Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-12-01

1HdO JUS pedkdDiN pIcClOuc Sl1b Is Uue
Son of God. He came to US, lifted US
up, healed our hearts wounded and
broken in sin, made us new creatures
in himself, delivered our souls from
death, our eyes from tears, our feet
from falling and set to ringing within
us the bells of larger and sweeter
hope. Every redeemed soul can say
II love the Lord because he hath
heard my voice and my supplication, =
When [ was a child sleeping ia the
little trundle bed / would sometimes
awake frightened and call for my
mother, she, dear woman, seemed To
me to be always awake, and call upon
her when | would, she would hear, so
since she has gone | have counted it a
privilege and blessing beyond all 9TH
ers that call when | would by day or
by night the ears Of the Father have
been open to my cry.
The Answer. is not just what
We would expect but wonderously sig
nificant. 1t is three fold and is di-
vided in the reverse order of the scrip
ture statement.
/. Il will pay my VOWS" That is
we best repay God for his goodness by
paying him what We have promised.
What we owe him. Think of VOWS we
have made and broken, vows made at
conversion, when we united with the
church, when we became member Of
the Young Peoples society, when we
were in trouble and sorrow the wrecks
OF broken VOWS are strewn all along
the pathway of the past.
This is Gods pay day, the day in
which we should come and pay him
what we vowed years ago. That is a
good day to the workingman when he
is paid off in full, but that IS better
day for him when he pays up all his
debts and returns TO the loved ones at
home. This will be to US an I'M
speakably good day five will settle
up in full with God.
2. II will call upon the name of
the Lord" This is, the way to COM
pensate God, that is to cali upon Him.
Recognize Him as the source of all
our blessings.
Be not like the earth-werm which
boreS downward into the silence and
darkness; be not like the swine that
eats the acorns with never a thought
or care whence they come. Be like
the spring robin whose head is always
turned skyward, whose heart is full
of gladnesS, whose abundant and eXu-
berant life overfiows with perpetual
song of ravishing sweetness.
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hearty thanksgiving and honest con-
fession of sin and the child's cry for
mercy. It's day of fasting and re-
joicing: ought it not also to be day
of feasting and praying? Eating and
praying may go together as truly as
fasting and praying, woe be to us if
we feed our bodies today on the fat Of
the land and starve our souls!
3. 81 will take the cup Of saliva
tion;" that is, the way co render unto
the Lord, is gratefully to receive from
the Lord. We best give to Him by
taking what He gives. In some mys-
tic yet real way the cup of salvation
stands for our intimate and indissolu
BILE union with the Lord, and so the
heir to all the riches of His grace.
To take this cup of salvation is just
to get the good out of all his benefits
| And the quicker and deeper and long
er we drink of that cup the better do
we serve and please Him. The best
things of this world are ours simply
by taking water, air, sunshine, human
kindness. friendship, love. OF these
4 - ~ to f,I1 1.
them if we will.
So in the spiritual realm the best
things are within the reach of all.
| God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, may
be ours without money and without
price Heaven itself is given away
! and may be had for the asking.
! And how much of these may we
haye?--just all there isThe supply
is exhaustless, the only limitation is
in our capacity to receive and appro-
pirate So we make the best returns
for His benefits by drinking deep and
long of the cup of salvation and then
passing it along to those that are per-
ishing of thirst.
The sergeant who at Fredericksburg
Va, ia the civil war sprung over the
breast works amid flying bullets to
give water to wounded and dying sol
diers is good illustration of what
we should be listen the moaning and
groanIng OF the famisnlng anu Jne us
ing, and hasten to them with the wa
ter of life. Doing this we will best
show to all mankind that we are truly
grateful to God for His manifold ben
efits.