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Him. This encourages our hearts to be more faithful in the ministry of grace. God can save the devil’s outcasts, and Yokefel lows’ Hall is witnessing such power. An inside meeting is‘also held each even ing, the total attendance for the month being 1155, those present being fed at the close of the service. Twelve men have come out for the Lord in a public profession. Men ask prayers each evening, and are personally T HE Word of God will always be sweet to the Christian, because it so com pletely quickens him to every good thing when it comes in contact with him. I am sure, brethren, when you hear the Word of God faithfully preached, or read it with devout appreciation, you rise up like giants refreshed with new wine. What should we do if it were not for the quickening which this Book sometimes gives us ? I must con fess that I sometimes seem to spring up, as from a bed of sloth, quickened and filled with more energy than ever I had before, when I have been touched with a single promise, or the power of a single precept. I have heard of the dead member of an animal—perhaps the dead foot of a fro g - being touched with the galvanic wire of the battery, and as soon as the galvanism flows into it the limb has been animated by the energy. Now, we do not receive a galvanic, energy from the Word of God, but we get real life from it, by which we, whose souls seem to be dead, suddenly start up with a Divine power. That which makes a man serve God with the fullest liberty and the greatest excellence is being quickened with the Word of God; therefore, the Word of God must be always sweet to his taste. Honey is reputed to be the sweetest of all earthly things, yet you will discover that the Word of God is sweeter than that. Let me speak experimentally. It is a happy thing to be successful in the work of God, and to win souls; I do think that is the
dealt with. The weekly Bible study class for converts is studying the book of Ephe sians, and has an average of twelve in at tendance. We found work for thirteen men, and have helped many more. Your prayers are earnestly sought that Yokefellows’ Hall will be a power for God in saving men. sweetest of all earthly enjoyments. I have sometimes seen twenty or thirty persons in a day, most of whom have found peace under my own ministry. Well, that is sweet, isn’t it?, But I am distinctly aware that the Word of God is sweeter, for, when I have felt happy over my success, I have felt hap pier by far over some precious promise or some delightful doctrine of inspiration. I have thought I heard the Master say to me, when I had brought souls to Him, what He said to the disciples when they wrought miracles: “Rejoice not in this; but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” The thought of my election, or of my redemption, or of the glory of Christ; or of the faithfulness of God, has been dis tinctly sweeter than the former sweetness which 1 had. There are things in the world that are very white. Some good housewives have made the linen look so delicately white that they have supposed that nothing could be whiter; and then there has come a fall of snow, and, in contrast, the fairest and whit est damask has seemed dark. So, the joy of winning souls, the joy of domestic love, the joy of having served God, has been like the damask of the housewife; but get a promise of God’s Word, and in comparison that will be like the snow, which is whiter still. "All the sweetness you can get from earthly joy will be exceeded by the sweet ness of an applied promise from the Word of God. It is “sweeter than honey.”
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