When undermine all evil, social, political and moral. Christianity has touched and transformed the individual heart, slavery of all kinds, social, political, industrial and moral will go from the world. The slave becomes a man, a brother, as soon as his master is transformed. Before God, whether before the law or society, we are all men. In Christ there is neither bond nor free. And it deepens and dignifies and endears our faith, when we see that it had in the beginning the same power to change men as it has to-day, and it will as truly transform them to-day as then. Would that we all would become like Paul, like Onesimus, like Philemon! "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." WELL-DOING.* BY REV. DANIEL STALKER,t Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Calumet. Text: "Let us not be weary in well-doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Gal. 6:9. Well-doing is the purpose of our creation, the end. of being, and God has endowed us with faculties and given us facilities for the discharge of the duty. For it we have been redeemed, that we might not only live well, but do well. There is a holy pleasure, an inexpressible delight in doing good. Then we are in the line of duty and have the satisfaction that our conduct is well-pleasing to God as well as profitable to man. While engaged in it, we are associated with the best of our race and the highest order of intelligences. Angels are continually engaged in it, and Jesus is our highest example in this respect. His whole life, which John says if written out in full would fill so many volumes that the world itself could not contain them, might be epitomized in the one sentence, "He went about doing good." In this work he lived, for this end he died, this * Preached before the Presbytery of Lake Superior, April 12, 1898. Mr. Stalker was born in Kintyre, Scotland. Preparing at Wardsville and Weston high school, he graduated from Toronto University 1878, and from Knox College 1881. He was pastor at Gladstone, Manitoba, 1881-1892, and at Calumet 1892 WELL-DOING.* BY REV. DANIEL STALKER,† Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Calumet. Text: "Let us not be weary in well-doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Gal. 6:9. Well-doing is the purpose of our creation, the end. of being, and God has endowed us with faculties and given us facilities for the discharge of the duty. For it we have been redeemed, that we might not only live well, but do well. There is a holy pleasure, an inexpressible delight in doing good. Then we are in the line of duty and have the satisfaction that our conduct is well-pleasing to God as well as profitable to man. While engaged in it, we are associated with the best of our race and the highest order of intelligences. Angels are continually engaged in it, and Jesus is our highest example in this respect. His whole life, which John says if written out in full would fill so many volumes that the world itself could not contain them, might be epitomized in the one sentence, "He went about doing good." In this work he lived, for this end he died, this * Preached before the Presbytery of Lake Superior, April 12, 1898. Mr. Stalker was born in Kintyre, Scotland. Preparing at Wardsville and Weston high school, he graduated from Toronto University 1878, and from Knox College 1881. He was pastor at Gladstone, Manitoba, 1881-1892, and at Calumet 1892——. |