Hot Potatoes with Jackets On, Part 2 - # 3

Hot Potatoes with Jackets On, Part 2 - # 3

While the conflict rages in the field of full salvation, we are to stand like a stone wall and face the foe. We need the courage of a Luther or the stability of a Wesley when it comes to the defense of Bible holiness. At all times and under all circumstances, let us stand as firm as the Rock of Gibraltar for the principles, doctrines and experience of holiness.

We who belong to the middle class should congratulate ourselves that we were not born with a silver spoon in our mouth and cradled in the lap of luxury. We count it a greater privilege to have come from the humble home, yes, the log cabin, than to have descended in pomp and splendor from the highest rank of distinguished nobility.

Ruskin said, "Greatest trait anyone could possess, was that of humility."

We may have prestige, fame, nobility, honor, riches, wit, wisdom, knowledge, and eloquence, but without perfect love we becomes as "sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal."

A holy man can stand to be discussed and talked about and not talk back as he is accustomed to cold shoulder and hot tongue. While he differs from the world, yet he desires not to be different from other Christians who take Jesus Christ for their pattern, the world for their filed of labor and heaven for their home.

If I ever saw a person I felt sorry for, one who had my profound disgust and heart felt sympathy, it is when I meet a boy or girl all dolled up and trying to act like a dude because they were born in the city. They know nothing of running errands, doing the chores, cutting wood, building fires, hauling wood, rolling logs, piling rocks, plowing corn, hoeing potatoes, pulling weeds, feeding Chickens, slopping the pigs, driving the cows, feeding the horses, mowing the grass, sawing wood, mauling rails, cutting corn, harvesting wheat, and much other drudgery work. No wonder 95% of those who succeed in life come from the farm!

The pastor is one of the divinely constituted orders of the Christian ministry. He is more than an official or dignitary, he is a connecting link, he meets our people and comes in contact with all of their perplexing problems. He marries the living, buries the dead, teaches the young, comforts the old, molds public sentiment, holds a high standard of morals for the community, and preaches the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ.

In the pioneer days he made a remarkable record; he saddled his horse and led in the trail of civilization. He climbed the mountain, went across the trackless forest, crossed swollen  streams, and was on the onward march through summer's heat and winter's cold. Amid falling rains and driving snows he took the gospel to the early settlers of our country. He is a man sent of God, he has religious enthusiasm, he is a live wire. The laity should catch the vision and fall in line for better things. He is a preacher, church builder, pastor, and revivalist. He can rattle the dry bones in the valley, pray, preach, and shout until there is a sound in the top of the mulberry trees indicating victory. He has salvation, common sense, natural ability, mixing qualities, love for souls, consecrated to the task, and with unction and power he goes forward preaching the gospel with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven.

If we would talk more to the Lord, we would talk less about our neighbors. Of course, we can't be saved so well that people won't talk about us, but we can be saved so well that we won't talk back when they talk. Some people talk so much they have no salvation left, only religion!

The strait gate is at the end of the way,and only straight people will be allowed through the strait gate!

Character is what we are at midnight. Reputation is what we are at high noon.

He who relates the faults of others to you will relate yours to the other fellow at his first opportunity.

Most preachers have intelligence enough to preach the gospel, yet many of them have run short of grace!

~W. B. Dunkum~

(continued with # 4)