Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-07-05
WHEN JESUS CONES.

You can, in the first place, let him
stand without a word of recognition;
but do not think your sense Of common
walking on such long journey, you
will certainly give him chair on which
he may sit. He is so weary, you would
not let him stand without some recogni-
ton. If beggar comes to your door,
you recognize him and say, "What do
you want?" IL you meet stranger faint
in the street, you say, "What is the
matter with your and your common
humanity, and your common sympathy,
and your common sense of propriety
will not allow you to let him stand
without recognition-the wounded one
of the hills. You will ask, What makes
him weepp where was he hurt? who
wounded himp whence came hep whittier
goes hep know there have been men
hated Christ, but know very well that
that is not what you will do with Jesus
Another thing you can do with him
you can thrust him back from your
heart and tell him to stand aside. If
an inoffensive person comes and per-
sists in standing close up to you, and
you have in various ways given him to
understand that you do not want his
presence or his society, then you ask the
reason of his impertinence and bid him
away. Well, that is what we can do
with Jesus.
He has stood close by us great while
ten, twenty, thirty, forty years. He
has stood close by you three times a
day breaking bread for your household,
all night watching by your pillow. He
has been in the nursery among your
children, he has been in the store among
your goods, he has been in the factory
amid the flying Wheels and now if you
do not like his society you can bid him
away; aye IL he will not go you can
take him by the throat and tell him you
do not want his interference, that you
do not want his breath on your
cheek, that you do not want his eye on
your behavior You can bid him away;
or If he will not go in that way, then
you can stamp your foot as you would
at dog and cry "Begonel"
Yet | know you will not treat Jesus
that way. When PLATE could not do
that, You could not. Desperadoes and out
laws might do so, but know that that
Is not the way You will treat him, that
that is not what you will do with Jesus.
There is another thing you can do with
him-you can look on him merely as an
optician to cure blind eyes, or an aurist
to tune deaf ears, friend, good
friend a helpful companion, cheerful
passenger on shipboard; but that will
amount TO nothing.
FEAR NOT sUFIaCIENT.
You can look upon him as a God and
be abashed while he rouses the storm,
or blasts a fig tree, or heaves rock
down the mountain side. That will not
do you any good--no more save your
soul than the admiration you have for
John Milton or William Shakespeare
] can think of only one more thing you
can do with Jesus, and that is to take
him into your hearts. That is the best
thing You can do with him, that is the
only safe thing you can do with him,
and may the Lord omnipotent by his
spirit help me to persuade you to do
that A minister of Christ was speak
ing to some children and said, 81 will
point you 10 Christ" A little child rose
in the audience and came up and put
her hand in the hand of the pastor and
| said; please, sir, take mo To Jesus now.
| want TO go now" Oh, that it might
DO now with such simplicity of expert
ence that you and join hands and seek
after Christ and get an expression of his
benefaction and his meroyl
You may take Christ into your conf
dence, II you cannot trust him, whom
can You trustg | do not offer YOU A dry,