The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-07-29
LIGHT; LOVE; PEACE
All Blessings Offered. to Those
Who Viii Open Their Hearts
to Christ.

deepest. and the most urgent wants OF
the heart he promises to satisfy.
In true conversion Christ enters
the soul. This is the very essence
and touchstone of conversion. With
him comes light; with him comes
love; with him comes peace. The
radical change Of heart in conversion
Is just as truly supernatural work
as was the resurrection of Lazarus
from the cave in Bethany. Christ,
then, enters the soul, not as q trans
lent visitor, but as an abiding guest.
While he abides there he gives peren-
NAL life and beauty and strength to
the believer. Because live, We shall
live Also" yet not l." said the hap
by, hale-hearted apostle, "but Christ
that liveth in me-" And that was the
"a Christ's-man) long after the first
excitement OF the scene at Damascus
had passed away. A well was opened
in Paul's heart that day, and it's deep,
cool. living waters never ran dry.
Ruled by Love Of Christ
would act in any emergency, because
the principle that ruled him was al
ways the same. "The love Of Christ
contraineth me-" For me to live Is
Christ" The only reason why any
good man continues to be good man
is that the wellspring in his soul
never runs dry. Reckless, slave-hunt-
ing John Newton ceases to scoff, and
begins to pray. Twenty years later
John Newton Is still praying. still
preaching, still overlooking in bene-
f1cence among the haunts Of busy
London: and solely because the Lord
Jesus dwelt in him, source Of holy
affections, and an inspirer of noble
and cody actions. On Sunday he
went to preach to rich bankers and
titled ladies. On a weekday evening
he would sit on a three-legged stool,
in his blue sailor jacket, and open
up his rich experiences and wise
counsels to the poorest who came to
visit him. 81 was a wild beast on the
coast of Africa once" he used to say;
but the Lord Jesus caught me and
tanned me, and now people come to
see me as they would go to look at
the lions in the tower" What people
came to see and to hear and to love
in the sturdy sailor preacher was the
Christ who dwelt within John New
ton.
Here is the secret of Christian per
| severance, that a true Christian holds
| out for no other reason than that
Christ holds out. The Fountain-head
of all holy affection, and all generous
deeds, and all heroic, self-denying en-
| durances, is down deep in the mans
heart; because Christ lives, he lives
also. You can no more exhaust the
graces of the true Christian than you
can pump the Thames dry at London
| bridge. What a transcendent idea
that is in Paul's prayer for his bre
thren: THAT We might be filled with
all the fullness of God" When, there
fore, we meet with man or woman
who almost never disappoints us, who
| Is always Astounding in the work Of
| the Lord, who serves God on every
day as well as the Sunday, who is
more anxious to be right than to be
rich, and who can ask Gods blessing
on the bitterest cup, when we meet
such a one we know that down in the
clefts of the soul is Christ, the we'll
spring."
Spirit Made Manifest.
In a thousand ways will the inward
fountain of Christian principle make
| itself visible. We see it in the mer
chant who gives Christ the key of his
safe, and never soils it with nl-gotter
gains. We see 1t in the Statesman
who cares more to win Gods smile or
his conscience than reelection tt
Office. We recognize it in the min
lister who is more greedy for soul:
than for salary. We see it in the
| young man who would rather endure
comrades laughter than his Savior's
| frown; in the maiden who obeys
Christ sooner than fashion. some
times detect this wellspring Of cheer
full piety in the patient mother, whose
daily walk with God is a fount of holy
| influence amid her household. / know
of poor mems dwellings in which
grows a plant Of contentment that i.
an exotic rarely found in marble man
sions. It's leaves are green and glossy
1t is fed from the Well.
/ In dying chambers we have otter
heard this spiritual fountain playing
and its murmur was as musical as the
tinkle of brook 'in the leafy month
Of June"
Perfect love had cast out fear
Peace reigned. Joys sparkled in the
sunlight of Gods countenance. There
was well there which death could
not dry-the ''well of water springint
up into everlasting life" Rev Theo
dore L. Cuyler.