EVANGELISTIC COLUMN.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 395, 18 June 1928, Page 5

EVANGELISTIC COLUMN.

Would you see the golden windows Open wide in beauty bright; Would you see them pour in blessing, Dazzling floods of heaven's light" Would you feel that tide of glory, In its warmth of life and lo\ \ Quicken all your weary being With the fullness from above - ’ Precious heart, your Saviour waiteth. With the lovelight on His face. Waits to “pour you out a blessing. Waits to have you prove His grace. Waits and pleads with tender m ivy. That His gifts you may not miss. Waits with all a Father's longing. To bestow His sweetest bits*. Hasten, then, thy consecration. Bring thine offering complete. Uav thyself in loving meekness At thy Saviour’s pierced feet: Let Him make and let Him mould thee. I,ei Him keep thee near His side, While His heart of lo\e rejoic *th. And His soul is satisfied. Why art thou cast down. O my soul. Hope thou in Hod To every one of us comes, now and again, a twd day. As soon as we get up things go wrong, and the other members o* the family b>s amiable than usual. Our work seems a useless repetition of the day before, and there is no joy in it. The fact of the matter is that human nature cannot be always at its l>est. but neither need It be at t!s* mercy of its worst. Remember David on a had day. He challeng'd his own dark rno««l “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within meT’ He leaned back on the source

of his strength and tuned his harp in readiness for the Borrow. I ahall yet praise Him. Hop' thou in Rod." On the had day look forward to the good. Life has a law of he lance and sunshine and rain succeed each other in life as in nature Dr. Jowett tells us that on a dark and stormy night he was walking along a winding road on a bleak hillside. SudI nly the clouds divided and the full moon swept into the rift. In the Na*c of litiht the white road stood out like .i ril»l»oft across the hill. Soon the clouds closed and darkness reign. d once nion* ••llut” he says, “while th > '.ight was shining I had taken m> hearings, and ,ml I proceed with assured ' tr- i.d The good day is the time for fixing mi purpose; then if .lull days inteiven* " * shitll march through th'tn by the light of the vision we have seen. Lib’ l» « ■ I:i\, and as a day may have its drifting clouds, and yet be a fine da>. and ma> have moments of vexation and >«*t he a happy day. so life, with Its chrqti'red experience, may be seen in the end to have t»ecn good More love than sorrow. more pleasure than pain Som* rough hits of road, bui ♦hey lead to higher levels. Hood was the day and the travelling. And now there is evensong to sing.