The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-01-15

with the nrst we can see tninss near, ana
in bulk not larger than grain Of sand I
can find a thousand million arimalculae,
bot with the latter | can see things sfar
of. / 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 my sinful.
ness; then see Christ in all His righteous.
ness; then l hear Him say that though
my. sins be like scarlet they shall be as
white rs snow, and there at the neither
spring am made whole. but with the up
per spring il. is different. Like the te,e-
scope 1t is all about the things which are
myself being lifted above this world and
my conversation, not only, but my very
life, may be in the heavenlies.
And the way to this upper spring is
pointed out very plainly to ms. l remem-
Der the dream of Jacob as he was going
from Beersheba to Haren. 1t was of the
ladder which was set upon earth, the ton
OF which reached up 60 heaven,
This ladder is set for us. IT reaches to
the very brink Of the upper spring. The
ladder is Christ; His feet rest uDon the
earth His brow is bound with the glory
OF heaven. The events Of His earthly life
are the earthward end OF the ladder; HI,
divinity, His finished Messiahship. His
perpetual priesthood the topmost end. In
q, distant city a fire was raging. Tt was
thought that all the inmates had been
saved, when to the horror OF. the bystand.
ers two children were seen standing at
third-storv window. 1t was before the
days of the almost perfect appliances for
the saying Of lives. Two ladders were
hurriedly spliced together and lifted to
the side of the building. There was a
shout of terror when it was found that
the ladder lacked six feet of reaching the
children. In a moment a brave fireman
tya1 l.. 4. 4 L
topmost round, and then stood for a mo-
ment balancing himself until he had caught
the window, sill with his hand. and then
over his body, which supplied the gan be.
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 YOU and for
me! There was no way for US back to
heaven. We were estranged from God.
And then He came in His incarnation and
on the platform erected by the patriarchal,
legal and prophetic dispensation. He stood,
as it were, in His own body. reaching mp
His hands. He took hold of God, and the
way was made complete. And so it has
come. to pass that not only in Christ we are
saved, but il is also true that we mount by
Him into the very secret place of the Most
High. And this is drinking at the upper
spring.
Thus the secret of this great blessing il
to be found by abiding in Christ. DR.. Cor.
don used to tell little circumstance which
came beneath his eyes in New ENGLAND,
which presents to us figure of it all.
Two little. saplinss 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 dav they
became united to each other. This pro.
cess went on more and more until they
were firmly compacted. Then the stronger
began to absorb the life from the weaker;
1t grew stronger while the other grew
weaker and weaker. until finally il dropped
away and then disappeared And now
there are two trunks at the bottom and
only one at the top. Death has taken
away the one. life has triumphed in the