What Every Christian Must Do.
"Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God" is one of the traits which the apostle names as characterizing men in the last, perilous times of the church. It is not surprising that men of the world, who have never been converted, and who have their portion in this life, and who know nothing of the joys which true religion imparts to the soul, should seek after the vain pleasures and gratifications of the world. They know no higher joy, and it is natural for them to indulge in this. But how men and women who profess to be the children of God, to possess the spirit of Jesus, to be animated with high and heavenly hopes, which lift them above the world and impart a peace and joy the world knows not of, can heartily enter into the spirit and indulge in all the vain and frivolous amusements and pleasures of the world, is a mystery which can only be solved on the supposition that while they have a name to live, they are dead; that while they have the form of godliness, they are destitute of its power. "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." But how can any one have the Spirit of Christ and also the spirit of the world? "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." This is what every Christian must do, separate himself from sinners, so as not to partake of their evil deeds, and keep himself unspotted from the world.—Methodist Recorder.