THE following is an extract from a sermon once preached before the English House of Commons:
“Christ is the Way: without Him men are Cains,—wanderers, vagabonds.
“He is the Truth: without Him men are liars, like the devil of old.
“He is the Life: without Him men are ‘dead in trespasses and sins.'
“He is the Light: without Him men are in darkness, and go they know not whither.
“He is the Vine: men that are not in Him are withered branches, prepared for the fire.
“He is the Rock: men not built on Him are carried away with a flood.
“He is the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Author and the Ender, the Founder and the Finisher of salvation. He that hath Him not hath neither beginning of good, nor shall have end of misery.
“O blessed Jesus, how much better it were not to be, than to be without Thee! Never to have been born, than not to die in Thee! This is hell—eternally to want Jesus Christ.”
Reader, this is as true now as it was thee. As God has appointed the sun to shine, so has He appointed Jesus to save. He is the Door and the Bread of Heaven. In Him alone can your soul find its rest.
Can you sing:
“My heart is fixed, eternal God,
Fixed on Thee;
And my immortal choice is made,
CHRIST FOR ME.
He is my Prophet, Priest and King,
Who did for me salvation bring;
And while I live, I wean to sing,
CHRIST FOR ME?”
Contributed by H. A. M.