhor myself and repent in dust\\nand ashes. What caused the change from main-\\ntaining his righteousness to this abject condition?\\nSeeing God. A view of God showed him his sin.\\nJob could not, neither can any other man, plead\\ngoodness with a view of God before his eyes.\\nThe only method by which a man can see good-\\nness in himself and of himself is by turning his\\nback to God, and letting darkness cover him.\\nSo men love darkness rather than light, because\\ntheir deeds are evil. Neither Paul nor Job could\\ndetect a flaw in their lives till they received a view\\nfrom heaven.\\nWhat a man Jacob was He calls his\\nJacob, own sinful devices the prospering hand\\nof God. He spends a night alone with\\nGod, and his name and his character are forever\\nchanged. The reason is in his testimony, I have\\nseen God face to face.\\nIsaiah says I saw also the Lord, sit-\\nISAIAH. ting upon a throne, high and lifted up.\\nNotice the result. Then said I, Woe", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "HOW TO SEE EMPTINESS. 29\\nis me for I am undone, because I am a man of\\nunclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people\\nwith unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the\\nKing, the Lord of hosts. Then the coal of fire\\ncame, and the information, Thine iniquity is\\ntaken away, and thy sin purged. Then he found\\nhis work. No man can possibly know God s will\\nfor him till he has seen his own sin, and so ad-\\njusted his relations with God, and so obtained his\\nproper attitude toward God. A view of one s\\nactual spiritual condition, in God s sight, is abso-\\nlutely necessary to a correct view of life, and a\\nright work in life. It is basal. If wrong, the\\nwhole life will be abnormal in its view of the\\nworld, of self, and of God. As it is a fact that\\nsin exists, it is essential that that sin be seen by\\nits possessor that a proper disposition be made of\\nit. We cannot deal with an imaginary thing, or a\\nvague, doubtful something, but must KNOW of its\\nreality, and realize somewhat its proportions and\\nrelationships. All truly good men have had much\\nto do with, and much to say about, sin.\\nWhen Peter first recognizes the super-\\nPETER. natural in Christ, what is the effect of\\nthat recognition? Peter falls down. No\\nman can stand upright before God. On the face\\nis the attitude of men who see God. Then Peter\\nmakes confession, Depart from me, for I am a\\nsinful man. His words are not self-justification,", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nbut, I am a sinful man. When men see God,\\nthey see their own sinfulness.\\nWe notice some reasons for the lack\\nEight of conviction. i. Looking at the\\nREASONS, natural heart, and counting good in-\\ntentions, and good resolutions, good\\nwishes, and thoughts. 2. Looking at personal\\ngood deeds in the world, as seen in moral and\\ncivilized actions, as required by good society.\\n3. Looking at one s neighbors and associates,\\nand comparing their lives with his own, and find-\\ning favor on his side in the comparison. 4.\\nLooking at professing Christians, and seeing their\\nwrong and questionable doings. 5. A persistent\\nrefusal to compare the life with a biblical stan-\\ndard. 6. A refusal to view the life in the light\\nof the Christ standard. 7. Insistence upon only\\nreading those books and associating with those\\npersons who accord with their own views. 8. A\\nrefusal to pray to God that he might show them\\ntheir own hearts, and a constant shutting out of\\nviews of God.\\nTrue conviction is seen in a dissatisfaction\\nThe with the past. At the end of the Saul\\nPAST, life, he said of it, referring to his excellent\\nnatural acquirements, of his religion, of his\\nhonorable and official position, of his religious zeal,\\nof his personal righteousness, that he counted it\\nloss and but dune. At the end of the Paul sec-", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "HOW TO SEE EMPTINESS. 3 1\\ntion of that life, how different. A noble contest\\nI have contested, the race I have finished, the\\nfaith I have kept. There is a possibility of satis-\\nfaction with the past, but that satisfaction is only\\nin the faith. Other conditions of satisfaction\\nare but stupefaction. A recognition that the past\\nhas been wrong is one of the first elements of\\nconviction. This unrecognized, no progress can\\nbe made. Progress blocked. Salvation impossible.\\nTrue conviction is seen in a discontent\\nTHE with the present. The disciples came\\nPRESENT, to Jesus with the lament, Why could\\nwe not cast him out? There was a\\ndevil within that they could not master. The con-\\nvicted man realizes that there is an evil within\\nunmastered. Good does not prevail. Like the\\ntemple in Hezekiah s day, the need of repairing is\\napparent; so man s nature all out of sorts needs\\nreconstructing. As the filthiness was carried\\nout of the temple so the heart needs cleafising.\\nAs the doors were shut so the heart has been\\nshut toward God. As the lamps were gone out,\\nso darkness has reigned in the life. As there\\nwere no sacrifices offered, so the convicted man\\nrealizes that he has rendered nothing to God. As\\nGod s wrath was upon them, so God s wrath is\\nfelt to be upon the convicted one. As desolation\\nby sword and famine has reigned in Israel, so the\\nman feels his desolate and famished condition.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nAs their children were in captivity, so the man s\\nfaculties are bound down and useless. As Israel\\nturned and made a covenant with God, so the\\nconvicted man feels this necessity upon him to\\nturn to God for the remedying of his present\\ncondition.\\nTrue conviction is an aspiration for a\\nThe better future. Life s trials are too\\nFUTURE, severe, duties too arduous, problems\\ntoo intricate, to be met single-handed.\\nSolomon asked of God as he looked into the\\nfuture, Give me now wisdom and knowledge that\\nI may go out and come in before this people.\\nConviction centres a man s future in God, where\\nself-centering is the reverse. Dependence upon\\none s own wisdom and knowledge rather than the\\ndivinely given.\\nTrue conviction may be the\\nCONSCIENCE. ought dictated by conscience.\\nBut conscience cannot be de-\\npended upon as a guide for it has failed many,\\nruined its multitude, slain its tens of thousands.\\nThere is an unnatural or destroyed conscience\\nwhich is unfit for action. Paul likens it to flesh\\nseared or cauterized with a hot iron. Thus in-\\njured and inactive it is productive of untold error,\\n(i Timothy 4:2.) In Ephesians 4:19 such\\npersons are referred to, Who being past feeling.\\nA conscience that is burned and feelingless is not", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "HOW TO SEE EMPTINESS. 33\\none by which a person could judge right or\\nwrong.\\nThere is a defiled conscience. (Titus 1: 15.)\\nEven their mind and conscience is defiled. A\\nsinful conscience needs cleansing before capable of\\njudging rightly. This is also seen in the need of\\nthe conscience being regenerated, as set forth in\\nHebrews 9: 14. How much more shall the\\nblood of Christ purge your conscience\\nfrom dead works to serve the living God? Men\\nmay go according to their conscience, and thus\\ndirected be serving in dead works a lifeless\\nreligion.\\nThere is a weak conscience. Their con-\\nscience being weak, this one may wound, and\\nwound their weak conscience. So a conscience\\nmay not be actually leading to sin but may be so\\nfeeble as to not allow sturdy action and forward\\ndevelopment in the life.\\nThere is a convicting conscience. i\\\\nd they\\nthat heard it being convicted by their own con-\\nscience went out one by one. This was a con-\\nviction of immorality. Their conscience was\\ngood here as far as it went, but it failed the\\nsame people in other departments of action and\\nof life.\\nThere is the good conscience. In 1 Peter 3:21,\\nwe read, The answer of a good conscience\\ntoward God. In 1 Timothy 3:9, Holding the", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nmystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And\\nI 19, Holding faith and a good conscience\\nwhich some having put away concerning faith\\nhave made shipwreck. In these scriptures it is\\nseen that a good conscience is in vital union with\\nfaith. In the first quotation the source of a good\\nconscience is the resurrection of Jesus, in the\\nsecond it is through the gospel, and in the third\\nruin has come through the separation of faith and\\nconscience. We conclude that there is no good\\nor correct conscience aside from faith. In Acts\\n23 1, Paul says, I have lived in all good con-\\nscience before God until this day. And in\\n24: 16, A conscience void of offence toward\\nGod. His conscience here is exercised in con-\\nnection with his Christian relationships, and in\\nthis time in Paul s life he had no religion aside\\nfrom the gospel as revealed in Jesus. There is no\\ntrustworthy conscience known aside from that\\nunder the sway of, and that purified by, the gospel.\\nConscience can only be depended upon to be\\ncorrect when proved true by and directed by the\\nSpirit of God.\\nConviction arises through the\\nCONVICTION workings of the Spirit of God.\\nBY THE SPIRIT. When he is come he will con-\\nvict the world of sin. In 1\\nCorinthians 14: 24, it is said of the gathering of\\nthe church, But if perchance all be prophesying,", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "HOW TO SEE EMPTINESS. 35\\nand there come in one, an unbeliever or a private\\nperson, he is convicted by all, the secret of his\\nheart is being made manifest; and thus falling\\ndown on his face he will worship God, reporting\\nthat, in reality, God is among you. This evi-\\ndently is Spirit conviction through testimony or\\npreaching the gospel. By sound doctrine both\\nto exhort and convict the gainsayers Thus the\\nSpirit uses the scriptures for conviction. The law\\nis spoken of as useful in the same direction, Con-\\nvicted of the law as transgressors. (James 2.)\\nOf Apollos it is said, For he mightily convicted\\nthe Jews, and that publicly, showing by the\\nscriptures that Jesus was Christ. (Acts 18 28.)\\nAll will be convicted in the end. In Jude 15, it\\nsays, The Lord cometh with ten thousand of his\\nsaints, to execute judgment upon all and to con-\\nvict all that are ungodly. The word in the above\\nscriptures is translated convince in the authorized\\nversion. These scriptures show that sinners are\\nconvicted by the Spirit of God using the word of\\nGod, and through the instrumentality of Spirit-\\nendued men who know the scriptures. Convic-\\ntion is not simple opinion or impression, not fol-\\nlowing the best religious policy, not joining the\\nchurch that is most convenient, not doing any\\nreligious duties according to opinion or conven-\\nience but a power that causes men to act in\\ntheir lives in conformity to the mind of God as", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 FULL LLFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nrevealed in the scriptures. True conviction\\ncomes from the word of God and the Spirit of\\nGod. Spirit conviction relates to personal rela-\\ntionships with Jesus Christ. He, the Spirit, will\\nconvict of unbelief concerning him, of his right-\\neousness in life, death, and resurrection, of the\\njustice of God passed upon him when he made\\natonement and salvation, through suffering, possi-\\nble for men.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "HOW TO GET RID OF EMPTINESS. 37\\nIII.\\nHOW TO GET RID OF EMPTINESS.\\nIn those days came John the\\nREPENTANCE. Baptist preaching in the wilder-\\nness of Judea, and saying, Repent\\nye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. This\\nwas John s first text and message, his introduction\\nto the world. He makes it evident from the very\\nfirst that he is a preacher of repentance. The\\nfirst thought and text of Jesus to the world was,\\nFrom that time Jesus began to preach, and to\\nsay, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at\\nhand. Both gave as a reason why men should\\nrepent, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Why\\nis this? Men can have no part in the kingdom\\nwithout getting rid of their sin. Sin is the diffi-\\nculty between earth and heaven. Repentance is\\nGod s means for man by which he is to get rid of\\nsin. After a man is convicted that he is a sinner,\\nand ought not to have this sin, the natural ques-\\ntion is, How to get rid of it? John and Jesus say,\\nRepent. When the disciples of Jesus were\\nsent out under his own direction, the record\\ninforms us as to what they preached, And they", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nwent out and preached that men should repent.\\nAt the first preaching on the day of Pentecost,\\nwhen the people were convicted of their sin and\\ncame asking what they should do, Peter said to\\nthem Repent. Two men went to church.\\nThey -both prayed. The one said, O Lord, I\\nthank thee that I am good. The other looked\\nlow and said, u O Lord, show mercy to a sinner.\\nThis last went home with the consciousness that\\nhis sins were forgiven. God requires that men\\nshall confess their sin to him in repentance.\\nJulian dies in praise of the conquering\\nTHINGS power of Jesus. Napoleon said, What\\nMen Say. n abyss between my deep misery\\nand the eternal reign of Christ. Mill\\nsaid that we must place the prophet of Nazareth\\nin the very first rank of men of sublime genius.\\nRenan said that Jesus fixed the starting point of\\nthe future fate of humanity. Josephus said, He\\nwas the Christ. Pilate said, I am innocent of\\nthe blood of this just person. The Centurion at\\nthe cross said, Truly this was the Son of God.\\nJudas said, I have sinned in that I have betrayed\\ninnocent blood. But God s demand of men is\\nthat they say, I REPENT OF MY SINS. Rather than\\na thousand other things that are good and true,\\nbut not to the point for a sinner. The only voice\\nthat God will hear coming from a sinner is that of\\nrepentance. To be saying good or smooth", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "HOW TO GET RID OF EMPTINESS. 39\\nthings about Christ when the heart is giving God\\nthe lie by its unbelief is effrontery to God. I\\nrepent, men will not say, but prefer a thousand\\npalliatives in its place.\\nMen experience regret like Wolsey.\\nTHINGS Are stricken with pangs of remorse like\\nMen Do. King Saul. Suffer like Herod. Give\\nlike Gerard. Are full of prayer like\\nthe TMohammedan. Exceedingly religious as the\\nPharisees. Build altars like Cain. But rarely\\nobey the first injunction and repent. This is\\nGod s first requirement, and until it is done none\\nother is acceptable.\\nMen invent other ways to get rid\\nInventions, of sin. Sometimes their religious\\ninventions for killing sin are a pro-\\nduct of ignorance and superstition. The heathen\\ntorture themselves by holding an arm over their\\nhead till it is stiff, they lie on a bed of spikes,\\nthrow themselves in sacrifice to their god. The\\nmoralist by his good works tries to atone for his\\nsin. The humanitarian by being kind to his fel-\\nlow, creatures. The religionist by being faithful\\nat church and prayer. All these methods for kill-\\ning sin are alike fruitless. Some try to do away\\nwith sin by the entire destruction of the good, for\\nwhen all good is gone, sin will not be seen to be\\nsinful. So Satan tried to dethrone God. So the\\nPharisees tried to destroy Christ. So the unbe-", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nliever tries to destroy Christianity. So the indif-\\nferent hope for the failure of Christianity, their\\nhope being in darkness. Others, like Jehoiakim,\\nhope to get rid of their sin by cutting up the book\\nthat reveals their wickedness. Ever since Cain\\nthe wicked world has thought to do away with\\nits sin by murdering the faith, people, and the\\nrighteous. These devices for the destruction of\\nsin have never succeeded, but always involved\\nthose who practised them in greater wickedness.\\nWhy do not men take the easiest\\nTHE EASIEST way to get rid of sin? There is no\\nMethod. method attended with such little\\nexpense, for the cost has been\\npaid by another. Out from her home in the\\nHighlands of Scotland there wandered a young\\ngirl into Edinburgh. Leading a sinful life for\\nsome years, she at last found herself in an attic,\\ndeserted, without food and sick. Coming thus to\\nherself, and thinking of the disgrace she had\\nbrought upon herself and her family, she started\\nout to end it ail by drowning herself in the river.\\nOn her way to end her sinful life, she passed a\\nmission from which her ears caught the song, and\\nthen the words\\nIn the Cross, in the Cross,\\nBe my glory ever\\nTill my raptured soul shall find\\nRest beyond the river. 1", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "HO W TO GET RID OF EMPTINESS. 4 1\\nThe thought of the river arrested her. She sat\\ndown upon a step near by, and cried over her\\nlife. She arose and found her way back to her\\nHighland home, arriving near midnight. Lightly\\ntouching the door-latch, the door opened. As\\nshe cautiously stepped inside, she was surprised-to\\nhear her mother s voice asking, Is that you,\\nMary?\\nYes, but, Mother, did you know that your\\ndoor was unlocked?\\nBut by this time the mother had her wandering\\ngirl in her arms, saying, Child, the door has\\nnever been fastened since you went away.\\nThere in her mother s arms she repented and\\nfound immediate forgiveness in the mother s\\nhome shelter and care; under the mother s min-\\nistries healing and health and a new life. It was\\neasier to have her sin forgiven than to drown it\\nwith herself in the river, and with it lose her life\\nand her soul forever. So the Lord urges every\\nwanderer home, saying, Him that cometh unto\\nme I will in no wise cast out. The Father s for-\\ngiveness is easier than suicide.\\nWhy not take the best way? It\\nTHE Best has been shown to be the only suc-\\nMETHOD. cessful way. Major D. W. Whittle\\ngives the following illustration of\\nrepentance. A married couple in Indiana became\\nestranged by quarreling, and great bitterness had", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 FULL LLFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\ngrown up between them. After hard words one\\nday, the husband said hastily, Well, we had bet-\\nter be separated. I will bring you a divorce.\\nVery well; I wish you would, was the wife s\\nreply, not dreaming that she would be taken at\\nher word.\\nA few days after, her husband handed her a\\ndocument, remarking, There is the divorce you\\nwanted you are free to go.\\nShe calmly took the paper, read it, and said\\nI will pack my things and I wish you would see\\nthat I take nothing that does not belong to me.\\nThe work of packing her trunks commenced.\\nSatan had possession of both of them, as in pride,\\nstubbornness, and hatefulness the woman took her\\nthings from closets and bureau, and the man\\nwatched in gloomy silence. Suddenly he was\\nstartled by his wife s dropping upon her knees and\\nbursting into sobs and moans he went to her\\nside and saw folded in the lower drawer, the cloth-\\ning of the one little boy who had died years\\nbefore. Unexpectedly the mother had come upon\\nthe little jacket and trousers, the belt and boots,\\nthe cap and comforter, all the precious possessions\\ntreasured by the mother heart and so long pre-\\nserved. The man gazed a moment, and the same\\nemotions overcame him. He saw again the face\\nof his darling boy, he bore again with the mother\\nthe bitter sorrow of the night beside the dying", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "HOW TO GET RID OF EMPTINESS. 43\\nbed, and of the day of gloom when they laid the\\nprecious one away. He fell upon his knees beside\\nhis wife and sobbed with her. In a few moments\\nhe took up the divorce, tore it in pieces, and said,\\nWife, I have been wicked and wrong; will you\\nforgive me?\\nI have been more to blame than you, hus-\\nband, I am the one to be forgiven.\\nAnd in the presence of God and of their angel\\nchild, they were reconciled. So God was in\\nChrist, reconciling the world unto Himself. Let\\nus get men occupied with the crucified Redeemer,\\nand they cannot but repent.\\nThe easiest and best way is God s way.\\nGod s All ages have shown it to be the way of\\nWay. wisdom. It is the method that all adopt\\nif they find access to God. This is illus-\\ntrated in the lives of Job, Jonah, Peter, dying thief,\\nPaul, and a host of martyrs, reformers, mission-\\naries, and Christians of all ages. In Acts 5:31,\\nwe are told that God exalted Jesus to be a princely\\nleader and Saviour in order to give repentance.\\nIn the central deserts of Australia the natives live\\non a plant called the nardoo. The early English\\ntravelers ate of it and found it satisfied their hun-\\nger, but they noticed themselves becoming weaker\\nday by day till eventually one of them, it was dis-\\ncovered, died of starvation. The plant had satis-\\nfied their hunger but had not nourished them in", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nthe least, and so deceived them. It placed them in\\nthe strange\u00c2\u00bbcondition of supposing they were being\\nfed when in reality they were starving. Such are\\nthe delusions of subterfuges for repentance. Many\\nof them seem to satisfy temporarily, but the inevi-\\ntable day comes when the soul realizes itself\\nfamished and lost. Only sure forgiveness through\\nChrist can place the soul in a flourishing condi-\\ntion. This is God s way.\\nTrue repentance is basic to the\\nThe SOURCE OF possession of true Christianity.\\nDIFFICULTY. Trace Mr. Shallow Professor s\\nreligion back to this point and\\nyou will see the beginning of his difficulty. Con-\\nsult Miss Bigot and you will see that her ugliness\\ncomes from a defect here. Investigate Madam\\nPride and you detect quickly the marks of her\\nmistake. Consult Mr. Millionaire and you will\\nfind that his non-interest in missions runs back to\\nhis repentance. Talk with Professor Bighead and\\nyou will not discover that he ever knew that he\\nwas a sinner. Watch Pastor Scientific and you\\nwill see that his investigations have not found sin.\\nWatch Miss Nimblefeet and you will discover that\\nwhatever else she has seen she has never seen her\\nown heart. Tell Deacon Indifference that you\\nthink a revival would do much good, but he has\\nnot detected much sin in the community for he\\nhas never seen it in his own life. The reason", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "HOW TO GET RID OF EMPTINESS. 45\\nElder Farms is not free with his money for the\\nconversion of the ungodly is because he never felt\\nthe conviction of sin they talk about, and he\\nguesses God will overlook the frailties of weak\\nmen. The list has legions in it, and the difficulty\\nwith all is in their failure to get a view of their own\\nsin, and so have not known repentance.\\nWhat is repentance? It is turn-\\nTURNING THE ing the direction in God s strength.\\nDIRECTION. For the man to turn in his own\\nstrength is failure. A repentance\\nwithout divine grace is nothing more than asking\\nthe pardon of one on whose foot you have stepped.\\nNo particular feeling about it except that you\\ndesire to act decently in society. To repent rightly\\none must know in what they have sinned, and\\nagainst whom they have committed the sin. It is\\nto come to the place where the prodigal came,\\nto himself. He saw his lost, ruined, disgraceful\\nposition. Nothing imaginary, he saw it as it was, no\\none need tell him, he knew it better than any one\\nelse. In the second step he resolved, I will arise\\nand go to my father. He saw his own condition\\nhe saw his father s condition as he remembered it.\\nHe was sadly in need of what his father had. In\\nthe third place he went to his father. Repentance\\nis getting up and going back home, home to God.\\nThis young man saw his condition he resolved, he\\nacted. Some think repentance is simply seeing", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nour condition and resolving. The prodigal could\\nhave meditated upon his sin and resolved and\\nresolved till he was resolved to a dying beggar\\nand then been resolved to a worse than a pauper s\\ngrave. What he did do was to turn his direction\\nand get up and go home. Repentance is quitting\\nthe old life with its ragged clothing, unhealthy\\nfood, swine associates, foreign country, and going\\nto a father s house. Look about you and see if\\nyou are in your Father s house surrounded by\\nyour Father s bounty, and you can easily tell\\nwhether you have really repented or not. Those\\nwho have genuinely repented are in their Father s\\nhouse. You know whether you have a new robe\\non or not. Is there a ring on your finger and\\nshoes on your feet? Are you conscious of joy\\nand plenty? Have you heard the Father say,\\nThis my son was dead and is alive again, was\\nlost and is found. The Father had no doubt as\\nto the identity of his son, nor as to his past or\\npresent. Is there doubt in your mind as a pro-\\nfessed son?\\nRepentance is turning to obedience.\\nOBEDIENCE, Son, go work to-day in my vine-\\nWlLL, yard. He answered and said, I will\\nWORK. not but afterwards he repented and\\nwent.\\nRepentance is to change the will and so the\\nchoices. As Joshua gives his last charge to", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "HO IV TO GET RID OF EMPTINESS. 47\\nIsrael, he says, Choose you this day whom you\\nwill serve. The answer from the people is, We\\nwill serve the Lord. Their wills determined what\\nthey would do and their choices were expressed\\nin the service they rendered.\\nRepentance is to change the purpose\\nPaying a and so the work of life, as Saul s\\nDEBT. purposes and life s work changed on\\nhis way to Damascus. Repentance is\\npaying God the debt that you owe him. The chief\\nitem in that obligation is love which you have not\\nturned in on account. Suppose that there are several\\nmen in a community, each of which owes one man\\na specified amount of money. The creditor desires\\npayment from each and all of these debtors. He\\nvisits them with a view to receiving his own. The\\nfirst upon whom he calls says, Oh, I will pay that\\nwhen I get ready. He laughs and makes light of\\nit. So do men when they are asked to pay their\\ndebt to God. A second whom he visits replies to\\nhis request, I deny your claim. The creditor\\nthrows the case into court and collects. So will\\nGod at the coming court season when the judg-\\nment throne is seen A third says, Oh, I will\\npay you sometime. I would like to use it a little\\nlonger myself. You do not need the money.\\nSo do men talk to God. A fourth says, I will\\npay you twenty per cent, of what I owe you.\\nYou ought to be satisfied with that. But God", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nrequires full payment. Paying a little is not\\ngetting right with God. Rascality with him will\\nnot work though it can often be done with men.\\nA fifth says, I have the money but I do not feel\\nlike paying you to-day. Call again some more\\nconvenient time. Perhaps I will pay you to-mor-\\nrow, or some time before I die. If not, I will\\nmake provision in my will. Plenty of time. So\\ndo men treat their obligations to God in a manner\\nwhich they would not dare to use in their obliga-\\ntions to their fellow-men.\\nYou are dishonest with God. You will\\nIn be thrown into the debtor s prison unless\\nHELL. you pay all you owe. In hell how can\\nyou pay? You will stay there till you\\ndo pay, and how can you obtain the wherewithal\\nin that place? The devil s wage is more and more\\nsin, and so more and more death. God will have\\nnone of it and that is all you possess there. What\\nhe accepts now for payment is the righteousness\\nof Christ which is placed at your disposal, but will\\nthen be withdrawn and you are beyond redemp-\\ntion. Repent while you have a repenting basis.\\nGod s word now to such debtors is,\\nGod s Wash ye, make you clean, put away\\nTHOUGHT, the evil of your doings from before\\nmine eyes cease to do evil learn to\\ndo well seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,\\njudge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "HOW TO GET RID OF EMPTINESS. 49\\nnow and let us reason together saith the Lord\\nthough your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as\\nwhite as snow; though they be red like crimson,\\nthey shall be as wool. If ye be willing and\\nobedient ye shall eat the good of the land.\\nHow is it possible for God to forgive what we\\nowe when we repent? Surely he hath borne\\nour griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did\\nesteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.\\nBut he was wounded for our transgressions, he\\nwas bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of\\nour peace was upon him, and with his stripes we\\nare healed. All we like sheep have gone astray,\\nwe have turned every one to his own way; and\\nthe Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.\\nBut how do we know that God will forgive when\\nwe. repent? If we confess our sins he is faithful\\nand just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us\\nfrom all unrighteousness.\\n4", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "5 3 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nIV.\\nTHE CAUSE OF FULLNESS.\\nI declare unto you the gospel which\\nTHE I preached unto you, which also ye\\nGOSPEL, have received, and wherein ye stand, by\\nwhich also ye are saved. So speaks\\nPaul in First Corinthians I i, 2. In Romans\\ni 1 6, 17 we read, I am not ashamed of the\\ngospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto\\nsalvation to every one that believeth.\\nFor therein is the righteousness of God revealed\\nfrom faith to faith as it is written, The just shall\\nlive by faith. In First Corinthians 1:18, notice\\nthe words, The preaching of the Cross is unto us\\nwhich are saved the power of God.\\nFrom the above scriptures we gain\\nSafety, the information that there is something\\nwhich has come into the human experi-\\nence of some men which is termed salvation.\\nThis term means safety. It suggests its opposite,\\ndanger. What danger or enemy are we safe\\nfrom if we have this safety? An angel from\\nheaven said concerning Jesus, He shall save his\\npeople from their sins. First Timothy 1:21", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS. 5 1\\ndeclares That Jesus Christ came into the world\\nto save sinners. Safety from sin is the teaching.\\nThis safety from sin men have enjoyed.\\nThe means of safety is spoken of as the\\nPLAN, gospel and the cross. In this connection\\nthese terms include each other. They\\nmean God s plan or method of safety for men as\\nrevealed in the earthly mission of Christ.\\nThis is spoken of as the power of God.\\nPOWER. It is no simple matter, but a manifesta-\\ntion of omnipotence. The power of an\\nalmighty being. It is not a minor or compara-\\ntively unimportant matter with God, but an expen-\\nditure of his power.\\nThis salvation is believed in. Is received\\nBELIEF, by those who are saved by it. It is a\\nprovision of safety, powerful to save,\\nbut will not save unless it is accepted by the per-\\nson who needs the safety.\\nPaul asks them in Ephesians 6: 19 to\\nMYSTERY, pray for him, That utterance may\\nbe given unto me, that I may open\\nmy mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of\\nthe gospel. He frequently speaks of the gospel\\nas a mystery which has been kept hid, but was\\nrevealed to him and through him made known to\\nmen. But the principal thing about it is not its\\nmysteriousness, but its power to bring safety to\\nmen. So many stumble because they do not", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN,\\nunderstand, so Paul says, to the Greeks it appears\\nas foolishness, and to the Jews, though such a\\nreligious people, it is as a stumbling block. So it\\nalso has been to others from among other nation-\\nalities.\\nIt can be understood sufficiently to get\\nUTILITY, its power for service, for the use it was\\nintended, so that it fills its purpose.\\nWhat deeper understanding do men have of\\nsteam? They understand it just enough to get its\\npower for use. Of electricity? Their knowledge\\nis sufficient to make use of it. Of physical laws\\neverywhere it is the same. Thus far we under-\\nstand the gospel. What foolishness for men not\\nto accept the gospel because they cannot under-\\nstand it, when in reality they understand it bet-\\nter than they can a steamship. The gospel is a\\npower for safety. It was provided for use, not for\\nthe exercise of reasoning or the development of\\nthe intellect. Sufficient for its purpose because\\npowerful in God.\\nAny student of human nature, of biog-\\nMUCH raphy, of human history, sees that evil\\nMORE, is the strongest power that humanity\\npossesses, or that possesses humanity.\\nBut through the gospel there is a power that is\\nmuch more than the power of evil. In Romans\\n5 :8, 9, we read, But God commendeth his love\\ntoward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS. 53\\nChrist died for us. Much more then, being now\\njustified by his blood, we shall be saved from\\nwrath through him. Also in the twentieth verse\\n(as also in three other places in this chapter is\\nthe term used), Where sin abounded, grace did\\nmuch more abound. The gospel is much more\\npowerful than sin. So it can give us safety from\\nsin. Compare human thought and devices, human\\nattainments and provisions for safety purposes\\nwith the gospel provisions, and the latter will be\\nseen to be much more than any one of them or all\\nof them combined.\\nHumanity has learned to have confidence\\nLaw. in the unalterable reign of law. Recur-\\nring summer and winter, gravitation, water\\nrunning down hill. These are always to be\\ndepended upon as they never change. The Hud-\\nson river cannot flow north because the slope of\\nthe land along its course is south. There is no\\nlaw in nature which would so change the land as\\nto make the river run north every hundred years\\nwith undeviating regularity. There is no applica-\\ntion of law that would make such a change. But\\nin the gospel there is such a law, and so the\\ngospel becomes much more than natural law.\\nThe law of sin is death, and it is running its course\\nthrough human nature toward death. The gospel\\nchanges human nature which in the illustration\\ncorresponds to the change in the slope of the", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEAT.\\nsection of New York state through which the\\nHudson flows. It places another law in this new\\nnature, the law of life in Christ Jesus, which flows\\nupward unto righteousness and God.\\nIt is a law of gravitation that all weighty bodies\\nfall downward. The gospel furnishes a law by\\nwhich men can rise upward. In the cases of\\nEnoch and Elijah and of Jesus they bodily\\nascended independent of the law of gravitation.\\nThe gospel promised Christian men the power to\\ngo up and meet their Lord in the air at his com-\\ning. It promises the resurrection of the bodies\\nof all men. Something much more than the law\\nof gravitation. At Willet s Point is a powerful\\nmagnet which will draw upward cannon balls and\\ncrowbars. It overcomes the law of gravitation.\\nThe gospel overcomes and is much more than\\nnatural law. It furnishes a powerful, invisible\\nlaw which enables men to rise Godward even\\nwhile weighted down with the laws of sin and\\niniquity about them and upon them.\\nThe postulate of evolution is that\\nEVOLUTION, the fittest survive. The unfit die\\nout, and so leave room for the best\\nand strongest of the species. The gospel is much\\nsuperior to evolution in that it provides for the\\nsurvival of the unfit. The lowest and weakest\\nmay survive. Not that it places a premium upon\\nweakness, but its superiority is seen in the fact", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OE EMPTINESS. 55\\nthat it makes the weak strong and the unfit fit to\\nsurvive, a thing unknown to evolution. The vilest\\nsinner may become a saint by the re-creating\\npower of the much more gospel of Christ. They\\nwho were considered the most unfit for the king-\\ndom entered in before the supposed fit Scribes and\\nPharisees. The thief on the cross goes with Jesus\\ninto Paradise, not the High Priest.\\nA good man is the goal of morality\\nMORALITY, the gospel is much more. God does\\nnot recognize goodness as we under-\\nstand the term relating to morality. That good-\\nness is a human product. The gospel furnishes\\na divine life, which in turn furnishes the Christ\\ngoodness or righteousness which God recognizes\\nas true merit. One of the great deceptions of\\nSatan is to prevent men from seeing the distinction\\nbetween moral action, as performed by a human\\nbeing, and spiritual action as a product of divine\\nlife. The divine life will have all that is moral,\\nbut it will have much more. In a religious publi-\\ncation of recent date the circumstance is told of\\nthe misfortunes of a certain man who was brought\\nto such financial straights that his household\\ngoods were put up for sale by^ the sheriff. The\\nneighbors and people present would not bid on\\nthe goods. At last the entire contents of the\\nhouse were sold for thirty-one cents. The publi-\\ncation comments upon the circumstance in this", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nway, The neighbors who attended the sale\\nwere filled with the love of Christ. This is the\\ngreatest indirect testimony for the Saviour we\\nhave seen in a long time. The sweet spirit of\\nChrist was in their hearts, although perhaps many\\nof them would not have admitted it, and they pro-\\ntected the poor and sheltered the homeless, thus\\ncarrying out his life and gospel in the most elo-\\nquent and practical way possible/ Here action\\nis attributed to the Spirit of Christ which may\\nhave been nothing more than natural fellow feel-\\ning and common neighborliness. Any infidel\\ncould have and likely would have done the same.\\nHas Christ reached such a degree of spiritual\\npoverty that he must burglarize Judas and take\\nhis natural fellow feeling and label it Christianity?\\nMorality and spirituality are two and altogether\\nseparate forces. The one is human and controlled\\nby civilization, the other is divine life through\\nChrist and controlled by the Holy Spirit. The\\ngospel is much more than moral action. Civiliza-\\ntion has been made by Christianity, but civiliza-\\ntion is not the established kingdom of God, nor\\nall civilized persons members of the kingdom.\\nNeither can civilization save a soul or give an\\ninheritance in the kingdom. Just as a refined and\\nwealthy woman may by her bounty and attention\\nreform a drunkard and reestablish his home in\\npleasantness and prosperity, yet this attitude and", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS. 57\\nwork of hers would not give him access to her\\nmansion and make him heir to her property.\\nChristianity may civilize society and make the\\nworld fit to live in, but that does not admit the\\nworld into heaven. A man may give me a thou-\\nsand dollars, but the gift does not make me his\\nson. A man may eat the fruit of an orchard he\\ndoes not own, of which he has no knowledge as to\\nlo cality, extent, or value, he may even deny that\\nsuch an orchard exists.\\nThe gospel is much more than human\\nREFORMS, reforms. They are self-centered and\\ndeal with the people in the locality\\nwhere they are organized and propagated. The\\ngospel is evangelistic and missionary, and seeks\\nthe reformation of peoples whom it has never\\nseen, who live at the ends of the earth. What\\nmerely human reform has ever conceived such an\\nidea? Furthermore it reforms for two worlds,\\nwith the emphasis on the unseen.\\nThe gospel is much more than\\nWisdom, human wisdom. Pharaoh, Naaman,\\nKing Saul, thought they were wise.\\nSaul of the New Testament times, Pharisees, Pilate,\\nHerod, thought they were wise. So thought infi-\\ndels and persecutors of subsequent ages, but how\\nfoolish they have become. Divine wisdom is\\nseen to be best, and in the Old Testament the\\nfear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nin the New the gospel makes wise unto salvation.\\nDives and the young ruler were wise for earth, but\\nhow foolish for eternity.\\nGospel wisdom takes in eternity. It is much\\nmore than human policy and expediency\\nmuch more than the honesty the best policy\\nplan of life.\\nThe gospel is much more than\\nCRISES, human provision against the emer-\\ngencies of life. In spite of all precau-\\ntion the engine dashes into the obstruction and\\nlives are lost. The vessel goes down. Disease\\ntakes an unexpected turn and the patient dies.\\nThe gospel makes unfailing provision for soul-\\nsaving and also for body-saving. Out of the.\\nwreck the body comes at the resurrection, to be\\nunited to the soul in a glorified man. He that\\nliveth and believeth in me shall never die.\\nWhen a man moves his business he- hangs out a\\nsign to that effect. Paul moved from Judaism into\\nChrist, and said that in the future he could only\\nbe found in him. There was to be no more\\ngoing out, he was going to die in the Lord.\\nHow idle human provisions against death. In the\\ngospel there is no more death.\\nGospel is much more than\\nAchievement, human achievement. Life is\\nstrewn with the failure of human\\nefforts. Every enterprise, though it continues for", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF EMPTINESS. 59\\nhundreds of years, comes to an end. The gospel\\nenterprise includes a campaign for eternity, this\\nlife being preparatory. Human achievements end\\nwhere the gospel purposes and plans fairly begin.\\nGospel victory is much more than\\nVICTORY, human the one is pugilistic, the\\nother spiritual. Human victory is\\nsuppression, putting your enemy under, and keep-\\ning him down by superior power. The gospel\\nvictory in Christ is to conquer by transforming\\nthe enemy into your lover. Men conquer the lion\\nby shooting him. Christ conquers men by making\\nthem love Him. Surely love victories are superior\\nto death victories.\\nThese illustrations will serve to show\\nChrist, the power of the gospel in its ascen-\\ndency over the merely human. It is\\nthe power of God. It is more than human, higher\\nthan man, it is Christ the divine Son of God. It\\nis not a plan, a theory, a purpose, a doctrine or\\ntheology, one among many ways to heaven it is\\nmore than man, it is the divine man, God s\\nbeloved Son. It is beyond the Bible, which is the\\nwritten revelation of it it is the divine personality,\\na being, not a theory, not a thing. I am the\\nway, the truth, and the light. Men speak of\\nbelieving this, that, and a thousand things, and\\nthey come not within a thousand miles of the gos-\\npel when they speak simply of beliefs. Faith is", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nnot merely assent, it is the reception of the divine\\nbeing into the life. Christ in you the hope of\\nglory. Christian hope is not hoping that the per-\\nson will get to heaven, but a divine life within at\\nthe present time. Not I know in what, but I\\nknow in whom, I have believed. Beyond the\\nwhats, and hows, and whys, and opinions, and sup-\\npositions, and reasonings, to a person, the divine\\nSon of God. This is the gospel.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "WHAT IS FULLNESS? 6 1\\nV.\\nWHAT IS FULLNESS?\\nIn Him was life and the life was the light\\nLife, of men, is the statement of John I 4.\\nAnd in 5 25, For just as the Father has\\nlife in himself, in the same way, even to the Son\\ngave he to have life in himself. In 10: 10, I\\ncame that life they might have. In verse 28,\\nI gave unto them life eternal. As to how\\nthis life is sustained we read in 6: 48, I am the\\nbread of life. When Adam was created God\\nbreathed into his nostrils the breath of life and he\\nbecame a living being. Just so in the new crea-\\ntion, in the new race of men, beginning with the\\nlast Adam. As physical life was started in Adam,\\nand has been handed down to all humanity who\\nhave peopled the earth, so the spiritual life that\\nis, the life of the Christ generation of men who\\nare to people the kingdom of God, get their life\\nfrom Christ. With this difference, that for each\\nmember of the kingdom it comes directly from\\nChrist by spiritual gift, and not through natural\\ngeneration. This life in distinction from natural is\\ntermed eternal. The natural life is closed by", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\ndeath, but he that liveth and believeth in me shall\\nnever die. It is a life not injured by human cas-\\nualties it cannot be affected by disasters and\\nmisfortunes, or by the dying and death of the nat-\\nural world. It is life forever.\\nThis life is blissful in time and in\\nHAPPINESS. eternity. In its cultivation in this\\nworld the natural life may suffer.\\nAll they who will godly in Christ Jesus shall\\nsuffer persecution. The natural man may have\\nto endure much chastisement that the eternal may\\nhave control. He may have to endure pain,\\nsuffer hardships, experience misfortunes but the\\neternal life itself is not affected, he has an under-\\ncurrent of joy that is not touched by the surface\\ntrial. In eternity the cause of sin being gone\\nthere will be no trial and suffering, the entire life\\nwill be blissful the present nature being glorified\\nand made like unto his glorious body. He came\\nto seek and to save that which was lost, through\\nthe bringing of life, giving of life, sustaining life.\\nThis life furnishes satisfaction.\\nSatisfaction. The testimony of history and ex-\\nperience is that position, prop-\\nerty, fame, society, money, honor, family, and\\nkindred earthly possessions, accomplishments, and\\nsurroundings do not bring to the possessors the\\nsatisfaction they hope to find in them. So that the\\nwealthy and honorable as well as the poor and", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "WHAT IS FULLNESS? 6t,\\ndespised, both alike, ask the same question, Is life\\nworth living? Thousands more than will ever\\nconfess it to their own hearts mourn out the sad\\nconsciousness to their inner soul, life is not worth\\nliving. They find no adequate compensation for\\nthe struggle. They lack the one thing needful,\\nfound in eternal life, which history and experience\\nprove to have given the satisfaction they have\\ncraved. They have received a satisfaction beyond\\nall earthly pleasure and wealth, and which no\\nearthly privation or suffering could molest.\\nMan was made with a capacity\\nCapacity FOR for eternal life. Without it he is\\nLife. never at ease unless under some\\nintellectual halucination or devil-\\nadministered narcotic. Like a person who is a\\nborn artist, and conscious of his gift, but has no\\nopportunity to gratify his taste or cultivate his art\\nshut out from, and away from, all opportunity,\\nthere is no peace or rest, he is out of his ele-\\nment, like a refined person who must live in\\nvulgar society, do the things that are repugnant to\\nhis tastes, and be surrounded with the uncon-\\ngenial. He yearns for something, but it is out of\\nreach. So with every person created for eternal\\nlife and has it not. The gospel reveals this need\\nand supplies it in Jesus Christ.\\nEternal life is that without which man is incom-\\nplete. Created for this and not possessing it, he is", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nabnormal, a deformity in heav-\\nCOMPLETENESS. en s eye. A deformed body\\nlacks some physical functions\\nwhich belong to it. A deformed mind lacks brain\\npower and is termed insane. A deformec* spirit\\nlacks eternal life and is said to be dead. Earthly\\nhomes for incurable bodies, asylums for incurable\\nminds, hell for incurable spirits. Many diseased\\nbodies and minds are curable, not having reached\\nthe incurable stage, many souls have not reached\\nthe incurable state, and these when they receive\\nthe gospel of eternal life, vigor, vitality, spiritual\\nhealth, live again, are born again, so completely\\ncured as to never die. The difference between\\neternal death and eternal life is that in one case the\\nspirit is incurable, it lives forever in its incurable\\nstate in the other case the spirit is cured and well\\nand lives forever in a spiritually healthy existence.\\nThe disease that possesses the lost soul is sin,\\nthat which hurts, injures, spiritually kills. It\\nbrings to bear upon the soul the condition called\\ndeath. The gospel of life is presented in Christ s\\nlife to cure this death. Cured by life they have\\nlife forever. Eternal life is entered upon and sus-\\ntained by a divine power which is spoken of in\\nsuch terms as to indicate that it is something more\\nthan a reformation of the old life, a resolution to\\nlive better, a change of character. The entrance\\nupon it is called a new birth, and the living is", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "WHAT IS FULLNESS? 65\\ncalled a new man, a new creature, partaking of the\\ndivine nature, and in its maturity, for me to live\\nis Christ. These are remarkable- words and\\nstatements and surely indicate a supernatural oper-\\nation of. the Divine Spirit in making and keeping a\\nmember of the kingdom.\\nA being born again is necessarily,\\nBORN Again, if words mean anything, coming\\ninto new relationships in a new\\nlife. Except a man be born again he cannot see\\nthe kingdom of God. As there are earthly king-\\ndoms so there is the divine, established with Christ\\nat its head, which now is invisible, but made up of\\nall spiritually born persons, and in the future will\\nbe seen and visibly established. This corresponds\\nin usual vocabulary to becoming a Christian and\\ngoing to heaven. A man born in an earthly king-\\ndom is a subject of that kingdom. He has citizen-\\nship there. So says the scripture, a man to be a\\ncitizen of the kingdom of heaven must be born\\ninto that kingdom. This is the law of citizenship.\\nTo be a citizen of the United States and hold\\noffice here you must be born in the coun-\\ntry, suppose that was the law here. Could\\nforeign peoples become citizens? No, for the\\nlaw is birth in the land in order to citizenship.\\nCan a man be a citizen of the kingdom of God\\nand be and do just as he pleases about it? The\\nlaw is, Ye must be born again or ye cannot see\\n5", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nthe kingdom of God. A Russian comes to the\\nUnited States and says, I desire citizenship, I\\nwill learn the language of the country so accurate-\\nly that I can speak it better than a majority of the\\nnative-born people. He goes according to his\\nresolution and then applies for citizenship. The\\njudge inquires, Were you born here?\\nHe answers, See how well I speak the lan-\\nguage of the country find a flaw if you can.\\nThe judge explains, The law is not as to your\\nqualifications in speaking our language, but is that\\nyou must be born here.\\nSo many speak the language of the kingdom,\\nand yet have no citizenship in it. Because they\\ncan pray well and preach eloquently they think-\\nthat they have a right in the kingdom. Alas, for\\ntheir delusion\\nAn Italian makes his home in -our land and\\napplies for citizenship. Asks the judge, Were\\nyou born in this country?\\nHe answers, I conform to all the laws of the\\nland I understand your law books I know all\\nyour national and social customs I am qualified\\nfor citizenship, as I know the country and its cus-\\ntoms better than many of the citizens whom I\\nhave met.\\nThe reply comes sure and firm, The law is\\nthat you must be born here.\\nHow many know the Bible and Christian usages,", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "WHAT IS FULLNESS? 67\\nand do many works in the name of the king, but\\nhave not been born into the kingdom?\\nA Japanese comes. You desire citizenship\\nsir, and upon what grounds?\\nI am a business man of honest and wide stand-\\ning. I have the confidence of all your citizens\\nand carry on an extensive trade with them. In\\nfact they have cheated me, but I them, never. I\\nhave a clean record.\\nWhere were you born?\\nIn Japan.\\nOur law is, that birth in the country alone\\nentitles to citizenship. We commend your good-\\nness and honesty, and wish all of our citizens were\\nlike you in this, but as our law reads that you must\\nbe born here, we cannot admit you to citizenship.\\nJust here so many honest men are deceived.\\nAll men who are really in the kingdom are honest,\\nbut honesty alone will not save a man. Ye must\\nbe born again.\\nA man from England applies for citizenship.\\nUpon what grounds does he apply? His attorney\\nsays, This gentleman has lived in our country\\nforty years. He has endowed our colleges, estab-\\nlished hospitals for our sick and injured, he has\\nbeen a patron of many of our benevolent institu-\\ntions, and by his gifts has made himself a favorite\\nwith our people. He is entitled upon this ground\\nwe believe to citizenship in our country.\\nThe judge asks, Was he born here?", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nThis life is fruit producing. There are\\nFRUIT, many delicacies manufactured for our\\ntables, but no one attempts to manufac-\\nture fruit. Fruit must grow. The difference\\nbetween this life that I am speaking of and the\\nmoral life is that the latter manufactures deeds\\nwhile the gospel life grows fruit. It is the differ-\\nence between the making of a loaf of bread and\\nthe growing of a peach. Consider the lilies of\\nthe field, they toil not neither do they spin but\\nconsider them further, how they grow. Every\\none can detect the difference between toiling and\\ngrowing. The growing is a silent, spontaneous,\\ncontinuous, easy process. It is from within out-\\nward. The toiling is a laborious, disconnected,\\nnoisy process, and all on the outside. A man\\nmakes a wagon that rumbles along the street, a\\ntree along the same street grows apples. The\\ndifference in process is apparent. The one is\\ngospel, the other morality. The gospel requires\\nfruit, I am the vine and ye are the branches he\\nthafabideth in Me and I in him, the same bring-\\neth forth much fruit. Conceive of the utter insan-\\nity of a man sticking some delicious fruit on a bad\\ntree, with the intent that the stuck-on fruit would\\nmake the tree good in its nature, and so cause it\\nto bear good fruit. So spiritually insane are many\\nof the world and church that they are doing this\\nvery thing. Heaven mourns and hell laughs.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "WHAT IS FULLNESS? 69\\nThe barren fig tree is always an example of\\nfruitless Christians. Wood and the leaves of the\\ntree and general appearance of the tree were\\npromising, there was every evidence of fruit but no\\nfruit. It was cursed not for lack of leaves, of\\ngood growth, but for lack of that for which the\\nrest was all preparatory, fruit. The promise is,\\nYe shall be neither barren nor unfruitful. As is\\nseen in experience it is an easy matter to counter-\\nfeit works, but who can successfully counterfeit\\nfruit? By their fruits ye shall know them.\\nHow is fruit-growing power\\nGROWING POWER, to be obtained? When phy-\\nsical life has reached a very\\nlow condition through the loss of blood, and the\\nlife is in the blood, science resorts to a remedy\\nknown as the transfusion of blood. The veins of\\nanother are opened, and the new, healthy blood\\nis placed in the veins of the dying patient, and life\\nis restored through the transfusion of blood, which\\nis giving the patient the life of another. This is\\nthe meaning of the cross.. The strong, divine life\\nwas placed at our disposal through the pouring\\nout of the blood of Jesus Christ. The strong and\\npure flowed into the veins of the weak and dying,\\nand so we have life through Hirn. This is the\\ndivine coming down to rescue the human, and\\nsaving it by its presence. Morality and human\\nworks are worthless because they are not divine,", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "70 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEM.\\nwhich alone saves. It is the incomprehensible\\nmystery of life giving. Who knows how even the\\nlowest forms of life originate? And until men\\nunderstand the lower let them not hope to grasp\\nthe higher.\\nWhen the science of transfusion was first prac-\\ntised it proved a failure, and it was not a success\\nuntil the blood of like species with the patient was\\nintroduced into his veins. The blood of an animal\\nwould not resuscitate a man. On Calvary there\\nwas poured out human blood, from the body of\\none of like humanity with yourself. The apostle\\nsays, We are sanctified through the offering of\\nthe body of Jesus Christ once for all. How\\nmany centuries has the world tried the offering of\\nanother species? Under the Mosaic law they\\noffered the animals which were not of human\\nspecies and of them it is said, For it is not pos-\\nsible that the blood of bulls and goats should take\\naway sins. They were shadows and types of the\\nperfect sacrifice. Neither by the blood of goats\\nand calves, but by his own blood he entered in\\nonce into the holy place, having obtained eternal\\nredemption for us.\\nThe life of an angel is not of the right kind to\\nmake atonement for you, the blood of sheep not\\nof the right species. Much less, how could your\\nown material works, such as your good deeds,\\nmake an atonement for you? Bring healing to", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "WHAT IS FULLNESS? 7 1\\nyou in your sickness? You were made in the\\nimage of God, as sons of God you forfeited this\\nrelationship in sinning, and now nothing but the\\ntransfusion of like life with yours, but pure, can\\nrestore you. So God sent his well beloved Son,\\nour elder brother, of like parentage with ourselves.\\nHe alone could redeem us. In him we have re-\\ndemption through his blood. Without the shed-\\nding of blood there is no remission of sins and\\nthis blood must be that of the Lord Jesus. In\\nthat blood there is life for us, and as a product of\\nthis new life we are to bear like fruits with Christ,\\nand by these fruits we are to be known.\\nWhat is meant by fruit? That taught\\nLove, and shown in the life of Christ. That set\\nforth in I Corinthians 13. In Galatians\\n5:22 the direct statement is, The fruit of the\\nSpirit is love. Among the many comparisons\\nthat Paul makes we take as an example faith and\\nlove though a man have miraculous faith it\\nwould not profit him if he have not love. We see\\nwondrous faith in the world it cures the body\\nit carries on great religious enterprises, shows\\nitself in manifold beauties and accomplishments\\nyet we see no love in it. This faith would con-\\nquer at the sacrifice of you and me and of our\\nchurch and family. By their fruits ye shall know\\nthem. The first true fruit of the spirit of Christ is\\nlove. Though a person profess faith in Jesus and", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nshow not love to God and man, but harbor hate,\\nenvy, and such like, we know that their faith is\\nvain, though it were strong enough to remove\\nmountains. A benevolence to the poor or the\\nheathen without love is of no profit to the giver.\\nThough the body is given in martyrdom, dying at\\nthe burning stake, and there is not love in the\\nheart, that great sacrifice is of no value to the one\\nwho makes it. The first evidence that we have\\nof the new life of Christ will be seen not in great\\nwords, works, and sacrifices, but in love. Any\\nstudent of human nature will see at once that the\\nfaculty of pure, simple, disinterested love, of the\\ndivine quality, is beyond the natural capacity of\\nman to originate and possess. The first element\\nin sin was and is selfishness, the opposite to love.\\nHis new life within casts out sin and implants\\nlove.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "HOW TO GET FULLNESS. 73\\nVI.\\nHOW TO GET FULLNESS.\\nA man is told to Believe on the Lord Jesus\\nChrist, but in the great variety of instructions\\nabout believing he is confused. He does not\\nknow what to do when- told to believe. The fact\\nthat the object of faith is unseen stumbles some.\\nHow can a man believe in that which he does not\\nsee nor understand? It is a fact, however, that he\\nmust do so in regard to the most natural and\\nevery-day matters.\\nA man must doubt what he\\nCannot Believe sees. He looks through a\\nOUR SENSES. stained-glass window and sees\\na blue, red, yellow, house in\\nthis case he cannot believe what he sees, for he\\nknows that the house is not of these colors. Paul\\nsays that in our present state of spirituality we\\nlook at things through a colored glass. (1 Cor.\\n13:12.) A man cannot believe his own sense of\\nhearing; he hears choice singing or the rendering\\nof instrumental music he is delighted, and deter-\\nmines that he must know who possesses such a\\nvoice and who renders such music. He is informed", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74 FULL LLFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nthat he has been listening to a parrot of a phono-\\ngraph and that no musicians have been present at\\nall. He discovers that he cannot depend upon\\nhis hearing. A man is mesmerized and he thinks\\nhe is joyful and sings. He is hypnotized till he\\nthinks he is sorrowful and mourns over imaginary\\ngriefs. He goes down the street and friends plan\\na practical joke; they tell him how sick he looks,\\nand it works on his mind till by night he sends for\\na physician. A man must not believe what he\\nsees and hears and feels. There are many false\\nspirits gone out into the world. There are angels\\nof darkness which appear as angels of light in\\norder to deceive. They cannot be detected by\\nthe natural senses. They can make a person feel\\ngood or bad at will. They quote scripture and\\nthus delude and lead astray, as Satan attempted\\nwith Jesus. Try the spirits and test the quotations\\nto see if they be of God.\\nOn the other hand, a man\\nBelief Outside must believe what his senses\\nOF SENSE. cannot detect. A person is\\ninsulated and a wire passes\\nbefore him he looks and sees nothing but a wire\\nhe hears nothing; he can taste nothing; he can\\nsmell nothing; he feels nothing; so determines\\nthat it is nothing but a common wire. His friends\\nlaughingly inform him there is sufficient light\\ngoing through that wire to light a village, or sum-", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "HOW TO GET FULLNESS. 75\\ncient power to run a factory there is present the\\nsubtle power of electricity. It was not to be seen,\\nheard, felt, tasted, or smelled, yet the man must\\nbelieve it there or be counted a fool. Why must\\na man thus deny his senses? Because positive\\nknowledge upon the testimony of thousands denies\\nthe testimony of those senses. Facts as experi-\\nenced in the results coming from belief in elec-\\ntricity and moving according to that belief have\\nproduced wonderful transformations in our world.\\nIn the Old Testament a man who did not believe\\nin God was called a fool. A man in the New who\\ndoes not believe in Christ is relegated to a worse\\nplace as to character, and his unbelief makes God\\na liar. Just as man has discovered an unseen\\npower and used it according to the laws of its\\nworking and it has done wonders for the world, so\\nthere has been placed at the disposal of humanity\\na spiritual unseen power, the acceptance of which\\ntransforms the individual and gives the blessings\\nof civilization to modern times. Are there such\\nfools and liars that would deny that there was a\\ncause when they saw a village lighted or a factory\\nrunning? Are there such fools and liars as to\\ndeny a cause when they see modern Christianity,\\nwith all of its blessings to the world? A man is\\nnot insulated and he does not believe that there is\\npower in the wire. He takes hold of it, saying,\\nI will run the risk. He is stricken with imme-", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "j6 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEW.\\ndiate death. He has the experience and the by-\\nstanders the illustration of unbelief in its results.\\nSo unbelief brings its dire spiritual results to those\\nwho will not recognize spiritual laws but rather\\ndefy them.\\nHow can God hear prayer,\\nInfluence Without as there is no visible ave-\\nCONTACT. nue of communication be-\\ntween man and God How\\ncould Jesus, when risen, pass through closed doors\\nand appear instantaneously in the presence of his\\ndisciples? You take a bottle and place a ther-\\nmometer in it, so cork it that no particle of air\\ncan pass in or out, then place the bottle in a dark\\nand cold chest. After a time you take it out, and\\nfind that the thermometer is at zero. Darkness\\nand cold temperature were in the bottle. You\\nlook again, and you find that now the thermome-\\nter is rising, you notice that light and heat have\\ngotten into that bottle without any visible avenue.\\nIf there can be such a physical thing, why not a\\nspiritual? If you can speak to a man ten miles\\naway without using any visible avenue of commu-\\nnication, as telegraphy without a wire, why not\\nspeak to God in heaven? If you believe in the\\none, why not in the other? The coils of wire in\\nthe dynamo generate electricity without coming\\ninto visible contact with each other. Influence\\nwithout contact. This is also seen in the power", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "HOW TO GET FULLNESS. 77\\nof one mind over another. What visible contact\\nwas there between the bitten Israelite in the wil-\\nderness, and the piece of brass upon the pole?\\nYet the poisoned who looked at the serpent of\\nbrass were cured. As Moses lifted up the serpent\\nin the wilderness even so must the Son of Man be\\nlifted up that whosoever believeth in him should\\nnot perish but have everlasting life. What visi-\\nble contact between Christ on the cross and the\\nsinner? As a multitude of bitten Israelites were\\ncured by looking, so the multitude of sinners who\\nhave looked to the uplifted Christ have been\\nhealed of their sin. Reasonableness is not the\\ntest of workableness of any machine or enterprise,\\nbut the results. Not the understanding of the\\nconnection between the man and the serpent of\\nbrass, but was he healed when he looked? The\\ntestimony is that he looked and lived. A scien-\\ntific or philosophic theology, or the accurate un-\\nderstanding, is not the measure of the truthfulness\\nand value of Christianity, but does it do what it\\nprofesses to do? Does it save a man from his sins?\\nIn every age millions have testified that it does.\\nWe have yet to receive the testimony of a single\\nindividual from among all the millions during\\nthese nineteen hundred^years who can testify that\\nhe has conformed to the laws of the kingdom of\\nheaven and yet has been cast out of the kingdom.\\nLet your arguing, doubting church-members and", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78 FULL LLFE FOR EMP l Y MEN.\\ninfidels organize their bands of investigation and\\ntake the census of all the persons in nearly nine-\\nteen hundred years who have yielded themselves\\nto Christ, and see how many he has saved and\\nhow many he has failed to save, -and let the re-\\nport be evidence as to the truth of the claims of\\nJesus.\\nChristian belief is receiving into the\\nBELIEF IS life that which the soul professes\\nRECEPTION, faith in. Faith is reception. A\\nman may believe in the existence\\nof the empire of Japan, but that is not receiving\\nthat empire into his life. A man may believe\\nthat Gibbon s History of the Rise and Fall of the\\nRoman Empire is true, but that belief is not re-\\nceiving into his life that history as a law of his\\nown existence and so changing the whole order of\\nhis being by it. A man may believe in the life\\nand work of Mr. George Muller, but that belief\\nwould not be understood by his neighbor that he\\nreceived into his life the methods, principles, and\\nforces of that life so as to make a second Muller\\nof him. So the distinction between a general be-\\nlief in earthly men and things and Christian faith.\\nThe latter is reception where the former is not\\nand cannot be.\\nBelieving in the Lord Jesus Christ is receiving\\ninto the life one who is Lord. An authority that\\nis absolute. No appeal from his rulings. The", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "HOW TO GET FULLNESS. 79\\nthrone of an absolute sovereign is established,\\nfrom whose decisions as to thought and conduct\\nthere can be no deviation. He there reigns as a\\ntrue Lord. It is a great thing to have an author-\\nity in the life. The Roman Catholic finds this\\nauthority in his church. The Christian finds it in\\nhis Lord, whose scepter rules in his life.\\nBelief in the Lord Jesus Christ is receiving into\\nthe life Jesus. A new human power capable of\\ncoping with human problems. A man who was\\ntempted in all points like as we are. A man who\\nknows men, and understands the world. A man\\nwho can give to human life such a mission as to\\nmake this life valuable and worth the living. A\\nman who can make this world what God intended\\nit should be to us. A man who brings with his\\npresence a religion that is able to meet all the\\npossible trials of human life, and makes provision\\nfor every human crisis. A man who can direct\\nin business tact, and conduct business in the world\\nin honesty and according to the honor of God.\\nA man who can steer men through all the worldly\\nand wicked complications of human life and bring\\nthe possessor to a full and rich destiny.\\nBelief in the Lord Jesus Christ is receiving into\\nthe life Christ. As Jesus stands for humanity so\\nChrist stands for divinity. He was God as well\\nas man. Receive into your life a divine power\\nstronger than all other powers combined. His", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80 FULL LLFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\ndivinity is the assurance of your victory. He is a\\nSaviour that saves human life and the life to come.\\nA divine being who can at will pass from iime into\\neternity, from earth to God s throne. With such\\na one in your life, heaven is sure you will see\\nwithout doubt the face of God. You make the\\nChrist who makes heaven a part of your life. So\\nreceive into your life an authority who is both\\nhuman and divine.\\nBelief is believing what he says\\nBelief is to be true.\\nTHREE Fold. Belief is doing what he says.\\nBelief is receiving what he offers.\\nA certain man had three daughters whom he left\\nat home when he went into a far country. To\\neach of them he wrote a letter after he had been\\naway many months, saying, Your father loves\\nyou and is sorry to be away from home for so\\nlong a time. I know that you are lonely in my\\nabsence, but be courageous for upon my return I\\nwill provide something better for you than you\\nhave ever yet received from my hands. I will\\nnot always be away. This they all THREE BE-\\nLIEVED.\\nHe went on further in his letter to each, saying,\\nWhile I am away I desire that you should be\\nkind to the poor, and I will take those kind acts\\nas though they were done to me. I command\\nyou to love one another. To pray to your Father", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "HOW TO GET FULLNESS. 8 1\\nin heaven for blessings. To work to reconcile\\naliens to him. Do good while the day lasts.\\nThis much TWO OBEYED.\\nHe continued in his letter to each, saying, On\\nthe twenty-second of September I will arrive in\\nNew York come and receive me. I will bring\\nwith me many presents from the lands where I\\nhave been; come and receive them. While ab-\\nsent I have accumulated experience, knowledge,\\nand wealth as much of these is yours as you will\\nreceive. ONE went and RECEIVED.\\nAll believed him, two obeyed him, only one\\nwent and received him. But true faith is believ-\\ning, obeying, and receiving, these three. Many\\nhave only reached the first stage, they believe\\nthe Bible, accept the word of Christ. They are\\nbibliologists. They believe the historical record\\ngiven by God of his Son to be a true record.\\nThe religionist scrupulously obeys God as he\\nunderstands his commands, and supposes that he\\nis doing his whole duty. He is being deceived.\\nThe keeping of outward commandments is not\\nall there is of Christianity, else what need for a\\nchange on the part of a Pharisee like Saul of\\nTarsus? Of the young ruler who went away from\\nJesus sorrowful? Of a Martha who lacked the\\none thing needful? Of a Nicodemus who could\\nnot understand a question of faith? The true\\nbeliever is more than a bibliologist, more than a", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nreligionist, he is both of these and much more\\nhe is a Christian or a receiver of Christ.\\nBelief, therefore, is action. The Phil-\\nBELIEF IS ippian jailer, after his professed belief\\nACTION, washed the wounds of the apostles,\\nwas baptized, brought his household,\\nentertained, rejoiced all activities following faith.\\nAbel s faith was professed in his sacrifice.\\nEnoch s in his walk, which pleased God. Noah s\\nin building the ark. Moses in his choice of the\\npeople of God. Jesus commends the woman of\\nCanaan for having great faith this was seen in\\nher cry for mercy, in her disregard of rebuke, in\\nher dauntless courage and perseverance, in her\\nhumility, in her recognition of the rights of others,\\nin her expressions of her own utter unworthiness,\\nand in her argument. Faith is action. When\\nthey brought the paralytic to Christ he SAW their\\nfaith.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "TO KNO W THA T YOU HA VE FULL LIFE. 83\\nVII:\\nHOW TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE FULL\\nLIFE.\\nThere is a scripture which says,\\nHumility. That they might know thee, the\\nonly true God, and Jesus Christ\\nwhom thou hast sent. Though provision has\\nbeen made for knowing God, yet men complain of\\ntheir lack of this knowledge, and lose their souls\\nthrough the complaint. Men have sought to\\nknow God and have failed, just as many prayers,\\naccording to James s teaching, have failed because\\nthe praying is amiss. David leads us to the secret\\nwhen he says, The sacrifices of God are a broken\\nspirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou\\nwilt not despise. Again in the Thirty-fourth\\npsalm we read, The Lord is nigh unto them that\\nare of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a\\ncontrite spirit. Isaiah also helps us with infor-\\nmation as to how to find God, in his sixty-sixth\\nchapter and second verse, To this man will I\\nlook, even to him that is poor, and of a contrite\\nspirit, and trembleth at my word. Also in\\n57: 15, For thus saith the High and Holy One", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nthat inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy I\\ndwell in the high and holy place, with him also\\nthat is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive\\nthe spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of\\nthe contrite ones. When man first sinned in the\\ngarden his sin was connected with self-knowledge\\nand self-sufficiency, and presumed ability to take\\ncare of himself independent of his Creator. By\\nthis self-will and independence he lost fellowship\\nwith God, and it is unreasonable to suppose that\\nby means of the same he could regain this fellow-\\nship with the Creator. We would suppose that\\njust the opposite course from the one in which he\\nlost God, would be the method of finding him.\\nSo it is, and so proclaimed in the scriptures\\nquoted. Men with proud and rebellious hearts\\nand living in disobedience to God will never be\\nable to find him. He does not show himself to\\nsuch, but veils himself from them because he can-\\nnot look upon sin with the least degree of allow-\\nance. But the humble and broken spirit finds\\nGod. A prominent clergyman in New York was\\nvisited by an infidel friend. Both being scholars\\nthey conversed on learned subjects, and drifted\\ninto the subject of Christianity. Said the minister,\\nYou will admit the possibility of there being a\\nGod? He received an affirmative reply: Then\\nif there is a God, you will admit the possibility of\\nthe God being able to hear and answer prayer?", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "TO KNO W THA T YOU HA VE FULL LIFE. 85\\nThe unbeliever assented. Then the minister re-\\nquested that they should kneel in prayer, which\\nthey both did. He prayed earnestly for the\\nenlightenment of the infidel heart that he might\\nknow God, then asked his friend to pray. He\\nbegan hesitatingly, and after correcting himself\\nseveral times broke down entirely, and in a\\nmoment gave the confession, I have found God.\\nIn all his reading, thinking, investigation he had\\nnot found God, but now in a moment of yielding\\nhimself to God he found him. The Lord is nigh\\nunto them that are of a broken heart.\\nIn humble obedience, the Lord\\nFinding and his will are found. Obedi-\\nGod s Will, ence is the means to knowledge.\\nIf any man will do his will he\\nshall know of the doctrine. (John 7: 17.) The\\nonly path in which positive knowledge is promised\\nis the path of obedience. Obedience is the only\\nunerring means of knowing. The disobedient\\npeople of Christ s day could not understand him,\\nand he says of them, Why do ye not understand\\nmy speech? Even because ye cannot hear my\\nword. Disobedience closes the ears and under-\\nstanding, and obedience opens them to hear and\\nunderstand. Many are much troubled as to the\\nway in which they should go. Their path is dark\\nto them. Eleazer, the servant of Abraham, was\\nsent on a mission, but the way was unknown to", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 FULL LLFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nhim. He gives it as his experience, I being in\\nthe way the Lord led me. When he received\\nthe command he placed himself in the way; set\\nhis face in the direction. He made ready, started,\\nand being in that obedient position he was led.\\nIt is unreasonable to expect guidance when you\\nare in the wrong path. There are no angel guides\\nthere the Lord does not guide there, if he did he\\nwould be a deceiver. He cannot lead in mercy to\\nyou, and in righteousness to himself if you are in\\nknown and wilful disobedience. You going to the\\nextent of your positive knowledge as to the right\\nway, you will find angel guides at every turn, and\\never a voice behind you saying, This is the way,\\nwalk ye in it. Every person knows the next\\nstep and they are under obligations to take that\\nbefore they get directions for the second, for our\\nlife is a walk by faith. Get in the way that you\\nknow, and you will be led aright day by day by\\nthe Lord s gracious leading. There he will never\\nleave thee nor forsake thee.\\nThe blind man was sent to the pool\\nHow TO of Siloam to wash. He received\\nGet EYES, his sight by going to wash, by wash-\\ning then he came back, seeing.\\nIf he had waited till he saw before he started for\\nthe pool he never would have seen at all. By\\nobedience, his sight came. You will never see\\nthe scriptures in their beauty till you obey. You", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE FULL LIFE. 87\\nwill never see God in his glory except you obey.\\nYou will never see the meaning of human life and\\nof this world till you obey. Those problems of\\nyours you will never see unraveled till you obey.\\nEyes are to be found only in the path of obedi-\\nence.\\nNaaman, the Syrian, came to be\\nHow TO Get healed by Elisha, the prophet of\\nHEALTH. Israel. Where did he find his\\nhealth? In his thoughts as what\\nthe prophet would likely do? In his anger at\\nwhat the good man told him? He received no\\nhealing till he, in humble obedience, went down\\nand dipped himself. He found health in obedi-\\nence. He could never have found it anywhere else.\\nThe God of Elisha heals only there. But he can\\nalways be depended upon to be found in that place.\\nMen seek for his blessings in other places, but\\nare not rewarded for their search. But never has\\na single son of humanity ever sought for God in\\nthe obedient place but what he has been rewarded.\\nTake a step over into the path of obedience, and\\nthere you will find a health-giving God who will\\nheal you.\\nObedience is a means of happi-\\nHow TO Get ness. In John 13: 17 we read:\\nHappiness. If ye know these things, happy\\nare ye if ye do them. In James\\n1: 25, we also read: But whoso looketh into", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN..\\nthe perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein,\\nhe being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the\\nword, this man shall be blessed in his deed. Or,\\nas another good translation would have it, This\\nman shall be happy in his deed. God has not\\nintended that this life should be all unpleasant-\\nness and sorrow, but has provided a path of hap-\\npiness for all who will walk in it. It is a walk\\naccording to right laws of true joy. The path of\\nobedience is the truly happy one for all. It may\\nnot look so before it is started upon, but time and\\neternity will reveal that the path which God maps\\nout for every individual life is the path wherein is\\nto be found the highest possible happiness, even\\nfor this life. Would that all could see this provi-\\nsion which is made for them by the Father who\\nloves them, loves his children, and would give\\nthem only pleasure in all his ways. Obedience\\nwould rid us of so much of the grievous sorrows\\nof this life.\\nObedience is the place of perma-\\nHow TO nency. Read Matthew 7: 24-27,\\nKeep Safe, and see the results of obedience in\\ntime of storm, and the results of not\\nobeying in the same crisis. How opposite they\\nare. One is safety, the other is destruction. Obe-\\ndience is sure foundation, for it is rock. The dis-\\nciples were crossing the lake in obedience to the\\ncommand of Jesus. It looked as though their", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "TO KNOW THAT YOU HA VE FULL LIFE. 89\\nboat was going to the bottom, but he rebuked\\ntheir doubting, and showed them that they ought\\nto have known that obedience to him was safety.\\nSpiritual wrecks lie all about us,\\nDISOBEDIENCE, who have come to that condition\\nby confronting a duty in their\\nexperience which they have failed to perform.\\nThey have refused to be led further along God s\\nway, and now they are wanderers and doubters\\nand a menace to the faithful. It is a sad contem-\\nplation to recall what Lucifer fell from. He is\\nfalling deeper and deeper till he reaches the\\nlowest pit. Men start on the down grade when\\nthey break from the path of obedience. Look at\\nthe experience of the young ruler. He was liv-\\ning a good life, but being dissatisfied with it, he\\nsought something better. Jesus loved him, and\\noffered him the best of earth and heaven. Gave\\nhim a plan by which he could not only save his\\nsoul but also save his life in this world, yet more\\nthan this, save his property for heaven. Come,\\nfollow me, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.\\nJesus would not rob him of a mite, but asked him\\nto put out his money where he would receive\\nlarge interest, and in the end the principal also.\\nMeeting Jesus, and having expressed to him his\\naspirations and getting further light as to duty, it\\nwas now his part to obey. He failed and he fell.\\nHe went out sorrowful, went out to be sorrowful", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nthe rest of his days, went out to be poor in the\\nnext world. He had been doing well up to the\\ntime of his meeting Jesus, but from this point he\\nfalls back into sorrow and loss through disobedi-\\nence. Many deplore their poverty and unhappy\\ncondition, when, if they would recall the past, they\\nwould see the point of departure from Jesus, and\\nthat at that place their trouble began.\\nWhen a person finds himseli obeying\\nThe Test. Christ, he may know thereby that\\nChrist is in him. Obedience is most\\nblessed in that it furnishes a. means of knowing\\nthe actual spiritual condition. By it we may dis-\\ncover the presence of faith. By it we may know\\nwhether we love God or not. If ye love me, keep\\nmy commandments.. A man may know whether\\nhe believes or not by looking at his tongue and\\nseeing if he is confessing Christ according to\\nthe commandment. He may have a proof as to\\nwhether his repentance is true and valid by no-\\nticing if he is leaving off his old habits and\\nsins, and taking on new ones according to the\\ngospel. His willingness to obey and actual obe-\\ndience determine his professed faith. His obedi-\\nence sets forth positively the quality of his faith\\nand love. He may know his standing with Christ\\nby seeing how near he lives to Christ in faith and\\nsuffering. True relationships determine intima-\\ncies and positions. He may know whether he", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "TO KNOW THAT YOU HA VE FULL LIFE. 9 1\\ntruly fears God or not by seeing if he possesses\\nany of the secrets of the Lord for the secrets of\\nthe Lord are with them that fear him. A man\\nmay know whether he is living for heaven or not\\nby keeping account of how much treasure he is\\nlaying up there this will show him how much he\\nbelieves in heaven. Put your profession to a test,\\nand see how true it is. If you fear to do this, it\\nshows to yourself your own hypocrisy. So obe-\\ndience is valuable to show us what sort of Chris-\\ntians we are.\\nNo one will confuse works of moral-\\nMORALITY. ity with this work, which is a work\\nof obedience. Works of obedience\\nreveal Christian character as works of morality\\nreveal moral character. The distinction is appar-\\nent as Christian character is a gift. By grace\\nare ye saved and not of yourselves, it is the gift of\\nGod. The value and pride of morality is that it\\nis from the man himself, it is not a gift but his\\nown prodnct.\\nWith every command from God there\\nGRACE TO is accompanying it the grace for obe-\\nObey. dience. Obedience to God s com-\\nmands is sometimes naturally impos-\\nsible. The man with the palsied arm is com-\\nmanded to stretch it out an impossible act for a\\nparalyzed arm. But with the command from\\nChrist there always goes sufficient strength for", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nobedience. Otherwise many of his commands\\nwould but mock us. He commands us to love\\nhim, and he gives the grace to love; to believe\\nand gives believing grace. The man at the\\nBethesda pool is commanded, Rise, take up thy\\nbed and walk. He had been in his infirm condi-\\ntion thirty-eight years. Could he get up? Would\\nhe not have done so long ago if it were possible?\\nWhat mockery to tell him to rise and walk But\\nJesus with the. command gives rising and walking\\npower. So with every command that he gives.\\nNo sinner has ever received the command to\\nrepent but grace sufficient to repent has been\\ngiven him. No Christian ever confronted a God-\\ngiven duty without the gift of sufficient grace to\\nperform the service.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "HOW TO KEEP FULL LIFE. 93\\nVIII.\\nHOW TO KEEP FULL LIFE.\\nThe lily of the field grows and\\nCHRIST in You. blooms, and continues to do so\\nas long as it is full of lily life\\nwithin. The Christian life is a flourishing and\\n.victorious life so long as there is within fullness of\\nthe life that makes the Christian, Christ in you.\\nCut off the life supply and the lily dies so with\\nthe Christian, who is to consider the lilies of the\\nfield how they grow. A remarkable comparison\\nhas often been made between Christianity and the\\nnatural religions, in that the former provides for\\nan indwelling God in the worshipper, where in the\\nlatter the religion is entirely external. Christ in\\nyou the hope of glory. The heathen and the\\nmoralist hope for glory by what they do and\\nhave on the outside. With the Christian Christ\\ncomes and lives in him at the new birth and he is\\na new creature in him. Many Christians do not\\npossess this consciousness of the indwelling Christ.\\nThey are saved but they are not conscious of the\\nfullness and blessedness of their salvation. They\\nare living in a condition of spiritual poverty when", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nthey have wealth at their disposal, but have not\\nthe knowledge to recognize it as theirs and use it.\\nMany good people go to church and have a glo-\\nrious time, returning with the words, We met\\nGod at the service to-night. That is good, just\\nas it is good for a man to be in his library and\\nhave his books there within his reach. But there\\nis something better than that; let him have his\\nlibrary in him, know the contents of his books,\\nand make what is valuable in them his own by\\nintellectual assimilation. It was a grand experi-\\nence for the disciples on the Emmaus road to\\nhave Christ walk with them, and break bread for\\nthem at the end of the way, but then he departed\\nfrom them. Better after Pentecost to have the\\nChrist dwelling within continually and be able to\\nexperience, It is no more I that live but Christ\\nthat liveth within me.\\nIn the Bible we have the revela-\\nThe Bible tion of the mind of God to men.\\nAND CHRIST. It contains the record which God\\nhas given of his Son. There must\\nof necessity be a difference between the record\\nand the fact itself, the story of the man and the\\nman himself. So while the Bible as God s word\\nreveals him to us, we need to go a step further to\\nthe subject of revelation. We need not only the\\nrecord of God s doings in the past, and the revela-\\ntion of how he has come to others, but also the", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "BOW TO KEEP FULL LIFE. 95\\npresence of God with us, and with us NOW. The\\nChristianity of the first century was foundational,\\nabsolutely essential, divine the Christianity of the\\nnineteenth century is to be actually practised by\\nus. Faith in an historic Christianity is necessary,\\nbut not sufficient, as we need a living God with us\\nNOW. So the risen Christ has provided for that\\nwhich many of his people have forgotten for\\nhis actual living presence with them till the end\\nof time. Christ was in the world in Galilee and\\nJerusalem, but is just as real in the state where we\\nlive and in our city. We would not for a second\\nminimize the importance and authority of the\\nwritten word, but we would magnify the necessity\\nand importance of the presence of the living\\nChrist now in every Christian life.\\nIn the days of Elijah his religion was\\nElijah s put to a severe test. On Carmel. there\\nTEST. was to be a visible exhibition as to who\\nwas the real God. It was to be done\\nthen and there. It would not have been sufficient\\nfor Elijah to have shown to the wicked Jezebel,\\nthe trembling king, apostate Israel, opposing\\nworshipers of Baal, that his God did wonders in\\nEgypt; that he was there proclaimed and proven\\nto be the true God. To his historic sermon they\\nwould have replied, Prove it, prove it now.\\nThis Elijah demanded of their claims for Baal.\\nThis he actually gave to them then and there in", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nevidence that Jehovah was God. God s works of\\nan hundred years previous would not suffice for\\nthat occasion. Every man needs the working of\\na present God in his life, to whose work he can\\npoint and find no natural cause for it; but be\\ncompelled to say, I can explain it only on the\\nbelief that a living God is with me now. Every\\nage and every Christian needs this constantly\\npresent, working Christ within.\\nChrist within furnishes the Christian\\nCHRISTIAN love which we are commanded to\\nGRACES, have toward God and toward our\\nneighbor; furnishes the stalwart\\nstrength for the meeting of earthly work, con-\\nflict, and persecutions furnishes the Christian\\nbeauties of character which are to be shown to a\\nsinful world furnishes the testimony the Christian\\nis to bear against sin and for righteousness before\\na gainsaying world.\\nChrist within gives us evidence\\nPROOF OF and proof of God s love to us.\\nGod s Love. Could a mother fail to love her\\nown child? With Christ within\\nwe are God s children, the well-beloved of the\\nFather sharing his life with us, living within us.\\nGod could not deny us without casting out his\\nSon. This places us in the highest possible posi-\\ntion before God. He so loved us before that he\\nsent Jesus and now that love has been confirmed", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "HOW TO KEEP FULL LIFE. 97\\nand sealed inviolable in the presence of his Son\\nin us, so that we have union with Christ as he\\nhas union with the Father. Could salvation be\\nmore secure?\\nHow is it possible for Christ to live\\nGod s in such an erring, imperfect, and\\nRECKONING, even sinful being as the Christian\\nis, though he professes regenera-\\ntion? We are not to look at what we have been\\nin Adam, but at what we are in Christ. Turn to\\nRomans 6 6, and read, Knowing this that our\\nold man is crucified with him, that the body of\\nsiri might be destroyed, that henceforth we should\\nnot serve sin for he that is dead is freed from\\nsin. God reckons the believer as being crucified\\nwith Christ, and that he is dead. In Galatians\\n2 20, we read, I am crucified with Christ, never-\\ntheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me\\nand the life which I now live in the flesh I live\\nby the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and\\ngave himself for me. It is the Lord s doing and\\nmay well be marvelous in our eyes, the mystery\\nof his saving power in Christ. Buried with him\\nin baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him\\nthrough the faith of the operation of God, who\\nhath raised him from the dead. If ye then be\\nrisen with Christ, seek those things which are\\nabove. As the Christ was crucified, dead and\\nburied and then raised from the grave, so the\\n7", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nChristian in him is reckoned crucified, dead, and\\nburied, and risen. In Christ, I live. This life\\nof Christ is our salvation and sanctification. We\\nshall be saved by his life. One translation has\\nit, We shall be kept safe in his life. Our keep-\\ning is not in the works of our hands or in our\\nprayers or abundant services, but we are kept\\nsafe in his life. His is the keeping, and he does\\nit through the presence of himself in our life.\\nSays Jesus, And he that sent me is with me the\\nFather hath not left me alone for (therefore) I\\ndo always those things that please him.\\nIt is told that a heathen woman in one of the\\nhospitals had an ulcer which baffled the physicians\\nand they were about to pronounce it incurable,\\nunless a last resort would produce a cure. This\\nwas to graft new flesh upon the sore that new\\nblood might cast out the poisoned blood of the\\npatient. Her son refused to have flesh taken\\nfrom his arm and left the city. A young mis-\\nsionary discovering the case, offered her arm to\\nthe surgeon, who took her flesh and grafted it\\nupon the diseased heathen. The operation and\\nremedy proved successful and the patient recov-\\nered. When convalescent, the missionary found\\nher examining the white spot formed by the\\nflesh of the missionary surrounded by the dark\\nskin of the heathen. In conversation the heathe A\\nwoman said, It was your flesh and blood that", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "HOW TO KEEP FULL LIFE. 99\\ncured me. Then the missionary told her of the\\nmystery of a new life through the blood of Jesus\\nChrist. That as she was physically born again\\nthrough the incoming of new life into her system,\\nso we are made new creatures in Christ through\\nthe coming into us of the divine life of Christ.\\nThe heathen woman became a faithful Christian\\nand missionary to her own people, but she went\\nout to teach not in her own life, but in the\\nstrength of the new life of the missionary. She\\nlived and worked as a result of having the blood\\nof another placed in her system. It was not she\\nthat lived, but the missionary in her. It is no\\nmore I that live, but Christ liveth within me. The\\nsinner is cured of his disease of sin and then sus-\\ntained in the new life by the life of another,\\nExcept ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man\\nand drink his blood, ye have no life in you.\\nOnce we were dead, No life in you. But\\nnow we live by the life of Christ, as the heathen\\nlived physically by the blood, the life is in the\\nblood, of the missionary.\\nV\\ne", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "IOO FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nIX.\\nHOW FULL LIFE IS DEVELOPED.\\nThe question may arise in the mind\\nFull Life. of. a thoughtful person, that a con-\\ndition of fullness would need no fur-\\nther development. But fullness here does not\\nmean completeness or perfection on the manward\\nside. When persons are regenerated full life is\\nplaced at their disposal, which they may appro-\\npriate according to their faith faith being the\\nmeasure of capacity. Some at conversion grasp\\nas in a moment the great truths, and launch out\\nas proclaimers of them, and so from the time of\\ntheir renewal are mighty for God. Others just as\\ntruly regenerated have no grasp of divine things\\nafter this style, but apprehension comes only with\\nthe passing years. The development of the life is\\nthe growth of faith or capacity to receive what\\nGod has placed at the soul s disposal, which of\\nitself is full and complete.\\nTurn to a figure used by the Master,\\nLlFE FROM Except a grain of wheat fall into\\nDEATH. the ground and die, it abideth alone,\\nbut if it die it bringeth forth much\\nfruit. (John 12 24.) Growth denotes life, but it", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "NOW FULL LIFE IS DEVELOPED. IOI\\nis life from death. If the grain of wheat does not\\ndie it remains but a seed. The Christian must\\nlearn the lesson so familiar to earth in seed sow-\\ning, and which was divinely carried out in Christ s\\ndeath. Spiritual growth cannot take place till\\nthere is experienced the dying with Christ. The\\nChristian must fall and die before he can expect to\\ngrow. No death, no growth. This may explain\\nthe lack of the Christian graces which everywhere\\nwe deplore. Unwillingness to die, and conse-\\nquently, according to earthly and divine law, there\\nis no growth. What do you mean and how are\\nwe to die? Is the matter you speak of figurative?\\nIt is the vivid experience of one whom we know\\nintimately, that one day he saw himself carried to\\nthe village square, and there nailed to a cross.\\nAs he hung there he saw the scoffing world pass-\\ning by; he saw the members of the church where\\nhe belonged passing at a distance. Some stood\\nin groups discussing; none came near him; none\\nspoke a sympathizing word; the world mocked.\\nSome Christians said it was a foolish sacrifice he\\nmight have been held in honor by us if he would\\nhave thought and acted as we did some won-\\ndered many seemed in great amazement; none\\nevidently could comprehend. He realized his life\\nfast passing away an hour came when it seemed\\nthat his God left him he was alone. Darkness,\\nblackness, tempest, everything in heaven and earth", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nseemed to be swept away. Then upon another\\noccasion upon the hillside, near the cemetery, he\\nas with a flash, realized the meaning of being risen\\nwith Christ, and ever since has lived in the resur-\\nrection life of Christ.\\nDeath with Christ means nailing to the cross\\nthings earthly they may be good in themselves,\\nas the body of Christ, which was without sin.\\nNail self to the cross. In this death ambition for\\nearthly fame is transformed into labor for the\\nhonor of Jesus. Treasure on earth is transferred\\nand laid up in heaven. Disregard for the opinions\\nof men, and craving the consciousness of doing\\nGod s will. Holy indifference as to the support of\\nmen, and carefulness to receive God s provisions.\\nDead to the love of praise but abiding in spirit\\ncommunion. An abandonment of life to the\\nSpirit s direction, regardless of earthly conse-\\nquences. Except a corn of wheat fall into the\\nground and die, except a Christian knows this, he\\nwill abide alone and not bring forth fruit, but if he\\ndie, out of the death will come much fruit, just as\\nfrom the dying kernel of wheat the stalk and har-\\nvest come. A new man, one of fruit-bearing in\\nChrist Jesus.\\nWe have already suggested that a\\nFAILURE failure to grow may be in a failure to\\nTO GROW. die. Failure may be in insufficient\\nsoil to sustain the growth. It shows", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "NOW FULL LIFE IS DEVELOPED. 103\\na good condition to have a vigorous appetite, but\\nunfortunate to possess such and no food to supply\\nit. Many start well in the Christian growth, but\\nsuddenly rob the life of support, and it perishes.\\nBecause of no depth of earth it soon withered\\naway. Failure to grow may be on account of\\nworldly suppression and the force of circum-\\nstances, the earthly overpowering this new life.\\nThorns sprang up and choked it. Fruit-bearing\\nseed is in good ground. The emphasis in the\\nparable is in the quality of the ground. The seed\\nsowing is not so difficult as the cultivation and\\ndevelopment of the germinated seed to large\\nfruitage.\\nThe injunction is to Grow in grace.\\nGrace. Jesus says, Consider the lilies of the\\nfield how they grow. The develop-\\nment of life expressed in the term growing or\\ngrowth is a biblical figure. It is life development\\nsuch as a tree possesses. Grow as the lilies, as the\\ntrees of Lebanon. (Matthew 6 28; Hosea 14: 5.)\\nMen are saved according to the truth of Ephesians,\\n2:8. For by grace are ye saved through faith;\\nand that not of yourselves it is the gift of God.\\nBut they fail to see that they grow according to\\nthe same truth, as in 2 Corinthians 9: 8. And\\nGod is able to make all grace abound toward you\\nthat ye, always having all sufficiency in all things,\\nmay abound to every good work. Men are", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nsupernaturally saved, but fail to see that the salva-\\ntion must also be supernaturally cultivated but\\nthey rather seem to think that it is naturally culti-\\nvated. So Paul says to the Galatians in 3:3,\\nAre ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit,\\nare ye now made perfect in the flesh? There\\nare two methods of salvation, one by faith, the\\nother by works. Those who are saved have found\\nthe fruitlessness of the works system and aban-\\ndoned it. The works system has been followed\\nsince Cain, and one would think that the world\\nwould learn wisdom by observation if not by rev-\\nelation, by this time. But the blindness that hath\\nhappened not only to Israel but to the Gentiles\\nalso still holds them. The Christian is not saved\\nby works, neither does he grow by works, for it is\\nall of grace. We do not grow up unto grace as\\nthe works system would teach, but we grow in\\ngrace. Grace is the soil in which we grow.\\nA child is born in a family and grows up in the\\nfamily. It is not taken out into the woods and\\nleft alone to develop into strength and character\\ntill it becomes strong enough to come into the\\nfamily. But it grows in the family under the care\\nand support of the family. Many by carefulness\\nand anxiety and numerous good works are endeav-\\noring to so develop that they will attain to God s\\ngrace and be saved. As well leave an infant in\\nthe field to grow up into the affections of the", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "HOW FULL LIFE IS DEVELOPED. 105\\nfamily. We are born in grace and grow in the\\nsame condition. Grace is the element in which\\nwe grow. Growth in grace is not an accumula-\\ntion of goodness which we by human effort\\nacquire. Many suppose this grace to be an\\nincreasing of their own piety, an addition to their\\nown ability in service. Grace is the soil, rain, sun-\\nshine, dew, atmosphere the divine conditions of\\nthe Christian s growth. Growth is the result of\\ngrace, makes growth not the reverse. Men try\\nto grow in order to get grace, but grace is given\\nus in order to grow. Grace is God s love expressed\\nin his innumerable activities with a view to our\\nhighest cultivation. Some trees and plants only\\ngrow in certain soils, so the Christian will only\\nflourish in the soil of grace. Out of it he withers\\nand dies as a branch cut off from the living vine.\\nThe only getting he needs is to permit himself to\\nbe planted in grace. (John 15 1-6.)\\nWhere do works come in? In the\\nWORKS, moralist s sense they are excluded. In\\nthe Christian sense they are outworks.\\nAccording to Philippians 2: 12, 13, Work out\\nyour own salvation with fear and trembling for\\nit is God which worketh in you both to will and\\nto do of his good pleasure. Work out, sin\\nworked out death in Paul. Faith worked\\nout patience. Something within that so worked\\nthat it made a manifestation on the outside.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "106 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nYour salvation, which is a life within, is to be\\nso worked out that it will be seen on the outside.\\nYou may well fear and tremble lest you hinder\\nthis working by your sin and disobedience. Lest\\nthe wonderful life which you have within will not\\nhave a proper manifestation to the world, lest\\nthey cannot detect that you have been with Jesus.\\nGod worketh within you, so that our works are\\na product of the inworking God. Our works are\\na revelation of what he is doing in us. God gives\\nsalvation, and he works within to make manifest\\nthe works of salvation. These are works of faith,\\nproduced by faith. The moralist has faith in\\nworks; the Christian, works of faith. And with-\\nout such works faith, indeed, is dead. The mor-\\nalist is working his own will and good pleasure.\\nIn the Christian it is God s will and good pleasure\\nthat is the motive of the working.\\nIn gathering cherries one summer from a\\nDEAD tree on our side lawn, I found so many\\nWORKS, dead branches that the fruit could only\\nbe gathered by great inconvenience.\\nThere was no life from the tree in those branches,\\nand so their condition. The scripture speaks of\\ndead works. This is not lawlessness and crime,\\nbut the production of professed Christians who\\nhave not the spirit of Christ in them. Sometimes\\na church begins special revival effort because a\\nneighboring denomination have in progress such", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "HOW FULL LIFE IS DEVELOPED. 107\\nmeetings, and they are drawing the attention of\\npeople who might otherwise join their church, so\\nthe counter-effort is begun in jealousy, dead\\nworks. Sometimes a new church organization is\\nbegun, and a house built by a split from another\\nbody there has been difficulty, and the factions\\nare going to outstrip each other in opposing or-\\nganizations, dead works. Much Christian\\nactivity is carried on aside from, and not insti-\\ngated by, Christ within. The list of such activi-\\nties is beyond computation. The sermon, social,\\nentertainment, visit, invitation, not suggested by\\nthe Christ life within, is dead work. This appears\\non the Christian tree, in view of heaven, as dead\\nbranches. The scripture speaks of repentance\\nfrom dead works. The exhortation is also to\\npurge your conscience from dead works. (He-\\nbrews 6 1; 9: 14.) There are many Christian\\nactivities for which Christians are commending\\neach other, that are so far from the thought of\\nChrist that they need to be repented of. Yet\\nupon these dead works the blessing of God is con-\\nstantly asked. The church and the world stumble\\nin not seeing these prayers answered.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "Io8 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nX.\\nHOW IS FULL LIFE TO BE USED.\\nSomeone will say that full life is to be\\nDOING used in doing good. Another will say in\\nGOOD? working for God. We answer, most em-\\nphatically, No. Herein is a subtle temp-\\ntation of Satan to get Christians to rush about in\\ngood doing and in professed working for God.\\nWe must go a step away from this to discover how\\nfull life is to be used. In doing and working, only\\ncertain classes of things and works are to be per-\\nformed. Jesus says, I do always those things\\nwhich please him. In these words of Jesus we\\nhave the specified things that are to be done by a\\nsaved man, things pleasing to God. Is not any\\nand all good work pleasing to God? No, most\\nassuredly not. It was a good work for the Israel-\\nites to sacrifice oxen to God, was it not? God\\ncommanded them to do so. But, under certain\\ncircumstances, it was a sin to take certain oxen\\nand at a certain time sacrifice them. God told\\nKing Saul to utterly destroy them, but he thought\\nthat he would do a good work and keep the best\\nof them to sacrifice to God. He was dethroned\\nfor doing what he thought was, and what was,", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "HOW IS FULL LIFE TO BE USED? 109\\nusually, a good work. Obedience is better than\\ndoing good.\\nJesus tells us that because God, who\\nPLEASTNG sent him, was with him he therefore\\nGOD. did always those things that pleased\\nGod. Full life is God with you, and\\nout of that fullness you can do the things that are\\npleasing to God. Otherwise you may do good,\\nbut not the good that pleases God. The mission\\nof Christ to the earth is expressed in his words\\nI have glorified thee on the earth. How did\\nhe do this? I have finished the work, any\\nwork, work anywhere, any good that needed\\ndoing? Listen: I have finished the work that\\nthou gavest me to do. He glorifies God by\\ndoing a God-given work, a work which thou\\ngavest ME. Full life is to be used in pleasing\\nGod. To please self, and .to seek self-glory, is the\\ngreat temptation. Yet nothing is so disappoint-\\ning as self-pleasing. Nothing so^ deceptive as\\nself-seeking. A life filled with God is delivered\\nfrom this. The glory of another is constantly in\\nmind. Better than that, the pleasing of that other\\nbecomes the natural thing with the filled man.\\nPaul, in First Corinthians, 10: 13,\\nLiving TO says: Whether therefore ye eat\\nGod s GLORY, or drink, or whatever ye do, do\\nall to the glory of God. Here\\nwe find self-pleasing set aside for God s glory. An", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "IIO FULL LLFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nexalted motive is given for Christian activity, in\\nthe smallest and most common duties of life, even\\neating to his glory. Actions are important, in\\nproportion to what they affect. A child plays\\nwith a string of buttons. Who cares? The child\\nis being amused. A child places her finger upon\\nan electric button, and thousands of tons of rock\\nare blown from the river-bed. The importance of\\nactions is not determined by their smallness or\\notherwise, but by their far-reaching influence. A\\nman may practise penmanship and write his name\\na thousand times, but who cares? But, suppose\\nhe is the governor of the state, and places his\\nname to a pardon for the convict, a man is set at\\nliberty by the simple writing of a name. In Mat-\\nthew 12: 36, Jesus says, Every idle word that\\nman shall speak, they shall give an account there-\\nof in the day of judgment. Words are *impor-\\ntant, because they reach on into eternity. And\\nwhosoever shall give to drink unto one of these\\nlittle ones a cup of cold water only in the name of\\na disciple, verily, I say unto you he shall in no\\nwise lose his reward. Simple acts, when related\\nto eternity, are important. This ennobles human\\nlife, and lifts it out of its littleness. So much\\nsmallness, so many little things to be done in the\\nevery-day drudgery, so much seen only by the\\ndoer. But to do them under the eyes of the\\npresident of the United States would make them", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "HOW IS FULL LIFE TO BE USED? Ill\\ngrand how much more so if you were conscious\\nthat they particularly pleased him. Yet there is\\nsomething better; every act is done under the eye\\nof Almighty God, and to know that he took pleas-\\nure in these acts of yours would lift them forever\\nout of the realm of the small into that of the great.\\nWhat do we mean by working for\\nREVEALING God s glory? What is his glory?\\nGOD. Surely we cannot add to his essen-\\ntial glory, but we can declare his\\nglory, make it known. To make God known to\\nthe world in his true nature is to work to his glory.\\nA man lives to God s glory when he reveals the\\ntrue God in his life. Everywhere he goes God\\nwill be the better known and thought of for his\\nhaving been there. All thy works praise thee,\\nO God. The earth is full of the glory of God.\\nFull spiritual life enables the Christian to do\\nspontaneously what nature does shows his div-\\ninity and power. The great need of the world\\nis to see God in his true nature, and when the\\nChristian in his words and works thus makes him\\nknown he is living to God s glory. The sinful\\nman does the opposite from this as he lives to\\nthe devil s glory in revealing or manifesting\\nwickedness in his life. The glory of God is that\\nJesus Christ has come in the flesh revealing God,\\nthough he is one of the human race with us.\\nThe upsidedownedness of man is seen in the\\nfact that he is ashamed of Jesus.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112 FULL LIFE FOR EMPTY MEN.\\nPaul says in Galatians 6: 14, God forbid that\\nI should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus\\nChrist. There he sees revealed the mind and\\nnature of God and he glories in that. The cross\\nreveals God s view of sin, God s purpose for man,\\nGod s heart of love toward humanity. In his\\nwork of redemption Christ made God known to\\nthe w r orld in his true nature. The great motive\\nof the Christ life was a revelation of God. What\\nof our motives in Christian activity? Have we a\\nshow of our skill in mind rather than God s\\nglory? Are we intent upon winning our own\\npoint rather than to please God? Have we our\\nreputation in view rather than the true revealing\\nof God s heart of love? Oh, for the exalted\\nmotive which Paul finds in the life and death of\\nChrist!\\nA man who sets out to glorify\\nGod himself ends in disgrace. One\\nGlorifies Us. who sets out to glorify God is\\nhimself glorified. At every point\\nwhere we glorify God he glorifies us. As in Mat-\\nthew 10: 32, Whosoever therefore shall confess\\nme before men, him will I confess also before my\\nFather which is in heaven. The counterpart in\\nheaven. The church glorifies the character of\\nJesus here on earth, and what does he do for it\\nin the coming dispensation? Ephesians 5 27,\\nThat he might present it to himself a glorious", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "HOW IS FULL LIFE TO BE USED? 113\\nchurch, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such\\nthing; but that it should be holy and without\\nblemish. As to our relationships with Christ\\nhere and in the future, read in Luke 22 28, 29,\\nYe are they which have continued with me in\\nmy temptations. And I appoint unto you a\\nkingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me\\nthat ye may eat and drink in my kingdom, and\\nsit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.\\nSo, also, in the parable of the pounds, in Luke 19,\\nBecause thou hast been faithful in a very little\\nbe thou ruler over ten cities. The sphere of\\nour glorifying God is while in these mortal\\nbodies. So the apostle says, Glorify God in\\nour bodies. Also, Christ shall be magnified\\nia my body. The bodies of Enoch, Elijah, and\\nof James were taken to heaven, and so glorified.\\nFor the Lord himself shall descend from heaven\\nwith the voice of the archangel, and with the\\ntrump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise\\nfirst. The whole creation is waiting for the\\nredemption. These bodies shall be gathered,\\nredeemed from sin and death, and made like\\nunto his glorious body. He that raised up\\nChrist from the dead shall quicken our mortal\\nbodies. The glorious resurrection is coming.", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "300", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3627", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3770", "width": "2341", "jp2-path": "fulllifeforempty00luke_0124.jp2"}}