The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-08

speech. but this Il know. chat Nj yof
but enter ID and dwell there. thee
beauty of The place win make you Sfdft.
and you remember that IL IS only unto
the pure ~ heart that the vision Of
God "a promised.
j suppose We might have been with
Jacob when ia bis dream ne saw the
heavens opened and bchold the angels
going up and coming down and heard the
voice Oh God. and we only should have
seen the dreary mountains round about.
j doubt not by that we might hav-.
been with Paul when he was caught W to
the third heaven. and we should have
seen nothing but the humble surroundin
Of his tent. And / doubt not but th
il Paul were here to-day he would 81
God here this morning, and he would
have walked on the street with Him
yesterday. Is not the trouble with
ourselves instead Of our surroundings or
our times? Every permitted sin encrusts
the windows of the soul and blinds our
the vision Of the soul, and we can see
dim q little palmer.
The unholy man could not see Go
he we're set down in the midst of Hea
but men and women whose hearts -
pure see Him in the very commonest walks
of life. And there IL not a place In the
world If II is right that we should have
I
we may say, Behold, God was in this
place, and knew IL not" And if we can
not say 1t, it is wrong for us TO go.
3. In the secret place" there is power
OH that we might all of us possess real
powerl TEs is our cry by day and by
night, and yet there is nothing we may
have easier. There is no promise WAh
which l am familiar that tells us -
we may have power Of intellect n Of
human might But there is a promise bbat
we shall have power after that the Holy
Ghost shall come upon MS, and in the
olden times He literally filled to overflow
ing the Holy of HOLES, so that at one
time 1t was almost impossible Tor one to
enter This will come to MS likewise when
| we dwell in the Secret place" In j.
/ Chronicles we read in the fourth chapter
and twenty-thIrd verse, of certain men
/ who "dwelt with the king for his work"
/ There can be no effective service that is
/ not the outcome Of communion. klr
Lords day precedes the week of wo q
! and this is always the plan OF God Tl
wonderful fifteenth chapter of John IS
| founded on that idea. We must abide
! first, and after that we can not help
| but bear fruit OH that we might be so
/ near to Him that we should be magnet
| lied and charged with a spiritual force
that the world could neither gainsay nor
resist!
I have left to the very last the most
practical question Of all, and that is:
| How may I enter into this Secret PLACE"
| Cannot something be said that will cake
the way plain? It may all be summe D
in this answer. None can know Nhe
Father but the Son, and he to whom
the Son will reveal Him" 1t is impos-
sible for any one to enter into the Secret
Il Al Il. oh
Jesus Christ. He said. Il am the way /
am the door, by Me, if any man will, he
shall enter in.
1t is just what Paul meant when he said,
"But now in Christ Jesus we who some
times were afar off are made nigh by the
blood of Christ"
There are some places in the Bib
where the way seems plain. He tina
eateth NV flesh and drinketh Nv. blood
dwelleth III Me, and / in him Ind
whatever else is meant by this Tossing
on Christ, this certainly is true we are
to set apart daily periods of time when
we may have communion with the ga
viour. Is it not because we are too
hurried that our vision of Christ is blurred
and indistinct? 1t is only when the water
is still that you can see the pebbly beach
below. You could not go alone with
Christ half an hour each day, or even .
less time, and sitting still look VIZ into
His face, by faith talk to Him and 435im
talk to you, without feeling than for
little part Of the day YOU had been in
heaven, when in fact it was only, the
"secret place" of the Most High. Christ
would be in you and you would be in
Christ, even as in the southern sea the
sDonges may be seen beneath the waves,
the sponge in the sea and the sea in the
sponge. Then we could say with Paul:
az live and vet not I, but Christ kvpth
/, in me-" Again | have read in ting Bible
mandments dwelleth in Him. andNHe in
! him" And I have found that I have
only 10 60 the way think Christ wants
/ me to 60 and to do the things I think
He wants me to do to be able to stand on
the very mountain top of Christian ex-
: perience; and that is only another way
/ Of speaking of the Secret place" You
could not 60 where Christ has bidden you
+ without meeting Him, and yel could
, not meet Him without blessing lining
| with the meeting
! After all this has been known, I have
E been told that the vision still tarries.
Sometimes that is to try our faith; but
e He will come if you wait, for He has
promised. If, however, after long waiting
I still He should tarry, take up this old
Book, turn its pages with a PRAYER that
/ God might open your ewes so that you
e might see Him. This is the garden where
r He walks; press on, you will meet Him
1 face to face This is the temple where
{ He dwells; stand knocking at the%door,
e even while you wait it may swing noise'
e lessly on its hinges, and He viii cad you
t Himself into the Secret place"
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