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Show THE SOUL AND RESPONSIBILITY. Work out )our onn salvation Philip, plans ll is The word of rntil to the church at Phillip! Is one filled with valuable sttg sestlons as to practical splrltuallt) The words of this twelfth xerse have i special message to thoe who In the Chrlstlin life should be reachlns after the Ideal set forth In the term salvation salva-tion It Is not however to this phase of lla measage so much as to Hh suggestion of the power of our own self will In the doing of life s work ind the solution of Ita problems we turn In thla moment Vfter Jesus none has apprehended so clearl) the value und neeesslt) of the human soul In the outworklnr of this problem as did Paul How grave beautiful nnd majestic life Is In Its possibilities and may he aurpasslngl) so In Its achievements he saw In his onn apirltuil experiences whfch are common to the race He la) strcs upon the souls lndlvlduul majest) but more upon those acts and experiences of the soul In which It stands apart working out for Itself Its cwn peiaoiiul pioblein We dwell so much upon the laclal problems upon the i,reat social soul urn so Inipresi-ed by tho Inter-relatedness of life, the In-trlcac) In-trlcac) of lis mesh tho Involved pio cesses of the da)s that we do not see as clearl) as vvc ought the outstanding out-standing personal element A thousand thou-sand knots more cunnlnglj Intricate than that Alexander severed with his keen blade bind together the great imrvelou life of tho world und refuse fthsolulel) to )lld to the issaulta o' either genius or lime, selfishness or hate And )et as the tin) aplash of color lost In tho Intricate deelgii of a great tapestr) Is onl) lost In a lelatlvo sense so a human life whose genesis service and toil are absorbed h) tho social needs Is only In faint measuie the possession of that which has tiken it Into its life In the eye of the eternal eter-nal master ever) hit of the woof of life weaves Into the age lin it de finite beginning and ending and a hu man lire i not in the tlnallt) part of the great historic soul It la tho soul (oil has foievei laid tlnallt) In do. xclopment and rcsponslbllli) In the lndlvlduul soul The temptation to evade the personal element Is ever pi oscnt finding Its root In our own stilish delre within and the appeil of circumstance without. Man can huve no hlghei glui) than that of facing thl truth of hm 0ten HhI masterhood of the element unci questions of life save it be hla actual development or his sslbllltlcs in high moral and plrltunl achievement Those achievement aieslrlctl) na) absolute ly personal Back of what men see there la some point where the human soul stand wholly alone untouched unmastered One catches the spirit of an In work Ing hack to the da) wlien In the tiny rose-tinted body theie came nut of a mist of pain and th very valle) of shadow in th Lining of life, the soul und that ane Is Intensified as one turns tn the ending and dwell, upnn the U.i experience the human soul fates In the taith What la the chief bason of ch' Is It not that leaaon of th. soul, integrity nnd ll e.ntlal mart ne. from all othe, OU., AmJ , h life Jo anil agony I. , ,h foIn(,r recurring solemn and nrretluh-b thought of the snu I . autononi) A thousand volets S to us hu l i, irue nnd that not our ilrcumatancis not our birth. Ight not the drift of the . or the uplift of the time make ... what we are but that within ua Is a ""bV"1003 ' "" "" PWr '" " arr The cry of the apottl la not that of the my.tl. when h. ay ork nit our own llfes b.t " i, ,, B I wisdom In full.t consonance wUh Mfe . continued xprl.ne Its messng. of truth symbolic ,, spoken and the hope and Impult of th soul To be llev. that clrciimstanc. I greats, than th soul while facing (he truth that lh. soul I, the crown of lha, ,u.po,0 I which haa reached through th. .Huge .Hu-ge of ih. age tonurl nerfe tne., ,, to Head folly T() hllevu 1wl either bauble or ,oli(lm tntHfd I I ui pos. I hand In Idle plly ur ,,y u heaving tide of gr.at.bllnd force. ,, th eu if time Is to Jr, d ,., r n !. ," '""u '"" ""I ed purpose mn mil without us uu I to tint In " nhl h tlndr, both ciuso anl To believe that this soul, ihe greatest j J of all Ood s works of which we know, Is at liberty to move In line with might thnn the best anl highest, to live npart from the purpose of the lavv which would work tho largest and most perfect per-fect thing In us nnd through our struggle strug-gle mil choice and service to be passive nmld a conflict which sees the enlistment of the nges mightiest force nil this Is to den) the most evident evi-dent of the things about us The nature na-ture of the soil, the ordering of life, the xolccs of mind and henit, no les than the Word of God teach tint at the tenter un I not the circumference of life Is the force of masterhood, and the kingship of our life Is not onl) n blessed losslblllt) but a solemn dill) And Is It trite to sa) that duty entries oxer responsibility We must cither work out our own silvatlon or apprehend Its opposite In that which the word lost-ness lost-ness convc)s 8 |