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personal touch, love can always find a way to reach its object. A nother lad was so hard and cold when we spoke to him and when we tried to press home his responsibility that he abruptly got up and walked away. But still another, as I turned sadly away, gripped my hand, saying, “Your message has touched me to day. I’ve been away from God for years, although a Christian, but I’d like to come back. I’m tired of it all. I’ve turned my back upon God.’’ “Do you know what He has been doing all the time your face has been turned from sin ? He has been shin ing upon your back; just turn around and you will meet the same gracious, loving face you knew in the old days, unchanged, for even if we are faithless, He cannot deny Himself.” W e are beginning to realize more and more the importance of the personal touch with the men in the shops and car barns. Some of the hardest fields of labor during the past month have proven splendid, re ceptive soil when it came to the individual picking and bright trophies of the Saviour’s matchless grace meet us when “life’s dark story shall end in glory on yonder shore.” It is only the Spirit and the Word which can do the work and our glad task is to sow the seed beside all waters till the day dawn and the shadows flee away—and, speaking of shadows and sunshine, we certainly run across both in the shop work. O n that same car a conversation was started with the young conductor and was uninterrupted during almost all the long ride to our meeting place. It wasn’t long before
that talk was steered into deep channels. The precious seed had been sown years ago by the dear mother and just needed the per sonal touch of one who was in touch him self to bring to a definite decision for the Lord Jesus. As I left the car with a hearty hand grasp and the “I will,” coming from the heart decided the question for eternity we thought again of the contrasts of light and darkness—Christ accepted and Christ rejected. The following week I again met our young friend and now brother, and with the Word was enabled to confirm him in the assurance of salvation. S triking contrasts are coming before us all the time, sometimes we are literally floored by the dreadful shadows for men are either growing tender and yielding to the old message of love or by far the larger number are stiffening their necks, hardening their wills and steeling their consciences as they cry from the heart, “we will not have this Man to reign over us.” As an illustra tion of this, we were on our way to a shop meeting last week. A little leaflet con taining the message of love flowing down from the great heart of our Saviour God was handed to a man on the car. He lacked the backbone to show where he stood and so quickly glancing at the title as he most reluctantly accepted it, he crumbled it up into a little wad and tossed it into the street. He who has said, “My Word shall not return unto Me void” could surely cause another to discover it and, like the Eunuch of old, go on his way rejoicing. Don’t you think memory in the future ages will recall that incident to him, when the truth found out too late will “sting like an adder,” re calling all the wasted past? tions of our General Assembly, is a matter of righteous indignation and sincere regret to the Presbyterians of our entire coast, and to all others working for the highest welfare of our people. Whatever Dr. Park- hurst’s motive may have been in sending this communication, we testify that its prac tical effect has been only evil.”
Doctors of Divinity Enlisting in the Devil’s Army Concluded from Page 12
“The windespread publication of such sen timents in this state at such a juncture from a prominent Presbyterian divine, so far away from local conditions, and of senti ment so contrary- to the reepated declara
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