Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — Golden Thoughts. [ARTICLE]

Golden Thoughts.

There is something wrong with that man’s inward condition who pleads his surroundings as excuse for living in sin. Life is not bone, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.—Robertson. We often excuse ourselves for committing laults, ana even sins, when we know it is wrong to do so. This is but making the delinquencies more emphatic and giving them the sanction of the conscience. The revelations contained in the Bible are made to man in words, and these words, like those contained in any other book, are to be interpreted by applying to them the established laws of language. The meaning of the worus, when thus ascertained, is to be accepted as God’s rule for human faith and practice. What the words mean He means. His authority attaches to that meaning.—Independent. - If one wants to understand who Christ was and is. what are His offices, and what iB his work in human behalf, the book for him to Htudy in preference to all other books, and more than all other books, is the Bible itself. He may aid himself in thisßtudy by the use of commentaries, but he should never substitute anything for the Bible. The Bible contains far the best Christologv ever written or read.—lndependent.