The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-09-10

or nation who is stranger TO God. The
grandest resolve which ever moved in
hGInan breast is the purpose to find
GOD, and the most glorious discovery,
the most blessed experience into which
the soul Of man can enter is that Ct find
ing Coo. judah under apostate and
Goddess kings had lost it's God. The
nation was 2 stranger to the true GOO,
and had chosen for itself the false gods
OF the heather nations shout it. They
Delighted to indulge in all the 1icea-
tlous pleasures OF The heather worship
They wanted TO be like the nations about
them They put werldliness before God
illness, tho desires of the lesh before the
eternal needs of the soul. End the
result was that they knew not God. But
the Spirit oE God, moving upon the
aaagl. Of the young king Asa, led nilE to
resolve to sea9k the Lord. Whist an in
HVence one lie can exert! How one
determined soul can encourage and help
those who are weaker to choose the
right! an asa in judah could lead O.
nation teNafd God until it could be de-
clared: They sought the Lord With
their Ehole Gesire, and He was found
Of file1a-" And you sad can, BY seek
ing God with all our hearts, not only
find Him. but inspire others with ths
same desire to find God and encourage
them to seek with tho whole heart until
He is found of them. Oh. that rul-
ers to-day might realize this tTuth,
end stand couraGeous1y for righteous
ness. Oh, that those in positions OF
trust and authority might have the
spirit of Asa come upon them. Oh,
that they might boldly declare their
own determination to seek God and
His righteousness, and might use their
inference and authority to help others
to make that decision too, Oh, tnae
il churches tGat are dead and colo
-GT Journalism, or poisoned with the
intoxlcatio- of pleasure and worldli-
ness, there might DE brave, heroic.
God-f5arfng souls who would staua
boldly forth and declare the purpose
to seek the Lord with the whole heart.
Oh, that in the homes where God ~
unknown, where the things OF this lie
shut out the things Of eternity, the
one who Eas found God IN saving
grace might stand forth and seek Him
With all the heart for the salvation
OF the dear ones out Of Christ. God
would honor such seeking.
4 ND to Ghom is He the Findable God?
Are there amy who may not seek
and find? Verify. Shere are aone, Tor God
has declared that *'Whosoeger will may
come" He waits in the early morn for
the seeker after Him. He continues in
His secret pavilion during the morning
toll and the noon-tide heat and the after
Moons unceasing activities. He watch
es during the darkening of the evening
hour, and He who keepeth His children
neither s1umbers nor sleeps through the
long night And always He waits for
the soul that is seeking Him. He sees
him from afar; He hears the eager step
OF hope as it pushes onward; He sees the
arm OF faith outstFetching 10 discover
the secret retreat of God, and as It
reaches higher and yet higher in its ca
gerness to obtain, it feels the sure, uE2-
failing clasp of the Divine arm. God
has been found He may always be
found by the seeking soul. He is the
Findable God to the sinner. No soul SO
vile but that it may find God and be
cleanseG from all its guile No soul so
FAR down the pathway Of sin but that
it may find its way back to God. Oh, how
God yearns to reveal Himself to the seek
ing sinner. Tie father of the prodigal
son rushed down to meet the returning
boy When he was yet great way off, and
God always meets the seeking sinner
while he is yet struggling along the
pathway of repentance. No sin-sick soul
ever turned from the old life to seek God
but that it found the blessed Christ at the
turn in the road ready to receive him and
lead him to God. And God is the Findable
God to the saint-the regenerate, the
saved soul All, how often we have to
seek God! So frequently comes the
break in our fellowship with Him. So
prone are we to fill cur lives and
thoughts with things earthly and forget
the things Heavenly We get away
from God And we must find Him again,
before we can know peace Of mind and
joy Of soul Judah seeking God with the
whole desire and finding Him is but
faithful picture of how every soul may
seek and find its God. Dear soul, you
who are away from God; you who have
known Him, you who have felt what it
was to walk in sweet fellowship with
Him; 4 turn and seek Him again with
your whole desire and He will be found
of you.
E EEK the Lord! But how? In prayer
y God cannot be found out in the busy
rush of business, out ia the mad whirl
of pleasure, when TIE heart is all CEN
tered in its own affairs and its own pur-
suits. but God can be Sound as the SOU:
withdraws itself to lis closet and there
comnunes with God alone. David says.
tsFHag soul Waitetil in silence for God
omIy.' The silence OF tie hour alone in
earnest seeking after God brings Che soul
into His blessed presence. We must
seek God in prayer. It is the vital air OF
the Christians life. God is lost because
prayer is neglected. God may be found
through seeking Him in prayer And
agaia. we must seek Him by sursen-
dered will The self-willed, 2ebelIious