The Grit-advocate., 1900-07-13
o year. England and Russia and Italy


have inexhaustible resources in this
respect. Norway and Sweden, white
with snow above, white with salt be-
meath. Austria yielding 100000 tons
annually. Nearly all the nations rich
in it-rock salt. spring salt, sea salt
Christ, the Creator of the world, when
he uttered our text, knew it would be-
come more and more significant as the
shafts were sunk and the springs were
bored and the pumps were worked
and the crystals were gathered. So
the grace Of God is abundant. 1t is
for all lands. for all ages. for all con-
ditions. 1t seems to undergrad every
thing. Pardon for the worst sin, COM
fort for the sharpest suffering, bright
est light for the thickest darkness.
Around about the salt lakes of Saratov
there are 10000 men toiling day and
night, and yet they never exhaust the
saline treasures. And If the 1900, ,OO0,-
600 OF our race should now cry out to
God for his mercy there would be
enough for all-for those farthest
gone in sin, for the murderer standing
on the drop of the gallows. 1t is an
ocean of mercy; and IL Europe and
Asia. Africa. North and South Amer
lea and all the islands Of the sea went
down in it today they would have
room enough to wash and come up
clean. Let no man think that his
case is too tough a one for God to
act upon. Though your sin may be
deep and raging, let me tell you that
Gods grace is bridge not built on
earthly piers, but suspended and span
ming the awful chasm of your guilt,
one end resting upon the rock of eter-
nal promises and the other on the
foundations Of heaven. Demetrius
wore robe SO incrusted with jewels
that no one after him ever dared to
wear 1t, but our King, Jesus takes Off
the robe Of His righteousness, robe
blood-dyed and heaven-impearled, and
reaches it out to the worst wretch in
all the earth and says: Put that on!
Wear it now! Wear it forever!"
Pure Below the Surface.
Again. the grace of God is like salt
in the way we come at it. The salt
on the surface is almost always i'm
pure-that which incrusts the Rocky
mountains and the South American
pampas and in India; but the miners
go down through the shafts and
through the dark labyrinths and along
by galleries of rock and with torches
and pickaxes find their way under the
very foundations of the earth. to
nations wealth. To get to the best
saline springs of the earth huge ma
chinery goes down. boring depth be-
low depth, depth below depth, until
from under the very roots Of the
mountains, the saline water supplies
the aqueduct. This water is brought
to the surface and is exposed in tanks
to the sun for evaporation, Or 1t is
put in boilers nightly heated, and the
water evaporates, and the salt gathers
at the bottom of the tank-the work
is completed and the fortune made.
So with the grace of God. 1t is to be
profoundly sought after. With all the
concentrated energies of body, mind
and soul we must dig for it. No man
stumbles accidentally on it. We need
to go down to the very lowest strata
OF earnestness and faith to find it.
Superficial exploration will not turn
1t up. We must strive and implore
and dig until we strike the spring
foaming with living waters. Then the
work of eYanoratinn hagins and as