Thoughts fro n the fire*e!l .v l dress of
^.ast assistant Missionary.Karl Hendrickson.
My friends as a farewell word to
you I say, do what Jesus wo t Id have
you do. My prayer is that God will
help you to do his will in all things.
I shall not preach a sermon. I wish
to call your attention to a portion of
the 5th.chapter of ist.Thes.
“Warn them that are unruly”
Go to them in love and tell them
of their unruly ways. Do not tell it
to some one else. It is so easy to tell
others of the faults of some one else.
And then it grows so ugly as it passes
from one to another.hurting those
who repeat the idle tale as well as the
victim. We would save our selves
trouble and help others out of trouble
if we would only go, in love, to the
erring one and help him on his feet.
My friends I say to you again and
again may God help us stop and con
sider before we back bite.
“ See that none render evil for
evil ” Seek not my friend to get
even with some one even tho you
may have been wronged. Bury
revenge forever. Bear the cross as a
true soldier.
“Follow that which is good* * * Re
joice ever more” So many profe.*-s
itig Christians fail in the first and con
sequently miss the ‘rejoicing.’ It is
so easy to fail in the first ai d follow
alter the things of the world.
Our mind is drawn from the heav
enly tilings that God has prepared
for them that love Him, and there
fore my friends we do not rejoice ever
more. ‘‘Quench not the Spirit.”
This is done by failing to do God’s
w 11. My friends may Cod help you to
consider your way and quench n o t
the Spirit. But may you ‘ Holdfast
that which is good * * * and abstain
from the very appearance of evil."
And then God can and will preserve
you blameless unto the comin g„of
our Lord jesus Christ." Now I can
not pray that God will preserve you
who are not saved. But may God
open your eyes. Likely I shall not
meet you all again on earth.
In the great clay will you be on
the right hand or on the left? This
you will have to settle for your
selves. No one can decide for you.
God says ‘ 'Choose ye this day whom
ye will serve.” Remember that Jesus
stands with out stretched arms saying
to the sinner come. And he is just
as willing and able to sanctify you
who now believe. My Last thought to
you is; may God help you to come.
And may you all stop and consider,
“Where shall I spend eternity?”
My 62 years have flown. It seems
only a short time. Eternity is near to
us all. Set your affections on things
above. Eove one another If we do
not love our neighbor how can we
LOVE GOD?
Sam Jones once said in a meeting
“You tie tip your dogs at night and
let your childien go to the devil.”
Half of the pointed statement is quite
true of the Eskimo. Their devotion
to tl eir children is so great that a
freedom is granted for their pleasure ^
which in these days, in particular,
throws about the children every
opportunity of going to the bad. Only
a few of the Eskimos have awakened
to the fact that the midnight frolics
of the little boys and girls out on the
tundra, and in and among the cabins,
breeds a familiarity that later devlops
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