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King of kings and Lord of lords. He is coming back. He is not going to fail. I have been always interested in M’Cheyne and I read a bit of his bi- • ography the other day. He died at twenty-nine years of age. Wherever his feet stepped Scotland shook. Whenever he opened his mouth there was an elec tric force th a t swept in every direction. Whenever he entered there was a mag netic personality th a t drew everybody toward him. He lived a wonderful life and hundreds and thousands of people followed him into the kingdom of God. This incident about him fell into my hands this last week. A traveler anxious to see where M’Cheyne had preached, and worked, went to the Scotch city and found the church. He told the old sexton he had come a long ways and wanted to see where M’Cheyne had preached. The sexton said, “Come on” and th a t old gray-haired Scotchman led the way into M’Cheyne’s study. He said, “Sit down in that chair.” The traveler hesi tated a moment and then sat down. On the table in front of him was an open Bible. He said, “Drop your head in the Bible and cry like a child. That is the way our minister got ready to preach.” He said, “Come on with me.” He togk him up into the Scotch pulpit before the open Bible. “Now,” he said, “stand there and drop your head in your hands over the Bible and begin to weep.” He said, “That is 'the way our minister preached.” With a deathless conviction that, breaks up the fountains of the deep and wets my face with tears, I shall continue to remember the throne of God and stand in the shadow of the cross and hold 'the Book to my heart and preach the glorious gospel of the Son of God and believe in its everlasting triumph. Ms? SEE OUR 2c ADV . O N PAGE 401
no other man walked, but not that. He built His church not on any philosophy. He built it on no books for He never wrote one. He built ,His church on the fact that God in the person of Christ came into this world and died on Cal vary to save men. That is the founda tion and He said that church will never be budged or moved a hair’s breadth from that foundation. That makes this true th a t there is no church in this world th a t does not rest on th a t foundation. Christian Science is not a church. It is a fake. It is a farce to call it a church. It is an organ ization. It is like other organizations, like world organizations,'but the Church of Jesus Christ is founded on the deity of Jesus Christ, so Christian Science is no church. _ The Unitarians are no church. They are a club because the church is built oh the foundation stone of the deity of Christ. The real church of Christ,— I do not mean only the ma terial structure of wood' and stone, I mean the real spiritual church, the body of Christ, the men and women who be long to Him everywhere in this world; that great organization known to God and cared for by God and waiting for Christ’s coming,-^-that is the church which stands forever and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Hope In the Dark Hour These may seem to be dark days and they are but we have seen others in his tory. The Word of the Lord endureth forever. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead and s till. lives. The throne of God still stands. The gates of hell shall not prevail against His ehurch. In the darkest hour of human history, according to this Book, He is coming back again. He may come today but when He comes the world will have a King that is above every other king and who swings the sceptre of peace and rules the nations of the earth. The
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