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I admit that it is against our pride. By the grace o f God, and in the obedience o f faith, let me charge you, hold on, my brother, as you began. Let us keep together, we who belong to “the household o f faith.” How that expression receives its illustration from this story. Let us keep together. Let us encourage ourselves to stay indoors until the morning. And for none o f us will it be very long. Bless God, at the longest the time in which we have to wait here, prisoners o f home in the household of faith, is not long. Let me say again to any who are hesitating and halting, oh, my brethren, young or old, my sister, rich or poor, pass in—come in. The household o f faith, the company o f evangelical believers, is not the narrow, cribbed, cabined,. con fined place that you suppose it to be. Let every man speak his own experience, and I will speak mine, and say that since ! came to simplicity o f faith in Jesus Christ I have not found any legitimate ambition o f mind or heart to be denied. I have only found that I am safely shut in to all that is worth having, and shut out from all which, were I to get, would be the ruin of heart and life both here and hereafter. May God bless His own Word. Amen.”
such a fine moonlight night. Come out! Come out!” Was not that hard to bear? Is not that taunt in our ears yet—“ Come out, you stupid believers?” And it is ill to bear. It does look as if we had done a stupid thing. It does look as if we had just taken our intellect and trampled it under our feet in order to be Christians. W e did not. W e crucified not our intellect, but the pride o f the intellect, -which is. a different thing, a thing o f the devil, which will bring us to the doom o f the devil. And I can imagine a young Israelite chafing and getting restless as the night wore on, and there came »no sign o f this doom, and no sign of this judgment; I can imagine him shaking himself, and saying, “ I will assert my manhood. This may do for old people;” and he is going over to the door, but his father rises, and with a voice like thunder says, “Unhand that door. Back for your life !” And he was right if he did. He was right. The Egyptians might laugh that, night, and young, restless, hot-headed Israelites might have a little trouble, but nobody laughed in the morning. And you and I, children o f faith, believers in God and God’s Christ who died for sin, just for a little while have to stand the laugh, and
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