, 1874-03-08

three hours upon me with unusual force. is in
the words Of Jesus, ''Thy will be DONE You
know where it ia found. IN hie pIasef-tne
prayer He formulated before He had been
brought to the severe trial and test Of submit
ting His human soul to the will Of His Father
in Heaven. And yet He failed not when the test
came. Gods will is not an arbitrary. tyrannlcai
WILL that simply determines 4 50 oo9ar ana SO SO s HGs
subjects, and OF His universe at the bottom 1t.
But it is will that is formed and fixed under
the guidance of the infinite wisdom, SO that
there can be no mistake in infinite love. so taat
ness in tho will. And therefore we are asked to
submit to the will Of God we are simply asked
to submit our erTing, and beclonded, and short
sighted wisdom to the infinite wlsdon1-that our
love. which may be misguided and instructed,
may submit itself to the infinite love.
THESE PROPORTIONS
are 30 simple and fair, aud perfectly sclf.ovdent
that the soul cannot by any possibility object to
them. And I want, as this is tho foundation of
tic whole OF this blessed Gospel,-the founda-
ton Of all Gods requirements, to make that
forcible and more clear that when you anu l
arc asked in anything to submit ourse1yes-our
wil1s-to tho will of God, it is simply that we
will submit to tho infinite wisdom to guide and
the infinite love to plan.
Now can any one make objection to that .? I
could pos dare not think of making M objec-
ton. else am Immediately arrested. II say
aud love Of God, and say that1 know better than
Ho that I can plan BETTER aud that thus have
neither confidence in His wisdom nor in His
loyo-that iB what every net Of Righteousness
against the will of God does. If it does not as
sumo in your mind 80 strong state as expressed
by rebelliousness-unw to submit;
nevertheless, just far as there is opposition It
il saving that it is not best that Gods Will
should be accomplished. And yet cannot con-
cciye OF a person candidly meeting tho thought
TIE FUNDAMENTAL THOUGHT
OF Gods character entering into that will in its
perfection, without at once asserting to tue
truth of that will and accepting it cheerfully.
Tnero is groater difference, infinitely greater
difference between tho wisdom and love OF God
that prcsides over your welfare and mine. be-
tween that wisdom and love Of His and ours,
than there il between our childron's and ours
Now then, is it unreasonable to ask us to
It cheerfully Gods will always has
in Wow our present and our eternal welfare
There is not single passage OF our 1fe-a
over and brings His power and His grace to bear
upon-but whose object is out OF blessing to
bring higher blessing, ont OF disaster to bring
blessing, out Of our experiences to BRING us 10
higher condition. And discipilnel IS the word
that often Expresses what God seeks to accom-
plish-our submission to Ills wil-to, 70 to
speak, put our characters into the promise OF
God and weave the web OF our life after the pat
tern of His in infinite lore and wisdom. And
when we say that VIC are, ne submit
= ~ character harm IA as shall bolt rs and
glorify Him. Now. know that there nre many
PASSAGES in the lives of every enc OF us when It
is very hard for us to come to this. snd when 1t
is very trying to submit, and where many per-
sons never do submit, bnt
N s1ArLE RIGHTEOUSNESS
hold out. How many times when death has en-
k.,oJ p,;iv md anna 3tnR taEeD---a
husband, wife, child. How often has the
will in some atliction, whom reason is against it,
said. II cannot bo reconclled;" and yet no"
foolish is the thought, when We stop for me-
ment and SEQ that we cannot help ourselves; we
cannot make it otherwise; We cannot change
the fact; but wo can change the results-the
fruits that may como from that fact.
RESISTING GOD
will not bring bnck tho dead child or the dead
partner; but resisting God will ahut us up and
deprive US OF the grace, and love. and sympathy
OF God Coming to Him will not bring back tho
lost one, but it will bring to us God IN His in
finite fulinesa. in His compassionate tenderness,
in Ills sustaining grace, in His riyifying hope
that He gives us in the outlook for sometime:
better it will give to us what, in eternity, will
be more to Us than tue tenderness OF the love OF
that dear one. It is hard for man to
loee Ills property. It is very hard for him
to haye disaster ovcrtake him when he
had looked forward to competence and to 4
peaceful, rcstfnl snfficiency in old age-to find
himself robbed of that hope and reduced, in the
midst of his matured or advanced years, to
| poverty. 1t is hard for man to meet this. It
is hard for man to be deprived Of health
It is hard for us to be deprived Of bessings that
meet us in Thousand wayB,-of tho friendships
the pleasant and beautiful things which make
mp the happiness. Nevertheless there como
| times when these experiences must be ours.
We cannot help ourselves: We must yield or
| else stand out against God and be crushed ~
| the iron wheels of fate about us.
INSTEAD OF BEING CRUSHED
in Righteousness under the iron wheels Of Gods
| chariot as it 1ushos on, by submission, He
| etoops down and picks us up from under the
wheels lifts us into the chariot, and we rdo With
! HIM as His children. [.Amen-'1 Il you will
| take hold Of Him, Ho win hold yon- II you will
take Him by the hand. He Will snstal1 :1 yon: H.. ne
will whisper comfort in your ear and will brln:
peace to your mind He will walk the waves Of
your troubled soul and say s'Peace; be still. II
| Will you sneak to Him and let Him guide you
Will any Of you hold yourselves up in rebcllions-
| ncss against the will OF God when Jesus sub
| mit.ed and drank Of the bitter cup? Are
| you greater than He2 Are yon better than He :
| Arc you in any manner to bo let oil where He
| submits? Gods will in perfect, His plan is
| righteous, the end is glorious ['' Amen."l
OH, AN GLAD
there is feeling gathering here-I can feel it in
| the air-a feeling gathering here-that y will
weld to God; will not stand out against Him ;
BE shall be mine. and shall be His Oh. there
will be such comfort, such joy, such rest, such
| strength, such triumph, such power, such
! walking with God. that 1t will ecem aa
| though you had been born into q new and higher
| destiny, q nob9er and grander being. And then
how speedily He will possess the aonl, fully and
completely His. There are souls here tonight
t that might have beon saved if they had been
willing to submit to God.
THEY WANTED TO BE CHRISTIANS,
but they didnot want to become SO i, Gods way;
| They would not seek in His way. They wanted
| to avoid publicity. They wanted to get religion
il, different way; wanted in short, to have thei1
| will. Submission ia the essencc-thc quintesacnce
| of belief; the fundamental fact, tho supreme
| characteristics most marked evidence Of a
| Christian character. "Not my will, but Thine,
| bo DONE" There are brothers and sisters here
tonight that are not satisfied with their Chris
tian lives. but it they will tonight mako COM
! plete s,lrrender-an unconditional ..surrender-
| God will take possession Of them and thcre viii
! bo peace. [''Amen."] =
APToMATTox WILL COME.
and the drum will be muf11ed. and their arms Will
bo reversed, and the sword will be shcathc1
| and peace will be blown al over tho land
] =. Colf t-,,ar Will