Let the fasting and prayer not be lacking.
When the right direction comes let Jonathan take his armor-bearer and
climb up on his hands and knees against the Philistines, let Paul go to
Macedonia, Peter to Cornelius, Wesley send help to America. Bishop
Foss said, in regard to several crises in a most serious sickness, that
Christ always arrived before it came. So in regard to work to be done.
The Lord was in Nineveh before Jonah, in Caesarea before Peter, and
will be in the heart of every sinner we seek to get converted before we
arrive. Any man who wants to do an immense business should seek a good
partner. We are workers together with God. What is being done worthy
of the copartnership?
WHEN THIS WORLD IS NOT*
*Reprinted from the _Methodist Review_.
"The day of the Lord will come . . .; in which the heavens shall pass
away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,
the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."
What is there after that?
To this question there are three answers:
I. There are left all of what may be called natural forces that there
were before the world was created. They are not dependent on it. The
sea is not lost when one bubble or a thousand break on the rocky shore.
The world is not the main thing in the universe.
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