Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1912 — Our Portion. [ARTICLE]
Our Portion.
“All things are yours .. . . ye are Christ’s; and Christ Is God’s." — 1 Cor. 3:21, ,23. He who Is Christ’s, surveying the wonders of creation, can say>-, “Glorious though these things be, to me belongs that which Is more glorious far. The streams are precibtis, bn? I have the Fountain; the vesture Js beautiful, but the Wearer Is mine; the portrait In Its every lineament' b' lovely, but that great Original. TEfroseLfreanty it feebly deplots is my own. ’God hi my portion, the Lord is. my .inheritance.’ To me belongs a#-Actual and Ml possible good, all created, apd uncreated beauty, all-thafrsys >hash seen or imagination conceived.; and more than that, for 'eye hath net-seen, nor ear heard, neither hader efrfedred Into the heart of man. .the things*-which
