The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1949-03-16

There not lacking those who urged him to put Sec
far this worlds goods concerned trst mere
excerpts from letters bearing this subject In 1871
rote:
Let us attend to the first thing first = then we'll
not find thousands going to certain damnaton through
the Devil and his wles, for hundreds who are being
of power in Christ = in Him is .al power" and "all
fuliness the lack in His people and because there
numbered His people but who suppose that gain
goodness There lies Weakness on for the purj-
We need Love and self-sacrifice, and Courage to
look at things they really in Gods sight and
Strength to go without fear and do the right am
crushed into the very dust of establishment to think
of how wretchedly qnfruitfu my life has been, and
from the Cross, the pain, and the shame which will
surely follow Jesus fully and yet He knows,
want to. My heart is sick and faint when behold the
desolations of sin among men, and the cool sefcom-
placency of those who look upon them perishng with
Just pass by on the other side and leave
the robbed and wounded and naked to die in their sins
in His Word and in His Son who is "mighty to save,
and ready to save! am empty sometimes it seems, Of
all strength and have only fearful void in soul,
where Doubt and Fear and Sorrow fit like dark spec
tres, and where hated Sin turks and wants to drag
with Light and endow me with Strength for elsewhere
know not where it is for "God hath spoken once
God" feel so poweress and SO empty even with this
Omnpotence and Fullness there for me in God "a and
the ancient myth of Tantaus surrounded by tempting
food and water, which yet fled from him when he
stopped to take or to drink seems my case only too Of
ten. Yet have better times though I confess with
shame and sadness that today the Star yelled in
darkness to my SOUL
come, Thou Spirit of Love and Light! = come to
my soul!
Seeing Multitudes In The Bondage of Satan
He Longed To Deliver Them.
When he retired from the Church with which he
eced in order to enlarge his ministry there those
lid to him. No; do do it! do go from this compa
We security to - you know not what'
I told them, therefore, that mans life a
short at longest earth and that wanted
to do all could for Christ and whilst life and pow
ers were spared, came out, not from any love of
being singular from any love of the inevitable
of the increduous the contemptuous, but be-
my heart filled with holy passion for the
misguided ignorant, uncared for and perishing thou
sands who in the bondage of Satan in cities
I sketched the possibilities of my gathering to-
gether of these from all classes to hear the Cos
pei and truth of God and how church might be form
ed which should work night and day in various ways
for the reclamation and elevation, and restoration to
God of the perishing thousands, first in Sydney and
then around it.
asked them, from what they knew, whether
they thought was right in reasonings and deter
limitations. Their direct and hearty that
right, and that they could longer think of
ing their claims believing that the work which had
sketched out and the way to do it had been laid
me by God; and with enthusiasm they declared that
they believed the heart of Sydney 'the place for
me to go to-, and that there would be difficulty in
the means necessary to found this Free Christian
Church in Sydney.
His Greatest Desire "To Serve God
And Him Alone"
And yet another wrote, asking him if ne had any right