. The gate beautiful. here is more ofthe honor. It is not yet made manifest clearlyand fully what we shall be—the future isveiled in mystery—but we shall be likehim —that is the final glor3^ We shall belike Christ in our heavenly life. Then thewriter tells us how we should live in this worldif this is to be our future distinction. Everyone that hath this hope set on him purifiethhimself, even as he is pure. It is pitiful howmen throw away their crowns. Made only alittle lower than God, children of God, des-tined to be like Christ at length, they yieldto appetite, lust, and passion, and debaset
. The gate beautiful. here is more ofthe honor. It is not yet made manifest clearlyand fully what we shall be—the future isveiled in mystery—but we shall be likehim —that is the final glor3^ We shall belike Christ in our heavenly life. Then thewriter tells us how we should live in this worldif this is to be our future distinction. Everyone that hath this hope set on him purifiethhimself, even as he is pure. It is pitiful howmen throw away their crowns. Made only alittle lower than God, children of God, des-tined to be like Christ at length, they yieldto appetite, lust, and passion, and debasethemselves in the dust. With this glory setbefore us, we should keep ourselves pure andour lives white, and should strive even here toreach up to the honor that is prepared forus. [257] Loosing anto ttjz i^iUjs [259] Lord, wheJi I look on high,Clouds only meet my sight;Fears deepen with the night,But yet it is thy me to trust thee, then, I in the dark and tearfully obey. 260] CHAPTER NINETEENTH. E ought to learn to loflt^up. Many people dwarftheir lives and hinder thebest possibilities of growthin their souls by lookingdownward. They keep theireyes entangled ever in mere earthly sights andscenes, and miss seeing the glory of the hillsthat pierce the clouds, and of the heavensthat bend over them. We grow in the direc-tion in which our eyes habitually turn. Webecome like that toward which we look muchand intently.^ Yet there are those who never look upward atall. They never see anything but the thingsthat are on the earth. They never $ee thestars. They never think of God. They do notpray. They have no place in their scheme oflife for divine things. There are two conceptions of the universe—[261] Cl^e (!E»ate Beautiful V the scientific and the rehgious. Sir OHverLodge says: Orthodox modem science showsus a self-contained and self-sufficient universe,not in touch with anything above and beyonditself. . Religion, on the other hand, re-quires us constantly
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