The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
chile address before the meeting of a

chile address before the meeting OF a
Baptist association.
LIkENED TO A compare the Baptists
WATER POWER. of Virginia to q great
water power, such
as we have here in the james, River. with
n,rmberless mills of one kind AMI another
and thousands of wheels. He pictured
these great plants as standing still. eX-
cept here and there one might be In mo-
ition "What a waste OF power there
would be. Aud yet" said Brother Ely
son. is there not q. far greater waste
in our churches? We have an the
chinery we need: we have the power with
which to drive it; and yet what are we
accomplishing, in comparison with what
we might do, # all our people were at
work?' The speaker dwelt some time on
the application of the illustration TO the
condition of affairs in our churches, and
there are others besides this writer who
remember what profound impression he
made Many of us fancied that we could
see this great multitude of plants and
their Thousand wheels and the great
water power for the most part running to
waste-Eev. A. E. Dickinson, in Religious
Herald
Every book grows old except the Bible.
The natural life of many books is only
a few months. Some
BOOK THAT preserve their use
NEVER fulness for q few
GROWS OLD. years, only q few
live for a generation.
less abide fer a century, with only an
occasional book that is known five hum
dred years after it was written Books
grow old, die and are forgotten: not SO
with the Bible It is 'ttl?e Word of God.
and it "abideth forever 1t never grows
old Like the sun, its chapters shine on
while empires decay, die, and pass away
1t is 'Soeautiful in the soft hues OF the
morning and glorious i'll the gold amt the
amber OF the evening of an eternal DAY
God is to all ages tue same Thy years
have no end;' there is with him not the
shadow of turning What speaks Of him
truly at one time speaks to all ages OF
the world Human nature remains the
same; life with all the changes OF cir
cumstances and condition. retains the
same real experience: human need IS ever
the same. This is the secret OF the whole
Bible; it is from III unchanging God TO
men who have substantially the same
experience and need, the same emotions
and hopes The dew that fell on Hermon
is as beautiful and as refreshing to day as
when the sun first made every drop q
germ.''-Christian Advocate.
In the fulness OF time God made HIS
tabernacle with men. put on their flesh,
inspired our physical
ABOUT SEEKING nature, and the seed
THE LORD. OF the woman was
God with us. Our
race. seeking the Lord. found Him IN
mans shape, feeling our feelings. speak
ing our language, fully and absolutely
nan-human1ty, man-altogether one of
US. The great Cod revealed Himself to
US and enabled US to know Him
No deeper speech than we could per-
ceive, no stanrmering. glibbering utterance
to be.wilder and awe US. He spoke the IAN
euase OF man and of nature. ana with
and through that gently invited us back
to our Father.
The Master, the friend the Redeener,
the Reconciler offers Himself as meek
and qowly i'm heart. and leaves With Us
Himself implanted in our hearts as the
Good Shepherd and the true vine. And as
such He realizes the figure away back
in the past, The ladder reaching 9tp into
Heaven And through our familiarity
with Him. we come to God.
But at last it l.; divine good sense ana
affection and humanity. through the non
est following of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that reveals to us the Heavenly Father
Gentle affection. loving kindness, and ten
derness and consideration and self-sacrl-
fee for Jesus sake are worth all the
logic and learning in the world 70 manifest
to us the face of God.-Southern Church
man.