The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-05-15

Christ of beauty, a Christ Of power
All! there Is one word of FIVE letters
that would like to write; but I have
no sheet fair enough TO write on it. and
no pencil good enough to inscribe it.
Give me a sheet of heavenly records,
and some pencil used by angel in de-
scribing a victory, and then with hand
struck with . supernatural energy, and
with pencil dipped in everlasting morn
ing, Will write it out in capitals of
love: JESUS, Jesus! 1t is this One
that is waiting for you and for me, for
we are on the same platform before
God. How long He waited for me!
How long He has waited for you. Wait
ing as a banqueter waits for his delayed
guests, the meat smoking, and the
beakers trimming, and the minstrel
with his finger on the stiff string ready
to strike at the first clash of the hOOfs
at the gateway. Visiting as mother
waits for boy that ten years ago went
off dragging her bleeding heart after
him. Waiting. o, can you not give
some comparison intense enough, inn
Fortunate enough, high as heaven, deep
as hell and vast as eternity? Not ex-
pecting that you can help me with such
a comparison, simply say he IS wait
ing as only an all sympathetic Christ
knows how to wait for a wandering
soul
Bow the knee and kiss the Son
Come and welcome sinner, come
But I remark again. not only Christ
is waiting, but the Holy Spirit is wait
ing, Why are some sermons a dead
failure? Why are there songs that do
not get their wing under the people?
Why are there prayers that get no
higher up than a hunters hallOO? Be
cause there is missing link that only
the Holy Spirit can make. If that
Spirit should come through this as
III IA
be a power felt like that when Saul
was endorsed on the road to Damascus,
like as when Lydia's heart was broken
in her fine store, like as when three
thousand souls were lifted out of mid
night into nidnOon at the PentecOst.
Do you notice that sometimes that
Spirit takes an insignificant agency to
save a soul? I think it is very often
that at just one passage of Scripture,
just one word of Scripture, a soul is
saved because the Holy Spirit
gives it supernatural power. Do
you know what it was that
saved Martin Luther? It was that
one verse: 1.-The Just shall live by faith -
Do you know what it was that brought
Augustine from his horrible dissipation?
1t was that one verse: Put ye on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and make no pro-
vision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts
thereof" Do you know what it was
that saved Hedley Wears, the lebrated
soldier? 1t was the one passage: BE
lieve in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved" Do you know what it
was that brought Jonathan Edwards to
Christ? 1t was the one passage: ''NOw
unto Him be glory forever and ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
I read my text, 30, give thanks unto
/ the Lord, for He Is good, - and a young
man stood in the gallery and said to
| himself, II have never rendered one ac-
ceptable offering of gratitude to God in
| all my life. "Here, Lord. I am
Thine forever" By that one pas
sage of Scripture he was brought
| into the Kingdom, and if
might tell my own experience, !
might tell how one Sabbath afternoon
I was brought to the peace of the Cos
| pei by reading of the SyrO-P hOenician's
| cry to Christ where she said: even
the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall
from the masters table" PhilOsOphic
sermons never saved anybody. Meta
| physical sermons never saved any body.
An earnest plea going right out of the
| heart blessed of the Holy Ghost, that is
what saves; that is what brings people
into the kingdom of Christ. I suppose
| that the world thought that Thomas
Chalmers preached great sermons ii
his early ministry, but Thomas Chal
mers says he never preached at all IN
| til years after he had occupied pulpit
he came out of his sick room, and veal
and emaciated he stood and told the
story of Christ to the people.
And in the great day of eternity i
will be found that not so much the eIO
| quent sermons brought men to Chris
as the story told, perhaps, by those wh'
were unknown on earth, the simple
story of the Saviours love and mercy
sent by the power of the Holy GhOs
straight to the heart Come, Holy
Ghost Ay, he is here this morning
He fills all the place. I tell you thu
Holy Ghost is ready.
Then I go on and tell you the churcI
is ready. There are those here vvh'
say: No one cares for my soul" w
do not care for it You see a man bow
ing his head in prayer and you say
That man is Indifferent That MAJ
bows his head in prayer that the trut1
may go to every heart. The air Is full
of prayers. They are going up thi
! uuornino from this Assem- blv HIM