The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-01

words Let the minister of Christ ask himself.
yea. let him ask tho people, whether there be
not too mach of pleading "wii you not do this
or that for Jesus?' viii you nos be present in
His house. help on His cause, speak out fer
Him. who gave Himself for ycu?
Do we not. with all our love for independent
thought and action. sometimes weary of this
uncessing appeal, often 70 feelings which the
hearers do not possess2
Surely, now and then Il is refreshing as the
breath OF the ocean to be told. as when we were
little children, do this. do that, for the Lord
hath spoken IL. II takes such l5ae OF respons-
Utility from the heart; 1t clears away so many
clouds between this lodging-plsce and our land
of Benlsh; it makes so certain which road we
should take TO reach the goal, that 10 is TO me
wonderful that more do not cry out from the
depths of their stumbling, uncertain lives, with
ST. Paul: Lord. what wilt Thou have me 20
dor" or with little Samuel: "Speak Lord, for
Thy servant hesretn."
Surely, for such men and children as have
learned the foolishness of self-cnoIce and the
wisdom of Gods way, heaven begins below.
And still ";he Lord hath need of them"-ot
the white ass and colt, Of the man bearing
the pitcher of water in holy week so long ago.
and today: If you and me. of all the common
things Of life. in order that His kingdom may
come aud His will be zone over the wide earth
as il is done in heaven
1t Ia marvellous act that the great God
Jehovah should require anything Of us-His
sons aud daughters by adoption. Run over
your daily life iris Advent morning. IL 10 a
worldwide picture, you may be sure of that.
since al humanity is very much alike as seen
by God. Therefore do not be ashamed to look
within moment: TO open up those dark clos
cts OF the soul; to expose the skeletons hidden
there: 10 really review yourself, your real self
God views you.
Surely ti,ere is small cause for pride, for self
pf aise, or even for c0ntentment there, Is there
not? Aud yet the sweetest message, one full OF
hope to the. mos. hopeless OF his ransomed
q OK is this: The Lord hath need of you, hath
need of this broken, willfui life of yours; can
use you just you are to further his grand
scheme of "bringing together al things In
CHrist'-can be hndered mot thwarted), but
bindered in His loving purposes, II you dare TO
hinder them, and therefore bids His ministry in
the Advent time TO go out into the highways
and hedges aud with loving force compel the
poor. the MANNED, the halt and the blind 10
come Ia, thst HIS house may be full, and to set
to work somewhere in His great vineyard that
the harvest may be ready for the reaper when
He cometh, when He cometh with righteous
ness to judge the world and the people with Bis
truth"
have not learned this lesson. you stand and
wait, and the Church's work, too, halts and
waits, and the hands and souls of the few grow
tired by reason not of the heavy yoke of Christ,
but of the dead weight which the modern
church is Obliged to csrry-the inertia of the
many who yet are signed with the signet of
the Crucifed and must answer for their life
long lack Of service at the judgment seat Of the
iucarnata King