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ten lepers, and only one returns to express his thanks. Again we see Him standing before a tomb weeping. His heart was always deeply touched with the sorrows of others. This time death had taken away the loved one in that Bethany home, but as He stands there, we hear Him saying, “Lazarus, come forth,” and he who was dead awakens from his sleep and comes forth to live again. Death surrenders its victim and quietly steals away at the command of Him who is its Master. Truly, these won derful works stamp Him as deity. What think ye of Christ as the Saviour? In speak ing of His own mission into the world, He said, “For the Son o f man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” “He is able to save to the uttermost all them that come unto God by Him.” His blood reaches the utmost depths of human guilt and depravity. See Him in the home of Zaccheus, the publican, and at Jacob’s well con versing with the woman of Samaria. And when the thief on the cross said, “Lord, remember me zvhen thou comest into thy kingdom,” He answered, “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.” He never stood before a soul and pronounced it hopeless. He can save the drunkard in the gutter, or the so-called moral man in the mansion. He can save the “soiled dove” or the most refined woman of society. He can save the most intellectual, as well as the one who never saw inside of books. He can save the one in rags, as well as the one in silks. He is humanity’s hope. He is our only way back to God. He is the only way to the regaining of lost mafihood and womanhood. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” What think ye of Christ as the sympathizing Friend and Comforter? When the heart is broken and sad there is no such healing balm as the sympathy of a true friend like Jesus. Behold Him weeping at .the tomb of Lazarus and quieting the grief of the broken-hearted sisters. Again, He comforts the widow of Nain by restoring her son from the dead unto life and giving him back to her again. Once more, we see Him standing on Olivet’s brow, weeping over the proud city of Jerusalem. Behold Him comforting His mother while He hangs on the cross amid the most cruel suffering. He had a heart that beat in deepest sympathy with every suffering soul. When Christ spoke the matchless words recorded in John 14: 1-3, He revealed the secret of His power to comfort the broken-hearted and sympathize with the sorrowing. His promises and sweet assurances wipe the tears from our eyes and give us a vision of the blissful immortality of joy beyond the flowing tides of death. What think ye of Christ’s death? We have said that His life stands apart by itself, and so does His death. Our hearts are deeply touched at the sight of mothers wearing their lives away caring for a sick child. We sing the praises of our heroes who made the supreme sacrifice in order that their country might live, and each returning Memorial Day we strew their graves with springtime’s richest and most beautiful garlands. But all of these suf fered and died for their friends who loved them, and for their own offspring. But in God’s Holy Word we read that Jesus died for us while we were yet sinners. It was His enemies that He died to save. And so when we read that “He commended His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, He died for us,” we read the story of the world’s masterpiece of lpve. He loved us, and so He died to reconcile us unto the Father. His blood cleans- eth from all sin. For His sake we are freely forgiven, and our sins are remembered no more against us forever.
What think ye of Christ’s resurrection? After His death, He was laid to rest in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. But on the morning following the third night, as the first streaks of dawn began to light the east ern skies, an angel sped down to earth and rolled the stone away, and Jesus' quietly but triumphantly arose and came forth, the first fruits of them that slept. He said, “I have power to lay my life down, and I have power to take it up again.” And He did. And because He lives, we shall live also. He has brought life and immortality to light through His Gospel. He has shown us that the grave is but a vestibule through which we walk to immor tality. Because of His triumphant resurrection there is also a resurrection for us. Because of His glorious vic tory we “walk through the valley o f the shadow o f death fearing no evil,” because He is with us, and leads us to a blessed immortality. What think ye of Christ’s offer of salvation? Before going back to His Father, He issued the great commission to His disciples, telling them to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature; and he that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved, but he that disbelieveth shall be damned. We can rightly imagine Him saying to His disciples, “Go back to Jerusalem and find the man who drove the spikes into my hands and feet; tell him I will freely forgive him if he will repent. Go seek the man who made the crown of thorns and placed it upon my brow, pressing it down till the blood trickled down my face; tell him if he will come unto me I will give him a crown of life. Go to that soldier who pierced my side with his spear; tell him my blood flowed for his cleansing. Go tell the multitudes that I love them, and will save them if they will come toi me.” Jesus will turn none away who will come to him in His appointed way. The mercy of God is extended to all, and Jesus’ blood will secure remission of sins for all who will accept Him as their Saviour. Friends, now what will you do with Christ? He stands before you today in all of His magnificence, pleading for acceptance. He wants to be your Saviour. He wants to make you clean, happy and useful in this world of need. He wants to fill your heart with joy as bright as God’s beautiful sunshine. He wants to cleanse you with His precious blood and make you pure and clean. He wants to plant the immortal hope in your heart. He wants to lead you lovingly, gently home to heaven. The time will come when you will have to stand before the judgment seat of Christ. If you reject Him here, the scene will change. The curtain will have fallen, you will have played your part and made your eternal decision. You have gone away from Jesus here and must depart from Him there. Oh, then be wise and accept Jesus now. Will you not throw open the door of your heart and bid Him come in as your Saviour, Teacher, Friend, and Lord? The Missionary Passion Let none suppose that the missionary passion comes of knowing intimately the foreign fields as a missionary or secretary can know them. It comes of knowing God, who “so loved the world” —not a part of it or a special nation of it —“that He ga/ve His only begotten Son”; of knowing Christ, who “is,.the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins o f the whole, world.”' It is neither more nor less than just sympathy with His great heart and purpose, the deathless conviction that He is able to save to the uttermost.— The Desire of A ll Nations.
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