The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1889-02-13
For the Central Presbyterian.
lettings on the Scriptures.

lettings on the Scriptures.
John xiv: IL Ye believe in God, be-
Geve also in Me. In my Fathers house are
many mansions.
There is as rigorous logic underlying
the utterances of our Lord as in any of
the Ep;stles of Paul Observe it here.
l. Naked theism is insufficient, faith
In God must be supplemented by faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ. "Ye believe in
God"-so do the devils, believe and
tremble. So do the heather, " For the
invisible things of Him from the creation
of the world are clearly seen-seen by
the heather and understood in their
nature. Ye believe in God"-but the
Mohammedsn does the same, and from
his every Mosque and Minaret the Muez-
gin proclaims that faith, there is one
God I'D Mohsmmed is his prophet"
"Ye believe in God" yes, but every
Deist, Pantheist and Universalist boast
fully declares the same belief You must
travel further into the realm of faith
than these have gone. believe also in
Me-" There you have taken the step
across the gulf which separates the be-
lever In Christ from the host of the IN
saved on earth and In hell.
2 True faith in God involves faith in
Christ. 1t is incomplete it Is true, but it
finds it's complement in saving faith.
"Ye believe in God" why not then L" be-
heve also in Me-" In Me, who speak the
words of God John iii: 34), do the works
of God John v: 1910, and declared to
be the son of God with power (Rom. i :
AZ The argunae'1t,tnu ad honeimens is
powerful complete that faith which you
say you have in God and it finds full
satisfaction only in the well beloved Son
of God. mo man hath seen God at
any time; the only begotten Son, who is
in the bosom of the Father, He hath de
elared Him"
g. With faith in God and faith in
Christ comes hope of glory. Ye be-
leve in God, believe also in Me. In
my Fathers house are many mansions. "
Ny Fathers house." How beautiful
the two beliefs here blend " My Faith
er and your Father, my God and your
God, and in His house are the many
mansions. What a home feeling the
words inspire Look up through cloud
ed skies, on the dark stormy night, and
let this home light shine into your soul
veil
&" In it all is light and glory,
Ger 1t shines a Aightless day"
But more than all else, I who am a
Join heir with Jesus Christ, looking up to
it can say with Him, my Father
house." Then too therell be room for
me there, for in my Fathers house are
many mansions" No fear that I, though
l am less than the least of all saints
shall be crowded out. There is no over
crowding the many mansions OF the in
finite God, however 1 might think &C
sometimes. While l think OF the great
multitude whom no man can number
out of all nations, and kindreds, anC
people, and tongues, who are already
there I think OF the dear lambs, two
ffths of those born into the world, who
are carried by their angels into the arms
Of jesus look abroad upon the heather
world and still see them coming from the
east and from the west, from the north
and from the south and sitting down in
the kingdom of God still warranted BY
His own word l say, " and yet there i,
room Blessed be God There arr
many mansions, 80 that the humOest o
those who trust in Jesus will have hi
own place in that innumerable throng
A mansion prepared for him from tn,
foundation of the world.
Reader, in the name OF Jesus l LAY
humble claim to my place amid those
many mansions can you, believing IL
God, believing also in Jesus, Law claim Il
yours? r. A. L.