| Show THE SEEKING CHRIST GHRIST RIST TO SAVE i Rev Simpkin Teaches That I Jesus Knocks at the Door of the Heart Heart GOD APPEALS TO ALL i Deadly Error of Life to Deny Necessity for a Religious Will Wil and Purpose e At Phillips Congregational church hureh the I Rev P. P A. A presented the thou thought ht of the seeking Christ The text from the Che I Revelation ne of or was Behold I stand tand al at nt time the door and ana knock If It an any man hear I my voice 0 and anil will wi op open n th the door I will wi j i come comp in to him and sup with him bun The speaker M said ald ld that Christ was not i ionly o only a 0 seeker after the race hut but that I i il in n Ills Ils socking He lie lp comes to the door of l the iii heart There are art fi tl i w iv paragraphs in inthe I I Ith t the ue many striking ones of ot time the Apoi that lint can nn match maCeli the beauty of or till this Th The Tue Theart nit art or of the a age f has hns framed It Il Into lovel lovely 10 1 windows and glowing canvases Familiar to alt all Is hc Junt Hunts Hunt's conception Of df th time the great figure waiting before the lie door of 1 life I In n kingly dl dignity nl beseeching en entrance t Hearts have responded to the sweet on song of or our childhood Knocking knocking who Is there Va Waiting Ii n waiting grand and fair air a n pilgrim strange AnI and kingly Never such was sins seen before Ah Aim my may soul for such a 0 wonder Wilt lt thou not undo the door And time tho best heNt of or Is that these words from the tile vision viston are arc not a n mere ori oriental oriental- Ism hun any more than hami tan the picture and the 01 song sung are a sentiment They rimey The are arf n alIke lt the time deliberate statement of of a Q gracious fact fact- Christ Chrit Is not only the tue God seeking every man but He Ito 11 comes mn making ln an appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal to each Go l' l Personal lal Appeal This Is the outstanding claim of or this verse verse that that there them comes the time personal perMona 1 appeal appeal ap a- peal of or God to every heart in the world There is an abundance of or assent to the tho thought that God came near nar to the racial racia l heart and need ned and ss In the Christ t. t but there is I a singular ular inconsistency on oj 01 i il the lie part of or many In denying the personal persona l appeal of Go God to time the Individual heart The rime rh of the lie mn mass 1 I is only the li e problem of oC arbitrarily associated Men Ien are not to be saved in th the e ma mass s nor can they tiley b bo be so lifted Yo You u do not educate mop men so Truth I is not s so o imparted The pro l problem m Is in iii a personal persona ln l need Deed nel and condition To that limit conditio n Je Jesus us applies himself and because of or it itHe itlie i 1 He lie stands knocking at the time hearts heart's door dool Ills Ils appeal is that lie II ma may come Into th the lie heart anti and coming mal make love hove and joy and power In lim I Tightness rightness The heart has Imas many doors door and through th them m flow fow di diverse diverse dl- dl verse re appeals of oC the lie better things Perhaps Per Pr- haps Imps this fact has led many Into error In InI I their heir fal failure allure ure to discern f. between en the lie cause nn and its is effects There her is a t tendency to toI today to- to today I day a to depend on omi 01 the effects rather ratler than the time cause I IU The I In Life of Te TI n n B Because caus th the lime rich reh life lr o of J Jesus RU has hs In iii Its its' Is' Is moving to self fulfillment self In in history In Inspiring Inspiring In In- 1 alt all al he beautiful things expressed It Itself itself It- It self In and and anti v very 1 wonderfully art an son song literature there thre be bl those thoRe who would take tIme the flower for the the life ff and trust to the timings things thing which are ure effects rather than the he cause for the uplift and saving sa of men Ma May there be suggested ug the illumination tion ton of one incident Handel upon hIsk his k nees In a live n agony on of desire Christ pricks prick the lie score of I I Know That My l Redeemer eth 11 In lvin living music lc that tha t conies carries a fine line approval and an upsurge for Cor every even open soul that lint hears i It Y Yes 8 But Its power is In iii whatever of Christ I inspiration moved it i. i A golden Jolden thread runs through h time the notes and anti fastens them I for 01 the a age e. e A A man of temperament keyed to the 01 fine anti and hl high h. h ma may howIn honin how hon bowIn In tears before the time throbs of oC subtle harmony har mony a beautiful ul poem a bit o of genius on the canvas or 01 a R noble nohle 11 pile hue whoso whose interior in iii- tenor is crusted with wih the aspiration or 01 with wih the lie tears lear of or half hair a hundred I generations That Thal Is well wel But nut for or the theone w S one Ohio to whom hom they tHY bring iring appeal there ther will willbe wi i be he time the nine and amal ho ahmo ho l crowding n ane ninety wi will find dial only noise rhyme curiosity or ss In im 11 tIme the tl things that lint move mo the lie one ont Jesus ha has to do ilo with the emotions the time poetry the lie Imagination lin n mu I man loan lies has found tl lii me a f earning coining through h them Rut hit the they wl wl ii never ne I I be II inure than media in ii tuition for or If H tile tt they were ivere l In iii 11 measure then lien long agi had bad hal Paris been bee tin tintype lii l type III of or I he lie New IW J Jerusalem A A re reUnion reI re- re I J Union lul without t poetry leti mi and 01 l emotion moton ha hano limus his no power utah and 1111 no un ni iii future I tire The ilme hf men wh who would lii build n a I 11 religion mel I gino lon whoso powe Jo el shall be ie hI in 11 the trim truth that lint Is tal said whose whoa operation and effect should he be as S patent and 1111 iV It mI et Q as th t the i I t i lemi t table hile o othe oilie oi 01 the lie rum rule he of three In iii a all al Ii It Its scope COpt ar arhut time are I hu hut t a Oln rl mull another 01 her machi machine ii e for rOI th scrap hall of tb centuries for or faith and II tin time L 1 tl supernatural tImings things must have hav 11 llla place a ce 1 si UM jil iii 2 li of lie lii- Will Tin Tin- of r JI Jesus U goes OIS beyond cub mo- moton ton thou Intellect It embrace them hut surpasses HIa jeS them I 1 He he knocks at lit I ho lit door of the lie will sill wil and amid U Let lf me lime In And Amid h by IH the the- messengers of ex experience ox- ox cx- cx that lint en enter tel the time wills will's wll's chamber he lie send In lii 11 his lila pica The Thc ke keto key to lo the room of reconciliation m lies ilS il'S In tIme th hand of a thousand experience IC 1 bu luu hut t when the lie Master la enters it Is b by the tho door Will YI lOOI in iii 11 11 n del deliberate surrender of ot Ir I tilt the tl life to 4 Him Ilium No o machinery of civilization civili however beau beautiful and perfect can cun inert tIme the tl lifes life's deepest need nd for or it H works from fromi without No u sweetness or beau beauty alt ty ji J dl mor than ii affect t the hue exterior ex cx- x- x or Ir suggest the lie supreme truth J hlll Think ii It of oC tin tin- tl Importance i lice of t this his ibl Ii lug this this' it 11 appeal 11 It I bits hal come commie to every e e cl I life I fe In iii the 10 tl i of if Christ in ii CI civilization Ho Ito mikes makes the appeal aJ We Ve t make the answer If It I 11 milan man will open I I 1 will ivil wil I come COli II In Thi-rc Thi re I Is t the lie h pen open wili secret of oh Christianity n as a thing I If I f How shigh t a it 1 hll hinge hinge- l for foi 01 values As ts one oje sees tho ll hue Master Mastero o of or life at the tiit I door desiring nt that limit he lie lt may many bring 1 life Iq love happiness tl ii recollection collection that an any poor sti soul ul I In iii II the lie earl earth Ii mn may amity mako t the lie If of possible loss 1155 positively positively- effectual lends not dignity I to 10 human humal I life I fe but ut alike alke a 1 sense of the lie Importance of our attitude aI and amid C to his hll appeal The Fhi 1 of ut f il tinny mu Mm ii 11 If ir I am al any y man will uvil wi I open oel the lie door loor I will Ii wil come conic In In iii The Great hid God Got will wil not ami walk into ino Ir life In II this new h purpose by the WU Wa way of violence olence to that will wil he lie has set t in humanity's lowliest ones Think of the time con COl contrary tri side Here Is the lie tragedy el elIf If if ic any luau num will wIl not nOI God Coil will not miot wil lut That must b IJ hi true or om hl his desire 11 ti to II connIn dunn conn- I In ui to tu heart just Junt nn In l iii Idle l it whim COnI The rue deathly deadly error n of f Iea Ifo which Is hc the lie brood mother o of f the tIme ru fu failures I I le or of hu hum- man experience i I. I a here For when 1 the heart la is 11 opened un and Jesus MIS J comes Conies in to us us He lie makes things thing new because 1 He lie se sets us UR right with wih It is strangely singular that the he men who glory in facts and anti who deduct deduce their findings from tom toni life liff should see sec men mon monIn I in whom the marvel malel of 01 ot change I is blessedly blessedly bless bless- edl edly evident e and amid yet deny ien the need for fOI or the time fact of ot that which changes The he experience is IA real despite despie the question fueston or t the ne negation aton of oC the tle scientist For Jesus comes Into hearts to tarry arhy to become be be- como come a mi n Jm new will wil purpose to bo be he a second and Ind e o. o to h be bC a ui power pO CI of love hwe and amid life and cind Jo Joy lias the lie knock brought response e in your ol s soul ll 10 o to 10 appeal and measure t to the time 11 dignity of or such a a. a guest Happy then lien your days CYM and amid ways Or 01 do o the cherubs of or the lie Heeling hours sing antiphon to the echo of childhood Knocking I knocking What still there Waiting waiting Grandly fair Yes The pierced hand hamul still Anti And beneath time the crowned hair hah Ream Beam th time the pat patient nt eyes I so o ten tender er eror Of or a Savior waiting th there If If IC I so o 1 IH 14 H 1 Him In to Iu spread pfau the lie feast of ff peace and lou lovi- |
