The Bible object book : $b A book of object lessons which are different, written in plain English and in common wordsWoolston, C. H. (Clarence Herbert)
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The Bible object book : $b A book of object lessons which are different, written in plain English and in common words
Woolston, C. H. (Clarence Herbert)
Children's sermons
And yet there are ocean depths that never a human eye hath seen;
mountain peaks that never yet have been pressed by a human foot;
mighty rivers up which no civilized man has ever sailed. Of a truth
there remains much land to be possessed.
But harken: the largest and most mighty adventure in this old world
of ours is to find the larger North Pole of Creation.
This larger North Pole you will find in the Bible, and all who
believe God should be striving to find it.
Here you see standing on the platform before you a white pole. We
will call it the North Pole of the Bible. On it you will notice a
passage of Scripture which reads, "And he answering said, Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as
thyself" (Luke 10:27). This should be life's greatest endeavor, to
love God with the big measure of this text.
This is a gigantic adventure. You are invited to join the expedition.
A man by the name of Thomas Boston, who wrote the "Fourfold State,"
was much afraid when a boy that the number of God's chosen ones,
144,000 spoken about in Revelation, was already made up, and that his
name was not among the number because he had come into the world too
late. But no one may despair that his name is not among the number
chosen by God to reach the Greater North Pole of the Bible, for all
the believing world are asked to seek and find, and all who seek
aright shall indeed find.
The reason so few fail to find it is because they don't seek long
enough. Did you ever hear the story of the discovery of gold in
California? It seems that two men seeking the yellow stuff had gone
to California. One man's name is not known in history. Marshall was
the name of the other man. One morning after long months of fruitless
toil the man of the forgotten name threw down his pick and pan and
declared he was through, and said he did not believe that gold could
be found in that spot, and he left for his Eastern home. Marshall
said he would try again because he believed the yellow stuff was
there. Six hours after his companion had left Marshall struck a vein
of the finest gold and became rich and famous. Both of these men were
brave and strong, only Marshall was brave just six hours longer than
his companion, and so won out.
It is the man who can believe the longest and work the hardest that
will find the North Pole of the Bible. This is the secret passage to
the Greater Pole: Love God, and stick to it until you can do it with
all your soul. It is sad to think that not every one will do this.
This is why God can't reign in his own world, because of the people's
unbelief.
God is yet waiting to show the world what mighty things he can do for
us with the man who loves him with his whole heart, and the man who
does this has reached the North Pole of the Scriptures. To love God
with the whole heart means to love God first and most, and all the
time.
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