MR MACE'S MISSION

Evening Star, Issue 16676, 7 March 1918, Page 1

MR MACE'S MISSION

The number of constant attcnders is one of the features of the- mission, large numbers from nearly all the denominations being; present night after night. There was the usual largo crowd last evenin.;. when Mr Mace spoke on ' Some Who Were Too Late and Yet in Time, and Some Who Were Too Late Finally.' After from John v. (the story of the Impotent man). Act? viii. (the stoiy of Philip ar,-l the eunuchl, and Matthew xxv. (She parable of the ten virgins). Mr Maee said that in e-ach of the instances read tbe poison was too late, but in each case, tlicre was a distinct difference. In the first case Ihe imnotnnfc man was too late for the troubling of the water. He had been too late for 58 years, but be was not too late for Christ. The pool in the story represented the law, and we were too late to be saved by the law. Christ died for us on the Cross of Calvary nearly 2,000 years .'■'_'< i. and before He exnired said •' It is finished." Nothing could be added to His perfect salvstion. People to-da.y were trvjne to get to Heaven by doing the best they could, hot God said "There are none righteous, no, not one." The impotent man was carried.in his bed. Ho was a I prisoner to it, but when. Christ said "Take up thy bed and walk." he took it on his I shoulder. He who had been the victim I became tbe victor: th? slave became the master. Everybody was a slave to some sin or other ; in other words, they loved something far more than t'fiev loved Christ; but when Christ saved them thev were no longer slrves but masters through the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. In the second instance—that of the eunuch—they saw the case of a man who was too Into for Christ on earth, but in time for the Holy Spirit. When Philip joined himself to "the chariot he preached unto him Jesus. Wha.t was needed to-d.iv was Oesxis. not merely eloquent sermons which reached the head, but the Son of God Himself. The five foolish virgins in the third instance were not only too late for the bridegroom, but were too late for the, supper —in fact, too late for everything. They had the lamps, which to iis would mean outward protession, but no oil (the Holy Spirit). There were many people to-day who were professing Christians, church members, bantised communicants, it might be, but they had not the Holy Spirit. They had never received the. Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Thebridegroom (the Lord Jesus) was soon coming again. The Bible emphatically stated so. The present was not Armageddon ; it was only leading up to it. In concluding the speaker earnestly appealed to all present not to be too late. To-night's subject is ' What is Your Attitude Toward Christ!' Eridar is question