Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-04

PRAYER.
Return. return,
with ali thy bitter tears.
Thy heavy burdens. come!
As thou art all sin and pain,
Fear not father F. %pS esn. !. ; 70 NEE. he
words q IIie ana promise greet thee
Return. return.
From strife and tumuk vain
To quiet solitude.
To silent thought again.
which now desolate thy breast:
Tnsrs the Spirit. long neglected.
waits with bliss before unknown;
And the Savior. long rejected
Claims and seals thee for His own
Return. return.
To thy long-sufering Lnrdi
Fear not to seek His grace.
To trust His faithful word.
Yield to Hin thy wessy hear.
He soothe the deepest sorrow.
Wash the blacklist guilt away;
Then delay not Till tomorrow.
Seek His offered gifts TO-DAY.
From ali thy wsnderins.. home.
To rest and substance. come!
Come 70 truth from errors night,
Come from darkness unto light,
Come from death TO life undyfng.
From fallen earth 60 heaven.
Haste 10 take what God has sfyeni
Translated from the German.
@HIS subject Is the message OF
the gospel. s'Chrfst Jesus
came into the world to save
sinners" said ST. Paul to
Timothy, and he called It a
true saying and worthy Of all men to
b received" II Tim. 1:15. Man finds
e., n the strength
Of hts ideals. weighed down by his trans
Gressions and his failures. He is con-
stantly doing what he knows to be wrong
and harmful. and he Is equally constant
~ failing to become what he knows he
ought TO be and what he honestly wishes
20 be- In other words. he Is convicted
Of sin" Then he remembers that God
IN His love sent HIS dear Son Jesus
Christ 10 he his Savior-that is. to save
him from sin. And this salvation means,
first. a saving from the penalties OF sin
second. a saving from conscious con-
dition OF sinfulness and unworthiness;
third. a saving from the weakness which
leads 10 sin; and lastly. saving TO bliss
and glory here and hereafter. We will
study these parts OF salvation in a few
moments But I wish, first. TO answer
q few objections or difficulties which
readily occur TO us.
And the first difYiculty is that so few
seem 10 realize their sinfulness and their
need OF a Savior. We go here and there
all over the world. and men--even the
men of Christian Landslide not seem TO
be troubled at all about their failures or
their transgressions. II sin Is such a
grievous thing. then men ought 10 he
convicted of IL and SO led to salvation.
IL every man falls far short OF his ideals,
then he should seek some way by which
success may come. In answer to this we
can say that we do not know how far
men are inwardiy moved. They may not
show their trouble IN such fashion that
We can see II, and yet their hearts and
lives may secretly and before God be
heavily oppressed. We cannot judge one
another. Again. the very fact that men
arc struggling and studying and seeking
for happiness proves them to be unsatis-
:ied They do not know what their ef-
forts mean: they do not dream OF the
divine power which leads them and en-
ables them to gain knowledge and sue
cess. but all the while that power il
working In them and drawing them. ir
spite Of their ignorance Of God. to higher
In schools and colleges and libraries. In
art and poetry. In dress and manners. Is
really human effort TO rise from Low
things to things high and pure; and such
civilization comes always and only as a
result. direct or indirect. OF Christianity
What we who know Christ and believe In
Him need 10 do Is 20 make clear to then
the salvation of Jesus by which uncon
sciously they are being benefited.
Then comes In the old dfmculty con-
cerning the heathen"-that Ii, those peo-
pie who. b lands Of wildness and
coesseness. know nothing OF the bless