The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-29

shall be added unto you.v II is divine
and eternal law. You cannot make
better Investment than by giving what
you have, although il seems as II you have
not enough TO keep you now, 10 someone
that needs il more than yourself. we
read that Abraham became very rich, ana
that God blessed him i'm all things.
And then, i'm the third place, notice
that he had his SON given back TO nina
new son. This was not only the testing
OF Abraham but of Isaac as we'll. Isaac
was grown up at this time, and II ne nad
wanted to resist his father be could have
done so. He was willing sacrifice. lie
had trained Isaac TO walk with God. You
will notice that we know very little
about Isaac. Only one or two things
are recorded in the Bible about Isaac. But
am glad that we know this one thing
about him, which shows that he was
worthy successor to his father. When
the supreme test came and Abraham had
10 tell him that IL was not 10 be lamb,
but himself that was to be offered,
Isaac was a willing sacrifice. The
Lord has given him son that Will
trust him unto the uttermost. Thus 1t
was with that son to whom / referred last
week, the son of Mrs. Spurgeon, when she
told her boy that if he did not grow up TO
be a Cody man, she would rise up in the
Judgment and bear witness against him.
And did not God give back her son hum
dred fold? And did not God give back
Ahraham's son unto him hundred fold
so that today the blessing of the God of
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob comes and
touches us, because of the loyalty OF
Isaac
And then / notice another thing that
came to Abraham was a great spiritual
uplift OF knowledge and guidance. Abra-
ham never went around after this trying
TO ask counsel OF men. He had the annoint-
ing OF the Holy One upon him. There came
10 him a revelation of the heart OF God, OF
Gods eternal sacrifice. All! the Cross was
in the heart OF God before III was built on
Calvary, but ii took 1000 years before men
could begin to see it, and then tn = would
not have seen il il Isaac had not !been Of
cred. And more than eighteen centuries
after the death of Christ there are some
people who do not realize that this is
only a revelation of what was in
think, perhaps, of all of those that we call
the = Old Testament saints Abraham
saw theICross, the Lamb that was slain,
from before the foundation ofthe world.
III you would like to come into fellowship
with God there is only one path
that leads there, and that is the
pal h that goes to the top of Moriah,
that goes to the top of Calvary. Abraham
stood on the summit OF the one, and he
saw the summit OF the other. In all the
spiritual world there was no other noun
tain go high as this upon which the tenn
pie of Jerusalem was afterward to be
built. And as Abraham stood upon
the top, he looked over the lower
hills and valleys and plains, and he
saw the land of promise; he saw the bond
age in Egypt; he saw the delivery; he saw
his children's children's children coming
after four hundred years into the land
where he was; he saw something OF the
vicissitudes of His experience, OF the times
when they failed to trust Him. 1t Is re-
corded that all this was revealed unto
Abraham. But o, friends, he saw more
than that. He looked across the centuries
nay, he looked across the ages, until he
caught again q glimpse OF a mountain near
by the very spot where he put the knife
TO the throat OF Isaac, and there he saw
Jesus-Jesus who went and preached the
Gospel. And this Is the Gospel of God,
triumph of the Cross. Asl Jesus
said himself, "Your father Abraham
rejoiced to see My day and he
saw il and was glad.n Into the revelation
of the wisdom OF God do bid you come
today, by the giving of the last thing un-
to Him. And that was not all. Power
came to him. People are standing up
hither and thither and saying, 81 want
power. Give me power.r God will fill
you with it IL you will have it. And the
only power in the universe is
the power of the Cross, the
only power Is the power OF living
sacrifice. God Himself could never have
saved the world except by love and by
the breaking heart and the gift of his only
begotten Son, and you can save IL in no
other way. Into that divine fellowship
and sacrifice is God bidding US come
today.
But one says, "where was the power for
God?" His personal influence for one
thing" 80 but what little thing that
rem for another thing. His influence
over his childrens children for another
thing. "In thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed"
And more than that. Out of him was to
come king; out OF HIM were to come the
prophets and saints that knew and kept
the oracles OF God. i do not know what
cursing of man may hang upon
my being loyal to God this after
noon, but l can almost think that
our rejoicing in the love of God, in the
gift of His only begotten Son today
might have been all bound up in the
loyalty of this Father in that hour Of test
ing. God, today / thank Thee for
father, the father of every one of us who
are faithful unto Thee, did not fail
in the time of testing, by which
today they that are OF faith are
the children of faithful Abraham. honor
the Wcsleys, and Luther and the early
apostles, and the transformers of the
world OF Righteousness. but / get my
spiritual lineage, so far as men are con-
cerned, back of all these and today pray
God to make me child OF faithful
Abraham. God, we read, was not as hamed
TO be called his God, and He took His
great name and bound 1t up for the eter-
mites with the name OF this noble man.
lie said, and we say il after Him today,
al am the God of Abraham" You have
heard that before. He was not ashamed
90 be called Abraham's God. He ives
proud 60 take His name and tie il up
through all centuries TO the name
of this divine man. This God that
Is the God of Abraham was the God not of
the dead but OF the living, and was the
one that said to him, 81 am thy exceeding
great reward" Sometimes / have wished
that | might look into the glory OF the
world TO come. Sometimes have looked
down and thought that I would like TO
solve the mysteries OF dark world. We get
a glimpse OF this and we get n glimpse OF
that. Down there we see man that is