The Newtown bee., 1902-10-24

"We preach Christ" was their testi-
could say, when his own labors were
nearly ended, "Christ is preached and
L rejoice"
My friends, have strong desire to
preach Christ to-day. lam no stranger
to your special needs and can make
no mistake in choosing such theme.
To be with you on the mount, where,
like the disciples, we shall see Jesus
only, is then our privilege for this
half hour. We sometimes lose interest
In doctrines and discussions and expo
sitions and these lines upon lines and
precepts upon precepts Of Christian
truth, important and necessary as they
are, but we are never weary of Jesus
and His love. Creeds do not satisfy the
needs of the soul. Here in this congre-
CATION to-day perhaps are anxious and
sorrowful souls who wish to hear of
HIM WHO BINDETH UP BROKEN HEARTS
and taketh away sin and sorrow.
"Jesus we come to thee, where else
can we 60?
Jesus when our hearts are aching,
And our burdens sorely press.
Jesus when our strength is breaking
Under life's long bitterness,
Who can comfort as we languish
Weary with the constant strain,
Like the Lord whom human anguish,
Crushed beneath it's weight Of pain"
And, since so many have gone from
our homes, since we all must encounter
death, both when bereaved of friends
and when Death s shadow comes over
our own souls, let us add this:
"Jesus when the light is fading
And the nightfall comes apace,
When the clouds Of gloom are shading
Fen the brightness Of Thy face;
Jesus when our dear ones leave us
Borne in angel arms to Thee,
Let not these things deeply grieve us
For we put our trust in Thee;
Who from Thee our souls shall sever :?
What from Thee our love divide?
We are thine, and thine forever,
Christ that liveth and Christ that
died."
My friends, it is this Jesus whom I
wish to preach unto you as Saviour,
comforter and helper to-day. Ipreach
and teach Jesus Christ as your helper
if your have sinned or erred or wander
ed, and who has not? Human hearts
are like the earth and all the planets,
they, by natural tendency, are liza
BILE to wander off from their true orbit,
the right way, and be lost; but as the
sun attracts the planets and overcomes
this tendency, SO Christ attracts the
Christian and keeps him in his place,
and if we are Christ's and are yielding
ourselves to his power, we, even if we
have wandered, feel that attraction
to-day. He is drawing US to himself
and SO we are yielding to His attrac-
tiOn and are moving on towards Him.
Christ assumed our humanity that he
might more easily and powerfully in
huence US, as magnetism seems to en-
body itself and make it's home in the
base metal, iron, and as this magnetic
iron, and no other, then draws the in
ferior metals to itself. So the divine
love became incarnate, or embodied in
human form, in Jesus Christ, and thus
draws and attracts us as it could not
in any other form or way. God as
sumed humanity that He might at
tract humanity! When Christ was
lifted up on the cross then he fulfilled
His mission and could say, 81, your
brother, am thus lifted up that 1 may
draw all men unto me-" l will draw
men, he said; that is mankind, viz:
Not the angels, who had never sinned;
not the gold and pearls and precious
Jewels which had never been furnished,
but us, the baser metal, the outcasts
by reason of sin; it was sinful man he
sought to attract by the magnetism Of
an irresistible love; for this reason he
became one of us and like us. Do you
wonder then that
CHRIST IS PRECIOUS TO THEM WHO BE-
LIEVE;
to them who are won by such love?
To them who feel that by Him sin is
forgiven and the heart made pure and
the life happier? Do you wonder that
the Christians that revolve about
Christ. and that Paul and all who have