Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-17

With the first we can see things near. and
in bulk not larger than a grain of sand |
can find thousand million animalculae,
but with the latter | can see things afaI
off. l can actually study the Milky Way
which Is removed from me thousands and
thousands of miles. At the neither spring
first OF all, | see myself and all nv sinful
ness; then ! see Christ in all His righteous
ness; >hen | hear Him say that though
my sins be like scarlet they shall be a.
white as snow, and there Mt the neither
spring ! am made whole. but with the mp
per spring il, is different. Like the. teie-
scope 1t Is all about the things which are
above. and as | drink ut its waters find
myself being lifted above this world. and
NV conversation. not on,v but my very
life. may be in the heavenlies
And the way to this upper spring Is
pointed out very plainly to us. | remcm.
Der the dream of Jacob as he was going
from Beersheba to Haran. 1t was of the
ladder which was set upon earth, the tor
OF which reached up to heaven.
This ladder Is set for us. 1t reaches IL
the very brink of the upper spring. The
ladder is Christ; His feet rest uDon the
earth. His brow is bound with the g'or,
are the earthward end Of the ladder His
divinity. His finished Messiahship. His
perDetual priesthood the topmost end In
distant city fire was raging 1t was
thought that all the inmates had been
saved. when to the horror OF the bvstand
ers two children were seen standing at a
thrd-storv window. It was before the
days of the almost perfect appliances foi
the saving of lives. Two laadc~s were
hurriedly suliced together and lifted tc
the side of the building. There was ::
shout OF terror when it was found thai
the ladder lacked six feet of reaching the
children. In a moment n brave fireman
4l,a laI Il i,. Ill l.
topmost round. and then stood for a mo
ment balancing himself until he had caught
the window sill with his hand. and Their
over his body which supplied the gan he
tween the ladder and window the children
came slowly down until outstretched hands
reached them in safety. And this is what
the Lord Jesus Christ did for Won and foI
me. There was no way for us back t.
heaven. We were estrangcd from God
And then He came in His incarnation anc
on the platform erected by the patriarchal
legal and prophetic dispensation. He stood
as it were. in His own hodv reaching III
His hands. He took hold OF God. and the
way was made complete. And 50 it has
come to pass that not only in Christ we are
saved. but 1t Is also true that we mouat bv
HIM into the very secret place of the Most
Hnh. And this is drinking at the upper
spring.
Thus the secret OF this rreat blessing i.
- be A"iHu ~ hDltllIc III NniiSt. 1T tof
don used to tell little circur stance which
came. beneath his eyes in New ENGLAND
which presents to us a figure OF it all
Two little saplings grew side by side
Through the action of the wind they
crossed each other. BY and bv the bark
of each became wounded and the sap be
gan to mingle. until in some still day they
became united to each other This rro
cess went on more and more until they
were firmly compacted. Then the stronger
began to absorb the life from the weaker;
weaker and weaker. until finally it dropped
away and then disappeared And now
there are two trunks at the bottom and
only one at the ton. Death has taken
away the one, life has triumphed in The
other.