The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-27

UR text introduces US to one of the
~ bright pages of Judah's history. II
| paints for us In the colors OF the glorious
rainbow the picture OF people moved
| by one impulse the desire to find God
| The saddest sight before the angels, IL
not before man, Is that Of the person
or nation who is strangerto God. The
grandest resolve which ever moved In
human 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 OF find
ing God. judah under apostate and
Goddess kings had lost its God. The
nation was a stranger to the true God,
and had chosen for itself the false gods
of the heather nations about II. They
delighted to indulge in all the licen-
tious pleasures of the heather worship.
They wanted to be like the nations about
them. They put worldliness before God
illness, the desires of the flesh before the
eternal needs of the soul. And the
result was that they knew not God. But
the Spirit of God, moving upon the
heart of the young king Asa, led him to
resolve to seek the Lord. What an In
fiuence one life can exert! How one
determined soul can encourage and help
those who are weaker to choose the
right! An Asa in judah could lead
nation toward God until 1t could be de-
clared: "They sought the Lord with
their whole desire; and He was round
of them" And you and can, by seek
Ing God with all our hearts, not only
find Him, but inspire others with the
same desire to find God and encourage
them to seek with the whole heart until
He Is found of them.
A ND to whom is He the Findable God?
n Are there any who may not seek
and find? Verify. there are none, for God
has declared that "Whosoever 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 slumbers 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 1t pushes onward; He sees the
arm of faith outstretching to discover
the secret retreat of God, and as It
reaches higher and yet higher In Its ca
gerness to obtain, it feels the sure, un-
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 1t may find God and be
cleansed from all its guilt. No soul SO
far down the pathway of sin but that
| 1t may find its way back to God. Oh, how
God yearns to reveal Himself to the seek
ing sinner. The father Of the prodigal
son rushed down to meet the returning
boy when he was yet great way OF, ant
God always meets the seeking sinner
while he is yet struggling along thu
pathway of repentance. No sin-sick sou
ever turned from the old life to seek Coo
but that II found the blessed Christ at thu
turn In the road ready to receive him am
lead him to God And God is the Findabi
God to the saint-the regenerate, tn
saved soul. All, how often We have u
seek God! So frequently comes th
break in our fellowship with Him. s.
prone are we to fll our lives an
thoughts with things earthly and forge
the things Heavenly. We get ava
i. from God And we must find Him again
before we can know peace Of mind an
; Joy of soul. judah seeking God with tn
whole desire and finding Him is but
faithful picture of how every soul ma
seek and find its God.
G EEK the Lord! But how? In praye
y God cannot be found out in the bus
rush of business, out in the mad viii
of pleasure, when the heart Is all Ger
tered in its own affairs and its own pul
suits, but God can be found as the sol
; withdraws itself to It's closet and thel
: communes with God alone. David says
q my soul waiteth in silence for &C
only" The silence of the hour alone
= earnest seeking after God brings the SO,
into His blessed presence. We mu
4 seek God in prayer. 1t is the vital air
n the Christians life. God is lost becau
: prayer is neglected. God may be four
\ through seeking Him in prayer. Ar
: again, we must seek Him by surrel
q dered will. The self7willed, rebellion
. heart never can gain the presence
e God He shuts Himself away from sue
and leaves them to plunge on in the per
of their own willfulness. But the su
render OF the will is not all. There mu
: be Misunderstanding God by the patl
way of obedience Do not think you a.
2 truly seeking God II you are refusing
i obey His commandment. Behold J,
. dab. as they seek the Lord with the
: whole desire! 1t was busy nation
I busy In obeying God. The idols we
h broken down, the false affairs remove
o the high places destroyed. It was nj
8 ton in obedience seeking God. Jesus d
d Iclares: III a man love Me, he will Ike,
g My Word; and My Father will love hin