Bulletin of Elon College (Special Series), 1916-1919 . you. With this peace in your soul, you will be inthe world, but not of the world. With this peace of God in your soul, there will come to pass in your heart theKingdom of the Father and theSon. When this peace shall haveentered into your heart and havebecome a vital part of your being,then there will have dawned a newand glorious day in your life—a day for which thegreatest and wisest and best have ever longed as theone far-off divine event, to which the whole creationmoves, but a day which
Bulletin of Elon College (Special Series), 1916-1919 . you. With this peace in your soul, you will be inthe world, but not of the world. With this peace of God in your soul, there will come to pass in your heart theKingdom of the Father and theSon. When this peace shall haveentered into your heart and havebecome a vital part of your being,then there will have dawned a newand glorious day in your life—a day for which thegreatest and wisest and best have ever longed as theone far-off divine event, to which the whole creationmoves, but a day which can come to the world onlythrough the individual soul, aflame with the love of Godbecause of the answering of this great question. Believeme, the golden age is neither in the dead and musty past,nor in the glittering visionary future, but in the nowand the present for those who have answered the ques-tion the Psalmist propounded to himself in the wordsof the text,—for those who are hid with Christ in God. AND THE JOYOF IT—HOWTHRILLING! f i i*. CHAPTER SIX STRIVING FOR THE MASTERY 1 Cor. 9:25—Every one that striveth for themastery is temperate m all things. THERE is a metaphor involved in the text, thecomparison of the Christian life to the race-course, and the appropriateness of the compar-ison is evident to all who think for a moment what theathletic contests of the ancient stadium were four great series of games celebrated the Greeks: the Olympian, the f | Pythian, the Isthmian, and the | I Nemean. Paul evidently had in f the metaphor f min(j the Isthmian games, since he I INVOLVED. | , ° \ . I I was writing to the Corinthians, | J near whose city these games were ;„..^..^.*..„.....^..^^.,..,.i celebrated in honor of Poseidon or Palsemon. It is not necessary to explain the great storethe Greeks set by physical training in their system ofeducation,—they really regarded it as half of is i
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