Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-22

true Godward. We must be the friend1
We cannot treat Christ badly all oui
lives and expect Him to treat us low
| ingy. | was reading of sea fgh,
| in which Lord Nelson captured a
| French officer, and when the French
| officer offered Lord Nelson his hand
Nelson replied: First give me your
sword, and then give me your hand
Surrender of our resistance to God
mist precede Gods protfer of pardon
to us. Repentance before forgiveness
| You must give up your rebellious
| sword before you can get a grasp OF
| the divine hand.
Oh, what a glorious state Of things .
have the friendship of God! Why,
we could ford to have all the world
against us and all other worlds against
| US II we had God for us. He could in
a minute blot out this universe, and
| In another minute make a better uni
verse. | have no idea that God tried
hard when lie made all things. The
most brilliant thing known to US IS
| light, and for the creation of that He
only used a word of command AS
out Of a flint frontiersman strikes a
spark, so out of one word God struck
the monday sun. For the making of
the mt universe | do not read tina t
God lifted so much as finger. The
Bible frequently speaks of Gods hand
and Gods arm and Gods shoulder and
Gods foot; then suppose He should
put hand and arm and shoulder and
foot to utmost tension, what could He
not make? That God of such demon
trated and undemonstrated strength
you may have for your present and
everlasting friend, not stately and
reticent friend, hard to get at, but as
approachable as country mansion on
n summer day, when all the doors and
windows are wide open. Christ said:
~ am the door" And He Is wide
door, n high door, a palace door, an al
ways open door.
My four-year-old child got hurt and
did not cry until hours after, when
her mother came home, and then she
burst into weeping, and some of the
domestics, not understanding human
nature, said to her: "NNhy did you not
cry before?" She answered: There
was no one to cry to-" Now, I have to
tell you that while human sympathy
may be absent. divine sympathy is al
ways accessible. Give God your love,
and get His love; your service, and Sc
cure His help; your repentance, and
have His pardon. God a friend? Why,
that means all your wounds mcdicated.
all your SORROWS soothcd, and if some
sudden catastrophe should hur you
out of earth it would only hurl you into
Heaven.
IL God is your friend, you cannot go
out Of the world too quickly or sudden
~ so far as your own happiness is con
cerned There were two Christians
who entered Heaven. The one was
standing at window in perfect health,
watching shower, and the lightning
instantly slew him, but the lightning
did not flash down the sky as swiftly
rs his spirit flashed upward. The
Christian man who died on the same
day next door had been for year or
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