The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-04-18

| nized as true mes
| William Carey brought another
great thought from heaven. and Rob-
ert Raikes another. In our own land
Dwight L. Moody and Francis e. Clark
| and Frances Willard have each been
the bearer OF rich messages from God.
All these have met with stout opposi-
ton, for My thoughts are not your
| thoughts. saith the Lord" and yet
eventually their message has been re-
ceived, and has been incorporated in
to the life of the church.
One accent of the Holy Ghost,
The needless world hath never lost.
That, God has messages for tho
| church of today no one can doubt.
Never was there an age which needed
divine wisdom more than ours. Great
| problems confront us, great dangers
| threaten us. Many of Gods people
seem dazed by the difficulties before
them, and cry out in pitiful tones,
Who is sufficient for these things?"
Instead of waiting upon God for re-
newal of their strength, they resort to
all manner Of worldly expedients to
gain the attention Of the tickle crowd.
| Others recognizing clearly the, same
difficulties and dangers are clamoring
loudly for "A man with message"
| Why should not every Christian be
| "A man with a messageT Was 1t not
said Of our day. Il will pour out my
/ spirit upon all flesh; and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions
and your old men shall dream
dreams?" Was it not said of all be-
levers. "Ye shall be witnesses unto
me?..
| Surely God needs us all as messen-
gers OF mercy to this sin-stricken
world. And yet how many seem to
have no message. They have nothing
/ to say for God because they have
heard nothing, and they hear nothing
because they are not living in com
munion with him. They are like a
broken telephone, which can neither,
receive nor transmit. Their wire is
down, their communication broken.
| they are of no use.
How important it is then that those
who are in open communication with
God should take time to be holy, take
time to receive and deliver the mes
sages of God.
aire. He had gone deeper and found
How to Obtain Message.
There are grave difficulties in the
way of even those who are busiest in
the service Of God This is an age OF
hurry and worry, and unless we are
| very careful we shall-fal into the spir-
1t of the age, and allow ourselves to
| be robbed Of that quiet and repose
which is essential to deep acquafnt-
ance with God Somehow we must
get time to be alone with God, time
to let the truth as 1t is In Jesus filter
down through our being until our
whole life is saturated with its spirit.
So shall we come forth from our
closets each day with the dew OF
heaven upon cur hearts, and with q
fresh message upon our lips. He that
hath an ear to hear, let him hear what
the spirit saith unto the churches"
Avoid the Danger.
/ 1t Is dangerous thing to know
j. 1OQ . Will anu uOL QO II. Anu OlG Oh
the most perilous things Christian
| can do, is to try to hold his own sim
ply, and not go forward into the deep
/ things of God when thus led by the
spirit have read of Christian man
j who became so engrossed in his bust
ness that he largely lost his fellow
ship with God. After while his BUSH
ness began to fail; he found that in a
| few weeks the vein of coal from which
he had been drawing his supplies
would be exhausted and all his invest
ment would be useless. He was also
impressed that his business troubles
were due to his departure from God,
and this led him to much prayer
One night in dream a voice seemed
to say to him, 60 deeper" 1t seemed
to him to be the voice of God, and it
led to an entire transformation of his
life. AS he entered upon closer
walk with God his heart was filed
with new JOY and power. But still tho
voice kept speaking to him SO per
sistently that he began to think it had
something TO do with his business.
And SO one day he proposed to his
foreman that they should abandon the
old vein of coal. and sink new shaft
i with a view Of finding a deeper store.
The foreman ridiculed the idea for all
the indications We're against it. But
he insisted and at length shaft was
sunk, and after they had gone down
a reasonable distance they struck, not
a vein of coal. but 10, an immense
vein Of iron, and suddenly the bank.
rupt miner found himself a million
ARE.
Is not this Gods message to us to-
day. Go deeper?" If we have ex-
hausted all the satisfaction and power
there is in our present knowledge OF
truth. let us enter into the deep thinga
! of God. depths of wisdom
Dwell deep. o my soul, deeper yet. hour
by hour.
Dwell deep. deeper yet, in his fulness az
4 power.