The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-29
Always the Same.

Selected for The Advertiser.
 Jesus Christ the same yesterday' to- day and forever" Heb. xiii, 8.
 What comfortable Scripture to dwell upon in these last days of the dying year. What a consolation amid the uncertainties of the future ana the inevitable changes which must come in the year upon which we are so soon
 ."They shall perish, but Thou re- mainest: and they all shall wax old as a garment, and as a vesture shall Thou fold them up, and they shall be chang ed; but Thou are the same; and Thy years shall not fail" Upon that ever lasting truth in simple trust we rest.
 A few more hours. and another year will have come to an end, and have joined the myriads of those gone be- fore. It will have perished from the visible creation, and no eye can follow Ancient of Days, the Alpha and Omega. the beginning and the end. All the ages lie in the hollow of Ills hand; and while every event in them is known. remembered and recorded, He counts them all as but a watch that is past
 This dying year carries with 1t an indelible memorial of each of us--whak we have thought and said and done eret heart, now much of evil and how little of good 1t has to record. Our conscienee tells us that in many things we have sorely offended. and that if
 
 done amiss-we are undone.
 For a sinner ready to perish what a blessed statement is this. Jesus Christ the same yssteFday.. today and and for for warned, rebuked and sympathized with, man in the days of His flesh, He does still. now that He sits at the right hand of His Father. and so He will forever. His love is as His eternity and His holiness and His power are the same. Time cannot affect them. There is in Him no Yariableness, nor shadow of turning. He surveys all. He all work His own sovereign will.
 His acts and words in the Gospel bear witness to this truth, But read no word of encoufa cement. still less of comfort. to any who trife with Him or with their own souls in the brief little time, these few feeting years, given to man in which to work out his own sal- vation.
 Judge not another, but turn your eyes within. Look-not at all your past years-but to this one, which is now visibly slipping away, and ask yourself the solemn question, What twelve months?"
 You are by 8 whole year so much nearer death--are you so much nearer heaven? As the sands of life run out and your allotted years glide away, are you carelessly playing. or are you redeeming the time because the days are evil?'
 Jesus Christ the same"-not only in love and mercy for the penitent but in severity to those who are living with out Him and who do not try to obey Him. We acknowledge Him as our Re- deemer;' we look to Him as our Inter cessor, but on what ground can we claim His mercy as our Judge?
 Are we sorrowing much believing much, loving much? These are His terms His conditions; and there is none other.
 "What He was yesterday-blessed be God-He Is today, and He will be for ever But we've are vanishing like vapor: we bring our years to an end AS 1t were tale that is told. We know not what an hour or day may bring forth. nor where any one of us may be ere the morning sun shall rise
 For each hour, as 1t disappears. we need to implore forgiveness. What then of years? Our times are in His, hand: and in spite of all our short comings. He wants us to he. not se- wants, but-trien6s. members of His hodv. parta<ers of His nature. saucti- fed by His Word and Spirit. and inher- itors of His wondrous promise. Where I am, there shall My servant be-"
 Dear friend, will you not accept His offer? Years are nassine away. Night Is drawing on. Death cannot be far off-anti then-Eternitvt
 Where will you spend H4