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The guidance of the Holy Spirit,
especially in the matter of prayer,
ts stressed in these verses, but they
are a part of a longer passage deal.
ing with the indwelling, enabling,
and guiding power of the Holy
Spirit (read vv. 9-14). Every detail
of life in the home, at business, or
in social relations should be in con.
scious submission to His leading.
It is in the realm of the spiritual,
however, that we find ourselves
~eu]iarly infirm (v. 26], and this
shows itseK especially in prayer---
"we know not how to pray as we
ought." Then the Spirit in the
Christian makes intercession, How
blessed! "The practical meaning of
these profound words seems to be
that the divine Spirit, by His ira.
mediate influence in the saint's soul,
which becomes as it were the organ
Of his owtt address to the Father,
secures the rightness of the essence
of the saint's prayer. To our under-
standings such intercessions with
groanings which cannot be uttered,
take the form of desires of ours,
i~spired and secured "by Him. In
~ny special ease of prayer, the saint
~my 0r may not use words; but any-
Wise the root-desires that underlie
~e prayer, being the Holy Spirit's
promptings, are unutterable to the
[ull. in the heart the Father sees
below the surface of our ignorance
the gacred longings which are the
exprassion of the Spirit's influence"
(H. C. G. Menlo),
IV. Walking in the Spirit (Gal. 5:
~g born again of the Spirit,
daily by the Spirit, it is right
as v, 25 puts it) "if we live
Spirit, let us also walk by
fit." The works of the flesh.
in their wickedness and
listed in the verses preeed-
l~qg tvv, 19-21) and then by striking
eontrast we have the fruit of the
~irit in the life of "Jm Christian.
lqObe the distinction: Work is some-
: we produce; fruit is some-
: that grows.
Walking in the Spirit the Chris-
finds in his life the inward
of love. joy, and peace.
press themselves out-
in longsuffering, kindness.
faithfulness, meekness.
self-control. The Spirit-filled
is not only a good man; he
ood life
have moved from Mary-! Washington, D. C were visitors
two
sons
KABLETOWN Myerst~wn community. They vis- 'Fown, spen~ the past week-cud land to the tenant house on the! Sunday at ~he home of Mrs. M.
ited the former's sister, Mrs. Ruf- with her school friend, Miss Betty Baker farm. Mr: Simmon will be lK. Bowers. Mr. Knight, who is
M "" "-- z~ us Bell, of near Rippon [&me Buyer Sunday visitors withemployed by Mr. Joe Vaughn to Staff Sergeant at Fort Belvoir,
r. tylorrlsl%OaD, O /halMlllO '~, " I "
. E,~.q We are very sorry to learn of Mr and Mrs l~aymond Buyer were help on the farm. Va and Mrs. Knight, the daugh-
spent ~untlay Wlbll vll~ UIIU i " " ' "
the sudden illness of Mr. E. G. )Mr. and Mrs. John Buyer of Char; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mills aud tel" of Mrs. Mona Goldsberry, were
hi,pp.
famll,of Baltimore Md s eat th~ recen l rrle 1
~" " (ts~ n and famil-Wilson at Gerardstown. He form-I los Town and their son-in-law and 'y " P - t y ma " d "nWashington,
31rs. li, O,Derl~ l)o ~') " " Y
erly lived at "The Hermitage. ' { dauffhter, Mr and Mrs Fred Leh- week-end with Mrs. Mills s parents, D.C. ,
Wl'lO'i~aVe been living in ~()'i 1eY- " "
i A--ril moved ,Mr. and Mrs. Forrest E. Rissler man of Baltimore, Md Mr .and Mrs. O. Chicchiriehi.[ John McCarty and faniily were
co)' protIer~y s ~me p ,
N and son, Charles, of Wflkensburg, [ Mr and Mrs Grady Owens and Mr. and Mrs. Dineen Welsh, of dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and
tms pas~ ~acur