The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
tabernacle Addresses;
By Wilbur Glenn Voiva
By Wilbur Glenn Voliva

maJestcay upon them that most beautiful OF blessings
rest!
Let your minds run back to creation The earth is
beautiful now beautiful hen but things
a give rest and from the time that God said to
Adam Where art thou? to this moment humanity has
been compared to the rolling and surgng that
rests day night. John in the Apocalypse when God
showed him the Heaven and the earth, told
that there shall be but this afternoon believe
truly than at any time God said to Adam and
Eve, Where art thou" that humanity is seethng surg
ing, rolling, restless and where you find
with peace dwelling within his breast you will find nine
thousand who restless and though they seek for
rest they can neither find it nor receive it.
Only RestG is
1t was sin that separated between and God it was
that caused majestic calmness to take it's departure
was sin that brought about the awful conditions that
obtain today there is only One Who give rest and
that One is Jesus the Christ He said that all others who
before Him thieves and robbers and all that
have come since Chrst's earthly ministry and have
claimed the ability to give salvation and healing and rest
and power to the sn-sck wearied troubled souls i'm
posters of the rankest type
And down through the centuries the Voice of
God comes rolling at times tones of thunder and in
other times in gentle whispers saying Come unto Me all
We labor heavy laden and will give you rest
lin is an Enemy Which Trfe.
Sin! Oh, how people trife with sin! This very af-
ternoon there here who apparently in good
health the bloom of youth to be upon the cheek
the vision is clear the is steady and the form is
unbent and such person says, II all right 60
ing to have good time. Three months from call
comes in for Elder and the Elder finds his way to
certain house with light step lest the sufferer be disturbed
He is ushered into the and there upon bed is
emacated FORM the cheeks all sunken, the eye dull the
unsteady and the Elder says Who is is? and he
soon
on Lords Day, February 23rd, the woman who
present them while Wilbur Glenn Voliva fire for God
pouring forth his life to draw the people together for
Cod and he pictured the Son Of God suffering and dy
ing this sick laughing and soothing at ZION and
saying "What do I care; I all right have good
healthp'
The time my hearers to get down at the feet of Jesus
the Christ while life hrobs through your entire being
before the devil strikes you with his poisoned for
the well better able to fight the battle of life than the
poor SICK emaciated one.
It is said that there was certain king who once
year invited all the beggars in certain town to banquet
At these banquets he would have his couers dressed in
beautiful sen apparel to wait upon these beggars One
year. the story goes the time drew nigh for the beg
CARS banquet of the courters through accident
completely soled his slken apparel He afraid to tell
the king and he said 'hat shall do? If haven't the
silken apparel can't act courter and will not be
allowed go the banquet He said 81 resolved what
to do will put the garment of beggar and so ne did,
and this afternoon the Christ cries Come unto
Me-, want everybody to whether you have on the
garment of righteousness or the garment Of filthy of
SIM He respecter of persons but patient Before
this service closes every YOUTH and maiden
should come Jesus Christ and go home saying, THANK
Cod He has kept His promise and taken away aches
and troubles, and given rest
Worldly not
Why seek for rest any further the pursuits of worldly
pleasures in the mad chase for dollars and cents for at
last when all the pleasures gone and when have
hundreds thousands millions of dollars will be
the miserable earth you have not heard and
needed the Voice of Christ and to Him and found rest
1t is not within the power of to give it. It is not
within the most beautiful of material things to give it, for
let tell you this afternoon, talk about home, home
What do you call home? Do call it building with
carpets and piano. and furniture and pictures? That is
not home Material things cannot bring happiness nor
rest to dwell within single breast My friends,
want lead you away from earthly treasures It is the
who has his eyes and from the earth and
looks the eternal God Of Life and Wisdom and Power that
hears the voice of angels and of the eternal God.
Rest
Rest! Learn lesson from the little child. Jesus
said Except We become converted and become little
child we shall in no wise enter into THE KINGDOM OF GOD