November, 1933
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Stand Tonight before "the cross o f Christ’s agony, and ask the Son o f God how much you cost Him. You cost Him every drop of His life blood. You are precious to Him, as He is precious to you. That is why we must behold Him in en raptured vision, and call Him precious Saviour, because His saviourhood is so divinely expensive! His S alvation is U tterly E xclusive What gives the most priceless gem in the world its great value? Is it not the fact that there is not another like it on earth? For the same reason Jesus.Christ is our precious Saviour. “ For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” “ There was none other good enough To pay the price o f sin; He only could unlock the gate
Not only did the saviourhood of Jesus Christ cost heaven its glory and earth its pride, but it cost the Son o f God His life blood. In speaking of this, Peter applies that strange, tender adjective, “ precious,” when he says, “ Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. . . . But with the precious blood o f Christ, as o f a lamb without blemish and without spot,” During the Indian Mutiny, some o f the English were defeated, and a number of them were cap tured and taken prisoners to what was then the headquarters o f the Sepoys. Among the captured was a man who was badly wounded and bleeding. He was lying helpless on the floor when an Indian
officer came in and started to wrap a long chain about each o f the English officers. When the Indian ap proached the man lying on the floor, so weak from loss o f blood that he could not move, and started to wrap and lock the chain about him, a brother Englishman, named Baird, leaped to his feet and pushed the Indian officer back, until he went staggering against the wall, and said: “ Man, have you neither heart nor sympathy? Don’t you see this man is suffering from his wounds, and is so weak now that he cannot stand? He could make no attempt to escape if he wanted to. You are not going to add to his burdens by compelling him to lie there with a chain wrapped about him !” Said the Indian officer: “ There are as many chains as there are prisoners, and every chain must be worn.” Then said Baird: “ You
O f heaven and let us in !” Had Jesus Christ not be come our Saviour, the whole race would have been swal lowed up in the abyss o f its rebellion against God. Can you imagine any other form in the universe bound, to that cross atoning for sin? Can you imagine the Angel Gab riel nailed to the tree of Cal vary? Can you think o f an other being in all the vast em pire o f God that would be good enough to offer such precious blood in our stead? You cannot! Then hail Him precious Saviour. He alone is all the hope, and all the plea for saving grace, and all the glory o f the soul that trusts in Him. The world has seen many teachers and in structors in religious ideals, but the world has seen but one Saviour. A desert traveler is dying of thirst. His pockets may be bulging with gold. His saddlebags may be packed
Crucified, L iv in g , and Coming Again [May be sung to the tune “ Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes” ] By R ussell E. K au ffm an From heaven’s glory, Jesus came To die upon the tree; Dying, to save eternally, A sinner lost, like me. He took my place, He loved me so, His sacrifice divine Hath reconciled my soul to God, And made His mercy mine. Death could not hold the Lord of L ife; . In triumph H e arose; Victor forever o’er the tomb, And Conqueror o f His foes; He lives again, the Christ o f God, No more to bleed and die; He hath ascended unto God To dwell with Him on high. Some day the trump of God will sound, And Jesus shall descend; Coming to claim His chosen bride — The age of grace to end. O day o f days, when loved ones meet, In yonder home so fair; Come then, dear Lord, and call Thine own To dwell forever there!
may put two chains on me; I will wear mine and his.” It was done. His captors locked two chains around him, carried him out, and dropped him into the infamous well of Calcutta. The other man, unchained, went back to England. Until the day he died, he never tired o f sounding forth the praises o f the man who, by wearing his chain, had made it possible for him to creep back again into the arms o f his wife and children. Perhaps, all of your life, you have heard such stories o f substitutionary suffering, as we poor,, stammering preachers o f Christ try to find some way of telling you how infinitely costly was the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on our behalf. W e try to make you understand how infinite was the price He paid for our ransom. None other could ever pay such a price. That is why Jesus Christ is precious!
with bacon and flour and sugar. The one thing needful is water. Without water, he must die. A man is dying o f starvation. His eyes stand like burning lamps in their hollow sockets. His bones stand out beneath his shrinking, shriveling skin. No matter what else he has, he must have food, for without food he will die. Food is the most precious thing on earth to him. A man is dying in sin. His soul sinks under the condemnation o f God upon his sinfulness. The works o f his righteousness are all destroyed; he shrinks and quails before the blazing light of God’s purity. He must have Christ. 'Without Christ, he dies. Jesus Christ is precious to the soul, because there is salvation in no other. Did He not teach us so? “ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. . . . I am the
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