The Newtown bee., 1903-09-11

visits have done more for my health my faith, my service than I can tel you tonight. I have again and agaif gone back to my work and have taker it up with new zest and new assurance after such visits. And l could not help returning to-day, in response tC the kind invitation of the pastor of this church. Love drew me, as it has drawn you, who with me are again amid the scenes of other years. We were sure you would all be glad to see us; we were sure of open hearts as we'll as open homes.
 Nevertheless, 1 have come tonight to bespeak the hospitality of every one of you, guests and all. Not for myself but for Jesus Christ. 1 have come tC ask for him, of you all, that old and pathetic question, -"Where is thy guest chamber"
 Long ago the disciples obeying theil Masters directions were following a man carrying home a pitcher of water When they arrived at the house, they put to the goodman the Masters ques' tiOn, -''The Master saith, where is thy guest chamber?" And he led them up to large upper room furnished and ready and said "Here is the room for the master.'' And as I repeat the question for Him to-night-"Wher is my guest cl1amber?'-does your heart rise up and open it's door and say "Here is thy guest chamber, Lord Jesus?" Happy the heart, the house, where Jesus Christ is the honored guest tonight.
 Jesus did not always fare so we'll as on this day when that upper room was reserved for Him. There was little room in the world for Jesus. There was no room in the inn at Bethlehem and He must have his birthplace among the beasts. Christ's old home had no place for Him, when He, the carpenters son, declared that the blessed prophecy used in this hearing was that day fulfilled. Jerusalem had no room for the Son of David, but took him out beyond the city walls and cru cified him there. "The foxes have holes and the birds have their nests, but the Son of Man hath no where to lay his head" Once He found shelter in Egypt; and an unnamed friend gives Him his upper room; and many times He found room among the lofty heights of the mountains and there in prayer found found place in the vast reaches of His Fathers love. And one day he led his disciples forth un til they were over against Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. And it came to pass while he blessed them he parted from them and was carried up into heaven" and there surely He found room and spacious fel- lowships in the Kingdom of His Fla ther. But with few exceptions the world had no room for Jesus Christ.
 A great change has taken place in the world. Now the finest buildings men have reared are for Jesus Christ, for his glory and his praise, and for the ministry of love. The grandest music in the world lifts upon it's wings that name which is above every name, the name of Jesus. The most costly of all pictures, around which men gather sometimes to weep and pray, have for their central figure the fig ure of Jesus Christ. Times have changed; and if Jesus simply wanted that kind of peace for Himself He might be satisfied. But he is not sa atisfed. What he wants is the warm lovelit chamber of your life and mine. Nothing will satisfy Jesus but our best. He does not Say to us, as many have said to their friends on coming back home, ''Oh, tuck me in any where." He says, "Where is my guest chamber?" He says, "You must give me the best or I cannot stay"
 And why, pray, does this Blessed Guest, so gentle, so peculiarly modest, so utterly unselfsh ask for himself the best place, the best rooms we have? Is not the reason he asks so much this, that He is so much and that he brings so much! Weak though words are to tell what Jesus is, they mean some thing where we say He is Lord and Savior and Friend. He whom the heavens cannot contain, within the heaven of heavens, does not ask too much of me, when he requires all that I am for His indwelling. Consider, too, what He brings with Him. He brings the Divine Spirit with Him. He brings great truth. He brings new companionships, and wide reaching fellowships; He spreads for us feast and breaks the bread that satisfies the soul; He makes great promises that only He can keep; He breathes everywhere the breath of peace! Tru- ly we are all agreed that when such as He comes, bringing what He brings, nothing will suffice but an emptied life, made ready and surrendered to Him!
 So "The Master saith, where is my guest chamber?'' "Where?" "Here!" ''Here!" our hearts reply. "Here is our best, Lord.' and that seems all too poor and mean for such as Thou art, and for what Thou bringest with Thee"
 REV ANDREW J. PARK SENDS GREET
 ING.
 Leonard Bridge, Ct.,
 August 25, 1903.
 To the dear brethren and sisters of the church and to the friends of the Lord. May Gods richest blessing crown your home gathering and make it a q season of soul refreshing. While l