Identifier: withchildrenonsu00stal (find matches)
Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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w is perfect, and no one has ever kept it perfectly, butall have broken the law in some one way or another, and on thataccount all are guilty before God, you may ask, what is the pur-pose of the law? Why did God make the law? Now, I desire toexplain that to you to-day. I have here a looking-glass. Now the Bible compares thelaw to a looking-glass. In the epistle or letter of James, in the firstchapter, we are told, If any be a hearer of the word, and not adoer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; forhe beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forget-teth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the per-fect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetfulhearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in hisdeed. (James i: 23-25.) In other words, the Bible means to say that the law of Godis like a looking-glass. When we read the law of God, we see justwhat God requires that we should both be and do. He enables 156
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Copyrighted, 1911, by Sylvanus Stall. Seeing Ourselves in the Looking-Glass of Gods Law LOOKING-GLASS. 159 us to see what He requires of us. It shows us also how imperfectwe are. It shows us our sins. It reveals to us the importance ofdoing something in order to get rid of our sins. It is just like a man whose face is all dirty. When he goes tothe looking-glass and looks into it he sees the dirt upon his face. Ifhe did not look into the glass, other people might see that his facewas dirty, but he would not see it himself. But when he looksinto the glass, he sees for himself that his face is all black and dirty. Now, when the man finds that his face is all dirty, he doesnot take the looking-glass with which to wash his face. The look-ing-glass was not made to wash our faces with. It was only madeto show us that our faces needed to be washed. And then, insteadof using the looking-glass to wash our faces, we go and use soapand water. Now, the looking-glass did not make the mans face blac

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