The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-15
GODS ETERNAL REST.

might seem strange and hard TO
those who read no more, who knew
| no further Yet, the next phrase
separated only by semicolen of
punctuation shows the possibility;
for l am meek and lowly in heart. >
This Christ who was to suffer all
who was son of higher King than
the world had ever known, who was
! a prince of God, and had endured
had suffered, become meek and
! lowly," that he might know the SUI
| fering that we would bear 1t was
not an arrogant King, who had only
: known the princely happiness of a
life of ease. 1t was the man to be
| crucified, who bore the anguish of a
cross that he might lead us to a
crown
When Christ calls you today to
come it is not through the dogma
tism of church, the doctrine of one
| sect, the creed of a schism, but as
the man who once declared "My
God, my God why hast thou for
saken me?" 1t is the man who real
/ ICES our limitation, it is the Chris
tian that has suffered long before
we did, it is the Goldman, who knows
that after the fear and pains, after
! the sorrow and tears. lie the reward
in the joys Of His kingdom
If there are burdens which you
cannot meet remember the hands
pierced on Calvary know where to
lead. The path before you lies hard,
the way seems rough and impossible,
but the eyes that saw his tempta-
tions, His remuneration, ana his final
restoration to Gods side see the end
of the path that you and must take.
and ye shall find rest unto your
souls no semi-colon here separates
the results from the conditions, nor
does the text or the common YER
sion say rest for your souls" but
rest unto your souls" 1t is not a
condition of thing being possible,
but thing that comes into and unto,
that lies with you, that abides ever.
Far beyond the signing and the
weeping lies a better land | know"
Yet that land is only the home of
that Christ who stood and said,
Come unto Me, all we who labor, and
| will give you rest" Not rest of
of mind or tired body which must
sooner or later become wearied again
but rest and peace unto the soul, and
when souls find their peace body ana
mind are forever at rest.
In this Kingdom there is no un-
more signing. nor pain, nor weeping,
for God shall wipe all tears from your
eyes And there shall be no night
there, neither shall there be any need
of the light of the candle, for the
lamb shall be the light thereof.
And the Spirit and the Bride say
c1me, and let him that heareth say
come, and let him hat is athirst say
come, and whatsoever will, let him
take of the waters of the life freely"
That same Christ that stood in the
last day, that great day of the feast
and cried" If any man thirst, let him
come unto me and drink" cries to
you now. Holding out his hands.
calling to you of whatever nation or
creed you may be, knowing what you
suffer, what you undergo, what your
limitations are, that same Jesus calls
Come"
You are to again meet your tolls.
Temptations, adversely and weak
ness will close around you and yet
close by you, always leading you
upward and onward, if you will only
hear, ring the words Come unto
me. There the children of men"
put their trust under the shadow of
his wing. There one can drink of
the river of Gods pleasure. There
is the fountain of light and in his
AI6hb We oldll STE llSul. w nile
underneath are the everlasting arms
of Gods eternal refuge.
My wish is that there may be one
word that will linger with you, ever
after the text has been forgotten;
that you shall carry in your souls
the thoughts of Gods eternal rest
so that as we go on toward the end
, of life's long journey we may know,
That the river tempest tost soon
will be with it's lights and shadows
lost in the sea.
Lost the heartache and the fears,
Lost the signing and the tears,
In the rest of endless years,
When the bells ring home to me-"
And may the rest and peace that
passes all understanding be with you
and keep you, and abide with YOU
| evermore.