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that, that you are so careless in your conduct toward other women that if your wives knew what you were do ing it would break their hearts. Oh, hypocrite, to say, “Even so, come Lord Jesus,” when your imagination is vile, your conversation doubtful, and your conduct questionable! Some of you said, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus,” and you have not led a soul to Christ in a year. Jesus is coming ! Jesus is coming ! Oh, let us go from this place to ,lead the simplest lives that God makes it possible for us to live, to give up self indulgence Utterly, to spend hours in prayer for this old perishing world, and then go into the slums of Chi cago, into Africa, India, China and Japan, and work ourselves out, burn ourselves out, winning souls!
world, that we may watch and pray, and pray and watch; that we may know what it means to spend hours alone in prayer, thinking of China, India, Egypt, Africa, and the corners of the earth, crying to God in the hours of the night, thinking of Chi cago ; and then that we may be ready every moment, so that if the Lord did come, the Lord Himself living in our hearts, we would just be glad. The other day a great many of you said “Amen” to the last prayer in the Bible, “Surely, I come quickly.” You said, ‘Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” Many a man says that when it is a lie, a hypocrisy. You do not want Him to come; but it sounds well. You know, some of you who said that, that you are leading double lives. You know, some of you who said S HALL He come and find me watching, As the watchers watch for morn, As the hour of midnight passes, And the coming day is born? Shall He come and find me waiting, With my loins well girt about, Staff in hand the Lord to welcome, Waiting without fear or doubt? Shall He come and find me standing From the worldling’s joy apart, Lured not by its mirth and folly, With a true and loyal heart?
“Shall He Come” and Find Me Watching?
Shall He come and find me faithful To His parting word to me: “If I go—a place preparing — I will quickly come to thee” ? Shall He come and find me working In the vineyard full of love; Only working, till the glory Breaks upon me from above? Jesus, let me thus be waiting, Full of hope, and love, and zeal; Let Thy coming, to my spirit, Be a hope Divine and real. —
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