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Too Lute An artist wished a queen to let him take her picture in his gallery. The time was appointed. The queen, prompt to the minute, was at the place. The artist did not come until ten minutes after the queen had gone. It was the man’s last chance for making a fortune. The King of Heaven comes to meet you today; you may now have His image pressed on your soul. It may be your last chance. Meet Him promptly with your heart’s confidence and love; or you may come too late, and when He has gone,— Talmage. Inexorable Law of Sin Have you ever marked that striking fact, the connection of the successive stages of the soul? How sin can change the countenance, undermine the health, produce restlessness? Think you the grave will end all that— that by some magic change the moral being shall be buried there, and the soul rise so chang ed in every feeling that the very iden tity of being would be lost, and it would amount to the creation of a new soul? Say you that God is love? Oh, but look round this world! The aspect of things is stern— very stern. If they be ruled by love, it is a love that does not shrink from human agony. There is a law of infinite mercy here, but there is a law of boundless rigor, tóo. Sin, and you will suffer— that law is not reversed. The young, and the gentle, and the ten der, are inexorably subjected to it. We would shield them if we could, but there is that which says they shall not be shielded. Carry that out into the next world, and you have “ wrath to come.”—F. W. Robertson. Without Faith—Ruin It is often asked, “How can one be lost just for not believing this or that
Bible teaching?” A loss of faith in worldly things will often ruin a man for this world. Did you ever go into a house where the husband had lost faith in the wife or the wife in the husband? You need not die to go to - perdition if you have ever lived in such a home. Not much change in the home outwardly, the same carpets, the same furniture— only one thing gone— faith — and all is gone. What is it that pro duces those fearful panics at times that sweep over the commercial world? Only a loss of faith; men lose faith in the banks, and there is a run and ruin; manufacturers lose faith in markets and the shops are closed and working men starve. “He that believeth shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned,” is a law that holds good in domestic life, in the commercial world, as well as in religion.— J. L. Jackson. Why Christ Died Some talk as if we were saved just because Christ paid our debt, represent ing God’s share in the transaction as little else than that of a severe, stern, unrelenting creditor, who takes no in terest in his imprisoned debtor beyond letting him out when the surety has taken up the bond. Is this true? Is it fair to God? True? It is utterly false. Salvation flows from a higher source, than Calvary. It has its fountain, not in the cross of the incarnate Son, but in the bosom of the eternal Father. The central truth of the Bible, that on which I lay the greatest stress, is this, that God does not love us because Christ died for us, but that Christ died for us_ because God loved us. I do not disparage the work of Christ; far be such a thought from me. Yet Christ Himself is the gift of our Father’s love.—Dr. Guthrie.
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