The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
81 aCrowded Outr

lseleeted FOR The Adyertiser)
There was no room for them in
the inn.H--Luse II. 4.
Crowded out OF the Inequalities and
comforts of life. ont of the Inns and
homes and cheerful Hearts of men, He
finds a resting place in the worlds
and degradation of our race. The as
pect of our busy and unbelieving world
today is but the repeated picture OF
that inn of Bethlehem in which there
was no room found for Jesus.
This Is the form which opposition
to the cause of Christ now most gen.
orally takes. The gospel Is not fought
against or fairly met in any way. 1t
is just simply crowded out. Christ
comes with His truth to the intellect
What js the answer? Every chamber.
from the garnet to cellar, is pre-en-
gagged. Science. moral and physics,
politics, history, art all these are with
us. and must be royalty lodged and
fed. For this new applicant there is
no room in the inn." Christ comes
with His work to the will. But what
entryways are packed to stagnation,
and a thousand great schemes have
already taken up their permanent
abode? Again this great hmm is full.
Christ comes with His love TO the
great roomy. hospitable human heart.
But the affections have already been
wasted on a host OF beggarly and UNI
worthy claimants, so that when the
Master of the heart comes there is no
room to spare! Thus daily the scene
of Bethlehem is repeated. He comes
to His own: His own receives Him
not. The world is too full for Christ,
the heart too crowded for its Saviour!
Yet this plea of this over-fullness
is a false one. You say II am too
| busy. my life is too full, and yet l
feel its Importance" That is not
true. You do not feel your need-you
do not want to be Christian. If
the room.
Fiji a cup with water so that it
seems as If II could not hold another
drop. Drop a bullet into 1t and the
an amount of water double the bull
let's bulk and 1t will mingle with the
other water, clinging particle to par
! ticle, and the cup will hold 1t all. So
If religion were a mere dead weight
and dropped like a bid of lead into
the full soul of man, you might say
there was no ROOM" but II 1t be
living principle which will pervade the
whole cup. then 1t is true wisdom to
make room for 1t.
Man--in the face of all his present
degradation-was made tit Tor the
birthplace of Christ You have walled
your rooms so low and mean that
great truths cannot live in them. But
never dare to think that this was
Gods plan for your life. He drew its
architecture on lordly scale; He de-
signed for you great, generous,
ca pacious lives. He intended you to
be temples of the Holy Ghost. The
gospel stands forever in the midst of
our little. base. selfish lives, and pro-
tests this Is not the true life that
God intended for u.s.
In this great caravansary which trav-
elers are met midway upon their jour
ney from Eternity to Eternity, there
| has been found room for every inter-
est except religion. and for every
are to His truth but as fire spark
to a star; hopes which are to His
! hope, like the phosphorescence OF
death, to the warm life giving sun
have all found an open and ready
welcome in the, crowded world only
| for Jesus has there been mo room in
No room! And Is your heart so full
my brother, your life so completes
No room for Jesus! When He is your
only hope. No room for Jesus; Set
where His feet have not been set No
room for Jesus! And yet except by
Jesus there is no eternal life! If this
| be So warn you-make His room
| Fling away your choicest treasures
as sailors in the stormy seas fling Out
mo room" Let the guests which
keep Him out stand up before Him
and watch how full Of shame they are
when they meet His face! They know
| (these spirits of earth and hell Il
whom you give His plaee)-they
know, II you do not. whose place they
No room for Jesus, Let it be sait
no more! open your long-closet
heart. He comes once more to you to-
day-rise up, and bid your Saviour
welcome.