Cause in Iowa
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There are many in Iowa who are tearing down rather than building
up, casting unbelief and darkness rather than light; and the cause of
God is languishing when it should be flourishing. Ministers should
dare to be true. Paul wrote to Timothy: “Let no man despise thy youth;
but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in
charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” “Meditate upon these things; give
thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed
unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this
thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.” The word and
will of God are expressed in the Scriptures by inspired penmen. We
should bind them as frontlets between our eyes and walk according
to their precepts; then we shall walk safely. Every chapter and every
verse is a communication of God to man. In studying the word, the
soul that hungers and thirsts for righteousness will be impressed by
the divine utterances. Skepticism can have no power over a soul that
with humility searches the Scriptures.
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