160 He went up blessing and He will come back blessing. When I was a lad I was afraid He would not come like that. The judgment day was preached a great deal in those days, and I thought He was coming with a sword, coming to de stroy, coming simply to judge, but then there came the vision that is unfolded in the Book, that He is coming for His people, with hands uplifted to bless, re pulsive ugliness turns into beauty. Finally and for ever, He is altogether lovely in the coming kingdom, for that coming kingdom is to be a kingdom of peace and righteousness, a peace in which there will be no need for imple ments of war, no sound of the trumpet and the drum, and the march, but a peace that shall reign the world over. Stand with me a moment at the gates ajar, and listen to what they are sing ing, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain.” He was worthy! Yes, lovely as a preacher, as a miracle worker, as a perfect example, no spot and no blemish in His character. But up yonder they are singing about Him as a Lamb. Let Jesus Christ, as the Lamb that was slain, master your life and rule your being, and you will have heaven with out going to it. Can you join with me in that ascription of praise? My first theme on the first Sunday morning of my pastorate at the Metropolitan Taber nacle, was from the text,— and if I have preached a sermon from that time to this, in which the same keynote of Calvary has not been given, I ask God to forgive me.— “Worthy is the Lamb that.- was slain to receive power and riches, and wisdom and strength, and honour and glory and blessing,” and that is just another way of saying that He is altogether lovely. He is worthy to receive everything that we have and everything /that we are in time and in eternity, for earth and for heaven. Will you believe it? Amen. • ‘ •$*£-'' US’ sL JIM Who is Jim? Where is Jim? What is Jim? Well, this is the way it hap-
THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S pened. There was a Railroad Engineer who was living a quiet Christian life. He knew he was trusting the Son of God as his only Saviour. But he was anxious to have others know Him also. So, finding it difficult to introduce the subject of personal salvation to the railroad men, he hit upon this plan. As he came home from his run he said to his sons (now Evangelists Harry and Walter Yom Bruch), “ Boys, I wish you would order me a button about the size of a five-cent piece to wear on my coat. Have J-I-M put Upon it.” “ But, Dad,” said the boys, “ for what, pray tell, do you want to wear a button with your own name on it?” But he only remarked, “ I want to wear it.” The boys talked it over and they said, “ It won’t look well for Dad to wear this button with his name on it. People will think he is a little off in the upper story.,f So they did not or der it. A week passed by and he asked the boys if they hád ordered his but ton. “No,” they replied. “Well¿ boys, if you do not order that button I will have to lay off from my run and order it myself.” So one of them ordered it. When they gave it to him they in sisted that he tell them why he was wearing it. “ You see, boys,” he said, “ it is hard for me to speak to any of the railroad men about my wonderful Saviour, so I bought this button to in troduce the subject.” “ But how does this -button introduce Christ to anyone?” “ Well, it is this way,” he said. “ When a brakeman comes along he says, ‘Jim, what in the world do you wear that button for, with your own name on it?’ So I say, T will tell you. J stands for Jesus, I stands for IS, and M stands for Mine. Jesus is Miné. Is HF yours?’ And before I know it I am having a personal talk with him about trusting Christ as his Saviour.” Are you willing to wear the J-I-M Button that someone may hear of God’s love and receive God’s Son as their Saviour and Lord?
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