Standards of Life and Service

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others who are interested in God's work are invited to come forward with gifts of money to lay upon the special table which, for that occasion, serves the purpose of an altar.

and it illustrates the central idea

asked an Officer how he liked the Meetings, and what the result would be. He replied, 'Commissioner, it's just like this. It is as if The General during these

s, he has a totally wrong conception of what it is. I know that there are many who regard their vows to God very lightly. They seem to think they can get through their religion without much self-denial. Religion of tha

untries, where the people are allowed to build their hopes of Salvation upon penance

ther day literally walking upon nails. It made me shiver. He imagined that by this he could save his soul. With what passion I wished that man could only understand that o

re prepared to include sacrifice in their religion, they are not on the lines either of their Lord's example or their Lord's

something merely 'in the mind'. I have heard it talked about in the same

he said. 'Don't you know I

'but you feels it in your min

perhaps as much as the doctor felt the crushed thumb, bei

which is valuable, to be surrendered or used in His service. Shall I not say that sacrifice represents the heart saying, on the one hand, 'I will come out, and be separate, and touch not the unclean thing'? and, o

the place of gifts. It is also the place of dedication, and the place of sacrifice. Thank God, it has been

pe of the accursed cross, where the Saviour made atonement for our si

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e sacrifice to the altar mean?

uld be used either for sacrifice or service. In both cases the figure of speech seems to imply the possibility of the consecration being reversed by the withdr

their sacrifice is not taken off the altar after being put on. These corner posts were not there for ornament, b

y back was turned. But if I had some cord, and, by crossing it transversely from corner to corner, tied the

temptation come, as come they will in one form or another. It is just here where so many fail-they do not really maintain their sacrifice. That is to say, having made a consecration they do not stand

e unclean birds, were circling around his head, and around the altar, trying to defile the sacrifice or snatch it away or devour it. The story says that when the birds came down Abraham drove them away, and he stood to his covenant until the fire came

condemned and taken to the seashore. There she was bound to a stake near the low tide line, and, as the incoming waters gathered round

en half unconscious, she was dragged out, and urged to recan

o, I will not draw back! I will not deny my Lord!' And as the rising tide came in she bowed her head, and poured

ese defiled sacrifices? Why these broken consecrations? If they were ever really put on the altar they were not, I am afraid, bound there. Impulse, sentiment, desire, intention may have induced th

he full surrender of themselves to God. The love of sin, the selfish gratifications whi

of consecration, bring yourselves and the sacrifice again and put it on that altar in an unchangeable covenant, and

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