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around him as centre, love to preach
Christ and Him crucified? Is it
strange that one Christian should say,
eff 1 had as many lives as there are
stars I would give them all for Christi"
and that another while preaching
Christ crucified should say, "Christ
suffered and died for you and me, and
overcome with emotion stop there's
without uttering another word? We
both wonder and lament that He who
is the Prince of Life and glory should
be tortured in agony, that His hands
which carried mercies should be pierced
with nails, that the head which had
no resting place on earth, should also
be wounded by cruel thorns. Yes IL
seems wonderful and lamentable; but
he suffered all this willingly for you
and me that He-might win us to him
self and that He might, be able to say
''greater love hath no man than thls'
therefore come to Me for I have died
for YOU" From that time to this the
gospel and gospel teachers and gospel
hymns have been asking, as 1 ask you
to-day, "Will you go? Will you go ~
And the wonder now is that any soul
should resist such love. Christ said
when on earth, 81 came not to call, or
attract, the righteous. but sinners;
the whole need not a physician but
they who are sick;" and so, dear hear
er, Christ invites you to-day, to Him
self because you are a sinner and be-
cause you are sick or sore wounded by
sin and need to be healed. evil you
go?' Do you say 81 cannot go?"
Then Christ will come to you or rather
His spirit will take of the strength
and power of Christ and impart them
unto you and enable you to go. When
He said to the man with the palsied
arm "Stretch it FORTH" the man did
not say II cannot" but Christ gave
him the power and he was healed. So
when Christ calls you, a sinner, to
come to Him, do not say 81 cannot"
but try and he will enable you to obey.
A longing to go to Christ is in itself
the first step.
See, there lies poor man on the bat
tie field, sick, wounded and bleeding
to death. In the hospital are physi-
clans, medicines, bandages and lini-
ments. 80 that could go there" he
gasps; but he is so nearly exhausted he
can do little but pray that the physi-
clans would come to him. The physi-
clans hear him not or cannot come or
send, SO he dies. But in this battle
field of life, where so many lie wound
ed by sin such a prayer always brings
the physician; Christ sends the Holy
Spirit, the Comforter, and the Spirit
takes of the things of Christ, of these
divine remedies and conveys them to
us personally in His Spirits helpful
comes to us if we can not go to Him
whenever we sincerely desire His pres
ence and aid. Yes His forgiveness and
help are now within the reach of every
soul. If He says repent or obey, or
gives any commands, whatever He
says let us do it, for he enab les us to do
it. o soul perishing for want of the
Spirits help and health when Christ
says "Come," remember He will help
you come; He does not give invitations
and promises and then abandon you.
He assists you to do what you can not
do alone. If you are weak He sends
conveyance for you: He will never say
"Come" to an invalid soul unless He
provides some way for you to come.
You will then get to heaven and to
Him in some way if you just try.
Christ is the way, go His way and you
will go to Him. This is, to my mind,
beautifully illustrated by the way in
which birds teach their young to fly
and to come to them as they rise into
the heavens. The mother-eagle first
rises slowly up high and higher SO that
she is almost or quite lost to sight but
keeps calling her young to follow.
They try and perhaps fail at first but
each time they try. they are encouraged
and strengthened and at last most of
them succeed; but (notice this), some
who are unable to fly call to her and
she returns. These weak ones are her
special care and are borne up on the
strong wings of the mother, till they
too, learn the art. So by constantly