Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-06-21

rs IN an unguarded moment. Is this
love Of Christ able to carry US all the
way through? On the high seas Of
life, in the stresses Of all weather.
when the billows roll and dash against
our frail bark-is there a pilot able
% guide the ship through the mighty
seas?
Oh, look at what God has donet
First: He has promised to provision
rs. Look at the eleventh verse OF
The eighty-fourth Psalm: "For JelDvah
God is a sun and shield: Jehovah
will give grace and glory; no good
hing will He withheld from them'
hat walk uprightly." That is actually
n the Bible. sometimes think that
we treat the Bible as If it were huge
loke-that these words do not mean
what they actually say. Listen to
them again. mo good thing will He
withhold from them that walk up-
tightly" And these words are con-
1rmed by our Masters own teaching.
Second: He has promised to protect
sns- II will lift up mine eyes unto the
nouptains. Well, that may not be,
/ wise thing to do. Is It wise to
look at our difficulties? Is that what
it means? But the Psalmist is not
done: From whence shall my help
come" No wonder, when you are
looking at the mountains of difficulty.
that you should say that. Now listen.
My help cometh from Jehovah, who
made heaven and earth.'' Is that not
good enough? No wonder Paul said.
What then shall we say to these
things? If God is for us, who is
against us2" - r.. ..zs-. ssss,..fA
III. From what depth will it rescue
hs? The depth indicates the distance
that love reaches. It goes down to
The deepest forms of sin. It reaches
b the greatest sinner. Wherefore
also. He is able to save to the utter
most them that draw near unto Cod
through Him. seeing that He ever
lveth to make intercession for them
I shall never forget hearing one OF.
the foremost Africans in a powerful
speech in the City OF Washington,
.. =. He was pleading for patience.
he pleaded with the people to give
his race chance and time, and he
said: "Oh, think Of the depths-of,
the depths OF impotence and SUPER
stition and poverty out of which and
up from which my race must comep'
al, yes: ouC we were IN lower
depths still. Down beneath the black
man, wearing shackles ourselves had
forged about our feet and hands
the shackles Of sin. It is up out OF
these depths our God must lift us.
Nv. The height unto which He lifts
US. For this Love is not only broad
as our needs, continuous as our pill
grimage, reaches down to the depths
where we are, but it also lifts up to
the highest attitudes of the Divine
Life. The way, to measure is to be-
gin at the cross and the foul abyss
OF evil and go up to the throne. This
Wondrous Love lifts up from the low
est degradation and sin to the glory
Of Sonship in the courts of heaven.
How high will it lift us? o. God.
Thou knowest
Well, after we add all our powers
together and seek to apprehend the
love of Christ in its length and
breadth and depth and height the
superlative glory is all beyond us! It
passeth knowledge. Even when we
are filled unto all the fullness of God.
the OverfOwing is infinitei Let ux
soon See to it that we use our indi-
vidual power to its utmost. Let us
see to it that every capacity is hal
lowed Let us open the innermost
chamber and let in the King. and by
the ministry of His love toward us
these higher perceptions may become
ours.