Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-30
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Isaiah iv. d: Seek We the Lord while
He may be found" Fol lowing is the
sermon:
Isaiah stands head and shoulders
above the Old Testament authors in
vivid descriptivencss of Christ Other
prophets give an outline OF our Saviour's
features. Some of them present, as 1t
were, the side face of Christ; others
bust of Christ; but Isaiah gives us n full
length portrait of Christ Other Scrip.
ture writer's excel in some things
Ezekiel more weird, David more pa
-thetic, Solomon more epigramatic, Hab-
akkuk more sublime; but when you
want to see Christ coming out from the
gates of prophecy in all His grandeur
and glory, you involuntarily turn to
Isaiah. So that If the prophecies in re-
gard to Christ might be called the "Or-
atorio of the Messiah" the writing OF
Isaiah is the "Hallelujah Chorus"
where all the batons wave and all the
trumpets come in. Isaiah was not a
man picked up out of insignificance by
inspiration. He was known and hon.
.ored. Josephus and Philo, and Sirach
.extolled him in their writings What
Paul was among the apostles. Isaiah
was among the prophets.
My text finds him standing on a
mountain OF inspiration, looking out
into the future, beholding Christ adj
vancing and anxious that all men might
know Him; his voice rings down the
ages: Seek We the Lord while He may
be found" 60" says someone, that
was for olden times" No, my nearer.
If you have travelled in other lands you
have taken q circular letter of credit
from some banking house in London,
and in St Petersburg, or Venice, or
Rome, or Antwerp, or Brussels, or
Paris, you presented that letter and got
financial help Immediately. And want
you to understand that the text, in
stead of being appropriate for one age,
or for one land, is circular letter for
all ages and for all lands, and whenever
it is presented for help, the help comes:
"Seck We the Lord while He may be
found"
/ come to-day with no hair spun
theories of religion, with no nice dis
tinctions, with no elaborate disquisi-
ton, but with, a plain talk on the mat
tiers of personal religion. l feel that
the sermon preach this morning will
be the SAVIOR of life unto life, or of death
unto death In other words, the gospel
of Christ is powerful medicine; it
either kills or cures. There are those
who say: ~ would like to become
Christian. l have been waiting good
while for the right kind of influence to
come" and still you are waiting. You
arc wiser in worldly things than you
are in religious things. And yet there
are men who say they are waiting to
get to Heaven-waiting, waiting, but
not with intelligent waiting, or they
would get on board the line of Christian
influences that would bear them into
the kingdom of God.
Now you know very we'll that to seek
a thing is to search for it with earnest
.endeavor. If you want to see certain
man in London, and there is matter
of much money connected with your
seeing him, and you cannot at first find
him, you do not give up the search.
You look in the directory. but cannot
find the name; you go in circles where
you think, perhaps, he may mingle,
and, having found the part of the city
where he lives but perhaps not know
ing the street, you go through street
after street and from block to block,
and you keep on searching for weeks
and for months.
You say: 1T is matter of ten thou
sand pounds whether see him or not"
% that men were as persistent in seek
ing for Christ! Had you one-half that
persistence you would long ago have
found Him who is the Joy of the for
igiven spirit. We may pay our debts,
we may attend church, we may relieve
the poor, we may be public benefactors,
and yet all our life disobey the text;
never seek God; never gain Heaven.
o that the spirit of God would help this
morning while try to show you in
carrying out the idea of my text, first,
how to seek the Lord, and in the next
place, when to seek him. Seek We the
Lord while he may be found"
Iremarl1, in the first place, you are to
seek the Lord through earnest and be-
lieving prayer. God is not an autocrat
or despot seated on q throne with his
arms resting on braEen lions and SEN
tinel pacing up and down at the foot of
the throne. God is father seated in a
bower, waiting for his children to come
and climb on his knee and get his kiss
and his benediction. Prayer is the cup
with which we 60 TO the fountain of
living water" and dip up refreshment
for our thirsty soul. Grace does not
come to the heart as we set cask of
water to catch the rain in the shower.
1t is pulley fastened to the throne Of
God which we pull, bringing the bless
in0