New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-08

ad n meet this thirst. to quench inns u S5ne.
wait Hin as s1d to h reok TS' w lrG
s az ds s what He said He would as satis1 i
sasHc6ns y ana fs al yet vii SIs be
and cried; lie said, In effect; 81 am 70 stoop to
drink A9Gk Wien began teaching IL, thought 5 f fnas
Gods gifts @ on the sa top P s9 Hs best gifts are
low Shelves for babes and eh h r1cr Il an ex
always falls to Of h bum 1TTfs' for # there place
lower than another tho river VIII seeH The aged
n pools her SO 1hSt r soe hther and drink
And Jesus Christ. leaPing GOVT nu are at your
the low eve of y9sF T To s' soop and drink and
60 your way. for Christ is very near 10 you 80
reiS e stood and cried said II any % NAV 9 ts
let him unto Ne and drink ho A , of Christ
Secause IL am correct It is almost supera onES
Sesa consider that GGn s S6dren You and
me and the rest OF and He said What he
Of Ny power o al If m mso belong e to Nc They shall
not drink FOR their supply only but th.I IrSt
Them viii pour rivers which shall meet the 'nrS'
OF the world.
LIVES TO BE RIVERS
Co that first. Christ rontemplates Himself
as the river at which we drink; ana In tnlI
He transforms lives into rivers OF Wncn o' nur
Ire 70 others what we get from Him, as lie sc'
rom Goo from the melting SHOWS Of tho upland
pour itself down into some great lagoon LII %, e..
nv dav and the stars by night and out OF whi men
rivora have en1anated that have carried 10 the low"
iS aT assembled from the hills so Jesus Christ -
the great lake into which the Godhead pouts ff,,
hv living faith may drain His stores without ex
hausting them. Through us God may 90 tor c'n mr.
selves out OF them shall flow rivers. You ori''N
at river and then out OF you pour me t, r'I ling
pitcher dipped into river and poured our n ion
soon nerbsr been yemT lin into the river and
thence you have becn carried dripping "a, dro OPP
hfrIcs' or England and you have been put on end
and poured out and You have SAID dno SD again
9n ba s% been pitcher all the time Thank God
for that but from to-day you may he ch anna
may low and you viii not need Therefore e., TO v nj
replenished at certain IntSryn, r,s because ~"
NOw Just notice h Tse R R29s ds it's
IN There 9y Is no effort in river You sit beside IT, II
flows and IT will flow on in its inexhaustiole abuh-
SsC column mGr9 of smoke D ""' 1t TT is
strain there is in the lives OF most or us! we ar'
| always pumping up from unknown depths, our IN
! formation from others. pumping out from com
/ mentaries and there is a strain. You say, II have
got three sermons 10 make. lessons TO prepare !;
letters to write nquirers am so tired; my head
and heart oversrained; never can G't thr0ugh
| And YOUR life may he effortless and through you
may 20 tho power OF the living God. without strain
| TO yourself and without the sense Of strain thst
worries other people; for 1 am quit, sure that
our congregations are often more tired ny seeing
| we are tired ourselves than they are IN listening
| Then, secondly, or course abundance ne wore
abundance" IS the Latin words 40 unoa (W si.
! upon wavel. | am told the Congo pours out or us
mighty mouth million tons OF Wa,er IlI ne
| ocean two hundred miles from its mouth. Such Is
the Congo IN the abundance, OF us waIers, My
friend in a little village church, you d
| deaconess in obscure London or Leeds parish.
DO yG es a5er that NTH 2 there n
of you, day by day. an influence upon mar Htt o
S Tnd be 'on to G the congo pouring
million tons OF water in a minute? II God can do
| the Mississippi and the Amazon ana the Gahs s
and dozen os rivers eTsry ~o one Of His beoyed
You say iris is hyperboc. May the man who i. IS
DOWN before God and put his finger upon this text
and claimed it. and that ever since then through
more of this river influence? And dare to say
here to any who will get alone with COG IN IN soIns
se nd say s0 God p take Thee at Thy word
to claim that Thy fulness should pass through cd;I
my life." according to your faith It VIII Dc 10 '0u'
TO FLOW ON FREER.
| Then there is the consistency of the river The
man who hears it TN %uT gnu p5s
drouth OF summer and in the frost frost or WINTER d.
Il good know also that at i dec dsspf4S IN wa is
water got deeper at every fresh measurement OF
thousand cuhs may be sPeR r 70 bs men cbTrc
AZ present is to put the older men aside for young
| er men. Indeed old men everywhere IN me WorLo
Ssh eating dnf "a e eHeayng o. and they Begin mink
they deserve 5 n i22 rhe%w SfH e am getting
| ffty, getting past sixty, and onward. ana SUP
shall have to give n his up 2nseef so
him He begins to dwinde into ga me rd rar6eTber
snoh man y Ia that the river gets deeper all aone
and broadens and nenshes in It's lie GIVING powe,
th r1e should get less as the body gets weak
err but rather. because the ven spsS npygence
sTa ns (, sy RT Wherever the
there is NE Is your nae ts liver they seem beat
Ing and throboing outside tho dam which we "a Az
raised by unbelief can oy ask 5pc a. y
sweep the dam away before them can only mop.
that every person VINO resS NE What vers,
is that Jordan overhoweth rs banks at the I'm
Or harvest Sanks sbaT be submerged beneath tn
flow that mighty rver ana be w b1den gSder tn
W. Wealth Iti' Of GODS goodness passing over us o
course when there is not, much water you Use Sc
P Pog cannot Gi o see the banks all And whei
there is not much Of Gods life in u.s. men see
Bare patches in the midst o. the stream Blu Blu
when Is right with sut GG f GSG p Sor r SE
about iisiti the river in The man o,s .nu. yov ar
may seem ib is %ery well SI s er the writer
oGRer men ike him, who have been specially Gale
S Son voc You'd say that turn to the thirty
eighth verse; Hs that bseyet ~ on snr; a TSc
goes goes on tha 70 Sseved on Kim were to receive Tn
nroynoun they" might perhaps have been to-
vague. and therefore. the Lord specializes It an
Tbsre is the singular, the particular the definite
And the Greek word IS very beautiful He tina
| SaHe,eth IN 10 ne''-the Greek in with the az
i cusative is always significant Of motion toward
thst is ne whose nature is always approXlmatln
tIiaa .- de Mine he whose nature IS always DRAWN
closer and closer into Intimate fellowship with Nc
| What lie belief? Belief Is not so much intellectua
,s snirtual II is receiving He that belevet
is he that receiveth. He that receyeth from NJ, NJ
ont NJ him shall flow rivers There must be noth
i Ing between, there must he perfect openness be
tween you and Jesus there must rs be s tne qG d
q thromgh YOU HIS life. That Is where YOU hav
made the mistake. You have been doing Trims
: Tor Him Now let Jesus DO His things throug
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