“Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.... Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in."—LUKE 14
THE Lord is coming quickly,
And darker grows the night;
Our souls are faint and sickly,.
We quail where we should fight.
Alas! how Truth is sunken,
She's trampled in the streets;
Some drink, too, with the drunken,
And est; their dainty meats'
O brethren, then awaken,
Arise, ye sons of day!
We soon shall hence be taken,
Now let us work and pray.
In ev'ry town and village,
At many a cottage door,
Is soil awaiting tillage,
Is fruit among the poor.
Go forth, ye earnest preachers,
Where God shall guide your feet,
And tell His sinful creatures
How He their souls cloth greet;
Proclaim in lane and alley,
How Christ the Savior died;
And preach, in earth's dark valley,
That He is glorified.
Lift up your eyes, enlightened,
And look upon the fields;
Already are they whiten' d,
The crop abundance yields:
God in His grace engages
That they shall rest who toil,
The reaper shall have wages,
The sower, too, have spoil.
Then heed we not the weather,
Nor care for toil and heat;
We all shall rest together,
When Christ has housed His wheat.
Then, gone all grief and sadness,
In yonder place we'll roam,
Rejoice in Christ's own gladness,
And shout His harvest-home.
MANY men use the law to sit in judgment on everyone but themselves.
ATONEMENT covers the insult put upon divine glary in connection with sin.