Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-10-25

solace of the Christian religion. And so
we employ the word Come" 1t will take
| all eternity to find out the number of
business men who have been strength.
ened by the promises of God and the peo-
pie who have been fed by the ravens
| when other resources gave out and the
| men and women who, going into this bat
| tie armed only with needle or saw or axe
| or yardstick or pen or type or shovel or
| shoelast, have gained a victory that made
| the heaven resound. With all the re-
sources of Cod promised for every exi-
gencv no one need be left in the lurch.
L like the 1alrn dIsDlayeu years ago IN
Drury lane, London, in an humble home
where everv particle of food had given
out and kindly soul entered with tea
and other table supplies and found a ket-
tie on the fire ready for the tea. The
benevolent lady said, "How, is that you
daughter in the home said: Mother
would have mc put the kettle en- the fire.
and when I said, What is the use of
dong so when We have nothing in the
house" she said MY child, God will pro-
vide. Thirty years He has already pro-
vided for me through all pain and help
lessness, and He will not leave me to
starve at last. He will send us help
though we dc. not see how. We have been
waiting all day for something to come,
it was to come" Such things the world
may call condolences, but / call them
Almighty deliverances, and, though you
do not hear of them, they are occurring
every hour of every day and in all parts
Of Christendom.
Those who follow the advice of this
world in time of perplexity are in fear
full round, for it is one bewildered soul
following another bewildered soul, and
only those who have in such time got
their eve on the morning star of our
Christian faith can find their way out Or
be strong enough to lead others with an
all persuasive invitation.
But" says some one, "you Christian
people keep telling us to Come yet YOU
do not tell us how to come" That
charge shall not be true on this occasion.
Come believing! Come repenting! Come
praying! After all that God has been
dong for 5000 years, sometimes through
patriarchs and sometimes through pro-
phets and at last through the culmina-
ton of all the tragedies on Golgotha, can
any one think that God will not welcome
your coming? Will father at vast out
Jay construct a mansion for his son and
Jay out parks white with statues and
green with foliage and all a-sparkle with
fountains and then not allow his son to
live IN the house or walk in the parks?
Has God built this house of gospel mercy
and will He then refuse entrance to His
children? Will Government at great
expense build life-saving stations all
along the coast, and boats that can hover
unhurt like a petrol over the widest
reached the wreck of ship in the offing,
not allow the drowning to seize the life
line or take the boat for the shore in
safety! Shall God provide at the cost of
his only Sons assassination escape for
sinking world and then turn deaf ear to
the cry that comes up from the breakers?
But, you say, "there are so many
things 1 have to believe and so many
things in the shape of creed that have
to adopt that l am kept back" No, no!
You need believe but two things-name-
~, that Jesus Christ came into the world
to save sinners and that you are one of
them. But" you say, II do believe both
of those things" Do you really believe
them with all your heart? eyes" Why,
then, YOU have passed from death into
life. Why, then, you are a son or a
daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why,
then, you are an heir or an heiress of an
inheritance that will declare dividends
from now until long after the stars are
uSoN. IlDCC VI OOQ, WHY
do you not come and take your coronet?
Princess Of the Lord Almighty, why do
you not mount your throne? Pass up
into the light. Your boat is anchored,
why do you not go ashore? just plant
your feet hard down, and you will feel
under them the Rock of Ages.
challenge the universe for one in
stance in which man in the right spirit
appealed for the salvation of the gospel
and did not get it. Man alive, are you
going to let all the years of your life go
great peace. this glorious hope, this bright
expectancy?
Are you going to let the pearl of great
price lie in the dust at your feet because
you are too indolent or too proud to
stoop down and pick it up? Will you
wear the chain of evil habit when near
by you is the hammer that could with
one stroke snap the shackle? Will you
stay in the prison of sin when here is
gospel key that could unlock your incar-
ceration? No, MOI
AS the one word "come" has some
times brought many souls to Christ, I
a mountain and then send down in an
avalanche Of power many of these gospel
comes" Come thou and all thy house
into the ark" Come unto Me, all we
who labor and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest" Come, for all things
are now ready" "Come with us, and we
will do you good;" Come and see;"
"The Shirt and the bride say come
and let him that heareth say come, and
let him that is athirst come" The
stroke of one bell in tower may be
and rightly lifted and skillfully swung in
one great chime fill the heavens with
music almost celestial And no one who
has heard the mighty chimes in the tow
ers of Amsterdam or Client or Copenha-
gen can forget them. Now, it seems to
me that in this Sabbath hour all heaven
is Ginning, and the voices of departed
friends and kindred ring down the sky,
saying, "Come!"
When Russia was in one Of her grFat
wars. the suffering of the soldiers had
ing for the end of the strife. One day
messenger in great excitement ran among
the tents of the army shouting, peace!
Peace!" The sentinel on guard asked,
"Who says peace?" And the sick soldier
asked, "Who says 'peace%" And all up
and down the encampment of the Rus
SLAMS went the question, "Who says
'peace?" Then the, messenger respond
ed, "The Gar says peace That was
meant the war was over. No more
wounds and no more long marches So
to-day, as one of the Lords messengers,
1 move through these great encampments
of souls and cry: peace between earth
and heaven! Peace between God and |
mani Peace between your repenting soul
and pardoning Lord" If you ask me,
.sWho says peace?" | answer, Christ our
King declares it," "My peace I give unto
you!" "Peace of God that passeth all |
understanding" Everlasting peace!