The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-09-27

De tsnderer anu deeper and l shalt
say. MY own. dear friend. | come
back to you with friendship that is
all divine. Thou art my friend. !
have been inside where the door was
shut"
| wonder where this door is to be
found | wonder. sometimes. when
try TO have a secret moment in my
own life. II there might not have
been a second meaning in the word
when He said II am the door" For
surely there Is nothing in this uni
verse responsive enough, great
q, ough to shut everything else out
and TO shut the soul in-great enough
in tenderness-so that the slightest
touch Of an infant soul will smut the
door Here is the authority of Jesus
Christ. No one knew the world out
side as lie knew It.. no one knows
the world inside as He knows t. no
one else will take my thoughts. my
feelings, my SOUL no one else can
shut the world out and the soul in.
Here is man who has been trying to
pray and shut the door as Jesus told
him to do. 1t takes more intellect
to shut that door than to write Hin
dustanee or Shakespeare: more char
acter than TO marshall an army and
lead it to battle. No muscular power
will do it: no intellectual refinement
or process of philosophical investiga-
ton. no wealth All. you viii have to
leave yOur wealth outside Shut
the door" It is only the mau in the
grandeur Of his solitude. in the pres
ence Of God. whea he means more to
God than ever before. It is only then
that frally he gets the door shut
just because Jesus is our entraace.
He is the door. | realize. day by
day, how finite He is when | touch
him; how Infinite He IS when He
touches me.
How about that past? There It IS.
Nothing rankies more than mans
past. that will II IT'S head IN and
say: All. here l am. Look at me.
| know you. | lave heard you pray
before. Those hands, | know wnere
they have been. That heart. | know
how dark IL is" Have you ever tried
10 shut the door against a past like
tnatF Have "oC ever known what It
is to have the past hiss and sting?
sometimes YOU think you have the
door shut. but on, how that past,
NtAeN seem u Elaltr lNAla dGElGus 100
big 70 get into the door. suddenly
transforms, fattens Itself out. lies
Ike serpent. and by and bv you
hear it wigglng at the door. kissing.
Oh. l must have G doOc accurately
itting. that whether tln vast slithers
like a serpent OF comes like Cia.-,
/ can shut that door. Oh. bow at l-s;
the soul takes hold OF ore th'rg aud
"a hA 81 l.
thing is Jesus Christ.
/ am interested IN mems problems.
Do you know anything that is inter.
esting enough in this world to Ne=o
the past our, eXcaOt Jesus Christ? -,
there anything that so appeals to
your interest that you actually turn
your back upon the past and say: Il
have present. Thank God | have
q present. | am looking TO Hin VINO
says. Follow Me He has never
yet told US we have followed Him too
far. Since He says that, and as long
as my heart pulses and as long as
my will keeps in harmony with Hin.
have future" Your past is our of
doors. your present and your future
mere. simply because you have shut
the door I tell you, brethren. the
manifest, the grardest. the greatest
thing you can do this morning is sim
ply 70 accept Jesus Christ as the door
into the communion. The door moves
upon such hinges OF love that YOU
need but to say: ~ am a sinner: |
want to be alone with Col" to starr
it moving to get in. with the past
outside. Ny friends I VIII look for
them by and by. And my enemies?
| want to conquer only one of them.
| want 10 0e alone | will shut the
door" May Gods holy Spirit. VINO
is here this morning. quicken every
heart. Get back this very day-now,
and shut the door" You need not
be afraid that the world Will lose
anything. You will ne q hatter man
when YOU go out. with a whittier face,
cleaner hands, more loving aTd
Drawer cart. Shut Che door"