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Show SALVATIOX! What music is there in that word, music that never tires but is always new, that, always rouses yet always rests us! It holds in itself all that our hearts would say. It is sweet vigor to us in the morning, and in the evening it is contented peace. It is a song that is always singing sing-ing itself "deep down in the delighted soul.. Angelic cars are ravished by it up in heaven; and' our Eternal Eter-nal Father himself listens to it with adorable com-l com-l placency. It is sweet even to Him out of whose miud is the music of a thousand worlds. To be saved! What is it to be saved? Who can tell? Eye has not seen, nor ear heard. It is a rescue, and f rom such a shipwreck. It is a rest, and in such an unimaginable home. It is to lie down forever in the bosom of God in an endless rapture of insatiable contentment. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus; for He shall save His people from their sins." Who else but Jesus can do this, and what else even from him do we require but this ? for in this lie all things which Ave can desire. Of all miseries the bondage of sin is the most miserable. It is worse than sorrow, worse than pain. It is such a ruin that no other ruin is like unto it. It troubles all the peace of life. It turns "sunshine into darkness. It embitters embit-ters all pleasant fountains, and poisons the very blessings of God which should have been for our healing. It doubles the burdens of life, which are heavy enough already. It makes death a terror and a torture, and the eternity beyond the grave an infinite in-finite and intolerable blackness. Alas ! we have felt the weightiness of sin, and know that there is nothing noth-ing like it. Life has brought many sorrows to us, and many fears. Our hearts have ached a thousand thou-sand times. Tears have flowed. Sleep has fled. Food has been nauseous to us, even when our weakness weak-ness craved for it. But never have we felt anything like the deal weight of a mortal sin. What then must a life of such sin be? What must be a death in sin ? What the irrevocable eternity of unretract ed'sin? ' From all this horror whither shall we look for deliverance? "It is from the Precious Pre-cious Blood of Jesus Christ alone that our salvation salva-tion comes. Out of the immensity of its merits, out of the inexhaustible treasures of its satisfactions, satisfac-tions, because of the resistless power of its beauty-over beauty-over the justice and the wrath of God, because of that dear combination of its priceless worth and its benignant prodigality, we miserable sinners are raised out of the depths of our wretchedness, and , i restored to the peace and favor of 'our Hea'vo.nlve 1 Father. ' ' j From "The Pecious Blood, by Father Faber,. |
