Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-22
God Cares Not on How You Come
To Him Just so You Do Come

did their best In Hls name. even wheI
none could be seen. II Is necessary tina
the disciples Of Christ should learn {,
live by faith. for Il will not do TO judg,
from appearances az 10 what God is do
ng. A lifelong impression was made upo.
he disciples that morning by the halt
ng OF the crowd there in the street {,
how them that great work had beef
one when they had not been expecting
| anything at ell. Peter, James and Johr
and the others were probably thinking
Of what was going 10 no when they
| reached the house OF Jes.. sut they had
not thought OF anything being done before
they got there. We look for great th.nRs
when we have the revival meeting mex,
winter. but we are not looking for any
thing before then. Something may hap
pen on Sunday. the preacher thinks.
when the church Is filled with peeps,
but nothing IL expected in the little
prayer meeting. where only few old
stsndbys are gathered.
Result often Unknown.
BY Jesus stopping that crowd in the
street we have the right to expect some
thing now. whether we ever learn what
II il this side OF heaven or not. some
thing is going to happen now. You can
depend on Il. AS sure as God 10 God.
Whatever good seed 10 sown He will see
70 II that II grows, for the parable Of
the sower IL always true.
And so I believe the Lord halted the
throng that morning 20 help His dis
ciples to take q long step in faith. that
they In turn night pass the lesson on
down 10 ne. That wherever He 10, and
wherever His faithful servant is, some
thing that God 10 satisfied with IL beng
done. and that away down In the eter-
mites heaven will ring again and again
with the music OF our rejoicing over in
finite surprises. Away beyond the time
when some of the brightest stars have
grown dim. we shall meet souls in the
eternal world who felt the touch Of
Christ Enthusiastically as the timid woman.
through effort OF ours when we didn't
dream wo had done thing.
1 shot an arrow into the air.
IL fell 10 earth. I knew not where
For so swift II flew, the sight
Could not follow II In its flight
l breathed song into the air.
II fell to earth. knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong
That ne can follow the flight Of song7
Long long afterward, in an oak
1 found the arrow, still unbroke,
And the song from beginning to end
found again In the heart OF friend.
And this lie but a repetition Of what IL
always going on. Not one soldier In 1000
who fires his musket on the battlefield
ever knew whether his bullet had ever
hit anybody. and yet fearful execution
had been done. The battle II always
won by men who do not know what they
have accomplished. Even our failures
are sometimes the very thing God needs
20 bring about certain results. George
Washington. when a boy. had his heart
set on being a midshipman In tho British
navy. and the arrangement was all made
for him TO &c, but his mother weakened
at the lost moment and would not give
her consent. Had that l6-year-oid boy
had his way. perhaps the revolutionary
war might never have been fought. No
matter how things 80. we should believe
that God 10 in His heaven, and all is
well with the world" A preacher was
once preaching a written sermon when
right at tho beginning OF the.most i'm
portant part OF n. az hef thought. some
Of his pages were blown out OF the win
dow and lost, and he had to stop right
there in great modification Years after
ward he met q man who had been con-
verted as the result OF that very meet
ing, through the awakening that came
from the last thought given before the
sermon took winga through the window.
II ought to help our faith n great deal
TO find out that God can even use a
written sermon. II he can do that II
don't see why any kind OF preacher
should ever have the blues.
Like the TImid Woman,
In every congregation there Is some
body like the timid woman Somebody
who has been going to other doctors for
years without getting any help. but
rather growing worse, and now they have
come to the conclusion that they will as
a last resort try Jesus. II was a deeper
ate resolve the woman made but hers
was desperate case. and so was mine
and yours. II was the only thing she |
could do. Had she only had one more
dollar TO try one more doctor that pro-
cession toward the sorrowing home OF |
Jairus wouldn't have halted in the street |
OF Capernaum that morning. She couldn't |
do anything else. and she couldn't be any |
worse off II she failed. and so abe made |
the venture. Venturtng on Christ Is the |
best days work anybody can ever do. |
She ventured, though. with great timid- |
lty. can see Jesus beg inning to walk a |
little slower as that poor weak woman |
comes limping toward him, for he always
suits his pace to the strength OF those
who seek Him. She had no one 70 help |
her make a plan. and 30 she had to do
the best she could. and make her own
plan. II wasn't much Of a plan, but Il |
was the best she could make, ana IL
worked.
That kind OF plan will always work. |
The plan that puts Jesus right IL. the CEN
ter always works. no matter how poor a |
plan II may be In other respects. Jesus |
never turns away from any poor soul who |
seeks Him just because they may not
know anything about theology. II Is not
theology II Is not theology that saves,
hu, Christ. The scribes and pharisees
who crucified the Lord were the best |
theologians In the country. on that line |
they could not only split hairs with any |
body, but they could quarter them. and I
then whittle each quarter to a point No /
body ever has been kept out OF heaven /
because they didn't know much about the
atonement.
The Door woman said ssYf go ,o..,.