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106 such as drop dead issues and deal vigorously with the living questions of the day; of live newspapers—these are such as are enterprising in gathering all the news that interests, and in a racy handling of the topics of the times; of live men these are energetic, earnest, pushing people, who rest not until they accomplish, and that successfully, whatever ends they undertake. The expression has come down, in a reflected form, from the ancient language of symbolism, in which the Scriptures are written. Only, in them the phrase is always spiritually applied.

There, living things are such as are touched by the breath of God. Natural things are held to be, in themselves, dead. A dead man, in the light of the Word of God, is one who is given over to selfishness and worldliness. A live man is one who has dropped the old, dead issues of a merely natural life, and deals vigorously with the living issues which the spiritual condition of the world and his own soul presents. He is enterprising in gathering unto himself the living truths that relate to higher life. He is energetic, earnest, pushing, in all that relates to the regeneration of his own soul and the leading of the world on to higher levels. He is alive to everything of spiritual import and eternal issue, because his faith in the Lord is established, his love to the Lord has taken some absolute form,