THE COLUMBIAN. BL00MS8URO.
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Rev. F.E. DAVISON
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FAITH AND WORKS
International Dible Lesson for
May 30, '09 (Jamet 2: 14-26)-
It la a common remark that then
re two sides to ever question.
There are often more than that. Truth
a vory much like the New Jerusalem,
It lleth four square, with three gates
of entrance toward every point of tho
compass. Bigotry and egotism would
drive all mankind through one of
those gates, denying or Ignoring all
the others, but clear eyed charity seci
every one of those pearly gates, and
Is Interested In getting people through
them. f
Untenable Claims.
Some of the bitterest ecclesiastical
controversies have been waged by
men who have shut their eyes to this
principle and who have Insisted that
their system of theology was as axio
matic as mathematics. Just as cer
tainly as two and two are four In
their estimation they have the only
demonstrable theological dogma. A
cursory perusal of the writings of tho
apostles reveals the fact that each o!
those men presented one side of tho
body of divinity. Thus Paul's themo
was almost exclusively Justification hy
faith; John, In gospel and epiittlo
dwelt upon the value of love: Peter
was the champion of hope, and James
shows up the necessity of good works.
The Idea Is never Intimated by any
one of these writeM that tho sul.Jjet
(s expounding Is all thero Is to Chris
tianity, they each merely emphaf.Izii
and develop one phase of truth.
And yet there have always been
carping critics who have sought to sot
these writers over again ench other,
and make them appear to contradict
and oppose each other. Especially
has that been true In regard to J'.tul
and James. They have been repre
sented as fighting each other. Even
so clear headed a man as Martin
Luther called the epistle of Jar.io.i,
"an epistle of straw."
Fighting Common Foe.
But such a view Is altogether wldo
of the mark. Instead of attacking
each other Paul and James stand bark
to back fighting the common foo.
Paul's faith works by love and puri
fies the heart, and James' works nro
the fruit of the tree, of which tha
sap Is faith. If there were no Invisi
ble sap in the tree there would bo
no visible fruit, the tree might claim
to have sap but Its falsity would bo
shown by lack of fruit. That sort ot a
profession could not save the trco
from the axe. So the loudest profes
sion of faith would avail nothing for
tho man who produced no fruit of
right living. The world demand
fruit, fixes its eyes upon fruit, anJ
thinks not at all of the sap which pro
duces It. So James says: Don't talk
to me about faith In your heart If It
docs not show Itself In works In your
life. . .
Faith and Work Harmonious.
Faith Is necessary and works cr.i
necessary and they can no more bj
separated than thunder and lightning.
As Frederick W. Kobcrtson puts it:
"Suppose I say, 'A tree cannot bj
struck without thunder'; that Is truo,
for tnere Is never destructive lig'it
ning without thunder. But again. If I
say, 'The tree was struck by lightning
without thunder,' that 13 truo, 'too, if
1 mean that the lightning alone struc'i
It without the thunder striking it."
Yet read the two assertions together
and they seom to bo absolutely con
tradictory. So, in the same way, Paul
says, "Faith alone is that which Justi
fies us," and James completes the stta
ment by addlns, "But not a faith
which is without works." There will
bo works with faith, as there Is thun
der with lightning; but Just as it la
not the thundor, but the lightning, tho
lightning without the thunder, that
strikes the tree so it Is not the worlt3
that. Justify. Put It In one sentence
faith alone Justifies but not the faith
that Is alone.
Works are the proof that our faith
is genuine. A thistle might claim to
be a rose bush but it would never pro
duce American Beauty roses.
Or, to change the figure, Arch
bishop Whately tells the follow
ing story: "Two gentlemen were ono
day crossing the river in a row-boat.
A dispute arose about faith and works,
one aaying that good works were of
small Importance, and that faith was
everything, the other taking Just the
opposite .view. Not being able to
agree, the boatman asked permission
to give his opinion, and said: "I hold
In my hand two oars. This In my
right hand I call 'faith,' this In my
left hand I call 'work.' Now, gentle
men, please to observe, I pull the oar
of faith and pull that alone, and the
boat goea round and round and makes
no progress. I do the same, with the
oar of works, and with precisely the
same result no advance. But now I
pull both oars together, we rush
f.hoad, and are soon at the landing."
Go faith without works, or worka with
out faith, will not suffice. We must
uso them both in order to reach the
haven of rest, - Or, as James puts It,
"But says one, 'Thou hast faith and
I have works. Show me that faith of
ihine by thy works, aad I will Bhow
ii-.ee by my works that faith of mine.' "
These pre tho two sides of tho
tihleld, the two wings of the bird, th
two arms of a man, the two oars of
the boat, the two hemispheres of the
Tlanet of truth. No contradiction, but
perfeot unity, between the apostle o'
faith and the aiioatlo of works.
HOW SHE SQUELCHED HIM.
Bloodless Duel lietweeen the Sten
ographer nnd the Superltemlent.
"I don't see how you make your
fingers go so fast," said the young
mall-order superintendent to the
young woman stenographer as she
stopped to make an erasure.
"It's quite easy to make your fin
gers go," said tho stenographer,
quite pointedly.
"You make mistakes, though, 1
see."
"I'm but human. If I never made
a mistake I might qualify for your
Job."
"But you're doing good work, on
the whole," said the mall-order sup
erintendent, patronizingly.
"You'll get me all puffed up If ynu
talk like that. Kind words can
never die, can they? Scatter a few
of theni over tho office boy. He'd
appreciate 'em."
"I didn't moan to offend you,"
said the young man.
"You couldn't," she retorted calm
lly, and resumed her letter. The
mall-order superintendent lingered
until she had completed It.
"I hear a Joke the other day about
a stenographer who married her
boss," he said. "Before they were
married he dictated to her and after
The stenographer rapped briskly
J on the bell of her machine with her
pencil.
"You've heard It, have you?"
"Not for some years. Isn't much
business In your department this
morning, Is there?"
"Do you want me to go?"
"It doesn't make much difference
' to mo, said the stenographer. "If
I you didn't talk or get In my light
I wouldn't know that you were here."
I "Well, If you don't want me to go
' I guess I'll stay. I like to watch
you.".
I "No extra charge," said the sten
' ographer. "I'm on exhibition from
9 till 5."
"Where do you go to lunch?"
"Sometimes to one place, but I
often go somewhere else for a
change. Where do you get shaved?"
"I shave myself."
"Do you ever talk to yourself? If
you don't you might go away some
where and try It sometime. I don't
think you'd learn anything, but I'm
sure you'd appreciate your conver
sation more than some other people
do."
"You're pretty sassy, aren't you?"
"I'm Just as cute as I can be, but
I'm not sassy. Were you going to
ask me to take lunch with you?"
"I was thinking of it."
"You've got another think com
ing. You'd better brace yourself for
the strain. You're new to It."
"Would you order blue points?"
"Sure."
"Anything I wanted to order?"
"Certainly."
"And any place I wanted to go?"
The mall-order superintendent
1 hesitated. "Whore do you want to
go?" he asked,
j "I'll see where my aunt wants to
go," said the stenographer. "She's
I more particular than I am. You
j wouldn't mind if I Invited some one
. else, would you?"
"What do wo want some one else
for?"
"To talk to me while you talk to
auntie," replied the stenograpner.
"Besides, he wouldn't like it if 1
went without him."
"I guess we'll call It off," said the
mall-order superintendent as he
moved away.
I
THE SAME EFFECT.
"Why doesn't he sing any more,
lost his voice?"
"No, bis nerve."
Awkward.
"You made a mistake In your pa
per," said an Indignant man, enter
ing the editorial sanctum of a dally
Journal. "1 was one of the competi
tors at an athletic entertainment
last night, and you referred to me
aa the well known lightweight cham
pion." "Well, are you not?" Inquired the
sporting editor.
"No, I'm nothing of the kind!"
was the angry response; "and It con
foundedly awkward, because I'm a
coal dealer."
Wounding Deftly.
Bobbie That Mrs. Castleton said
something nice about you.
Mrs. V0.1 Blumer (purring)
What was it, Bobbie?
"She said you didn't show your
age."
Couldn't nold It.
"Freddy, you shouldn't laugh out
loud In the school room," exclaimed
the teacher.
"I didn't mean to do It," apoll
glzed Freddy. "I was smiling when
all of a si'dt-'en the sniJlo biKtod."
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